http://www.theoffside.com League Football, Soccer News and Views from Around the World Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:55:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/commencing-the-camcorder-movement.html http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/commencing-the-camcorder-movement.html#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:52:12 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/commencing-the-camcorder-movement.html Despite the ubiquity of mobile phone cameras, there doesn’t seem to be an equal growth in the number of mediums who know when to flick on the record button as something big is going to happen in the next five seconds. No medium was apparently on hand for a Scottish Cup match which has landed [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/commencing-the-camcorder-movement.html/feed 1 http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/no-red-card-gone-unused.html http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/no-red-card-gone-unused.html#comments Mon, 09 May 2011 16:23:13 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/no-red-card-gone-unused.html The first warning flags are that a “phone call from Lithuania” could alter a team sheet in the Scottish Premier League, but alas, that’s precisely what happened at, you guessed it, Hearts. BBC Scotland has learned that Hearts owner Vladimir Romanov withdrew Marius Zaliukas from Saturday’s match against Rangers in case he was red-carded. Guess what [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/no-red-card-gone-unused.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/howler-files-self-awareness.html http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/howler-files-self-awareness.html#comments Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:41:22 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/howler-files-self-awareness.html And on the week Jens returns to the limelight, we shall have howlers. This is a bit less Jens and his moments of madness and more a moment of lacking self-awareness. The awareness that the man at hand, David Hutton, is not aware of his abilities as an outfield player – in that he doesn’t have [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/howler-files-self-awareness.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/tis-a-bad-thing-using-nazi-photos-on-gameday-programs.html http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/tis-a-bad-thing-using-nazi-photos-on-gameday-programs.html#comments Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:54:26 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/tis-a-bad-thing-using-nazi-photos-on-gameday-programs.html The worst things often derive from the best of intentions. Enter Scottish third-tier club Airdrie, who simply wanted to pay homage to the soldiers of present and yore on on Remembrance Day with a commemorative gameday program. Great theory, poorly applied: the image they mistakenly used was of Nazi soldiers. You can imagine this caused something of [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/tis-a-bad-thing-using-nazi-photos-on-gameday-programs.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/motherwell-6-6-hibernian-there-are-enough-goals-in-football.html http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/motherwell-6-6-hibernian-there-are-enough-goals-in-football.html#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 10:24:48 +0000 Daryl http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/motherwell-6-6-hibernian-there-are-enough-goals-in-football.html If anyone ever tells you “there aren’t enough goals in soccer”, then please direct them towards this game from last night. It’s Motherwell vs Hibernian in Scottish Premier League, and it finished 6-6. That’s not a typo. The two sides shared twelve goals in 90 minutes. Of course, football’s not all about goals. It’s mostly [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/motherwell-6-6-hibernian-there-are-enough-goals-in-football.html/feed 4 http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/the-home-straight-but-who-will-take-the-league-titles.html http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/the-home-straight-but-who-will-take-the-league-titles.html#comments Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:06:39 +0000 Rob http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/the-home-straight-but-who-will-take-the-league-titles.html We’re entering that wonderful part of the season, where every game matters because the title is on the line. Unless, you watch the SPL. Anyway, the title races this years are really hard to call. In France any one of six teams could win the league. The Premier League is still a three horse race. [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/the-home-straight-but-who-will-take-the-league-titles.html/feed 9 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/celtics-hiring-standards-do-not-include-the-common-man.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/celtics-hiring-standards-do-not-include-the-common-man.html#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:00:00 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/celtics-hiring-standards-do-not-include-the-common-man.html Genius find from Matt over at the Celtic Offside. The Hoops are currently looking for a manager. The search hasn’t gone spectacularly well – particularly if you ask Tony Adams – so a certain Celtic fan and online forum member decided to toss his hat into the ring. He whipped up a letter teeming with [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/celtics-hiring-standards-do-not-include-the-common-man.html/feed 2 http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/rangers-fans-fool-celtic-fans-with-operation-tango.html http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/rangers-fans-fool-celtic-fans-with-operation-tango.html#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 19:04:40 +0000 Daryl http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/rangers-fans-fool-celtic-fans-with-operation-tango.html We all know how Rangers and Celtic fans feel about each other. But this is just mean. Here’s the backstory for those who need it: The Scottish Premier League title was decided on Sunday. For Celtic to overtake Rangers on the final day, the Bhoys needed to beat Hearts at home and hope that Rangers failed [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/rangers-fans-fool-celtic-fans-with-operation-tango.html/feed 31 http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/rivaldo-cristiano-ronaldo-kyle-lafferty.html http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/rivaldo-cristiano-ronaldo-kyle-lafferty.html#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 01:30:56 +0000 Daryl http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/rivaldo-cristiano-ronaldo-kyle-lafferty.html If one player could emulate the skills of both Brazilian legend Rivaldo and current WPOTY Cristiano Ronaldo, that player would be one unstoppable step-over fueled goal machine right? Well, it all depends on which skills said player decided to take. Rangers Northern Irish striker Kyle Lafferty decided Rivaldo’s hilarious corner flag routine (second link for that [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/rivaldo-cristiano-ronaldo-kyle-lafferty.html/feed 1 http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/the-hand-of-god-scottish-edition.html http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/the-hand-of-god-scottish-edition.html#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:31:29 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/the-hand-of-god-scottish-edition.html Would that make it “Hand of Apostle” or something? Don’t know. What we do know is this is one of the most blatant handballs in the history of ever and the fact that he got away with it means this entire refereeing crew should be reassigned to Brazil. Despite Bryan Prunty being a giant [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/scottish-premier-league/the-hand-of-god-scottish-edition.html/feed 2