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 […]
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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 […]
Real Mourinius
Or, You Don’t Have to Agree with the Special One to Respect Him I’m back after an unwanted delay with some quick thoughts on José Mourinho spurred by today’s Tottenham […]
Swansea City in August
Or, Can Laudrup Dodge the Sophomore Slump? Facing Liverpool on Monday, Swansea City are smack in the middle of the kind of opening fixtures that David Moyes was complaining about. Though […]
Hex and Arsenal
With the US-Mexico game coming up tomorrow, I’d encourage you to take a look at some of the stuff over at American Soccer Now. Those guys are doing consistently top-rate […]
Mexico and Us
Mexico and Us (See What I Did There?) It’s never comfortable to find yourself in agreement with Alexi Lalas, but I think he’s right in claiming (at the end of […]
10 Blizzards
To celebrate the release of their 10th issue this Fall, The Blizzard has asked readers to submit their 10 favorite stories from Issues 0-9. If you aren’t familiar with The […]
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