Hand Of God: The Rematch

The most infamous piece of cheating and the most famous piece of individual footballing genius in footballing history came of age this summer - it’s now 21 years and a couple of months since Diego Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ goal, coupled with that extraordinary slalom through half of England, dumped England out of the 1986 [...]

Manager speak

Hold the front pages - Ramón Díaz has said something that, in a certain light, could appear to suggest that Ramón Díaz made a bit of a hash of things. He’s not the only manager in today’s papers, though - Boca boss Miguel Angel Russo has been shooting his mouth off about his club’s huge [...]

Apertura ‘07: round 9 fixtures

Primera A sees the clásico rosarino on Sunday as Newell’s, without a win in three, host Central, without a win at all this season, in El Coloso del Parque. Vélez visit Racing and two of the newly-promoted sides meet as Huracán host San Martín. In B Nacional, Ferro take on Almirante Brown on Friday. Step this way [...]

Close to the edge, and eternal youth

Ricardo La Volpe is probably feeling pretty glad right now that he slept on his immediate feelings after Sunday’s thrashing at the hands of River Plate. The Vélez boss revealed on Thursday that he came very close, after the 5-0 defeat in the Monumental, to resigning, even communicating his thoughts to the club’s board. In [...]

Apertura ‘07: round 8 goals

The goals from the midweek fixtures are online now, and you can see the video right here thanks to TN. Read on for a full running order of this clip, for those who don’t know which shirts belong to which teams, and for my pick of the best goals courtesy of our friends at GolesTV.