Month: July 2010

News is filtering through today that the English Football Association (FA) are to consider scrapping FA Cup replays, with the view of freeing up space in the already-congested domestic fixture…

Off the back of Spain’s heroics in South Africa the feel good factor is certainly going to last in the Mediterranean for the next four years at least as their…

Shortly before midnight last Sunday, the man they called El Illusionista (The Dreamer), El Anti-Galactico (The Anti-Galactico) and Cerebro (The Brain) was the greatest man on Earth, deciding the greatest…

Thierry Henry has officially made his first tentative steps into semi-retirement after finalising his protracted move from Barcelona to the New York Red Bulls this afternoon. After three largely underwhelming…

Inter Milan striker Mario Balotelli is a child of our footballing times. Like so many of the new breed of brattish ‘starlets’, he is self-entitled, egotistical, petulant, immature, head-strong and…

Here’s a look at the online buzz and social media activities surrounding the recently-concluded 2010 World Cup. The infographic below was provided by the good folk at Simply Zesty:

Now that the World Cup is over and the players are returning home for a couple of weeks of vacation and then joining their respective clubs for training and the…

Ronaldinho looks set for a sensational return home to his native Brazil according to reports. The GloboEsporte.com website claims that the two time ‘FIFA World Player of the Year’ has verbally…

Soccerlens reader (and Real Madrid fan) Ramos writes in: Re: “The Football Debt League – Top 10 Most Indebted Clubs by: Ross Mackiewicz” That was a really good article and…

Celebrating their first star over the Spanish emblem last night, Pepe Reina of Liverpool called Cesc Fabregas of Arselona Arsenal for something Spanish. Before Reina was done with Cesc, Gerard…

This is not a list of our favorite players from the World Cup. If it were, it would’ve been quite different to say the least. Taking a look at the…

FIFA have done the decent thing and finally confirmed what we have all known to be true for some time (about 16 days in fact), by rubber-stamping England’s woebegone showing…

With a conspicuous absence of any defensively-minded players on FIFA’s Golden Ball award shortlist, you could be forgiven for thinking that there weren’t any outstanding back-line performers at this summer’s…

The 2010 World Cup champions Spain celebrated the first star over the emblem. Here are a few images from their dressing room in Soccer City. Also a couple of images…

One of the more interesting pieces of statistical analysis that’s come out of this year’s World Cup comes from Frontier Economics, a leading European economic consultancy, who recently carried out…

Now that the 2010 FIFA World Cup is history (by the way congratulations to Spain for getting a spot among our select club of world champions) we can go back to…

Mike Martin hands out the gongs as we review the first ever African World Cup.

The Spain merch is coming your way like Hurricane Katrina, and I bet you’re pretty confused about what to buy. There’s jackets, 1000 t-shirts, mugs, mouse pads, baby diapers, and…

After the 2010 World Cup climaxed yesterday, we at Soccerlens thought it was high time to have a little look at those who, over the course of the tournament, have…

Join Adrian Clarke, Iain Spragg and renowned European football expert Andy Brassell on the final episode of the Soccerlens World Cup Podcast. Howard Webb’s display in the World Cup final…

Brazil has launched its logo for the 2014 World Cup finals and the Brazilian president Luiz Inacio da Silva has stressed that his country has a ‘tremendous responsibility’ to match…

Alex Ferguson will be taking a 22-man squad for United’s tour of the US. Players too old to play in the World Cup, including Edwin van der Sar, Ryan Giggs…

Good morning everyone and welcome to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens. Spain are deserved campeones del mundo, Andres Iniesta is officially better than Xavi for the foreseeable future…