One of the last bastions of purity in sports is falling. In an effort to increase their already monstrous flow of income, Barcelona FC has decided to finally put a sponsor’s name on the front of their jerseys. This will mark the first time in the club’s 112-year history that it has done so.
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It may be two days after everything went down, but I have to say it has been a long time since I was as excited during a deadline day since Monday. It wasn’t like a MLB trade deadline, where it’s mainly prospects that usually change teams, or the NBA’s trade deadline where many of the [...]
Xavi, Andres Iniesta and Lionel Messi. It’s hard to argue that any of them wouldn’t be a fine winner of the FIFA Player of the Year. But, of the three, one simply doesn’t belong and he turned out to be the winner of the award.
Don’t get me wrong, Lionel Messi is the best forward in [...]
Greatest upset weekend ever?
This past weekend we might have seen two of the biggest surprise outcomes in recent football history. And it is thanks to football games from both sides of the pond. Two teams from vastly inferior backgrounds took out their supposedly superior rivals to the shock of many. You might have heard of [...]
Like any year in sports, a lot has happened in 2010. Since everybody else has chimed in with their two cents about what they liked and what mattered most, why not cop out for once — OK, maybe more than once — and throw down a list of my own favourite moments of the year.
Now, [...]
With the announcement of Qatar being named the host of the 2022 World Cup, the general consensus has been: Are you serious? And, I have to say, I completely agree. FIFA blew this decision and they blew it bad. While it might look good to give the tournament to an Arab nation for the first [...]
There’s something to be said for athletes playing through pain and illness, but we might have just witnessed something truly remarkable in terms of guts and endurance. Since when has there ever been a guy who has played through malaria? Well, that’s what Chelsea striker Didier Drogba did this past weekend and has just now [...]
Hey FIFA, let’s not go and ruin a good thing, OK?
The very fact that the world’s governing body of the beautiful game is thinking about eliminating draws at the World Cup really makes you think about how incompetent the heads of FIFA are. Sepp Blatter has made bad decisions before, but none that could seriously [...]
For as much good as there was at this year’s World Cup, there were, of course, more than a few disappointments. From the officiating, to the vuvuzelas to the play – sometimes – there was plenty to gripe about. So, how about a list of the XI most disappointing things from South Africa 2010?
The referees: [...]
The glorious, golden World Cup trophy wasn’t the only hardware handed out on Sunday in Johannesburg. The individual player awards were also handed out and FIFA did a great job with their selections.
Golden Ball – If David Villa, Wesley Sneijder or even Xavi or Arjen Robben had put on a better showing in the final, [...]
