GOOD BUY SHALRIE JOSEPH                  New England             $450,000 Joseph along with the underpaid and under appreciated Steve Ralston has been the heart and soul of the Revs … Continue reading →

Madrid Feel  “El Chorreo” At Casa De Anfield Liverpool 4-0 Real Madrid LIV: Torres (16′), Gerrard (27′ pk, 47′), Dossena (88′) LIV adv. on 5-0 agg. Drogba and Essien Are Money- Again Juventus 2-2 Chelsea JUV:  Iaquinta (18′), Del Piero … Continue reading →

Liverpool – Real Madrid LIV: Reina, Arbeloa, Fabio Aurélio, Carragher, Skrtel, Mascherano, Xabi Alonso, Gerrard, Babel,Kuyt, Torres MAD: Casillas, Heinze, Pepe, Cannavaro, Sergio Ramos, Gago, Diarrá, Robben, Sneijder, Raúl, Higuaín Panatinaikos-Villarreal PAN:Galinovic, Sarriegi, Salpingidis,Gilberto, Gabriel, Karagounis, Simão, Vintra, Wawrzyniak, Mantzios, … Continue reading →

The winner played matches and/or made headlines during the calendar week of Mar. 2 – 8 and the winner is:

Jonathan Wilson, the inimitable scholar of tactical mechanics with his recent Inverting the Pyramid: A History of Football Tactics (a book I included in a piece on tactical reductionism for this website) has made a very convincing argument why English … Continue reading →

The 2009 MLS Salary list has been released thanks to the MLS Players Union and as always some players stand out as bargains and others as terrible buys. Here is our list of the best and worst of MLS salaries … Continue reading →

Consequences after the Riots in Hamburg: DFB President Zwanziger is considering Travel Bans on Fans, Rostock is not ruling out Court Actions against the instigators. The Police Union is warning that there may be fatalities soon and is demanding games … Continue reading →

It’s quite common to hear supporters of Premier League teams who live in the United Kingdom complaining about kickoff times. You’ll often hear them moan about kickoff times being too late or too early, as they reminisce about the good … Continue reading →

This is it. After months of foreplay, the Champions League finally comes down to one of the most exciting stages of the tournament — the second leg of the first knockout round. Over the next 48 hours, we’ll witness which … Continue reading →

3 – Likely number of German top goalscorers over the past 10 years by season’s end. With Ibisevic’s injury cementing his tally at 18, it seems likely that Patrick Helmes (17), Mario Gomez or Grafite (14 each) will end up … Continue reading →

Here are five stories I’ve handpicked that you may be interested in reading, as well as a link to all of the day’s top stories (again, handpicked for your reading pleasure). Enjoy. “Patrick Collins Named British Sports Writer of The … Continue reading →

In this coming edition of Mad About Fútbol… We will wrap up the Champions League knockout stage.  We will rehash the goings’on in  La Liga week 26 and start getting a taste of week 27 as Spain begins to go … Continue reading →

After being asked about this issue we will give you the skinny. We have started a series of podcasts at Mad About Futbol.   There we talk about La Liga, but we also talk about other leagues such as Serie … Continue reading →

After weeks of speculation, Barcelona made it official today and in a press release stated that Irish rock band U2 will begin their latest tour at the Nou Camp. What better opportunity to spread the brand name of FC Barcelona … Continue reading →