The Pitch Invasion podcast, presented by Peter Wilt and Tom Dunmore, is now available on iTunes,
so please take a second and leave a rating there if you enjoy the show!
If you haven't listened to it, the inaugural episode was released last week, and featured Wilt
discussing how to start an MLS club with Montreal Impact Jesse Marsch, along with Dunmore
interviewing former Supporters Direct chief executive Dave Boyle about UK and US fan culture.
Almost five years into the existence of Pitch Invasion, you can now hear the dulcet tones of
Pitch Invasion editor Tom Dunmore and regular contributor Peter Wilt on a new monthly podcast,
featuring interviews with interesting people from the world of soccer.
It's available to stream or download below, and will show up on iTunes shortly.
A significant portion of the proceeds ($10 per scarf) from all pre-orders this week of the
new Pitch Invasion bar scarf will be donated to benefit the Operation Pitch Invasion charity in
Portland, Oregon. Here's why...
When supporters of the Portland Timbers, organized by the 107ist Trust and Timbers Army,
announced in 2011 that they were launching a new charity called Operation Pitch Invasion to support
the growth of the game at the grassroots level in Portland, Pitch Invasion's interest was piqued by
more than just the Doppelgänger.
With the Pitch Invasion book release party tonight in Chicago, today seemed a propitious time to
launch the new Pitch Invasion online store.
Through the weekend, you can take 20% off all the store items by entering the coupon code "PI"
at checkout. The store features The Very Best of Pitch Invasion book, stylish PI stickers and
buttons, and an all new Pitch Invasion scarf an embroidered bar scarf available in very limited
quantities via pre-order until January 30th.
Pitch Invasion Press is proud to add its second title to the Pitch Invasion ebookstore,
An Illustrated Guide to Soccer & Spanish by Elliott Turner.
The execution of this marvelous concept to teach a little bit of Spanish through a little bit of
soccer is as good as the idea, with a series of charming illustrations by Erik Ebeling making it a
breezy, informative and enjoyable read.
Psst, you might have noticed we've scaled Pitch Invasion down to periodic lengthy essays and
photo features. We're happier this way, without feeling we need to post every day and with more
focus on crafting quality posts (hopefully!).
But we still find interesting stuff elsewhere every day.
Google+ has finally allowed "brands" on its social network. Check out the Pitch Invasion page
here. We're going to try and use it more creatively than just as another tool to push out links and
the like as we're embarking on some other projects, particularly publishing, we'll be posting some
behind the scenes stuff and most importantly looking for feedback from readers as we put projects
together.
If you follow the Pitch Invasion twitter account, you might have seen mention of a new
side-project: Stadium Porn, a site all about stadiums, not porn. So far, we have lasciviously
looked at the Amex in Brighton, England; Estadio de FĂştbol Monterrey in Mexico; MineirĂŁo, Belo
Horizonte, Brazil; and Stadio di Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
Pitch Invasion is getting into the eBook publishing business. We have a couple of original books
in the works, and we'd like to know just a little about your interest in eBooks. We would really
appreciate your feedback as we get this venture underway.
Please fill out the form below and hit submit one lucky person randomly drawn from all
the submissions by September 30th 2011 will win a $25 Amazon gift certificate!
There won't be much action on here til early next week, as your editor is finishing up a book
manuscript a publisher is eagerly all too eagerly awaiting delivery of. After that, we'll be back
in full flow with the new European season upon us. If you're desperate for some PI goodness, check
out the "Best of Pitch Invasion" rotating set of articles on the right side here, and follow us on
Twitter @pitchinvasion for other random ramblings.
OK, so it's not exactly like communism and fascism meeting at the edges of the lunatic fringe,
but that might make sense as an explanation when you find me writing as a featured blogger at
BigSoccer.
BigSoccer and Pitch Invasion are, as much as anyone knows about the former talking shop of
American soccer and the latter obscure niche, not necessarily considered to be bedfellows.
Maybe it's the remarkable new design at the Run of Play, the continued incisive and original
coverage of American soccer at Fake Sigi or the daily compendium of excellence that is Must Read
Soccer, but I've been feeling things are a little stale at Pitch Invasion lately relative to
others' work.
Forgive us a moment of self-congratulation, as I received word today from across the pond back
home in England that Pitch Invasion had won a Gold award in the When Saturday Comes Web Awards. The
magazine's selections are a who's-who of some of the best football sites on the web, and it's an
honour to be chosen among them.
I didn't notice until glancing at the Wordpress dashboard just now, but the previous post on
here was number 1,000. It took us almost two and a half years of posting to reach four figures,
with no fewer than 37 different writers appearing here, to whom I am eternally grateful.
Modesty is for chumps, or something. It's pretty cool that Pitch Invasion has been nominated for
Best Soccer Blog in the 2009 Best of U.S. Soccer Awards run by the federation down
the street from me in Chicago, so thank you to every reader who took the time to put us up for
this.
Readers and friends: I have never expected to make a living from this blog, but it has become a
joy to write and edit over the past three years, taking up about 20 hours of my time per week. I'd
like to be able to keep committing that much time, but it is getting increasingly hard to justify
as I'm in grad school and I don't have any other income to speak of.
Pitch Invasion still exists, despite the recent lack of updates. A myriad of events, including
moving homes, being out of town and having no internet access at home has meant I've fallen way
behind on updating and responding to email. I'll start working through the backlog shortly. Normal
service will be resumed in the coming days, [.
Pitch Invasion is once again looking for regular or occasional contributors. Please drop a line to
tom [at] pitchinvasion.net if interested; including a story idea or two is always a good idea. I
also wanted to see what you, dear reader, thought of the Daily Sweeper we ran for the past few
weeks. Did you enjoy [.
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