Happy Sunday, everyone. It’s USA-Jamaica, followed by Panama-El Salvador, tonight in the Gold Cup. Yesterday’s matches were quite entertaining, a penalties shootout between Honduras and Costa Rica that the Hondurans took 4-2 (1-1) and Mexico having to overcome an early goal by Guatemala to win 2-1. Just a quick look at the overnight news, and [...]
Archive for June, 2011
“If now they say that I and my role were treated openly and with honesty then that is hypocritical.” – Michael Ballack
Posted in Weekend Open Thread, tagged Sunday open thread on June 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“I don’t think our finishing has been as sharp as it can be.” – Bob Bradley
Posted in USMNT, Weekend Open Thread, tagged Jamaica, Saturday open thread, USMNT on June 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The USA will face Jamaica tomorrow at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. and to say that we’re now at the stage where every match is a referendum on Bob Bradley’s future as manager of this outfit is not an understatement. In the last FIFA rankings, Jamaica was 55th overall, the USA 22nd. It should be [...]
Your Weekend Preview: Unbridled Pessimism Edition
Posted in Champions League, CONCACAF Gold Cup, English Premier League, Europa League, General, League of Ireland, Matchday is for Homerism, MLS, Russian Premier League, UEFA Cup, USL, USMNT, Weekend Preview on June 17, 2011 | 4 Comments »
New England Revolution v. Chicago Fire S.C. (Saturday) Impotent. That’s really the only word to describe the Revolution’s offense. While they dominated their midweek match against Toronto, they never really came close to scoring. The 0-0 draw leaves New England with 11 goals from 15 matches- dead last in all of MLS. The draw also [...]
About Last Night
Posted in About Last Night, tagged AC Milan, Alex McLeish, Arsenal, Aston Villa, Birmingham City, Chelsea, Christian Zapata, English Premier League, Ever Banega, German National Team, Liverpool, Manchester United, Michael Ballack, Ron Gourlay, Sir Alex Ferguson, Stades Rennes, Sylvain Marveaux, The FA Cup, The Last Unicorn, Thiago Silva, Udinese, UEFA Champions League, Valencia, Wembley on June 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
What you missed while unicorns were coming back to life…
Striker Manager – The Private League
Posted in General, Soccer Video Games on June 16, 2011 | 8 Comments »
The Avoiding the Drop league is now available. In order to allow our readers the opportunity to play, we have created an invitation only league for up to 14 teams. (The maximum allowed by Striker Manager.)
The Thursday Challenge: Consulting Detective Edition
Posted in General, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on June 16, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Welcome. I think I’ve got some good questions for you this week- and that’s lucky because Andrew M. set a pretty high standard with his guest challenge last week! There’s a literature question, a question about crests, a geography question, and then what I think is a really, really mean question! If you haven’t participated [...]
Summertime Fun – Striker Manager : A Review – UPDATED
Posted in General, Off the Pitch, Soccer Video Games, Whimsy on June 16, 2011 | 13 Comments »
A number of our writers and commenters regularly play Football Manager and are quite successful in bringing a small club up through the ranks and into the EUFA Champion’s League. As with most games that are released each new season, there is a regular upgrade cost if you want access to the current teams/rosters. A [...]
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in English Premier League, FA Cup, General, Guest Post, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, Scottish Football League, The Football League, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on June 15, 2011 | 4 Comments »
How good was Andrew M.’s “guest challenge?” So good that only person who submitted his answers was Harry J., and even though he only got about half of the questions correct, he still thought Andrew did a great job. I think so too! Questions 2, 3, and 8 made me jealous that I hadn’t thought [...]
