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Daily Dose: 30.11.07
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Some stuff to read while you give birth via cellular technology…
Six great moments in commenting history (Guardian)
Lyon want to own France via different methods now (Lyon Offside)
More critical to Gunner success: Cesc, Titi or Arsene’s arse? (Caught Offside)
Now accepting applications: Finland NT coach (UEFA)
“Short and fat, with a Terry on top” (SoccerLens)
Mark your calendars (Dan [...]
Category: World Football
Weekend Watch: More Football. MORE!
By: Martha | No Comments
At the end of a long, exhausting week of European football, there’s nothing better than settling down on the couch for some equally stressful domestic matches, right?
What we all really need are those giant, mobile-home sized satellite dishes. If they don’t suck you into their sinister worlds, I have it on good authority that they [...]
Category: World FootballNobody Picked up in MLS Waiver Draft
By: Laurie | No Comments
Imagine if you held a garage sale and nobody came.
Or worse, you held a garage sale and packed it with all the delightful, lightly-used merchandise that you currently have no use for. But you still kind of love it, because you paid money for it once, right?
Great Photo: England Players in Summer ‘08
By: Laurie | No Comments
Yes, we will eventually stop posting about England’s failure to qualify for Euro ‘08.
Just as soon as people stop giving us fantastic things to share with you on the topic.
(Link to original, full-sized photo is here. And thanks to Du Nord for the find.)
The Offside Blogging Team can also be found at [...]
What Would You Do as MLS Commmissioner?
By: Laurie | 7 Comments
There’s interesting debate going on over at Soccer by Ives today. Ives asks, if you were MLS Commissioner for a day,
“what one change would you make to the league if you had that magical power to change things?”
My personal favorite so far? “Demote Alexi Lalas to serving hot dogs at HDC.”
NASL: When Football Had Shootouts
By: Martha | 12 Comments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg2CpWD2jpo
One of the (only?) awesome innovations of the North American Soccer League was the creation of hockey-style shootouts in place of PKs when matches ended with the score tied. When interviewed now, a lot of the big names who played in the league say they loved the format, though purists will surely turn their noses [...]
Category: World FootballTop 50 Teens In The World…
By: chris | 12 Comments
…according to World Soccer. Well, “Most Exciting”, which I don’t get with a goalkeeper and some defenders on the list. So most exciting prospects for the future? Which means the top prospects? We’ll run with that. Anytime one of these lists comes out the reaction is the same: Everybody gets all up in arms about [...]
Category: World FootballRoman Abramovich Wants To Buy Eastern Europe
By: chris | 1 Comment
This summers transfer market was relatively uneventful by Chelsea standards. Most of their buys were, now sit down for this, frugal and (partially) intelligent – even though they may have pursued some piggy bank breakers. Their “big buy”, Florent “The King of Diving” Malouda, was a far cry from the days when Roman Abramovich would [...]
Category: World FootballTeenage American Headed to Italy
By: Martha | 4 Comments
An 18-year-old high school senior named David Bingham who currently tends goal for California High, is scrambling to finish his first semester classes so he can go to Italy in the next few weeks, where he’ll join Serie A side Calgiari on a multi-year contract. Wha?
Bingham, who is passing up full scholarship offers from [...]
Riquelme Goes Home
By: Martha | 5 Comments
Nine months after his first (alleged) move back to Boca Juniors, Juan Román Riquelme was in Buenos Aires yesterday to be introduced as Boca’s newest player. FINALLY! No more sitting in the stand watching Villarreal win for him, no more rumor-mongering and watching YouTube clips for us. Now we can once again enjoy the privileged [...]
FIFA Short, Shortlist: Kaka, Messi, (Pretty) Ronaldo
By: Martha | 2 Comments
It’s nice that, after screwing up the list of the finalists (No Totti, no Zlatan, but Patrick Vieira?!) for their World Player of the Year award, the voters managed to redeem FIFA by getting players against whom no one can argue into their final three: Either Lionel Messi, Ricky Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo will win [...]
Category: World FootballDavid Beckham’s $3.25 million Goal
By: Laurie | 2 Comments
Do you want to see what a $3.25 million goal looks like?
Of course you do. Here it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdwm55eRswY
Daily Dose: 29.11.07
By: chris | 3 Comments
Some stuff to do while you eat your daughter’s feces to save your life…
Swiss unleash alien motherships to combat hooliganism (Danger Room)
The revival of Nicolas Anelka (101 Great Goals)
Your MLS offseason guide (ESPN)
Everybody hates ITV (The Beautiful Groan)
Hands off the refs, ya hear (English Soccer Talk)
Back in the UEFA Cup grind (UEFA Cup Offside)
Category: World FootballWhy Ingerland Will Win Euro 2008
By: chris | 1 Comment
One of these days we’ll stop. Seriously. This article, written for the BBC way back in 2003, is a little tongue-in-cheek look at England’s “Golden Generation” and perhaps shines a little light on why England, whose main downfall is that everyone thinks they’re better than they are, could not advance onto Swissaustria. Back then it [...]
Category: World FootballMLS Waiver Draft
By: Laurie | No Comments
This is my first full season as an MLS fan, so I’m still struggling to understand some of the concepts. Like the MLS Waiver Draft.
As I understand it, the Waiver Draft is a little bit like a garage sale. You gather up the stuff you’re going to get rid of anyway, [...]
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