All Entries Tagged With: "Soccer"
MLS Rewind: Nightcap Edition
I want to act surprised after watching the Red Bulls go down to Chivas USA, but the turnaround from last year is obviously not perfect. New York still has a few problems, the likes of which the Goats revealed on Saturday. Macoumba Kandji was MIA for most of the match, miles away from his performance [...]
Orwell United
I was and remain a huge Smiths fan and like any wide-eyed zealot I would look to shoehorn in references to my idol’s lyrics and ideas where none already existed and to use any passing similarity, no matter how oblique, to justify the universality of their brilliance. Using any excuse to slip their lyrics into [...]
MLS Rewind: Week Two
Quite the weekend for sports, Yanks fans. Butler looks to complete their Cinderella story tonight on a high note against the Blue Devils of Duke for the 2010 Championship. The UConn women’s team won their 5739th straight came by a meager 20 points to advance to play Stanford for the title Tuesday night. The Sox [...]
You Play To Win (Most Of) The Games!
As many of our valued readers know, I, Jon Levy, am a West Ham fan. It is my cross to bear, and even in the team’s current end-of-days scenario with relegation threatening, I still get excited for Hammers games, hoping I’m going to see Sandro Diamanti do something brilliant or Carlton Cole out-muscle an entire [...]
What Is The Definition Of A Fan?
What is the definition of a fan? What differentiates an obsessive and a keen observer? What criteria do you have to pass before being let into a soccer-showing pub? Should there be a multiple-choice question on the doors that you have to pass so you don’t make an ass of yourself inside by asking “Why isn’t [...]
History Of The World Cup (1958)
This is the sixth in a weekly series of World Cup history lessons brought to you by our very own “Professor” Guy Bailey. He is not actually a professor; the only professor on staff is Jamie Clary. Well, sort of. The 1958 World Cup The venue of the 1958 World Cup was Sweden which infuriated [...]
AFC Forever, Franchise Never
With the Portsmouth FC saga going from tragedy to farce this week when it was revealed that every player was going to be sold or released and that next season’s team would be recruited primarily through free transfers, garage sales, charitable donations and open casting, like managing a lower level club in Worldwide Soccer Manager, [...]
1996 Seems So Long Ago
With the players and owners in agreement and the 15th MLS season upon us, complacency is coming at soccer fans like an unskilled, college defender. Let us remember that we have not always had this level of soccer in the U.S., and it wasn’t easy getting here. There were some extremely dark days. The lights [...]
Ranking MLS Soccer Stadiums
I’m sick and tired of defending Major League Soccer. In conversations pertaining to athletics, most people lose faith in my sports knowledge when I even casually mention the word “soccer.” Soccer? You’re joking, right? At this point, my buddies take a good three to four minutes to bash the game they don’t fully understand. It’s [...]
Soccer And The Lost Art Of Running
Recently, it has come to my attention that people throw around the word “hate” a little too casually. I hate her. I hate him. I hate Wayne Rooney. Really? Do you really detest this certain person that much? I don’t think so. So it gives me great pleasure (or displeasure, I can’t decide) to talk [...]
