Buzzin Football

Under Jose Mourinho, Real Madrid have enjoyed the best start ever to a La Liga campaign, still unbeaten in nineteen games in all competitions and currently leading the title race from rivals Barcelona who are just one point behind.
Ten victories and two draws in La Liga is pretty much what we have come to expect [...]

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Spain’s La Liga continues to provide the top two players in European football in Castrol’s Player Rankings, predictably Lionel Messi (Barcelona) and Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) occupy the first two positions in the current rankings.
But Spurs fans will be happy to see their summer signing Rafael Van der Vaart gatecrashing the Top 100 following his [...]

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With Lionel Messi almost certainly missing from the Barcelona squad to play Rubin Kazan tonight, Castrol performance data suggests that the Catalan giants stand a better chance without the Argentinian star – the stats claiming that in the seven seasons that Messi has been involved in the Champions League Barcelona have won 73% of their [...]

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So the 2010 South Africa World Cup is finally over and Spain is rightfully crowned the best football nation in the world. Considering the on-going pre-tournament concerns as to whether the stadiums would be finished and whether South Africa’s infrastructure could cope, the tournament was a great success.  South Africa delivered though it must be [...]

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As Nicklas Bendtner stunned the Nou Camp by putting Arsenal ahead after 19 minutes, 1-0 on the night and 3-2 overall in tonight’s European Champions League Quarter-Final, what better way to lose the advantage just three minutes later by allowing Lionel Messi not one but two chances to score with a fantastic strike, leaving Manuel [...]

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