Soccer Limey in America

A draw on the scoreline, but for sure a victory for the crowd. This was a match compiled of world-class quality and breathtaking dramas. It might be a roller-coaster night for the French supporters. More importantly, their hopes of advancing further in the Champions League is still kept alive as French La Ligue leaders PSG [...]

Two losses in a row have not been the headlines you would normally see in local Barcelona newspaper for the last three years. Losing in two consecutive El Clasicos had not happened since the 07/08 season as well. Today, Barcelona slump again in the El Clasico and officially entered a new low point after losing [...]

It seems that over the past couple of weeks, some interesting discussion has developed around the question of whether Barcelona of La Liga would be capable of winning the Barclay’s Premier League title. Probably prompted by Scottish Champions Celtic’s success against the Catalans, it makes for some interesting comparisons of the strengths and weaknesses of both [...]

It’s not often these days that Scottish teams can grab the limelight from other, more powerful European teams, but when they do, it usually promises to be a night of magic and last night was no different. At Celtic Park, otherwise known as Paradise, Celtic stunned the superstars of Barcelona 2-1 to take a huge [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Across the world of soccer, there are only a handful of matches that can be put on a pedestal and served up as “classical confrontations”. The Milan derby in Italy, Rangers vs Celtic in Scotland, Liverpool vs Everton in England, Boca Jrs vs River Plate in Argentina, and probably the grandfather of them all, Real [...]

The second part of my breakdown of the summer extravaganza will focus on more of the teams and players that were on stage in South Africa, but if I get on a rant here, which is very likely, I may end up doing a Part 3 ! 6. KAKA, MESSI, ROONEY AND RONALDO . One [...]