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10 Possible Football Stoners

Today, as you may or mayn’t be aware, is 4/20 – The International Day of the Stoner. With that in mind, we thought we’d turn a wry (or should that be ‘red’?) eye on the footballing sphere and pick out a few candidates in need of the meditative, healing powers of marijuana and also finger…

Football Identity – The Social Football Game

“Take on the role of Footballer, Manager or Journalist in a world where teamwork, strategy and people matters!” Footballidentity is an online football game in which the entire ‘world’ consists entirely of human controlled characters, and human controlled characters alone – you’ll find no AI bots here. Depending on individual preference, players can choose to…

Chelsea Have Left It Too Late, And Why Arsenal Can Beat Manchester United

The games seem to be fizzing by our eyes as we hurtle headlong toward the nub-end of the season though, mercifully, this weekend (5-7th March) represents a chance for the poor, over-saturated footballing pilgrim to come up for air and take stock – proffering forth, as it does, a clear, concise and full round of…

Scoreboard Review – When Football Predictions And Facebook Collide

“SCOREBOARD is a football predictions game and show on Facebook. It’s unique selling points are: Play against the pro pundits First interactive football show on Facebook First time a predictions game has been combined with a show There’s a winner for each week and for the entire season.” So there we have it. Essentially, Scoreboard…

Arsenal v Birmingham Preview – Carling Cup Final

Arsenal vs Birmingham Carling Cup Final Wembley Stadium, London Sunday 27th February, 2011 15:00 BST By kick-off on Sunday afternoon, five years, 9 months and 6 days will have passed us all by since Patrick Vieira clipped his winning penalty past Roy Carroll‘s despairing fingertips -  a calm stroke of the Frenchman’s right boot that…

GGOAL – Where Football Meets Chess

“GGOAL is a tactical/strategic browser game, where different players can experience a real challenge on a soccer chessboard of sorts. The main feature of GGOAL is the appropriate management of the on-field players. It is possible to move your own players, to make them run, to make them pass the ball, tackle and, naturally, to…

Soccerlens’ Top Five Strikers Of The Last 20 Years

As the footballing sphere bids farewell to one of it’s greatest ever patrons, legendary Brazilian forward Ronaldo, we at Soccerlens thought it high time to compile a concise list of our top five ‘strikers in world football’ – with the only stipulation being that any nominee must have played ‘up top’ and have had been in their prime at some point during the last two decades.

Ten Overhead Kicks That Put Rooney’s Derby Shinner To Shame

After Wayne Rooney reminded us all that he used to be a fairly decent professional footballer with his derby day belter against Manchester City last Saturday, the received (Sky Sports-infused) wisdom seems to be that the decidedly off-colour striker’s effort was, without need for second thought, the greatest overhead kick ever scored by anyone, anywhere, ever.

However, that’s not quite the case – as the following, ten-strong video essay will hopefully attest to.

Fernando Torres: The New Shevchenko?

How manager Carlo Ancelotti will re-configure his system to incorporate Torres remains to be seen, though it’s worth nothing that there will be an ominous spectre hovering over his head when it comes to bedding in his new superstar – an ominous spectre that has perhaps come to characterise Abramovich’s oil-soaked tenure in West London, the £30 million signing of Andriy Shevchenko.

Transfer Deadline Round-Up: Torres And Carroll Smash Records

For the first time in a long time, the transfer deadline day actually lived up to it’s monstrous, gossip-driven hype.

Over the course of 24 hours of prime pantomime, we witnessed both the fourth and the eighth most expensive transfers of all time take place, with Chelsea bagging themselves a new number nine and Liverpool taking 35 million steps to fill the void left thereafter.