Soundoff: Please Nominate Your “Under the Radar” Football/Soccer Blogs

By: Daryl | October 9th, 2009

stealth The internet is full of football blogs. Which is mostly a good thing. But one of the downsides to there being so very many football blogs is that there are only so many hours in the day. Even less in the workday, which is where most of the blog-reading gets done. As a result, only a certain number of blogs get the readership they deserve.

So I’d love to hear about blogs that deserve more attention than they’re currently getting. For example… last week I was doing research (by which I mean: typing words into Google) for the Use Football to Learn Languages post, and I discovered the joys of Futfanitco. The posts there are short, sharp, usually very very funny, and always full of excellent links. It has a readership. Definitely. But deserves more.

So what I’m asking from you, dear Offside readers, is to nominate blogs that are currently flying under the radar. More importantly, tell us why. Basically, try and persuade other people to give that blog a read.

Obviously it’s hard to set an upper limit here. Where lies the line between under the radar and on the radar. I don’t know. The radar doesn’t actually exist. It’s just a metaphor I borrowed. But as a rule of thumb, we can go by name recognition. If a blog gets mentioned a lot elsewhere, then it’s not worth mentioning on this post.

Now, I’ve been around the internet block a couple of times now. So I know that there are bloggers out there who will shamelessly nominate their own blog. Which is fine. I applaud your ballsiness. But, immodest blogger, please note: The same rule about explaining why someone should read the blog they nominate applies to you too. You have to say why it’s worth reading. If you just leave a link to your blog and no explanation, then I’m clicking the comment delete button. Maybe even the spam button. Don’t think I won’t. They’re right next to each other.

But enough preamble. Please nominate your under the radar blogs, and let everyone know why that blog deserves more attention.