Passion in Finnish football (Football in Finland)
Man Utd’s Saudi trip and the media’s hypocrisy (EPL Talk)
Which football code will spread furthest? (Dave’s Football Blog)
Billy Beane and the future of football (Soccer Silicon Valley)
Playoffs in the Premiership? (Some People Are On The Pitch)
Supporting the losers (Ian Plenderleith)
It’s a funny old world when the sports league that probably gets laughed at and dismissed both in its own country and abroad more than any other also employs the world’s biggest earner on any sports team, anywhere.
Forbes’ “World’s Top Earning Athletes” lists MLS’ own David Beckham at sixth place ($33 million), below only individual [...]
As mentioned before, I moonlight (as if this were a paying job itself!) for the Chicago Sports Weekly. My column there this week is on the prospects for hooliganism in American soccer.
The piece was prompted by the new book from British ex-hooligan Dougie Brimson (known to frequent these parts himself), March of the Hooligans, [...]
Photo credit: kimochan on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion photo pool.
In most countries around the world, football supporters often live in fractious relations with the authorities. But there’s always somewhere that has it worse — unless you live in Lebanon.
There, James Montague of the IHT tells us, all supporters have been banned from attending matches, for fear that their presence could raise tensions amongst rival [...]
And by “the Spurs”, I’m not referring to the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs, and I’m well aware Tottenham Hotspur are “Spurs”, not “the Spurs”, as Americans unfamiliar with soccer sometimes wrongly presume (paging Bill Simmons).
Anyway. For those who don’t follow the NBA, Steve Nash is a very good basketball player (has been the NBA Most [...]
So, Brazil in 2014 it is then. As we discussed last week, all is not rosy in this choice, despite the obvious allure of that country; the lack of competition to win the rights to host the World Cup has hardly helped them kick things into shape, either.
I was going to write about this at [...]
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Don’t worry, I’m not going to turn into Franklin Foer. But economist Dani Rodrik raises an interesting question with regard to the global consequences arising from the massive influx of African players into Europe in recent years.
Consider that soccer fans have loyalties not only towards individual clubs but also to their national teams. So one [...]
