Charlie Rhodes
Sports Editor
Euro 2008 Babes | Euro 2008 Fans
Charlie Rhodes • Jan 9 2022Euro 2008 Babes… For those of you who asked and expected 🙂 And if you’re looking for more eye-candy, just go through the football babes section.
Russia 0-3 Spain – Live Blog – Semifinals – Euro 2008
Charlie Rhodes • Dec 31 2021Russia 0-3 Spain (Xavi 50′, Guiza 73′, Silva 82′) Ernst Happel Stadion, Vienna Thursday 26 June 2008 Euro 2008, Semi Final #2 Kickoff: 20:45 CET, 19:45 GMT, 14:45 EST Russia…
Russia 0-3 Spain – Spain repeat group-phase thrashing to reach Euro 2008 final
Charlie Rhodes • Dec 31 2021Russia 0-3 Spain (Xavi 50′, Guiza 73′, Silva 82′) Ernst Happel Stadion, Vienna Thursday 26 June 2008 Euro 2008 Semi Final #2 Kickoff: 20:45 CET, 19:45 GMT, 14:45 EST Russia…
Chelsea Launch US Youth Soccer Initiative
Charlie Rhodes • Jan 5 2009Chelsea FC have announced their plan to build a network of top youth clubs across America to develop Chelsea Soccer Schools, a new Tournament called the Chelsea Sevens, coaching clinics…
Germany 3-2 Turkey – Impressive Turks bow out in style
Charlie Rhodes • Jan 6 2022Germany 3-2 Turkey (Germany: Schweinsteiger 26′, Klose 78′, Lahm 90′, Turkey: Ugur Boral 22′, Semih Senturk 86′) St. Jakob-Park, Basel Wednesday 25 June 2008 Euro 2008 Semi Final #1 Kickoff:…
Germany 3-2 Turkey – Live Blog – Semifinals – Euro 2008
Charlie Rhodes • Jan 6 2022Germany (Schweinsteiger 26′, Klose 78′, Lahm 90′) 3-2 Turkey (Ugur Boral 22′, Semih Senturk 86′) St. Jakob-Park, Basel Wednesday 25 June 2008 Euro 2008, Semi Final #1 Kickoff: 20:45 CET,…
Dissecting Italy’s Euro 2008 Campaign
Charlie Rhodes • Apr 9 2023Football is cruel. Italy, winners of a penalty shoot-out in the World Cup Finals in 2006, were dumped out of Euro 2008 after losing on penalties to Spain. Defeat, on…
Is it easier to win the Euro or the World Cup?
Charlie Rhodes • Oct 11 2021A question on the SoccerLens Forum recently asked whether it would be harder for teams to win the European Football Championships or the World Cup. A friendly argument ensued: The…
Is Player Power Ruining Football for Fans?
Charlie Rhodes • Apr 6 2023For around the first 100 years of their existence professional footballers were treated much like workers in other industries. The employers held most of the cards and players received a…
The Best of Roy of the Rovers: the 1980s
Charlie Rhodes • Feb 23 2012Although Roy first appeared way back in 1954 as a young apprentice signed by Melchester Rovers’ forward thinking youth team scout — Bert Bonser, it wasn’t until the 1980s that…
Top 10 Greatest Goals, Ever
Charlie Rhodes • Aug 4 2022Our friends over at FootballFansUnited (FFU) have come up with a ‘top 10 greatest goals’ list, have a look and see if you agree with them:
Nike: Most Wanted – SAF to train the future stars of football
Charlie Rhodes • Feb 23 2012Nike: Most Wanted is a collaborative project between the Premier League and Nike in the close season – it aims to find 22 of the country’s most talented undiscovered players…
All Summer 2008 Serie A Transfers
Charlie Rhodes • Jun 7 2010All Italian Serie A transfers going through in the summer of 2008 are on this page. For our transfer rumours column, see our transfer news section. This page is updated…
France 0-2 Italy – Azzurri Step Out of the Grave and into the Quarter-Finals
Charlie Rhodes • Dec 12 2021France 0-2 Italy. Ladies & gentlemen, this is how you mix a “Blue Lagoon”: 1 oz Vodka (Pirlo), 1 oz Blue Curaçao (De Rossi), cherry (Buffon’s save on Benzema), 1…
Dutch are red-hot for Euros
Charlie Rhodes • Aug 16 2012The Euro 2008 group stages are at an end with a few surprises thrown out, but on the whole my initial predictions have been largely spot on with dark horses…