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/polls/poll-would-you-hire-martin-oneill.html http://www.theoffside.com/polls/poll-would-you-hire-martin-oneill.html#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:35:30 +0000 Ian Rose http://www.theoffside.com/polls/poll-would-you-hire-martin-oneill.html A week ago, for many of us, this would be a slam dunk of a question. But a lot has happened since then. Yesterday, Martin O’Neill left Aston Villa, a move that many saw coming but with timing that almost no one would have guessed, coming five days before the start of Villa’s [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/polls/poll-would-you-hire-martin-oneill.html/feed 5 http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/poll-fernando-torres-will-he-stay-or-will-he-go.html http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/poll-fernando-torres-will-he-stay-or-will-he-go.html#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:39:39 +0000 Dave Martinez http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/poll-fernando-torres-will-he-stay-or-will-he-go.html The inevitable has happened; flirtations with failure this season have given the Reds brightest star pause about his future. Though Liverpool continue to cling to the hopes of a top four finish this season, Fernando Torres can read the tea leaves, and he doesn’t seem to like what his future holds. Especially if [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/poll-fernando-torres-will-he-stay-or-will-he-go.html/feed 7 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/vote-messi-v-cristiano-ronaldo.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/vote-messi-v-cristiano-ronaldo.html#comments Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:54:47 +0000 Dave Martinez http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/vote-messi-v-cristiano-ronaldo.html This past week, Cristiano Ronaldo made a pretty bold statement: ““I have an ambition to become the best player in history.” Big words. Especially when Argentine mega mite Lionel Messi just took home the Ballon D’Or as the best player of 2009. Inevitably, these two mega talents have not only defined today’s game [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/vote-messi-v-cristiano-ronaldo.html/feed 24 http://www.theoffside.com/polls/poll-who-is-the-hardest-working-player-in-football.html http://www.theoffside.com/polls/poll-who-is-the-hardest-working-player-in-football.html#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:57:07 +0000 Daryl http://www.theoffside.com/polls/poll-who-is-the-hardest-working-player-in-football.html 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 [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/polls/poll-who-is-the-hardest-working-player-in-football.html/feed 19 http://www.theoffside.com/polls/poll-should-football-punish-footballers-for-off-field-crimes.html http://www.theoffside.com/polls/poll-should-football-punish-footballers-for-off-field-crimes.html#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:30:18 +0000 Daryl http://www.theoffside.com/polls/poll-should-football-punish-footballers-for-off-field-crimes.html 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) [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/polls/poll-should-football-punish-footballers-for-off-field-crimes.html/feed 10 http://www.theoffside.com/polls/poll-did-uefa-look-the-other-way-with-rooney.html http://www.theoffside.com/polls/poll-did-uefa-look-the-other-way-with-rooney.html#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:47:25 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/polls/poll-did-uefa-look-the-other-way-with-rooney.html 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, [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/polls/poll-did-uefa-look-the-other-way-with-rooney.html/feed 6 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/poll-bodies-technology-or-leave-it-be.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/poll-bodies-technology-or-leave-it-be.html#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:00:04 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/poll-bodies-technology-or-leave-it-be.html 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 [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/poll-bodies-technology-or-leave-it-be.html/feed 5 http://www.theoffside.com/polls/poll-will-david-beckham-ever-play-for-la-galaxy-again.html http://www.theoffside.com/polls/poll-will-david-beckham-ever-play-for-la-galaxy-again.html#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:30:56 +0000 Daryl http://www.theoffside.com/polls/poll-will-david-beckham-ever-play-for-la-galaxy-again.html 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 [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/polls/poll-will-david-beckham-ever-play-for-la-galaxy-again.html/feed 6 http://www.theoffside.com/polls/poll-did-ramos-deserve-longer-at-spurs.html http://www.theoffside.com/polls/poll-did-ramos-deserve-longer-at-spurs.html#comments Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:12:50 +0000 Daryl http://www.theoffside.com/polls/poll-did-ramos-deserve-longer-at-spurs.html 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 [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/polls/poll-did-ramos-deserve-longer-at-spurs.html/feed 31 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/poll-ferguson-or-scolari-whos-the-more-successful-manager.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/poll-ferguson-or-scolari-whos-the-more-successful-manager.html#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:00:42 +0000 Daryl http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/poll-ferguson-or-scolari-whos-the-more-successful-manager.html 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 [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/poll-ferguson-or-scolari-whos-the-more-successful-manager.html/feed 28