Try as the likes of Ian Plenderleith might, it’s increasingly hard to satirise the David Beckham Extravaganza. Reality has become too absurd.
Major League Soccer (USA), the J.League (Japan) and the Hyundai A-League (Australia) today announced an unprecedented and innovative partnership in the creation of a new international soccer tournament to be hosted in Honolulu, Hawaii: [...]
Alex McLeish and Dick Advocaat go back a bit. As the latter moved upstairs from the manager’s chair to the general manager’s office at Ibrox in 2001, he recommended to Rangers Chairman David Murray that he should pluck Alex McLeish from Hibernian to take up his old job. The two have been friends ever since, [...]
Editor’s note: Brian, whose own marvelous Run of Play blog you really should be sure not to miss out on, will be bringing his brand of insight and irreverance weekly to Pitch Invasion.
In light of yesterday’s sensational arrests for fraud and corruption in football (scene: Police officers in riot gear swarm through the door of [...]
Argentinian fans in New York City, during last year’s World Cup.
Photo credit: seedingchaos on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion photo pool.
I wrote about the dirty dealings behind the glitz of Fifa’s latest World Cup draw here the other day as well, but writing for print always makes me actually explain things properly.
So anyone interested in the suspect dealings going on at FIFA might want to read my latest column at the Chicago Sports Weekly on [...]
In the latest in this week’s photo series on the 2006 World Cup, is this a scene from the old days of English hooliganism abroad, or an aberration? This fan was arrested before England’s match against Sweden in Cologne (remember Joe Cole’s screamer in the 2-2 draw?). 22 England fans were [...]
The Guardian reports that five men have been arrested in the Premier League corruption investigation.
Five men have been arrested in connection with allegations of corruption in football, City of London police said today. Officers said the men were being held on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and false accounting.
The suspects - aged 69, 60, 55, [...]
In the second of our series on ultras in unusual places (see the first on a group of English ultras here), we look at the first ultras group in Egypt, founded just this year but already responsible for a series of remarkable choreographed displays. They support Al-Ahly, the side from Cairo, Egypt who are perhaps [...]
“One man’s defection is another’s stepping stone to heroism,” Rob Hughes says, as he explores those who cross borders and play football on the other side. Could Maykel Galindo, the Cuban defector plying his trade with success in MLS, end up representing the U.S.? Will Fifa bar the Iraqi defectors to Australia from playing in [...]
