US National Team – State of the Union
Recently, there has been some criticism on the site about the state of soccer in the United States. However, I feel that this is not true, and because of that, I have decided to refute these claims based on the just finished 3-0 win in Poland.
France 1-0 England – Not Good Enough
France 1-0 England Wednesday 26 March 2008, Stade de France Despite injuries to several influential players, France were the more assured side and won the game 1-0 without much trouble. The goal came courtesy of a Ribery penalty after Anelka had been felled by James in the box. England created little, and lost possession too…
Everton sign 7 year-old Harry Yates – is this too young?
Everton have beaten off competition from Manchester United and Liverpool to secure the signing of a seven-year-old goalkeeper. Harry Yates will join up with Everton after being spotted playing for his junior side. After much interest from a number of teams, including Manchester United and Liverpool, his parents decided the young goalkeeper from Heaton Mersey…
Pele, Maradona and Joe Butcher – the best players in the world?
Pelé, Maradona, Joe Butcher. Which is the odd one out? Err, who’s Joe Butcher? Yep, it’s Joe Butcher. The other two are the greatest players ever to have lived and Joe Butcher is nobody. Half right. Joe Butcher is indeed the odd one out. He was born in the midlands, the other two were born…
Spain 1-0 Italy
Spain 1-0 Italy Wednesday 26 March 2008, Elche, Spain David Villa’s 78th minute strike helped Spain to a friendly win over Italy. Full match report and video highlights here. .
Milan Lab – is it really the source of Milan’s success?
Having lost to Arsenal a couple of weeks ago a lot of journalists went on ‘Milan are old, its the end of an era’ rants which personally I think is just a lazy theme that they can knock out quickly and painlessly – this same theme could quite easily have been said when they lost…
Are Manchester City really interested in Barcelona’s Dos Santos?
Earlier this month Goal.com talked about the possibility of Giovani Dos Santos (#5 on the Top 50 teenagers in football list for 2007 and playing 28 games for Barcelona in all competitions – with 6 starts in the league – this season) moving on from Barcelona. Reports claimed that the top brass were unhappy with…
Euro 2008: A Preview of the Tournament’s Best XI
In June, 16 of Europe’s best national sides will descend upon Austria and Switzerland for the 2008 UEFA European Football Championship, or as most people call it, Euro 2008. While many of the continent’s top teams will be on display, some of Europe’s – and the world’s – best will be as well, so even…
Social Inertia in Football and Keith Hackett on goal-line technology and video-based retrospective punishments
In the furore surrounding Javier Mascherano’s dismissal (can we get past that now, please?), some interesting comments by Keith Hackett on Sunday morning (part of his column in the Independent) almost went unnoticed – I say almost, and thank Mihir Bose of the BBC for bringing it to the attention of the general public. Hackett…
The Value of Set-Pieces in Modern-Day Football
Football has undergone something of a revolution in the past few decades in many ways like tactics, diet and players themselves on the pitch. Cristiano Ronaldo perhaps epitomises this in some aspects; his extraordinary free-kicks, willingness to float from one wing to another, dribbling ability and of course not forgetting his unbelievable goal return hitherto…
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