World Football
Weekend Quiz: More Non-British Club Crests
By: Laurie |
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This week and this week only, we’re back to visuals.
What are the photos? Non-British club crests. These are bits and pieces from club crests from leagues around the world. I give you the photo, you see if you can identify the club.
Leave guesses in the comments. Answers tomorrow.
Crest 1
Category: World FootballUSOC Third Round Results: Revenge of the Minnows
By: Laurie | 2 Comments
(Weekend Quiz is coming soon, after I fill up on creativity and caffeine. Promise.)
I know you’re wondering how the third round came out in my Best US Tournament Nobody Pays Attention To, the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup.
Remember how I said that Round 3 is the first round that MLS is [...]
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Tags: Austin Aztex, Charleston Battery, Chicago Fire, Chivas USA, DC United, Harrisburg City Islanders, Houston Dynamo, Kansas City Wizards, Lamar Hunt US Open Cup, Minnesota Thunder, New England Revolution, Ocean City, Portland Timbers, Rochester Rhinos, US Open Cup, US Open Cup quarterfinals, Wilmington Hammerheads, World FootballOffside Rewind: You’ll Believe You Can Fly
By: Daryl | No Comments
Seven stories from the past week on The Offside and WCB:
Darius Vassell: Big in Turkey
Separation of church and soccer?
Brand Beckham takes a whack from Landycakes
Barcelona don’t need C-Ron…
…because of things like this
Confed Cup over, World Cup worries resume
Some very unconvincing tumbles
Category: World FootballCorinthians Get Some Good PR, Learn How To Celebrate & Andre Santos Has Snoop Dogg Bling
By: chris | 2 Comments
A couple weeks ago Corinthians were the shame of Brazil, desperate for some type of good news. Bad celebrations, fans killing rival fans, setting more things alight and on-pitch throw-downs with the youth team (with poor fighting technique at that) read like playing Corinthians is akin to playing in a conflict zone. How better for [...]
Category: World FootballTransfer Talk: What’s Plan F Again?
By: chris | 2 Comments
Aston Villa, Tottenham, Fulham, Milan…Abby Clancy - what the hell is Peter Crouch’s appeal? Decent targetman, but what about the aesthetics? Football’s a game of beauty - hence that whole beautiful game thing - and Peter Crouch is, well, he’s just not. He’s a 200cm skeleton bumbling up and down the pitch in something of [...]
Tags: Aston Villa, Barcelona, Chelsea, Dani Guiza, David Trezeguet, Eden Hazard, Fenerbahce, Fulham, Gojko Kacar, Hertha Berlin, Inter, John Terry, Lille, Liverpool, Luis Alberto, Luis Fabiano, Lyon, Manchester City, Manchester United, Michael Owen, Michel Bastos, Milan, Peter Crouch, Portsmouth, Rafa Benitez, Rafael van der Vaart, Real Madrid, Sevilla, Tottenham, Transfer Talk, Valencia, World FootballMichael Owen To Sign With Manchester United. (Yes, You Read That Correctly.)
By: chris | 18 Comments
And no, it’s not FC United of Manchester as some would believe. It’s the Red Devils. Old Trafford. Three time defending Premier League champions. That one.
Two days ago it was thought that Michael Owen would be signing for a team which was aiming for the Europa League, not world domination. His stint at Newcastle was [...]
Lowering Expectations To Darius Vassell-Like Levels
By: chris | 4 Comments
We’ve all seen fans get a little too crazy over a signing - some of us have even been guilty of the slightly overzealous behavior. But you get the feeling mediocre things don’t happen to the fans of Ankaragucu often, much less good things, as they’ve set the new standard for going overboard.
Darius Vassell has [...]
Category: World FootballBlurry, Possibly Doctored, Video Of Cristiano Ronaldo Kicking A Car Window & The Loch Ness Monster.
By: chris | No Comments
You may have heard the news that Cristiano Ronaldo got in a skirmish with a 17 year old girl/wannabe paparazzo in Lisbon earlier this week. It all stemmed from some real papparazzo who’d been stalking him near his house, and who Cristiano claims had been stalking and filming both he and Mama Ronaldo, who became [...]
Category: World FootballStop Worrying About Transfers Fees
By: Daryl | 12 Comments
Real Madrid’s €215m (and counting) spending spree seems to have Michel Platini a bit worried. In a recent interview with French sports daily L’Equipe, the UEFA President said he found the mountains of money difficult to comprehend, especially the Cristiano Ronaldo transfer, but admitted there was nothing he could do about it.
“Personally, I can’t understand [...]
Category: World FootballDavid Beckham’s Biggest Challenge Yet: Making Landon Donovan Like Him
By: Daryl | 15 Comments
All is not well between David Beckham and American soccer right now. After his longer than planned holiday in Milan, Goldenballs is due to return to MLS and resume playing for LA Galaxy in two weeks time - July 16th vs NYRB away. But he’s already been warned by US Soccer President Sunil Gulati to [...]
Category: World FootballThe Best/Worst Dives in Football
By: Daryl | 5 Comments
If you’re in the crowd that considers diving the biggest evil in world football, then the video above collects some of the worst offenders ever seen and will probably make you want to put a fist through your computer screen.
But if you’re in the crowd that finds blatant - and blatantly unconvincing -dives to be [...]
Category: World FootballThe Summer of Real Madrid Continues
By: chris | 8 Comments
Does anyone get the feeling Real Madrid is doing everything possible to make Kaka ‘just one of the guys’? Or perhaps they don’t like him quite as much as his price tag would indicate. Shortly after dozens of duffle bags worth of cash were thumped on the fronts steps of the San Siro, Kaka’s transfer [...]
Category: World FootballWhy Xavi Might be Right About C-Ron
By: Daryl | 5 Comments
You know how sometimes a player says something to a reporter, and then what he says gets twisted into something it’s not? Well, this isn’t one of those times. Here’s what Barcelona’s Xavi had to say about (soon to be) Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo recently:
“I wouldn’t want him here,” said Xavi. “At Barça, we do [...]
Category: World FootballGoing From Bad To Worse In South America
By: chris | No Comments
Starting off with “Ooh…ahh…death threats in Colombia!” probably won’t read any different than any other news story about South American football which hits the news feeds. Sadly, it’s par for the course these days. Argentina is running away with pole position and Brazil has been breeding future generations on the pitch, while Uruguay is still [...]
Celebrate US Soccer & Michael Jackson By Parting With Money.
By: chris | 6 Comments
Ignoring for a moment that complete cash-grab that this is, do you suppose they realize Michael Jackson was a slightly controversial figure? No one’s denying his musical genius, but the man also had a tendency to rub people the wrong way - those people typically being little boys, should you believe the pedophilia accusations. And [...]
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