It occurred to me at 10:50am this morning that if Ross County are promoted to the Scottish Premier League at the end of this season (they are nine points clear at the top of the table at the moment and will thus be in first place at the midway point of the season no matter [...]
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I believe this is called an “epiphany.”
Posted in First Timers, Homerism, News, Off the Pitch, Ross County, Scottish Football League, Scottish Premier League, Soccer Video Games on December 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Your Weekend Preview: Soul Man Edition
Posted in Bundesliga, Champions League, CONCACAF Champions League, Eredivisie, Europa League, FA Cup, First Timers, General, Homerism, League Two, Ligue 1, Matchday is for Homerism, Ross County, Scottish Football League, USMNT, Weekend Preview on August 5, 2011 | 5 Comments »
New England Revolution v. Chivas USA (Saturday) All the talk in New England this week was about the signing of the club’s first Designated Player, Argentine striker Milton Caraglio. Not all of that talk was good, however. Supporters are concerned because Caraglio- just 22- has already suffered a knee injury serious enough to cause him [...]
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in English Premier League, First Timers, General, Homerism, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, Ross County, Scottish Football League, Scottish Premier League, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on July 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Welcome back, folks! There’s lots of good news to report this week. First off, we had (at least to the best of my spotty memory!) a “first-timer” take a crack at the Thursday Challenge, so everyone please welcome Noah B.! Second, we had four participants this year and they all answered five of the six [...]
The Commenter Survey: Part Deux
Posted in About Last Night, ATD Dropcast, Bundesliga, CONCACAF Gold Cup, English Premier League, First Timers, Football Shirts, General, Gold Cup, Guest Post, Indoor Soccer, La Liga, League One, League Two, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, Ligue 1, MLS, MLS Pick'em, News, Official Site Business, Ross County, Scottish Football League, Scottish Premier League, Serie A, The Championship, The Football League, The More You Know..., The Weekend Wrapup, Transfer Rumors, Transfers, Transfers Rules and Legalese, Trivia, USMNT, Weekend Preview on April 21, 2011 | 12 Comments »
I’d like to begin by thanking everyone for their patience with the long delay between the publication of the first half of the commenter survey results and this, the second half of those results. Normally this would be the place where I made some sort of humorous excuse for why this has happened, but the [...]
Coming out of the Closet with Fuse: Please welcome Jeff!!
Posted in Bundesliga, Commentary, English Premier League, First Timers, Football Shirts, General, Guest Post, Introductions, Scottish Premier League, The Championship, Whimsy on January 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Last week I put out the call for some commenter shirts that I could feature in the first 2011 installment of this long running (this is “episode” 35) series and, as usual, the ATD commenters came through. This week I’ll be featuring four shirts from the collection of commenter Jeff S. (jhawk90). As you will [...]
The Thursday Challenge: The Answer
Posted in Commentary, First Timers, General, Introductions, Off the Pitch, The More You Know..., Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on December 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome back, everyone! I hope you’ve had a chance to digest the last of the leftover turkey because we’ve got an answer to reveal! Last week I asked you one simple question: “One football club is often credited with being the first football club of any kind outside of the United Kingdom and the club [...]
A Christmas Message From Fuse
Posted in Commentary, First Timers, Homerism, Introductions, Matchday is for Homerism, MLS, Off the Pitch, Youth Soccer on December 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I do my very best here at ATD to keep “on message” (FITBA! FITBA! FITBA!) and to avoid being “message-y” about anything not football related- politics, religion, etc., but I’m going to break with that for this one post.
First Timers: Brother Buttons
Posted in First Timers, tagged USMNT, World Cup Qualification on June 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
We made a call for people to do join our First Timers series last Wednesday, and commenter Brother Buttons obliged to our request on short notice. A big thanks goes out to him for that, you can check his notes on the match here I learned everything I needed to know about soccer in the [...]
A Call for First Timers
Posted in First Timers on June 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Here at “Avoiding the Drop” we like to celebrate a wide variety of viewpoints on our beautiful game. That includes, from time to time, the observations of the neophyte who has yet to be exposed to soccer/football as a watchable sport. Does that describe you? Have you ever made a “Soc-cer?” comment on a message [...]
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 [...]
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