Soccer Limey in America

I have always firmly believed that Pep Guardiola will be Sir Alex Ferguson’s successor at Old Trafford. I read a great article on Goal.com by Wayne Versey this morning regarding the impending retirement of the Man Utd manager . Although not yet having decided on a definite date to retire, the “Old Man” of Old [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This past week, two of the most storied teams in world football clashed at the Nou Camp Stadium in Barcelona for the second leg of the UEFA Champions League semi-final, yet another chapter in the history of “El Clasico” Feverish anticipation was fueled by the return of “The Special One“, Jose Mourinho , to his [...]