All Entries Tagged With: "Everton"
As Dust Settles on Galaxy’s MLS Cup Win- We Ask- What’s Next For Landon Donovan, David Beckham?
Connor Walsh In the immediate aftermath of Los Angeles’ decisive MLS Cup victory over Houston Dynamo, much was made of what was next for David Beckham? Was this truly the end of the Beckham experiment? With PSG lurking and Beckham hoping to play in the 2012 Olympics– opinions varied- but general sentiment was (and is) [...]
Why Is MLS Sides Losing To Big Teams Good? Humble Pie.
By Andrew Villegas People looking to glean some sort of noble truth about the MLS by how it performs against heavyweights in their preseason are often met with a scoff and a few spoken caveats: It’s preseason, and the players have come a long way – often just returning back to playing form – for [...]
Cherundolo Falls Short of Champions League, Everton Owns Manchester City and more Yanks Abroad
by Dru Boyer Brad Friedel made a save in a 1-1 draw with Wigan at Villa Park. MB0 was active, but did not appear…kinda like the ghosts on Ghost Hunters, or am I the only one that watches that show? Mystery remains open as to where the Favre of Villa Park will land next season. [...]
Pounding Capri-Suns and Hi-C’s: Your Americanized Weekend Preview
By Neil W. Blackmon In the wake of a busy midweek featuring more MLS roster-shuffling, the return of Charlie Davies and of course Champions League and Europa tilts, we have an FA Cup weekend in England highlighting a less than full, but still juicy, slate of soccer action across the pond. Everyone that comes to [...]
Liverpool’s Resurgence, Moyes’ Future at Everton, Dempsey’s Heroics and Other Musings
By Neil W. Blackmon Monday was a travel day for your Editor-In-Chief and he ran into a computer crisis this weekend (story too long and absolutely irrelevant to your life to tell), so I thought I’d link a few pieces and provide some commentary on the weekend that was and the “what’s to come” during [...]
Puck’s Friday Happy Hour: Thank You Brian McBride Edition
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back to another Happy Hour. The majority of this past week I’ve been in the lab working on the “flux capacitor.” While it’s been a struggle trying to generate enough power to hit the magical 1.21 gigawatts, I am making some progress. My advisor walked in just the other day and [...]
Puck’s Friday Happy Hour: What Our Writers REALLY did on vacation Edition
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back into another lovely Happy Hour. I can’t wait for the weekend to begin. Down in Yanks Are Coming country, the Gators host LSU , so the bars will be much more crowded than they are all year, which is an enormous disad to allowing me and the gang more room [...]
Yanks Abroad: Week of September 13-19
Rangers @ Man U. 9/14/10 Mo Edu and the Gers went to Old Trafford and came away with a 0-0 draw in the Champions League match. The Gers next two Champions League matches will be in the cozy confines of Ibrox. Walter Smith, the Rangers’ manager, went with a 5-4-1 heavy defensive look in the [...]
Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Ryan Giggs
Survival kit contents check. In them you’ll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days’ concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs [...]
How An Everton Hater Ended up Loving Tim Cahill
Editor’s Note: This is the first of a series of pieces on “Teams we loathe with players we love.” I truly hate Everton. I’m not a Liverpool fan, and I loathe the other half of Merseyside. This hatred seems a bit odd coming from a Manchester City fan. Sure, there were much more obvious choices [...]
