I’m saving my World Soccer Daily rant for later in the week, because I’m still trying to form coherent thoughts on what I want to say. So for now, just know there’s a rant coming. I should also say that I’m disgusted and horrified at the attacks on Calum Davenport of West Ham United and [...]
Archive for August, 2009
“Achilles tendon injuries are a pain in the butt.” – David O’Leary
Posted in Weekend Open Thread, tagged Special One, Sunday open thread on August 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
“Not only has he shown Junior Lewis the red card, but he’s sent him off.” – Chris Kamara
Posted in Weekend Open Thread, tagged Saturday open thread on August 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
With Serie A kicking off this weekend, and La Liga being ready to go next weekend, the season is almost in full swing. The other good news is that Argentina’s league has been able to kick off, and yesterday saw Newell’s Old Boys (my World Football Manager team!) defeat Independiente, and Godoy defeated Gimnasia. In [...]
Your Weekend Preview: “You’ve been promoted!” Edition
Posted in CONCACAF Champions League, English Premier League, MLS, Ross County, Scottish Football League, Serie A, The Championship, Weekend Preview, tagged AC Milan, Birmingham City, Burnley, Chicago Fire, Chivas USA, Colorado Rapids, DC United, Everton, FC Dallas, Houston Dynamo, Kansas City Wizards, LA Galaxy, Manchester City, MLS, New England Revolution, New York Red Bulls, Seattle Sounders, Stoke City, Wolverhampton Wanderers on August 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Los Angeles Galaxy v. D.C. United (Saturday) I will be stunned if Los Angeles does not win this match. I don’t want them to, but they will. They are as hot as any team in MLS has been this season (only one loss since the end of June) and they are going up against a [...]
Fantasy Preview: Keep Calm and Carry On
Posted in Fantasy Premier League, tagged Cesc Fabregas, Dider Drogba, English Premier League, Fantasy Premier League on August 21, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Each week I’ll be taking a look at a few fantasy players you might want to drop, and a few fantasy players you might want to pick up, as well as some talk about tactics. Don’t Freak Out: The one thing people seem to love to do in the first week is freak out when [...]
Where’s Your Ronaldo Now?
Posted in English Premier League, tagged Burnley, Manchester United on August 21, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, Manchester United lost 1-0 to Burnley. There’s not really a way to sugarcoat that for Manchester United fans, nor a way to overemphasize how happy Burnley fans (many of whom were at the stadium for free) must be with their team’s success. This win also means that Burnley has now taken down every top [...]
About Last Night
Posted in About Last Night, tagged Adrian Leijer, Adriano, Argentine Football Association, Argentine Primera Division, Brazilian National Team, Chelsea, Cristiano Ronaldo, Daniel Agger, Europa League, Fabio, Flamengo, Frank Lampard, Fulham, Hard to Find Good Help, Joleon Lescott, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Melbourne Victory, Rio Ferdinand, Sigma Olomouc, Yuri Zhirkov on August 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What you missed while being shocked that your online sex slaves might be extorting money from you…
MLS Pick’Em: Week 23
Posted in MLS Pick'em, tagged MLS, MLS Pick'em on August 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Ok, we’re not going to lie, we’ve been pretty bad about this lately. I blame the start of the Primera Divisió season in Andorra for all that (we’re all REAL big fans). Ok, no we’re just slackers, we missed a game last night too (bonus points for all for that one!) and we’re about an [...]
Thursday Challenge: Yes, I am this evil.
Posted in General, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on August 20, 2009 | 43 Comments »
This week’s challenge is very straight forward, and very difficult. Take a moment, get yourself a beverage and a snack, and maybe even some of what old people call “scratch paper,” and join me after the jump, won’t you?
The World According to Actim: Matchday 1
Posted in Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, The World According to Actim, tagged Actim Index on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the new features we’re planning on unveiling for the 2009-10 Premier League season is a weekly analysis of the Actim Index. We first started talking about the Actim Index back in June, when all the information we had to go on was the season’s end review. Actim actually updates that information after every [...]
