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Daily Dose: 12.31.2007
By: Martha |
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Reading material as you consider what Abbie Hoffman and Borat might have in common:
Does Ronaldo (the pretty one) really want Real? (Spanish Football and Sports)
Get ready for the Brian Clough biopic. (The Global Game)
A look at 2007’s arrests in English football. Wow, that’s depressing. (Soccerlens)
Speaking of depressing, football lost a lot of people in 2007. [...]
Tags: Adriano, Brian Clough, BWIN Liga, English Premier League, Ronaldo, Rui Costa, South America, Spain La Liga, World FootballHalfway Through: The Transfer Hits
By: chris | 1 Comment
After checking out some of the swing and misses on Friday, it’s time to look at some of the transfers which have made suits look like geniuses over the first half of the season.
Fernando Torres
Atletico got, what, the GDP of Latvia for his services? Well, ask any Red fan and they’ll tell you to a [...]
It’s InterLiga Time!
By: Laurie | 2 Comments
If you have Fox Sports en Espanol, or if you’re near Dallas, Houston or Los Angeles and going through soccer withdrawals, be sure to use these next two weeks to check out Interliga.
For those unfamiliar with Interliga, it’s the competition used by Mexican clubs to decide which teams get the [...]
10 Things We Learned in the Premier League: Goals Galore
By: Daryl | 1 Comment
Quite a weekend in the Premiership, with last week’s Chelsea 4-4 Aston Villa made to look like a snoozefest by Tottenham’s ten goal encounter with Reading. All that and a defeat for one of the big four and arguments for a winter break never seemed so unconvincing.
Here are 10 Things We Learned in the Premier [...]
Old Firm Match Postponed
By: Martha | No Comments
As Ian reported us yesterday, three matches were almost immediately postponed in the wake of the tragic death of Motherwell captain Phil O’Donnell: ‘Well’s next two games have been pushed back, as well as Gretna’s next home match, because they’re currently sharing a ground with Motherwell, and the clubs don’t want to disrupt the tributes [...]
Zidane. Power of Cup Noodle.
By: Laurie | 2 Comments
If you can resist a video named “Zidane. Power of Cup Noodle,” you have more self-control than I do.
Zidane ? Power of cup noodleUploaded by Milder
Daily Dose: 12.30.2007
By: Martha | No Comments
Things to read as you wonder at the pretension of the guy who played the dad on The Brady Bunch:
We don’t have Vikash Dhorasoo to kick around any more. (France World Cup Blog)
Sepp Blatter: Still talking. (FIFA.com)
Thailand upsets Iraq to take King’s Cup trophy. (The World Game)
Alex Ferguson has well and truly had enough. (AFP)
Match [...]
A Dirty, Dirty (in a Good Way) Goal
By: Martha | 7 Comments
Untitled from Xavi on Vimeo.
It’s not quite everyone but Scotland and England that have stopped for the break — the last round in the Eredivisie was played this weekend, punctuated by this nasty chip from VVV Venlo’s Rachid Ofrany, which is just cruel to the Ajax keeper. With Ofrany opening the scoring, lowly Venlo snatched [...]
Statistics v Instincts
By: Martha | 4 Comments
It’s not just American sports franchises that are enamored of Oakland A’s GM Billy Beane, and his rigorously statistic-based approach to buying players — he’s also well respected by big names in English football, many of whom turned up last month to hear him speak about how his ideas apply to their game.
Category: World FootballLook Out for Spain
By: Martha | 10 Comments
Over the past couple of decades, Spain have developed a reputation of going into major tournaments with buckets of ability and high expectations, only to fall short over and over again. Failing to escape the group stages in the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2004 still rankles, as do the World Cup quarterfinal losses of [...]
A Good Day at the Office for Dimitar Berbatov
By: Martha | 2 Comments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8LdTPMxbNM
Berbatov scored four times for Tottenham yesterday, twice hauling his team level with Reading in an outrageous game Spurs eventually won 6-4. Not too shabby. (Full match highlights are here, if you want more than just Bulgarian goals.)
The Offside Blogging Team can also be found at these Offside blogs:
Roma | World Cup | [...]
Daily Dose: 12.29.07
By: Martha | 4 Comments
Things to read as you love and cherish your Blackwater Christmas card:
Good god, Carles Puyol is bald! (Goal.com)
That high altitude ruling of FIFA’s? Still full of holes. (Reuters Soccer Blog)
The 20 best clubs at the close of 2007. (SI.com)
The most hilarious transfer rumor of the first half: Messi to Napoli. (El Mundo Deportivo)
Sheva to Milan! [...]
Tragedy in Scotland
By: Martha | 2 Comments
Motherwell captain Phil O’Donnell died today after collapsing near the end of his team’s 5-3 win over Dundee. The midfielder, who was 35, was about to be substituted when he collapsed, and received treatment briefly on the pitch before being taken to hospital; it’s unclear at this point whether he died at the hospital or [...]
Hodgson For Fulham
By: Martha | No Comments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfnVxwQbMBM
Roy Hodgson, a man who’s had success at the club and national level all over the world and yet somehow can only find failure and relegation and England, is making a bid to continue that trend by taking over the helm of American-laden Premiership strugglers Fulham. (As pointed out at leftback, he looks like an [...]
The Hazards of At-Will Promotion
By: Martha | No Comments
Korean’s second-tier league, the N-League, was founded less than 10 years ago, and the possibility of promotion to the K-League for the winner of a playoff was introduced only last year, creating an urgency that the professional set-up in Korea hadn’t previously had. Well, sort of. You see, it costs several million dollars to make [...]
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