That’s how the current FIFA President Sepp Blatter describes club contracts. Citing Cristiano Ronaldo’s contract with Manchester United and his willingness to move to Real Madrid, Blatter has suggested that players should be able to move wherever they want, whenever they want. I don’t need to tell you how ludicrous this is, do I? Continue Reading...
So Spain won, but in the end we all won in one way or another. The final was not a particularly great match (marginally better than say, the 1990 World Cup final) but the better team won scoring a goal that was fit to win any competition. Continue Reading...
It’s been a pretty special last 3 weeks, we’ve seen some dizzying highs (Holland in the group stages, Turkey’s comebacks) and some pretty nasty lows (Romania vs. France, Spain vs. Italy) but all good things must come to an end. Continue Reading...
ESPN have been doing a fantastic job for Euro 2008 (Julie Foudy and Tommy Smyth aside), hiring Andy Gray has been nothing short of inspirational, doubly so when they team him up with Derek Rae. Even the usual on-screen clutter has been to an absolute minimum, and I can only hope this may bring an end to those annoying on-screen perpetual adverts in regular soccer coverage. But today they fell foul of mother nature and, although it wasn’t their fault, it kinda killed the end of an awesome match. Continue Reading...
With the Semi-Finals starting tomorrow, a number of eliminated teams have already decided to part ways with their coach one way or another, the list is as follows: Continue Reading...
This has to be the buzzword for the Euro 2008 Quarter Finals, mainly because “conventional wisdom” got done thrown out the window in favour of upset after upset after upset. Firstly Portugal, while the 3-2 scoreline made it look close, were shell shocked by Germany. The first German goal was an absolute wonder of team play and perfect passing, Portugal misfired time after time and never came close to matching Germany in any part of the game. Continue Reading...
Now Portugal have been knocked out in a truly pulsating match with Germany, all eyes now turn on what will be known as Ronaldogate. I guess in about 5 days or less he will come out and say he wants to join Real Madrid kicking off what’s surely to be an all out fight between two massive clubs that’s bound to get ugly. Continue Reading...
