After Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a spectacular back-heel goal for Paris Saint-Germain against Bastia in Ligue Un two weeks ago, a video has been created that uses a flip book to immortalize Zlatan's beautiful flick. Is it better than the flip book that was created to showcase Thierry Henry's goals for the New York Red Bulls? […]

Players from the Montreal Impact in MLS were described by TV commentators as "sore losers" and "classless" for the way they ended their MLS playoff hopes last night after losing 3-0 to the Houston Dynamo in a fiery match where three Impact players were red carded. Nelson Rivas, Andres Romero and Marco Di Vaio were […]

Joe Hart has been dropped by Manchester City for tomorrow's clash with Norwich City, according to a report in The Guardian newspaper. Costel Pantilimon will start in goal for City after making an impressive performance against Newcastle United in the Capital One Cup midweek. While Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini remained coy in his press conference interview […]

The top-class soccer is enjoyably relentless at the moment. Trawling through this weekend’s contests, I had another dilemma on what games to select for our weekly must-watch selection. So much so, that I’ve included a few honorable mentions this week. Some great games in their own right, and contests that might take your personal fancy! […]

Last week, FIFA President Sepp Blatter spoke for 45 minutes to the Oxford Union at Oxford University in England. During the discussion, Blatter impersonated Ronaldo and compared him to a commander, blamed the UK media for misrepresenting him, called himself a Robin Hood, said that FIFA was not against goal-line technology, and defends his role […]

Barcelona maintained a one-point lead at the top of La Liga after the midweek games in Spain. Barca won comfortably at Celta Vigo while Real Madrid hit seven against Sevilla and Atletico Madrid won at Granada. Barcelona coach Tata Martino made five changes from the side that won El Clasico last Saturday as his side […]

Cardiff City's head of recruitment, Alisher Apsalyamov, is being investigated by the immigration office in the United Kingdom regarding issues with his visa, according to Sky Sports. Apsalyamov, the controversial figure who is a friend of Vincent Tan's son and was promoted to become the temporary head of recruitment at Cardiff before the previous head […]

Liberated from the maniacal clutches of Ken Bates, Leeds United AFC, one of the best supported football clubs in Europe, now can safely begin its climb back to where it belongs — near the top of the England’s top flight league. In Brian McDermott, the Whites have a manager that will guide them back to […]

Manchester City were expected to be a real force this season after a change of manager and a busy summer in the transfer market. This season may only be 9 games old, and there's a lot of soccer left to be played, but so far City currently sit in seventh place, have been beaten three […]

Tottenham Hotspur have joined in the Halloween fun by convincing defender Kyle Walker to wear a mask and costume so he can prank his teammates. Several Tottenham players and coaches got pranked including Emmanuel Adebayor (yes, he's still alive), Andros Townsend, Jermain Defoe, Sandro and Steffen Freund. But my favorite of all of them is […]

In mid-week action in La Liga, Real Madrid defeated Sevilla 7-3 in an entertaining game where Gareth Bale scored two goals, while Cristiano Ronaldo got a hat trick. Judging by the two goals by Bale, he's back to his best although the goal from the free kick was fortunate. Here are all of the goals […]

Portland Timbers have clinched their first-ever Major League Soccer playoff game, which — for Timbers supporters — is a euphoric and monumental achievement. What makes their November 7 playoff match even more enticing is the possibility that if Seattle Sounders beats Colorado Rapids tonight, the Timbers will host the Seattle Sounders in a super-sized reincarnation […]

The draw for the quarter-finals of the 2013-14 Capital One Cup has been announced. Leicester City vs Manchester City Tottenham Hotspur vs West Ham United Stoke City vs Manchester United Southampton/Sunderland vs Chelsea The matches will be played during the week of December 16. Tottenham Hotspur had to come back from being 2-1 down to […]

Tottenham attacking midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson scored a beautiful solo goal for Tottenham Hotspur against Hull City in the Capital One Cup on Wednesday night, to put the Spurs 1-0 up against the Tigers. Sigurdsson continues to show why Spurs decided to be aggressive when trying to sign the Icelandic international as Liverpool were close to […]

Loitering near the bottom of the Premier League table having made an indifferent start to the season, former Tottenham and Ajax boss Martin Jol is one top-flight manager edging precariously close towards the exit door Following a string of bad results, including defeat to Championship outfit Leicester City in the League cup, Martin Jol’s odds […]