I know it's super-weird to see Bruce Arena say he's doing a good job as coach, but somehow J.R. Salazar quotes Arena as doing just that. Whoo! Set DEFCON level to TOLD! And here I thought all this time Bruce Arena was his own biggest critic. Arena's confidence in the face of the ungenerous has…

There was a song that made to the youtubes this week that caused a bit of sensation this week. The Red World army released the song “Chico is the man.” A nice little salsa-style dittie about our man Javier. ​ One little problem. When I think of salsa and Mexico together, I get hungry and…

Click:art craft setSo you see the problem isn't that Major League Soccer-Soccer is a badly conceived, badly designed and badly executed colossal pile of dog excrement. No indeed. The only real problem is "the integration of live data across the site" and they want you to know that they're gonna get right on on that….

As 2010 is almost over, here are some predictions for the football world in 2011. As I’m from the UK, most of these will be EPL and European based. I did this last year and I’ve just had a look at some of my predictions. Weirdly, I got about half of them right. So, I…

If a draft falls in the woods and nobody pays any attention, does it still make a loud thud? The long-awaited, eagerly anticipated First Round of the MLS Re Entry Draft came and went today. DC took Jar Jar Ngwenya. Columbus selected Aaron Holbein. Everybody else took the day off. Not surprisingly, nobody wanted to…

After today’s England v Germany game where Frank Lampard had a goal incorrectly ruled out despite the ball crossing the line by at least a yard, there will be repeated calls for goal-line technology to be introduced into the game so incidents like that one and the USA’s incorrectly disallowed goal against Slovenia never happen…

​ I was halfway kidding a few weeks ago when I suggested that CONCACAF would do what CONMEBOL had done to ensure that their club final would pit teams from different countries. The way group play ended up, it would be easy for them to do so, as two Mexican teams ended in first, and…

And the Seattle Sounders please their long-suffering fans with their first trophy in twelve months of hurt. The Sounders are the first repeat Open Cup champions since 1983, when the Pancyprian Freedoms became the most successful franchise in the history of New York City.* (The island of Cyprus has yet to be inspired enough by…

In case you were lucky enough to have been having an organ transplant last night and had to miss the All Star game – we're all jealous – here's what you missed: The thing is this: You can't have it both ways, people. You can't go around scoffing at the whole deal, pointing out that…

There were a series of news conferences surrounding Mexico's friendly with Ecuador in New York. In one, FMF President Justino Compean announced that they were supporting the USA's bid to host the 2018 or 2022 World Cup. “We had to be realistic. We don’t have the same stadiums and infrastructure in place at the moment…