Every once in awhile, we here at “Avoiding the Drop” like to branch out into areas off the pitch that we don’t usually cover. We’re not just about the soccer here, after all; we’ve explored the complicated relationships between star players and their manager’s families, explored the troubled romantic lives of Belgian internationals, and even [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Whimsy’
Having Your Cake
Posted in Whimsy, tagged Jack Rodwell, Jenny Thompson, Wayne Rooney, Whimsy on March 14, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Dedication
Posted in Whimsy, tagged Whimsy on March 2, 2011 | 10 Comments »
I have no context for this picture; I’m not sure if it’s old, new, where it’s at (I’m thinking Mexico, but who knows), or, frankly, anything at all about the picture. However, one of my indoor soccer teammates posted it on his Facebook wall, and I thought perhaps y’all would enjoy it, so here it [...]
Chelsea Doesn’t Roll on Shabbos
Posted in English Premier League, tagged Chelsea, English Premier League, Fixture List, Whimsy on February 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The fixture list isn’t usually that interesting a topic; games come and go, an inevitable force moving forward towards the end of the season, and the order they occur in doesn’t typically matter. For Chelsea, however, there’s an interesting quirk: most of those games for the next month aren’t going to be played on Saturday.
In Case You Were Wondering, that Arsenal Match Wasn’t Fixed
Posted in English Premier League, tagged Arsenal, Match Fixing, Whimsy on February 7, 2011 | 6 Comments »
So last night I was sitting on my couch, tweeting away through the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl, when the following tweet appeared in my feed: I dutifully followed the link, to find that a French website had reported that Interpol was looking into the possibility that Tomas Rosicky and Phil Dowd were to [...]
One More Way to Spend Some Soccer Time
Posted in Champions League, English Premier League, General, MLS, tagged fun stuff, Whimsy on January 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Looking around earlier today at MLS’s website ahead of tomorrow’s draft, I stumbled across something they have been running for the past couple months but until today I have missed.
Edenbridge Bonfire Society to Burn Wayne Rooney in Effigy
Posted in Whimsy, tagged Edenbridge Bonfire Society, Wayne Rooney, Whimsy on November 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I mean, really, there isn’t much I can add to this that the title doesn’t already tell you. One should take special note of the green Shrek ears, the bag full of money in Wayne’s right hand, and the newly-signed Manchester United contract under his left arm.
Let’s Talk About Turf Conditioning
Posted in English Premier League, tagged Whimsy on January 8, 2010 | 6 Comments »
One of the things I actually get paid to do in my office is run radiant heat load calculations for one of the product lines I represent. See, in my day-to-day work, I’m a sales representative for about ten different hydronic heating product lines, one of which is a radiant tubing company. Typically, we do [...]
Placing odds on the remaining World Cup spots in UEFA
Posted in General, World Cup 2010, World Cup Qualifiers, tagged Croatia, Czech Republic, Giggsys, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Latvia, Northern Ireland, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden, UEFA, Ukraine, Whimsy, World Cup 2010, World Cup Qualifiers on October 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
We’re down to the final stretch of World Cup qualifying, 1 more game for everyone (Except group 9 in UEFA) to determine who gets to go to the World Cup in South Africa, and who’s staying home. Many of the spots have been claimed already, but there are still spots available. Asia and Oceania have [...]
Labor Day Weekend Kit Challenge
Posted in Football Shirts, Trivia, tagged English Football League, Whimsy on September 7, 2009 | 5 Comments »
It’s the Monday of Labor Day weekend here in the States and most of you probably have the day off. It’ll probably be a day filled with beer, BBQ, and family (which may or may not be a good thing), so surely you want a chance to escape all that. Or it could be worse [...]
