Top Games of 24-25, June-August Plan
Yesterday marks the end of the 2024-2025 European Football season, marked by the Champions League final. Today (Sunday, June 1st) marks the beginning of my plan to remember the 100 […]
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Some more fully developed general ideas about the game from an American perspective.
Champions League: How’s the Swiss Model Working Out?
Midway through the first half of the new Swiss model Champions League league phase seems like a good time to reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of this newly-structured competition, […]
Best Games of 2019-20: August to October
With the new season already underway in France, and the Community Shield scheduled for tomorrow, reflections on the season that was 2019-20 need to happen now. So here is the […]
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, […]
Video Killed the Football Star?
The Club World Cup this past week included the first official FIFA use of video replay, decisively so in the first semifinal between Colombia’s Atlético Nacional and Japan’s Kashima Antlers. In fact, […]
How Stoopid is Bob Bradley?
When Swansea City visit Arsenal this Saturday, Bob Bradley will become the first American to manage a team in the Premier League. Like it or not, American fans of the game have […]
NKOTB 2: Mazz-Puel-Karanka
Last week I looked at the biggest new names in Premier League management; this week, it’s the undercard. Though Walter Mazzarri, Claude Puel, and Aitor Karanka don’t have quite the […]
NKOTHB: Pep – Mou – Tony C
With the possible exception of Manchester United’s mega-signings of Zlatan Ibrahimović, and Paul Pogba, the most exciting additions to the Premier League this season are a trio of managers. Pep […]
Ten Games in February
After letting things slide for a few months, I thought I would get back into the game and round up the ten best games of a lively February. It looks […]
Ten Games in October
October opened with a game between the last two teams in the major European leagues to not have dropped points, and ended with the return of Luis Suárez in the […]
Stoopid American 