Visualize That
With the season winding down, the end-of-season reflection mill is cranking up production. A week and a half ago, the New York Times published a collaboration between their graphics editor […]
Analyze This
Two weekends ago, Tim Lewis produced a longish piece for The Guardian on the growing role of analytics in football. He interviewed a lot of the right people, including Everton’s current […]
2010 . . . Again
South Africa 2010 – Looking Back The Stoopid American has a bad case of World Cup fever. With only three months to Brazil 2014, it’s hard to concentrate on even the Champions […]
Here We Go
There’s less than a hundred days to the opener of Brazil 2014, and the Premier League and La Liga are having two of their most exciting finishes in recent memory. […]
Under the Sun
Or, February World Cup Book Club This is the first installment of a recurring feature on books you might want to read in anticipation of Brazil 2014. Although it’s a […]
Eusébio: In Memoriam
This Sunday, one of the all-time greats passed away. Eusébio da Silva Ferreira, la pantera negra, was born in Mozambique, then Portuguese East Africa, in 1942. He played for Portugal and […]
Chelsea’s Tangled Webb
Reaction to Liverpool at Chelsea A surprising amount of the reaction to the Chelsea – Liverpool game centered on the performance of referee Howard Webb. Gabriele Marcotti summed up, in his […]
Relegation Saturday
The big games were scheduled for Sunday, in Liverpool – Chelsea and to a lesser extent Newcastle United – Arsenal, but Saturday featured key clashes that are already looking like […]
Diving In
Only had time to catch the Manchester United – West Ham game today, due to holiday “fixture” congestion in real life. It wasn’t much of a game to be honest, […]
Jekyll and Tyneside
Or, Newcastle in November (Plus) Last weekend’s win against Manchester United, the first in 41 years for the Geordies at Old Trafford, caps a remarkable run of play for Newcastle, […]
Stoopid American 