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/daily-dose/daily-dose-august-30th-2011.html http://www.theoffside.com/daily-dose/daily-dose-august-30th-2011.html#comments Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:55:04 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/daily-dose/daily-dose-august-30th-2011.html What’s in a shape? [101gg] Get going nowhere. (Pitchside Europe) Trekking to Belgrade. (IBWM) This happened. (KCKRS) Something nice did happen to Arsenal this weekend. (It’s Nice That) Phil Lahm opens the book, shuts the closet. (Dirty Tackle) Emirates firesale ongoing. (The DA) Hitting rock bottom. (Back Page Football) ]]> http://www.theoffside.com/daily-dose/daily-dose-august-30th-2011.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/bundesliga/philipp-lahm-rolls-jurgen-klinsmann-under-the-bus.html http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/bundesliga/philipp-lahm-rolls-jurgen-klinsmann-under-the-bus.html#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:41:51 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/bundesliga/philipp-lahm-rolls-jurgen-klinsmann-under-the-bus.html There likely aren’t too many who suffer the delusion that Jurgen Klinsmann is a great coach. Figurehead, perhaps, but not a great tactician. The credit for ‘06 lies in the background with the quiet fellow rolling little bits of nose candy into his mouth as he dreamed of the day he could force Michael Ballack [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/bundesliga/philipp-lahm-rolls-jurgen-klinsmann-under-the-bus.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/bundesliga/philipp-lahm-footballs-most-contemplative-thinker.html http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/bundesliga/philipp-lahm-footballs-most-contemplative-thinker.html#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:58:33 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/bundesliga/philipp-lahm-footballs-most-contemplative-thinker.html Every time Philipp Lahm does an interview, it appears he’s either contemplating his answer to extraordinary philosophical depths, or each question is simply the hardest thing he’s ever done. Given than he genuinely comes off as rather bright, and not simply for a footballer, it’s likely the former. Today he ponders the meaning of life, possibly [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/bundesliga/philipp-lahm-footballs-most-contemplative-thinker.html/feed 1 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/transfer-talk-tis-the-silly-season.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/transfer-talk-tis-the-silly-season.html#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:00:00 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/transfer-talk-tis-the-silly-season.html Must be nice being a director of sport or the like. Christmas doesn’t start and stop on December 25th – it just goes on and on until we hit the month of February. It’s like Hanukkah on steroids, but without the menorah or latkes. Though much like Christmas, it’s filled with ridiculous stories, far too [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/transfer-talk-tis-the-silly-season.html/feed 7 http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/bundesliga/philipp-lahms-damning-verdict-on-bayern-munich.html http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/bundesliga/philipp-lahms-damning-verdict-on-bayern-munich.html#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:35:32 +0000 Jan http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/bundesliga/philipp-lahms-damning-verdict-on-bayern-munich.html Asking players or club officials during times of crisis about the reasons for their misery may be part of a journalist’s due diligence, but nobody ever expects to get an answer, that wasn’t taken straight out of the club’s prescribed dictionary: try harder, work harder, need a bit of luck, the team fully backs the [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/bundesliga/philipp-lahms-damning-verdict-on-bayern-munich.html/feed 8 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/fan-voted-uefa-team-of-the-year-announced.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/fan-voted-uefa-team-of-the-year-announced.html#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:00:23 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/fan-voted-uefa-team-of-the-year-announced.html Surely millions of fanboys and fangirls couldn’t have shown half a noggin? Surely not. Surely there was lots of bickering between who has the better hair, sweeter smile and sexier thigh before clicking on whichever stars happens to kiss the badge of their favorite team this week. Or whose name is spelled with their initials. There’s [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/fan-voted-uefa-team-of-the-year-announced.html/feed 18 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/philipp-lahm-becomes-a-magicians-pretty-assistant.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/philipp-lahm-becomes-a-magicians-pretty-assistant.html#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:00:21 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/philipp-lahm-becomes-a-magicians-pretty-assistant.html So if Bayern was royally pissed a CGI Allianz Arena was blown up on TV for the purposes of a movie trailer (a Keanu Reeves movie at that – vid below), how do you think they’ll feel about their star left back climbing through a steel fan? Probably not too well, eh? Because magic’s totally [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/philipp-lahm-becomes-a-magicians-pretty-assistant.html/feed 4 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/the-redknapp-family-plays-wii.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/the-redknapp-family-plays-wii.html#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:00:02 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/the-redknapp-family-plays-wii.html In the attempt to make video games even cooler, Nintendo has decided to tap up…Harry Redknapp. Alright, not really. They’re trying to say that Wii is fun for the whole family, and who better to display that than the Redknapp clan? Exactly. Though the English advertising ploy isn’t exactly congruent with their German counterpart, which [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/the-redknapp-family-plays-wii.html/feed 6 http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/bundesliga/bayern-may-be-getting-more-italian.html http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/bundesliga/bayern-may-be-getting-more-italian.html#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 19:30:38 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/bundesliga/bayern-may-be-getting-more-italian.html Big changes were afoot in Germany last summer after their dismal and downright unacceptable campaign last year, at least by Bayern’s “record champion” standards. Well big changes came, and with them a nice big trophy for being the best team in the Bundesliga. Now is time to keep with the times, so out with the [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/bundesliga/bayern-may-be-getting-more-italian.html/feed 5