http://www.theoffside.com League Football, Soccer News and Views from Around the World Wed, 16 May 2012 15:00:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/no-one-wants-sulley-muntaris-shirt.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/no-one-wants-sulley-muntaris-shirt.html#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:00:09 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/no-one-wants-sulley-muntaris-shirt.html This great search was powered by Search Unleashed. Help to remove this message by getting the site owner to support this software. There was a bit of a skirmish on the internets earlier this week regarding Sulley Muntari’s shin guards and whether or not he was wearing those given to him by Inter. Turns [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/no-one-wants-sulley-muntaris-shirt.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/south-america/brazilian-ballboy-to-the-rescue.html http://www.theoffside.com/south-america/brazilian-ballboy-to-the-rescue.html#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:28:44 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/south-america/brazilian-ballboy-to-the-rescue.html The Brazilian clubs Guaranay, green, and Sergpipe, red, aside from the excellent names, join the many legions of clubs in lower tiers who will gain infamy through something other than their football. The former, down 1-0 in the dying moments, threw caution and the goalkeeper into the latter’s box, leaving open the net down the [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/south-america/brazilian-ballboy-to-the-rescue.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/footballs-wealthiest-in-2011.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/footballs-wealthiest-in-2011.html#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:09:46 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/footballs-wealthiest-in-2011.html On the day Lionel Messi can claim Barcelona’s club record for goals – soak that in for a moment; he’s 24 – France Football released another reason for him to celebrate. Dude’s filthy rich. On the annual list of football’s wealthiest, Lionel came tops again, raking in €33m for wages, sponsorships and being the best football player [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/footballs-wealthiest-in-2011.html/feed 1 http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/spain-la-liga/the-bielsa-breakdown.html http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/spain-la-liga/the-bielsa-breakdown.html#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:48:23 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/spain-la-liga/the-bielsa-breakdown.html While looking for the highlights of last night’s utterly stupendous Europa League match between Fergie’s crew and Bielsa’s boys, I popped across this video of Marcelo’s man-marking system in work against Barcelona. Simply put, it’s quite a nice change of pace from the video editing seizures typically populating the footballing YouTube universe. Plus it has a [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/spain-la-liga/the-bielsa-breakdown.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/england/english-premiership/carl-jenkinsons-bachelor-pad.html http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/england/english-premiership/carl-jenkinsons-bachelor-pad.html#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:59:56 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/england/english-premiership/carl-jenkinsons-bachelor-pad.html This is the bedroom of an 8 year old boy, momentarily populated by 20 year old Carl Jenkinson, photos of which have been published in major newsy things and hospitalized several of the world’s leading interior designers. Most alarming, from the link, is the missing television from its dock, indicating he might’ve had to take [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/england/english-premiership/carl-jenkinsons-bachelor-pad.html/feed 1 http://www.theoffside.com/europe/as-neuchatel-xamax-turns.html http://www.theoffside.com/europe/as-neuchatel-xamax-turns.html#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:07:40 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/europe/as-neuchatel-xamax-turns.html Or doesn’t turn, rather. This club is something else, and it’s all down to Bulat Chagaev, Chechen rebel hell bent on destroying tiny little football clubs from quaint Swiss cities. Despite showing up appearing as though he had bags of cash, and making some signings indicating money was on the way, it’s been nothing but [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/europe/as-neuchatel-xamax-turns.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/asia/photo-the-early-candidate.html http://www.theoffside.com/asia/photo-the-early-candidate.html#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:24:51 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/asia/photo-the-early-candidate.html This is likely to end up on some end of the year Best Of lists for football photos and the like, along with someone in the Bundesliga making a nice tackle and John Terry barking orders in the rain soaked evening. Afghan boys play football in sunset in Mazar-i-Shraif on January 10, 2012. Football is one [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/asia/photo-the-early-candidate.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/europe/berba-for-president.html http://www.theoffside.com/europe/berba-for-president.html#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:05:38 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/europe/berba-for-president.html There are lots of things which are either rigged, not taken seriously or both in football. FIFA qualifies in general. So too does the electoral process in Bulgaria. (The footballing variety, obviously.) The Bulgarian Player of the Year is something of a travshamockery, given that it’s Berba’s year after year, and justifiably so. However, he asked [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/europe/berba-for-president.html/feed 1 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/failed-chickenpalooza-2011.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/failed-chickenpalooza-2011.html#comments Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:25:09 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/failed-chickenpalooza-2011.html Scheming for support and ticket sales is one of sport’s greatest traditions. Most of them take a more traditional route, such as standard marketing. None of those methods likely involve bringing Akon to Blackburn. But give those chicken men some credit, because they tried to try. And clearly failed. Quite miserably it seems, since the [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/failed-chickenpalooza-2011.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/europe/howler-files-watch-the-ball-into-the-glove.html http://www.theoffside.com/europe/howler-files-watch-the-ball-into-the-glove.html#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:53:10 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/europe/howler-files-watch-the-ball-into-the-glove.html Fiftieth second or so. Vaslui’s Lithuanian keeper Vytautas Cerniauskas was posed with the basic task of catching a bounder in front of net, requiring little or no effort. His execution was, shall we say faulty, which then sparked two over done reactions: the opposition’s coach, celebrating like his boys just recreated Argentina’s team movement from 2006, [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/europe/howler-files-watch-the-ball-into-the-glove.html/feed 0