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Does Ronaldinho Look Like an Olympic Athlete to You in This Picture?
By: Daryl |
17 Comments
Word recently was that the great once great Ronaldinho was keen to go to Beijing as one of the all-important over-age players in Brazil’s Olympic soccer squad.
Apparently Ronaldinho’s recovered from the thigh problem that kept him out of the Barcelona team for the latter part of 2007/8. Unfortunately Ronaldinho seems to have forgotten that “thigh [...]
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Transfer Talk: Window Opens Tomorrow, Hold onto Your Hats
By: Daryl | 17 Comments
You know what tomorrow’s date is don’t you kids? It’s July 1st 2008. Which means the transfer window blows open in less than 24 hours and all those rumours swirling around outside will be allowed in.
Category: World FootballA Song for Marcelo Saragosa
By: Ian Rose | 3 Comments
For those of you that are either not MLS fans, or were too distracted by the Euros to notice, FC Dallas and the Houston Dynamo played on Thursday night to a 1-1 draw. What won’t show up on most highlight reels is the absolutely shameful dive by Marcelo Saragosa of FC Dallas in the [...]
Category: MLSCricket Moves Against Mugabe … Should Football Follow?
By: Ian Rose | 8 Comments
We’ve had a few comments here on the site suggesting that the 2010 World Cup in South Africa should be boycotted, partially in response to the government’s inaction against Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe. But that seems, to me, like skipping an important step. How can football, as a sport and an institution, complain [...]
Category: World FootballWho Needs An Off-Season? Welcome to the Last Intertoto Cup
By: Ian Rose | 6 Comments
There are lots of firsts in professional football tournaments. Real Madrid will always be the first winners of the European Cup. Tottenham can claim the first UEFA Cup. But aside from the old Cup Winners’ Cup (won first by Fiorentina and last by Lazio), there aren’t many teams that can claim to [...]
Thierry Henry Kicks the Ball Around in Chinatown and Teases MLS Fans
By: Laurie | 3 Comments
How is Thierry Henry getting over France’s early exit from Euro 2008?
By coming to New York and kicking the ball around in a friendly 8-on-8 charity benefit with the likes of Claudio Reyna, Steve Nash and Jozy Altidore. And by teasing MLS fans with tantalizing comments like this, about coming to play [...]
Category: World FootballRooney Caught Having a Fag on His Honeymoon
By: Daryl | 4 Comments
You may have noticed the almost total lack of attention we’ve paid to Wayne Rooney’s marriage. Basically, we’ve been focused on Euro 2008 and he, well, hasn’t. But a surprising bit of news caught our attention today: Wayne Rooney has been smoking on his honeymoon.
And now that there’s photo evidence, it’s not like Rooney can [...]
Category: World FootballDavid Beckham Will Sell ANYTHING
By: Daryl | 2 Comments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUx8u6enjAE
Say what you like about David Beckham, the man isn’t shy of taking the corporate buck. Here he is shamelessly working to shill marker pens, pretending that he enjoys signing autographs with a Sharpie so much that he’ll resort to stealing from members of the public.
America might not have the biggest and best football league [...]
Category: World FootballJ League Returns After Month Break
By: Ian Rose | No Comments
After over a month of no laser lightshows, and no killer whale mascots, the J League returns to action tomorrow. With the European Championship winding down, the attention in Japan will be returning to domestic football, and since we’ve been a bit distracted ourselves, let’s take a look at how things stand in J [...]
Category: World FootballAdvice for That Player Who Bit the Referee
By: Laurie | 8 Comments
News coming out of Delaware is that a player last week took a bite out of a referee.
Yes, a bite. Drew blood and everything. (Photo comes from seconds before the incident. Disturbing, no?)
What does this mean? I believe it means that it’s time to revisit my previous advice, first [...]
Category: World FootballPele Robbed at Gunpoint, Still Has All His Goals
By: Daryl | 3 Comments
Could you rob a legend? I definitely couldn’t. I can’t even borrow a teabag without getting cold sweats.
But 10 armed men in Sao Paulo had no such problems when they pointed guns and knives at Pele and demanded the Brazilian national treasure* hand over his belongings.
Pele had to hand over his gold necklace, watch [...]
Category: World FootballWhy the French Want 6+5
By: Laurie | 26 Comments
FIFA head honcho Sepp Blatter met with several French football figures this week. The topic? Sepp’s controversial 6+5 proposal. The result? Overwhelming French support.
FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter held very productive meetings regarding “6+5″ with French sports minister Bernard Laporte and a delegation representing FIFPro at the Home of FIFA in [...]
Category: World FootballBest Complaint Against YouTube Censorship Ever
By: Daryl | 2 Comments
New Rule: Everyone who has their painstakingly constructed YouTube video removed by UEFA or the Premier League or any other overzealous money-obssessed footballing authority HAS to make a protest video like this.
And whoever removed the original clip has to watch all the protest videos back to back for the rest of eternity.
Category: World FootballMcClaren Fails Upward … Right Into the Champions League
By: Ian Rose | 1 Comment
Watch out, Eredivisie. There’s a new manager in town, and he’s not afraid to make waves. When people said no one played three at the back in international football anymore, he laughed and did it anyway. When everyone assumed England would cruise past minnows like Macedonia and Israel on their way to [...]
Category: World FootballC-Ron Saga Giving Fergie a Taste of His Own Medicine
By: Daryl | 19 Comments
Here’s what Cristiano Ronaldo said after Portugal’s Euro 2008 quarterfinal defeat to Germany:
“It is always difficult. It is not only one person deciding, it is many people, but it can be a very good thing for everybody. Let’s see in a couple of days. You will soon know what I want. You know what I [...]
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