Hi. Come on in. I’m steaming a variety of fresh vegetables. It’s about time I offered some salubrious comestibles during our wandering around in the dark corners of your poker mind. I know you like to talk strategy, but today let’s speak about strategy: “ … a plan or method for achieving…
Scorelines don’t come much more amazing than Sunday’s Mancunian derby, but was there really much reason to celebrate, however many records tumbled at Old Trafford? With a few days’ recuperation from that shellshock of a final score, can the result be deemed a welcome riposte to or even wholescale power shift…
Korean football fans have a two-tier season. Not only does the K-League run from the end of February to the beginning of December, the European season and the overseas Taeguk Warriors, just recovered from the World Cup, are just getting started. The best-known of these is, of course, Park Ji-sung. When he…
Following on from Part I of Soccerphile’s J. League awards, this time we take a totally biased and unobjective look at some of the best performers in the league in 2008. Adopting a one-club, one-player rule meant several glaring omissions – the likes of Kashima’s Daiki Iwamasa and Kawasaki’s Chong Tese miss…
8-2.’8-2, eight bloody two’ as Michael Palin almost said in Ripping Yarns (8-1). The morning after Arsenal’s worst defeat since 1896 was a sobering one. The 8-2 capitulation at Old Trafford was slow-motion carnage or schadenfreude at its sweetest, depending on your opinon of the Gunners and Mr Wenger. It was humiliation…
For most people in Europe, January with its long and cold nights is a quiet time after the excesses of Christmas and New Year Holidays. Football is different however as the January transfer window may not always ensure activity but it at least delivers thousands of reports and rumours about possible deals and…
As the referee blew his whistle at the end of Saturday’s FA Cup final between Manchester United and Chelsea ended, he also called time on the 2006/07 English season. So what better time to take a quick look at how the Aplikasi Judi Online English Premier League’s quartet of South Korean football stars…
Woken this morning by the call of the muezzin, blaring out “Allahu akbar” on a microphone at 5.30a.m. This got me thinking further about the similarity Pkv between Islam and football. The muezzin will call people to prayers five times a day every day, at sunrise, noon, mid-afternoon, sunset and night. The timetable for…
After the latest round of World Cup qualifiers in the European qualifying zone, Northern Ireland are on track for qualification after their 1-1 draw in Poland. Scotland kept their slim chances alive with a 2-0 win at home to Macedonia. The Republic of Ireland secured a vital 2-1 win away in Cyprus….
Japan coach Ivica Osim and his players are placing little faith in history ahead of tonight’s Asian Cup semifinal against Saudi Arabia in Hanoi. The two-time defending champions boast a 6-1-2 record against the underdog Saudis, cruising to a 3-1 win in their most recent meeting last year, but insist that the…
