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/golden-foot-nominees-for-2010-which-player-should-leave-their-mark.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/golden-foot-nominees-for-2010-which-player-should-leave-their-mark.html#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 20:30:05 +0000 Daryl http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/golden-foot-nominees-for-2010-which-player-should-leave-their-mark.html The Golden Foot award is a bit different. It’s not about who was the best player in the last twelve months. It’s exclusively for players over the age of 29, and is awarded based on a whole career. Not just the one season. Ronaldinho won in 2009, and was invited to leave his footprint on the [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/golden-foot-nominees-for-2010-which-player-should-leave-their-mark.html/feed 3 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-lets-be-friends.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-lets-be-friends.html#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00:38 +0000 Daryl http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-lets-be-friends.html 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 [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-lets-be-friends.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/tournaments/champions-league/nothing-gets-past-gigi-buffon.html http://www.theoffside.com/tournaments/champions-league/nothing-gets-past-gigi-buffon.html#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:46:00 +0000 Daryl http://www.theoffside.com/tournaments/champions-league/nothing-gets-past-gigi-buffon.html 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 [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/tournaments/champions-league/nothing-gets-past-gigi-buffon.html/feed 5 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/man-city-to-embarrass-themselves-with-buffon-and-totti-bids.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/man-city-to-embarrass-themselves-with-buffon-and-totti-bids.html#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:01:18 +0000 Daryl http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/man-city-to-embarrass-themselves-with-buffon-and-totti-bids.html 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. [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/man-city-to-embarrass-themselves-with-buffon-and-totti-bids.html/feed 17 http://www.theoffside.com/daily-dose/weekend-dose-083108.html http://www.theoffside.com/daily-dose/weekend-dose-083108.html#comments Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:37:23 +0000 Daryl http://www.theoffside.com/daily-dose/weekend-dose-083108.html 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 [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/daily-dose/weekend-dose-083108.html/feed 1