'Tis the week for some great soccer shopping deals. A rare and brand new coupon codes at the Onion Bag soccer shop for 10% off any purchase (including clearance items). Check it out below. The offer expires on Friday, November 20th, 2009. Posted in Coupon Codes Tagged: Coupons, onionbag.com Click to continue reading...

This man struggles to sell hard copies.
He certainly doesn't have any trouble bulging the ol' onion bag (no Tommy Smyth) against the Blackeyes.

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With the recent conclusion of the World Cup qualifying matches I thought this an appropriate time to tell you about the one and only time I myself have attended one. This was a few years before I settled in England, back when I was not really settled anywhere except for whatever cheap hotel room I had stowed my backpack in for the night. Click to continue reading...

Oh man, do we have a barn burner on our hands tonight or what?!? It's going to be incendiary, a real slobber knocker. People of Earth, it's the Dynamo versus Isidro Metapan!

Approximately 10 hours from now, just 10 short hours, we can relive the glory, the passion, the edge-of-your-seat, non-stop heart-pounding action that once captivated the heavens above and the world below.

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'Tis the week for some great soccer shopping deals. A rare and brand new coupon codes at the Onion Bag soccer shop for 15% off any purchase (including clearance items). Check it out below. The offer expires October 25th, 2009. Posted in Coupon Codes Tagged: Coupons, onionbag.com Click to continue reading...

For those that don't find personal finance interesting on its own, VISA has released Financial Soccer. It's a web game that uses shiny colors, flashy graphics, and the lure of electronic soccer to trick you into learning how to balance your budget:

Part game and part educational tool, Financial Soccer teaches the fundamentals of money management, such as saving, budgeting, responsible spending, and the wise use of credit and debit cards.

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Portugal jumped back into World Cup qualifying contention with what appears to have been a hard fought 3-0 win over Hungary. I'm not exactly sure what's going on in the above picture, but from what I can gather, it looks like Pedro Mendes (front left) is reenacting a pose from a passion play while punching Roland Juhasz in the face, which caused him to release a nasty onion fart that Jose Bosingwa caught a whiff of.

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So we all know that Rio will be hosting the 2016 Olympics... but the man of the moment has to be Felipe Andreoli, the host of CQC, a popular TV show in Latin America and parts of Europe (you may remember this Chilean tipo teasing players at the Bernabeu).

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This morning's blog is brought to you with a big, fat 'meh'.

Instead of looking ahead to the next Arsenal game we are stuck here twiddling our thumbs and doodling on post-its trying to wile away the time. Do any of you care that Theo Walcott has been called up the England U21 squad for a game against Macedonia on Friday?

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In an emotional article written on his personal website Persija & Indonesia striker Bambang Pamungkas has given the background to all the rumours that surrounded him before he extended his contract with Persija.
He admits that at one stage he was 80% sure he would sign for Sriwijaya but asked for more time to consider. Click to continue reading...

The finest comedic talent in this country, writing and performing, is, without question, working at The Onion.

Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids

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Did you know that for the first time ever on American television the English Premier League, the most popular soccer league (in terms of ratings) in this country, can now be seen almost weekly in hi def?

Did you know that coverage of the UEFA Champions League has taken a quantum step forward from announcers calling games in some distant studio rather than being there live, that here is no longer an extremely limited selection of games on TV and that you'll never have to hear the over-used "bulge in the ol' onion bag" phrase ever again?

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AIK supporters all over the world are walking around with a smile on their face right now. Among all the supporters in Sweden there are none as starving for success as AIK fans. For the moment we're on the very top of Allsvenskan. This despite a horrendous away record against Halmstad, an early Halmstad goal in the first half and a heavy rain that almost ruined everything. Click to continue reading...

For those of you who missed the news, Altidore's British work permit rejection has been overturned on appeal. After the initial bump in the road, there was some question about whether/when he could start playing for Hull City. The answer: this weekend's opener against Chelsea. Let's hope he can put a bulge in the auld onion bag, yeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEES!

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Ladies and gentlemen, it gives us great pleasure to tell you about our new podcast called The Sound of Football.
Each week, we, your-ever giving team of crack writers from Some People Are On The Pitch and The Onion Bag will be providing you with half an hour of football-related badinage on the latest topics from the beautiful game, and in show number 1 we preview the Premier League season and review the summer's best and worst transfers. Click to continue reading...

Here's a special announcement for those of you that produce football blogs in London and the surrounding areas.
Socrates is a new event where you can get together and meet fellow football bloggers from around the capital to exchange thoughts, ideas and some good old-fashioned banter.
Organised by Some People Are On The Pitch, The Onion Bag and Two Footed Tackle, Socrates will be holding its first get-together in Vauxhall, London on September 9th 2009. Click to continue reading...

I have seen a few of you include links to your own blogs when commenting. I'm not above letting someone use this forum to promote their own site. Would you be interested in posting here, as a guest?

Now I can't let just anything to be posted here. We all have limits, some more than others.

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Soccer is the most popular sport in the world and has literally become a mass phenomenon. The game of soccer involves two teams of eleven players, a referee, a ball and two goals. The objective of the game is to put the ball in the old onion bag using your feet or your head. The [...] Click to continue reading...

Soccer is the most popular sport in the world and has literally become a mass phenomenon. The game of soccer involves two teams of eleven players, a referee, a ball and two goals. The objective of the game is to put the ball in the old onion bag using your feet or your head. The [...] Click to continue reading...

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Are you both in a state of mourning over the death of Michael Jackson, and enjoying the glow of the U.S. national team's Confederations Cup success? If so, the folks at The Onion Bag have come up with your dream jersey.

The above jersey is NOT official, but an Onion Bag creation, so no, Oguchi Onyewu did not give up his number to honor Michael Jackson.

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Are you both in a state of mourning over the death of Michael Jackson, and enjoying the glow of the U.S. national team's Confederations Cup success? If so, the folks at The Onion Bag have come up with your dream jersey.

The above jersey is NOT official, but an Onion Bag creation, so no, Oguchi Onyewu did not give up his number to honor Michael Jackson.

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This thought first came into my head some months ago when I saw The Onion's sarcastic preview of an 'English soccer game', spotted by Brian Phillips over at the excellent Run of Play:English Soccer... Click to continue reading...

According to these two websites (via the Onion Bag and EPL Talk) I should be supporting Arsenal in the Premier League and Portugal in internationals.
Which just goes to support my thesis that the Internet hates me and everything I hold dear. Click to continue reading...

After his appearances as a Football pundit on live TV recently, Joe Cole obviously fancies himself as 'the man' in front of the camera.
Talking here to Chelsea TV, he doesn't hold back when candidly expressing his opinions on, amongst other things, the lack of dress sense in the Chelsea dressing room and Florent Malouda's hair. Click to continue reading...

It's the two teams that I think most would agree are the best in Europe - actual champions of their leagues with a game or games to spare, and I'll be blogging it live tomorrow here at Fighting Talker.
Manchester United and Barcelona meet in the Champions League final; the last to be screened on the ESPN family of networks (at least for a little while). Click to continue reading...

I didn't think I was going to, but I am! I am just supremely excited about this. It's not just the chance to cover the game and see the city. After what happened last year, I am on deck for some redemption, and this is my chance to prove I can go to a Champions League final without falling in love and abandoning my live blog midway through the second half.

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Firstly, let me make one thing clear. Ryan Giggs is a fantastic player. He's a credit to his club and to the game. If anyone deserves a player of the year award, it's the Welshman. You could definitely argue that there were other nominees that have played much better this season. However, as I suggested on the Onion Bag this week, you get the feeling that, like John Wayne in True Grit and Paul Newman in The Colour Of Money, it was quite simply Giggs' turn and that is good enough for me. Click to continue reading...

Seriously. Worst. Jersey. Ever.
Credit Unprofessional Foul for digging through their closet for the find...
Now the links:

• Cute bit spotted on The Onion. [Run of Play]
  
• Defoe is back after two months. [FourFourTwo]
  
• Looking at MLS expansion.

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Something to read while you watch Michael Owen torture a 13 year old boy... Messi and co. Matryoshka dolls (Barcelona Offside) It's a long way down (EPL Talk) More sleepy footballers at (Dirty Tackle) The Onion thinks you're pretentious (Run of Play) MLS power rankings (MLS Offside) Is football too subtle? Click to continue reading...

Google Image search "Tommy Smyth" and this is what ya get.
With ESPN losing the broadcast rights to the Champions League, we might not have the crazy ol' Irishman on the airwaves anymore. But he knows he's hated:

"There's a petition on the internet which apparently has about 500 signatures to get me fired," said Smyth in a recent interview with the Sunday Independent in Dublin.

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Club Sport Emelec are based in the beautiful Ecuadorean city of Guayaquil. The club was founded by a New Yorker, George Capwell. An electric company executive in the United States, Capwell founded the Empresa Eléctrica del Ecuador, (Em-El-Ec) an electric company in Guayaquil, and decided to start an amateur sports league for employees of the company. Click to continue reading...

Kevin Davies led Bolton to a 3-2 victory over Tottenham. Click to continue reading...