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Ryan Babel Is the New John Barnes
By: Daryl |
19 Comments
Laurie already brought this to everyone’s attention in the Daily Dose, but I just couldn’t resist posting the video.
It’s Liverpool’s Ryan Babel doing some freestyle rapping – in his native tongue – on Dutch radio station 101Barz. Not sure why Babel chose the pseudonym Rio to rap under (certainly it’s no Drogabcite) but apparently Rio [...]
Category: English Premier League
Daily Dose 09.30.08
By: Laurie | 1 Comment
Some news to read as you watch your 89-year-old granny knit sweaters for the people whose tires she slashed:
Will Chivas USA make the playoffs? (Chivas Offside)
Ryan Babel lays down the beats in a rap video. Probably NSFW, particularly if your boss speaks Dutch. (And who knew that the word f***ing is pronounced [...]
Category: World FootballDimitar Berbatov Finally Does it for ManYoo — Twice
By: Laurie | 5 Comments
The cost per goal figure for Manchester United’s new purchase Dimitar Berbatov is now a real number after he scored today in the Champions League in ManU’s 3-0 win over hapless Aalborg. And not just once, but twice. The above goal took him from zero to one — an opportunistic delivery in [...]
Goalkeeper Scores With his Head
By: Laurie | 5 Comments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clWtGH7qWms
How often do we see goalkeepers score? Not too often.
How often do we see goalkeepers score off a header? Not too often times a hundred.
But here we see Silvio Proto (who plays for the exquisitely named K.F.C. Germinal Beerschot) getting a last-gasp equalizer.
Photo of the Day: Juergen Smiles Again
By: Laurie | 4 Comments
Okay, so a draw isn’t exactly a win. But it’s also not a 5-2 loss of the type that Bayern Munich saw against Werder Bremen a couple of weeks ago, or a 1-0 loss like they suffered to Hannover last weekend.
And given that Lyon’s Champions League goal today was actually a Demichelis [...]
Champions League Matchday 2 (Tuesday) LiveBlogaganza
By: Daryl | 21 Comments
For Champions League Matchday 2 we’re going to try something a little different. Rather than LiveBlogging just the one game here on the front page, we’re going to do an all inclusive LiveBlogaganza to try and follow all eight games simultaneously.
Foolish? Probably. But the plan is to have a place where we can discuss [...]
Category: Champions LeagueDid Spurs Get the Wrong Man from Sevilla?
By: Daryl | 1 Comment
Six games in to the season and Spurs boss Juande Ramos is under pressure. When Tottenham went looking to replace Martin Jol last season, Sevilla were doing well (they’d just won the UEFA Cup) and Juande Ramos looked like the perfect man for the job. The man who could bring some of that Seville magic [...]
New African Soccer Magazine is Now Free
By: Daryl | 2 Comments
Back in January we spent a month covering the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations on WCB. The three things I took away from this were:
1) African football is on the rise, 2) Manucho is a damn fine footballer, and 3) There’s not nearly enough written about African football.
What I mean by 3) is that [...]
IOSS: Rooney Gets a Free Role
By: Daryl | 7 Comments
In the latest episode of “I’m on Setanta Sports”, new Director of Programming Fabio Capello gives Wayne Rooney a free role. And much the The Special One’s dismay, Dennis Wise become a verb.
Category: World FootballJohn Cleese Explains The Offside Rule
By: Daryl | 3 Comments
There’s been some debate about exactly how offside works, mostly surrounding Ronaldinho’s goal for Milan against Inter.
Luckily John Cleese recorded the above explanation of the offside rule for 2006 tv show “The Art of Football”. So that clears that up then.
[via Soccer Training Info]
Category: World FootballDaily Dose 09.29.08
By: Laurie | No Comments
Some news to read as you die from eating hot chili sauce
Top 14 finishes from the past seven days (101 Great Goals)
The ten most hated people in football (Caught Offside)
Time for history lessons for Italian footballers? (SoccerLens)
A touching man-love player video that may bring a tear to the ladies’ eyes (HABs Offside)
Video technology: [...]
Category: Daily DoseTop 10 Dumbest Football Injuries
By: Daryl | 6 Comments
Stoke’s Liam Lawrence could miss next weekend’s game against Portsmouth with an ankle injury – after falling over his own dog (not pictured).
A stupid way to injure yourself no doubt, but not quite brainless enough to make our top 10 Dumbest Football Injuries list:
Category: World FootballCroatian Twins Score Twin Amazing Goals
By: Daryl | No Comments
Something quite amazing happened over the weekend. Croatian midfielder Frane Vitaić scored for Romanian Liga I side Otelul Galati from his own half with this brilliant long range strike (above). It was so unlikely that the television broadcast missed it first time round and only managed to show it in the replay.
But here’s the really [...]
Category: World FootballFrank Lampard Gave Jose Mourinho “A Bitter Taste in the Mouth”
By: Laurie | 3 Comments
Hell hath no fury like a manager scorned.
Jose Mourinho (formerly at Chelsea, currently at Inter, for those who’ve been asleep for the last year) just gave an interview in the Gazzetta dello Sport where he expresses great disappointment that Frank Lampard re-signed with Chelsea. Does anybody else think this sounds more like [...]
Trouble in Barcelona, But Who’s to Blame?
By: Daryl | 1 Comment
Barcelona came from behind and won the Catalan derby 2-1 with two late goals, but the big news was the crowd violence. With home team Espanyol leading twenty minutes from the end, Barcelona’s notorious Boixos Nois supporters began raining flares down on Espanyol fans, as you can see in the video above.
Referee Medina Cantalejo had [...]
Category: Spain La Liga
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