The Lamine Yamal story – so far
An extraordinary talent …
Category: Soccer Players
Alexander Arnold’s quest for the Ballon d’Or
Trent Alexander Arnold says goodbye to Liverpool and heads off to Real Madrid in search of the Ballon d’Or.Defenders...
Manchester United upset Athletic Bilbao applecart
Fans were delighted and pundits were baffled by Manchester United’s unexpected 3-0 win over Athletic Bilbao. Here’s an analysis...
Best EPL goals in April
April has fool’s day and earth day and brings spring along with it to some places. A good month...
Now Man City win in Fergie Time
Pep looks pleased as punch.City had to wait for Fergie time to claim the win- the winning goal being...
More Man Utd Misery
More crashing and burning took place. A 4-1 loss takes them to a new low. Ruben Amorim replaced Andre...
Harry Kane on track.
Something which has never happened before may very well happen soon.Harry Kane may win that long awaited Trophy. Bayern...
For the rules they are a changing
Bob Dylan warned us long ago. Change is inevitable. New rules for the 2025 -2026 season. Reduced Goalkeeper Holding...
A corner kick for the ages
From data upto October 2024 the current Premier League season had seen just 21 goals scored from its 758 corners with...
Messi and Yamal
Messi met Yamal when he was a baby. True story And now 17 or so years later,the comparisions between...
Newcastle win a trophy at last
More good news for Harry Kane because Newcastle United have finally done it! They broke a jinx that lasted...
A scorpion kick for the ages
Tigres Femenil star Lizbeth Ovalle produced a moment of brilliance and scored what is definitely a contender for goal...
Neymar shows signs of returning to form
Two goals and three assists in six matches. A goal scored directly from a corner kick .Things are looking...
Neymar blames the balls
Neymar hasn’t been able to make much of a difference to his home team in three games and has...
Neymar needs to find his mojo
Neymar was welcomed back at his club Santos and he wept tears of joy at the rapturous welcome he...
Messi tops the charts
Four Four Two ranked the greatest footballers of all time and put Messi right on top.Ronaldo came a distant...
Newcastle may end a 70 year trophy drought
Newcastle’s last trophy was the long forgotten Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969 and the most recent domestic title was...
Yamal beats Messi dribbling record
Messi as a precocious teenager attempted 20 dribbles and completed 10 when Barcelona played Mallorca 18 years .It stood as...
The Ruben Amorim Philosophy
The problem at Man United is that no one has quite managed to fill Fergie’s shoes. In Ruben Amorim...
Neymar’s headed home
After enduring a largely pointless stint in the Saudi Arabian League Neymar has said thank you very much and...
Ronaldo looks back at 2 years in the Saudi Leage
C R 7 ‘s musings on life,the universe,the Saudi League and everything…
A bright start to the new year in Manchester
Against the odds and against all laws of football physics Manchester United held Liverpool to a 2-2 draw ....
Messi awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Messi became the first football ( soccer) player ever to be given the honour – the highest civilian honor...
Neymar looks back
Neymar Jr , once football’s brighest stars looks back at the year that was and sees how his brilliant...
Liverpool beat Spurs 6-3
Arne Slot and Liverpool have a happy Christmas ahead of them . They are on top of the table,four...
Garnacho wins the Puskas award for 2024
For a goal he scored against Everton And the best of the best team..
Mbappe ends another goal drought
His last goal drought had lasted 5 games.He broke that when he finally scored against Leganes on the 25th...
The new MSN trident video
Unfortunately we cannot go back in time . The next best thing is a digital recreation by efootball. watch..
Messi’s World Record equalling assist
Messi chalked up another world record in Argentina’s colours as he provided a match-winning assist to Lautaro Martinez in...
Nistelrooy goes out in blaze of Glory
Man Utd beat Leicester City 3-0 their last game with Nistelrooy in charge. So he gets to go out...
Jules Koude shines for Barcelona
Barca are the highest scorers in this season’s competition after their 5-2 win over Red Star Belgrade. Jules Kounde,with...
Casemiro gives Garnacho some advice
Garnacho was at the receiving end of a furious telling off from Casemiro. He has not exactly covered himself...
Vinicius Jr Champion’s League Hat trick
Vinicius Jr took Real Madrid from 2-0 down against Dortmund to 5-2 at the end of the game. Messi...
Arsenal’s Red Card controversy
In the 30th minute of Arsenal’s Premier League match against Bournemouth on October 19 defender William Saliba was shown...
Another Messi Hat trick
Messi came on in the second half,played for about 35 minutes and used the time usefully to add yet...
Marca names Messi as the greatest football player of all time
Video highlight of the ceremony here .. Piers Morgan,who wanted Ronaldo to get the award ,said.. Sour grapes Piers
Messi scores his 10th international hat trick.
While Ronaldo was huffing and puffing and throwing hissy fits against Scotland,Messi was calmly scoring his 10th international hat...
Safe hands
Some totally awesome goalkeeping
Tunnel Moments that didn’t get TV time
All kinds of goings on that didn’t go on air..
Johan Neeskens RIP
One of the greatest footballers of his time,former Netherlands midfielder Johan Neeskens, legend of both Ajax and Barcelona has...
Two songs from Encanto sum up things at Manchester United.
Tag,they said,was given two games to fix things at United or get the boot. The first of those 2...
Cole Palmer creates a new EPL record
He is the first player ever,in the history of the Premier League,to score four first half goals. Chelsea beat...
Zlatan in the hot seat
Zlatan takes the hot seat challenge.See if he survives..
Haaland gets to 100 goals for Man City
When Haaland scored against Arsenal last wednesday he equalled a record held by Cristiano Ronaldo. C Ron scored 100...
Chris Riggs scores a super back heel goal
Chris Riggs took Sunderland to victory against Middlesbrough with this moment of genius. Click on the image for longer...
AC and Inter Milan at the Champion’s League
AC Milan got hammered 3-1 by Liverpool Inter on the other hand held City to a goal less draw...
Salvatore Schillaci RIP
Italy legend Salvatore (TOTO)Schillaci, the top scorer at the 1990 World Cup, has died of colon cancer at the...
Rio Ferdinand gives Ronaldo the player challenge
Who is the best player ? Elsewhere Haaland is getting very close to breaking a Ronaldo record of the...
Messi names his favourite team
Messi called Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona his choice for the greatest team of all time.. More arguments to back Messi’s...
Zidane names his favourite goal
In a recent interview ( which can be viewed here) Zidane named the best goal he ever scored for...
School Team scales new heights
Our school team reached dizzying heights – relatively speaking.The grassroot level football scene in India where I live is...
Beckham in the hot seat
Beckham took part in the Hot Ones challenge with paramedics on standby in case things got too hot to...
Suarez calls it a day
Suarez announced his retirement from International Football after 142 international matches and 69 goals for Uruguay.He was really sad when...
7 charts that explain why Messi is in a league of his own
Someone summed it up very well. “Watching Ronaldo we say , “wow!” .Watching Messi we say.”How ?”