How would you like to have been a Manchester City or Blackburn Rovers fan heading from the north of England to the south, only to do a turnabout and head home after finding out your upcoming fixture was canceled? I know if it was me, a few words of the four letter variety would have […]

There are literally thousands of soccer websites throughout the Internet, but there's only one that features the exquisite map drawings of Bill Turianski that make the beautiful game come alive. Turianski is the mapmaker and wizard behind the curtain at the must-see billsportsmaps.com where he features beautifully handmade maps focused on several sports including soccer. […]

No images as a lead-in for this story on a pole-dancing Hannover 96 fan at a friendly versus VfL Osnabrück. According to reports the fan stripped down in -4 celsius (~25 fahrenheit) weather, egged on by cheers of „onanieren, onanieren!“ (masturbate, masturbate!). Local police and supporters are not amused, although at that temperature it's difficult […]

For years MLS' proponents have claimed the league is among the most competitive in the world and have generally assigned a ranking to the league somewhere in the 15th-25th range worldwide. I have myself in the past partook in such madness until I realized all such analysis are subjective and it appeared MLS was not […]

Unless you are under a rock, you know that Espanyol are struggling to remain in Spanish football's top flight. I have a chat with my boy Mando from Forza Futbol (and a masochistic Espanyol fan) about the consequences of a possible drop.

If Martin O'Neill managed any other club in the Premier League, would he be able to achieve more success than the club's current manager? What if O'Neill was in charge of Chelsea or Liverpool? Could he do a better job than Scolari and Benitez? I believe he could, by far. Read on to find the […]

Frank Lampard midweek stated that Chelsea needed to work on set piece defense. Obviously the team needs to be completely retrained from scratch as two of them came to their undoing as Manchester United thrashed Chelsea 3-0 at Old Trafford setting them up to be league leaders should they win both of their games in […]

Which team has the best shot of catching Barcelona?

What a way to celebrate Raúl's 500th appearance in Spanish first division. In addition to achieving such a milestone, Raúl also scored his 212th career goal in the 16th minute courtesy of a Gonzalo Higuaín pass into the box and the Madrid starlet took advantage of the jewel.

Middlesbrough may not be achieving much these days in terms of league position, but one thing they can take pride in is the rate they are churning out local young Premier League players. Boro regularly feature at least four local youngsters in the starting line up. In their most recent game against Sunderland, a total […]

The final episode of I'm On Setanta Sports has been released. In it, The Special One, It and The Boy say their goodbyes. Whether it is actually the end of this wonderful program, we'll have to wait and see. In the meantime, 624 people have signed the Bring Back I'm On Setanta Sports Petition. Add […]

Who will win the FIFA World Player of the Year? ( surveys)

On a day where the weather saw two Premier League ties called off, one London side will be glad their match was played while Liverpool will be wishing their tie at Stoke City was frozen off. Whenever Arsenal and Bolton get together, you know two things are certain. The first being it will be a […]

Arsenal got three more valuable points today but their display was far from convincing and they struggled to break down a depleted, if resilient, Bolton. We know that the injuries to Cesc Fabregas, Theo Walcott, Eduardo and Tomas Rosicky leave the Gunners short on pace, experience and creativity but for me one of the most […]

After Lio Messi plays on Sunday in Pamplona, he will head to Switzerland to sit alongside Cristiano Ronaldo. On Saturday, FIFA.com made a poll and the Barcelona superstar over his Manchester United counterpart. If you are a betting man and base your investment on precedent, chances are that the Portuguese international will come out on […]