What EPL teams’ badges would look like if they were honest
There’s a pretty fantastic thing going on over at Buzzfeed today. What if you took the respective EPL team badges and turned their club names into what the badges looked like? Fret no more. That day is...
View ArticleJozy Altidore scored his first goal for Sunderland on Wednesday
Jozy Altidore has endured a pretty bumpy patch at Sunderland, as you’ve read here. Sunderland have been bereft of creativity and Jozy’s often languished up top. Finally, his English goal drought came...
View ArticleRoss Barkley’s unsaveable free kick against Swansea
Have a hit, son. This is Everton whizkid Ross Barkley uncorking an unsaveable FK to beat Swansea 2-1 over the weekend. The madness in it? Barkley admitted after the match that he doesn’t practice free...
View ArticleMechanized Mark Clattenburg makes fun of Adam Lallana – we all laugh
Mark Clattenburg said a pretty innocuous thing to Southampton’s Adam Lallana during the Saints’ 2-1 loss to Everton last month. And then Lallana and the club freaked out about it. The club claimed...
View ArticleAron Johannsson may be leaving AZ soon – here’s a video
Netherlands outfit AZ Alkmaar has been a proving ground for two of the USMNT’s rising striker stars the last couple years. First, Jozy Altidore used it as a launch pad to get back into the EPL with...
View ArticleArsene Wenger is a much better coach than you probably think he is
Quick pop quiz: let’s say you put Arsene Wenger and Alex Ferguson next to one another on a coaching continuum. Who do you take? The coach who won every trophy under the sun or the guy obsessed with...
View ArticleThe money of the EPL is poisoning its developmental well
The MLS Players Union went about its unorthodox business this week by pushing out its annual report on the league’s individual salary figures. Embedded within the report was a look at what the league...
View ArticleThe pub reaction to Liverpool’s win over Man City was madness
We like fan reaction videos around here. Most notably, Landon Donovan incited a brilliant one when he scored in the final minutes against Algeria at World Cup 2010 to send the Americans through to the...
View ArticleRyan Giggs gave a cryptic speech after Manchester United beat Hull City
Ryan Giggs is old enough now that his hair looks vaguely like a raincloud, so it goes without saying that his retirement watch is firmly on. Giggs grabbed the mic after Manchester United dropped Hull...
View ArticleThe Ted Lasso thing is still funny
You may remember Ted Lasso, the southern-fried American football coach who went to London (but not really) for a faux promo for NBC’s launch of its Premier League coverage last year. It was basically...
View ArticleSergio Aguero scored on Liverpool 23 seconds after subbing on
Last season, Liverpool had won 11 straight through late April and, with just three games left in the season, needed just six points to put the title away. As we now know, the Reds choked away the title...
View ArticleWest Brom stole a pair of points from a pretty blase Man United
That there is one hell of a strike from West Brom’s Stephane Sessegnon, who one-timed a whale of a cross for a 1-0 lead over visiting Manchester United. Note trailing fullback Luke Shaw, who’d...
View ArticleTV and soccer had a pretty confusing week
The story of the last week wasn’t Chelsea worming a late winner through 84 sets of legs to beat Everton and keep a cushiony lead atop the English Premier League. Nor was it Atletico Madrid’s stunning...
View ArticleThe EPL is about to get a whole lot worse on the development front
In February, the English Premier League announced a historic $7.9 billion TV deal. On its face, the thing is a little obscene. It was a 70 percent increase over the previous deal, and it promised an...
View ArticleThe best summation ever for the Bundesliga’s rise above the Premier League
It’s been nearly a year since Manchester United finally perched itself on a ridge and then flung itself off into oblivion. Just last April, United was scuffling through David Moyes’ final feverish days...
View ArticleTim Sherwood is way more entertaining than the team he coaches
Aston Villa is not a very good soccer team. In fact, they’re pretty bad, if you like watching players shoot balls at goals and score those shot balls at goals. Villa is dead last in the English Premier...
View ArticleYannick Bolasie roundhoused a thrown projectile like he was Daredevil
Crystal Palace have been remarkably coherent under new boss Alan Pardew, who was cast off from Newcastle and almost immediately turned Palace around. As a result, the South London club will not be...
View ArticleSouthampton’s “Show Your Colours” kit launch video is brilliant
This season, Southampton went with a self-styled jersey as a holding pattern while it switched sponsors. Their adidas partnership doesn’t officially begin until the 2015-16 season, but as you can see,...
View ArticleLeicester City’s owners are buying LCFC fans beers for being LCFC fans
Are you a Leicester City fan? Did you survive the previous EPL season with your wits intact? Are you celebrating because the bottom half of the table looks like this with just a weekend left and...
View ArticleYaya Toure is still pretty good, guys
Tales of Yaya Toure’s demise have been… exaggerated somewhat. Manchester City looked every bit the title contender in their brutally effective 3-0 win over West Brom to close out the EPL’s opening...
View ArticlePoor DeAndre Yedlin is having a rough go in England
Imagine for a moment you’re the director of football for a European club with an average of £10 million to spend every January. You have a team capable of competing for Europa League qualification...
View ArticleJamie Vardy’s golazo made Jurgen Klopp cry (probably)
Should we knight Jamie Vardy now? I’m American and have no literal or figurative power to knight Jamie Vardy, but I’m thinking I’ll do it anyway. It might be with a french fry. We’ll see. The point is...
View ArticleCharlie Stillitano pulled the curtain on soccer’s discomforting dystopian future
Who, you might be asking, is Charlie Stillitano? We’ll start there. The New Jersey soccer power broker’s storied rise from Bob Bradley’s teammate at Princeton to arguably the most well-connected...
View ArticleMLS is doing a pretty good job balancing foreign, American interests
The difference between jingoism and a nationalism that borders on the ethically dubious is a blurred line. In matters that expand beyond the personal, there is no particularly easy way to walk the beam...
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