Tonight's friendlies pose an intriguing crisis of choice for anyone interested in the English or the various peoples who hate them. Do you watch the festival of undying enmity [now with more starry-eyed children! —FIFA] that is England-Germany, a rematch of the epic 1966 World Cup final as well a couple of highly regarded world [. Click to continue reading...

I'm in the middle of moving, so new posts are going to be thin on the ground for a while. Olympic soccer? Yeah, I've heard of it. The start of the season? Hand me that box and some tape. I have extensive thoughts on the situation at Manchester City; I'm writing them on cardboard, in [...] Click to continue reading...

A few quick hits for the next day or two while I try to contain the fallout from a life-deranging computer crash. Things went from "She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid" to "The odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field are approximately 3720 to 1!" in the [...] Click to continue reading...

Slap #1. Light posting for the rest of the week as I attempt to cope with the fallout of my match correspondent running off with the daughter of Vladimir Lenin's embalmer. Is he okay? Is he dead? Does he think I'm going to pay for his plane fare? I know as much as you do [...] Click to continue reading...