Actually Japan is leading the charge against vuvuzelas leading into the World Cup.
Won't amount to much I'm sure.
But maybe it would if more join the charge!
To the links:Liverpool Daily Post]
Fergie says City is top four material. [ESPN]FIFA warns Iraq to separate gov't/soccer.
Click to continue reading...
Some Lovely Links Just For You!
Portsmouth Vs Liverpool Tickets Still Available!
Portsmouth Vs Manchester United Tickets Still Available!
Join Our Facebook Fan Page!
Facebook
Subscribe to CaughtOffside!
Click to continue reading...
AEK Archives 06 November @ 05:06 PM EST
So, one point from a game where it won't really do much to help us. In reality though, we could
have come away with all three points had we managed to score one more of our chances, or had Saja
not made a terrible mistake that the goalkeeper on my own amateur team would likely avoid.
Well, AEKBaltimore will watch the match on TV soon, since I believe he recorded it, and I'm not
sure if AEKMAN74 watched as well.
Click to continue reading...
The Big Puma was Back, at Least for a NightRare is the sight in Mexican futbol of a stadium packed to capacity. It happens in some places with
regualrity: the two Monterrey stadia, Santos, and San Luis PotosĂ seems to have sell outs every
game. The big teams, on the other hand, only seem to pack the place when it's either a rivalry game
or a late rounder in the liguilla.
Click to continue reading...
Man United are urging the fans to stop chanting an offensive song, which is directed at
Arsenal manager
Arsene Wenger. Man United beat Arsenal on the 29th August this year
and TV viewers could hear what the United fans were singing.
Fans should be able to chant about the players and manager but nothing personal and nasty.
Click to continue reading...
Many of you will remember the letter Mark McCullers sent to the Nordecke last month asking them to
be on their best behavior. In today's Columbus Dispatch Sean Michelle explores how that
happened:
But not everyone is happy with the bastion of drums, songs, flags, banners and,
occasionally, profane chants.
Click to continue reading...
Henry Winter again writes for The Telegraph in defence of Sir Alex Ferguson
Studs Up has a laugh at Rafa and Liverpool
The Mirror look at sick chants following City repeatedly singing their Munich Carlos Tevez
song
The Times discusses the most bizarre goals in football
Sky Sports warns our fans will be checked for beachballs at Anfield
Are you on LinkedIn?
Click to continue reading...
Most of the news in today's press regarding Arsenal, is not, in fact about Arsenal, but more
about the cave-men (and no doubt women and children) who are allegedly Birmingham supporters. I
can't say that I heard their chant about Martin Taylor after Ridgewell had felled Theo, but the
fact that Wenger felt strongly enough to brand them a disgrace means that they must have been quite
loud.
Click to continue reading...
Very sad individuals indeed.
Join Our Facebook Fan Page for the Latest News/Rumours/Forums/Videos/WAGS/Funny
Stuff/Features!
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has slammed Birmingham's fans for chants which he
describes as 'atrocious'.
Blues fans sang 'There is only one Martin Taylor' after Liam Ridgewell had slid in hard on Theo
Walcott during Saturday's game at Emirates Stadium.
Click to continue reading...
Arseblog 19 October @ 02:28 AM EST
I am sleepy this morning. And possibly a bit grumpy. I share no other traits with the rest of
the seven dwarves though. No, not even dopey.
Speaking of dopey how about those Birmingham fans? During the game on Saturday they sang
'There's only one Martin Taylor', to laud the man who broke Eduardo's leg.
Click to continue reading...
by CARL ELDRIDGEÂ Real Madrid usually get their man when they come calling but not if the man in
question is Arsene Wenger. This morning's Sun tells us that AW has revealed he turned down big
bucks from Madrid because he wants to win the Champions League with the glorious Gunners.
And he admitted: "If we don't win a trophy in the next two years, it'll be my fault.
Click to continue reading...
What's there to say?
The coach is sacked, a whole lot of laundry is aired, some no doubt utter bullshit, other true.
Frank is scapegoated for a long period of administrative incompetence in the Roar and the FFA.
At the same time - quick, someone mentioned a 50% hike on the already most expensive tickets in the
league might have 'contributed' to the disappearing crowds - the Roar announces a 15% price cut and
a special promotion letting kids in free.
Click to continue reading...
futuresight: harry does a maradona...
Apologies for my absence in these recent days; been quite busy with some other commitments;
though the guilt of leaving my beloved Spurs in the lurch as we found a drop in form; In some ways
I feel partly responsible. For the most part though; if you haven't got anything nice to say best
not to say anything at all right?
Click to continue reading...
Don't worry, I'm not advertising any insurance here. Not sure about the odds but you'd be very
unlucky to get hurt by a paper aeroplane that's for sure. Seriously though, have you ever been hurt
by one? If so, is it as bad as David James makes it out to be? This is what he said,
They were big flares, granted, but you could argue that someone throwing a paper aeroplane on
the pitch might take someone's eye out.
Click to continue reading...
At the 4:00 mark or so he starts getting into some West Ham chants.
Oh the cute little Englishman.
Love the awkward laughs from the unknowing American audience.
Click to continue reading...
Port 10 October @ 10:51 AM EST
Portugal gets set to take on Hungary in Lisbon with the hearts of many Portuguese fans hanging in
the balance. Portuguese Nation which covers the globe will be glued to their television sets, next
to a radio or better yet at the game where chants of Por-Tu-Gal will echo the stadium. The players
will stand as the Portuguese National Anthem plays in front of their home fans who will hold their
Click to continue reading...
I was intrigued to see Thierry Henry on the pitch before the Blackburn game. Particularly given his
appearance as a spectator followed his comments in the press during last week that he hoped to
return to Arsenal, and was even willing to take a job as a water boy.The warm applause and chants
that Thierry received were befitting for an ex-player of his status, but it was unusual nonetheless
to see
Click to continue reading...
Apparently some pranksters with a line-marking machine vandalized a soccer field. Here's a quote in
reaction.
"To be shafted like this is a bitter pill to swallow, it's a balls up which may leave our next
fixture in doubt."
Too funny.
Now the links:
Click to continue reading...
Yep. From Mark McCullers:
Nordecke Supporters:
I have received several emails regarding the increased security presence in the Nordecke for the
Saprissa match. We have respectfully requested that the chants including profanity, most
importantly GTFO, cease. Unfortunately that chant has continued, specifically during the Cruz Azul
match and then several times during the LA match.
Click to continue reading...
Now I know what it's like to be a Red Bull fan. All of the teams I was watching over the weekend
all lost. I just couldn't believe it. Let me run through it real quick.
Fulham lost a heartbreaker to Arsenal 1-0 after a Robin van Persie goal. This was a tough home
loss for the Cottagers. Schwarzer came up big making 9 saves and preventing Arsenal from hitting
the net a few more times.
Click to continue reading...
You will notice at the bottom of all posts there is now an option to 'share this' which means
you now have an easy way of sharing articles with people who you think might be interested.
Other things to do when bored: Read RoM's best articles. If you're on Facebook, add me or become
a fan of RoM.
Click to continue reading...
Stoke fans were more concerned with booing our players than they were with cheering their own on
when they visited Old Trafford last season. I can't stand that small-time mentality, an obsession
with another team that makes hating another team more important than supporting theirs.
Stoke are famed for their great support though and have loads of original songs.
Click to continue reading...
Not sure why you'd want to imitate Maradona these days.
Might be shot by accident.
Pretty funny though.
To the links:
- One crazy road trip. [Off the Post]
- Brian McBride Q&A. [Goal! NY Times]
- Where are all the EPL draws? [Unprofessional Foul]
- The week's best quotes and chants.
Click to continue reading...
It's not often I'm happy to see Man United win, and while a draw yesterday in the Man City derby
would have been a better result for Arsenal, the fact that Man U won 4-3 meant I was ÂŁ150 richer
for the sake of a ÂŁ1 bet and Mark Hughes now knows how it feels when the officials fuck up and it
costs you the game.
Click to continue reading...
by CARL ELDRIDGE Arsene Wenger has condemned Arsenal's travelling fans for the abuse they hurled
at Emmanuel Adebayor in the Manchester City game, screams this morning's Sun.
Accept, er, he didn't condemn them at all.
Their preposterous reporter, the Liverpool-supporting Anthony Kastrinakis (BTW, the Arsenal head
of communications is also a Liverpool fan), runs with the story despite AW stating he didn't hear
it so can't comment on it.
Click to continue reading...
Soccerblog 16 September @ 07:47 AM EST
"If somebody stamps on your head in that way, you wouldn't say, 'thank you very
much' and turn the other cheek. Only Jesus Christ did that."
Wenger backs Van Persie for speaking out about the unholy incident.
"I don't watch Match of the Day, I watch Coronation Street
instead.
Click to continue reading...
Dirty Tackle 16 September @ 12:02 AM EST
At the end of Roma's 2-1 win over Siena last weekend, Siena fans elicited an intensely emotional
reaction from Daniele De Rossi as they sang a song about De Rossi's father-in-law, who was found
murdered in an apparent organized crime related execution in August of last year.
The group of Siena fans unleashed their heartless chant on De Rossi merely because of a foul he
committed after the whistle.
Click to continue reading...
Dirty Tackle 15 September @ 04:32 PM EST
All the stuff being covered outside the unfriendly confines of the award winning Dirty
Tackle...
Real Valladolid invited a performing bear to training. [Off The Post]
Premier League players are now buying bullet proof cars because their lives are just like a
Michael Mann film.
Click to continue reading...
by CARL ELDRIDGE Nothing much about Arsenal in the papers this morning. Oh, wait a
minute...there are a few mentions here and there about Emmanuel Adebayor. Hold on, there's more.
Blimey, I am being swamped. Virtually the entire print run of every national newspaper carries the
words 'Adebayor, fans, rake, Van Persie, six-match ban, storm, steward, knocked-out, shame, coins,
obscene chants, Fabregas, stamp, FA probe' not in that particular order, you understand.
Click to continue reading...
Ultras Singing in the Hot Sun!
Crowd
It was a hot one today as a small crowd avoided Church and the NFL games to brave the midday
heat! It was a small crowd, maybe 9 or 10 thousand but very passionate to say the least. I took my
friend and former Galaxy season ticket holder, Gene Kato and his 2 little boys to his first Chivas
USA game.
Click to continue reading...
So basically I have to get on a plane in about an hour and have somehow procrastinated til now
to do my preview so it was be a bit rushed/short. I realize now that that time I took to do my
nails last night, could've been spent doing this. Oh well, it all comes together in retrospect
doesn't it?
Click to continue reading...
Right, it's time to start making this place fun and interesting again *cough*. So, without further
ado, a brand new CUAS series....
Cheer Up Alan Shearer's Top 10 TV Football Moments
10. Delia Has Too Many Gins
Ah, Delia Smith. She's the UK's best selling cookery author, you know, having shifted a whopping
eighteen million units.
Click to continue reading...
