Barcelona vs Real Madrid: Top 10 El Clásico Goals (Since the Invention of YouTube)
By: Daryl |
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It’s El Clásico this Sunday, November 29th. You should know this already. If not, here are the details: It’s Barcelona vs Real Madrid at Camp Nou, arguably the greatest derby in club football. Kick off is 7pm local time, 1pm US eastern.
Real Madrid are currently one point ahead of Barcelona at the top of La [...]
Category: Spain La LigaDaily Dose: November 25th, 2009.
By: chris | 5 Comments
Doncaster Rovers are the new Barcelona.
Life, Love, and Football in Kenya. (Football Is Coming Home)
Rafa, if he cared about such things as “face”. (Studs Up)
Luis Suarez’s assault on the history books. (ESPN)
The “barçasmugometer”. (La Liga Loca)
Ten Englishmen who will never make SA, but maybe should. (Football 365)
Edwwin van der Sar contemplating showing up in South [...]
Category: Daily DoseThe Tuesday Champions League Wrap of Liverpool Woe
By: chris | 7 Comments
I gather I speak for many, if not most, when I say that seeing the best teams in the knockout stages is preferable – ’tis the Champions League after all.
But I’d be lying if I said that I wasn’t thrilled at the prospect of not having to hear the British media bang on about the [...]
The Ins & Outs & Ins of Champions League Knockouts Qualification
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Isn’t it nice to see a compilation/trailer with a soundtrack which isn’t a thumping pop song which leaves one wanting for a wounded cow in labor? Or any song by Fort Minor?
This is the game of the day for Tuesday, and arguably the game of the week. Until this weekend, at least, when that quasi-friendly [...]
Tags: APOEL, Arsenal, Atletico, AZ Alkmaar, Barcelona, Bayern, Besiktas, Bordeaux, Champions League, Chelsea, CSKA Moscow, Debrecen, Dynami Kyiv, Fiorentina, Inter Milan, Juventus, Liverpool, Lyon, Maccabi Haifa, Manchester United, Marseille, Milan, Olympiacos, Porto, Rangers, Real Madrid, Rubin Kazan, Sevilla, Stadard Liege, Stuttgart, Unirea Urziceni, Wolfsburg, World Football, ZurichClub World Cup Schedule Released – Does Anyone Care?
By: chris | 13 Comments
I’ll be frank: I don’t. I think it’s a ridiculous competition with nice ideals, but one which falls short due to that which has felled many a great idea in history: theory does not always translate well to practice.
Such as it promotes itself as a legitimate competition with integrity and meaning – the club [...]
Category: Club World Cup Tags: Al-Ahli, Atlante, Auckland City, Barcelona, Club World Cup, Estudiantes, Mazembe, Phang SteelersIs There a Name For Zlatan’s Trick vs Mallorca?
By: Daryl | 19 Comments
I hope everyone has seen Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s magical assist for Barcelona vs Mallorca this weekend. I saw it live on TV and instinctively applauded. Even though I was alone. Bit odd maybe, but a testament to Zlatan’s talents.
Chris spotted the above YouTube vid of the clip over at Unprofessional Foul and posted it on Water [...]
Category: Spain La LigaThe Offside 100: 2000-09, THE RESULTS!
By: Rob | 25 Comments
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 [...]
Category: World Football Tags: Anelka, Ballack, Barcelona, Beckham, Buffon, C-Ron, Cafu, Champions League, Chelsea, Del Piero, Fabregas, Forlan, Gattuso, Giggs, Gourcuff, Iniesta, Inzaghi, Juventus, Kaka, Keane, LA Gaaxy, Lampard, Legends, List Offside 100, Makelele, Man United, Marta, Messi, Milan, Mutu, Nesta, Owen, Real Madrid, Ribery, Robben, Roma, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Rooney, Scholes, Seedorf, Shevchenko, Top 100, Totti, World Football, Xavi, zidane, ZolaThe Haves, Have-Nots & Never-Hads of the Champions League
By: chris | 8 Comments
They must fall.
And so four games in, the Champions League contenders and pretenders have been separated fallen into place for the group stage which, a few spots aside, could’ve been drawn up in August by a blind chimp and his serf, a man who tans.
Breaking down the likelies, unlikelies, and those who are already [...]
Tags: APOEL, Arsenal, Atletico, AZ Alkmaar, Barcelona, Bayern, Besiktas, Bordeaux, Champions League, Chelsea, CSKA Moscow, Debrecen, Dynami Kyiv, Fiorentina, Inter Milan, Juventus, Liverpool, Lyon, Maccabi Haifa, Manchester United, Marseille, Milan, Olympiacos, Porto, Rangers, Real Madrid, Rubin Kazan, Sevilla, Stadard Liege, Stuttgart, Unirea Urziceni, Wolfsburg, World Football, ZurichThat Was Quick: Spanish Supremacy In Danger.
By: chris | 2 Comments
While all were oohing and aahing over Barcelona’s sex on a pitch football and the free-spending ways of Florentino Perez returning to Madrid, the biggest difference maker in Spanish football was lurking under the Spanish limelight. In fact it was lurking so far under the Spanish limelight it was in Britain.
That, you see, is [...]
Castrol Unleash Rankings Which Provide Ammo Against Rankings.
By: chris | 23 Comments
Nothing wrong with this picture whatsoever.
It’s a novel idea – compile a ranking which will help determine the world’s best player. Castrol did it for the Confederations Cup and now they’re unleashing for all of world football. Well, by “world football” they mean “Europe’s top 5 leagues” – Spain, England, Italy, Germany and France.
And [...]
Category: World Football Tags: Barcelona, Carles Puyol, Castrol, Cristiano Ronaldo, Gerard Piqué, Lionel Messi, Luca Toni, Rafael Marquez, Thierry Henry, World FootballDaily Dose: October 26th, 2009.
By: chris | 3 Comments
Stuff to read while you miss the sitter of the season………..
Big Four is dwindling. (EPL Talk)
Rogerio Ceni scores again. (See The Cup)
Reviewing The Damned United. (Unprofessional Foul)
Barca still the beesneeze. (SoccerLens)
A cokehead’s booze line. (Dirty Tackle)
Just what is Southgategate? (Fisted Away)
Help name that city. (Water Cooler Offside)
Category: Daily DoseHenrik Larsson: From the King of Kings to the King of Floorball.
By: chris | No Comments
Henrik Larsson, the once ageless wonder who’d begun to show plenty of age, has finally decided to hang up his boots with near immediate effect. Three games remain in a rather pedestrian Helsignborgs season and three games remain in Henrik’s footballing career.
Unless he’s summoned back for World Cup 2014 qualifying, of course.
Never really a [...]
Category: World FootballWhere Did the Recent Thierry Henry to MLS Rumours Come From? Nowhere, That’s Where.
By: Daryl | 11 Comments
Have you heard the story linking Thierry Henry with a move to Major League Soccer and the New York Red Bulls? I know it’s been around for a while now, ever since the Designated Player/Beckham Rule came into effect, but for some reason it kicked up again this past weekend.
All of a sudden the rumour [...]
Category: MLSCesc: The Transfer Saga of Comeuppance.
By: chris | 7 Comments
As it stands, Barcelona are the darling of the football world. They’re brilliantly effective and alluringly stylish. They have likable players, the best in the world even, and a young, vibrant, passionate maestro at the helm. They’re even financially prudent, what with only spending €66m or so on Zlatan and €25m on Dmitryo Chygrynskiy in [...]
Category: Spain La LigaDaily Dose: October 11th, 2009.
By: chris | No Comments
Stuff to read while you see Argentina’s World Cup chances saved by the bar (1:00)…..
The Barcelona blog returneth. Six times over. (Barca Offside)
Discovering the internet via Ukraine – England. (Studs Up)
MLS looking into the indoors. (USA Today)
The phenom taking Germany by storm…Diego who? (Deutsche Welle)
Six injury times you’re glad you waited for the whistle. (The [...]
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