All Entries Tagged With: "Manchester United"
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 [...]
Puck’s Friday Happy Hour: MLS All-Star Game Edition
Loyal readers, I hope your last few days of work have not been as stressful as mine. I don’t know exactly what has happened over the last week, but several contributing writers for “the greatest blog of all time” have decided that they needed to take some time off. Some people have actually been working [...]
Jackleg: Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo is a lot of things: elite soccer player, prima donna, lady’s man, jackleg. Many of my colleagues here at The Yanks Are Coming hate Ronaldo and have hated him for years. Blame this on the fact that he was a Man U player and that he takes dives, whines a lot, and has [...]
