All Entries Tagged With: "Chelsea"
Puck’s Friday Happy Hour: Champions and Europe League, MTV Awards Edition
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back into another Happy Hour. This week has been especially hellish for me. I know you all probably don’t give a shit, but that hydride generation fluorescence spectroscopy instrument that I have told you all so much about, well it decided that it was time to pull a Roque Santa Cruz. [...]
1,500 Words on the EPL’s First Three Weeks
In a culture where we readily deploy American sporting metaphor in everyday conversation, there’s little reason to embrace the English Premier League. It opens, at least in terms of its general reception by the American “sports as sacred” public, with three strikes against it, or at the very least, on fourth and long. Strike one—Americans [...]
Contest Entry: Chelsea FC
The following entry to the “Find Our Editor Dan Seco an EPL Team” Contest comes from Josh McPhail. On originality of the entry alone– I think it is a strong entry. In fact, I’m getting excited about the contest because the entries thus far are very strong. In fact, for the tweeter folks out there- [...]
Player To Watch #8: Didier Drogba
Number 8: Didier Drogba Position: Forward Country: Ivory Coast Club Team: Chelsea FC, English Premier League American-Based Professional Athlete “Soulmate”: Adrian Peterson, RB, Minnesota Vikings Beyond the questions about South Africa’s post-Apartheid future, beyond the security concerns (now alleviated) about the possible visit of President Barack Obama, beyond the concerns about tourists being victims of [...]
Don’t Look Back!
This week saw the special one return to the scene of his greatest triumphs and further underlined why football has an infinite capacity not to reinvent itself but to endlessly recycle and regurgitate the same plot lines and twists as a daytime soap opera. This week alone, Mourinho’s return as the spurned lover triumphant was [...]
Player To Watch #19: Michael Essien
Number 19: Michael Essien Position: Central Midfielder Country: Ghana Club Team: Chelsea FC, English Premier League American-Based Professional Athlete “Soulmate”: Tony Parker, PG, San Antonio Spurs Murtaugh: See how easy that was? Boom, still alive. Now we question him. You know why we question him? Because I got him in the leg. I didn’t shoot [...]
