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Toronto FC Supporters welcome Cuauhtemoc Blanco to MLS
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Their arms properly warmed up after the great seat cover toss, Toronto FC supporters greeted the Chicago Fire’s import Cuauhtemoc Blanco with love and affection during his MLS debut this weekend. A Mexican player being pelted by streamers by Canadian fans while playing for an American team. Clearly NAFTA is working. What [...]
Get thee to the Sin Bin
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Watching a montage of football players flopping, diving and feigning injury is cause for some mirth, but there are some that would like to rid the sport of such behavior and thus deprive YouTube of half of its videos. The idea of sending cheating footballers to a sin bin during a match is hardly [...]
Boca Juniors Considers Starting an MLS Expansion Team
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Add another name into the possible MLS expansion mix. After touring around the United States as part of their preseason preparations, Argentine giants Boca Juniors are reportedly interested in starting their own team in MLS – Boca Juniors USA.
Gianluigi Buffon’s ‘Common Assault’
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Tis the season for meaningless friendlies where teams like Newcastle United and Juventus go through the motions as their players try to work off their summer hangovers. Apparently Juventus keeper Gianluigi Buffon didn’t get the message about the relaxed vibes as you can see from the smack down he laid on Newcastle young gun [...]
Alex can’t beat Airport Security Defense
By: Bob | 1 Comment
First they made us take off our shoes. Then they took away our lighters and breast milk. And now airport security is getting in the way of football transfers. After getting the security run around at Heathrow airport in London, Chelsea target Alex decided he’d rather take his bags and fly back [...]
Daily Dose 07.31.07
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Some stories to read while you remember to use punctuation!!!!
Time to get serious about the great hair debate (Roma Offside)
The Milwaukee MLS race track stadium might not be too bad after all (Pitch Invasion)
100 WAGS, some of them are hot (Totally Crap)
Five underrated US players (Football is for the Madman)
Get to know the teams in [...]
Category: World FootballMilwaukee MLS Group Mulling Soccer Pitch inside a NASCAR track
By: Bob | 7 Comments
If you’ve tuned into some MLS games you know that despite the best efforts of supporters groups the stadiums sometimes sound quieter than a morgue. A potential expansion team in Milwaukee could leap to the top of the list of the noisiest stadium in the league. That’s because they want to have the [...]
Category: MLSYes, you can bet on the Homeless World Cup
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Even with my beloved Kazakhstan playing in last year’s final, I have had a hard time getting into the Homeless World Cup. It is not that I don’t admire the homeless athletes who are trying to improve their lives through soccer. Rather, it is because I haven’t been able to cash in on [...]
Category: World FootballA Celtic Leeds by any other name
By: Bob | 2 Comments
Pity the poor folks at Farsley Celtic. The club has been promoted to the Blue Square Premier league in England and yet nobody knows who the bloody hell they are. It has nothing to do with the fact that they are playing in a lower level league with the likes of Altrincham, Crawley [...]
Category: EnglandFIFA 08 Release Date
By: Bob | 48 Comments
Ok you thumb jockeys. Today is a big day in soccer video game news. September 28 is the date to circle on your calendar. That is the official launch for FIFA 08, which promises to have all kinds of features that are too complicated for me to even comprehend but which you [...]
Category: World FootballReal Madrid are eager to dance with Kaka
By: Bob | 5 Comments
Remember that really cute girl in middle school who you always wanted to ask to the dance but who wouldn’t even give you the time of the day? Day after day you would sneak a glimpse at her out of the corner of your eye, secretly hoping that she might notice you. Day [...]
Daily Dose 07.30.07
By: Bob | 5 Comments
Some stories to read while you finally become an eagle scout….
Argentina’s U-20 team acting like, well, teenagers (Super-Na)
Going, going, gone…player auctioned off (People’s Daily)
C-Ron is the new Becks (Times)
There’s a reason Beckham hasn’t been on The Simpsons (Now Magazine)
Thierry Henry’s family target of kidnap plot (News of the World)
Pity the wasp that attacks Oliver Kahn [...]
Category: World FootballMLS Week 17 Review: Normal Service Will Be Restored Shortly
By: Daryl | 2 Comments
Week 17 was the last week of summer in MLS. The international friendlies done and dusted, there’s just the inaugural SuperLiga group games in the way of a return to the regular season. Hard to say too much about the SuperLiga because it’s not on any TV channels I can watch (though there are some [...]
Transfer Talk: Sven’s Summer Shopping ‘Til The Transfer Window’s Dropping
By: Daryl | 1 Comment
Sven Goran-Eriksson isn’t finished doing deals at Manchester City with Thaksin Shinawatra’s money. He’ll have to put up with his Thai boss offering trials to Thai players he’s never heard of, but apart form that the Swede seems free to spend as he pleases. He’s now after Marseille’s Nigerian left back Taye Taiwo and young [...]
Category: World FootballHawk-Eye Heading For The Premiership
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Paul Hawkins has a contract to develop his Hawk-Eye thingamajiggy for future use in the Premiership. The system does not – repeat not – involve Roy Keane holding a bird’s beak over his eyeball (if anyone can explain that image, please do.) It’s more of a cameras and computers approach to ball tracking. He’s working [...]
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