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/world-football/the-offside-100-2000-09-the-results.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/the-offside-100-2000-09-the-results.html#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:03:35 +0000 Rob http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/the-offside-100-2000-09-the-results.html Last week, I asked you to vote for you favourite 20 players of the decade, here in this very post, are the Top 100 players of the last 10 years, voted for by you, the readers and bloggers of the offside. First thing I want to say is thank you, everyone for the absolutely amazing response [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/the-offside-100-2000-09-the-results.html/feed 25 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/ballon-dor-point-total-make-frank-ribery-unhappy.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/ballon-dor-point-total-make-frank-ribery-unhappy.html#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:39:04 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/ballon-dor-point-total-make-frank-ribery-unhappy.html The Ballon d’Or is nothing if not a lightning rod for controversy and year-long verbal sparring matches with inflatable gloves. Yes, some deserving players win it. Others not so deserving also win it. In short, it’s like nearly every other award handed out by any other organization in the world. But perhaps worth the debate is [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/ballon-dor-point-total-make-frank-ribery-unhappy.html/feed 15 http://www.theoffside.com/daily-dose/daily-dose-november-3rd-2008.html http://www.theoffside.com/daily-dose/daily-dose-november-3rd-2008.html#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:00:24 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/daily-dose/daily-dose-november-3rd-2008.html Stuff to read while your kibbles ‘n bits are assaulted during a corner….. Slovak police in trouble over Hungarian riots. (101 Great Goals) 10 Reasons Why This Premier League Season Is The Best Yet (EPL Talk) Pep’s the tonic for all that once ailed in Barcelona. (Guardian Unlimited) Europe’s 20 most loyal footballers. (SoccerLens) With Captain Ballack down, onto Torsten [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/daily-dose/daily-dose-november-3rd-2008.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/jose-friends-prove-its-all-about-the-children.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/jose-friends-prove-its-all-about-the-children.html#comments Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:00:56 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/jose-friends-prove-its-all-about-the-children.html Admit it, when Jose said “I’m Jose Mourinho and I’m….” you thought he was going to say “I’m fantastic”, didn’t you? How Adidas missed this opportunity we’ll never know. They got a big fat softball lob and they whiffed. In the advert we saw a few times during the Chelski-Pool telecast yesterday Adidas took some [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/jose-friends-prove-its-all-about-the-children.html/feed 4 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/photo-of-the-day-halitosis.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/photo-of-the-day-halitosis.html#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:30:26 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/photo-of-the-day-halitosis.html This pic is from way back – last year’s Porto – Chelsea game I believe – and just came across it recently. I think it details just how badly Mikey Ballack could use a mint. ]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/photo-of-the-day-halitosis.html/feed 2 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/football-players-make-money.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/football-players-make-money.html#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:30:04 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/football-players-make-money.html I know, revolutionary reporting, huh. Sports Illustrated put up their annual list of top earning athletes, separating it into two separate categories: Americans and Non-Americans. (You know, being an American publication and all.) Not surprisingly, soccer players didn’t get a whiff of the Top 50 on the domestic list. However, they dominated the international list, [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/football-players-make-money.html/feed 12 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/ballack-consideredconsidering-retirement.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/ballack-consideredconsidering-retirement.html#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:00:07 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/ballack-consideredconsidering-retirement.html Back in the summer of ‘06, when Michael Ballack left home to sign for big poundage in London, he said “I hope this will be my last club. I’d like to finish my career here.”, which I suppose led everyone to believe he’d be spending many, many glorious years in Chelski blue. It appears he’s [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/ballack-consideredconsidering-retirement.html/feed 1