I consider myself a casual reader. One that picks up a book, gets deeply involved in it, then quits after 100 pages. I’ll blame it on time constraints, but I watch a lot of soccer on TV, so I think I could probably finish up about the 300 random sports books I have [...]
Not the sport, not the players, not the talent. But, I’m afraid that big spending clubs like Manchester City are going to bankrupt the game if something isn’t done to cap the amount of spending, or at least make spending a proportion of revenue brought in. Manchester City have recently announced an annual loss [...]
Another week, and another two training sessions, and here we are. The good news? I made the Revolver FC squad. The bad news? My knees look like I spent 2 days in a tanning bed, and they feel like badgers have been tearing at them for hours. I really need some training pants, [...]
This isn’t because they don’t play attractive football, or because I’m no longer a fan. The reason goes a bit deeper than that. The fact that I am a graduate of the University of North Carolina has more to do with it than anything.
Since I grew up on Tobacco Road (that name refers [...]
I’ve been posting all about world football lately, but yesterday, I started on my quest to get back into playing the game I love to watch so much. So, I figured I would post about my journey, which I can already tell you is going to much more difficult that it ever was.
About a month [...]
It should be a pretty interesting day in the Champions League, as only four of the eight teams from Groups E-H have qualified for the Round of 16. Arsenal, Sevilla, Fiorentina, and Lyon have already booked their places, but only Arsenal have locked up first place in the group.
In Group E, the battle will be [...]
Group A – Bordeaux have already qualified as group winners, but Juventus and Bayern Munich have it all to do as they sit on eight and seven points, respectively. Juve hosts Bayern tomorrow, and Juve only need a draw to qualify for the Round of 16, while nothing less than a win will qualify Bayern [...]
Is anybody else a getting a little tired of hearing Arsene Wenger’s bitching and moaning about Arsenal’s short comings? First off, he felt that shaking Mark Hughes’ hand after City destroyed his kids in the Carling Cup was too much for him last week, and then seemed a bit miffed that Hughes decided to play [...]
I was doing my morning online newspaper scouring this morning, and I can’t believe I missed this story for almost two weeks. A French amateur team calling themselves, ‘Paris Foot Gay’, have complained to league officials after ‘Creteil Bebel’, a devout Muslim club, refused to play them. Creteil sent an email to PFG, claiming that [...]
This is quite amusing, if not disturbing. Bosnia-Herzegovina have advanced farther than ever before, after making it into the UEFA play-off spots, and are only a home-away tie away from making it to the World Cup for the first time in the nation’s history. Their secret must be more talented players than ever before, right? [...]
Aston Villa v. Chelsea: Saturday @7:30am on ESPN2: Villa welcome in league leader’s Chelsea on Saturday, and I think it’ll be a cracker. Villa are playing extremely well right now, after starting the season slowly, and Chelsea sit atop the league by two points at the moment. I think Chelsea are too strong for Villa [...]
In 2004, a 14 year-old Freddy Adu becomes the youngest ever MLS player to make an appearance in a regular-season match. Two weeks later, Adu becomes the youngest ever player to score an MLS goal. All of this happens with a huge cloud of promise hanging over the youngster’s head. Adu also signed a $1 [...]
Yesterday, England played the Ukraine in the penultimate World Cup qualifying round before next summer’s World Cup. England was beaten 1-0, ending their eight match win streak in World Cup qualifying, but that wasn’t the biggest issue of the day. England had already qualified, so the match, though important, wasn’t nearly as important as it [...]
Bob Bradley’s little experiment payed off. By experiment, I mean giving Conor Casey the nod over Jozy Altidore. Altidore hasn’t been getting any minutes at Hull as of late, while Casey is second in MLS with 16 goals. Casey used his size on the first US goal, while showing a little agility and skillful finishing [...]
I just read a very interesting article by Dana O’Briain at the Guardian.com. O’Briain is an Irish journalist who wrote about his experience at a pre-season NBA game between the Utah Jazz and the Chicago Bulls. I found it interesting that he views American sports in the opposite way that Americans view European sports, namely [...]
We’ve all seen the huge influx of cash into the Premier League through foreign investment over the past few years. This added cash has made the Premier League the best league on Earth, as well as the best marketed world-wide. The league has become so big, along with Spain’s La Liga, that even ESPN has [...]
I must admit, I only heard out this story from listening to Matchfit USA. If you don’t know what Matchfit USA is, it’s a podcast focusing solely on US soccer and US players abroad. Now, I fully admit I don’t have my fingers in the MLS pot, but I just have to comment on this [...]
Chelsea are the clear favorites for the Premier League title. Chelsea have fully laid down the guantlet after beating Liverpool 2-0 yesterday at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea have taken a two point lead at the top of the Premier League, overtaking Manchester United after a draw at home to Sunderland. The only concern for Chelsea is an injury to Didier [...]
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Bob Bradley named his 22-man roster for the United States’ World Cup qualifiers against Honduras and Costa Rica on Thursday. The roster is littered with the normal names like Donovan, Dempsey, Onyewu, and Howard, but Connor Casey is a name that I didn’t expect to see make the roster. Now, Connor Casey leads the MLS [...]