Euro 2012: Group C: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Spain is still the team to beat. The defending Euro and World Cup champions have their Barcelona core intact...
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Euro 2012: Group B: Game of Thrones
Also formerly known as the Group of Death. But Game of Thrones is way cooler and more relevant if...
Euro 2012: Group A: Eastern Promises
The former Iron Curtain countries and a country on the brink of bankruptcy vie for Group A honours. In...
Euro 2012: Ukrainian players come down with a stomach bug
The offending hamburger(s) that caused Ukrainian players to fall sick Anatoli Tymoschuk and nine other players come down with...
World Cup 2014 qualifier: Argentina dismantle Ecuador, 4-0
Sergio Aguero, Gonzalo Higuain, Leo Messi, and Angel Di Maria make it look easy against Ecuador. Argentina sit on...
Euro 2012: Andrea Barzagli to miss group stage
The Juventus defender suffered a serious strain to his left calf muscle that will keep him out of the...
Racism issue re-ignited in FA’s snub of Rio Ferdinand on Euro eve
The FA chases its own tail while it cries no racism Steven Gerrard is feeling angry at the number...
Brazil fall to Mexico, 0-2 as Gio Dos Santos scores a wonder goal
El Tri have been one of Brazil’s bogey teams, always managing to give them a hard time. Giovani Dos...
The USA is a non-factor as it draws Canada, 0-0
The outstanding theme of the USA vs Canada match was how many US players were non-factors for the 90...
Russia spank Italy, 3-0 in a pre Euro friendly
This has been a bad week all around for Italian football with mass arrests of players implicated in the...
Part 1: Stadiums of Hate: Poland
Anti-semitism. White Power. Targeting black players. This is the ugly side of the beautiful game. Sol Campbell is right...
Brazil beat USA, 4-1 but take some positives from that loss
The canary yellow jerseys were everywhere in the first half. Brazil obviously had done their homework because every time...
Calciopoli II: Stefano Mauri, Lazio captain arrested along with 14 others
Stefano Mauri, Lazio captain is in the dock for accepting money to fix results In case you have not...
Eren Derdiyok’s hat trick as Switzerland shock Germany, 5-3
The Swiss cut open the German defense like one of their cheeses. To be fair they were missing the...
USA posts a very impressive victory over Scotland, 5-1
Football is back on the USA’s menu. You can sense the optimism in the players and their growing belief...
John Terry again! Roy Hodgson announces 23 man Euro squad
He’s back! Rio is out. Team unity be damned. Old is gold. We have John Terry back resurrected until...
Alessandro Del Piero: Juve legend plays his last match against Atalanta
What a bittersweet final day for Juve fans as their side got to lift the Scudetto and beat Atalanta,...
Joey Barton’s tantrums ruin QPR’s joy at remaining promoted
QPR went down to City but in the end it did not prove costly as Bolton could not pull...
Tactical inflexibility cost the US U23 an Olympics spot
Caleb Porter’s tactics came under fire in the U23 failure The CONCACAF region will be represented by Mexico and...
Kirin Cup: Alex Morgan’s score ties US with Japan, 1-1
The Nadeshiko were the better team in the first 45 minutes getting a number of chances with their quick...
Mexico beat Canada, 3-1 to qualify for the 2012 Olympics
Marco Fabian was the standout player scoring a goal and assisting in Alan Pulido’s goal as Mexico brushed aside...
Patrick Vieira’s contention of referee favouritism is bunk
Patrick Vieira started a firestorm when he claimed that Man Utd get preferential treatment from referees. He was referring...
Olympic qualifiers: Mexico beat Panama, 1-0 to enter semi-finals
Mexico entered the semi-finals of the Olympic qualifiers beating Panama last evening at the Home Depot Center, Carson. The...
Champions League QF: Milan holds Barca, 0-0
Barca did everything except score a goal. But credit Milan they turned in a defensive performance they can be...
Zinedine Zidane’s headbutt immortalized
The most iconic moment of the first decade of the 21st century now has a permanent home. Alright, that’s...
The USA U-23 fail to qualify for the Olympics: USA 3 El Salvador 3
A last second shot by Jaime Alas which Sean Johnson could not hold onto trickled into goal for the...
Racism on display: Chris Samba gets a banana thrown at him
Russian clubs are flush with cash. Anzhi Makhachkala’s new coach is Guus Hiddink. They are ready to break the...
Harry Redknapp develops cold feet over England job
‘Arry ain’t so sure anymore Harry Redknapp seems to be feeling the after effects of Spurs’s three straight losses....
Ricardo Teixeira: Another corrupt FIFA overlord bows out
Ricardo Teixeira, the CBF president for 23 years and the man behind Brazil’s 2014 World Cup bid stepped down...
FA have you ever considered David Moyes?
A very defensive Harry Redknapp: ” We battered them non-stop” Ten years at the helm of Everton and David...
Messi or Maradona?
In the wake of that superlative five strike by Leo Messi, the question naturally turns to his place in...
Costa Rica win the Gary Speed memorial match
Joel Campbell, signed by Arsenal scores the winner for Costa Rica as Wales and the footballing fraternity paid tribute...
The Italy win should banish all doubts about Klinsmann
Juergen Klinsmann has arrived. He was on a winning steak before the Italy match but the caveat was that...
France overcome Germany, 2-1
Olivier Giroud emphatically finishes of Mathieu Debuchy’s through pass. Florent Malouda scores following a goalmouth scramble. Germany cuts the...
Magical Messi’s hat trick as Switzerland succumbs, 3-1
The little maestro might be answering all those knocks he needs Xavi, Iniesta, and the Barca passing system to...
Robben has the last word as England’s fight back ends, 3-2
The first half produced little except for an Arjen Robben effort shut down by Joe Hart and Adam Johnson’s...
Can Klinsi pull off a win over Italy?
The Hair might have a few goals lurking under his mane Brek Shea and Sacha Kjlestan get call ups...
Scott Parker named England captain against Netherlands
Scott Parker named as England captain Not a very surprising choice to be honest. Parker has been at the...
Mario Balotelli left out of Italy squad for USA match
Italy’s national squad is Balotelli free but this man finds a place Cesare Prandelli named a 23 man squad...
Terrence Boyd named in Klinsmann’s Bundesliga heavy MNT roster
Terrence Boyd plays for the Borussia Dortmund reserves Juergen Klinsmann mines the German American connections as the Bundesliga gets...
2012 ACN final: Zambia win an epic PK shootout!!
The amazing Chipolopolos pull off the impossible as Gervinho misses his PK. The art of war, Sunzu Stophira made...
Why are US goalkeepers so good?
Brad Friedel, amongst his peers, still going strong at 41 years old A recent post by Jamie Trecker poses...
Stuart Pearce installed as England’s interim manager
A pearce-ing scream: The U21 coach is taking over for the Holland friendly The players are all coming out...
2012 ACN: Gervinho’s fabulous goal in Ivory Coast’s win over Mali
The winning goal for the Taranga Lions was all Gervinho in the 44th minute. The Arsenal winger robbed the...
2012 ACN: Zambia surprise Ghana, 1-0 or is it a surprise?
The amazing Chipolopolos scored the winning goal in the 77th minute as substitute Emmanuel Mayuka found space and on...
Cappello resignation: A happy day for Redknapp and conspiracy theorists
Harry Redknapp, David Bernstein, and Fabio Capello in Les Liaisons Dangereuses A day ago, Harry Redknapp was in the...
Kieran Gibbs: Available for Arsenal’s CL fixture against Milan
Slowly some of those long standing absences are working their way back into the Arsenal squad and not a...
Harry Redknapp cleared of tax evasion charges
C’mon ‘Arry break out in a smile now! Harry Redknapp’s been found to be as clean as a whistle....
Curtains for Fabio Capello?
Fabio Capello showing what he thinks of the FA’s decision to nix Terry’s captaincy The FA and Fabio Capello...
2012 ACN: Mali beat Gabon on PKs 5- 4 (1-1 AET)
Co-hosts Gabon looked like it was going to be headed to their best showing in any ACN when Eric...
2012 ACN: The Black Stars beat Tunisia, 2-1
Captain John Mensah puts Ghana ahead through his third international goal. Saber Khelifa equalized after beating Samuel Inkoom to...
Joey Barton’s John Terry tweets being investigated
Joey Barton’s reaction to the FA’s handling of the John Terry racial abuse case A series of Tweets from...
2012 ACN: Zambia pour three past 10 man Sudan
Zambia cruised past Sudan, 3-0 to the semi-finals of the ACN, the first time since 1996. Sudan made things...