In Pursuit of the Elusive Perfect Goal: 2008
Welcome to what I hope you will experience as a four or five night midwinter-lull footie video festival, to warm your hearts and hearthsides as we trek together round the globe in search of the 2008 perfect goal… This feature purports to represent many of the best goals of 2008 by way of video evidence….
The Best Goals of 2008 Part 4 (Americas)
From North America (MLS, Mexico) to South America (Argentina, Brazil and all the rest), the best goals of 2008:
The Best Goals of 2008 – Part 3 (Europe)
The best goals of 2008 from Europe – from Euro 2008 to Champions League, UEFA Cup and the top domestic leagues across mainland Europe. Euro 2008 A great tournament loaded with exceptional goals viewed and re-viewed by hundreds of millions of footie fans around the planet–at least half of whom seem to have crafted their…
The Best Goals of 2008 – Part 2 (England and Scotland)
Working here on the assumption that to most readers these will be the most familiar goals, I’ll bow to your prior comprehension and suggest that if you’ve already seen and made your own judgments of these, you might want to skip over this section. Compilations There are many of these indeed. Here are some I…
The Best Goals of 2008 – Part 1 (World Football)
Let us then begin with the long view, seeking the perfect goal on the larger world stage… African Cup of Nations This first major tournament of 2008 unfortunately went largely unseen outside the continent where it took place; in Europe and especially England, indeed, it was widely (if quietly) regarded as something of a nuisance,…
The Night The Unbelievable Nearly Happened: United’s Difficult Victory in the World Club Cup
Underestimating your adversary is a poor strategy in any competition. Last night in Yokohama, where they were contesting the final of the World Club Cup, Manchester United came dangerously close to doing that. Their opponent, Copa Libertadores champion Liga de Quito of Ecuador, put up a courageous fight. Proving themselves a far more formidable opponent…
FIFA Club World Cup: A Second Look
The problem I fear with approaching any non-European competition as an admitted a priori “avid PL supporter”, as does Mr. BD Condell in a prior piece posted on this site, is that one tends to be blinded by one’s predispositions and miss what virtues there may be in such competitions. While concurring in Soccerlens’ correspondent Condell’s…
Tears of Joy (Mexican League Apertura Final 2008)
If you can’t remember the last time you watched thousands of mature adults, on a day of deep blue skies and blindingly bright high altitude winter sunshine, all weeping and singing at the same time, then you’re like me. And while you like me have probably read in the news lately that happiness has been…
Do Manchester United want Real Madrid in the Champions League?
My, my. I note today that Sir Alex, with typically shrewd and devious application of more torque than a spin-bowler’s or curveball pitcher’s, has said that a draw with Real would be “a nice party–tea and biscuits with Ramon Calderon.” Now does that mean he does or doesn’t desire such a draw? Hmm. I can’t…
Top 10 Goals from this week’s World Cup qualifiers
Tom Clark looks at the Top 5 Goals from each set of World Cup Qualifiers (last weekend and midweek), focusing specifically on CONCACAF and CONMEBOL matches. Goals of the Weekend October 11/12 ’08 Could anyone not agree the Johan Gourcuff cannon shot for France vs. Romania, a 35-yard bolt off the bottom of the bar,…
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