Ross County F.C. v. Partick Thistle F.C. (Saturday) Five wins in a row and another week in first place- not much to complain about if you’re a Staggies supporter! There’s good news on the horizon too- joint top-scorer Steven Craig has this match and one more before his convoluted (and unfair!) red card suspension ends. [...]
Archive for November, 2011
The Thursday Challenge: Super Long Club Name Edition
Posted in English Premier League, Eredivisie, General, Homerism, League One, Matchday is for Homerism, MLS, MLS Playoffs, Ross County, Scottish Football League, Scottish Premier League, The Championship, The Football League, USMNT, Weekend Preview on November 4, 2011 | 5 Comments »
The Friday Funny
Posted in Friday Funny, tagged Los Angeles Galaxy, New York Redbulls, Rotweilers, Seattle Sounders on November 4, 2011 | Comments Off
The Thursday Challenge: Reasonably Obscure Edition
Posted in General, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on November 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Welcome back! This week I hopped in the Avoiding the Drop time machine in order to bring you a nice variety of questions from the halcyon days of football in the United Kingdom. There are questions about players, about kits, about clubs, about leagues, and one about a place that may only exist in fairy [...]
Major League Soccer Pick’Em – The Wild Card Is Over
Posted in MLS Pick'em, tagged Los Angeles Galaxy, Houston Dynamo, Seattle Sounders, New York Red Bulls, Real Salt Lake, Colorado Rapids, Philadelphia Union, Sporting Kansas City on November 2, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Welcome to this week’s Pick’Em! As the title indicates, the playoffs are now less confusing with the two Wild Card matches out of the way. Our current leader is Kevin with five total points combined between bracket picks and weekly winners. Read on after the jump to see how things are shaping up for you.
Jaguares and Twitter: Together Forever
Posted in Whimsy, tagged Club de Fútbol Jaguares de Chiapas, Mexican Primera Division on November 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Club de Fútbol Jaguares de Chiapas – or, if you prefer, just “Jaguares” – is an interesting story. Founded in 2002, the club hasn’t won anything yet, but is currently 2nd in the Mexican Primera Division. Reviewing their list of notable players, there’s nobody that jumps out as notable (Salvador Cabanas and Antonio Salazar have [...]
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in Blue Square Premier, English Premier League, General, League One, League Two, MLS, NASL, The Football League, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on November 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It was touch and go for a while there, but after three days without I now have lights, heat, and more importantly to the task at hand, internet access! Were it not for that last one this week’s answers I would have had to send telegrams to each and every reader to reveal the answers [...]
There’s still time!!
Posted in General on November 1, 2011 | 4 Comments »
…to submit your answers to this week’s “Thursday Challenge!!” In fact, you have almost eight more hours to get them done. For those of you on the West Coast there’s even time to waste some of your employer’s time as you search the interwebs for the answers! I won’t even make you scroll down to [...]
