The Appeal of Hating a Great Footballer
By: Rob |
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Albert Camus, the philosopher, author and football fanatic, was once asked that if he had to choose between football and the theatre, which he would choose. He replied “Football, without hesitation.”
And it’s little surprise, football has everything theatre has, and more. It has a story, but is unwritten. It has all the characters, the protagonists, [...]
Category: World FootballThe 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 Offside 100: 2000-09
By: Rob | 59 Comments
As I let you know back when I posted up this year’s FFT100, I’m a bit of a junkie for lists. They are utterly meaningless, and yet compelling at the same time.
With it being the end of the decade, there are tonnes of lists of the best albums, films, videos, celebrities etc floating around. [...]
Category: World FootballThe FFT100 – Agree? Disagree?
By: Rob | 50 Comments
Esteemed Football magazine FourFourTwo has released its latest issue, for me the most exciting one of the year, the one that contains the countdown of the 100 Best Players in The World, according to them.
This is the third year that they’ve run the list, Kaká and C-Ron being the previous winners. Below I’ve give [...]
Category: World Football Tags: Akinfeev, Arsenal, Arshavin, Barca, Barcelona, Casillas, Chelsea, De Rossi, Drogba, Eto'o, Gerrard, Giggs, Gomez, Ibrahimovic, Iniesta, Inter, Juventus, Kaka, Lampard, Liverpool, Man City, Man United, Messi, Milan, Pepe, Pique, Puyol, Real Madrid, Rio Ferdinabd, Robben, Roma, Ronaldo, Sevilla, Tevez, Totti, Valenica, Van Nisto, Villa, World Football, XaviThe Ultimate Battle of Youth Vs Experience
By: Rob | 30 Comments
A little while back, Chris mused up this post, in which he built a dream team of current players who are all under 25. And a mighty impressive team it was. If you can’t be bothered to click that link, or this one, here is the team selected.
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Category: World Football Tags: Ashley Cole, Casillas, Cesc Fabregas, David Villa, Dream Team, Gerrard, Ibrahimovic, Lahm, Lampard, Messi, Rio Ferdinand, Torres, World Football, XaviThat’s More Like The Barca We Know And Love
By: Rob | 3 Comments
Anyone watching Barcelona’s midweek game in the Champions League against Inter, hoping to see the side that bought beautiful football all around Europe last season might have come away a little dissapointed. A 0-0 you say? That doesn’t seem the Barca way. Of course it isn’t, and they do seem to [...]
It’s Fantasy Footballing Time!
By: Rob | 5 Comments
The Champions League returns on Tuesday, which means two things. First, we get the treat of seeing the Serie A Champions, pitted against the La Liga Champions (in week one!) Second, you get to pit your wits against each other (and us) as I launch The Champions League Offside Fantasy Football League.
UEFA.com is where [...]
Category: Champions LeagueMy Favorite Things of 2008, Part I.
By: chris | No Comments
This the end of the year (in case you don’t own a calendar) and as is custom, it’s time for year end lists. You might do the world’s best XI, we decided to do our most favoritest things of 2008 (the three of us doing our own – lord knows Yoann Gourcuff’s crotch was not [...]
Category: World FootballWho Needs News When You Can Just Make Stuff Up?
By: chris | 1 Comment
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 FootballAlmeria Steals The New Messi
By: chris | 5 Comments
(Two minute intro, fyi.)
How do you top a shockingly successful season in La Liga directly after promotion? Easy. Just shatter the club’s transfer fee record and beat Manchester United and Juventus to one of the true wonderkids in world football. No word on the fee, but it’s reportedly huge.
Pablo Piatti is a 19 yo three [...]
Category: World Football Tags: Aguerro, Almeria, Estudiantes, Giovinco, Juventus, La Liga, Manchester United, Messi, Pablo Piatti, Pato, World FootballBarcelona and ManU Highlight Videos, to Get You in the Mood
By: Laurie | 2 Comments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lTYtkN4VRc
I am officially not taking sides in the Champions League game between Manchester United and Barcelona, because we all know what happens when I take sides.
(Actually, I’m tempted to work hard at supporting ManU with all my heart. But alas, to quote my favorite philosophers, Monty Python, “It’s not as simple as [...]
Jose & Friends Prove It’s All About The Children
By: chris | 4 Comments
Admit it, when Jose said “I’m Jose Mourinho and I’m….” you thought he was going to say “I’m fantastic”, didn’t you? How Adidas missed this opportunity we’ll never know. They got a big fat softball lob and they whiffed.
In the advert we saw a few times during the Chelski-Pool telecast yesterday Adidas took some [...]
Category: World FootballWould Somebody Poke A Hole In That Damn Trojan
By: chris | 2 Comments
As an AS Roma fan, I often – too often – dream of the day when science and technology will allow for someone to splice and dice the DNA of Francesco Totti, Daniele De Rossi and Alberto Aquilani to create God’s gift to football: Francesco De Aquilani. Unfortunately, that’s not happening any time soon. But [...]
Maradona and Messi Take on Tevez
By: Martha | 5 Comments
Maradona Messi et Tevez font un tennis ballon | Uploaded by jackburton27
Even if they’re only playing football tennis, the team of Maradona and Messi is the stuff of dreams, and pretty much impossible to beat.
[via Soccer Training Info]
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Category: World FootballDaily Dose: 12.29.07
By: Martha | 4 Comments
Things to read as you love and cherish your Blackwater Christmas card:
Good god, Carles Puyol is bald! (Goal.com)
That high altitude ruling of FIFA’s? Still full of holes. (Reuters Soccer Blog)
The 20 best clubs at the close of 2007. (SI.com)
The most hilarious transfer rumor of the first half: Messi to Napoli. (El Mundo Deportivo)
Sheva to Milan! [...]
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