It turns out that there were a lot of acceptable answers to a few of this week’s questions- and I think that’s great! I’m a firm believer that the more we research about the game and the more we learn about the game, the more we can enjoy the game. We only had two sets [...]
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The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in English Premier League, General, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, Odd Soccer News, The Football League, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on June 8, 2011 | 5 Comments »
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in English Premier League, FA Cup, General, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, Odd Soccer News, Off the Pitch, The More You Know..., Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on June 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last week’s challenge was perhaps the most difficult or time consuming one I’ve presented to you in recent weeks, but I hope you enjoyed it for the same reasons I enjoyed creating it- it uncovered some pretty interesting stuff, especially about Ferenc Deák, Andrew Watson, and Donald Bell. We had three excellent submissions from Ben [...]
Becks to Own Team 20
Posted in Choosing a new Team, Corruption, General, MLS, NASL, News, Odd Soccer News, tagged April 1st, Carlos Alberto, David Beckham, John Kerr, NASL, New York Cosmos on April 1, 2011 | 17 Comments »
Various sources indicate that the 20th MLS team will be based in Gotham City, and that Mr. Bend-It will be the majority stakeholder. Read on after the jump for more details.
The Thursday Challenge: BEEP! BEEP! Edition
Posted in Bundesliga, General, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, Odd Soccer News, Swiss Super League, The Scottish Cup, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on March 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Welcome. Below are this week’s eight questions. They are not particularly hard, but a few of them are a bit tricky and a few of them require a more specific answer than you might initially think. If you find any of these questions annoying, frustrating, or even boring please keep in mind that I discovered [...]
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in Bundesliga, Chinese Super League, English Premier League, Europa League, General, League One, League Two, MLS, Odd Soccer News, The Championship, The Football League, The More You Know..., Trivia, UEFA, USMNT, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on January 12, 2011 | 4 Comments »
No caps for Germany or the U.S.A. UPDATE: Andrew B. has checked in with some answers of his own…see below for his contributions. Most people like to be right- I LOVE to be right. Except where the Thursday Challenge is concerned. In this case I kind of like it when one of you finds a [...]
He’s saving your life right now, bro!
Posted in Odd Soccer News, Scottish Premier League, Whimsy, tagged Charlie Kelly on November 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
We all deserve a little bit of whimsy in our lives, and thanks to somebody I’ll refer to only as an “overseas correspondent” I have this little gem to share with you from the October 30th match at McDiarmid Park between St. Johnstone and Celtic. Pay attention to the celebration following Celtic’s second goal, scored [...]
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in English Premier League, General, Odd Soccer News, Off the Pitch, The Football League, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on November 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I asked you a series of off-beat questions regarding the early days of “association football” and then awaited your answers with bated breath. Find them after the jump…
Coming Out of the Closet with Fuse: Ísland
Posted in Commentary, Football Shirts, General, Introductions, Odd Soccer News, Off the Pitch, The More You Know..., Trivia, UEFA, Whimsy on October 4, 2010 | 3 Comments »
If you’ve been a regular reader of this series you’ll know that one of my rules is that I only buy the national team gear of two teams: the United States and Scotland. Thus, when you see a shirt from any other nation in my collection there’s going to be a story behind it. Argentina? [...]
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in General, Homerism, Introductions, News, Odd Soccer News, Off the Pitch, Scottish Football League, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on September 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
From 1998 through 2006 this young man played left wing and fullback for Gretna F.C., Cowdenbeath F.C., Queens Park Rangers F.C., East Fife F.C., Dumbarton F.C., Falkirk F.C., and Stirling Albion F.C. Round about 2003 injuries and the constant movement between clubs and divisions (he played as high as the First Division) caused him to [...]
Coming out of the Closet with Fuse: Things you really don’t need to know edition
Posted in Commentary, English Premier League, Football Shirts, General, Homerism, Odd Soccer News, Off the Pitch, Scottish Premier League, The Football League, USMNT, Whimsy on December 6, 2010 | 5 Comments »
This week I thought I’d give you all a little break so that you don’t go into Scottish National Team overload, because except for a few random items that’s more or less what’s left in my closet after 30 weeks of this series! So, you can look forward to more SNT gear and some other [...]
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