The case for salary restrictions in the Premiership
I was struck by the fact, watching the NFL draft which concluded recently, this is a league that has...
Category: Soccer Skills
Sam Allardyce resigns to big questions
Big Sam Allardyce whose pugnacious style of coaching revitalized Bolton announced his resignation in a shocker. The resignation is...
Sir Alex and Jose Mourinho draw out their knives
‘ The circumstances are difficult for us with the new football rules that we have to face. It is...
1966 World Cup: Jimmy Greaves never saw his big moment
Jimmy Greaves, Peter “Cat” Bonetti One of the remarkable features about England’s win in the 1966 World Cup was...
Brian Glanville remembers Alan Ball
” For all his long, successful career as player and manager with Arsenal, Everton, Blackpool and Southampton, as manager...
Juan Pablo Angel will have more impact than Becks
It’s just too bad that the NY Red Bulls can’t just drink Red Bull and finish on top of...
Kroenke’s buyout of Arsenal perceived as hostile
Stan Kroenke moves to take over Arsenal. This is huge. David Dein has resigned and there is speculation that...
In tribute: Alan Ball, 1945- 2007
1966 World Cup final. Alan Ball, Everton and Arsenal midfielder, was the scrappy, motoring midfielder with his socks down...
Who is rooting for a Liverpool vs Milan rematch?
I am. With memories of the most fascinating and enthralling final played in CL history between these two teams...
Chicago Fire awaits bad boy Cuauhtémoc Blanco
Is the MLS ready for the Cuauhtémoc? MLS is underway and the biggest news is Beckham’s debut for the...
Arsenal’s midfield needs to score
Arsenal is still the best team to watch in the Premiership. They outclassed West Ham and were unlucky not...
Jafar Panahi’s Offside: A poignant Iranian vignette
Jafar Panahi’s new movie, Offside captures the passion of the global game and the hold it has on the...
Van Der Saar’s weak parry leads to a goal again
How eerie is this. Matt Taylor’s goal for Pompey against Man Utd was reminiscent of Vucinic’s winner for Roma...
Michael Chopra: South Asian pride in da house
Michael Chopra becomes the leading scorer in the Championship. 21 goals! And renews his contract with Cardiff City. Now...
Video: Ferenc Puskas: A delayed birthday tribute
On April 2nd, Ferenc Puskas would have turned 80. A tribute to the galloping major. His days in Honved,...
Arsenal awaits a new owner
Indications are that Arsenal may have a new owner. Unlike the other big three, Man Utd, Chelsea, and Liverpool,...
Sir Alex: Referee killed the Red Devils
What any impartial observer seeing the Roma vs Man Utd match would have seen was that the team playing...
Video: AS Roma 2 Man Utd 1
Roma – Man Utd | Match HighlightsUploaded by GOAAAAL Great game. Man Utd was kept off its stride by...
Lille and now Roma: Coincidence? Man U fans cry foul
Moral of the story: If you are to play Man U, play them in a neutral venue, preferably with...
Defenders are the new attackers
Van Buyten, Riise, Oddo, and Phillip Lahm, the new hunting pack Mocha is the new black. The 40’s are...
Video: Bayern Munich 2 AC Milan 2
AC Milan vs Bayern Munich HighlightsUploaded by FootballHeaven Milan was distinctly lucky to get away with a penalty called...
Champions League: Big games today
AS Roma vs Manchester United Totti’s day in the sun. Without doubt the bigger and better game today compared...
Blatter’s unopposed election calls for term limits
The UN has 192 member states and since its inception in 1945 has had 8 Secretary Generals, the effective...
Champions League: Big games today
Liverpool meets PSV Eindhoven Dirk Kuyt gets back to familiar territory with a great chance of scoring his first...
Maradona to go to Switzerland to heal himself
Diego Maradona will spend another fortnight in hospital with suspected alcoholic hepatitis. He has had numerous problems with his...
Different ideologies: Why Mourinho and Abramovich will part company
Lets face it. The relationship between Jose Mourinho and Roman Abramovich is not working out. And it is not...
A real headscratcher this one ………….
Peter Crouch scores the perfect hat trick as Liverpool runs rampant over Arsenal. England celebrates the best league in...
Soccer stands to gain following India’s disgraceful exit
Right now effigies of Indian cricketers are being burned and their families threatened with dire consequences. And for those...
Steve McLaren: Bloke on the ropes
Watching Steve McLaren at his press conference after England’s lugubrious victory over Andorra was like watching a man who...
In India following Arsenal is way cool
Mukul Kesavan discovers that Indian schoolkids are warming up to soccer, especially Premiership league. Arsenal is their choice because...
Good news: Kenya rejoins international soccer
The Kenyan national squad can now participate in the Africa Nations Cup qualifiers and other international games. Fifa’s Emergency...
Wenger has a point: Arsenal are the most booked team
I may have been a bit too quick to condemn Arsene Wenger’s sense of martyrdom as there are some...
Other leagues show less disparity
Lets look at the other leagues and find where the Premiership stands. The Serie clubs have played a couple...
Goal differential: A tale of two Premierships
The big four Premiership clubs walk away with the lions share of the revenues filling their already swollen coffers...
Video: Steve Nash shows soccer moxie
Why do I get this strange feeling that Steve Nash might do more to promote soccer in this country...
Steve Nash, NBA All Star: Soccer mad and potential Spurs owner
Steve Nash, Phoenix Suns star trains with NY Red Bulls Steve Nash, the Phoenix Suns point guard, perennial All...
Video: A closer look at OM’s Samir Nasri
Born in Marseille just like Marseille’s favourite son Zinedine Zidane as well as sharing Algerian ancestry, it is inevitable...
Video: OM’s Samir Nasri vs Franck Ribery
Now you see why Wenger wants this duo in Arsenal. He has to fight off Milan and Real to...
Jack Kachkar: Olympique Marseille’s new owner
Jack Kachkar, L’OMs new owner L’ OM’s fortunes have been on the wane for over a decade since Bernard...
Cricket fades as the West Indies takes to soccer
Every four years we have cricket’s version of the World Cup and this year the West Indies is hosting...
Who wants to bet against Liverpool now?
We called it foolhardy when Rafa Benitez sent his squad a week before the game against Barca in the...
Drogba’s award sells African soccer short
A bow to the Premiership and its selling power as it rules the roost in global viewership. But if...
Drogba’s Goals
and I still say offside on the first goal 🙂
Dimitar Berbatov: White hot in White Hart
Dimitar Berbatov is the tour de force in the Spurs attack. As Robbie Keane and Mido play now you...
Premiership action: Shootout at the Fantasy Factory
Shootout at the Fantasy Factory was a 1973 Traffic album but it could well describe the Premiership this weekend...
Walcott’s Goal
Drogba’s are on the way!
Video: Ali G interviews Posh and Becks
Oldie but goodie. Posh comes off as far more feisty than Becks.
Eurocentric bias: Blatter and FIFA overstep in Kenya ban
Sepp Blatter is a political animal. His FIFA career has been an orchestration of lining up votes, doling out...
West Ham left dead in the water
Alan Curbishley vs Alan Pardew in the clash of the 500 lbs gorillas and it is Curbs left with...
Brazil, Where have You Gone?
That’s what I think when I see this: Is it time to think past Dunga yet? And now Ronaldinho...
Kenya’s FIFA impasse continues
With virtually no soccer being played in their country because of the FIFA suspension, Kenyan players have left to...
Gazza to star in sci-fi horror movie
You’ll soon see Gazza in movie halls in a sci-fi horror movie called Final Run. And no, its title...
Video: David Villa’s bender against Inter
C1 Inter-Valence :1-1 Villa 21/02/07Uploaded by Luca_Toni Villa’s magnificent freekick restores parity for Valencia
Video: Bellamy to Riise, Liverpool 2 Barca 1
Riise 1 – 2 – Barcelona v LiverpoolUploaded by samgoff Bellamy assisted Riise in Liverpool’s second goal as the...