While the transfer market has been a bit non-descript thus far, the managerial domino pattern just keeps picking up speed. Here is the latest: Wigan Athletic – It appears that they have targeted Swansea City’s Roberto Martinez. Martinez had been mentioned for the Celtic post, as well, but apparently, that may have been settled. Celtic [...]
Archive for June 5th, 2009
The managerial merry-go-round continues to spin
Posted in News, tagged Atalanta, Celtic, Galatasaray, Newcastle, Palermo, Port Vale, Reading, Tranmere Rovers, Wigan on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One team’s shirts are still insured, but insurance does nothing about an ugly shirt
Posted in Football Shirts, Whimsy, tagged Blackburn, Burnley, Everton, Italy, Nigeria, Sunderland, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham, Wolverhampton Wanderers on June 5, 2009 | 9 Comments »
That team of course being Manchester United, as we announced Wednesday, however we won’t see Aon replace AIG till next season, so we’ll still see their lovely logo and I have a feeling no matter what it looks like, they won’t sell nearly as well in the US next year as in years past. However [...]
Your Weekend Preview: Hiberno-Norwegian American Edition
Posted in League of Ireland, MLS, Weekend Preview, Western Mass Pioneers on June 5, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Houston Dynamo v. Chicago Fire S.C. (Friday) This is one of those matches, like a few I previewed last week, that didn’t look all that interesting early in the season. But, here we are looking at a match between the best team in the east (Chicago) and the second best team in the west (Houston). [...]
World Cup Qualifiers: Previews For the Only Games I Can Watch
Posted in World Cup 2010 on June 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Of the three major soccer channels available in the US, I subscribe to two: Fox Soccer Channel and GolTV. Both of them are on the AT&T U-Verse 400-channel offering (I watch those two channels and HBO stuff OnDemand pretty much exclusively; I’d be fine getting rid of everything but maybe 15 channels, but I’d actually [...]
About Last Night
Posted in About Last Night, tagged AC Milan, Chivas USA, Cristiano Ronaldo, Dan Kennedy, Don't Polka Dead Genre, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Silvio Berlusconi on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What you missed while the accordions were crying over the loss of an era…
