IOSS: Wayne Calls In Sick
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Up this week: Sven hauls ass to the jungle voluntarily in search of reality fame; Jose stumbles onto old friends, taps them up; The Boy gets a slight case of the Bubonic plague; and Fabio tries to get down to the root of this mysterious injury sweeping England, International Friendlyitis.
Category: World Football
Tags: England, Fabio Capello, Frank Lampard, IOSS, It, John Terry, Jose Mourinho, Puppets, Sven, The Boy, Wayne Rooney, World Football10 Things We Learned in the Premier League
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1. The Big Four are Back
No, not that big four. The other one. The top four Premier League teams are now Chelsea, Liverpool, Man Utd and Arsenal. No more Hull City, and Aston Villa missed their opportunity to join the party. You have to worry about Arsenal a little, but looks like this could be [...]
Daily Dose: October 30th, 2008.
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Stuff to read while you celebrate your goal with a pirate hat, arrr……..
Abby Wambach listed by Chinese gov’t as potential threat in Beijing. (ESPN)
10 surprising Premiership statistics. (EPL Talk)
It may still be a foreigners league, but English managers are on the rise. (Reuters Soccer Blog)
An ode to last evening: Frank Lampard’s gorgeous goal taking a [...]
Category: World FootballName To Remember: Alan Dzagoev
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Andrei Arshavin’s the now, but the future is fast approaching for the Russian National Team with 18 year old Alan Dzagoev on a meteoric rise. I’d bookmarked a video last week as a reminder to write something up and, of course, I forgot. So Alan took it upon himself to remind me today by scoring [...]
Daily Dose 10.08.08
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Some news to read as you steal $19,000 worth of bras:
How to make your national team? With black magic, of course (mCalcio)
Financial crisis hits West Ham (West Ham Offside)
The Lampard-Gerrard problem (England World Cup blog)
And a poll about the Lampard-Gerrard problem (Liverpool Offside)
Rio Ferdinand sticks it to Sepp Blatter (SoccerLens)
Why Chelsea are better off [...]
Category: Daily Dose Tags: black magic, Brian Ching, Chelsea, Daily Dose, Didier Drogba, England, financial crisis, Frank Lampard, Rio Ferdinand, Sepp Blatter, Steven Gerrard, UAE, USMNT, West HamWho Needs News When You Can Just Make Stuff Up?
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Have you ever known that the percentage of outlandish news and rumors seems to spike during international breaks? You know, stuff like finding Cesc & Sergio Ramos dotting Milan’s lineup next year. Or seeing Juventus switch their interest from one Merseyside-based Spaniard (Xaba) to another (Rafa). The headlines which seem to coincide with international breaks, [...]
Category: World Football Tags: Argentina, Ballon dOr, Barcelona, Bayern, brazil, Calvin Klein, England, Espanyol, fine, Frank Lampard, Freddie Ljungberg, Jurgen Klinsmann, Kaka, kits, Levante, Manchester United, Messi, midfield, PSG, Rocky, Ronaldinho, Selecao, Sepp Blatter, Steven Gerrard, Thierry Henry, Tokyo FC, Tottenham, West Ham, World FootballFrank Lampard Gave Jose Mourinho “A Bitter Taste in the Mouth”
By: Laurie | 3 Comments
Hell hath no fury like a manager scorned.
Jose Mourinho (formerly at Chelsea, currently at Inter, for those who’ve been asleep for the last year) just gave an interview in the Gazzetta dello Sport where he expresses great disappointment that Frank Lampard re-signed with Chelsea. Does anybody else think this sounds more like [...]
Robinho Outshines Berbatov on Debut, But Only Just
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A majority of Offside readers (including myself) voted that Dimitar Berbatov would likely have a better debut for Man Utd than Robinho would for Man City. After all, wasn’t Robinho just getting off the plane back from Brazil?
It started promisingly with Berbatov laying on a goal for Tevez three minutes into the earlier game, but [...]
Category: English Premier LeagueDaily Dose: 08.14.08
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Stuff to do while you pop out a human being on your front lawn……
Chatting up the always good Rafael Honigstein. (Bundesliga Talk)
A glimpse at Frank’s actual contract. (The Spoiler)
Italian legends descend upon The Offside (Gianluigi Buffon Offside & Francesco Totti Offside)
Oh, and look, another Italian blog. (QPR Offside)
Are Wolves the most incompetent transfer gurus? (Guardian)
Real [...]
Category: Daily DoseMutu Owes Chelsea €17.17 Million. Does That Seem Fair?
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It wasn’t widely report at the time, but back in June FIFA decided that Adrian Mutu owed Chelsea €12 million (£9.6 million) compensation. Why? For putting some special Colombian powder up his nostrils, getting his contract terminated and then signing for Juventus on a free transfer before moving on to current club Fiorentina.
After two months [...]
Category: Serie A Tags: Adrian Mutu, CAS, Cheslea, cocaine, English Premier League, FIFA, fine, Fiorentina, Frank Lampard, Serie A, World Football, World SoccerFrank Lampard is Now the Premier League’s Top Earner
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And so Frank Lampard has got himself the contract he wanted. To be fair to Frank, he only ever asked for one thing: loads of money every week for the next five years. My guess is that all the talk about moving to Inter Milan was half a veiled threat and half a Plan B [...]
Category: English Premier LeagueDaily Dose: 08.13.08
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Stuff to read while you get robbed by Winnie the Pooh……
Stevie G’s new £350,000 garden ornament. (The Spoiler)
Franky Lamps is staying in London forever and ever. (Chelsea Offside)
Once USSR’s biggest rivalry resumes…and didn’t go so well for the hosts. (Guardian Unlimited)
How Not To Dress, by Mrs. Andriy Voronin* (Sniffing The Touchline)
100 Moments of Italian World [...]
Category: World Football£15 million for David Bentley? Why Are Englishmen So Expensive?
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You’ve likely heard by now that Spurs have signed David Bentley from Blackburn for £15 million. Good move for the player, but that’s a big chunk of change for a right winger with a lot to prove.
EPL Talk have already asked: “is Bentley worth £15 million?” The answer is of course no. Which is the [...]
Category: English Premier LeagueFootballer Fired for Being Too Fat
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Fat footballers are part of the modern game. Whether it’s players actually letting themselves go (see: Ronaldinho recently) or players who get lumped with the overweight label because it’s easy alliteration (see: “Fat” Frank Lampard). It’s a phenomenon that goes all the way back to William Fatty Foulke, who really deserved the title.
But no professional [...]
Category: World FootballTransfer Talk: Brazilians on the Move
By: Daryl | 6 Comments
Latest transfer talk has all three of the above men involved in some kind of prospective transfer.
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