It would appear that many of our readers are now getting a vibe for the teams of Major League Soccer. Last week Ryan was almost perfect with seven out of eight picks correct. Epiblast was good for six correct picks and more than a half-dozen of you got five out of the eight correct. There [...]
Archive for April, 2010
MLS Pick’Em – Week 5
Posted in MLS, MLS Pick'em, tagged Chicago Fire, Chivas USA, Colorado Rapids, Columbus Crew, DC United, FC Dallas, Houston Dynamo, Kansas City Wizards, Los Angeles Galaxy, New England Revolution, New York Red Bulls, Philadelphia Union, Real Salt Lake, San Jose Earthquakes, Seattle Sounders, Toronto FC on April 21, 2010 | 21 Comments »
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in Bundesliga, English Premier League, Eredivisie, General, La Liga, League of Ireland, MLS, Scottish Premier League, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses, World Cup 2010 on April 21, 2010 | 16 Comments »
So Andrew M. slaves away on the internets to bring us this very special challenge…and nobody steps up to take it? In the words of my father, “I’m not mad…I’m just disappointed.” Nevertheless, here are the answers:
No quote today, I’m a bit shattered
Posted in Weekend Open Thread, tagged Sunday open thread on April 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
It’s been a long week for me. I did 74 countable work hours in the past six days, and to say I’m knackered would be a bit of an understatement. There’s a big project at work that’s now been interupted by both an earthquake and a volcano eruption, so I sat through eight hours of [...]
“OK, so we lost, but good things can come from it; negative and positive.” – Glenn Hoddle
Posted in Weekend Open Thread, tagged Saturday open thread on April 17, 2010 | 14 Comments »
It’s an odd occurrence when a day like this happens so late in the season in England. There are two bookend matches today that are monstrous in their impact on the table. Both matches are derby matches. Both matches feature sides in direct competition for the league title and the all-important fourth and final Champions [...]
The World Cup Shirt Review: Group A
Posted in Football Shirts, World Cup 2010, tagged France, Mexico, South Africa, Uruguay, World Cup 2010, World Cup Shirts on April 16, 2010 | 7 Comments »
For the next few weeks, every Friday I’ll be previewing the shirts for the 2010 World Cup group by group, today we look at Group A. This is a group with some heavy hitters marketing wise, you’ve got the hosts, who obviously want to impress. France always does well internationally. Mexico has a rather large [...]
Coming Out of the Closet with Fuse: Scotland!!
Posted in Commentary, FIFA, Football Shirts, General, Homerism, Off the Pitch, USMNT, Whimsy on April 20, 2010 | 4 Comments »
This was the first Scottish National Team shirt I ever purchased. Given how important a purchase this was for me you can imagine my consternation when, at first, I really wasn’t sure where or when I’d gotten my greedy little hands on it! Thankfully, some detective work on my part helped me to narrow things [...]
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