In 140 days, two bids will be given the task of assembling the world’s biggest traveling circus, one in 2018 and another in 2022. One of the greatest beneficiaries in the process is us, of course – the fans. As the movers and handshakers worry about the details, we’re being thumped on the head with [...]

Fresh after a full World Cup tilt – 7 games – Bastian was spotted in a Munich park doing what he does best: playing football. Only he wasn’t wearing some ratty tee, but rather Frank Lampard’s game worn shirt he snagged after their knockout victory, like he’s some little kid paying homage to his idol.
And [...]

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There are bets and then there are bets. Of course, then there are offhand remarks which probably shouldn’t be said when speaking in the public arena. So if you’re famous and prone to making outrageous declarations on air, at least do so while rooting for a team with [...]

There are those that feel Lionel Messi was a disappointment in South Africa. There are those who feel he was good, but not great. And there are those who feel he was simply the best player at the tournament.
Toss Vicente Del Bosque into that latter category, because if he was in charge he’d be snatching [...]

There are plenty of World Cup best XIs floating around. Mr. David Beckham did one just before the final, and we did two ourselves, split between semi-finalists and non-semi-finalists.
There’s only one XI that goes in the history books though, and that’s the FIFA one. The FIFA World Cup All-Star Team was decided by the votes [...]

That headline might be overstating things, but not by much. The ESPY Awards were created by American sports broadcaster ESPN in 1993. A little like the Oscars, if everyone was a lot more relaxed. Various sporing achievements from the year are honoured, with more than a little ESPN self-promotion thrown in. The important thing is [...]

Diego Maradona will apparently be offered a new four year deal to stay on Argentina coach when he meets with Football Association president Julio Grondona next week. At first I thoughtn the BBC were just making things up to fill a slow news days. But a bit of Googling and translating reveals that the news [...]

The game recreations at Lego Fussball have been one of the small joys of World Cup 2010. Of course they did one of the final, so if you want to see Spain 1-0 Netherlands, complete with Lego Mark van Bommel slide tackles and Lego Nigel de Jong delivering a Lego kick to the Lego chest [...]

Well that sounds awfully wrong, doesn’t it? But it’s true, at least in one sense: Nigel’s taking over YouTube with his kung fu kick on Xabi Alonso’s xiphoid process. It’s garnering the same type of treatment that Zizou earned when he thrust his shiny dome into Marco Materazzi’s sternum.
The YouTuber variations are coming in slowly [...]

Welcome to the most infuriating window in football: the post-big tournament transfer season. There is nothing more nauseating, unsettling or frustrating than watching transfer rumors spill out onto the pages as journalists do their best to match which successful tournament performance matches with a particular team. Often, it’s simply an exercise in insulting our intelligence. [...]