Bold Move, Soccernet

19May10

So I’m looking over some of Soccernet’s unpaid positions for the World Cup, and something jumped out at me: In order to apply for the North Korea Correspondent position, you must either click here to Sign In or if you do not have an account, click here to Register. What happens if the fill that spot? Won’t […]

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Tags: ESPN, north korea, soccer, soccernet, world cup

The Pragmatism of Bacary Sagna

09Apr10

This is one of those “intertwined” posts. The Arsenal fullback on his team’s mentality: Following their Champions League exit this week, Arsenal are now focused solely on the Premier League but, with a three-point gap to make up on leaders Chelsea and only five games remaining, Sagna wants to see his team-mates adopt more of […]

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Tags: Arsenal, Arsenal FC, arsene wenger, blue dog, champions league, chelsea, chelsea fc, dennis kucinich, guus hiddink, health care reform, soccer, UEFA, wenger

Suicide, Soccer, and the Need to Belong

30Mar10

I finished up with Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanki about a week ago. Overall, I enjoyed it; it’s an easy read that can appeal to both seasoned soccer fans and novices. It features a good takedown of the English ideology on tactics, a thorough study of successes in the transfer market, and ranking […]

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Tags: belonging, Football, Hunter S. Thompson, Princess Diana, September 11, Simon Kuper, soccer, soccernmoic, sociology, Stefan Szymanski, suicide

“Why would we want Zinedine Zidane when we have Tim Sherwood?

17Mar10

And you thought Ryan Leaf was a bad personnel move. Oh Newcastle.

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Tags: goal.com, marca, newcastle, soccer, tim sherwood, UEFA, zinedine zidane

The Best Reason to Go Drinking Before 11am Since Brunch

09Feb10

This is part of at least a two-part series I’ll be doing on my NYC trip this weekend. As those who know me will attest, I’ve been a Chelsea FC  fan for years now. However chances to properly support the club have come few and far between. This sadly, is just a fact of being […]

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Tags: Arsenal, Arsenal FC, chelsea, chelsea fc, England, english premier league, Manhattan, Nevada Smith's, soccer

Més Que un Club, Less than Stellar

13May08

Phil Ball has an excellent article (per usual) on the rise and fall of Dutch legend Frank Rijkaard’s tenure as manager of FC Barcelona. As a pseudo-rival of my preferred club Chelsea F.C., I must confess to a sense of schadenfreudian joy in the news, especially since Rijkaard– whose downfall was probably more the doing […]

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Tags: Abromavich, Avram, barcelona, catalan, cataluna, chelsea, communism, fascism, Franco, futbol, Grant, leftist, liga, primera, real madrid, rijkaard, soccer, spain, spanish civil war, Sports, the beautiful game