Maradona votes for neither…
As the Ballon d’Or ceremony comes closer the air is thick with odious comparisons between Messi and Ronaldo. Maradona...
Category: Soccer Players
Benzema is a diver
Karim Benzema skydiving during his holidays in Dubai. It’s a penalty as far as Real Madrid are concerned. He...
Fernando Torres comes full circle
T S Eliot must have been thinking of Torres when he wrote that the end of all our exploring...
Farewell, Steven Gerrard!
The Liverpool and former England Captain has announced he will leave the Reds at the end of the season....
Who will win the Fallon d’Floor award ?
The Ballon D’Or ceremony will be staged in January and Cristiano Ronaldo is the most likely winner. Lionel Messi,Manuel...
And the Globe Soccer Award 2014 goes to….
Cue Roll of Drums….
West Ham fall to Chelsea
West Ham were full of joy to the world when they started the game against Chelsea. Fourth place in...
Not the season to be jolly for Zlatan
Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter has found itself at the receiving end of the not inconsiderable ire of a deeply...
Suarez breaks La Liga duck
Image of Suarez apparently biting his hand with glee at finally scoring a La Liga goal.Pedro,Pique and Messi were...
Falcao returns
Christian Benteke put Aston Villa ahead but the returning Falcao scored the all important equaliser off a pass from...
Bayern Munich break their own record.
What I thought was the final game of the year was apparently only the semi final game of the...
CR on course for new Pichichi record
The Pichichi trophy is an annual trophy awarded by Spanish newspaper Marca in memory of Athletic Bilbao striker Rafael...
Chelsea outclass Sporting Lisbon 3 – 1
Cesc Fabregas, Andre Schurrle and John Obi Mikel sent Sporting Lisbon into the Europa League.
Manchester City defy odds – go through
Manchester City – without Vincent Kompany,Yaya Toure and Aguero qualified for the Champions League last 16 for a second...
Real Madrid sets yet another record
Ronaldo is in such incredibly good form these days that he breaks records before he even breaks into a...
Galatasaray outgunned..
Arsenal beat Galatasaray 4 -1 to get into the last 16 of the C League- but ending up as...
Neymar goes for a ride
Neymar teams up with world rally champion Sebastien Ogier to become a rally co-driver for a day.
Messi and Ronaldo in the battle for Hat Tricks
Messi matched Ronaldo hat trick for hat trick when he scored 3 in Barcelona’s 5 – 1 win over...
23 hat trick record
Ronaldo scored a record-breaking 23rd Primera División hat-trick while Real Madrid equalled the Spanish record of 18 successive victories...
Zlatan double
Zlatan’s imperious double helped Paris St Germain beat Nantes 2-1 and go to the top of the table… PSG...
100 goals for Ribery
Franck Ribéry bares his teeth like Luis Suarez after scoring his 100th goal for Bayern Munich.They go 7 points...
Messi the movie…
The official trailer..
The Ultimate Irony: Frank Lampard must stay to keep Chelsea at bay
Lampard scored his fifth goal for the City in 11 games during Sunday’s 3-0 win at Southampton. He is...
Aleksandar Kolarov’s lays down carol condition.
This was the carol he sang so delightfully for Christmas 2012 Then he brought tears...
Ronaldo is not going to break Messi’s record…
Cristiano Ronaldo did not score for Real Madrid as they won 2-1 away at Malaga on Saturday night. Lionel...
Van Persie long awaited goal GIF
The flying dutchman hasn’t really got off the ground for a while now.However the long awaited goal he scored...
United get a walk in the park
United strolled to a 3- 0 win over Hull City.Rooney’s goal scoring abilities have come back to him in...
Zlatan’s Eleven
You’ve heard of Ocean’s Eleven.This is Zlatan’s Eleven – his team. Each player handpicked. Each player given a nickname...
Phillip Hughes RIP
The world mourns the senseless untimely death of Phillip Hughes at...
Liverpool win – almost
Georgi Terziev snatched a draw from the jaws of defeat when he scored an 88th-minute equaliser for Ludogorets. Qualification...
Goalkeeper has football for a head
Borussia Dortmund’s goalie Roman Weidenfeller exchanged his head for a football...
Arsenal through to the knockout
Goals from Yaya Sanogo and Alexis Sanchez ensured that Arsenal are now safely through to the knockout stages of...
Messi breaks record,Suarez breaks duck…
Messi became the Champions League’s all-time top scorer with a hat-trick against Apoel Nicosia. Luis Suarez also scored his...
Chelsea humiliate Schalke
John Terry,Willian , Didier Drogba , Nascimento Ramires and an own goal from Jan Kirchhoff gave Chelsea a resounding...
City beat Bayern : Aguero scores hat trick
Bayern were down to 10 men after about 20 minutes when Mehdi Benatia saw red for bringing down Aguero...
Schweinsteiger’s back
Schweinsteiger returned to a hero’s welcome.He got a standing ovation at the Allianz Arena for his first appearance for...
Chelsea 7 clear
7 up 7th heaven. Chelsea are 7 points clear after they beat West Brom and Mourinho’s cup runneth over.
Barcelona congratulates Messi
Congratulations pour in after Messi’s record breaking hat trick.Special tribute video released by Barcelona to mark the moment.
Arsenal now officially the league’s basket case lose to insipid Man Utd
An adage to be followed by any side meeting Arsenal. Just show up. As bystanders to a drive by....
Drogba and Messi face off in funny Turkish airlines ad.
Drogba scours the earth to try and find a place where Messi has not got there before him. Absolutely...
Rooney: Goal celebrations past and present..
Rooney’s cartwheel goal celebration against Scotland the other day turns out to be a carbon copy of his goal...
Rooney’s roaring..
Hodgson’s 3 lions are doing a good bit of roaring these days and Rooney’s roar yesterday was louder than...
The Ronaldo and Messi duel was a non starter
The much anticipated battle for the Ballon d’Or between Messi and Ronaldo at Old Trafford did not get off...
Ronaldo’s back at Old Trafford
Not sure which home this kid is welcoming Ronaldo home to. But he is definitely back to one of...
How to break a goalie’s heart…
Get the other goalie to score a goal by kicking the ball from his end of the field.Never happened...
When Aguero met Messi…
Aguero talks about how things went when he met Messi – his buddy to be – for the first...
Suarez scores 2 against Costa Rica
Two long awaited goals from Luis Suarez could not prevent Uruguay from losing to Costa Rica on penalties. The...
Argentina and Brazil win friendlies..
Both South America Giants posted wins over less formidable rivals. Argentina beat Croatia 2 -1 . They will play...
Zlatan takes on Aliens next…
Zlatan Ibrahimovic was named Sweden’s footballer of the year for the ninth time on Monday and being Zlatan he...
Maradona gives Blatter a mouthful..
Diego Maradona became the business partner of energy drink ‘Style C’ launched at...