Soccer fans: Eduardo Galeano is required reading
Eduardo Galeano became the talking point when Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez met up in a very anticipated encounter...
Category: Soccer Teams – Club
Arsenal: Two down, one to go
This season’s Premiership was lost long ago and today our chances of winning the FA Cup ended. We now...
FA Cup: Arshavin meets a familiar face
When Andrei Arshavin takes the field against Chelsea, chances are that he will make lots of eye contact with...
Video: 2002 FA Cup final: Arsenal vs Chelsea
Good times. No, awesome times. Wonder goals by Ray Parlour and Freddie”Orange Hair” Ljungberg. It always comes as a...
SAF gets down and dirty
Making a mountain out of a molehill is par for Sir Alex. Then channeling Allardyce to air his grudges...
Fabianski showed presence of mind against Villareal
Lukasz Fabianksi timed his runs out of goal to deny Giuseppe Rossi. It became apparent that the goalkeeper was...
Arsenal: This will be one bloody end to the season
April 21st:Arsenal meet Liverpool May 10th: Arsenal meet Chelsea May 16th: Arsenal meet Man Utd Throw the CL semi-final...
Why is Carlo Ancelotti being touted as Hiddink’s successor?
I saw Milan play some of the most insipid soccer against Chievo this weekend. They should consider themselves lucky...
April 15: Today we remember the 96 fallen at Hillsborough
A tragedy that killed 96 LFC fans. In the aftermath, it bought an end to perimeter fencing, over crowded...
Barcelona complete the formality
Mission accomplished .The first bit of it anyway.
World Cup 2018: Kissinger’s selection is antithetical to Obama’s message
Barack Obama smarting from West Ham’s weekend loss against Spurs and a 75% failure rate in the Final Four,...
Video: Getafe drubs Barca, 4-0
Chelsea fans take heart. Getafe shocks Barca with many of those present today making appearances. Messi was there and...
Bernd Schuster breaks his silence
Even George Steinbrenner in his heydays could never match Ramon Calderon in his contemptuous disregard of managers. Exhibit A...
Arsenal vs Villareal: Silvestre vs Rossi
Will the Gunners injury woes on defense expose them or will Villareal’s similar problems on attack prove to be...
Senna to Adebayor: Not good enough
Senna’s interview was supposedly all about how the Arsenal young guns would dominate Europe one day. Cuddly enough but...
Video: CL quarterfinal: Chelsea vs Liverpool
Superb match. Here is a match report.
Brave Liverpool play their hearts out
Michael Essien is an athletic beast. He got his head down in time for a goal line save in...
Arsenal make a skirmish look like a battle.
What that means is that they took their time getting past Wigan and not without some help of the...
April 15: 20 years after Hillsborough
The day that changed forever how football was played in England. On 15 April 1989, 96 Liverpool fans lost...
The trajectory favours Chelsea
Man U is still on top with a game in hand with Liverpool chasing them hard. I am betting...
Becks tops richest soccer player list
”David Beckham will have a greater impact on soccer in America than any athlete has ever had on a...
Liverpool should set its sights on the Premiership
Defeating Chelsea at home with a two goal deficit will be a difficult mountain to climb. Especially without a...
Spare a thought for Mark Hughes
I have no idea how Mark Hughes does this. Manage a club with so many players who are no...
Edu scores his first goal for Rangers
Maurice Edu took full advantage of his start against St Mirren to score the winning goal in a 2-1...
Man U’s debt soars
Its presently about £650m. But Man U should pass the stress test.
Gunners lose Gallas for the season
A spate of injuries dog Arsenal yet again. The Villareal draw proved Pyrrhic. William Gallas season ended with a...
Der Kaiser is angry
Der Kaiser has taken an exceedingly dim view of Bayern’s shellacking at the hands of Barca. “This is a...
The A League is not happy with Verbeek
It never works when a national coach is so openly contemptuous of the domestic league. Even as the national...
Aussie Rules gets a bit worried
Barry Hall makes an appeal to tamp down all the ugly rubbish that goes on in Aussie Rules games...
Dean Ashton: The Os Trigonum Syndrome
Dean Ashton has been out for ever. The West Ham striker started in blazing fashion and then suffered a...
World Cup 2010: South Africa exposes its hypocrisy
I would like to point out the hypocrisy of the South African government when they deny the Dalai Lama’s...
Chelsea proves Liverpool is a one man show
Liverpool is Steven Gerrard and Steven Gerrard is Liverpool. Wait a minute, they have Torres, Alonso, a bloke called...
I fear for soccer
I fear for soccer. I fear for soccer as long as Barca plays like it played today. To cast...
Deep thought: If Macheda fails to become Best, it his fault
Not a goal old and we already have mind boggling comparisons. Right, and it was said that Beckham was...
Arsenal fight back in the second half
Arsenal looked at sea in the first half and it was a wave of yellow jerseys that swamped their...
Video: Man U vs Porto goals
Man U’s hopes hang by a thread as they allow Porto two away goals.
Arsenal should watch for Llorente and Ibazaga
Giuseppe Rossi is the marksman that Arsenal will have to keep an eye on. He has scored a dozen...
Pires: This will be an emotional match
The last time Robert Pires played for the Gunners was in the 2006 CL semi-final against Villareal. He was...
Arsenal’s Injury worries: Ahead of the clash with Villareal
RVP is out and so is Eduardo and Abou Diaby. A number of attacking players have match fitness concerns....
Santi Cazorla to miss CL quarterfinal vs Arsenal
Santi Cazorla, Villareal’s versatile presence in the midfield will miss the Arsenal match with an ankle fracture sustained in...
What can make the UEFA Cup relevant?
Eliminate the group stage and go straight for the knockout. A FA Cup type format.
Ferguson’s Rangers and international career is over
Barry Ferguson, MBE will not play as a Ranger and will not represent Scotland anymore. For drinking and flashing...
Movie: Looking for Eric
Eric Cantona is back in the news. This time in Ken Loach’s movie about a depressed postman called Eric,...
World Cup 2010: The Socceroos are on the brink of qualifiying
Australia could become the first country to join SA in World Cup 2010. Pim Verbeek’s team scored a 2-0...
What happened to all the Rapid’s Arsenal brouhaha?
Dick’s Sporting Good Park, home to the Colorado Rapids can seat about 19,000 fans. Their matches are averaging a...
Seattle Sounders: Freddie Ljungberg sighting
Arsenal fans will be pleased that one of their former players is faring well. Freddie Ljungberg made an instant...
Video: Macheda’s goal sets Old Trafford alight
Touching scene of Macheda’s brother shedding tears of joy. Man U shed off periods of somnolence to produce three...
Video: Adebayor’s brace lifts Arsenal
Adebayor gets back on track scoring both goals. Beautiful work by Fabregas whose absence has been felt deeply this...
Another flip in fortunes: Another Bosnian connection
The Bundesliga would have us believe that. A Bosnian duo are striking mayhem. Edin Dzeko of VFL Wolfsburg has...
Javier Aguirre: Will he be the antidote?
Javier Aguirre re-takes the reins of the Mexican coaching job. He was the coach of the 2002 World Cup...
Remember the name Federico Macheda
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s legacy lives on. His name is Federico Macheda. Another baby faced killer. Liverpool fans will remember...
Bayern Munich drain the bitter cup..
Klinsmann in shock after the 5 -1 biggest in seven years defeat.
Ronaldo gets Real
It finally happened and Ramon Calderon has won the battle against Alex Ferguson if reports are true. Ronaldo could...
Tom Hicks defaults on his loans
All $575m of it. But relax its all part of a clever strategery so that the banks allow Hicks...