November 7th, 2009

The Offside 100: 2000-09, THE RESULTS!

By: Rob | Comments 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 Category: World Football


August 29th, 2009

Sheva and Nine Other Reputation Ruining Transfers

By: Rob | Comments 4 Comments

So Shevchenko has finally ended his Chelsea nightmare and rejoined Dynamo Kiev. Once the most feared striker in the world, he never really made an impact at Chelsea, which is a shame because it has tainted his once fearsome reputation, and he seemed to deal with the whole situation with some dignity.
Regardless, there is [...]

December 3rd, 2008

Ballon d’Or Point Totals Make Franck Ribery Unhappy.

By: chris | Comments 15 Comments

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 [...]

Category Category: World Football
April 22nd, 2008

Luciano Moggi Somehow Stoops To A Lower Level

By: chris | Comments 4 Comments

There are a few things all Italians can agree on when it comes to calcio. One is obviously the Azzurri. Another is that they’d all have Gianluigi Buffon’s babies, which is kind of a subcategory of the first one, but worthy of its own statement regardless. And yet another is that everyone despises Luciano Moggi, [...]

Category Category: Serie A
March 22nd, 2008

Derby d’Italia: Serie A Is Exciting Again

By: chris | Comments 8 Comments

It’s quite strange to consider the Derby d’Italia just that these days, as the two clubs represented are one which has worn the lone black eye (just or not) for Calciopoli and another which stands a very good chance of donating zero Italians to Roberto Donadoni’s Swissaustria squad this summer. Not to mention the Derby [...]

Category Category: Serie A


March 20th, 2008

Feeling Extra Romantic? Get Hitched With The Bianconeri

By: chris | Comments 7 Comments

It’s often said that women have been planning their wedding day since their days as a young girl. You know, the big wedding in the big church with thousands of people and flowers growing out of the pews and a gorgeous dress and some guy who can whisk them off to fairy tale land and [...]

Category Category: Serie A
March 2nd, 2008

Photo of the Day: Watching It Go By

By: Laurie | Comments 4 Comments

The guy on the ground? Pablo Daniel Osvaldo, after delivering the winning goal. Juventus keeper Gianluigi Buffon can only watch as it flies by him and into the net.
(Heehee. I hate Buffon. Don’t know why. A repressed memory somewhere? Maybe something to do with…World Cup? Final? [...]

January 16th, 2008

You Say Who Is The 6th Best Keeper In The World?

By: chris | Comments 11 Comments

With 2007 getting further and further down the road in the rear view, more time for analysis has been allowed, but it doesn’t seem to have helped any. IFFHS, which is basically an acronym for “statistical everything”, has come out with their annual listing of the best keeper in the world for last year, which [...]

Category Category: World Football
December 18th, 2007

10 Things We Learned About Serie A This Weekend

By: chris | Comments 7 Comments

A new installment in the weekly “10 Things We Learned About…” series. This one of the Italian variety.

1. Antonio Cassano is a train wreck.
No, this is not a revolutionary discovery which is followed by a loud exclamation of “eureka!”. But this time Antonio somehow managed to bring himself to a whole new level by throwing [...]

Category Category: Europe, Serie A



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