Today's post derives from a comment posted by Adrian yesterday. It is fair to say that his
opinions are not in keeping with many on this site but they do represent an interesting
counterargument that is worthy of debate.
RVP, Song and now maybe Walcott although the latest reports suggest he may stay.
Today's post derives from a comment posted by Adrian yesterday. It is fair to say that his
opinions are not in keeping with many on this site but they do represent an interesting
counterargument that is worthy of debate.
RVP, Song and now maybe Walcott although the latest reports suggest he may stay.
The last nine months or so have not been easy for Liverpool Football Club. Winning the League
Cup couldn't paper over the cracks in the playing side of the clubs affairs, with a disappointing
Premier League performance being enough to end the return of Kenny Dalglish. Since then, though,
things have been a little more optimistic looking.
Arsenal defender Per Mertesacker is confident that the arrival of compatriot Lukas Podolski over
the summer will go a long way in changing the team's reputation as one that cracks easily under
pressure.
The Gunners' fragile reputation is largely attributable to seven straight years without a trophy
with a relatively inexperienced squad that has lost influential stars such as Thierry Henry, Cesc
Fabregas, and Samir Nasri over the course of the dry spell.
So the 131st FA Cup Final is nearly upon us, as Liverpool and Chelsea look to paper over the
cracks of their poor League form by their standards at least.
It also could be a day of redemption for record transfer holders Fernando Torres and Andy
Carroll with Torres looking to put one over on his old club.
Town's first 3 points of the season are an absolute relief.
When the fixture list came out in June there was a real consideration that we may not pick up any
points for the first 3 games of the season.
I hoped for a draw against Blackburn, but did not expect it, and I fully envisaged us coming home
from Watford empty handed: how could we dare to think about anything else against the 'bogey team'!
Against Colorado away last week, Chivas deployed a 4-1-4-1 formation with Juan Pablo Angel up
front as the lone striker. Chivas failed to get the ball to the aging striker and the few times he
was able to hold up the ball, he had little support from his teammates.
Defending Guanabara Trophy (an annual Rio de Janeiro state tournament) winners Flamengo suffered
a semifinal defeat to Vasco da Gama and Flamengo striker Deivid is the target of a lot of the
blame. And a lot of jokes.
In the 35th minute, with Ronaldinho's Flamengo and Vasco even at 1-1, Deivid was set up right in
front of an empty net with a terrific pass through the goalkeepers legs right by the endline.
The MLS SuperDraft is a bit of crapshoot, almost no matter where you are picking. If you
happened to catch my article at SB Nation Soccer (link here), I tried to illustrate just how much
of a crapshoot the draft really is. The later you get in the draft, predictably, the more of a
crapshoot it becomes.
Northern Premier League side Kendal Town FC have signed a frankly ridiculous sponsorship deal
that will see the players having wear fake beards at all times training, travelling and
warming-up.
Kendal have signed a deal with US firm Rosetta Trading, who produce the 'Beard Beanie' a woolly
hat with a knitted beard stitched onto it which are apparently massive sellers in the USA according
to Rosetta themselves.
It is very much a sign of the times that £50,000 is not a great deal of money to a football
club in trouble playing in the fifth division of the English league system these days. An ongoing
debate over the eventual destination of precisely this amount of money, however, seems to be
throwing a spanner into the works of an attempt to rescue Darlington Football Club this weekend,
and this isn't the only area into which it could be regarded as having a malign influence.
Slavek and Slavko (TSG is not sure yet which one is which) welcome you to the Euros
It's Euro time! You didn't think we here at TSG were going to let this competition slide thru
the cracks did you? Some of us here at TSG, need as many excuses as possible to post pictures of
handsome Franck Ribery.
Se llegó el dÃa y estamos a unos cuantos minutos de que se cierre el Torneo Clausura 2012. Con
Rayados y Santos ubicados como los 2 mejores equipos del torneo se disfrutará el dÃa de hoy de un
excelente fútbol.
A pesar de todo lo que se ha dicho últimamente, sigo confiando en que será un gran
partido.
Estamos a dÃas de que inicie la Eurocopa de naciones 2012 en Polonia y Ucrania e inician los
especiales acerca de este súper evento deportivo. Resulta ser que la revista TIME en su portada
mas reciente ha colocado la figura de Wayne Rooney con el uniforme de la selección de la rosa como
la Tragedia del fútbol ingles, ¿la selección mas decepcionante de la historia del fútbol?
Una de las camisetas mas cotizadas en la actualidad es la de Brasil ,el paÃs que albergara la
siguiente copa mundial en el año 2014. Casi nadie habla de Ronaldinho quien alguna vez fue
considerado el mejor del mundo, ahora su figura naciente es quien modelo la camiseta brasileña
Neymar junto a su compañero en Santos Ganso.
Es la primera vez que un jugador de fútbol aparece en solitario en la portada de esta revista, de
las mas importantes del mundo el TIME, ya han aparecido deportistas como Tiger Woods, Muhammad
AlÃ, Bjön Borg o la super estrella Michael Jordan.
La revista estadounidense TIME ha elegido al jugador argentino del FC Barcelona Leo Messi como
protagonista de su próxima portada.
While we sit and wait on the US Open Cup bracket to get filled out a little more, time to get to
a Wednesday quick pick.
Colorado Rapids at D.C. United: Tough game for the Rapids, a midweek cross
country game, the last time they did one of these it did not go well for them.
Well, well, well. Somebody up there clearly likes us because yesterday's results mean that we've
gone one more chance to secure third place.
Our trip to West Brom on the final day of the season will provide us with one more opportunity
to finish in third and thus qualify for the Champions League next season.
You would expect the Chelsea fans to be unanimously more than up for this considering our recent
form compared to theirs. But browsing the Chelsea forums, they are treating this one with more
caution than you would expect. The issues that existed before AVB was sacked are still present,
they're just hidden by the shroud of joy that comes with a new manager.
1. Days like yesterday have the potential to win you or lose you the title. When it's 1-1 with
90 minutes played after a lacklustre second half you're thinking it's a day that could lose you the
title. It doesn't matter that Norwich have performed so well this season, sitting in 8th place
despite getting beaten, we needed the points.
The race for the Bundesliga title is getting very interesting with each passing week as Bayern
Muinch, Borussia Dortmund and Schalke all notched up wins to ensure that there was no let up in the
league standings.
All three teams are level on 40 points with fourth place Borussia Mochengladabch only a point
behind.
We have mentioned in previous posts that we believe one of the major impediments to the growth
of soccer in the U.S. is that of the costs to play. Talented kids have often fallen through the
cracks due to the fees associated with the transition/progression from recreational to select
soccer and especially those that come from low-socio economic areas.
This article titled "Euro 2012: Portugal coach Paulo Bento denies rift with Cristiano Ronaldo"
was written by Stuart James in Lviv, for The Guardian on Tuesday 12th June 2012 18.43 UTC
All is not well inside the Portugal camp. Paulo Bento, the Portugal coach, has seen his tactics
questioned by two of his former team-mates, Luis Figo and Rui Costa, Cristiano Ronaldo's behaviour
has come under the microscope after he stomped off the pitch against Germany on Saturday at the
final whistle and Helder Postiga was cross-examined at Tuesday's press conference about his
credentials to lead the line against Denmark on Wednesday evening.
This is rather old and no one knows how it slipped betwixt the cracks, but it did. No more.
Napoli fans are some of Europe's most passionate. Which is polite code for saying, "They get
in trouble with the popo." So passionate they'd like to spend eternity basking in the blue and
Marek Hamsik fluffing his hair and stuff.
After a shaky start to the season and having already been denied a couple of cracks at sealing the
SPL was there a danger that Celtic would stutter to the finish line?
No.
A 6-0 thumping of Kilmarnock and that was that. The title done and dusted by 2.45pm on the 7th of
April. Efficient.
At the back end of a turbulent and degrading fortnight where all things Wolverhampton Wanderers
were concerned, a chink of light appeared through the widening cracks to lift the spirits that had
previously hit rock bottom. Although the departure of...
It has been almost a year since SBI's last installment of You Write the Caption, and that one
came after a two-year hiatus for one of the site's original and most popular series. We plan on
changing that after feedback from readers who told us we should bring the series back.
For those of you unfamiliar, You Write the Caption is when we post a funny photo and allow our
readers to take their cracks at writing a caption to go with the photo.
