England’s worst winter weather in quite some time is playing havoc with the Barclay’s Premier League. The country has been hit with snow and freezing temperatures over the last few weeks, and despite the fact that my homeland was able to survive continual bombing during World War 2, apparently moving snow off of roads needed [...]
Archive for January, 2010
“It’s end to end stuff, but from side to side.” – Trevor Brooking
Posted in Weekend Open Thread, tagged Saturday open thread on January 9, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Let’s Talk About Turf Conditioning
Posted in English Premier League, tagged Whimsy on January 8, 2010 | 6 Comments »
One of the things I actually get paid to do in my office is run radiant heat load calculations for one of the product lines I represent. See, in my day-to-day work, I’m a sales representative for about ten different hydronic heating product lines, one of which is a radiant tubing company. Typically, we do [...]
Your Weekend Preview: Depending on the Weather Edition
Posted in English Premier League, League One, League Two, MLS, Scottish Premier League, Serie A, The Championship, The Football League, Weekend Preview on January 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Northampton Town F.C. v. Chesterfield F.C. (Saturday) With every other League Two match for this weekend already called off I thought I’d shine a light on the one that is still going to take place- though the Cobblers website is calling for volunteers to help shovel snow off the pitch, so nothing is certain at [...]
About Last Night
Posted in About Last Night, tagged Andrea Dossena, Arsenal, Burnley, Chievo, Everton, Financial Disasters, Fulham, Internazionale, KILLER JELLYFISH!, Landon Donovan, Liverpool, Manchester United, Mario Balotelli, Marouane Chamakh, Match Postponements, Napoli, Nemanja Vidic, Portsmouth, Serie B, Sol Campbell, Stoke City, Torino, Tottenham on January 8, 2010 | 4 Comments »
What you missed while UFOs (aka “jellyfish”) were popping up on an Antarctic expedition’s camera…
Aris Thessaloniki: The U.S. Embassy of Greek Soccer
Posted in Transfers, USMNT, tagged Aris Thessaloniki, Eddie Johnson, Freddy Adu, Greek Superleague, USMNT on January 7, 2010 | 3 Comments »
One of the stories from today’s “About Last Night” involves former U.S. wonderkid Freddy Adu. Adu, who’s primarily plied his trade in Portugal and France, turned down a chance to move to Hull City and the Premiership for a shot at the Greek Superleague. This decision, frankly, shows either a stunning lack of ambition or [...]
World Cup Chatter – The England goalkeeper situation
Posted in World Cup 2010, tagged Ben Foster, David James, England national team, Joe Hart, Paul Robinson, Robert Green, Scott Carson, World Cup 2010 on January 7, 2010 | 5 Comments »
With just 154 days left until the start of World Cup 2010, it seems a good time to begin the discussions of certain elements left to be decided. We’re all keenly aware of the first match for a couple of our favourite sides, but the distinct difference between the USA and England at this point [...]
The Thursday Challenge: Ice Show Edition!?
Posted in Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on January 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This week’s challenge is a simple question:
About Last Night
Posted in About Last Night, tagged Aris Thessaloniki, Asian Cup, Australian National Team, Aziz Ansah, Birmingham City, Bobby Zamora, Bolton, Burnley, Chinese National Team, FC Dallas, Fernando Torres, Financial Disasters, Freddy Adu, Fulham, Fun with the Large Hadron Collider, Gao Hongbo, Gonzalo Higuain, Greek Superleague, Heartland, Kenwyne Jones, Kuwaiti National Team, Liverpool, Owen Coyle, Pepe Reina, Peter Storrie, Portsmouth, Real Madrid, Ryan Babel, Stoke City, Sunderland on January 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »
What you missed while the Large Hadron Collider was finally starting to ram some protons together…
Last Call: GMAC Bowl Excitement time!
Posted in Last Call on January 6, 2010 | 56 Comments »
If you’re like me, you’re pretty excited for tonight. Troy faces off against Central Michigan. Ok, I’m not excited either, but it’s better than watching Jay Leno make bad jokes he’s been recycling for the last 15 years. I was really hoping that lowercase had written a preview of the bowl so I could steal [...]
Trickle-down Soccernomics: An Update
Posted in Commentary, Financials, General, Off the Pitch, Western Mass Pioneers on January 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Well, just like that, everything is solved- at least for 2010. According to today’s press release USL-1 and NASL will compete as separate divisions of the same league this summer (including inter-league play and a championship match between the two divisions) all under the watchful of the USSF. Both sides will use the breathing space [...]
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