Archive for October, 2009

Arsenal buzzes Toppledham & a Happy Birthday

Arsenal has just wrapped up a 3-0 North London derby after finding the back of the net twice within a minute of halftime. Had Emirates not scored the double there, you could have envisioned a pretty entertaining 2nd half. Cesc Fabregas added the 2nd before halftime. The Spaniard took the ball in the middle of [...]

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In Good Hands With Guzan

Most have probably heard of Brad Guzan’s heroics in goal earlier this week for Villa versus Sunderland in the Carling Cup, but have you seen it? The back-up to Tim Howard for the USMNT stopped 4 PKs (1 in regular time, 3 in a shootout) and had a couple more highlight reel saves. To quote [...]

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Dynamo v. Sounders Review: Good Players, OK Play

TSG is officially 1 for 1 on MLS playoffs observations. It’s all downhill from here for us. Yikes. Seattle vs. Houston can best best characterized as good individual efforts with team efforts lacking a bit. Here’s some random comments that you will probably take us to task for (note, if you’re an avid MLS fan, [...]

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EPL & More: Saturday is the Day for Rain

You’ve got Birmingham v. Manchester City on Sunday and that’s it. Meanwhile Saturday, your day to stay in, brings us a full docket of very interesting games. Here we go…. EPL • All eyes will be on Turf Moor as Hull City travel to Burnely’s home pitch in an important away game for the crisis-bound [...]

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Will Injuries Challenge Coach USA’s Plan?

The USMNT friendlies are just over two weeks away….and once against TSG is already super stoked…and thinking about them. Going into the matches against Slovakia and Denmark (and concurrently the Netherlands match in March next year) Bob Bradley will have a modicum of line-up questions to answer brought on by injuries to the first line, [...]

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Shaun Omniscient? Dreaded Vote of Confidence

Update: It looks like Matthew is temporarily more omniscient than Shaun. A statement on Hull City’s official web site states Phil Brown is still the Tigers manager. USA 1, Switzerland (Shaun) 0. Thanks Patrick as well for the link in the comments. —– It looks like Shaun (our TSG game commentary aficionado) was right and [...]

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