As a national team coach you undoubtedly get awfully tired of the countless little boomlets for the flavor of the Month, who is usually some previously mediocre forward who's on a tear. What makes it even harder is when the player in question is a guy who hasn't earned a cap in seven years, didn't…
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9-point deduction for Liverpool? I don't think so!
There have been stories flying around the British media, and I’m sure have permeated to news outlets worldwide, that Liverpool are about to be placed into administration and docked 9 points. /www.bigsoccer.com/forum/images/smilies/tongue.gif[/img]>/www.bigsoccer.com/forum/images/smilies/tongue.gif[/img]> What none of these stories I’ve read has provided is clear evidence that the Premier League would impose a nine-point penalty should the…
MLS Cup Preview – At Noon They Slept
Since acquiring Jermaine Jones, the Revolution have lost one game – a 1-0 loss at Columbus back in September that, at this point, we may consider adequately avenged. The Revolution have tied two games – at Montreal on October 11, and last week at home to New York. They won the rest of their games,…
Inter Sandman; or, The Trouble With Trebles
First he's dicking around watching the Lakers, next he's off in some desert resort catching a few rays. David Beckham – what a piece of work, I tell you. Globetrotting jet-setter glamor boy, hitting all the world's vacation spots. And today, he actually deigned to watch some football. As an American fan, it was an…
Checketts: "The Owners Have A Plan" for "Something Very Aggressive"
The Deseret News has a report this morning which quotes Real Salt lake owner Dave Checketts as saying that if MLS players strike the owners will do "something very aggressive and very different" in response. A followup article, posted close to midnight MDT, adds fuel to the fire. "I just came from a meeting…
Memo Ochoa's Cavalcade of Whimsy
Leave it to Club America to negotiate a transfer with a team whose coach doesn’t even want the player in question. The player in question, Memo Ochoa, is counting the seconds for 2010 to end. It should have been a breakout year for the Club America goalkeeper. It has turned out to be anything…
Santos Rips Defeat from Victory's Tight Grip
Oswaldo Sanchez let it slip away…literally I thought he had stopped it. Santos coach, Ruben Omar Romano thought he had stopped it. But no, the ball slipped right under Oswaldo Sanchez’s person, and the goalie swatted helplessly at the ball to try and keep it out of the goal. If he had succeeded, Santos would…
Almost Everyone Hates MLS.
Ricardo Clark said a few weeks ago what everyone knew and no one wanted to admit – "MLS" stands for "Must Leave Soonest." Well, that's life in modern big-time football, for everyone below the Big Four (or Big Three, if the Bundesliga is going through one of its periods of self-doubt and ennui). From Scotland…
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