El Clasico: My recipe for the perfect football feast

Woodstock 69’: love, freedom and prosperity. Wimbledon: elegance and tradition. For me, El Clasico is up there with these occasions as the greatest spectacles on earth. The two most successful sides in the history of Spanish football ripping chunks out of each other. And I love it. I love every...

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Outside the Box – Football on TV: A football overkill but Fabregas’ Barcelona adventure keeps us watching

At the top of this article you will see, if you can get past the crass, self-congratulatory overuse of my own name, that the tagline for this column mentions that there isn’t enough football on the TV. Obviously this pithy line is actually nonsense as there is in fact far too much football clogging ...

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Arsenal, Spurs, Chelsea, Birmingham: What game would you like to erase from your club's history?

I think it is safe to come out from behind the sofa now. The trick and treaters have gone into 12 months of hibernation, giving the nation’s doorbells time to recover. The BBC can put the series of Halloween movies back into cold storage. Just how many were there? As football fans we too have exper...

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Can any player, including Messi, be considered 'the greatest'?

Ah, the Champions League. Bringer of drama, stopper of dreamers, platform for Ray Wilkins to say ‘my word’ 50 hundred thousand times. And there are other things that are nearly always discussed, certainly when seeing the two dominant Spanish sides play. The great debate has moved from trying to ...

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Top 10 bizarre injuries to footballers

Swansea City’s vice-captain Alan Tate is set to miss most of the Swans’ debut season in Premier League after breaking his leg in a freak golfing accident. The versatile defender was a passenger in a golf buggy that lost control and Tate will have to watch the majority of the club’s rollercoaster adv...

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Who's Going To Be At Euro 2012?

The qualifying groups for Euro 2012 are reaching the business end and its becoming a little clearer which players will be in Poland and Ukraine and which ones will be spending extra time on the beach. Places Booked As usual Germany have headed the way in qualification. Aside from a sticky period a...

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Will the new season throw up any shocks across Europe's top leagues?

Here we go again ... Its that time of year again. Your club has had some embarrassing/great results in pre-season friendlies and the anticipation builds up as the new season approaches, but what can we expect from the big leagues around Europe? Some countries, of course, have already kicked off, su...

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Squarefootball's Fantasy football invitation

There is less than two weeks to go until the start of the 2011/12 Premier League season and time is running out for you to enter the Squarefootball fantasy football competition. Last season more than 100 teams competed for the Squarefootball title, which was won by P Oxenby and his team FC Poxo. He...

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Manchester City: Tevez, Telephones and Tedium

Im not sure whats been worse over the last week or so, the phone hacking scandal or the Tevez transfer saga?Maybe if the News Of The World was still in existence it could report, with its tele-pathic powers, where Tevez will be moving to? If I were a Manchester City fan I would just like to see th...

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What five things would you do before the season starts?

Isn’t it normally New Years Eve when you get a top 100 favourite moments of the year or top 500 best movie credits or some other poor excuse for a programme? Well I thought I would also use it as a poor excuse for an article, but rather than boring you all with a list consisting of 100 or more items...

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Football in 3D - A new risk to average attendances?

The world has evolved and developed a lot since the 1950s with the invention, evolution and development of everything from bladeless fans to electric cars and high definition broadcasts and beyond, but what have the boffins responsible for 3D been doing for 60 years since its inception? 3D today i...

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Would you like to write for Squarefootball?

Do you live, breathe and sleep football? Do you have a passion for writing and want your views to be read by a potential audience of millions? Then we at Squarefootball Towers would love to hear from you. Whether you follow Aberdeen or Accrington Stanley, West Ham United or Wolfsburg, we can offer ...

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Holland v Spain- A Meeting Of Football Cousins

Holland v Germany would have been a World Cup Final between nations with a bundle of negative history but Carles Puyol has engineered an encounter between sides with a shared footballing culture. Ever since Johann Cruyff moved to Barcelona in 1973, Dutch and Spanish soccer have been interwoven. Cru...

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Germany v Spain: World Cup History

Wednesdays semi-final meeting is only the third time that Germany (or West Germany) and Spain have faced each other at the World Cup Finals. Spain were beaten in both the previous encounters. The rarity of these matches is caused by Spains poor performance in the tournaments. Despite the strength o...

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The morning after 'Pool

The morning after. Usually for me the worst come down after a night like that. Being a Liverpool fan Ive not had THAT many disastrous nights, so have to take it on the chin and let the other minnows have their day-like every dog. So all the good deeds that I carried out before the match went to wast...

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Dare Rafa Benitez play Torres and Gerrard tonight?

International breaks are tricky things. Four weeks ago Liverpool lost Ferndando Torres and Steven Gerrard to short-term injuries - but both need either rest or surgery over the next few weeks to rectify the situation. And although Torres only initially missed two matches he was clearly playing wit...

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A Good Moment For Spain's Run To End

The USAs 2-0 semi-final victory over Spain in the Confederations Cup has caused a few waves in world football but ultimately it might be a good match to lose for Vincente Del Bosques side. A 35 match unbeaten run is always a two-edged sword because the longer it goes on the bigger the focus on the ...

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David Silva Attracts The Big Clubs

To the average armchair viewerAndrei Arshavin has been the main man of Euro 2008 so far but David Silva of Spain isn't far behind. Like Arshavin he came to the tournament as a player known to be useful but his performances have been a revelation. In a tough midfield to break into Silva has kept out...

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Prediction: Spain to be squeezed out of Group D

Group D is a mismash of teams from the peripheries of the continent, Russia from the east, Greece in the south, Spain in the west and Sweden in the north; and each will take a distinctive style into the tournament. Spain will be attacking and reliant on abrasive defenders to secure wins; Russia wil...

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What We Really Think About Euro 2008

We've written our previews, told you all about the teams and tried to put as much information out there as possible. But what are the real views of the Squarefootball team? Read on to find out. Paul Grech WinnersThe injury to Fabio Cannavaro will hurt them but I still think that Italy will win it....

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Euro 2008 Profiles: Spain

Looking through the squad and it is impossible not to rank them among the favourites. Take a look at their history, however, and you’ll start having second thoughts. Spain once again go into a major championship wondering whether they’ll manage to fulfill their potential or if they will confirm all ...

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4159: England/Spain International Fr

by : Bill Urban Steven Gerrard- 5 Gerrard played adequately well without dominating the pitch as might be expected of him in the 4-5-1 system deployed by McClaren. He chased back and protected Neville while covering for Wright-Phillips in expected fashion, and found time to play a gorgeous ball wi...

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3344: World Cup 2006; The Pain In S

by : Stephen Orford and risk him incurring an unwarranted ban. It seems that quite often, the certainty of getting it 50% right is better than the chance of getting it 100% wrong. This is where Blatter and his cronies should come in. They hold the key to stamping out the practice. If blatant cas...

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3296: Group H: Spain/Ukraine- Spain

by : Bill Urban pressure on a striker clearly lacking match fitness and who isn't adept at holding up the ball at the best of times. Even to drop Owen and use Crouch as the lone striker would do little but highlight the Liverpool striker's shortcomings. In 2002 England went to Japan and Korea in a...

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3279: World Cup 2006 Prediction: Gro

by : Antony Melvin Group H - Spain are the favourites with Ukraine looking to justify their likely qualification by thrashing Saudi Arabia and Tunisia. And after another rash decision to predict the outcome of an event that were are clearly under qualified to judge (we do read the feedback you kno...

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3253: World Cup History:Spain

by : Sam Cullen For a country as football mad as Spain, their past record at World Cup’s manages to leave a lot to be desired of. It all began in 1934 in Italy, the first World Cup held in Europe. Back then there were no group games so Spain progressed to the quarter finals by virtue of a 3-1 win ...

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3246: World Cup Preview - Group H;

by : Stephen Orford If one thing is certain before the start of any major tournament involving Spain, it is that they will woefully fail to fulfil their considerable potential. Domestically La Liga has become one of the finest leagues in Europe and around the world. Witness Barcelona’s march towa...

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1288: Racism: FIFA should hit Spain

by : James Prentice It seems that England simply cannot escape controversy. But on Wednesday night in Madrid it was their opponents, rather than themselves, that were dragged through the mire as racist chants directed at England’s black players rang around the imposing Estadio Santiago Bernebau. I...

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1276: Spain vs England: Spain player

by : Antony Melvin On a night when Spain utterly bossed possession it was a shame that they didn’t convert this pressure into goals. Utterly untroubled at the back, Xavi ran the midfield while Joaquin terrorised Ashley Cole. Dominant and deserved winners on the pitch. Hopefully the Spanish mon...

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1274: Spain retain their ‘under-achi

by : Daniel Kelly Spain demonstrated in emphatic fashion just why they have been labelled as under-achievers. The line-up they fielded was star-studded, even with the injury problems they had suffered prior to the game. In almost every facet of the game, Spain were absolutely outstanding. They we...

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