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January 2008
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Patrick Kinmartin
Toon Them Out
Despicable is the only way I can describe the way the Newcastle faithful are handling the Kevin Keegan hire this week. But hey, how can you blame them when Sky Sports has been honking the thing, misfiring with equal alacrity. If anyone caught their Friday night newscast (9 a.m. on Fox Soccer Channel), they went […]
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Patrick Kinmartin
Final Four
01.18.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsMeanwhile, in Australia…
True, there’s this fun tennis tournament continuing into next week, but once it and the police leave the party, there’s some soccer supierority to be hashed out. The A-League, a competition every bit as passively invigorating to look at as Winona Ryder, is ready to roll into the playoff portion of its schedule. […] -
Jeff Friedman
More on the cluster #$*% that is the English pyramid
Just to add to Danny’s post, and we just talked about this on the show, but…
This English soccer pyramid is absolutely MIND-BOGGLING when looked at in chart form. Is there any other country in the world that could possibly have such an extensive array of domestic leagues???
Let’s do some math..
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Danny Page
Certainly more confusing than the food pyramid
Right now I’m watching Manchester City and West Ham’s 3rd Round FA Cup tie on Fox Soccer Channel (snoozer), but actually watching the Sky Sports Live Score Centre which tells me that non-league side Havant & Waterlooville are leading League 1 (England’s third division behind the Premier League and Championship) leaders Swansea 3-2 with just over a half hour […]
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Danny Page
Americans on the move
The next few days promise to be interesting for American soccer fans. The red, white and blue will play their first match on American soil since September on Saturday when they hook up with Sweden at the Home Depot Center.
But they will be without Eddie Johnson, who is reportedly in England, negotiating a move to […] -
Patrick Kinmartin
Savage Outlook
There’s a pretty simple way to shoo readers away from a Premiership item these days — attach the word “Derby” to the headline link. That may change with Robbie Savage now on board. If nothing else, the hard-charging midfielder is a brilliantly honest veteran and his true colors will likely be on full display in […]
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Patrick Kinmartin
Captain In Them
Tuesday’s show earlier this week brought a vibe of uncertainty about whether England’s captaincy should leave John Terry’s hands now that Fabio Capello has taken over as the new boss.
Keep in mind Bobby Moore, who mine as well be the nation’s skipper for the ages as leader of the 1966 (1966!!!) World Cup champions, was a West Ham-bred […] -
Patrick Kinmartin
This Week’s Lesson
Down goes Allardyce, down goes Allardyce…exactly why again? Eleventh place through 21 matches with that big-kielbasa salary of his – an easy enough excuse, but so is throwing your homework in the fireplace because you don’t want to do it.
How quickly we forgot that Freddy Shepherd, Newcastle’s chief shareholder at the time of Allardyce’s hiring last May, turned over the […] -
Danny Page
Ramos to Wenger: “Thank you sir, may I have another?”
No matter the ground, the competition or the opposing manager, one thing has remained constant for Arsene Wenger; he does not lose to Spurs.
Arsenal overcame a second half deficit once again to draw their North London rivals, Tottenham Hotspur, this time in the first leg of the Carling Cup semifinals. Arsenal fielded a secondary squad and […] -
Patrick Kinmartin
Words to Live By
Aston Villa gaffer Martin O’Neill, on comments from Villan striker Luke Moore’s agent that his client would reject a new contract put in from of him during the transfer period:
“I never get overly excited by what agents say. Agents can say what they want and, generally speaking, when you ask an agent why they said […]
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