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When it rains, it pours some sugar me. Wait, what?
Marilyn Lange, 1975 Playmate of the Year and 1976 NASL fourth round draft pick. Amazing.
Classic D.C. United + early Kings of Leon = old school².
Note: That equation is most likely mathematically incorrect in addition to being mathematically
impossible.
I just wrote recently in my column in the Evansville Courier Press about how far American soccer
has come since the 1990 World Cup, so it was a pleasant surprise to see Andrea Canales' column on
the 1990 US team.
Since that World Cup, I have gotten the opportunity to know a number of the key members of that
team.
Ah the 70's. What a fantastic era it must have been with all the bands in jump suits & afros,
muscle cars and professional athletes --soccer players no less!-- on TV encouraging you to harm
your body for money. Nowawdys every group dresses like sh*t, gas-gussling is frowned upon and no
one is allowed to sell you smokes on TV not even professional athletes.
Taking a page out of Lothar Matthäus' Book of Macking, Back in the Day England, Tottenham,
Manchester United and West Ham hitman Teddy Sheringham MBE is supposedly about to shack up with his
23-year old squeeze Kristina Andriotis. Nuff respect to 43-year old Teddy for proving that some of
the old boys still have it even [.
By CARL ELDRIDGE Ian Wright is shooting from the lip in today's Sun and,
despite never successfully managing one of the biggest clubs in the world, has decided to tell
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Wrighty reckons we lose matches because we get bullied on the pitch and that back in the day,
players such as PV4 and TA6 would have stood toe-to-toe with those who wanted a scrap before
earning the right to play their football.
Looks like the bell finally rang at the Old School. The Ezra Hendrickson era is over.
Cobi Jones and Bruce Arena wax nostalgic on U.S. vs Mexico both on video and in print. Hopefully
the spirit of '02 will be with the boys tonight in C-bus; somebody should have clipped one of
Cobi's locks and stuffed it in his socks for good luck.
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Remember when ABC News traveled deep into darkest Derbyshire to warn us all that the sports world
knows no greater scourge than the drunken, English football fan? Sheila MacVicar tried to warn us
y'all and yet somehow a small, ridiculous minority of American soccer fans decided not to listen
and still spend their Saturday's playing hooligan much to the confusion and derision of normal,
passionate, sane soccer fans.
Can we do this again? Please? And with more of whatever these two were drinking? What I would give
to have Jimmy Conrad handling this.
When I was a kid, V was the coolest/creepiest show on television. I loved this show because it had
everything a Regan-era little boy could want in a TV show: lizard people, rebels, spaceships,
fake-ass lazer beams and hot chicks with big hair in red leather outfits. Basically it was
un-f*ckwithable.
Awaydays is out now (in Europe at least) and The Firm is coming. So can we all just agree to
collectively forget Green Street Hooligans now? I would also appreciate it if we could all start
wearing old-school Fila tracksuits at all times...so fly.
Oh sh*t y'all! It's penutbutterjellytime over at ABC; they are bringing back the classic 80's
sci-fi series V and I am as stoked as a hippie at a Birkenstock outlet. I loved this show when I
was a kid. Remember the alien baby? What about those red leather outfits that made everyone look
like they where Thriller-era MJ or Raw-era Eddie Murphy?
One of my favorite MLS promos popped up out of the blue on Vimeo today. The funny thing is that
with the way he played early in the season this could have been produced in 2009 instead of 1999.
This season has been a complete sh*t-show for Liverpool supporters and I feel bad for them. Mind
you they are two places ahead of my beloved Fulham, but for them that's not saying much at all. So
since it's the holidays I'd like to give all my Reds-loving friends a gift from years past. And
even if you have nothing but scorn in your heart for them, you have to love the vocal, undulating
crowd in this clip; I guess this is the reason everyone mythologizes The Kop.
I've been cashing in a gang of Amazon.com gift cards over the past few weeks in hopes of fattening
up the rare books room in The Largest Collection of Soccer-Related Literature in Eastern Monmouth
County™. Pictured above is a priceless relic I was able to pick up for less than $5 (the
Tacoma Public Library's trash is my treasure).
Did you ever see that skit on Chappelle's Show where the black NYC cop hears the beginning of
Poison's "Every Rose Has It's Thorn", throws up his hands in the air and screams
"Oh! That's my sh*t right there!" then looks at Chappelle and says "I can't help it,
I grew up in the suburbs." DM is kinda like that for me except I didn't grown up in the
suburbs but within earshot of one of the first radio stations in America to adopt an alternative
format, Dallas' KDGE 94.
American soccer's original giant killer y'all...the legacy lives on. R.I.P
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Turn back the clock to a time when His Ginger Majesty™ had facial hair and Tommy Smyth had hair.
Should Charlie Sheen get the lead role in the never-to-be-released Mauricio Cienfuegos biopic? I
don't know if he can actually play --and that really doesn't matter because there will be stunt
doubles for that part-- but sweet, holy God in heaven has he got the look down pat.
