Right about now is a probably good time to start another serious discussion of finding a better way
to determine a winner in a soccer match of enormous magnitude besides the dreaded PK shootout.
Someplace else.
Not that I'm a fan of the thing - far from it. It's just that the gut punch delivered to the Fire
and their fans last night after 120 minutes of emotion, drama and desire seems worthy of something
more than just another tedious discussion of the rules of the game.
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After the first games of the Confederations Cup in South Africa last summer, Sepp Blatter
was reported to be hopping mad about the constant, pulsating drone of the now-familiar vuvuzela,
that "traditional African instrument" (a historical tribal tradition which seems to date back to
the very dawn of 2001).
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Gertrude was not thrilled with the news!
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JOHANNESBURG South African traditional leaders plan to perform ritual animal slaughters
to bless stadiums for the 2010 World Cup tournament ahead of the start of the showcase event next
June, they said on Friday.
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Wrighty7 05 October @ 11:22 AM EST
I love our little Catalan-kid, we love our little Catalan-kid and best of all, our little
Catalan-kid loves us too!
Usually when a player kisses the badge of a football club I wanna violently puke up my dinner
because nine times out of ten that player doesn't mean it really. It's for show.
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There's a wonderful song, made popular (if that's the word) by Dr. Demento, done by a guy named
Dana Lyons called
Cows With GunsIt's about how cattle being led to the slaughter rose up and fought "for bovine freedom":
He was a scrawny calf, who looked rather woozy
No one suspected he was packing an UziThis could have been - but undoubtedly was not - the inspiration for the USL Team Owners
Association (TOA) when they announced yesterday that 1) there is something called the USL Team
Owners Association (consisting of the owners from Atlanta, Carolina, Miami, Minnesota, Montreal,
St.
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The reign of chief executive Ivan Gazidis reached a new stage yesterday with the announcement of
three new senior appointments.
The first is new commercial man Tom Fox. He joins us from sports and entertainment marketing
outfit Wasserman Media Group having previously worked for Nike where he was sports marketing
director.
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Back in the day, I had FIFA '99 for the PC (in fact, I think it's still loaded on my old Windows 98
SE machine somewhere). And in that game was a cool European Dream League option that allowed you to
pick a team and play against 19 other of Europe's elite teams for continental supremacy.
Real Madrid president Florentino Perez, if he gets his way, is going to owe EA Sports some
royalty fees.
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By mid-May, we'd played Milan three times in four weeks twice in the Coppa Italia semis and once
in Serie A and were set to play them twice more in an epic Champions League semifinal. The first
leg was slated for Naming Rights Park, and then we'd be heading to the San Siro with a place in the
final on the line.
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One of these days, watching Tottenham will be the death of me. They'll score early and dominate,
but then instead of scoring a second against submissive fatted calves bred specifically for the
slaughter, they'll spend the final hour earnestly faffing. I shall chew my nails, squirm and curse;
and then swear and kick people; and finally become so wound up by the faffing that my heart will
pop and I'll keel over.
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This is from the comments in my "Genius" piece below which, owing to my excitement about moth
slaughter and my attempts to convince the world that Bobby Zamora is alright really, has fallen
down the page a bit.   Anyway, great stuff, Khadrim, and thanks. I hadn't really thought of
it that way, but there's much truth to what you say; thanks for bringing it to our attention:
Just to add a different perpective.
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