All Entries Tagged With: "Manchester United"
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 [...]
LA Galaxy Have the Look of A Classic Super Club- But Can They Finish?
By Sean McElroy The Los Angeles Galaxy have a true abundance of riches. They have two of the best goalkeepers in MLS, Donovan Ricketts and Josh Suanders. They possess a back line of young, promising (and I might add, mostly American) players, notably Sean Franklin, Omar Gonzalez, and AJ DelaGarza, mixed in with the veteran [...]
Puck’s Saturday In America: Previewing the Champions League Group Stages Edition
By Puck Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back into the Happy Hour. Or, more appropriately- Saturday in America– where there is nothing better to do than crack open a cold one of your choosing and bask in the glory that is the mighty US of A. My apologies for bringing nothing to the table last week, [...]
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 [...]
Puck’s Friday Happy Hour: People You’d Want to Party With, Part II Edition
Arrivederci, Yanks and Yankettes!! Yeah, I’m starting strong with Aldo Raine links. Welcome back into another Happy Hour. Before moving to the actual “Happy” part of the Happy Hour, I of course must mention the absolute dismantling that took place to my beloved Blankcheckster City at the hands of Liverpool last Monday. For those of [...]
Holden’s Heroics, Dempsey’s BBC Award, Tevez, and Other Musings
The wonderful thing about being a soccer fan, particularly one based in the United States, is that no matter the time of the year, there’s always a soccer season. There’s no quiet period, even in the week and a half leading up to Christmas, where all that you really have going elsewhere is regular season [...]
Jon Spector: The Creation of A Midfielder
Some midfielders are born to play the position. Barcelona and Spain’s Ballon D’or winner Xavi comes to mind. There’s plenty to say about a player like Xavi, who was seemingly handed the keys to the middle of the pitch at birth. But that’s not a topic for me to tackle, not today anyway. No, today [...]
Fan Frustration, West Ham Expectation, and the Carling Cup
Hello, my name’s Jon, and I’m a big sports fan. I feel I can open up to you, so I’ll expand a little on this topic. I like sports for many reasons, but for our purposes here today, let’s just focus on one. Suffice it to say that part of what I love about sports [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
