All Entries Tagged With: "England"
Jekyll and Hide: Guy Bailey on the Three Lions EURO Campaign, and Becks Return?
By Guy Bailey Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish writer but his text on schizophrenia – the strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – was acted pitch perfectly by an England team in the space of 96 hours. Firstly, they dismantled an admitedly limited Bulgarian team in their own house on Friday with [...]
Les Bleus Turnaround May Be Nigh, Giuseppe Rossi’s Azzurri, and Other International Date Musings
By Neil W. Blackmon Today would have been a USMNT match day but as I noted yesterday, the Federation made the safe and correct call in cancelling the Yanks’ fixture against Egypt in Cairo. There were plenty of FIFA internationals on the menu however, and at least a few storylines worth visiting on this busy [...]
Puck’s Friday Happy Hour: Fun with EURO 2012 Qualifying Edition
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to another wonderful Happy Hour. Just in case anyone cared, and you probably don’t, I finally managed to get that hydride generation atomic fluorescence instrument up and running. I can now finally spend my time doing more important things like sitting at my desk and pretending to read “Chemical and Engineering [...]
Robert Green: England’s Bill Buckner
Bill Buckner was an all-star first baseman for five Major League Baseball teams including the LA Dodgers and the Boston Red Sox. He was the National League Batting Champion in 1981 and achieved over 2700 career hits in his 20 year career. All of this indicates a competent, reliable All-Star if not a million-dollar superstar [...]
USA/England Player Ratings
Before I dive into the player rankings, here are three quick thoughts on the Yanks World Cup opening draw with the Three Lions Saturday in Rustenburg, and what we might look for as Bradley’s men try to secure three critical points Friday against Slovenia at Johannesburg’s famed Ellis Park. The United States deserved a point. [...]
USA/England Live Coverage
The Yanks Are Coming’s Dan and Neil will be tweeting live from The Brewhouse Cafe in Atlanta, GA. If you are in the area, we’d love for you to join us, watch some incredible soccer and pound beers. If you are new to the site, Neil is nwb_USMNT and Dan runs the YanksAreComing Twitter account. [...]
Tomorrow Arrives Today For U.S. Soccer
In a country where less than two decades ago, you needed Univision or an all Italian-station if you lived in the Tri-State Area to watch club football; it is safe to say tomorrow is finally here. In a country where just over two decades ago Paul Caliguiri found the back of the net against Trinidad [...]
Puck’s Happy Hour: The Wait Is Over
After months and months or waiting, it is finally here. This morning at 10AM EST the 2010 World Cup began with “Bafana Bafana” hosting the Mexicans. Later on in the day, Uruguay and France will compete in a match that will play a huge role in who advances out of Group A. While this is [...]
Group C Preview
Christmas came early this December for the Yanks, who avoided the “Group of Death” (another group like 2006 and 2002 would have at least arguably represented a third straight ticket to the Finals’ toughest group) and drew England, Algeria and the Cup’s smallest competing nation, Slovenia. Without question, it is a challenging group—but for perhaps [...]
A Soccer Fan’s Christmas: USA/England
This feels weird. It’s been so long since I’ve written a match preview for a game that didn’t have the term “friendly” attached to it. I now get to scrap position battle analysis and confidence building run outs in favor of a match where the actual result is the only thing that matters?! Hallelujah! The [...]
