Brace yourself blogging world!! After Soccerlens, the great Marco Pantanella has conquered yet another mountainous peak and landed at… The Offside. Ok using ”great” and “mountainous peak” might be exaggerating a tad, but it looked cool when I wrote it.
For those of you have been living under a rock since the 2006 World Cup, The Offside […]

There could be tough times ahead for Luca Toni. The Bayern Munich striker, just recently crowned Bundesliga champion and currently leading the scoring charts with 21 goals, may soon be confronted with an unsurpassable obstacle… of the robotic kind. Its name is Goalias (or GoalIAS if you prefer), and it’s the first robot-goalkepeer capable of […]

This is something that came out in Germany some time ago (in October 2007 I think), but it’s never too late to point out good reading material.
Step into a new world, a world in which football means more than just the result of a game and where no borders are set to your creativity. Football […]

Great news for English-speaking Serie A fans: the website of the most famous pink newspaper in Italy has just opened its fully English-translated section. Yup, no more horribly distorted articles à la Babelfish or à la Google Translate, the Serie A-reporting goodness will come to you directly into the language of Shakespeare.
Now before you get too […]

He hasn’t scored in the French Ligue 1 since December 8, and in the African Cup of Nations, his performance was average at best. What on Earth seems to be the problem for Ivorian striker Aruna Dindane?
Dark magic, that’s what. At least according to some people back in Africa… Straight from the headlines of L’Équipe […]