Soccer Limey in America

The 7th of October was a delightful day for global football fans and The Sunday Football Marathon. Since the nap after lunch, I have sparingly let me eye slip out of the sight of a football match. Regardless of whether the results of the games were in my favour, I was able to explore how [...]

I’m not a fan that pays much attention to the kit that teams wear either at home or away but today, I can’t resist saying a few words of what La Liga Champions Barcelona strolled out onto the field in today for their game against Getafe. Whoever is responsible for their away kit design is [...]

To say that it’s been an exciting week in football on the European stage would be quite an understatement. Anyone who would have envisaged Spanish giants Barcelona and Real Madrid crashing out of the Champions League after failing to win their home games and Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola announcing his temporary retirement at the end [...]

Normally I don’t steal other people’s words for my blog posts as I like to stay as original as I can but I’m breaking my own rule tonight in favor of a Facebook post from my son who was commenting on Chelsea’s epic Champions League Semi Final elimination of Barcelona at The Nou Camp stadium [...]

Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona | Champions League semi-final first-leg report | Football | The Guardian. Along with a little Lady Luck, and a whole bunch of good old English pouring rain, Chelsea last night held on to a 1-0 lead to beat Barcelona in their Champions League Semi Final home leg, despite some heavy pressure towards [...]

Barca holds off Madrid rally to reach cup semis – World Soccer – Yahoo! Sports. Barcelona once again got the better of their closest rivals in La Liga by knocking out Real Madrid in the quarter finals of the Copa Del Rey. After taking a two goal lead over Real, Barcelona were pegged back to [...]

BBC Sport – Thiago Silva secures draw for AC Milan at Barcelona. AC Milan showed in 25 seconds tonight at the Nou Camp what Man Utd haven’t figured out in two Champions League Finals, and that is if you attack Barcelona’s defense right up the middle, you will create chances. Brazilian forward Alexandre Pato tore [...]

Arsène Wenger: Real Madrid and Barcelona are leaving Arsenal behind | Football | The Guardian. Over the years, Arsenal’s Arsene Wenger has been regarded as one of the game’s deepest thinkers. His nickname of “The Professor” describes him perfectly but does not flatter him as he isone of the most highly respected names  in world [...]

I’ve always found personally, that knee jerk reactions to attitude changing events are usually counter productive so I have delayed writing a post on Saturday’s Champions League Final between Barcelona and Man Utd at Wembley Stadium in an attempt to try to digest what happened and come up with some kind of intelligent explanation of [...]

I have been involved with this sport of ours for almost 45 years, and I can honestly say that I have never witnessed such a bizarre set of circumstances that emanated out of Old Trafford this past seven days. I have read many articles which explain (or at least try to) what happened with the [...]