It seems like yesterday for some football fans, a day burned in to the memories of English footballs collective consciousness. The 1980's saw three major footballing disasters hit English football, The dreadful fire at Bradford City's title party which claimed the lives of 56 fans on May 11th 1985, 18 days later we then witnessed […]

Anyone who's caught Tottenham in action recently will not fail to have been impressed by Aaron Lennon's recent form on the right hand side of Spurs' midfield. For me, it'll be a major surprise if he's not in Fabio Capello's next England squad for the Friendly against Slovakia and the qualifier in Kiev against the […]

Why is Michael Essien so underrated is a mystery to me. I must admit that I was nonplussed about him as a player, knowing next to nothing about him when he signed for Chelsea from Lyon in August 2005 for £24 million. That was in the dark days before I had Setanta and could immerse […]

Peter Wilt, the President/CEO/Part owner of the Chicago Red Stars of WPS joins us to talk about the new team as well as the history of the Chicago Fire, an organization he ran from its inception until a few seasons ago. A can't miss podcast for any fan of the game from the Chicago-land area […]

We are already in mid-March and wow has this year flown by. Why is it the older you get the faster the years go by? Anyway, you aren't reading this caring about the speed of years, you want to know what team is the La Liga Team Of The Week for Jornada 27. This time we got a […]

Finally nearly two years later, this matter has come to a close. As a Sheffield United fan i found the behaviour of my own club at times to be embarrassing. The blame though has to be laid at the Premier Leagues door. The initial punishment for West Ham United's actions at the time was pathetic. A […]

Podcast Interview with Peter Wilt regarding the Chicago Red Stars and the history of the Chicago Fire: LATE MONDAY Preview of Puerto Rico's CONCACAF semi-final clash with Cruz Azul: TUESDAY MLS Western Conference Preview: WEDNESDAY MLS Eastern Conference Preview: THURSDAY A Look Around CONCACAF: FRIDAY Thank you for your continued patronage of Major League Soccer […]

I am going through the process of learning German and while finding the toilet is always nice, it really doesn’t help when it comes to the reason I want to learn the language: Fußball. So here are seven random words for you who don’t know German to learn. You will come across them on occasion. […]

Read through the following news headlines from this past weekend that I handpicked. Enjoy. "Humiliated Sir Alex Ferguson Laments Scheduling" (The Times). Fergie shows what a sore loser he is after the Liverpool match by refusing to be interviewed by Sky Sports because of the early Saturday afternoon kick-off. For all the praise Ferguson gets, […]

Sepp Blatter doesn't know when to shut up. The Anglophobic President of FIFA has now extended his war against English speaking peoples across the pond in attacking Major League Soccer. Blatter believes MLS should move to what he refers to as a "traditional calender." What exactly is the traditional calender? Is it the calender that […]

Even though Italians teams faltered in the Champions League earlier in the week, there were still some things to celebrate. The best way to celebrate is to score a lot and this weekend there were a ton of goals. In Siena, Super Pippo Inzaghi scored his 300th goal in Milan's impressive 5-1 road win vs […]

Those of us round long enough to remember the Ipswichs, Blackburns and QPRs of old running rampant in the early days of the Premier League may have winced listening to Setanta's commentators gag with delight as Dossena's lobbed long ball made it Liverpool 4, Manchester United 1. "This is why this is the greatest league […]

This past week was a disappointing week for the Serie A in the Champions League, to say the least. As it is well known, all 3 remaining Serie A teams were eliminated in the Round of 16. Although Roma and Juventus put up a good fight in their matchups, Italy's top clubs fell short in […]

In 2046, when the history of the first 50 years of the MLS is published, I have no doubt that Dwayne De Rosario will be highlighted as one of the top players of the league’s first 20 years of existence. After spending time with the Toronto Lynx, FSV Zwickau, and the Richmond Kickers, in 2001 […]

I’ve wondered for a long time what it is that managers see in Stewart Downing, particularly England managers. Since his first call up in February 2005, Downing has been pretty much been a regular in the England squad, but why? I don’t understand how one player can have gained 22 caps without ever making an […]