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We Can Be Heroes, Just For One Day
By: Rob |
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This weekend, is a magical weekend in English Football, it’s the first round of the FA Cup. While in other countries knockout cup trophies don’t seem to have the same romance, or weight, there is something genuinely special about the FA Cup.
Over the last few years, as English Football has grown and grown, talk [...]
Category: World FootballThe Appeal of Hating a Great Footballer
By: Rob | 8 Comments
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 | 17 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 [...]
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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, ZolaOffside Rewind: Let’s Be Friends
By: Daryl | No Comments
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 [...]
Category: World FootballSoundoff: Nominate Your Favourite Football Films
By: Daryl | 18 Comments
Movies and soccer. Two things that traditionally don’t mix well. In documentary form, maybe. But in scripted Hollywood form? No. For various reasons, it usually ends in either cheesy emotions, unconvincing action, or Robert Duvall’s Scottish accent in A Shot at Glory.
But not always. There are a handful of good football movies out there. [...]
Category: World FootballMeet Elizabeth Lambert, the Roughest Soccer Player in the World
By: Daryl | 26 Comments
I’ve seen the above game described as a “catfight”, but that absolutely does not do it justice. Bringham Young University vs New Mexico in the Women’s Mountain West Conference college tournament last night was more like the roughest game of soccer ever captured on YouTube, and it featured the roughest display of defending I’ve ever [...]
Category: World FootballThe Haves, Have-Nots & Never-Hads of the Champions League
By: chris | 8 Comments
They must fall.
And so four games in, the Champions League contenders and pretenders have been separated fallen into place for the group stage which, a few spots aside, could’ve been drawn up in August by a blind chimp and his serf, a man who tans.
Breaking down the likelies, unlikelies, and those who are already [...]
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, ZurichThat Was Quick: Spanish Supremacy In Danger.
By: chris | 2 Comments
While all were oohing and aahing over Barcelona’s sex on a pitch football and the free-spending ways of Florentino Perez returning to Madrid, the biggest difference maker in Spanish football was lurking under the Spanish limelight. In fact it was lurking so far under the Spanish limelight it was in Britain.
That, you see, is [...]
Selling Stuff With Chicks In A Soapy Bathtub 101
By: chris | 3 Comments
This clip really needs little introduction:
The England female team*, a team which is miles more attractive than the male side (even more so than the strike duo of Crouchy and Rooney, contrary to popular belief), strips off their kits after a practice and hops into a soapy hot tub in bikinis with a leering camera [...]
Category: World FootballSoundoff: Best Player/Manager In History (Uberman).
By: chris | 9 Comments
Earlier in the week we mentioned Johan Cruijff’s return to the sidelines for the Catalonia national team. In the process, a certain sentence spilled across the page which could possibly ignite a spirited debate. And by spirited debate I mean chairs flying, emergency contacts being contacted and babies inadvertently being made. That small statement regarding [...]
Category: World FootballThe 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 Headline That Writes Itself.
By: chris | 2 Comments
Ronaldo? Andy Reid? A bloated Ronaldinho after a night on the town? Hardly.
Thailand’s top footballers will receive free burgers as part of their new three-year, £545,000 sponsorship deal with the fast food giant McDonald’s.
According to the Football Association of Thailand (FAT), McDonald’s will provide £450,000 in cash and the rest in products in exchange for [...]
Category: World FootballChampions League Matchday 4 Live Chat Chit
By: chris | No Comments
Category: World FootballWould You Rather: Win the Ballon d’Or or the FIFA World Player of the Year Award?
By: Daryl | 10 Comments
Most would agree that the Ballon d’Or and the FIFA World Player of the Year awards are the two biggest individual honours a footballer can win. Bigger even than my Netherton Colts East U-14 Manager’s Player of the Year Runner-Up trophy (pictured?). But which award is really the one to win?
Category: World Football“Worst Miss Ever!” – Except This Actually Might Be
By: Daryl | 5 Comments
YouTube videos (and blog posts, including some of mine) often come with hyperbolic titles. So when I see anything titled “Worst _____ Ever!”, I immediately reach for my skeptical spectacles.
However, the above YouTube video titled “Worst football miss ever!” made me put them down again. I’m not saying that it’s categorically, definitely, no takesy-backsies the [...]
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