Charlie Rhodes
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Lorrie Fair – Web Chat Transcript After Chelsea Move
Charlie Rhodes • Aug 5 2022In case you didn’t catch the USA Womens football star Lorrie Fair conducting a webchat on Tuesday, following her high profile move to Chelsea in England, here is a transcript…
07/08 FA Cup 5th Round Predictions: Arsenal and Manchester United to draw, Liverpool, Chelsea, Portsmouth and Middlesbrough to win
Charlie Rhodes • Jul 28 2022I absolutely despise Valentines Day. Conformity demands that I waste good money on a pointless gift and a meaningless card, even though the wife has spent the last 364 days…
Ronaldo Injured 9-12 Months, Draw and Heartbreak for Rossoneri (Milan 1-1 Livorno, Serie A Matchday 16)
Charlie Rhodes • Apr 7 2023Bad luck just seems to never end for Ronaldo. The first reports, released by SkySports just after the game, seem to suggest the Brazilian striker’s left knee suffered a crack…
Southgate v Woodgate, Middlesbrough v Tottenham – Who Has More Ambition?
Charlie Rhodes • Aug 16 2012When Jonathan Woodgate recently departed Middlesbrough for Tottenham in an £8million deal he could not help himself in having a pop, not only at his former boss Gareth Southgate, but…
Giovanni Trapattoni – The Republic of Ireland Opens the Trap Door
Charlie Rhodes • Apr 5 2023Image courtesy of the FAI. Giovanni Trapattoni, who will be 69 years of age in March, was named on 13 February 2008 as the new manager of the Republic of…
Tony Mowbray – Destined For Greatness?
Charlie Rhodes • Apr 5 2023In Hugo Steckelmacher’s second of his profiles on great English managing prospects in the Football League, he looks at the playing and managerial career of Middlesbrough great Tony Mowbray. When…
Tanked-Up Underwater Imaging of Dahab, Egpyt: Diving and Interactive Football Maps
Charlie Rhodes • Apr 5 2023Images courtesy of Martin Little and Tanked Up Underwater Imaging. A few months ago, I was searching the Web for a site that listed football web sites by countries. Lo…
Liverpool v Inter Milan – Champions League 2nd Round Preview
Charlie Rhodes • Apr 11 2023Update – Second Leg Preview: Internazionale v Liverpool – Reds and Nerazurri prepare to paint San Siro with the colours of Europe. Update – First Leg Match Reports: ‘Inter have…
Porto v Schalke 04 – 07/08 Champions League 2nd Round Preview
Charlie Rhodes • Mar 18 2011Four years ago, FC Porto won their second European Cup title by defeating Monaco 3-0 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, where ‘The Special One’ cemented his place as one of Europe’s top…
Celtic v Barcelona – 07/08 Champions League 2nd Round Preview
Charlie Rhodes • Apr 11 2023A lot of people may feel that this is one of the more one-sided of the last-sixteen ties in this season’s Champions League but statistics suggest that Celtic could well…
Arsenal v AC Milan – 07/08 Champions League 2nd Round Preview
Charlie Rhodes • Apr 11 2023The Champions League will restart next week and one of the more tantalizing second round ties has got to be Italian giants AC Milan against English powerhouse Arsenal. It is…
La Liga Week 23: Real Madrid’s Magnificent Seven
Charlie Rhodes • Apr 8 2023Barcelona have been missing Samuel Eto’o. While the Cameroon striker has been scoring aplenty in Ghana, his teammates have only managed to find the net five times in seven games….
Lorrie Fair – From US to Chelsea To Help Women’s Football
Charlie Rhodes • Feb 28 2012Lorrie Fair has 123 caps for the full USA women’s national team. She is a 29 year-old midfielder, who at the age of 20 was the youngest member of the…
Cameroon 0-1 Egypt – Pharaoh Apothesis: Egypt Triumph at the African Cup of Nations
Charlie Rhodes • Apr 10 2023When the 2008 African Cup of Nations began on January 20, few would have put any serious amount of money on Egypt as tournament winners. Despite entering the competition as…
Andre Bikey Attacks Medic And Misses ACN 08 Final – Was He Provoked Or Did He Lose His Head?
Charlie Rhodes • Apr 5 2023We often read of football-related violence that occurs in the stands/terraces, between players, against referees, and out on the streets between rival hard-core factions. But here was an another unfortunate…