Which are your favourite football websites?

We want you to name your favourite football resources for news, statistics, gossip and fun on the internet. How do you get your daily fix? Here are some top sites to get the ball rolling:

Soccerbase - football's nearest equivalent to Cricinfo for exhaustive details of matches, players, and squads. Just the sort of place to find out how many clubs Steve Claridge has played for when the question comes up in a pub quiz.

Who Ate All The Pies (right) - A nearly always less-than-serious look at the latest happenings in the game, with extensive use of YouTube clips and bold colour photography. Euro 2008 is currently getting the treatment with sh*t lookalikes, Miss Euro 2008 and a clip of some bad coach driving (no, not Raymond Domenech in his 2CV but close).

YouTube - If you like to do your own video research, this site offers more than just an open mic for strangers soiling classic hits in their bedrooms. If you've missed a great goal, touchline tantrum or dodgy decision you can usually catch it here before it's hauled off by the copyright owners.

Football365 - the daddy of football sites boasts the consistently good Mediawatch (not even The Times escapes it's close scrutiny) and a well-fuelled forum that digresses from its topics with amusing regularity.

FootballShirtculture (left) - Old age and team allegience are no barrier to having an interest in the latest kits. Most of us have enough jerseys tucked away in the back of our wardrobes to cover the ceiling of a Tenerife sports bar. Liverpool's new away kit is the latest arrival - a retro grey number from the early 1990s.

Newsnow - It bills itself as the UK's No 1 news portal and is extremely useful if you want to gather the latest stories on your club or favourite player on one page. Sources include local newspapers, blogs and national dailys.

Fanbase - If you are looking for an independent view of your club this site is an excellent resource for fanzine sites and forums, plus merchandise and news websites.

Pyramid Passion (right) - If you think you love football, think again. Here is a site that goes beyond obsession with a wealth of photography and information about non-league football, but with a healthy dose of humour thrown in. Featuring galleries of dug-outs, floodlights, ground entrances and lawnmowers, no element of the amateur game is left out. It's a treasure trove for football nerds.

Mike Floate's Football Grounds Frenzy - The editor of this site ups the anorak factor with sections devoted to ghost grounds and pitched roof sunsets - the sort of topics that wouldn't be out of place being overheard during a group session in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

101 Great Goals (left) - a popular choice amongst those who posted their favourites sites below, this is the one-stop shop for goal highlights from around the globe. The copycats links dropdown list is a very nice touch - imitation being the sincerest form of flattery and all that.

kickette.com - another football gossip site which boasts that it is 'For those who love the players as much as they love the game'. Considering how many pretty boys (and WAGS) are on it, the author must be the biggest fan out there. It features plenty of pics and some fantastically wicked comments.

The Spoiler - another highly-touted site, it has it's tongue firmly in it's cheek as it embraces a Popbitch-style look at the beautiful game.

ESPNsoccernet (right) - a top quality football news site offering proof that Americans do take the world's best sport seriously. Featuring podcasts, video, a live match centre and articles written by Robbie Mustoe. That's right, Middlesbrough's joint player of the year alongside Hamilton Ricard in 1999.

More of your favourite sites:

TEAMtalk.com - How could we forget this site? It was an accident. It's a comprehensive news and reader views site covering all 92 English league clubs, plus Europe, the MLS and major tournaments.

Hasta El Gol Siempre - fine-looking blog covering Argentinian football, but here's the twist - it's written by an Englishman. 'No way,' you say. Well, it's true and well worth a look.

Football Rumours - where 2+2=596. If you don't laugh, you'll cry.

Squad Info - News on teams in Premier League, La Liga, Serie A and Scottish Premier.

The World Game - Neat and tidy Australian site covering the major competitions and the A-League.

twohundredpercent - football blog with an extensive and varied list of links.

The Offside - colourful mix of news, humour, opinion and polls specialising in North American football but covering all major teams and tournaments.

Football Italia - the best way to thank Channel 4 for bringing Serie A to British screens in 1992 is to recognise that they have an excellent site dedicated to Italian football. Unfortunately, it doesn't feature a desktop James Richardson eating a knickerbocker glory.

The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation - list of stattos from around the world whose goal, the site explains, is collecting all kind of statistics and making this information available to others.

European Football Forum - it's the Going For Gold of internet chat.

Soccerway - news and stats site covering the major European leagues.

Caught Offside - blog offering breaking news and transfer rumours.

Send in your favourites by adding a comment below.

Comments

[Malky]

great friendly forum which i've now been a member of for 3 years. its my favourite forum on the internet by far and id recommend it to anyone :)

[Chris]

tribalfootball.com covers all transfer gossip across the globe from all newspapers and comes up with its own rumours

[hayley]

http://au.fourfourtwo.com/ - another aussie site. i love it. its my home page

[Chris Thompson]

I really like ultimatefan.co.uk. A pretty tough monthly quiz, but there is a twist! Each club specific question send users to the club sites, which gives the smaller teams more traffic and with it may allow them to make some money! Nice to see someone trying to help Luton/Bournemouth etc!!

[Jake]

For Saints there are a couple:

http://www.thesaintsforum.co.uk
http://www.southampton-mad.co.uk

[Fatfish]

http://www.tonykempster.co.uk/

A must for all football fans, especially non league.

[Jim Franks]

I like Gruffgoat's Football Blog. A lot of cool soccer interest stories and commentary.

http://gruffgoat.blogspot.com

[Matt Holden]

http://www.footieshirt.co.uk - is a great site for comparing prices on new and retro footie shirts.

also

http://www.ronaldoshirt.com - is a great site for all Cristiano Ronaldo resources.

[Jack B]

A fantastic football website is www.football.co.uk

Great layout, and is packed with information. I enjoy reading the discussions and debates on the sites forum. I was suprised it hadn't made the original list.

[Tim]

Espnsoccernet

Incredible insight and analysis - much more than simply reporting.

[Matt Huart]

Clearly the best site for information on Manchester United's reserve and academy players:

http://manunitedyouth.wordpress.com/

And a similarly top notch site for Chelsea Reserves info:

http://chelseayouthandreserves.wordpress.com/

[Greg P]

http://goaltube.org/

Does exactly what it says on the tin.

[Doug]

Inside Left is a new site about Scottish football, particularly football about teams other than Rangers and Celtic.

http://insideleft.wordpress.com

[Duncan]

Gotta be Caughtoffside although The Spoiler is good fun also.

[Neil Wainwright]

Sports Offensive - http://www.sportsoffensive.net - hilarious. A cross between The Onion and the back pages of the tabloids.

[Nigel]

I think the Gaffer and Caughtoffside are equally good. The Gaffer is hilarious and Caughtoffside is off the wall; both worth a look in.

[Dave City Forever]

The transfer rumours on 4thegame are fantastic - you even get to put your own whispers on there - I read it 5 times a day!

[m johnson]

4thegame.com has been going strong for over 10 years i think....seems to cover all premier league stuff you need and is always good in transfer rumours

[Matt]

http://www.footballingworld.com

[Goofle]

Avoid all football websites that talk rubbish. Arsenal sites to avoid are Le Grove and The Gooner Forum. Arseblog, Vital Arsenal, The Cannon, Gunnerblog and Young Guns. Also, avoid Football Fancast, Caught Offside, Sportingo and all of that crap. Daily mail, The Sun, Telegraph also missable.

[David Nguyen]

Personally I think ESPN's SoccerNet is the best football website (http://www.soccernet.com). Some people are (unjustly) turned off it by its American ownership, but it's extremely comprehensive and authentic. It's my first port-of-call every morning for footy news, even before all the UK paper sites (The Times included, naturally).

[Macca]

This is a good little history site that's worth a gander every day -

http://www.onthisfootballday.com/

A nice mix of facts, humour and youtube.

[The Riverboat Captain]

http://dubsteps.blogspot.com/

[Sean Kennedy]

This free-play fantasy football website allows you to pick your all-time team and play them within a competitive league table. It's the ultimate fantasy trip teaming-up players like Ronaldo, Cantona, Charlton and Best.

[Wesley Winegarden]

West Ham fans should pop by Knees up Mother Brown www.kumb.com which is a treasure trove of info, or you could always visit my blog http://foreverclaretandblue.wordpress.com