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If I had to count the number of times that ESPN has ruined Premier League games for me this
season by running latest scores on their BottomLine Ticker while I'm recording games on Fox Soccer
Channel or Setanta Sports, it would be definitely number more than a dozen.
Yes, before the readers respond by saying that you should be lucky ESPN shows any games, let me
add that I appreciate everything ESPN has done this season in terms of Premier League coverage by
raising the bar.
For the next ten weeks our focus at Major League Soccer Talk will be Landon Donovan.
We will cover other news, but the defining/signature player of American football is on his way to
conquering the world's most popular sports league: for us that is an overriding story. Perhaps
nothing has been more important for the potential respect level of the American player in Britain
since John Harkes walked on the Wembley pitch eighteen years ago for the League Cup
Final.
Arsenal-Everton is the one match today stills scheduled to take place despite the inclement
weather enveloping Southern England. Stay tuned to MLS Talk for the latest on American football
hero Landon Donovan's Premier League debut.
Related posts:
- Mission Merseyside Coming in January on MLS Talk!
Its been about 3 weeks since 2009 ended and looking back, it was a memorable year. We know the
events and the stars that made it memorable and people think about the team of the year, or player
of the year, or coach of the year, and so on. Its now time to crown Pep Guardiola with a bigger
title, the best coach/manager in all sports.
Most kids like a good game of catch. To give players a fun alternative to soccer practice, turn
futbol practice into football practice. Pick quarterbacks and receivers and then have them run pass
patterns. The only difference is that instead of throwing the ball being thrown, kick the ball.
So perhaps it's time for you all to give up football for hockey. Iced hockey, not that dreadful
hook sport beloved in Pakistan and private girls schools.
First, let's put to bed any notion that England are somehow weak for not playing soccer in the
snow. It's just not on. It's football, not American football; you're not that hard.
photo credit: laszlo-photo
After a large snowfall caused the postponement of many Premier League matches the league is in a
tough position attempting to reschedule the matches and explain themselves as the "angry mob"
begins to form over how the league will handle its schedule.
I'm getting a lot of questions about the offside trap lately, so I thought I'd write a primer.
It has to be useful to someone, right?
The Offside Rule
The offside rule attempts to prevent soccer from descending into a game of long punts towards
crowds of players milling bout the goal, as is essentially equivalent to American Football's strict
rules on the forward pass.
In his chapter on Brazil in The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup, John Lanchester
writes:
"Most football writing is about that experience, one way or another; in the overall run of
writing about football, most of it is about the epiphenomenon of being a fan rather than the
phenomenon of the game itself.
One of my favourite books is Winter: Notes from Montana by Rick Bass. It is a diary of sorts about
Bass and his partner moving to a remote valley in the Northwestern USA, near Yaak, Montana. He
arrives just in time to begin preparations for the ferocious Montana winter. He knows that foot
after foot of snow will come and render him housebound for weeks at a time.
Yesterday marked six months of existence for this blog. Considering how many blogs there are that
fail to live past the initial excitement of the first few posts, I've decided to celebrate. Well,
not exactly celebrate, but at least mark the occasion. So, today instead of telling you about life
as a American football supporter living in England, I am going to tell you about life as a blogger
writing about being an American football supporter living in England.
Some of the boys, including former high school place kicker Kerry Zavagnin, imitated Ryan Succop
today at the Chiefs' indoor facility. Looks like Kurt Morsink would make a decent American football
kicker:
