The CONCACAF Gold Cup, our continental championship has been in full swing across the country in the last week. Adam Beasley from the Miami Herald joins us to discuss the competition, as well as Oguchi Onyewu's massive transfer to AC Milan in Serie A, and why Miami, a failed MLS and USL market always draws […]

In Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby tells us what a match requires to be "really, truly memorable." He wants as many of the following as possible (and I paraphrase): goals, bad refereeing decisions, a noisy Crowd, rain etc, opposition misses a penalty, opposition receives a red card, a disgraceful incident. I'm with him on everything except maybe the […]

Unless you are familiar with both towns it would be easy to confuse an image of Burnley for its near neighbour Blackburn. Both share the marauding rows of tight Victorian terraced housing, offering a window to England's past and evoking images of men in cloth caps and the bustling noise and billowing smoke of busy […]

Excellent sports' writing is not simply about analyzing players, teams or organizations. It's largely about painting a picture that fits into society's perceptions of the surrounding world. It's about writing a narrative and properly explaining the parts. It's about playing historian and social critic while discussing competitions and complex organizations. Sports' writing is an art […]

Fox Sports Net (FSN), the regional Fox TV sports affiliates around the United States, will play more of a pivotal role during the 2009-2010 season in broadcasting not only the recently acquired Champions League coverage but also Premier League football, according to a unnamed source. In fact, you'll be able to enjoy five hours of […]

With Real Madrid's recent spending extravaganza, most of the talk coming from bloggers and other football analysts has been centered around whether or not Real Madrid's transfers will in fact turn into results on the pitch. The general consensus from various websites is that it will be a flop. This is largely due to the […]

Liverpool Football Club may be far behind in the race for number of Premier League trophies, but the club is way ahead in the number of its Twitter followers. So much so that they have more followers than all of the other 19 Premiership clubs combined. Embarrassingly, clubs that are institutions in English football such […]

The Quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup are set and here are the story lines. Panama has lost in close matches each of the last two Gold Cups to the United States. In 2005 it was in the PK shootout in the final, and in 2007 it was 2-1 on a controversial PK call against […]

Say what you will about the U.S. National Team’s performance in the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup, after all it is an experimental squad seemingly designed to give Coach Bob Bradley a better idea of the quality and the extent of his team’s depth as it approaches the second half of CONCACAF’s Fourth, and Final, Round […]

After week 17 the numbers look like this... 5 year comparison WK 15 124 GP YTD Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP 2005 13,835 9 14,547 14,675 116 2006 16,028 15.85% 7 15,716 8.03% 14,698 0.16% 113 2007 13,974 -12.82% 4 15,377 -2.15% 15,005 2.08% 111 2008 23,000 64.59% 5 16,518 7.42% 17,142 […]

With a desperate Haitian team coming to Foxborough to face a USA "C" team any result was on the table. But sadly when a match of this magnitude is played on artificial turf, it is difficult to make evaluations about the play and specific players with much certainty. While fans of MLS or USL often […]

Following the Confederations Cup final, we had a long discussion about South Florida as a market for football. While the TV ratings in English were higher in the Miami/Fort Lauderdale market than any other in the country (with the nearby West Palm Beach market also ranking near the top of the ratings), the area is […]

West Ham United's new home kit won't be released until Monday, but we have a leaked picture of what is presumably it thanks to Football Shirt Culture. Designed and manufactured by Umbro and sponsored by SBOBET, the new jersey features a checkerboard design on the front in claret, and a very minimal blue trim as […]

As Florentino Perez continues to degrade an already absurd transfer market into new realms of travesty, changes of a more sensible nature are afoot in Catalunya. The air is still calm outside the Nou Camp as the stardust still settles after the gloss that was last season. Yet across town in Cornella de Llobregat, the […]

Just a few news stories that caught my interest over the last couple of days. Enjoy! Karim Benzema admits turning down Manchester United and Barcelona Jonathan Wilson's article on the ties that existed between Romanian secret police and Dinamo Bucharest Ever think your video game managerial skills would make you a good boss of a real […]