All Entries Tagged With: "Everton"
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 [...]
Landon to Man City: Makes Sense, Just maybe not For Landon
Within the last 48 hours, my favorite EPL team, Manchester City (called Blankcheckster City by fans of other less kick-ass EPL sides) and their scarf wearing, meatball eating coach Roberto Mancini have confirmed their interest in signing [Landon Donovan during the summer transfer window. This comes directly on the heels of MLS commissioner Dan Garber’s [...]
Deconstructing The Donovan Debacle
With his tenure at Everton set to end in less than a week, buzz surrounding Landon Donovan’s desire to extend his loan an extra month has reached a boiling point. While myriad Everton supporters and USMNT fans alike are calling for Donovan to stay with the Toffees, Donovan’s reputation as a man of high character [...]
You Stay Classy, Evertonia
When I fired up my coffee maker on Saturday, my every intent was to sit down and share my thoughts on Landon Donovan winning Everton’s Player of the Month award for January; however, I failed to factor in the distraction of an absolutely scintillating morning of football featuring our man of the hour. In his [...]
The Ballad of Landon Donovan
Dear TYAC Reader, I have a confession to make. I have, in the past, been critical of Landon Donovan. Not his play, as I’ve always loved him on the field, but his decision to stay in MLS always baffled me. I was under the belief that he was complacent, happy to be the big fish [...]
Getcha Popcorn Ready
Here at The Yanks Are Coming we generally refrain from previewing club soccer games, but this weekend’s matchup is so good and so relevant to USMNT fans that we had to issue a “heads up” at the very least. Let’s be honest, this matchup is so interesting for U.S.A. fans such as myself that it [...]
Donovan: One Of Moyes’ Boys
Landon Donovan began the new year by trading in the sun of southern California for the snow of north London. In his first Premiership outing, the 27-year-old on-loan Yank was dropped into a heavy match in even heavier weather conditions. Lando was unlucky enough to draw a starting spot against Arsenal in conditions nasty enough [...]
A Defense of Donovan
An Open Letter to the Misinformed, not informed, ignorant and wayward legions of Landon haters Alike First, I can’t even believe I’m writing this post. It’s unbelievable to me that it is even necessary. I had hoped to start the Yanks are Coming’s list of 32 players to watch in the 2010 World Cup tonight, [...]
