What Your Offside and WorldCupBlog Bloggers are Thankful For…
By: Daryl |
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It’s Thanksgiving Day here in the United States, a time to eat food and give thanks. (Unless you’re a turkey, in which case you do neither.)
About a week ago, I contacted all the Offside and World Cup Blog bloggers and asked them what football related thing they were thankful. Below you’ll find the collected responses.
Some [...]
Category: World FootballManagers Who Make A Lot Of Money & Google Teaches Us Portuguese.
By: chris | 4 Comments
Futebol Finance, Portuguese providers of shit you’re interested in, have released the yearly list of managerial salaries, which were actually release by a Spanish publication a few weeks back.
This year, much like last year, one name is far, far ahead of the rest. No, it’s not Fergie or Mourinho, but Luiz Felipe Chelsea Bust [...]
Category: World FootballThe Tuesday Champions League Wrap of Liverpool Woe
By: chris | 7 Comments
I gather I speak for many, if not most, when I say that seeing the best teams in the knockout stages is preferable – ’tis the Champions League after all.
But I’d be lying if I said that I wasn’t thrilled at the prospect of not having to hear the British media bang on about the [...]
The Champions League Chit Chat Where We Pretend To Care About Games Not Barca – Inter.
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Category: World FootballThe Ins & Outs & Ins of Champions League Knockouts Qualification
By: chris | No Comments
Isn’t it nice to see a compilation/trailer with a soundtrack which isn’t a thumping pop song which leaves one wanting for a wounded cow in labor? Or any song by Fort Minor?
This is the game of the day for Tuesday, and arguably the game of the week. Until this weekend, at least, when that quasi-friendly [...]
Tags: APOEL, Arsenal, Atletico, AZ Alkmaar, Barcelona, Bayern, Besiktas, Bordeaux, Champions League, Chelsea, CSKA Moscow, Debrecen, Dynami Kyiv, Fiorentina, Inter Milan, Juventus, Liverpool, Lyon, Maccabi Haifa, Manchester United, Marseille, Milan, Olympiacos, Porto, Rangers, Real Madrid, Rubin Kazan, Sevilla, Stadard Liege, Stuttgart, Unirea Urziceni, Wolfsburg, World Football, ZurichThe Grimbsy Town Letter In All Its Glory
By: chris | 10 Comments
Have you seen it yet? You should. You really should. It’s a perfect example of the grasp of this thing they all the world wide web.
A fan of lowly Grimsby Town – very lowly – posted a furious letter on an unofficial fan site, and it has sprouted wings and flown off into the [...]
Category: World Football9-1 Is Probably A Good Time For A Refund
By: chris | 6 Comments
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Presumably you’ve heard the scoreline already, if only because you can read headlines. That thrashing, the second worst in Premier League history, which will serve to haunt Wigan from now until the end of time. Made all the more insane in that five of the goals came via the boot of Jermain Defoe, a [...]
Jurgen Sierens’ Comedy Goalkeeping: Funnier With or Without Music?
By: Daryl | 4 Comments
It’s behind you!
Poor Jurgen Sierens. The Roeselare keeper stopped a long-range shot from Anderlecht’s Moroccan midfielder Mbark Boussoufa, but then lost the ball. Sierens attempted to locate said spherical object with a 360 degree spin. Which was successful in that he found the ball, but unsuccessful in that he swept into his own net. Anderlecht [...]
Category: World FootballReal Salt Lake Beats Beckham’s Galaxy on Penalties to Take the MLS Cup
By: Laurie | 34 Comments
– David vs. Goliath.
– Highest-salaried team in MLS vs. lowest.
– Most-written-about team vs one of the least.
– Western Conference winners vs. the team that just squeaked into the playoffs.
– Underdog vs. um… Overdog?
And yet the underdogs win it on penalties after dominating large periods of an intense, back-and-forth game.
Preview: 2009 MLS Cup
By: Dave Martinez | 4 Comments
This is what MLS has been waiting for; a chance to show off their trophy player and their showcase franchise, on the grandest stage they have to offer. In front of what is expected to be a tremendous audience at QWest Field in Seattle, MLS stars will be shining brightly in one of the [...]
Category: World FootballMessi Gets A Boot To The Face
By: Dave Martinez | 7 Comments
Fernando Amorebieta would make Hulk Hogan get all misty eyed with this performance. But where is the follow up leg drop?
(I hope some of you watched wrestling as kids . . . if not? That reference just flew straight over your head)
Now somebody get Messi an ice pack!
When Roy Keane Attacks: Five Survival Strategies
By: Laurie | 9 Comments
First, a confession: I kind of love Ipswich Town manager and former Ireland captain Roy Keane. (Even though he terrifies me.) Must say, though, that I was glad it wasn’t my cell phone going off in the middle of a press conference this week. Because let’s face it: the man [...]
Category: World FootballHow to Get Footy Fans to Stop Smoking: The Prizes Britain SHOULD be Offering
By: Laurie | 6 Comments
Best quote from this article on the National Health Service’s plan to use footy fans’ love of their sport to get them to quit smoking:
[M]ore than half of Liverpool fans say they would give up smoking if their team won the League and FA Cup double – more than for any other [...]
Offside Rewind: All Apologies
By: Daryl | 1 Comment
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 [...]
Category: World FootballJust How Corrupt is European Football?
By: Daryl | 6 Comments
It’s difficult to answer that question with any precision. But seems the answer is “a lot more corrupt than we realized”. Because German prosecutors think it’s corrupt enough that 200 games of European football need to be investigating. Including 12 in the Europa League and at least three in the Champions League. Yes, that Champions [...]
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