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10 Most Overpriced Footballers

10 Most Overpriced Footballers

There are many, especially those who don’t have very much of an interest in sport, who think that top athletes are overpaid to do nothing more than ‘play a game’. However, there are many like Lionel Messi, Tom Brady, Derrick Rose, and others who are the best or among the best in their respective sports…

10 of the best Dutch footballers in recent years

10 of the best Dutch footballers in recent years

The Netherlands international team go into this summer’s Euro 2012 tournament as one of the favourites and frontrunners, with quality throughout Bert van Marwijk’s side. However, unfortunately the Eredivisie has lost its ability to keep the best homegrown players in the country and Ajax’s UEFA Champions League glory of 1995 seems like an eternity ago….

England v Holland – Wembley Stadium – 29 February 2012

England v Holland – Wembley Stadium – 29 February 2012

England host Holland at Wembley in their first international friendly this year. A ‘transitional’ England team take on World Cup finalists Holland on Wednesday, 29th February 2012, kickoff at 8pm GMT. The game marks the first (and probably the last) time Stuart Pearce will be managing the senior England side. There has been a lot…

Top Christmas Football Deals

The best part about holiday shopping is the amount of discounts you can find. It is very important to go around the market before buying something because you never know, you might find it for cheaper elsewhere. Keeping that in mind, I looked around for quality presents with good discounts and picked, what I thought,…

Retro Football Kits

Retro Football Kits

Throughout history, people have been kicking a ball but the earliest scientific evidence suggest that it was an exercise from a military manual in the second and third BC in China – it was called Cuju. Modern football took years in the making after the Chinese forgot about cuju. In 1872, the first ever international…

Euro 2012 Gear

Euro 2012 Gear

Euro 2012 – the 14th European Championship for teams sanctioned by the UEFA – is scheduled to be played between 8th June and 1st July 2012 in Poland and Ukraine. Spain are the current holders of the cup – they defeated Germany in the final in Austria / Switzerland version of the tournament in 2008….

Euro 2012 – Team-by-Team Preview and Schedule

Euro 2012 – Team-by-Team Preview and Schedule

With the 16 teams competing in Euro 2012 now selected and the qualifying process complete, all eyes look to Poland and Ukraine as time ticks down.

England shouldn’t expect any success in the near future

England shouldn’t expect any success in the near future

Like myself, all English football fans have been let down in recent years by our regularly under achieving international side. I would like to share my views on why this is the case, and on why I don’t see any reason to expect success in the near future. The fact that us English created the…

Beyond Lionel Messi: An Alternative List of the Top 25 Football Players in the World (25-11)

Beyond Lionel Messi: An Alternative List of the Top 25 Football Players in the World (25-11)

In my previous article, I argued that the process by which we decide who the world’s best players are has been grossly distorted. A combination of mainstream media hype (backed up with its ‘statistics’ – often little more than a ruse to get people gambling) and a nostalgic longing for the return of the great…

EURO 2012 Qualifiers: The top three match-ups that you cannot miss in the international break

Spain hoping to continue winning run

The qualifiers for the 2012 European Championships resume this weekend, with some crucial clashes for some of the continent’s strongest sides. Whilst England face Wales in a crunch Group G clash, and Denmark look to overcome rivals Norway in order to leapfrog Portugal in Group H, some of the other groups have thrown up a…