To all you self loathing Seattle fans waiting for my mea culpa after the Houston game? No, I don't want to deal with the loss either. Shit, did you see what I had to say to Creepy Jose Romero yesterday?

Right now I'm not anxious to watch MLS games. I don't want to go the Home Depot and watch the Galaxy game.

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And God said, Let there be beer. And there was beer.

And Arseblogger saw the beer, that it was good: and lo he did drink the beer.

And while God was off inventing firmament for the earth and fowl to multiply, Arseblogger did invent the *boilk* and the *boilk* was bad and he could still taste last night's chips.

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AMSL Hard at Work
It's not often you get honoured with your name in a post title.
How did we get here exactly?
Well, last Sunday morning, as part of my weekend gig writing the Sweeper at pitchinvasion.net, I attempted to reveal what I thought were the underlying ideological fault lines in the on-going salary cap debate in Em El Es between Ben Knight and Fake Sigi. Click to continue reading...

He's a hard-working guy who wants the best for soccer, and I didn't handle the whole situation very well at all. So I offer a complete and utter retraction and apology for not handling the situation better and for calling him a no-talent hack. He could have been more thorough, but I could have been less of a jerk.

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It has finally come to pass. Juan Carlos Osorio has resigned as Head Coach of the New York Red Bulls after accumulating one of the worst single season records in MLS history, culminating with an embarrassing loss to the lowly W Connection in the CONCACAF Champions League competition.

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Spain. Spain started out cool, calm, and collected, tiki-taka-ing right on over poor New Zealand with a 5-0 blowout. Here I confess that it really never occurred to me that they wouldn't be in the final. They entered the tournament with a winning streak of more than 30 games; who was going to defeat them en route? Click to continue reading...

Mea culpa.

I've ignored my little space in the football blogosphere long enough. I promise to get back at it--and soon. Some personal issues (nothing serious) required my undivided attention since my last post on Nov. 17 of last year; jeez that's awful when you say it out loud.

I missed the bulk of the league and Champions League seasons--well, I followed everything, I just didn't blog about it.

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(Il "mea culpa" di Bolt nei confronti del suo popolo)
Qualche giorno fa, in un'intervista, il velocista Usain Bolt (campione olimpico e primatista mondiale di 100 e 200 metri) aveva confessato, ad una rivista tedesca, di aver fatto uso di marijuana in gioventù, aggiungendo, inoltre, che "quando sei un bambino in Giamaica, impari come rullare (girare, ndr) una canna". Click to continue reading...

Consider yesterday's post a double-fault. Not that I'm apologizing for my befuddlement about the media fascination over Wimbledon, but even before I read the mainly negative comments this morning I knew something was amiss. My original idea simply wasn't articulated properly and ended up coming off as petty whining. Click to continue reading...