Players who crowd the touchline during a throw in might get surprised if they aren't looking. Click to continue reading...

Players who crowd the touchline during a throw in might get surprised if they aren't looking. Click to continue reading...

Soccer players in U10 through U14 often experience an odd heel pain that seems to be concentrated at the back and on the lower sides of the heel. Places a normal ankle twist or sprain wouldn't hurt. Turns out there is a very common condition among young soccer players called Sever's disease that can result in intense heel pain if not properly treated or prevented. Click to continue reading...

Soccer players in U10 through U14 often experience an odd heel pain that seems to be concentrated at the back and on the lower sides of the heel. Places a normal ankle twist or sprain wouldn't hurt. Turns out there is a very common condition among young soccer players called Sever's disease that can result in intense heel pain if not properly treated or prevented. Click to continue reading...

Soccer players in U10 through U14 often experience an odd heel pain that seems to be concentrated at the back and on the lower sides of the heel. Places a normal ankle twist or sprain wouldn't hurt. Turns out there is a very common condition among young soccer players called Sever's disease that can result in intense heel pain if not properly treated or prevented. Click to continue reading...

Some things in life are inevitable. If you are born with less than perfect eye sight, you will squint. If your right leg is a tad shorter than your left? Expect a limp. As is the case with being a Metro Bulls follower - if you choose fandom, expect some hardship.

This season, it comes in the form of a new coach and a very thin squad.

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Champions League predictions It's European time folks and I'm after some spons or I'll have to start pulling in the purse strings, what better than check out these little belters. Barcelona (3) v Celtic (2) Fawlty Towers waiter Manuel would have been raising a San Migeul to Messi & co after they broke Celtics home record a fortnight ago in a breathtaking end-to-end stormer at Parkhead. Click to continue reading...

Any other DC United fans out there watching the Liverpool-Marseille Champions' League match? I don't know about you, but those all black with white and red trim Liverpool kits are making me feel the long, cold painful hand of winter and the MLS offseason on my still-sore black & red heart of hearts. Click to continue reading...

Only a few weeks left in the regular season and everything is really starting to take shape here in the MLS. Three clubs have qualified for the playoffs with a couple very close to joining them. 1. (1) DC United (49 pts.) - Another week, another win. The Supporter's Shield is a dead heat of a [...] Click to continue reading...

Is it me?

Be honest, because if it is, I'd like to know. I'd appreciate your honesty, dear reader.

It's just that I have watched some of the new Premier League season on Sky Sports and something is already irritating me - and no, it's not the Spurs performances.

Sky co-commentator Andy Gray, he of Everton and Scotland ‘fame', just won't shut up. Click to continue reading...