Happy Sunday, everyone. It’s USA-Jamaica, followed by Panama-El Salvador, tonight in the Gold Cup. Yesterday’s matches were quite entertaining, a penalties shootout between Honduras and Costa Rica that the Hondurans took 4-2 (1-1) and Mexico having to overcome an early goal by Guatemala to win 2-1. Just a quick look at the overnight news, and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Sunday open thread’
“If now they say that I and my role were treated openly and with honesty then that is hypocritical.” – Michael Ballack
Posted in Weekend Open Thread, tagged Sunday open thread on June 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“When you get knocked down, you see what you’re made of.” – Tim Howard
Posted in USMNT, Weekend Open Thread, tagged Spain, Sunday open thread, USMNT on June 5, 2011 | 3 Comments »
So that did not go well. Reactions: Grant Wahl Jen Chang Leander Schaerlaeckens Martin Rogers Ives Galarcep Stephen Bondy Frank Dell’Appa I could link more, but I think you get the general gist of things. I wish I knew what to tell you this morning other than the few things I gathered from that demolition [...]
“A freak result against a clearly inferior team.” – Luis Figo
Posted in Weekend Open Thread, tagged Relegation, Sunday open thread on May 22, 2011 | 4 Comments »
It’s the final day of the 2010-11 Barclay’s Premier League season, and typically, we’re much more concerned with who will be leaving the top flight as opposed to who has claimed the top spots. I understand the fascination with the relegation battles. To watch a group of men figuratively fight for their club’s survival in [...]
“The substitute is about to come on – he’s a player who was left out of the starting line-up today.” – Kevin Keegan
Posted in Weekend Open Thread, tagged Sunday open thread on May 15, 2011 | 12 Comments »
Quite a day for the city of Manchester yesterday, wasn’t it? Manchester United claimed their 19th league title, while arch-rivals Manchester City defeated Stoke City to claim their first trophy for 35 years as they won the FA Cup. Of course, that means we will have a Manchester derby at Wembley in August when the [...]
“Once a Blue, always a Blue.” – Wayne Rooney
Posted in Weekend Open Thread, tagged Sunday open thread on May 8, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I bet you thought you would be reading 700 words on Wolves-West Brom today, didn’t you? That match is certainly important for Wolves, as they try to escape relegation, but there is only one match in the English top flight to talk about today. Manchester United hosts Chelsea at 11:10 AM EST. This match is [...]
“Whoever invented football should be worshipped as a God.” – Hugo Sanchez
Posted in General, Weekend Open Thread, tagged Sunday open thread on May 1, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I guess Lampard finally got revenge for that mess against Germany. Or something like that, anyway. While I know that nothing will come of yesterday’s debacle at Stamford Bridge, it’s clear that as long as a generation raised without any technology is in power, they will resist adding it into the game until they are [...]
“We were getting slaughtered. We weren’t playing well at all yet we’re up, two-zero. But that’s soccer.” – Landon Donovan
Posted in Weekend Open Thread, tagged Sunday open thread on April 24, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate this day, and Happy Sunday to everyone else. Let’s do some quick news and notes and go eat our chocolate eggs, shall we? Congratulations to Arbroath FC, who won their first honor in 133 years of existence. Yesterday, the Lichties were crowned champions of the Scottish Third [...]
“Never go for a 50-50 ball unless you’re 80-20 sure of winning it.” – Ian Darke.
Posted in Weekend Open Thread, tagged Sunday open thread on April 17, 2011 | 5 Comments »
A Scholes red card and a Balotelli wink, and they will be talking about that semi-final for days and days. The stories coming out of United-City yesterday: It was a victory for City supporters more than anything else. That’s a sentiment I can get behind. [Yahoo!] City “wanted it more”. I always find this take [...]
“I never comment on referees and I’m not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.” – Ron Atkinson
Posted in Weekend Open Thread, tagged Sunday open thread on April 10, 2011 | 6 Comments »
It’s a short one today. I’m happy for all the responses to yesterday’s question. The news for today: Louis Van Gaal has been sacked, finally, by Bayern Munich. [BBC] Madrid and Barcelona both were victorious heading into next weekend’s Clasico. [Guardian] Chelsea will have plenty of work to do if they actually intend to acknowledge [...]
