With it being February the league is just over halfway complete. Accordingly, I thought I’d choose the eleven players that have impressed me the least this Premier League season. Consider it a mid-term report of sorts. Could your club or favorite player be one of the 11 featured? Find out now: Richard Kingson (Blackpool) The […]

I did give 4 stars to all of last Saturday's matches, didn't I? Oh well, it was a brutally cold, horribly rainy day in NYC on Saturday, and one of the few where I was able to sit back and watch most of them. What a day!!! Gameweek 27 is also shaping up to be […]

The weekend preview edition starts with Olympic Stadium news and the potential return of Chris Hughton, which I discuss with a special guest. Making his first appearance on the show is Kevin McCauley (manager of CartilageFreeCaptain.com, managing editor of WorldSoccerReader.com, and contributor at SBNation.com), filling in for Kartik Kishnaiyer and Laurence McKenna. Kevin and I […]

I remember when David Beckham announced he was leaving Real Madrid not to somewhere in Europe but to MLS. Instant speculation from both fans and pundits alike cited the money as the deciding factor for his move, after all, why go to the league when you have offers from Europe’s elite? In his presentation press […]

Fox Soccer Channel's live broadcast of the clash between Chelsea and Liverpool on Sunday, February 6 broke the network's record for their most-watched broadcast of all time. The telecast attracted 418,000 average viewers and 285,000 households, which are both network-records according to Nielsen Media Research which has been measuring Fox Soccer Channel since October 2008. […]

It's time to take a pulse on how excited or not you are about the international friendlies this week. England plays Denmark, Wales played Republic of Ireland last night. And then there are a ton of other friendlies including Brazil versus France, Germany against Italy, Spain vs Colombia, Holland v Austria, Northern Ireland against Scotland, […]

"I don't want to change the world, I'm not looking for a new England" – Billy Bragg, A New England England travel to Copenhagen's Parken Stadium today to battle Denmark for their first international of 2011. The side and its supporters will be eager to turn the page on 2010; a year of unfulfilled promise and ultimate disappointment. […]

Numeric annotation of formations was on my mind before I started firing off emails late last year. Even before I got his response, I'd seen Michael Cox's thoughts on the practice, the Zonal Marking owner giving his views to Tom Williams. When the AFP writer asked Cox why we annotated attacking fullbacks as part of […]

It's early February and there's still no schedule, and while February came last year without our list of matches, this year, first kick is much closer. Without a schedule (because we are down one television deal), my co-host Christopher Riordan and I are forced to talk about other things. Lucky for Chris, a DC United […]

It's early February and there's still no schedule, and while February came last year without our list of matches, this year, first kick is much closer. Without a schedule (because we are down one television deal), my co-host Christopher Riordan and I are forced to talk about other things. Lucky for Chris, a DC United […]

With Liverpool’s recent decline, the buzz at the start of the season was focused on who would occupy the Merseysider’s Champions League spot in May. Could Manchester City fulfill their promise or would Spurs nick it again? Well, it is beginning to look as if both could get there. ‘Five into four? That doesn’t go!’ I hear […]

When it was announced that Venky’s, an indian company specializing in chicken processing, had bought Blackburn, numerous atrocious puns about ‘falling fowl’ began circulating. When one of the club’s new owners claimed to have never seen a football game, many began to speculate that Blackburn could be in serious trouble. The subsequent dismissal of manager […]

On a beautiful sunny Saturday Afternoon in downtown Houston, a big festival was forming while dignitaries from MLS, City of Houston, State of Texas and the members of the Dynamo were all on a stage showing everyone what will entail for this 22,000 seat stadium that will be ready for the 2012 season. MLS President […]

Video killed the radio star. But, in fact, it didn’t. It only transformed the industry. Radio still lives. It’s just not that important anymore. However, record companies surfaced a worse fate. Napster brought music piracy to the mainstream, while later iTunes revolutionized the industry making albums less important and singles more consumable. At the same […]

I feel I’m in a good position to discuss Chris Hughton. He was the manager of my team Newcastle United for 18 months and after the late Sir Bobby Robson he’s the only manager that I was unhappy to see leave. It wasn’t always so positive. When he first joined as a coach during the […]