It was only when I watched Match of the Day that evening that I saw Gary Neville's celebration following Rio Ferdinand's injury time winner. Like Neville and every other Manchester United fan, I had gone absolutely mental, so missed his thigh slapping and badge holding. Of course, like every other time the two clubs meets, Neville [. Click to continue reading...

I got to Old Trafford earlier than usual yesterday, hoping that there might be some sort of ceremony to celebrate the wonderful season we've just enjoyed. Whilst the friendly against Juve was billed as the trophy celebration, I was sure they'd let the home crowd on the first day of the season share in the [. Click to continue reading...

At a press conference yesterday the FA were forced to defend the quality of the upcoming Independence Cup.

Libya were once runners up in the African Cup of Nations but only when they hosted it while Cambodia and Brunei have had marginally less impact on the football stage than a three legged hedgehog. Click to continue reading...

Pretty sure it's Ryu, but it could be Ken. Oh man, great game.

This guy puts up a good effort but I don't think it holds up to my E. Honda thousand-hand clap celebration of '97. Click to continue reading...

Based on everyone's -- but the U.S. team's -- expectations going in, a tie would've warranted the celebration pictured above (which was Altidore's go-ahead strike, man I love that photo).

Sadly in extra-time equalizer from the Dutch would keep the champagne bottles on ice for a couple more days. Click to continue reading...

Image via Wikipediawell, yesterday's game was a cause for celebration in many ways for the new york red bulls:

1. we won a game. we actually won a game.
2. we beat dc united, our most hated rival.
3. we beat an eastern conference foe for the first time since the first game of the season. Click to continue reading...

This time last year, new signing Nani signed a couple of brilliant goals in the pre-season. These goals were followed by his audacious celebration, flipping in the air. Already you knew this was a player who was going to get on our opponents nerves. Our first win last season came four games in against Tottenham Hotspur, [. Click to continue reading...

Wicked Deflection continues its impromptu celebration of the emergence of Jack Wilshere.

Wicked Deflection was 2nd only to Goonerholic in posting a proper announcement of Wilshere's arrival, and we've even got him beat on frequency of Wilshere updates.

Two weeks ago Wilshere wasn't on the radar, now he's in the first team. Click to continue reading...

All in all, Arsenal outperformed both Juventus and Madrid in our two Emirates Cup matches. The difference in each game was merely a goal: Juve got a dodgy one in the first, and we got a pretty soft penalty in the second.

We played with pace and fluency, but still looked a little lost when we get to the box. Click to continue reading...

In case you missed it tonight, Señor Bobby Boswell notched the game-winner in tonight's SuperLiga semifinal against Pachuca, a 2-0 Houston win.  I, for one, was disappointed not to see Bob's classic shirt flapping celebration, but a game-winner is a game-winner.  The Dynamo advance to face the winner of New England-Atlante who face off tomorrow night [. Click to continue reading...

This comes to us via an email courtesy of a UK based person who supposedly has heard from Solano:


"I wish to be anonymous but I can tell you having had direct contact with Nolberto Solano at the Peru Independence Day celebration in London, I can tell you that Solano is now a member of the LA Galaxy, at least on paper. Click to continue reading...

Premiership Talk is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the first ever Premiership blog carnival. What is a blog carnival? It's a celebration of the best blog articles written about a certain topic (in this case the English Premier League). Bloggers from around the world will submit their articles for inclusion in the carnival and Premiership Talk will give its readers a roundup of the best of the best. Click to continue reading...

I don't want to appear to be counting chickens before they're hatched, and hopefully I'll have more to write about this early next week, but I wanted to say one thing upfront. Georger said similar in the comments last night, but I want to expound on it as well.

If it comes down to Robbie Keane or Gareth Barry, I'm taking the somersaulting Irishman (worst celebration ever) every time. Click to continue reading...

Not that this clip is particularly interesting, but one of my respected readers has just informed me that I haven't done a thing for the ladies and homosexualist in while. So here you go...don't say I haven't done anything for you lately.

It is worth noting how humble the guy is. Click to continue reading...

I had an assignment for a soccer match today, but it wasn't Chivas USA versus the Revs. I was covering the Guatemala/El Salvador friendly for the Associated Press. It was my first AP assignment, and I was too nervous to even keep a running blog.
That's because this exhibition had no one taking stats like at MLS games, so I had to track everything myself. Click to continue reading...

There are classic feel-good stories that are designed to give people an inspirational uplift that might even last more than a day. There are tales that warm the heart.
Sacha Kljestan's Karate Kid celebration, done in honor of his father, Slavko, definitely takes on greater meaning when viewed in the context of their close relationship and Slavko's soccer past. Click to continue reading...

DC United 1 v Houston Dynamo 2
* Maybe it's just me, but I thought Onstad's save off Emilio's header was more routine than the announcers made it out to be.

* Nice run by Ricardo Clark to get to the near post, but Zach Wells has to fight more to get to that near post. To further that, where was the cover on the post.

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Robbie Keane moved closer to his dream transfer to Liverpool yesterday as the Merseysiders prepared to make an offer worth in the region of £20m for the striker and Juande Ramos, the Tottenham manager, admitted that his club would be duty bound to consider it.



The most pathetic goal celebration in soccer soon to appear at Anfield. Click to continue reading...

With Platini and Blatter aiding the fight for most unpopular football organisation going, I'd almost forgotten how much I despise the FA. We all know the FA love to have a pop at United and it seems they have been given their latest excuse. There was Robbie Fowler's ‘five times' goal celebration, intended to wind up United [. Click to continue reading...

Here in our little village in rural Ireland... no one seemed to care about the Euro final but Lynda and I. And certainly no one cared about Spain. Looks like we planned our exit from Spain all wrong. Oh, how wish I'd been in Madrid yesterday. Well... there's always 2010.
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...take it off to Milan. Possibly. The man himself has been making statements that the media are interpreting as either he's staying or he's going, depending on which quotes from his most recent interview is taken. He says somewhat different things to the BBC and the the Independent, which combined give an impression that he isn't sure what he wants to do.

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Here's what a day of baby-sitting will do to a man: I just spent 17 good minutes of my life watching highlights (?) of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying matches, including Jamaica's 7-0 win over Bahamas and Guatemala's 6-0 win over Saint Lucia. I'm all for the minnows having their God-given World Cup chance, but doesn't it seem sort of cruel and unusual? Click to continue reading...

There was a mixture of immense disappointment and great celebration and pride at White Hart Lane last season. Before a ball was kicked Tottenham were looking good. Martin Jol was a popular and reasonably successful manager and the team were hotly tipped to be about to launch a serious bid to infiltrate the 'big four' at [. Click to continue reading...

At least 23 people across Turkey were wounded by stray bullets fired in celebration of the win over Croatia yesterday in Euro 2008.

Eleven people were accidentally shot in Istanbul, the country's largest city where all night festivities were the wildest. Twelve other people, including a 10-year-old girl and an elderly woman, were wounded by ricocheting bullets in seven other cities, police said.

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Today has been a day of paternal celebration.

Yes I know technically Father's Day was last weekend. But it really has been a day for dads.

I spent the day at a swanky lunch held to honour local community heroes, of which my dad was one. He has been in poor health for the last couple of years but has found the motivation and energy to continue helping others throughout that time. Click to continue reading...