Western Mass Pioneers v. New Hampshire Phantoms (Friday) There’s nothing like hot PDL-Northeast Division action, is there? This weekend sees the second place Pioneers (who have two games in hand over first place Portland) face the second-to-last place New Hampshire Phantoms at historic Lusitano Stadium in Ludlow, MA. The Phantoms are one of the older [...]
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Your Weekend Preview: The New England Revolution Don’t Get It! Edition
Posted in Champions League, Europa League, General, Homerism, League of Ireland, Matchday is for Homerism, MLS, Ross County, Scottish Football League, USMNT, Weekend Preview, Western Mass Pioneers on July 1, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Your Weekend Preview: The Pickings Were Slim Edition
Posted in CONCACAF, CONCACAF Gold Cup, General, Homerism, League of Ireland, Matchday is for Homerism, MLS, NASL, Ross County, USMNT, Weekend Preview, Western Mass Pioneers on June 10, 2011 | 2 Comments »
New England Revolution v. New York Red Bulls (Friday) Apparently the Revs are still in the market for an attacking Designated Player, but that won’t happen until the transfer window opens at the end of the month. The question is, will it be too little too late for New England? They have gained only four [...]
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in Bundesliga, English Premier League, General, Ligue 1, MLS, NASL, Serie A, Trivia, Western Mass Pioneers, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on January 5, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Nine full-sized pitches will fit inside Great Strahov Stadium I’m not sure why, but this was one of my favorite challenges to construct- I hope that everyone had a good time trying to find the answers. As usual, only Andrew B. submitted his answers in full and on time…though I suspect that two or three [...]
Your Weekend Preview: I Like This Kid Edition
Posted in Champions League, General, Homerism, MLS, NASL, Ross County, Russian Premier League, Scottish Football League, UEFA Cup, USMNT, Weekend Preview, Western Mass Pioneers, World Cup 2010 on July 16, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Ross County F.C. v. Clyde F.C. (Saturday) This match will mark the Staggies’ fourth preseason friendly and their first against SFL competition. Thus far County have faced three Highland League sides, winning all three matches and doing so without conceding a goal. As is always the case with preseason matches this meeting with Clyde will [...]
Coming Out of the Closet with Fuse: The Orphans
Posted in General, Ross County, Turkish Super Lig, Western Mass Pioneers, Whimsy on June 28, 2010 | 6 Comments »
There are all sorts of reasons that a shirt might go without the ubiquitous “sponsor’s logo” emblazoned across the front. Perhaps the club feels that its shirt is so iconic that they would not consider sullying it with crass advertising as was the case at Barcelona until 2006 when, much to their credit, they decided [...]
Your Weekend Preview: Mostly American Edition
Posted in Bundesliga, Champions League, Financials, General, La Liga, MLS, The Championship, USMNT, USSF D-2, Weekend Preview, Western Mass Pioneers, World Cup 2010 on May 21, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Estonia v. Finland (Friday) This match is too rife with nerdy possibilities not to preview it. Finnish and Estonian are two very closely-related languages- both being part of the Uralic language family. Did you know that? The “Eagle-Owls” of Finland are currently ranked 49th by FIFA, the Blue Shirts of Estonia are ranked 104th. Needless [...]
Trickle-down Soccernomics: An Update
Posted in Commentary, Financials, General, Off the Pitch, Western Mass Pioneers on January 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Well, just like that, everything is solved- at least for 2010. According to today’s press release USL-1 and NASL will compete as separate divisions of the same league this summer (including inter-league play and a championship match between the two divisions) all under the watchful of the USSF. Both sides will use the breathing space [...]
Trickle-Down Soccernomics
Posted in Commentary, Financials, General, MLS, News, Off the Pitch, Western Mass Pioneers, WPS on January 6, 2010 | 8 Comments »
To put it as kindly as I possibly can, professional soccer in the United States is in chaos turmoil flux at the moment. Let me see if I can walk you through what has happened since the end of the summer- the factual aspects of it, anyway. There’s more rumor, innuendo, and supposition involved in [...]
Your Weekend Preview: The Sassenach Premier League Is Back Edition
Posted in English Premier League, MLS, Ross County, Scottish Football League, Weekend Preview, Western Mass Pioneers on August 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
D.C. United v. Toronto F.C. (Saturday) It seems like at least once a week there is a match between teams in the Eastern Conference that has implications for the clubs involved, but also for every other team in the East. This week it is United and the Reds in third and fourth places respectively, and [...]
Women’s Professinal Soccer 2.0
Posted in Commentary, General, News, Off the Pitch, Western Mass Pioneers, WPS on April 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
At this time last year I took a moment to talk about what it was going to take for WPS to succeed in its inaugural season. There were some growing pains along the way, but when the season came to a close last August I was happy to report that, for the most part, the [...]
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