Poke in the Eye
Well, the first post-Mourinho Classico has come and gone, and it was a game with little to complain about. Tactical surprises from both sides, though by far the more dramatic […]
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Animated Play
I’ve updated my Aston Villa post to include an account of Sunday’s game against Tottenham, so go back and check it out. But today I wanted to highlight some amazing […]
Aston Villa without Benteke
Probably no Premier League team has had as difficult a start as Aston Villa. They have already played away to Arsenal and Chelsea, while hosting Liverpool and Manchester City with […]
Cardiff Catch-up
A report on Aston Villa without Benteke is still in the works, but for the time-being, here’s two good articles by others to follow up on my analysis of Cardiff […]
Zonal Management
Once your team has qualified for the World Cup, it’s harder to get excited about the international break (apologies to Egnland and Mexico). Fortunately, Zonal Marking’s Michael Cox released the […]
Hammers’ Seventh Joy
Or, Big Sam’s Barcelona Tryout Jacob Steinberg must have had an inkling. On Twitter, he described Friday’s Joy of Six article on great Spurs-Hammers tilts (written with Paul Doyle) as […]
How Low-Scoring is Soccer?
The most common gripe of football haters—soccer, not American football—is that the sport is too low-scoring. This is a silly argument with even a moment’s reflection, even to those with […]
West Ham U(pda)ted
If you don’t understand what this pick-up truck has to do with West Ham, check out my previous post on the Irons. One of the wonderful things about the football […]
Stoopid American 