I hope everyone enjoyed Harry J.’s guest challenge last week- it certainly generated a great deal of interest, excitement, and not a little frustration among the commenters so it must have been good! Congratulations to Noah B. who found and answered all of the questions correctly, and our own Andrew B. who only missed two [...]
Archive for August, 2011
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in General, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on August 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
About Last Night
Posted in About Last Night, tagged Anton Ferdinand, Arsenal, AS Monaco, Bolton, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Brighton & Hove Albion, Bryan Ruiz, Chelsea, Chicago Fire, Chievo, Christian Poulsen, David N'Gog, Davide Santon, Diego Lugano, Dismembered Feet in Vancouver, Eljero Elia, Evian, Fabian Johnson, FC Dallas, FC Twente, Fenerbahce, Fulham, Hamburg, Hoffenheim, Joe Cole, Juventus, Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, Liverpool, LOSC Lille Metropole, Luis Suarez, Manchester City, Manchester United, Michael Bradley, Nacional, Newcastle, Owen Hargreaves, Paris Saint-Germain, Park Chu-young, Per Mertesacker, Queens Park Rangers, Richmond Kickers, Roman Pavlyuchenko, Romelu Lukaku, Seattle Sounders, Sebastian Coates, Simon Kjaer, Steve Bruce, Stoke City, Stuart Holden, Sunderland, Tottenham Hotspur, USMNT, Valencia, VfL Wolfsburg, Vicente, Wayne Rooney, Werder Bremen on August 31, 2011 | 4 Comments »
What you missed while your foot was heading to Vancouver…
All the news from Dingwall…
Posted in General, Homerism, News, Ross County, Scottish Football League, The Scottish Cup on August 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
There were a few pieces of good news coming out of the Highlands this week. The first is that County picked up an away point in their weekend match against Falkirk F.C.- and former County goalkeeper Mick McGovern. Three points seemed to be on offer for the Staggies until an 87th minute strike from Falkirk’s [...]
About Last Night
Posted in About Last Night on August 30, 2011 | 10 Comments »
What you missed while your goat rescue was being cunningly thwarted…
Premier League Winners & Losers: Matchday #3
Posted in Winners & Losers, tagged English Premier League, Winners & Losers on August 29, 2011 | 4 Comments »
True confession time: I only watched about twenty minutes of the Manchester United-Arsenal match yesterday. Sad but true; my wife’s family came into town for a visit yesterday afternoon, so I only got to see that much of the game before I got called away to other duties. In fact, when I left that game [...]
“There’s no such thing as a mild concussion, it’s like saying you’re mildly pregnant” – Taylor Twellman
Posted in Weekend Open Thread on August 28, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Yesterday we saw what is likely the most high profile head injury in soccer to date. Didier Drogba suffered a “mild” concussion against Norwich City, apparently losing consciousness for a while. His status for the immediate future is uncertain, but this will surely start a debate about the urgency of addressing head injuries in the [...]
“A lot of hard work went into this defeat” – Malcolm Allison
Posted in Weekend Open Thread on August 27, 2011 | 3 Comments »
In the past few years the transfer window has been completely transformed from one breed of crazy animal to a much crazier, dumber, and irresponsible animal than ever imagined by any number of bad Val Kilmer movies. I’m not talking about the influx of oil money to Manchester City or PSG, or the ever increasing [...]
Your Weekend Preview: The Kid Stays In The Picture Edition
Posted in English Premier League, Eredivisie, Europa League, General, Homerism, Matchday is for Homerism, MLS, Ross County, Scottish Football League, Scottish Premier League, Serie A, USMNT, Weekend Preview on August 26, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Ross County F.C. v. Falkirk F.C. (Saturday) What a difference a week makes- or even three or four days! A league win and a League Cup win in quick succession and suddenly that 0-1-1 start doesn’t look all that bad. It’s still early days, but it could be that all of the off season signings [...]
Your Friday Funny
Posted in Friday Funny, tagged Ipswich, Norwich City on August 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Welcome to what I am hoping will become a weekly feature here. Each Friday morning, there will be one soccer related joke, riddle, pun, story, etc that will make you grin (at a minimum) or hopefully laugh so hard your workmates will want to know what your reading.
