2010 FIFA World Cup: South American Trios Lead Their Teams to the Quarter-finals
Kaká, Robinho and Luis Fabiano; Godín, Forlán and Suarez; Messi, Tevez and Higuain. I would walk into a dark room and randomly pick any of these players for my team…
German U21 stars outshine England’s ‘Golden Generation’
Leading into the World Cup, the German side were looked upon as an unknown quantity. A side without their talisman Michael Ballack and the investment in youth by Joachim Löw…
Messi: “I thought that they would negate the goal by Tevez because they were looking at the big screen above…”
After the impressive victory by Argentina over Mexico in the round of 16, Diego Maradona, Lionel Messi and Carlos Tevez provided news conference comments that were published by the Buenos…
Harry Redknapp: ‘I Couldn’t Turn The England Job Down’
Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has made it painfully clear that he would be interested in taking the England manager’s job, should it become available at some point during the next…
Sepp Blatter & FIFA: Reasons To Be Thankful
There is a common misconception that seems to prevail within footballing circles that FIFA are a dribbly-chinned, stubbornly atavistic outfit – concerned only with trifling over the insignificant minutiae of…
World Cup Podcast: A painful England post mortem
Join Adrian Clarke & Iain Spragg on the latest edition of the pint-size Soccerlens World Cup Podcast. The duo do their best to analyse what went wrong for England and…
Transfer Rumors: United and City after Real keeper Casillas, Tottenham to splash the cash on Forlan, Inter’s Maicon set for Real switch, and more
It’s a very important summer in Manchester, to say the least. Manchester United are looking to strengthen their squad ahead of a run at a record-breaking 19th top flight title…
World Cup News: England Lost, But At Least Gabriel Heinze Got Clocked!
Top of the morning and welcome to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens. You may have noticed that England did a ‘lose’ yesterday when they really should have done…
‘Arrogant’ England Fob Off The World’s Media
The world’s media were left with their jaws on the floor yesterday, when England’s press briefing (before their systematic dismantling at the hands of Germany) lasted barely five minutes –…
Kobe Bryant: “I love soccer since the time I was a boy.”
Kobe Bryant has an interesting history that many fans might not know. His father, Joe “Jellybean” Bryant, played professional basketball in Italy where Kobe spent his formative years. Kobe grew…
Brazilian striker wants to win titles with Manchester United
The Brazil striker Luís Fabiano has said that he only wants to play for a club where he will have a chance of winning titles, and he’s picked out United…
Only Time Will Tell How England’s Golden Generation Are Remembered
So to Shizuoka in 2002 and Gelsenkirchen in 2006 we must add Bloemfontein in 2010, as England’s golden generation now face up to the reality of another exit from a…
Puma Tekkies World Cup Sneakers
After writing about the Adidas Kick TR shoes, the world-cup themed sneakers from Adidas, I’ve found something even cooler for you sneaker freaks out there! The Puma Tekkies are a…
Ian Blanchard: “We need to be open to anything that assists the match officials in getting those big, crucial decisions right.”
Despite Germany’s clinical elimination of England, we had a controversy with regards to Frank Lampard‘s potential equalizer in the first half. Two years ago, I had the great pleasure to…
Scoring Statistics for the 2010 World Cup
We have seen some great goals so far. David Villa of Spain, Landon Donovan of the USA and Maicon of Brazil have stood out to me among many “golazos.” It…
