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Administrative: I’m moving

The Silly Season April 23, 2008 @ 3:01 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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Hello few people around, Sorry for the lack of posts. I'm in the process of moving (not the website, myself). I should be all set at my new place soon enough, and I'm targeting Monday as my day to get back to writing. Cheers, Tavis

MLS Nears Closer to True Parity

The Silly Season April 18, 2008 @ 2:38 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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Getting Closer to Every Team Finishing With 40 Points By Michael Davis With the MLS season underway, and a few perennial winners starting off slowly, it appears MLS is nearing it's true goal of having every team finish with forty points. One may ask the question, why make teams as evenly matched as possible, doesn't that make the [.

Real Madrid Calls “Backsies” on Beckham Deal

The Silly Season April 11, 2008 @ 3:40 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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Lalas Forgot to Triple Stamp the Double Stamp By Ramón Garza In a shock move Real Madrid is calling backsies on letting David Beckham walk out the door of the Bernebéu and into waiting arms of America. With what could be called one of the worst mental lapses in history, reports are coming out of Spain that during [.

Teams From Across the Globe Have Started Turning Toward Gymnasts

The Silly Season April 10, 2008 @ 2:03 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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Hope to Raise Level of Post-Goal Celebrations By Nigel Davies It's a strange world we live in when sliding across half the pitch on your knees toward your supporters is no longer an acceptable post-goal celebration. However, this is increasingly becoming the case as players have started attempting to "one up" each other with high-flying acrobatic maneuvers.

Opinion: Bribes Should Be Out in the Open and Accepted by FIFA

The Silly Season April 4, 2008 @ 6:47 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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"I Can't Make a Proper Line If the Game May be Fixed!" By Your Neighborhood Bookie As a bookmaker and bet taker, nothing is more frustrating to me than getting screwed out of money. Bribes and purposeful tanking on the part of players are killing me. Not only does this stuff cost me lots of money, [.

Derby County to Play Gretna FC in a Historic Battle of the Worst

The Silly Season April 2, 2008 @ 7:35 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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One Time Exhibition May Turn into a Yearly Battle By Thomas McStewart After last Saturday's action Derby County have been mathematically relegated from the Premier League, however with one more crucial loss they can gain a new title and add a trophy to their case, for being the worst top-flight team in Britain.

Increasing Number of Teams Have Bought the Wrong Brazilians

The Silly Season March 31, 2008 @ 6:19 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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Many Clubs Confused by Players with the Same Name By Fred Watching the "Samba Boys" ply their trade across the globe can remind those in attendance that football truly is "the beautiful game." But there is another aspect of so many Brazilians playing abroad, one less recognized and infinitely more sinister.

FIFA to Make Rare Beckham Exception

The Silly Season March 20, 2008 @ 2:16 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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To Allow David to Suit up for US By Nigel Davies In what is being temporarily called the "Beckham Exception", Sepp Blatter has announced that FIFA will not stand in the way of David Beckham switching associations and playing for the United States. The "Beckham Exception" is a proposed new FIFA rule that will allow players "who [.

Administrative: Bringing Some Structure to Ragtag Site

The Silly Season March 18, 2008 @ 3:49 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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I know there has been another lack of posts, and I'm sure any hardcore readers (do I have any?) will wonder what's going on. While I've had my moments of writer's block, I think it'll be best for my sanity to establish some sort of structure. Not to mention the internet deciding that it wants to [.

An Interview With IFFU President Thierry Moreau

The Silly Season March 13, 2008 @ 1:49 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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Head of the International Federation of Football Underdogs While many football fanaticos have heard of the G-14, the former home of elite soccer clubs across Europe, it takes a true fan to have heard of the International Federation of Football Underdogs. Here to clear up any misconceptions and give us some basic history of the organization [.

Art Project: How to Design Your Own Racist Banner

The Silly Season March 11, 2008 @ 4:18 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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Get In on the Fun! By Diedrich Schneider Football is truly the world's game, and what better way to get in on it than through blind hatred of another race, ethnic minority, or religion? This hatred is not indicative of the game itself, but rather the social and political ties that clubs often have.

Once Proud Bigsoccer Thread Now Lies in Ruin

The Silly Season March 10, 2008 @ 1:25 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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Haven For Trolls, Idiots, and Grammar Nazis By William Rendo It started out as a place for the free exchange of ideas amongst some of soccer's brightest minds, but how now become a laughing stock amongst the Bigsoccer community. As many posters return to check replies to the message they left only a few days ago, they've [.

This Week’s Classifieds

The Silly Season March 7, 2008 @ 2:00 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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Pet For Sale: Selling one lapdog whose name is Avram. He takes orders very well, but lacks creativity and looks generally gloomy. Not licensed, although we're working on that as we speak. Simply don't have time for him anymore and need to upgrade to someone with slightly more personality. Contact R.

Administrative: Lack of Posts

The Silly Season March 4, 2008 @ 1:04 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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Hello people that are still checking in. Sorry for the lack of posts recently but I've been really sick. I should be working on some new articles very soon and The Silly Season will be in full swing. Should be back and ready to go in a few days.

Op/Ed: I Can Make Ronaldo Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

The Silly Season February 29, 2008 @ 4:13 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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"We Can Rebuild Him, We Have the Technology" By Dr. Jonathan Williams Ladies and gentlemen, the future has arrived. We have the technology to rebuild Ronaldo's knee and make some other improvements as well. Originally, our medical staff wanted to simply remove Ronaldo's brain and insert it into a robot, however that plan wasn't feasible according to [.