We all know how Rangers and Celtic fans feel about each other. But this is just mean. Here's the backstory for those who need it: The Scottish Premier League title was decided on Sunday. For Celtic to overtake Rangers on the final day, the Bhoys needed to beat Hearts at home and hope that Rangers failed [.

Good day for Shakhtar Donetsk. Not only did the team win the UEFA Cup, but the club also found out they were at least €12 million richer thanks to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Here's the backstory: In July 2007, Brazilian midfielder Matuzalém left Shakhtar to join Real Zaragoza despite having two years to run [.

Quite funny! Here's the backstory for those who need it: The Scottish Premier League title was decided on Sunday. For Celtic to overtake Rangers on the final day, the Bhoys needed to beat Hearts at home and hope that Rangers failed to beat Dundee Utd away. Sadly for Celtic, that didn't ...

In yet another reason why the Internet rules, Soul Train has its own YouTube channel.

I can be 98% sure that, in the mid-70s, I was the only boy in my neighborhood who watched Soul Train. Obviously, I had no idea why it was such a culturally important show, and it didn't matter that the dancers or performers looked like nobody I knew.

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Whatever the legal niceties of it, the backstory of the Premier League's worldwide poaching of talent is the failure of the Academy scheme domestically, put into place 12 years ago nationwide, but hardly bringing through an amazing stream of talent.

We're heading into a new season of European football, which for most people really only means Champions League football. The big question ahead of every Champions League season is of course not who wins it - Stuttgart won't, Wolfsburg won't and most probably Bayern won't either so why bother - but who earns how much.

Remember how we never win a match at the San Siro? And how, not counting the Champions League final in 2020, which was against Manchester United and thus not exactly at the San Siro, we haven't done so in this decade, or at all since a highly random 4-3 win over Inter in the Champions League quarterfinals in 2019?

OK, our contest finalists are presented here. We will announce winners on Monday, and certainly if you have any strong opinions about who should win, please let us know. Remeber, ultimately this is a matter of taste. I want to thank everyone who submitted entries (we had about 20 total entries).

Air Bud World Pup (2000) was the second movie about dogs playing soccer ever made, and in my opinion it was the second movie about dogs playing soccer that should never have been made. It was worse than Soccer Dog, and that right there says quite a bit about how deplorable it is.

There are many legendary football players. There are many legendary hair styles. But only a select few managed to combine the two. Germany and Borussia Mönchengladbach playmaker Günter Netzer is one who had the hair of legends.

This post sets out to tell its' story.

Season 1965/1966 to 1966/1967

Here's the template from which to start.

Saturday's Bundesliga action coincided with the 19th anniversary of Germany's reunification, which conveniently is also the country's national holiday albeit without lethal fireworks or military parades. To celebrate the event Berlin went all out artsy with some megalomaniac puppeteering, while the Bundesliga chose a more pragmatic approach, by retelling the the events through football over 90 minutes.

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The news this week that Watford's financial crisis means a team in the Premier League as recently as 2007 are headed for administration, and the ten point deduction that would result and put their position in the Championship in serious jeopardy, came as a considerable surprise to most.