I am fully aware that I am late to the why-England-were-eliminated-party here, but as I've pored over the litany of explanations on the web, I've found that there is an unfair discrepancy of player blame vs. manager blame. Sure, the England stars appeared lackadaisical and short on ideas, but these are the same players that […]

The contrasting World Cup fortunes of Frank Lampard and Carlos Tevez have inadvertently re-opened up the debate around the use of video technology at the highest level of the game. In the space of one day of the World Cup both Frank Lampard and Carlos Tevez were affected by controversial refereeing decisions. Whilst Frank Lampard was denied […]

Spain is through to the quarterfinals, eliminating the third ranked team in the world (per FIFA) in Portugal. They joined Paraguay, who won the tournament's first penalty kick shoot-out to eliminate Japan. On this episode of the World Cup Buzz Podcast, I am joined by Laurence McKenna to talk about those matches as well as […]

Spain is through to the quarterfinals, eliminating the third ranked team in the world (per FIFA) in Portugal. They joined Paraguay, who won the tournament's first penalty kick shoot-out to eliminate Japan. On this episode of the World Cup Buzz Podcast, I am joined by Laurence McKenna to talk about those matches as well as […]

Referee Koman Coulibay, who made the controversial decision to disallow a United States goal against Slovenia, says he does not believe he'll be refereeing any more games in the 2010 World Cup. In an exclusive interview with ESPN Radio, Coulibay says, "No, I don’t believe I’m going to be refereeing another game. We have been […]

England’s exit in the Round of 16 in the World Cup has triggered a fresh call to rein in the cosmopolitan roster sheets of the Premier League by placing quotas on the number of foreigners on each team. I have yet to come across a coherent argument as to why such a move will assist […]

And so the England inquest begins once again. After every tournament the same earth is dug over and over again. There can’t be a single argument, idea or notion that hasn’t been given an airing in the last 48 hours. I should know, I’ve been as responsible as anyone for writing them. The corpse of […]

In 1971, Franz Beckenbauer was handed the captaincy of the German national side. A golden age of German football ensued under his leadership, as Germany went on to lift the European Championships in 1972, and then won the following World Cup in 1974. Beckenbauer's Germany was unable to emulate that success in the following two […]

It's been a decent summer for viral soccer videos. Nike's Write The Future, despite being overblown, was entertaining to watch and produced a few chuckles. The return of Special1 TV has been a nice distraction even though they haven't been able to find their groove yet. But the highlight for me has been the series […]

For some of us, watching the highlights of USA versus Ghana may be too painful to watch. But thankfully Legofussball.eu has highlights featuring Lego characters playing out the key moments of the World Cup game. Using stop-motion photography and wonderful sets, the video is a beautiful thing to watch. It's just a shame that the […]

It's that time in the World Cup 2010 tournament where a little bit of comedic relief would do a lot of people the world of good, myself included. So who better than The Special One to provide the laughs? Following their victory against Slovenia the English team prepared for their next game against Germany. Simon […]

There's been an interesting undercurrent of first choice World Cup goal keepers performing brilliantly in the tournament so far who represent Premier League clubs. Besides a few early blunders from keepers, the goalkeeping has in fact been quite solid throughout the majority of the tournament. Maybe they've gotten used to the controversial Jabulani ball, or maybe they've […]

After the failure of Germany 2006, nobody wanted to hire Bob Bradley for this job. It was hard to find a fan that thought he was the right man. US Soccer was desperate to hire Jurgen Klinsman. Columnist fantasized about importing some maestro from Europe or South America. When the other options failed to pan […]

The British press are in a tizzy about who should replace Fabio Capello as the next England manager, or whether the Italian should remain in charge. Harry Redknapp? Roy Hodgson? Martin O'Neill? I've even read David Beckham's name mentioned as a potential candidate. But let's face the bitter reality. Whoever is England's coach for the […]

A teaser of what Fulham's new home kit for the 2010-11 season will look like was recently released on the Internet. The shirt is designed and manufactured by Kappa. And the photograph gives just enough of a hint to show how special the design may be. According to Football Shirt Culture website, "Kappa, a leading […]