Referees and Psychology
The controversial penalty calls in France-Norway and Australia-Brazil over the past few days are as good an excuse as any to shamelessly promote an article I wrote about a year […]
Author Archives: stoopidmerican
Women’s World Cup Book Club Must Read
Under the Lights and in the Dark: Untold Stories of Women’s Soccer, by Gwendolyn Oxenham. With the United States kicking off their World Cup campaign today, it seems like a […]
Summer Kicks Off
With the Women’s World Cup kicking off in France and the U-20 World Cup beginning its quarterfinal round yesterday, the summer soccer season felt like it was kicking off in […]
The Mixer Project: Chapter 2
Cantona and Counters This is the second of 25 blog posts devoted to Michael Cox’s The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines. In […]
U-20 US – Nigeria Pre-cap
The Unites States find themselves in a must-win game against Nigeria today after losing 2-1 to Ukraine in their opening game of the Under-20 World Cup. The loss came despite […]
U-20 Day 1: Group B Round-Up
The U-20 World Cup kicked off with games from Groups A and B. The latter of those offered the more interesting fixtures. There is no such thing as a group […]
The Mixer Project: Chapter 1
A Whole New Ball Game With the May 30th release of Michael Cox’s second book, Zonal Marking, now seems like a good time to reflect on his first book, The […]
Summer Tournament Schedule
This is your one-stop resource for all seven tournaments this summer. I will be updating results and offering links to relevant commentary (my own and others) in the combined schedule […]
Germany 0 – Mexico 1
Mexico upset tournament favorites Germany in a game that was as tactically interesting as it was viscerally exciting. Joachim Löw’s Germany set up in their anticipated 4-2-3-1, though with Marvin […]
World Cup, Day 2 Round-Up
In addition to ending with one of the likely games of the tournament in Portugal – Spain, Friday offered an excellent start to the real World Cup following Thursday’s low […]
