Archive for February, 2011

The Weekend: Old Firms, FA Cups & More

Lots of good ones this weekend. Couldn’t get around to our five games to watch this week, but Sunday should be a good match-up as Stu Holden and Bolton head to London to face off with Clint’s Cottagers. Gonna watch that one. Enjoy and get the comment threads going.

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Op-Ed: Lament Flamini’s Style, Not Mourinho’s

And there he stood Tuesday in a Champion’s League knockout match between the elder statesmen of the San Siro and the interlopers from White Hart Lane. Mathieu Flamini. Flamini, nervously (actually not all that nervously) awaiting sentencing by referee Stephane Lannoy for a reckless, dangerous, and any-other-negative-advective-you-want-to-throw-on-it tackle of Tottenham Hotspur Vedran Corluka. Corluka, and Spurs, [...]

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MLS: All Is Not Peachy in the Southeast…

This is the 1st guest post by TSG community member Jacob Chambliss. Well done. As promising as the latest MLS expansion teams seem, their inception does little to dull my own apathy regarding the league’s newest franchises (Disclaimer: I do love Jay DeMerit). This lack of excitement has nothing to do with my stance on [...]

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Kyle Martino: Controlling The Urge To Surge

Kyle Martino is a top broadcast analyst for Fox Soccer, a former MLS Rookie of the Year and has been capped multiple times for the US of A. Coming off the Chile-USA friendly, with national teams trialing fresh-faced youngsters for upcoming tournaments, it seems that now is a good time to talk about the crucial [...]

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Champ’s League: Arselona Live!

Yes, there is another game today. After yesterday’s Boot Country theatrics and the quibbles that seem to be following Roma, I’m highly inclined to only take in the score of that game. Probably a mistake but…the headliner: • Cesc It Ain’t So: Will Arsenal Hold The Line at Home against Barca? Wonderful that this rematch [...]

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Official: Charlie Davies DC United Bound For 2011

Announcement this morning that Sochaux striker Charlie Davies has made the cut with DC United and will be loaned to the East Coast franchise for the 2011 season.

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