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Special1 TV: Best of 08/09
By: Daryl |
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As all popular comedy series’ eventually do, Special1TV has put together a “clip show,” featuring the best moments from the past season. Unlike most clip shows, this one actually works.
Have to admit, I fully expected SpecialTV to wear itself out sometime this year, but Mario Rosenstock and co. have kept the quality impressively high, mostly [...]
Category: Special 1 TV & IOSS
Weekend Quiz Answers: Non-British Crests.
By: Daryl | 6 Comments
Chris gave us this (non-UK) club crests quiz yesterday, and if you haven’t done so already I suggest you take the quiz before reading the answers below.
No one got all 10 correct. But congratulations to both Marcus & Oliver and Matt, who got 9/10 correct. Answers below…
Category: World FootballFrance Has A New King: Football Club des Girondins de Bordeaux.
By: chris | 7 Comments
Lyon lost their kung-fu grip on the Ligue 1 trophy some ways back and a new champion was always inevitable, but that doesn’t make it less of a story. Bordeaux beat Caen 1-0 to take home the title and send their opponents tumbling down to Ligue 2. Their first title in 10 years and the [...]
Category: French Ligue 1Lionel Messi & Andres Iniesta Celebrate With Beverages. And Lollipops.
By: chris | 7 Comments
I’d say if we were to rank the occasions where it’s perfectly acceptable to get belligerently drunk, the ceremony just after you’ve won the Champions League final is somewhere around the Top 5. (We must pray for the sake of the London police that this Tottenham squad never wins the continent’s title.)
So Lionel Messi [...]
Category: Champions LeagueWeekend Quiz: Non-British Crests.
By: chris | 13 Comments
A little while back we had some issues with the Barclay’s Premier League and their fleet of high-priced lawyers and forced us to remove any UK crests from the site. Hull City were the coolest kids in school when they happily allowed us to use their roaring tiger – hence their escape from the dreaded [...]
Category: World FootballOffside Rewind: Good Enough To Eat.
By: chris | 1 Comment
Barcelona won something moderately important this week.
Wolfsburg also won something pretty big – and for the first time, too.
Thanks to Louis Braille, there’s going to be lots of touching at France’s next friendly.
Thanks to Playboy, a lot more ogling at Germany’s training.
Should football be statified?
Bedi Buval submits a contender for sitter-miss of the century.
And finally, [...]
Category: World FootballDaily Dose: May 29th, 2009.
By: chris | 5 Comments
Stuff to read while you enjoy that tackling clinic from Paul Scholes in Rome…..
Trying to explain Messi’s header. (Studs Up)
African ManU fan goes well overboard, kills four Barca fans. (ManU Offside)
A brief explanation of the Confederations Cup glorified friendlies. (Unprofessional Foul)
There’s a new phenomenon in Argentina – Javier Pastore. (guardian)
Hamburg Offside hands out awards – [...]
Category: Daily DoseAnd We All Fall Down
By: Daryl | 5 Comments
Dirty Tackle beat us to this by about three days, but it’s too good not to post. It’s from the May 19th Asian Champions League game between China’s Tianjin Teda and Australia’s Central Coast Mariners. Very nice PDF match report here (maybe the future really is Asia?)
Tianjin are 1-0 up and CCM have a corner [...]
Category: AsiaDefending That Yusuf Şimşek Viral
By: Daryl | 1 Comment
I spotted this viral video getting a hard time on both Off the Post and The Spoiler recently, and felt the need to stick up for it.
It’s true that whoever made it didn’t splash out for CGI, and clearly no one’s going to believe that Besiktas’ attacking mid Yusuf Şimşek can bend a goal post [...]
Category: World FootballWeekend Predictions: Cup Finals, Titles and Relegation
By: Daryl | 10 Comments
Lots to predict this weekend. It’s the FA Cup Final in England and the DFB Pokal Final in Germany, we’ll get a new Ligue 1 winner in France and there are five La Liga teams fighting to avoid the final relegation spot.
My predictions below, please leave yours in the comments.
Category: World FootballDaily Dose: May 28th, 2009
By: Daryl | No Comments
Something to read while you enjoy this pyrotechnic protest in Poland…
Chivas USA vs Chicago LiveBlog, 7:30pm US PDT (MLS Offside)
Champions League Final viewing figures (TV by the Numbers)
Or the not very Champions League if you prefer (SoccerLens)
When Fluminense fans attack (SportsRubbish)
Terry Venables crystal ball is broken (The Spoiler)
Jon Champion to “CommonTweet” the FA Cup Final [...]
You Can Prove Anything With YouTube
By: Daryl | 4 Comments
This clip from the mid-90s golden era of Fantasy Football League obviously predates YouTube. It even predates the internet as we know it, and in doing so makes me feel like a very old man.
But by compiling several glaring Pele misses to suggest (tongue in cheek of course) that “Pele Was Shite”, Frank Skinner and [...]
Category: World FootballDoes Soccer Need More Stats?
By: Daryl | 20 Comments
I linked to a similar article in the Daily Dose yesterday, but wanted to get into this a little deeper. Chris Sprow recently wrote an article for ESPN, arguing that soccer needs more stats if it’s going to catch hold of the American imagination.
The basic idea is that American football, baseball and basketball all have [...]
Category: World FootballDaily Dose: May 27th, 2009
By: Daryl | 2 Comments
Something to read while you watch Barcelona lift that big trophy…
And then tomorrow we’ll talk about something else. Promise.
Hadjuk Split = Kenny (Dinamo Zagreb Offside)
Hanham Athletic’s end of season trip goes a bit wrong (Unprofessional Foul)
Iran vs USA? Diplomacy through soccer (Democracy Arsenal)
Where do Man Utd go from here? (Man Utd Offside)
Does soccer need more [...]
Category: Daily DoseYour 2009 UEFA Champions League Winners Are… Barcelona
By: Daryl | 26 Comments
(CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images)
I know we’ve done our fair share of lauding Barcelona on The Offside recently, and I know that has annoyed a couple of people. So if anyone doesn’t want to read any more of the same I recommend clicking away now.
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