The Footie Fool

So, the U20 World Cup got you excited and you decided to follow soccer this year, but don’t know where to begin? What is this crazy world of umpteen cups, competitions and leagues? Where do you possibly begin? Well, read on and I’ll try to shed some light on the basics of European footie and [...]

The Daily Mail is speculating that Portugal national Deco is eager to leave Barcelona after winning two league titles and the Champions League with the club. ManU (which has posted the rumor on their website, possibly giving it some legs), Liverpool and Chelsea have all been mentioned as possible destinations for the wily midfielder, who [...]

It may have been the worst kept secret in transfer history (heck, if a guy as out of the loop as me was speculating on this back in April, it could not have been a closely guarded secret), David Beckham has confirmed that he will be joining the LA Galaxy this fall. What is truly [...]

The shortlist for the CAF African Footballer of the Year has been released and, judging from early press reaction, it looks like Barca and Cameroon international striker Samuel Eto’o is the favorite to win the award for the fourth time over Chelsea’s Didier Drogba and Michael Essien. This is a really tough choice. All three [...]

Jeremy Granade has a great post on his blog Soccerworld about Chelsea becoming the next Real Madrid – a team dumping their low profile talent in favour of “names”. I haven’t heard the rumour about Roberto Carlos going to Chelsea, but if that is true, Granade’s argument is even stronger – Carlos is definitely past [...]

The Fifa World Cup site is reporting that Cristiano Ronaldo confirms Real Madrid interest. Considering the flack he is taking in England right now, and in the ManU camp, I suspect that his interest in leaving is high. By the way folks, Rooney stomped on Carvhalo’s balls – that’s what he got the boot for, [...]