This may well be the first time that you hear Bobby Goldsboro talked about in the football column and it will almost certainly the last. Bobby, you may or may not recall is a singer who had a few hits in the 60s and 70s, one of which, "Summer (The First Time)," is a song […]

Photographs of what appears to be Chelsea's new away jersey for the 2010-11 season have been leaked on the Internet. The images of Chelsea's new away shirt feature a black top with gold trim. Designed and manufactured by Adidas, the new Chelsea away jersey features a tartan-like design on the shirt which is slightly consistent […]

On the final episode of the World Cup Buzz Podcast this week, analyst Laurence McKenna mentioned how he was looking forward to the World Cup video montages that are often created and distributed on YouTube. While more will be certainly be released in the coming days, I've found three which I think you'll enjoy. Each […]

If failing to win a group lauded by a national media as "EASY" and crashing out to their hated German rivals in the round of 16 weren't bad enough for England's 2010 World Cup team, today brought another piece of bad news for the Three Lions. FIFA ranked England 13th at this year's final – its […]

The Kaiser, who has become quite infamous in world football for his comments before and during the World Cup. He has publicly criticized the German national team in the past, and coach Joachim Loew. Now, Beckenbauer, who is an absolute legend of German football, has come out in the press and slammed both World Cup […]

If you've got 10 minutes to spare, you can watch this one video which features every single goal scored in the 2010 World Cup in chronological order from Siphiwe Tshabalala for South Africa all the way to Andres Iniesta of Spain. The music that accompanies the track is an unknown SID tune composed on a Commodore […]

For some reason, it's more visually appealing watching the replays of the Dutch committing their dirty fouls in Lego than it is on television. It's quite more elegant than reality. So in all of it's splendor, here are the highlights of the 2010 World Cup Final featuring Spain and Netherlands in the wonderful stop-motion photography […]

Two massive stars in the Serie A could leave Italy this summer, Ronaldinho and Balotelli may not be the best players in the world, but they're important for the league and it's status. While Ronaldinho is 30 years old, he's still got the magic, he still creates wonderful assists and is slowly scoring more goals […]

It continues to amaze me in my adult life how I continually look forward to a trip, a concert, an event, a night out with friends, a movie release, or something as globally massive as a major sporting tournament, only for said event to come and vanquish like some flash in the pan-been-there-done-that, now-let's-move-on-moment. Whether I'm […]

The 2010 World Cup Final set a new record for the most watched soccer game in U.S. history Sunday when 24.3 million people watched the Spain versus Netherlands game on ABC and Univision, according to Nielsen. Univision drew 8.821 million viewers, while ABC drew 15.45 million viewers according to Nielsen fast-nationals. The 2010 World Cup […]

Inter Milan bad boy Mario Balotelli is happy to be rumoured with a move to Manchester, after interest from both Man United and Man City. The 19 year old is one of Italy's hottest prospects, but after disciplinary troubles at the Serie A champions, Balotelli is being shown the exit door. Balotelli's agent has said […]

West Bromwich Albion and Umbro have unveiled the club's new home and away jerseys for the 2010-11 season. Before we get to the shirts, I do want to mention that it's unfortunate that West Brom has such a poor commercial department. If you remember the last time West Bromwich Albion were in the Premier League, […]

Sunderland has unveiled their new home jersey for the 2010-11 season. With some designs, it makes you wonder how much shirt manufacturers can change the home jersey. With Sunderland, the design of the shirt is so locked down in terms of red and white stripes that there isn't a lot of creative license available to […]

Steve McClaren has made his intentions of bringing Wolfsburg back into European contention known. McClaren has recently come off a championship-winning season with FC Twente, where he brought the club Eredivisie glory for the first time in their history. Now, after the dismissal of Armin Veh, Steve McClaren has been appointed by VfL Wolfsburg to […]

While everyone is compiling and publishing lists of the best eleven or best 23 man roster of the 2010 World Cup tournament, I have a question for you. What if you compiled a list of the eleven worst players from World Cup 2010? Or even a 23 man roster featuring the players who were the […]