Month: October 2010

There was once a golden period in football’s pastoral, whimsical and sepia-hued history when many-a-self-respecting chap under the age of 50 would, cometh matchday, slip into his faithful dog-eared pair…

Leaders of Group A Germany and Turkey go face to face tonight in Berlin in what could be a key fixture in determining which team will top the group.

With just 22 short months left on the meter, the Football Association (FA) are already pressing ahead with the courting of possible successors to current England manager Fabio Capello –…

As reports from early this morning release the new of Manchester United’s latest accounts, my memory casts back to the time when Duncan Drasdo, MUST, the Red Knights and all…

Make sure you tune in to the latest episode of the fastest growing football podcast around – 3 Up Front! Host Adrian Clarke guides pundits Iain Spragg and Iain Macintosh…

We recently listed the best performing fantasy players in the Soccerlens Fantasy Football Game, and the top 10 featured a lot of familiar faces. Chelsea’s Didier Drogba, Manchester United’s Nani,…

Whilst the summer of 2010 was a relatively quiet time for Real Madrid, all previous years taken into account, January of 2011 could well see a return to form in…

Make sure you tune in to the latest episode of the fastest growing football podcast around – 3 Up Front! Host Adrian Clarke guides pundits Iain Spragg and Iain Macintosh…

Dutch national coach Bert van Marwijk has left Nigel DeJong out of his latest squad following the Manchester City midfielder’s tackle on Newcastle’s Hatem Ben Arfa. It is a bold decision but one that may ultimately benefit football and De Jong himself.

Given his recent extra-marital misdemeanours, it should come as little surprise that Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney‘s intrinsic commercial value has – if you’ll excuse the unavoidable pun – waned…

Liverpool FC has been saved from the ignominy of administration and a potential nine point reduction by the £300 million bid from John Henry and the New England Sporting Venture….

90 minutes? Try 1980 minutes! For everyone trying to convert that time into hours, it is in fact 33 hours! At 10:01 p.m. on 10th April 2010, our dream became…

The fate of Liverpool Football Club is now teetering on the outcome of a ‘unique’ courtroom battle, with chairman Martin Broughton imploring owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett to view…

A nice looking Mesut Ozil wallpaper wearing the Real Madrid shirt. It seems like the background would be more fitting to Ozil in the Bremen shirt, because of the green…

A really well designed Kevin Price Boateng HD football wallpaper, being 160×1050 pixels. Lovely design on such a big canvas by the artist, and I love the focus on the…

A nice football wallpaper featuring Frank Lampard from this season. He’s wearing the new Chelsea shirt, which looks really good in the wallpaper. There is not much detailing on the…

Another wallpaper made by J1897, the Polish designer that we’ve featured before coming from gfxworld.pl. This time it’s featuring Alessandro Del Piero, the heart and soul of Juventus. While the…

Samuel Eto’o is a marvelled genius who could write his own text book on how to be one of the most accomplished and gifted strikers of his generation.  His attributes…

Bristol need to make the change now Normally I’m exasperated by fans who call for a manager’s head just a handful of games into a reign. In this instance, though,…

This is a great football wallpaper of Arjen Robben, the Dutch winger. The designer focused on the background, putting a lot of emphasis on detailing around the render. The Bayern…

Finally found what I was looking for: a David Villa Wallpaper, but in big enough size to be called HD. This is a massive wallpaper, 1680×1050, and can fit to…

“Publisher EA has welcomed the record-breaking launch performance of FIFA 11, its latest multiplatform football game.” It might have to do with all of new gameplay improvements, but also with…

For some reason, Andrei Arshavin is really wall-o-genic. By that I mean that usually, wallpapers with the Russian look fantastic, especially with the Russia football shirt on. This one is…

‘Twas not so very long (last October, as a matter of fact) when all and sundry in the upper echelons of the Tottenham Hotspur hierarchy were crowing about having submitted…

A new wallpaper from me, this time it’s a Drogba wallpaper, wearing the Chelsea shirt this season. It’s a recycled design that I’ve used before, but since there weren’t any…

A beautiful football wallpaper of Cesc Fabregas, made by footiearts designer Owo. In this wallpaper, Cesc is wearing the old Arsenal shirt, but it was worth mentioning because of the…

“I will not rest until I have you holding a Coke, wearing your own shoe, playing a Sega game *featuring you*, while singing your own song in a new commercial, *starring you*, broadcast during the Superbowl, in a game that you are winning, and I will not *sleep* until that happens. I’ll give you fifteen minutes to call me back.”