Traitorous Hleb Jumps Ship
Posted on July 17, 2008 - Filed Under Football | Leave a Comment
Alexander Hleb has left Arsenal for Barcelona for £11.8 million. At 27, this makes him the best bargain for years in my estimation. Barcelona clearly think more of him than Arsenal did, since his buy-out clause has been set at over £70 million. While it’s true that he wanted to leave, surely Arsenal could have [...]
Ferguson on Real Madrid, Franco and Ronaldo
Posted on May 23, 2008 - Filed Under Football | Leave a Comment
“The simple facts are that he is with us and has four years left on his contract and that’s the first thing. And Calderon makes that great statement ’slavery was abolished many, many years ago’. Did he tell Franco that? Jesus Christ, give me a break.”
Link. What a great line.
(Madrid were the favoured club of [...]
Arsenal and Liverpool
Posted on April 9, 2008 - Filed Under Football | Leave a Comment
Liverpool 4-2 Arsenal. Liverpool win 5-3 on aggregate.
It was a great match, so it’s a shame that the result casts a pall over my memories of it. It was exciting, had plenty of goals, and both teams gave it their all. In fairness to Liverpool, they didn’t resort to kicking lumps out of Arsenal like [...]
Kaka Wins Golden Ball
Posted on December 2, 2007 - Filed Under Football | Leave a Comment
BBC News story. I have no objection to Kaka coming in first in this vote, but I have a massive problem with Man United’s overrated Cristiano Ronaldo beating Barcelona’s Lionel Messi to second place. Ronaldo has never knocked three goals past a team of Real Madrid’s quality, nor has he ever scored a goal anywhere [...]
Staunton Fired
Posted on October 24, 2007 - Filed Under Football | 2 Comments
At last!
According to this BBC News story Liam Brady is interested in the job, although David O’Leary is the current favourite to replace the hapless Staunton. Either would be a vast improvement, but I’d hate to see Brady take charge, solely because it would probably mean the end of his role as a RTÉ pundit. [...]
Exit Mourinho
Posted on September 20, 2007 - Filed Under Football | Leave a Comment
I have mixed feelings about this matter. Jose Mourinho spent lavish amounts of money on over-priced-but-still-pretty-good players and then made then play in a rigid and boring system, but at the same time he was generally good for a few lulz. English football shall be a duller place without his pre-match bluster, post-match anger, and [...]
Lionel Messi Strikes Again
Posted on July 13, 2007 - Filed Under Football | 1 Comment
This blog has celebrated Messi’s footballing prowess before, and it shall now do so again. This is his goal from Wednesday night’s Copa America semi-final between Argentina and Mexico. Absolutely worth staying up until 4 am for.
No No NOOOO!!!
Posted on June 23, 2007 - Filed Under China, Football | Leave a Comment
Seems like Theirry Henry is Barca-bound, and there’s even talk of Wenger leaving for Real Madrid. Henry would be a heavy loss, but Wenger going would signal the end of Arsenal as the most beautiful team to watch in world football.
In other news, we’re off to Hong Kong this evening. Anybody know of anywhere in [...]
The Genocide Olympics?
Posted on May 18, 2007 - Filed Under Football, Politics | 3 Comments
There’s a campaign under way in some quarters of the world to boycott the Olympics because of China’s compliance with the genocide underway in Darfur. I don’t think it will succeed, but Beijing is none too happy about it.
The real issue here is, I think, who watches the Olympics anyway? I’ll watch every World Cup [...]
Lionel Messi V Diego Maradona
Posted on April 20, 2007 - Filed Under Football | 3 Comments
This is Messi’s goal from Wednesday night against Getafe.
It’s hard to say which is the better goal. Given the occasion, Maradona’s probably shades it, but then the England players barely tried to tackle him.
Robbed
Posted on April 11, 2007 - Filed Under Football | Leave a Comment
What a disaster. I know that not all the goals were his fault, but Spalletti really has to replace Doni. A big forward like Luca Toni or Zlatan Ibrahimovic wouldn’t go astray either. Pity the club has no money…
Best of Times; Worst of Times
Posted on April 4, 2007 - Filed Under Football, Life-In-General | 3 Comments
Four hours sleep in 60, two essays submitted on the brink of their deadlines; followed by four days snowboarding and blading in Northern Italy.
Also, Al Franken’s book on Fox, self-referencing in a college essay, a failed attempt to grow a decent beard, and, in the last half hour, a splendid Lexington article in the Economist [...]
Roma V United
Posted on March 9, 2007 - Filed Under Football | 2 Comments
The team I primarily support, AS Roma, has drawn Manchester United in the Champions League quarter finals. Here’s hoping that they expose United for the mediocre team they really are. Below is a video of the highlights from Roma’s 2nd leg match against Lyon in the last-16 phase, minus the horrific elbow into the face [...]
Barca Dissappoint; Inter and Valencia Brawl
Posted on March 7, 2007 - Filed Under Football | 1 Comment
Last year’s Champions League winners Barcelona limped out of the tournament this evening after a mediocre performance in Anfield against the 2005 winners Liverpool. Although the Catalan club scraped a 1-0 victory, they didn’t impress in the slightest and look only a shadow of the side that was so mesmerising for the last two years. [...]
Ferenc Puskas
Posted on November 18, 2006 - Filed Under Football | Leave a Comment
Ferenc Puskas died yesterday. Known variously as ‘Little Brother’, the ‘Galloping Major’ and the ‘Booming Cannon’, Hungarian-born Puskas was one of the finest footballers of the 20th Century. Over the course his long career he scored 357 goals in 354 appearances for Kispest Honved, 512 goals in 528 appearances for Real Madrid, and 83 goals [...]
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