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/offside-rewind-work-in-progress.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-work-in-progress.html#comments Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:00:13 +0000 Daryl http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-work-in-progress.html Soccer City Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa (Photo: AP) Seven posts you may have missed this week on The Offside and World Cup Blog: Who’s your “other” World Cup 2010 team? And whereabouts will they be based? That’s one futuristic looking football The Asian Champions League for beginners The Ronaldo retirement countdown begins Jens Lehmann: Please never ever retire. The drug testing game done changed. ]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-work-in-progress.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/rewind-for-love-of-the-game.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/rewind-for-love-of-the-game.html#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:30:01 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/rewind-for-love-of-the-game.html Your guide to watching the African Cup of Nations. And plenty of tickets available if you’re in the mood. 11 players to keep an eye on while you’re there or watching from home. Now tell us what you call it. How to protekt yourself at South Africa 2010. Sort of. Stuff that’s happened outside Africa, like CR posing semi-nude. England is [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/rewind-for-love-of-the-game.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-is-this-the-club-world-cup-or-the-matrix.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-is-this-the-club-world-cup-or-the-matrix.html#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:00:18 +0000 Daryl http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-is-this-the-club-world-cup-or-the-matrix.html Seven stories you may have missed on The Offside and World Cup Blog next week… CR9 gets knocked down, but he gets up again. One of these 10 will be FIFA’s goal of the year. The Pirate Ship, and other World Cup 2010 team nicknames. What are your World Cup expectations? Playing football on the water. It’s nearly January. Let the [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-is-this-the-club-world-cup-or-the-matrix.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-all-apologies.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-all-apologies.html#comments Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:00:22 +0000 Daryl http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-all-apologies.html Seven non-Titi related posts you may have missed during the last seven days… Japan sound the horn. For silencing the horn. Tell us who your biggest international rival is. What they’ll all be wearing in Philadelphia next year. Who deserves the golden trashcan? Nothing like an international break to recharge the old batteries New Zealand headed to South Africa thanks to [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-all-apologies.html/feed 1 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/world-football/offside-rewind-theres-no-escape.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-theres-no-escape.html#comments Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:49:40 +0000 Daryl http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-theres-no-escape.html Thanks to Jack for sending the above image to tips[at]theoffside[dot]com Here are seven strories you may have missed on The Offside and WorldCupBlog this week… Do you know who the unofficial world champions are? The 1-4-3-1 formation, and some elaborate managerial hand gestures Germany taking World Cup security very seriously Following the Thierry Henry to MLS rumour breadcrumbs Indonesia’s environmentally friendly [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-theres-no-escape.html/feed 1 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-any-raul-will-do.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-any-raul-will-do.html#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:00:34 +0000 Daryl http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-any-raul-will-do.html Who’s in charge of images at ESPN Soccernet? First they got confused about Oguchi Onyewu, and now they can’t identify Real Madrid legend Raúl either? The image above (from Raúl’s stats page here) appears to be Real’s other Raúl, Albiol rather than González Blanco. Thanks to John for pointing that out to us via tips[at]theoffside[dot]com. Anyway… [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-any-raul-will-do.html/feed 6 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-look-out.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-look-out.html#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:30:48 +0000 Daryl http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-look-out.html Seven stories from the last seven days on The Offside and WorldCupBlog… Scoring against your former teammates The return of Olympic football? The German goalkeeper who isn’t a fast learner Tyrone Marshall: floor-breaker Brazilian girls gone wild. Very wild. Fernando Torres’ tells us how big World Cup qualification will not be televised ]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-look-out.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/rewind-we-need-a-barber-here.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/rewind-we-need-a-barber-here.html#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:30:42 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/rewind-we-need-a-barber-here.html What’s up with Serie A in Europe? And what’s up with Gary Pallister’s package? Hunter Gilstrap wins Employee of the Week. Uzbekistan are training to be world powers. Room for mercy in football? You can’t fool us – there’s no such thing as a Diter Hakrama The fantasticness of Dutch football. ]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/rewind-we-need-a-barber-here.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-everybody-was-kung-fu-fighting.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-everybody-was-kung-fu-fighting.html#comments Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:00:19 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-everybody-was-kung-fu-fighting.html Who should host Euro 2016? A joint bid from France & Italy, perhaps? The ten most annoying transfer sagas of this millennium. Europe’s most exciting league? The formerly chunky Ronaldo makes his return. While the other, less talented Ronaldo gets caught up in a real battle of wits. The multilingual diversity of gooooooooooooooooooool. And the weekly Foot In Mouth award goes [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/offside-rewind-everybody-was-kung-fu-fighting.html/feed 2