LA Galaxy’s chances nosedive
Colorado just lost to the Houston Dynamo and a sigh of relief was heard from the Galaxy. The loss...
Category: Soccer Coaches & Coaching
A piece of poor defending lets Arsenal down: Not height
Was it the lack of height that got Ledbitter the goal or the abject abandonment of good defending and...
Mark Hughes for Spurs job: Deja vu all over again
Remember last season when Spurs boss Daniel Levy went behind Martin Jol’s back and claimed that he had not...
The LA Galaxy travel to Columbus: Will the defense show up?
Chris Klein might have his hands full with Schelotto This week the team with the most potent offense in...
The VP debate: Soccer moms are a barometer
Courtesy Sarah Palin: Asked about the economy, Palin suggested talking to a parent at a soccer game. “I’ll betcha...
Steven Wells makes the case for referees: Points against
“The referee is a useless, interfering, grandstanding bastard. ” Steven Wells lays the guilt trip. Not all referees are...
The class of 1976
Some of the best known names in soccer were born that year in September. Simon Kuper has more on...
Deep thought: Why should Ramos face the brunt?
Juande Ramos is feeling the heat because the hapless Spurs are losing every match. It really blows when you...
Players need to check into the Emirates
Players from opposing teams who exceed this height and weight need not enter the Emirates because Arsenal has a...
The world has gone mad: Styles to continue officiating
Remember this from last season: Chelsea vs Liverpool Not good news for Spurs who are scraping the bottom of...
Deep thought: RBS financing of LFC in jeopardy?
The Wall St financial bailout collapsed today and amongst the banks that could be hit hardest is Royal Bank...
Arsenal’s defensive problem: Its not lack of height, its not being smart
Its difficult swallowing losses to Fulham and now Hull. Especially after that wonderful mid week dismantling of Sheffield Utd...
Newcastle: Joe Kinnear starts a laugh riot
The bizarre saga of Newcastle continues. Its too bad that the FA is not launching its own bailout plan....
Mourinho being Mourinho..
An inspired substitution from Mourinho allowed Inter Milan to stay top of the Serie A table with a 1-0...
Platini comes unhinged
Michel Platini’s hate for Wenger is visceral. Here is some unrestrained character assassination for you. On Wenger’s commitment to...
Vedad Ibisevic: Bundesliga’s hottest striker has US roots
Vedad Ibisevic is on fire. FC Hoffenheim’s striker has scored 6 goals and assisted in two more in his...
Schadenfreude: Martin Jol and Chris Hughton
What a lovely word. Germanic in origin, universal in application. The warm fuzzies one gets when reveling in the...
Wasn’t Luka Modric the answer to Spurs midfield problems?
It just does not get easier at White Hart Lane. After splashing the cash (£16.5 million) on Modric in...
Possebon’s injury shows not much has changed
How quickly Sir Alex forgets. On Possebon’s injury. ‘You don’t want to see things like that and I hope...
Deep thought: Man Utd players are agents of the US government
Not as far fetched as it seems. The AIG shirts that they wear, the most overt symbol of the...
Juande Ramos star fades a bit
Ramos was the pick of the Premiership managers last season. But this season at Spurs is not going swimmingly...
Freddy Shepherd maybe back in the mix
It seems that Freddy Shepherd is feeling his way back to Newcastle. And he says that Ashley should reinstall...
Ethiopia kicked out of WC qualifiers
FIFA again punishes a national team by intruding into a local federation affair. The general assembly of the Ethiopian...
South Africa: Joel Santana is feeling the heat
The national squad’s performances isn’t impressing the FIFA head. Sepp Blatter, president of world soccer governing body Fifa, says...
Andy Burnham points to a way out
There will be a backlash against rich owners ( with questionable assets) with no previous connection looking to taking...
AIG shirts sponsorship for Man Utd next to go?
AIG sponsorship of Man Utd in jeopardy AIG is in a financial mess and is asking the Feds to...
Lehman takes itself out of the running to buy Newcastle
An attempt at black humour >>
Gillett and Hicks should go
With Thaksin Shinawatra having acceded Man City for a minority stake, Mike Ashley keen to sell Newcastle of to...
Hleb’s Barca career grinds to a halt
It has been a frustrating Barca season so far. They ground out another draw against Racing Santander in a...
Video: Flamini’s new club records its second loss
All of Carlo Ancelotti’s high powered summer acquisitions were on display. Flamini, Ronaldinho, and Sheva started for Milan but...
Mike Ashley is not going anywhere soon
Getty Images Mike Ashley makes a statement: He added: “One person alone can’t manage a football club and scout...
Zola’s new club’s achilles heel: Its defence
Kevin Keen took on the caretaker role today with Zola looking on at his new club. Their attack was...
Walcott helps Arsenal blank Blackburn
Arsenal made the return up north to face a team that has posed so many problems in the past....
The US club vs country debate is a false equivalence
I read Shaka Hislop’s article on the emerging club vs country debate that the US faces. At this point...
Jack Warner and Dwight Yorke get some Roy Keane love
Oy. Roy Keane gets tetchy, very tetchy. A lot of this has to do with Jack Warner’s unsavoury reputation.
West Ham shirt sponsors pull out
The poor global economy continues to take its toll.
Big Phil is a hypocrite
Ah! Big Phil is not above playing mind games. And he does come off as a hypocrite. Just before...
Wengers reaction to Theo- sophy
Reality check time with Wenger. “There’s still a lot to come. From 19 to 23, you become a real...
In which Russell Brand tries the unified field theory
Football (the real deal) aka soccer is what the US does not get. And US politics is what the...
Walcott against Blackburn: Fireworks in the offing!
Theodorus Walcottus Awesomus Arsenal meets Blackburn this weekend, another team that believes in Josip Simunic style of tackling. Here...
Theo! Theo! Theo!
England beat Croatia as Slaven Bilic’s team hit the dirt with Walcott peppering them with some fine marksmanship. Walcott...
France vs Serbia: Domenech still lives in a bubble
I have no idea why the French federation continues to repose its confidence in a manager that his team...
Bafana Bafana stumble again
SA’s preparation for the World Cup has already been subject to intense scrutiny but their team continues to lower...
Russia vs Wales: Juande Ramos heaves a sigh of relief
Spurs manager Juande Ramos must have been watching this game closely. The Russia vs Wales game just got over...
England goes to fortress Maksimir
Slaven Bilic sporting his Mads Mikkelsen look It is a telling sign that Joe Cole, England’s best player has...
Gianfranco Zola installed as Hammers coach
Zola’s face is a cartoonist’s dream Chelsea’s greatest player is now West Ham’s manager. What does he bring to...
Anil Ambani: Will he or won’t he?
Now it is he won’t. If he was to takeover, the fairy tale ending would have been Keegan coming...
Something smells rotten in Newcastle
Does this scenario even look remotely plausible? Kevin Keegan agreeing to becoming a club’s manager on the condition that...
Barthez,philosophy and French football…
“Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.” – Albert Camus. Fabien Barthez and French...
Mark Hughes is incongruous in the new Man City
Less than two months ago, Mark Hughes was the manager of Blackburn, a team with players more at ease...
Arsenal: Peter Hill Wood keeps the door ajar for Usmanov
When you talk about Arsenal’s future, it is usually in measured, nuanced terms much like its soccer. Unlike Man...
Dunga’s dilemma
His future as coach of Brazil has a big question mark hanging over it after the mauling from Argentina.All...
Cobi Jones seeks to get Galaxy back on track
Before there was David Beckham in the US, there was Cobi Jones, the real deal. He was a lethal...
Video: CL qualifier: Arsenal beat FC Twente, 2-0
Arsenal came back in the second half with Gallas and Adebayor’s goal. They were missing Cesc and it showed...