

Offside Rewind: Let’s Be Friends
By: Daryl |Seven stories from The Offside and World Cup Blog this week:
Nominate your player/manager football ubermen
Gigi’s Buffon’s incredible Champions League save
Ballon d’Or or FIFA World Player of the Year: Which is shinier?
Norwegian homage to Brazilian airport ad
The return of Johan Cruyff. To Catalonia.
Stephen Appiah: No longer just an international footballer
Hatem Ben Arfa is an [...]
Nothing Gets Past Gigi Buffon
By: Daryl |It’s probably not news to you that Juve and Italy’s Gigi Buffon is quite good at the old goalkeeping. But just in case there was any doubt, take a look at his save vs Maccabi Haifa in Champions League Group A yesterday.
First the close-range block, then the elastic lean backwards to palm it away from [...]
Man City to Embarrass Themselves with Buffon and Totti Bids?
By: Daryl |This Man City business is getting sillier all the time. After the high profile attempt to capture Kaka ended like this, followed by a possible tantrum from their other high profiler Robinho, you’d think the new Man City regime might have learned a lesson.
And that lesson should have been: Don’t run before you can walk. [...]
Weekend Dose 08.31.08
By: Daryl |Something to read while you wait for your YouTube video to arrive in the mail…
Is the world ready for Amateur wags? (Weekend Wonders)
The DISH vs GolTV rift gets worse (EPL Talk)
Soccer rage in Canada (not the good kind though) (Canadian Press)
Seems all the big clubs are uspet with each other these days (Extra Time)
Which keepers [...]




