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Poll: Does the Format for the MLS Conference Semifinals Need Changing?
By: Laurie |
3 Comments
I had a post on the the MLS Conference Semifinal format all ready in my mind before I wrote it. It was about how the format is flawed because in a home-and-home series without an away goal rule in place, the away team in the first match plays a cautious and defensive game. [...]
Category: World Football
Daily (or Weekend) Dose 10.31.09
By: Laurie | No Comments
Some news to read as you reflect on how little sun they must get in Scotland. (Probably safe for work. If your boss isn’t offended by a few short seconds of naked buttocks.)
(Spotted on 101 Great Goals)
Sweden goes down to the wire: A preview of the final round for the [...]
Category: World FootballPhoto of the Day: No, Really. He’s a World-Class Goalkeeper. He Only LOOKS Like Your Creepy Uncle
By: Laurie | 6 Comments
This is, of course, Gianluigi Buffon. World Cup winner with Italy in 2006.
Any resemblance to the creepy uncle you won’t allow to babysit is entirely coincidental.
(Photo: Reuters)
(Thanks, Aaron!)
Category: World FootballOffside Rewind: Happy Halloween!
By: Daryl | 4 Comments
Seven stories you may have missed this week on The Offside and World Cup Blog…
Celebrating the South African grannies team
Adidas XI vs Nike XI in battle of the brands
Nothing can stop Ivan Klasnić, not even Lucas Neill
Alacorn upset the Galacticos
Guitar hero. With footballs.
Some pretty rank rankings
Halloween special zombie football game
Thanks to everyone who had read [...]
Category: World FootballDaily Dose: October 30th, 2009
By: Daryl | 1 Comment
Something to read while you enjoy the Top 30 A-League Goals of All Time (so far)…
English football 1991-92 season in review (EPL Talk)
FM2010: Digital Sunderland is the new digital Newcastle (Football Manager Offside)
End of an era at Pro Vercelli (Run of Play)
Ten players who played into their 40s (Podcast Offside)
An alternative take on the Ballon [...]
Category: Daily DoseFan for a Match: Dagenham & Redbridge
By: Daryl | 1 Comment
Time for another Fan for a Match, where we pick a random team to support for the weekend. Two weeks ago, we pledged our support to Sporting Clube de Goa: the Indian team with the Portuguese name. Unfortunately Sporting let a 2-1 lead slip to draw 2-2 at home to Pune FC on October 17th [...]
Category: World FootballBeckham Heading to Milan Again. But Will He Be Back? I Say Yes.
By: Daryl | 2 Comments
David Bcekham’s loan move from LA Galaxy to Milan will apparently be announced in the next few hours. It may have already happened by the time you read this.
In the words of Milan VP Adriano Galliano:
“The agreement for David Beckham has been completed. In a few hours we and Galaxy will officially announce this deal [...]
Category: MLSMario Balotelli’s Spot Kick Tantrum
By: Daryl | 30 Comments
You know how Mario Balotelli is supremely talented but a little immature? Well last night we saw both sides again.
In the opening minutes of Inter vs Palermo, Balotelli worked some magic in the box and was pulled down for a penalty. A penalty Balotelli wanted to take. So much so that he stood over the [...]
Category: Serie ADaily Dose: October 29th, 2009.
By: chris | No Comments
Henrik Larsson and a teary-eyed farewell.
Dinamo Zagreb get a heavy sentence from UEFA. (Dinamo Zagreb Offside)
Where are the Carling Cup Cinderellas? (Fanhouse UK)
The problems at Real start deep within. (SoccerLens)
Sport.co.uk lists ten poor transfers. (Sport)
UF gives their take demolishes that list. (Unprofessional Foul)
The decade’s biggest Serie A flops. (Italy Offside)
Not quite the way to get [...]
Category: Daily DoseKick Killer Zombies In The Balls, With The Balls.
By: chris | 2 Comments
We can be accused of many things, but trying to keep you employed is not one of them.
Tomorrow, as you may have heard, is the yearly D-Day for social lives. Football Manager 2010 is being released (with a fancy new interface, may I say) and jobs will be lost, relationships irrevocably strained, children put up [...]
Category: World FootballCastrol Unleash Rankings Which Provide Ammo Against Rankings.
By: chris | 23 Comments
Nothing wrong with this picture whatsoever.
It’s a novel idea – compile a ranking which will help determine the world’s best player. Castrol did it for the Confederations Cup and now they’re unleashing for all of world football. Well, by “world football” they mean “Europe’s top 5 leagues” – Spain, England, Italy, Germany and France.
And [...]
Category: World FootballMarlon King: 18 Months Hard Time & A Sex Offender.
By: chris | 5 Comments
Well, what was a comic divee into the ego of the professional footballer has turned into an an incredible hammer blow from the British justice system. Marlon “Do you know who I am?” King was found guilty of both sexual assault and causing actual bodily harm for groping a girl and then breaking her nose [...]
Category: World FootballOleksandr Kucher Enters The Diving Hall Of Fame
By: chris | 5 Comments
[101 Great Goals]
When Dr. Paul Morris laid out the ways and means of diving, giving referees the necessary tools to catch the culprit (failure thus far), he forgot two very, very important indicators:
i. The delay between perceived foul and the criminal going to ground.
ii. The “look back”. We’ll call this The Morten Gamst Pedersen (below).
Oleksandr [...]
Category: EuropeDaily Dose: October 28th, 2009.
By: chris | 1 Comment
Stuff to read while you score the sweetest of consolation goals…..
Aussie owner wants to limit fans. (Dirty Tackle)
Off the pitch shenanigans. (Three Match Ban)
Fun of the cup without the cup. (Bayer Offside)
Prem club get transfer ban – not that one. (Reuters)
If you like goals, you’ll like this. (Footy Tube)
The dearth of the ‘false nine’. (guardian)
Category: Daily DoseThe Body Language of an Upset.
By: chris | 3 Comments
There were three somewhat major cup exits yesterday. Three second division or lower sides which took their Cinderella moment and cashed it in: the much discussed Alcorcon thrashing of grand Real Madrid; Furth downing the apparently unfireable Markus Babbel and epic disappointers Stuttgart; and Borussia Dortmund gifting three goals and a win to Osnabruck, who [...]
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