My apologies to those of you who may/may have already submitted your answers to last week’s challenge- I had to post the answers earlier than normal as I was away all day yesterday and knew that the last thing I would want to do after driving home from a Red Sox game is to [...]
Archive for the ‘Swiss Super League’ Category
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in Bundesliga, English Premier League, General, Ligue 1, MLS, Off the Pitch, Scottish Football League, Scottish Premier League, Swiss Super League, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on June 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Grasshopper Club Aarau?
Posted in Swiss Super League, tagged Financial Disasters, Grasshopper Club-Zurich, Swiss Super League on February 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Grasshopper Club Zurich is the all-time winningest (most winning?) team in Swiss football; their 27 titles over the last 125 years dwarfs the number of wins by fellow stalwarts Servette (17), FC Basel (13), FC Zurich (12), and BSC Young Boys (11). The club was home to tactical innovator Karl Rappan (the inventor of catennacio) [...]
Your Weekend Preview: Liverpool actually won something Edition
Posted in Bundesliga, Champions League, English Premier League, Eredivisie, Europa League, General, Homerism, Matchday is for Homerism, Ross County, Scottish Football League, Swiss Super League, The Scottish Cup, Transfers, USMNT, Weekend Preview on February 4, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Ross County F.C. v. Cowdenbeath F.C. (Saturday) On Tuesday the Staggies seemed on track to bring home at least an “away point” from their match against Queen of the South- and then the floodlights gave out in the 65th and the match was abandoned. If it weren’t for bad luck… Moving on. A victory against [...]
The Thursday Challenge: Christmas Comes Early for Fuse
Posted in English Premier League, General, Swiss Super League, The Football League, The More You Know..., Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses, World Cup 2010, World Cup Qualifiers on December 23, 2010 | 11 Comments »
There I was wondering how in the world I was going to get this Thursday’s challenge done with all that I had to do for work and family and then I opened up an email from our recently returned competitor, Andrew B.. What was inside? That’s right, a list of ten questions that turned out [...]
Your Weekend Preview: Everything is probably postponed Edition
Posted in English Premier League, General, Homerism, Ligue 1, Matchday is for Homerism, Ross County, Scottish Football League, Scottish Premier League, Serie A, Swiss Super League, Weekend Preview on December 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Ross County F.C. v. Partick Thistle F.C. (Saturday) With all of last weekend’s First Division matches postponed due to snow/frozen pitches, the situation remains the same for the Staggies- a win and they could move up fifth place. The only change is that they will be facing a slightly better club this week in Partick [...]
Your Weekend Preview: Look out Philly!! Edition
Posted in Bundesliga, Champions League, CONCACAF Champions League, Eredivisie, FA Cup, General, MLS, Ross County, Scottish Football League, Swiss Super League, The Scottish Cup, Transfer Rumors, USSF D-2, Weekend Preview on July 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Philadelphia Union v. New England Revolution (Saturday) The is really only one piece of big news to report surrounding this match- I’ll be there! That’s right, I’ll be joining commenter “Sculptor?!” and our own TY (we hope!) at PPL Park to support my side and to soak in the urban blight that is Chester, PA! [...]
Your Weekend Preview: It’s almost over edition…
Posted in Bundesliga, Champions League, English Premier League, Eredivisie, Europa League, General, Homerism, La Liga, Ligue 1, MLS, Ross County, Scottish Football League, Serie A, Swiss Super League, The Football League, Weekend Preview on April 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
A.J. Auxerre v. Olympique de Marseille (Friday) In the last few weeks the Ligue 1 table has begun to sort itself out, but that doesn’t mean that the number of big matches has been reduced. First place Marseille have managed to open up a five point lead over Auxerre (and ten points on third place [...]
The Greatest American Hero
Posted in Bundesliga, CONCACAF Gold Cup, English Premier League, Eredivisie, FA Cup, Gold Cup, Homerism, La Liga, League One, Ligue 1, MLS, Scottish Premier League, Serie A, Swiss Super League, The Championship, The Football League, Turkish Super Lig, USMNT, World Cup 2010 on March 19, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Here’s a little tip for all you young bloggers out there: when you think you have a good idea for a post, and you put a lot of thought into it- PUBLISH IT! IMMEDIATELY! Otherwise you risk getting “scooped” by another blog and you end up looking like a plagiarist/bandwagon jumper/Johnny-Come-Lately. Still, even if you [...]
Your Weekend Preview: Fuse Jonas and the Administration Edition
Posted in Argentine Primera Division, Champions League, CONMEBOL, Copa Libertadores, English Premier League, Europa League, FA Cup, Financials, General, Hyundai A-League, League One, League Two, Ross County, Scottish Football League, Scottish Premier League, South America, Swiss Super League, The Championship, The Football League, Weekend Preview on February 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
LDU Quito v. C.S.D. Independiente Jose Teran (Friday) How have I gotten to the 49th (!) edition of the Weekend Preview and not previewed a match from Ecuador’s Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Futbol Serie A? Shame on me! This is only the second week of the season in Ecuador so one can’t read too much into [...]
