World Football
When Roy Keane Attacks: Five Survival Strategies
By: Laurie |
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First, a confession: I kind of love Ipswich Town manager and former Ireland captain Roy Keane. (Even though he terrifies me.) But I was glad it wasn’t my cell phone going off in the middle of a press conference this week. Because let’s face it: the man is a bit…oh, [...]
Category: World FootballHow to Get Footy Fans to Stop Smoking: The Prizes Britain SHOULD be Offering
By: Laurie | 3 Comments
Best quote from this article on the National Health Service’s plan to use footy fans’ love of their sport to get them to quit smoking:
[M]ore than half of Liverpool fans say they would give up smoking if their team won the League and FA Cup double – more than for any other [...]
Offside Rewind: All Apologies
By: Daryl | No Comments
Seven non-Titi related posts you may have missed during the last seven days…
Japan sound the horn. For silencing the horn.
Tell us who your biggest international rival is.
What they’ll all be wearing in Philadelphia next year.
Who deserves the golden trashcan?
Nothing like an international break to recharge the old batteries
New Zealand headed to South Africa thanks to [...]
Category: World FootballJust How Corrupt is European Football?
By: Daryl | 6 Comments
It’s difficult to answer that question with any precision. But seems the answer is “a lot more corrupt than we realized”. Because German prosecutors think it’s corrupt enough that 200 games of European football need to be investigating. Including 12 in the Europa League and at least three in the Champions League. Yes, that Champions [...]
Category: World FootballBidone d’Oro Nominees Announced, Serie A Stars Duck.
By: chris | 13 Comments
With December fast-approaching, The Season is in the air. Christmas? Absolutely not. It’s awards season. The Argentine sensation known as Lionel Messi has already nabbed the Onze d’Or, a precursor to the Ballon d’Or (with a heft more patriotism) which has predicted the BdO three times in the last four years. Otherwise they select a [...]
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Tags: Adriano, Christian Poulsen, Felipe Melo, Fiorentina, Internazionale, Juan Pablo Carrizo, Julio Baptista, Juventus, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Lazio, Mancini, Milan, Ricardo Quaresma, Roma, Tiago, World FootballLearning to Love Football’s International Break
By: Daryl | 6 Comments
It’s international break time in world football right now. Dates that FIFA has blocked out on the calendar for international play. Which means no club football (or at least no high level club football). Which means someone somewhere is complaining about the international break. And I say to them: Please stop.
I don’t exclude myself or [...]
Category: World FootballThe Offside’s Utterly Unofficial Awards for Chicago – RSL. The “Eastern” Conference Finals
By: Laurie | 1 Comment
Final score Chicago 0-0 RSL aet, RSL takes it on penalties, 5-4.
First, just like last year, we have to go with the “AMERICANS SUCK AT GEOGRAPHY award,” (given last year under a different name to):
MLS.
So…yeah. Salt Lake. In the Eastern Conference finals.
Why am I getting visions of MLS Commissioner [...]
Rémi Gaillard: Foot 2009
By: Daryl | 1 Comment
I know this isn’t new. I also know that Chris already posted it on Water Cooler Offside. But I don’t care. It’s Friday, and this video needs to be shared.
For those unfamiliar, Rémi Gaillard is a famous/infamous prankster, sort of like a French version of Dom Joly. The key difference between Joly and Rémi is [...]
Category: World FootballWater Cooler Offside: Take a Gulp
By: Daryl | 2 Comments
Please allow me to bring one of the newer Offside blogs to your attention. It’s called Water Cooler Offside, and it’s written by Laurie, Chris and myself. I say written, it’s really a lot of cutting and pasting. Water Cooler Offside is basically a “behind the scenes of The Offside” blog. It’s videos, photos and [...]
Category: World FootballThe German Cure-All To Diving: Just Ask.
By: chris | 5 Comments
We’ve all done it. Tried to decipher the means, motives and mayhem behind a certain situation all within the whirling storm of our minds, failing to do the one oh so simple thing which could solve all our problems. On occasion causing a much larger problem through the tangents of an imagination enough to make [...]
Category: World FootballSteve Worgu: Whipping Up To Europe.
By: chris | 1 Comment
In the normal football world, athletes being caught on the wrong side of the law, or on the wrong side of photographers, with alcohol driving the bus isn’t all that rare. Hell, it might even get you a starting spot at a London club. Most of the time it’s a penal slap on the wrist [...]
Category: World FootballDjurgårdens Fans Not Good at Celebrating, or: Why You Should Support Assyriska in 2010
By: Daryl | 9 Comments
I didn’t really have a favourite Swedish Superettan (second tier) team to support until recently. But then Luka emailed The Offside and persuaded us to start a blog for Assyriska Föreningen, and I’ve been following their fortunes through the season.
Assyriska finished 3rd in the Superettan, which was enough to earn a promotion/relegation playoff vs the [...]
Category: World FootballGerman Keeper Robert Enke Passes Away, 32.
By: chris | 22 Comments
Tragic news coming through this evening: German national team and Hannover 96 keeper Robert Enke has died through what most outfits are calling an apparent suicide by train.
“The victim is apparently national team goalkeeper Robert Enke from Hannover 96,” a media officer for the Niedersachsen police told Reuters. “The first police indications are that it [...]
Category: World FootballMy 10 Favourite Foreign Language Football Phrases
By: Daryl | 21 Comments
One of my favourite things about The Offside and WorldCupBlog is that we’re a bit international. As a result, I’ve been exposed to a lot of non-English language football words and phrases that I otherwise may not have discovered.
There are far too many to list them all, obviously, so below I’ve put together a [...]
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