Everything Is Better In A Santa Suit
It’s Santa. It’s football. It’s pretty impressive.
Would’ve been more impressive...
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Category:All, World Football
Yaya Toure: African POY, Mystical Magician
Yaya Toure was named the CAF Player of the Year for being awesome in 2011, and rightly so. Possibly for ...
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Category:All, Ivory Coast, Manchester City, World Football, Yaya Touré Tags: Africa
Simply The Best (By Being The Worst)
It may not be the worst own goal in history, but it certainly is the most jaw-dropping and aesthetic. It...
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Category:All, World Football
Being Diego
This clip is old and has probably been posted thousands of times, but that’s no matter. It’s...
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Category:All, Diego Maradona, World Football
Jose To Create Special People
There are a number of people whose behavior in football probably shouldn’t serve as a role model to...
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Category:All, Jose Mourinho, Real Madrid, Spain La Liga, World Football
Photo: Taking The Club World Cup Seriously
Dani Alves may not qualify.
Meanwhile, Andres Iniesta’s ghostly spirit rides the Tokyo underground...
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Category:All, Barcelona, Club World Cup, Dani Alves, World Football
Barca take El Clasico honours, Man U win
Barcelona upstaged Real Madrid in the first El Clasico of the season, while in England Manchester United ...
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Category:All, Football, Gallery, World Football
Photo: Titi Gets Bronzed
It’s rather impressive that a man still playing gets a statue outside the grounds of a club the st...
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Category:All, Arsenal, Arsène Wenger, English Premier League, Thierry Henry
Socrates and Brazil ’82: an Australian Remembrance
According to the Brazilian footballer Zico, July 5, 1982 was “the day football died.” It was seven in...
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Category:All, Brazil football, Football, Gallery, World Football
Studs To The Studs
Undoubtedly, you woke up thinking “You know what I need to see in super slow motion today…&#...
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Category:All, Santos Laguna, World Football Tags: Juan Pablo Rodriguez, Manuel Viniegra, UANL
Documentary: ‘The Other Chelsea’
Can’t say I’ve ever been pulled into looking for a football documentary by a trailer as much...
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Category:All, Shakhtar Donetsk, Ukraine, World Football
Failed: Chickenpalooza 2011
Scheming for support and ticket sales is one of sport’s greatest traditions. Most of them take a mo...
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Category:All, Blackburn, English Premier League, World Football
Keeping Football Mature
Morocco versus Algeria in an African u23 game and things are dire. So dire, Algeria’s Jugurtha Ham...
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Category:All, World Football
Photo: Defending Via Attack
It’s been a rough week for Brazilian footballers and sexual assault, with Mancini being jailed a c...
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Category:All, World Football
Russian Royal Rumble
Russia’s getting better. They’ve got the World Cup, a moderately recent UEFA Cup title, the ...
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Category:All, World Football Tags: Krasnodar, Spartak Grogniev, Terek Grozny
The Inigo Martinez Late, Late Show
As the ability to mimic Hollywood for its dramatic flair and theatrics goes, this surely has to be the g...
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Category:All, Real Betis, Real Sociedad, Spain La Liga, World Football Tags: Inigo Martinez
Photo: AVB Prays For His Job
Chelsea lost. Again. Via a 90th minute dagger in Aspirinland. Is Andre Villas-Boas likely to get sacked ...
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Category:All, André Villas-Boas, Chelsea, English Premier League, World Football
Samir Nasri Confirms Joe Cole’s Observations On The French
Joe Cole upon getting to Lille and watching other men take their pants off:
“A big difference is t...
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Category:All, World Football
Viennese Smoke & Mirrors
The YouTube is full of audacious shows of individual talent and athleticism and scammers promising links...
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Category:All, Austria, Europe, World Football Tags: Rapid Vienna
The Great Wasabi Scandal
There are a lot of inane stories the football machine spits out over the course of a week. Alberto Zacch...
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Category:Alberto Zaccheroni, All, Japan, North Korea, World Football
The Seppstravaganza
The internet is abuzz. And it’s always abuzz, as that’s sort of the point and overall identi...
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Category:All, Sepp Blatter, World Football
This Is Your President, FIFA
It’s worth noting that Sepp Blatter is now 75 and could very well be in the process of losing what ...
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Category:All, FIFA, Sepp Blatter, World Football
Skunkhawks Not Wanted In Madrid
Neymar’s a bit of a savior, on the pitch and off, considering his magical ability to be tabloid fo...
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Category:All, Neymar, Real Madrid, Santos, South America
Things Not To Say On Twitter: Part Australia
Twitter might be the demise of the modern athlete, if only by allowing them the medium to do and say stup...
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Category:Adelaide United, All, Anthony Golec, Australia, World Football
Riski Business
There are a few infractions which earn automatic, walk-off-the-pitch-before-the-referee-even-reaches-for...
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Category:All, World Football
Honoring The Day Of Elevens, Marca’s Greatest Ever XI
Given that today is 11/11/11 and the conveniently equivalent number per team on a football pitch, Marca ...
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Category:All, World Football
The Bowels Of Football Voting
Sorry.
Those are the toilets area in which one is supposed to dispose of bodily waste of Ebbsfleet United...
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Category:All, World Football
A Late Halloween With Klaas
Sadly, this isn’t makeup – it’s Klaas’ broken nose. Tragically, it happened on N...
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Category:All, Klaas Jan Huntelaar, Netherlands, World Football
Real Life Neymar Staying, Fake One A Mystery
Good news for Santos fans, as one of two things just happened: either Neymar proclaimed his loyalty to S...
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Category:All, Brazil, Neymar, Real Madrid, Santos
Messi among 23 candidates for world player
Lionel Messi is in the running for a third consecutive FIFA world player of the year award after being se...
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Category:All, Football, Gallery, Lionel Messi, World Football
A Very Spain-Friendly Ballon d’Or Shortlist
They’ve got the World Cup, the European Championship, lots of little youth tournament trinkets and ...
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Category:All, World Football
Grandpa Pele’s Comin’ To Town
The World Cup is going back to Brazil, which means we’re surely due for an unforgettable atmosphere...
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Category:All, Lionel Messi, Pele, World Football
Showing The Red Card To Red Cards
As football news goes, it’s pretty vanilla, but making red cards in the box a more rare occasion, l...
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Category:All, World Football
Joe Cole Interviews Joe Cole
I’ve never been to Lille, but it seems like a really lovely place. And it seems like the type of s...
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Category:All, French Ligue 1, Joe Cole, Lille, World Football
Aspiring Thespians & Death By Massimialiano Allegri
Easily one of the most underrated aspects of football is the prematch press conference photography. Bef...
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Category:All, Champions League, Chelsea, Massimiliano Allegri, Milan Tags: Andres Villas Boas
Give Mourinho The Tito
This is easily the greatest thing to happen to cell phones since that thing with the bubbles which got m...
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Category:All, World Football
David Beckham: Like A Fine Wine
In case you’ve been longing to be reminded of how rich and desired David Beckham remains, fret not:...
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Category:All, David Beckham, LA Galaxy, MLS, World Football
Angry Football
Lassi Hurskainen is basically the American collegiate non-funny soccer-only version of Remi Gaillard. So...
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Category:All, World Football Tags: Angry Birds, Lassi Hurskainen
ESPN Undresses Hope Solo With Its Cameras
ESPN has unveiled this year’s Body Issue cover, and it features Hope Solo. Who is doing…some...
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Category:All, Hope Solo, World Football
Football’s Not Hard Enough, Ergo…Footdoubleball
This may not be new – its eureka! moment was supposedly around 2008 – but it’s new aro...
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Category:All, World Football Tags: Footdoubleball
Back To The Future With Roberto Carlos
Follow the money.
It’s a solid rule in sport, whether in prognosticating, betting or choosing one&...
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Category:All, Roberto Carlos, World Football Tags: Anzhi
Xabi Alonso, Eat Your Heart Out
With the advent of such video services as 101 Great Goals – taking credit for this clip as well &#...
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Category:All, World Football Tags: Jone Samuelsen, Odd
Diego, Still Just Diego
Nothing caps a week like a good old reminder that while some things change, others will always remain th...
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Category:All, Diego Maradona, World Football Tags: Al Wasl
Felipe Melo Unveils Celebration Of A Man In Crisis
(One minute mark.)
This may or may not be what happens when someone begins transforming into a werewolf....
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Category:All, Felipe Melo, Galatasaray, Turkey, World Football
Cristiano Ronaldo Needs You To Love Him
Cristiano Ronaldo was given a rude welcome in Zagreb yesterday and he thinks it’s envy due to the b...
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Category:All, Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid, Spain La Liga, World Football