Die Erste Geisterwoche
The Bundesliga returned last weekend with a giesterwoche, the German word for a match day played behind closed doors (literally, a “ghost week”). I managed to watch about 2/3rds of […]
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10 Games in September
With the Bundesliga set to kick off this Saturday, now seems as good a time as any to restart my series of posts on the best games of the discontinued […]
Sunderland in Quarantine:
‘Til I Die, A Club Transformed Just over a month ago, the second season of the behind-the-scenes documentary, Sunderland ‘Til I Die was released on Netflix to a world primed […]
The Mixer Project: Chapter 4
Between the Lines This is my fourth installment of a chapter-by-chapter companion to Michael Cox’s tactical history of the Premier League, The Mixer. It also marks the beginning of the […]
The Mixer Project: Chapter 3
SAS and the Entertainers After a long break, we’re back in business with our chapter-by-chapter exploration of Michael Cox’s The Mixer (if you missed the first two installments, you should definitely […]
Replay: 2006 FA Cup Final
With so many of us at home and football cancelled, now seems like a good time to dust off some of the classic games floating about the internet. And they […]
10 Games in August
For the past few years, I’ve had the idea of trying to capture the story of a European season in 100 games. So between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day, […]
A History of Super Cups
This Wednesday will see the 44th UEFA Super Cup, while the weekend before last hosted three national super cup competitions in France, Germany, and England. Kicking off the new European […]
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 […]
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 […]
