Pitch Invasion

Well, it might piss off Buzz Bissinger, but I’m going to link to some of crazy things called blogs again.

• Football at Chernobyl [The Global Game]
• Why Portland Rules [Offside Rules]
• Clips from that brilliant Zidane movie [A Pretty Move]
• MLS’ African pipeline growing [Soccer Insider]
• Looking at the Euro 2008 venues [Two Hundred Percent]
• Uncertain future for California Victory [1906 Supporters]

Read all about the FA up to some strange tricks, Seattle fans win the day for Sounders, violence in unlikely places, and the state of MLS.

• FA hires a man with “military and government level surveillance” experience for World Cup bid [Daily Herald]
• Seattle celebrates the Sounders [GOAL Seattle]
• Hooliganism in non-league football [200 percent]
• A provisional theory of cup magic [Run of Play]
• Futsal violence? [The Offside]
• Has MLS regressed since the early days? [USA Soccer Spot]

Time to catch up on some links, isn’t it?

• German soccer team shies away from cross on jersey [Reuters Soccer Blog]
• The FA waffles over youth policy [Run of Play]
• Global Political Economy and Team Selection: Mexico and Qatar [Culture of Soccer]
• Football Filter, a neat Digg style page for football fans [Football Filter]
• A Yank playing for Brazil?! [The Offside Rules]
• Remembering an earlier, also controversial football president [SPAOTP]
• The Premiership vs. the Treaty of Westphalia [Gramsci’s Kingdom]
• Tackling that Eduardo tackle [From A Left Wing]

Links for the week.

• Interview with the man who brought football to Philly [This Is American Soccer]
• The surprising River Plate fans in Israel
• South America trying to hold on to their youngsters [Reuters Soccer Blog]
• Fascist Galaxy fan group?! [The Offside]
• Fans Vlogging! [Reuters Soccer Blog]
• English fans paying high price for football [Fanhouse]
• Chicago’s women’s team chooses its name [Peter Wilt’s Soccer Blog]

Game 39 rumbles on, soccer returns to Philly, and why Americans are playing the wrong kind of indoor football.

• What the Premier League really thinks of you [200percent]
• 10 injuries players would rather forget [Some People Are On The Pitch]
• American soccer needs more futsal [The Fanhouse]
• Welcoming soccer back to Philly [Philly.com]
• Chelsea and Man Utd knew about 39th game [Daily Mail]

Reading for a dull Thursday.

• The FA’s new chairman ready to rebuke the Premier League [The Guardian]
• Foreign referees in Italy? [Reuters Soccer Blog]
• Pan Pacific Disappointment [Soccer By Ives]
• Abramovich asserting his control [Daily Mail]
• Guará surprising everyone in Brazil [Fifa.com]

It’s been a while since we last did this, but there are other things worth reading about football on the internets.

• Randy Moss and Emmanuel Adebayor: separated at birth? [Dave’s Football Blog]
• Berbatov’s casual hurricane [Run of Play]
• Arsene knows? [Treasons, Strategems & Spoils]
• Curating football fandom [The Global Game]