- Bad news for Toronto FC fans: Ronnie O’Brien may need to go under the knife. Things haven’t been good in his absence. (Is it the turf?)
- Big hats off to Bill Urban, who wrote the post I once started but never completed. What accounts for the ongoing success of the Houston [...]
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A couple weeks back, the Powers That Be – I don’t know, at Soccer United Marketing (SUM) or in Major League Soccer’s (MLS) Halls of Power – decided to air the Los Angeles Galaxy’s visit to Toronto FC’s BMO Field on the tiniest of chances that David Beckham would manage his league debut. We [...]
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In my (stupidly) exhaustive travels around the Web today, I came across posts and articles about Cuban defectors Lester Mor and Osvaldo Alonso getting closer to signing with Chivas (sadly, after searching high and low, I can’t find it), confirmation that Real Salt Lake has signed two of the three Argentines who have trained with [...]
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Like sands through the hourglass, so the season keeps spilling along – and the Collective Power Rankings are there to make sense of it all. As you’ll see below, large swaths of the Semi-Detached Pundit Collective (SDPC) (which, actually, boasts a small number) has anointed a new #1. That, and other revelations appear [...]
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The ‘as some would see it’ under-achieving, English international midfielder had moved on mainly to be geographically closer to his family (a little Landon Donovan-ish, even in the same country). Still fetched a firm $16 million and his exit was imminent especially when Dyer was left out of Newcastle’s recent 3-1 win over Bolton.
Good move for [...]
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Okay, so I decided I won’t even try to report on what is going on with Dani Alves anymore.
Today, I woke up to the headlines on ESPNSoccernet reporting that Sevilla has rejected the offer for Alves saying it was in essence too low.
‘Sevilla would like to clarify, in relation to the news in various media [...]
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“As soon as the free kick was given, I don’t want to sound too confident, but I felt that I was going to score as soon as I had the ball in my hands,” Beckham said afterward. “It felt good. Sometimes you feel like that, sometimes you don’t get any feeling. But tonight, I had [...]
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The formidable investors group has been identified as being led by James Nevels – who is a big proponent of Philadelphia area reform – and his cause is being championed publicly by Governor Ed Rendell himself.
“We’re very supportive of the concept,” Rendell said after a news conference at Philadelphia School District headquarters Tuesday. “I think [...]
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OK, so I enjo…ame…qual…viewing as I did last night, but – c’mon – seriously*, DC United threw the Superliga semis. No, no, man…it’s cool, Don Garber never comes ’round here; neither does that Lalas dude. So, DC threw it, right?
What about the refs? Any weird calls? A heavy lean toward LA throughout? Anything?
Seriously…they threw the [...]
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On Sports Illustrated website, this was the headline: “Beckham scores on PK in first start for Galaxy”
It was definitely a free kick. Very different.
Sigh.
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