World Football Columns

Jay Spearing’s two-footed tackle shows how much the Reds will miss Lucas Leiva and Clint Dempsey continues to punish butter-fingered keepers.
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In which Stones sleep in the high grass of Banbury before roaring to life at the Vale. Continue reading »

Is Harry Sherlock crazy? Maybe, but his harebrained idea just might work. Continue reading »

Liverpool break down the doors of the Billionaires’ Club. Continue reading »

While we were offline, a great deal happened at Wealdstone. Continue reading »

It’s shaping up to be another blue, blue Christmas at the Bridge. Continue reading »

Javy Perez weighs in on the growing debate on imported talent. Continue reading »

Chelsea are approaching their annual bump in the road, and the trip thus far hasn’t exactly been smooth. Continue reading »

Andrew Beasley puts himself forward for Kenny Dalglish’s job. Continue reading »

Wherein Richard Jolly wanders into the Land of the Giants. Continue reading »

Santos president Luis Alvaro Ribeiro may have shot himself in the foot in his joy over re-signing his young star, Neymar. Continue reading »

For David Beckham and the Los Angeles Galaxy, it may literally be now or never. Continue reading »

Giovanni Trappatoni’s colourful personality flouts animal activists and English professors everywhere, whereas Fabio Capello’s quiet dignity is far more sinister, if the Fifth Estate is to be believed. Continue reading »

With the poor results and poorer press, Chelsea have been kicked around more than a ball in a Spanish friendly. Andre Villas-Boas will look for his side to regroup during the break and return to do a little kicking of their own. Continue reading »

Key players have departed but Rome’s ‘other’ club has retooled in a big way, to again set the early pace in Lega Calcio. Continue reading »

It required a return leg but Wealdstone kept their hopes of a deep FA Trophy run alive with victory over Margate this past week. Continue reading »

At Wembley, the Spanish lineup demonstrated that Barcelona is not the same club without Lionel Messi. Yet, even with him as captain, the same can be said of the Argentian national team. In his debut article for WFC, Javier Perez suggests that the blame lays elsewhere. Continue reading »

LFC have their feathers in a ruffle. Continue reading »

This season hasn’t been the fairytale romance that 2010-11 was for Ajax and Frank de Boer. Continue reading »

Is this one of those cases when three hundred thousand people are wrong? Continue reading »

Harry Sherlock pays tribute to the only Manchester United manager he’s ever known. Continue reading »

Roge Slater notes that, while Aveley doesn’t rhyme with lovely, the result for Wealdstone in the Ryman League on the weekend most certainly was. Continue reading »

If the Premier League was the Princess Bride, Liverpool would be Inigo Montoya and Roy Hodgson would have six fingers on his left hand. Continue reading »

PSV fought the law and the law won. Continue reading »

Whatever happened to the new economic reality? Continue reading »

Why is Argentinian football being stood on its head? Continue reading »

MLS has enjoyed two consecutive seasons in which unexpected champions rose from the ranks to upset the big names. This year, however, baseball beat them to the punch in such spectacular fashion that the league will be hard put to reply. Continue reading »

Andrew Beasley was impressed by Simon Kuper’s new book, Soccer Men: Profiles of the Rogues, Geniuses, and Neurotics Who Dominate the World’s Most Popular Sport. Continue reading »

Stones entered the week at the breaking point for their 2011-12 campaign. Continue reading »

The Reds offered a credible imitation of Sylvester the Cat, in their ridiculous inability to swallow up the Tweety Birds… erm, Canaries of Norwich City. Continue reading »

Until any evidence emerges beyond he said, he said, Andrew Beasley believes that the match deserves more attention than the banter, in the East Lancs Derby. Continue reading »

The Phoenix take minimalism to a new level. Continue reading »

After a run of poor performances and worse luck, the tables finally turned for Wealdstone. Continue reading »

A match with a prize fight atmosphere ended in a no-decision, as Ajax got up off the canvas in the second half to deny AZ’s claim to their Eredivisie title. Continue reading »

An excerpt from Jude Ellery’s indepth article on this summer’s Homeless World Cup in Paris. Continue reading »

What a difference half a billion pounds can make! Continue reading »

After a run of five matches from which Wealdstone did enough to earn more than two points, the club has to be wondering who up there doesn’t like them. Continue reading »

Is Liverpool already planning on a trip to Wembley, so early in their recovery? Continue reading »

Scotland’s Euro campaign rests in a very uncomfortable place; needing a result the against perfect Spaniards. Continue reading »

The MLS playoff picture is coming into focus, with one or two hard chargers causing some late surprises. Continue reading »

While you were sleeping, the A-League kicked off in Oz. Continue reading »

Arsenal have done it, Liverpool are planning it and Everton are desperate for it. Now, it seems that Chelsea may be putting the wheels in motion for their own stadium move. Continue reading »

It wasn’t the Wreck of the Old 97 but Wealdstone’s long train ride to Lewes ended ugly. Continue reading »

The Reds benefitted from a questionable decision from Martin Atkinson, which, in one fell swoop, oiffset all the bad calls in the opening weeks of the campaign. Continue reading »

They wear red and white but the Eredivisie leaders are not the usual suspects. Continue reading »