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Poll: Who is the Hardest Working Player in Football?
By: Daryl |
19 Comments
Yesterday we asked Offside readers to sound off and let us know who the hardest working player in world football was. We had a great response which helped us define “hard working” a little more specifically. As well as running around, and putting the hours in at training, concepts like willingly playing out of position [...]
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Tags: Carles Puyol, Carlos Tevez, Dirk Kuyt, Hardest working footballer, Ivica Olic, Javier Zanetti, Michael Essien, Polls, Vincenzo Iaquinta, World Football, World SoccerPoll: Should Football Punish Footballers for Off-Field Crimes?
By: Daryl | 10 Comments
The big naughty footballer news from France yesterday was Lyon’s French international Sidney Govou being caught by the gendarmes while driving with five times too much alcohol in his bloodstream. Not good Govou.
Let’s do the numbers first. The French legal limit is 0.5 grammes of alcohol per litre of blood, and Govou breathelizered (we assume) [...]
Category: PollsPoll: Did UEFA look the other way with Rooney?
By: chris | 6 Comments
Slow day, which means perhaps the biggest news – it’s even made American front pages – is that UEFA has decided not to suspend the devilish Red Devil Wayne Rooney for performing Riverdance on Dane Kasper Rigard’s chest. The stomp, I think, looks like it does leave the slightest of cracks in a watertight theory, [...]
Category: PollsPoll: Bodies, Technology or Leave It Be?
By: chris | 5 Comments
The lads at UEFA experimented with a 5 man refereeing crew in Cyprus a couple weeks back, sitting an extra referee behind each of the goal lines to keep their eyes glued to the penalty areas looking for fouls, balls cross the goal line and inappropriate touching – with or without the ball. In other [...]
Poll: Will David Beckham Ever Play for LA Galaxy Again?
By: Daryl | 6 Comments
So, it’s official. David Beckham is definitely joining AC Milan on loan from LA Galaxy. We even know the exact date – January 7th, 2009.
Here’s the official statement from the Galaxy’s website:
David Beckham remains under contract to the LA Galaxy of Major League Soccer and will return to the club for training and the start [...]
Category: PollsPoll: Did Ramos Deserve Longer at Spurs?
By: Daryl | 31 Comments
Spurs have sacked Juande Ramos, and Gus Poyet and Damien Comolli too. The day before a game Ramos actually had a decent chance of winning (vs Bolton).
It’s been coming, but strange decision to get rid of all three men. Seems to me that Spurs put so much effort into hiring Ramos, that he at least [...]
Category: PollsPoll: Ferguson or Scolari – Who’s the More Successful Manager?
By: Daryl | 28 Comments
Two managerial greats meet for only the second time on Sunday when Big Phil and Fergie go head to head in the Premier League. The Chelsea and Man Utd managers have already done plenty of pre-fight build up, from Scolari encouraging Cristiano Ronaldo to join Real Madrid in June to the recent epic that was [...]
Poll: Should John Terry’s Red Card Have Been Overturned?
By: Daryl | 18 Comments
Unsurprisingly, Sir Alex Furious Ferguson is furious about the FA’s decision to overturn the red card Mark Halsey waved at John Terry last weekend (see video). Partly because it seems Keith Hackett (king of English refs) has overruled Hasley, but mostly because the Chelsea captain is now free to face Man Utd this weekend.
Two questions, [...]
Poll: Who Will Win the 2008-9 Champions League?
By: Daryl | 9 Comments
You probably already know this, but the Champions League is back tomorrow. And I’m not talking about preliminary rounds or qualifying rounds or pulling plastic balls out of plastic pots, I’m talking about the Champions League group stages. The big money round.
And it’s going to awesome. How can it not be? Just look how shiny [...]
Category: PollsPoll: Can Liverpool Challenge for the Title This Season?
By: Daryl | 13 Comments
Before the season, I would have said no. There was no way Liverpool were challenging for the Premier League title. I thought they relied too heavily on Stevie Gerrard and Fernando Torres, still lacked wingers (as I’m sure Liverpool fans are tired of hearing) and Rafa Benitez was too easily distracted by the Champions League.
But [...]
Category: Polls Tags: English Premier League, EPL, Fernando Torres, Liverpool, Man Utd, Polls, Premiership, Rafa Benitez, Steven GerrardBerbatov or Robinho: Who Will Have the Better Debut?
By: Daryl | 8 Comments
The two big stories of the transfer window make their debuts tomorrow in two juicy Premier League fixtures.
Dimitar Berbatov and Manchester United take on Liverpool at Anfield in the early Saturday kickoff. Then later on Robinho should start earning the silly money he’s being paid when he makes his Man City debut against Chelsea.
Both [...]
Category: PollsPoll: 2008 UEFA Super Cup – Do You Care?
By: Daryl | 5 Comments
Tonight is the UEFA Super Cup in Monaco. For the uninitiated, this is a game between the Champions League winners and the UEFA Cup winners. Why? I’m not sure. It’s certainly not to decide the best team in Europe, since the two competitions are so unevenly matched.
Best way to think of it is more like [...]
Category: PollsPoll: Did SWP Waste His Time at Chelsea?
By: Daryl | 6 Comments
Shaun-Wright Phillips has finally listened to what everyone has been telling him for the last three years and got the hell out of Chelsea. In what feels like an admission that maybe he shouldn’t have gone there in the first place, SWP has rejoined Man City for an undisclosed fee, thought to be around £9 [...]
Category: PollsThe Offside Euro 2008 Champion: Charles Snyder
By: Dave Martinez | 5 Comments
Over three weeks of tournament action and only one country stood tall: Sweden. Ibrahimovich proved to be unstoppable in the virtual world, earning glory for his country where the real world left a bit to be desired. Standing in the finals against a tough Croatian squad, they dispatched their opponents 2-1 for [...]
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By: Laurie | 23 Comments
FIFA met this week and took some important votes on several key issues. The one that could have the most impact on the game as we know it is the “6+5 Rule,” which would require that six of the eleven players in any club’s starting lineup be eligible to play for the country’s [...]
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