Around this time every year, UEFA peels back the curtain on their finances and lets the public in on their payment structure. That means that around this time every year, we take some time to look over the info and break it down a bit (past installments are here and here). This year, UEFA’s a [...]
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Out in Europe, Spending Euros: UEFA’s 2010-11 Financial Distributions
Posted in Champions League, Europa League, Financials, UEFA, tagged Europa League, Finance, UEFA Champions League on August 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »
BREAKING NEWS: Avoiding The Drop Signs First Player
Posted in Financials, General, Homerism, Introductions, News, Off the Pitch, Official Site Business, Ross County, Scottish Football League, Scottish Premier League, Transfers on July 5, 2011 | 15 Comments »
After several days of intense negotiations and at an expenditure of several hundreds of pounds, ATD F.C. has signed its first player- pacey midfielder Mark “Coco” Corcoran. For the duration of the 2011-2012 season Avoiding the Drop will be Corcoran’s “Matchday Programme Sponsor” as he competes for Ross County F.C. in the Scottish First Division. [...]
The Thursday Challenge: Nerve Tonic Edition
Posted in Financials, Football Shirts, General, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on May 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, there is a theme that runs through these shirt sponsor-based questions- but it stops after the fifth question, so don’t wear yourself out trying to figure out what the other five questions have to do with carbonated, non-alcoholic beverages. As usual I’ve done my best to throw you a few softballs (questions 2, 6, [...]
The State of the Game: USWNT and WPS
Posted in Commentary, CONCACAF Gold Cup, Financials, General, Homerism, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, MLS, News, Off the Pitch, They've Fallen, USMNT, World Cup Qualifiers, WPS on May 10, 2011 | 12 Comments »
Yesterday morning, when the final U.S. roster for this summer’s Women’s World Cup was released some of you were probably too busy Tweeting about how long the line was at Starbuck’s to even notice- I was doing the laundry. I only found out that it had happened because an old coaching colleague emailed me to [...]
Our First Reader/Commenters Survey
Posted in Commentary, English Premier League, Financials, First Timers, General, Guest Post, Homerism, Introductions, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, Mailbag, MLS, News, Off the Pitch, Official Site Business, Power Poll, Ross County, Scottish Football League, Television Rights, USMNT, Whimsy on February 10, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Believe it or not, Avoiding the Drop is about two weeks away from beginning its third year on the internet. That might not seem like much, but consider this: the average life expectancy for a blog/website is about a year. So, doing a a little quick math, we’re about a 157 years old in “human [...]
Dundee, the SPL, the National Team, and of course, the County.
Posted in Commentary, Financials, General, Homerism, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, News, Off the Pitch, Ross County, Scottish Football League, Scottish Premier League, Television Rights, The Scottish Cup, Transfer Rumors, Transfers on January 18, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The best way to start this most recent round-up of the goings-on with Ross County and beyond is to start with a few words about what is going on 150 miles down the A9 in Dundee. It was announced last Friday that the Scottish Football Association had rejected Dundee F.C.’s appeal of the 25 point [...]
“We are of the of the opinion that lessons are not being learned.”
Posted in Commentary, Financials, General, News, Off the Pitch, Scottish Football League, Scottish Premier League, They've Fallen on November 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Following a thorough process, as endorsed by the administrator, the board has decided that “Dundee Football Club Limited is guilty of conduct contrary to the league rules, the interests of the league and its member clubs.” Yesterday the Scottish Football Association announced the penalty for SFL First Division club Dundee F.C.’s second entrance into administration [...]
All ‘Pool’s Exes Live In Texas
Posted in English Premier League, Financials, tagged Financial Disasters, Liverpool, Tom Hicks on October 14, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Fun little international legal note: apparently, Texas has jurisdiction over England. I was certainly unaware of this, but sadly the legal team representing Tom Hicks was not. Yesterday at something like 3:25 PM EST (which is something like 8:25 PM in England), Hicks put a stop to all that nonsense about Liverpool celebrating the end [...]
Liverpool’s Board 1-0 Liverpool’s Owners
Posted in English Premier League, Financials, tagged Financial Disasters, Liverpool, Martin Broughton, Tom Hicks on October 13, 2010 | 3 Comments »
We’d be remiss to not mention this today, but there really isn’t much to say that other, more informed sources haven’t already said. All told, Liverpool’s board was today granted a pretty decisive win over Liverpool owner Tom Hicks in high court by judge Mr. Justice Floyd. Essentially, the issue came down to exactly what [...]
This Revolution SHOULD NOT be televised!!
Posted in Commentary, Financials, General, Homerism, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, MLS, News, Off the Pitch, They've Fallen, Transfer Rumors, Transfers, Transfers Rules and Legalese, USMNT on July 19, 2011 | 13 Comments »
There has been a lot of news coming out of Gillette Stadium in Foxboro over the last two weeks and all of it has been decidedly negative. One of the Revolution’s main supporter’s sections- The Fort- has been essentially run out of town in an attempt to create an even more fan-friendly attitude at the [...]
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