[typography font=”Alike” size=”14″ size_format=”px”]While the Olympic Games will officially start on Friday, the Olympic football tournament will already be underway. Thursday 26 July at 12 noon Spain and Japan will kick off the men’s tournament at Hampden Park in Glasgow. The British women have by then already played a game as they started their campaign…
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Last year’s Europa League Final in Dublin was dubbed the Portuguese Championship. This year’s edition will feature two teams from Spain but it is by no means a championship decider like 2011’s final. Atletico Madrid and Athletic Club Bilbao both deserve their place in Bukarest tomorrow night as they have been the most constant and…
FIFA have stolen the game from England! So said Sir Dave Richards at conference today. What a pleasure to read Sir Dave Richards comments on the origins of the game! If there was need to prove that the governing body of English football, The FA along with the Premier League, of which Richards is the…
Stuart ‘Psycho’ Pearce has been named caretaker manager of the England football team after Fabio Capello left earlier this month. While the speculations almost boiled over in the immediate aftermath, there has been time for all involved and the media as well as the football loving English public, to think and to reflect. Everybody’s favourite:…
Didier Drogba, Michael Ballack…the list could be continued and will be in the future. But what these players have in common is a successful playing career with their club sides and defeat on the international stage. Sometimes bitter defeats, sometimes truly deserved. This piece will highlight both players’ highs and lows and near misses. Ballack…
Rarely has women’s football been touched upon here but a piece in the L’Equipe magazine about the PSG Ladies offered a good intro for the topic. The men’s team are the focus of the media since their take over by the Qatari Investment Authority in May 2011. [typography font=”Crimson Text” size=”18″ size_format=”px”]Financial Gulf [/typography] While…
In November 2011 the future of Brazilian football took a turn for the positive: Neymar decided to sign a new contract until 2014 with his club Santos. This however, has sent shock waves through European football as it was expected that he would move to Europe sooner rather than later. Real Madrid were offering
Reading across a range of papers this morning, one could have asked ‘just when does it stop?’ Sepp Blatter announced that FIFA will consider introducing goal line technology as well as demanding referees to become professional in Germany. While both topics have their merits, it is the timing that they are discussed again, that makes…
By looking at the teams that have qualified for the African Cup of Nations 2012 the observer will notice some of the perceived bigger names on the sheet for the qualified teams for next year’s competition are missing. Egypt, Algeria, South Africa, Nigeria and Cameroon will NOT feature but instead there will be the likes…