Manchester City fall to Barcelona
Sergio Aguero missed a penalty but it did not make much difference in the end. Ivan Rakitic’s goal meant...
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Arsenal almost pull off the miracle of Monaco
Arsenal beat Monaco 2 – 0 and came agonizingly close to getting there.It is absurd to see a team...
St Patrick’s Day
Soccerblog wishes everyone a Happy St Patrick’s Day. May the luck of the Irish be with you.
Ronaldo’s reaction
Players generally tend to rejoice when their team scores a goal. Ronaldo’s reaction when Gareth Bale scores off a...
Sub standard City lose again
City lost 1 – 0 to Burnley and their title defence is now a fading dream.
Vitolo scores fastest Europa goal ever..
Ismael Blanco 2009 Europa record of 15.19 seconds was eclipsed by Sevilla winger Vitolo. The new Europa record for...
Real survive Schalke scare
Real Madrid scraped into the Cl quarter finals by the skin of their teeth with a 4 -3 loss...
Shakhtar Donetsk get record for fastest red card.
Bayern Munich maintained their fine recent Champions League record advancing to their fourth consecutive quarter-final with a 7 –...
10 man PSG oust Chelsea from the CL
Mourinho weeps at the shattering of his treble dream. Zlatan got a red card around 31 minutes into the...
Pep talk from Adidas
One making football a career. “Do it because you love it.” Can’t argue with that.
Di Maria got a double yellow before
When it comes to getting chucked out of games for getting two yellow cards in rapid succesion it turns...
Treble or Quadruple?
PSG beat Lens 4-1 to move top of Ligue 1 as they get ready for their Champions League clash...
Messi does it again
Barcelona are back on top of the La Liga and Messi has scored another hat trick. Luis Suarez and...
Fearsome forwards fail to fire
Real Madrid’s fearsome BBC forward line failed to fire again. They have lost points at a crucial juncture going...
Ronaldo does a Snoopy
Ronaldo takes a cue from Snoopy and dances off his worries about his declining free kick skills
Ronaldo – 51 and counting…
C Ron has not scored a goal off a free kick in his last 51 attempts. His last success...
Soccerblog wishes you a Happy World Book day
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Mourinho needs a nap
Chelsea followed up their famous Capital One Cup victory with a hard fought 1 – 0 win over West...
Barcelona star in Maurice-Lacroix watches Ad
The Barcelona team don’t get a chance to display their overall lack of histrionic ability as the director of...
Soccer playing Ent spotted in Estonia
One of treebeard’s distant cousins can be seen in the photograph below playing football in a field in Estonia....
Arjen Robben is having the time of his life..
Bayern Munich winger Arjen Robben is enjoying his best ever season with 17 goals in 19 Bundesliga games. Adidas...
Batman and Robin spotted in the Bundesliga
The dark knight and his sidekick have risen again – wearing bright yellow to scare the bad guys away....
Barcelona narrow the gap
Suarez takes a bite out of his thumb as he celebrates scoring yet another Barcelona goal.He,Rakitik and Messi were...
Rooney scores first field goal of 2015
Rooney’s got one finger up to cheerfully indicate the number of field goals he has scored since January. Just...
Besiktas oust Liverpool on penalties
Liverpool crashed out of the Europa League after a penalty shootout defeat to Besiktas. They had a 1-0 lead...
How not to take a free kick
Players playing in a Tunisian Cup game between Hammam-Sousse and Club Athletique Bizertin demonstrate one of the classic ways...
Arsenal come unstuck against Monaco
Dimitar Berbatov rejoices after scoring against his old rivals in a 3-1 win for Monaco in the first leg...
Nani scores a goal that brings tears to his eyes
Nani scored this super goal against Gil Vicente and then did an unusual goal celebration.He wept. “It was a...
Barcelona vastly superior to Manchester City
It would have been 3 -1 if Messi had converted the penalty in injury time. As it is the...
Zlatan gets the ban
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been given a retrospective 2-game ban for one karate kick too many. This one aimed at...
In search of the perfect own goal..
Here’s the latest contender. Ben Richards playing for Partick Thistle against Dundee in an SPFL development game scored this...
Ronaldo ends the drought against Schalke
Ronaldo scored again at last giving much relief to his legion of fans. However he had to use his...
David Luiz moves vanishing spray before it vanishes
PSG were awarded a free kick against Chelsea just before half time. The ref duly marked the spot with...
Thibaut Courtois is brilliant for Chelsea
José Mourinho called Thibaut Courtois’ goalkeeping “phenomenal” Blaise Matuidi and Zlatan Ibrahimovic were both denied goals due to some...
Bayern Munich blast Hamburg for 8
Bayern Munich blasted Hamburg 8-0 to maintain their eight-point lead at the top of the Bundesliga.
Suarez scores brilliant scissor kick..
How do you stay in the picture on a day that your team mate Messi is in dazzlingly delightful...
Ronaldo scores hat trick – of sorts
He has now gone three games on the trot without scoring. The last time such a thing happened was...
Willian keeps Chelsea 7 points clear
Willian was the hero who scored the winning goal but full marks to Eden Hazard for doing the king...
Atletico Madrid blow Real Madrid away…
Atletico Madrid blew their city rivals away and also blew the title race wide open. Tiago Mendes opened the...
BBC reporter interviews Tommy Lawrence by mistake.
Tommy Lawrence is a former professional footballer who was goalkeeper for Liverpool and Tranmere Rovers in the 1950’s through...
Adidas release another instalment of their new ad
Gareth Bale is the one facing all the haters.This is closer to home than Adidas might have intended as...
Happy Birthday Ronaldo
C Ron turns a venerable 30 years old today. Here’s a video on FATV of a goal he scored...
Anderson and Ronaldo when they were young and innocent..
Anderson and Ronaldo in a SkySports Ad – long time ago in a galaxy far away.
Super skills from Van Persie and Ozil..
Van Persie’s goal against Leicester . Not as sublime as his swan dive world cup goal but pretty sublimish...
Arda Turan gets the boot for his birthday as well…
Arda Turan celebrated his 28th birthday today and his team mates presented him with a cake in the shape...
Arda Turan gets the boot for chucking his boot.
Arda Turan chucked his boot at the linesman to show his disapproval at not being awarded a foul. The...
Barcelona in Copa del Rey semis…
Torres 38 second goal was some early good news for Atletico Madrid.After that things went downhill pretty much.Neymar scored...
Ochoa’s at it again…
Guillermo Ochoa pulled off a quality reflex save against Atletic Bilboa in the second leg of...
Torres scores in 38 seconds…
Torres scores the fastest goal in the Copa del Rey since 1974.
Drogba nets FWA award.
Drogba hails Thierry Henry and Mourniho hails Drogba. Plenty of hailing going round here.
Eric Cantona and Sgt Peppers lonely hearts club band.
It was twenty years ago today that Sgt Peppers taught his band to play. And it’s also twenty years...