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-december-15th-2010.html http://www.theoffside.com/daily-dose/daily-dose-december-15th-2010.html#comments Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:30:55 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/daily-dose/daily-dose-december-15th-2010.html For an explanation on arguably the best fan video of 2010, check Football Nomad. Riki should stay away from Sweden. (Fisted Away) Not a fan of trees in Catalonia. (La Liga Loca) An insight into TP Mazembe. (The National) Thinking the unthinkable: sell Iniesta. (Yahoo) Possibly/probably not true, but funny nonetheless. (The Spoiler) The most expensive one-way tickets from France to [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/daily-dose/daily-dose-december-15th-2010.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/tp-mazembe-the-oakland-raiders-of-africa.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/tp-mazembe-the-oakland-raiders-of-africa.html#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:22:01 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/tp-mazembe-the-oakland-raiders-of-africa.html If you’ve ever watched American football (throwball) and caught a glimpse of an Oakland Raiders home game, it can be a very frightening sight. It’s a phenomenon called Raider Nation, comprised mostly of large gentlemen – your most upstanding community members, surely – dressed up in black and silver like it’s Halloween-meets-bondage several Sundays out [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/tp-mazembe-the-oakland-raiders-of-africa.html/feed 3 http://www.theoffside.com/tournaments/club-world-cup/club-world-cup-tp-mazembe-stuns-inter-the-south-american-one.html http://www.theoffside.com/tournaments/club-world-cup/club-world-cup-tp-mazembe-stuns-inter-the-south-american-one.html#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:35:58 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/tournaments/club-world-cup/club-world-cup-tp-mazembe-stuns-inter-the-south-american-one.html Admit it: you know nothing about TP Mazembe. Naming one of their players without the aid of Wikipedia would be a minor miracle for most hardcore football fans. Well they shocked, stunned and stupefied the world today in that quasi-competition known as the Club World Cup by downing an Inter – the South American one [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/tournaments/club-world-cup/club-world-cup-tp-mazembe-stuns-inter-the-south-american-one.html/feed 3 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/tp-mazembe-defends-african-champions-league-title-while-esperance-fans-redecorate.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/tp-mazembe-defends-african-champions-league-title-while-esperance-fans-redecorate.html#comments Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:00:11 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/tp-mazembe-defends-african-champions-league-title-while-esperance-fans-redecorate.html This is what could be described as “the formality leg”. After the first end of the African Champions League final, TP Mazembe was cruising with a 5-0 lead. What you’d have to consider to be typically insurmountable at this stage of a large competition, and lo, it was. A simple 1-1 draw was all they [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/tp-mazembe-defends-african-champions-league-title-while-esperance-fans-redecorate.html/feed 1 http://www.theoffside.com/africa/tp-mazembe-end-40-years-of-hurt.html http://www.theoffside.com/africa/tp-mazembe-end-40-years-of-hurt.html#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:26:34 +0000 Jan http://www.theoffside.com/africa/tp-mazembe-end-40-years-of-hurt.html Imitation is the highest form of flattery and UEFA will know they’ve done something truly remarkable, when football federations around the globe start naming competitions Europa League. For the time being though, the Champions League remains the blue print for glamorous international club competitions. On Saturday the African Champions League final second leg was contested [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/africa/tp-mazembe-end-40-years-of-hurt.html/feed 4 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/name-to-remember-tresor-mputu.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/name-to-remember-tresor-mputu.html#comments Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:00:08 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/name-to-remember-tresor-mputu.html His name has been floating about for some time as the latest unpolished diamond the emerge from the heart of Africa, but without a concrete deal on the continent, he’s been biding his time back in the DR Congo, his homeland. Now, one year after a trial with Arsenal, interest is finally heating up across [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/name-to-remember-tresor-mputu.html/feed 3