It’s not usually my style to criticize the media. Bloggers do too much of that sort of thing already, and frankly, when it comes to the football press, I can’t imagine a better system for keeping up to speed with the inner world of Tony Mowbray. Reporters seem to be everywhere; I honestly don’t [...]
Major League Soccer as a whole does not get great coverage in the national media. As the blogger That’s on Point often reminds us, outfits like the Associated Press don’t do soccer many favours. That makes it all the more important outlets that do try to cover MLS both broadly and deeply are treated with [...]
Here’s something old and something new for you from the soccer blogosphere. The Global Game is one of the longest standing soccer blogs out there. Their site has just had a major facelift, and if you’ve never been there before, now would be a good time to stop by. It was the blog that showed [...]
I have absolutely no idea what Giovanni Trapattoni was on about in this press conference from his days as Bayern Munich boss in the ’90s, but I’m pretty sure that if he’d continued any longer, his head would have exploded. He can scream far more scarily in a foreign language (to him) than I can [...]
We are both late and early on this (since we posted an ode to GOLTV commentator Ray Hudson some months ago, when he aptly captured the enigma that is Riquelme as a “big, beautiful zombie”), but the blog Hudsonia is burning up the soccersphere with a collection of his inimical style in text and audio [...]
Ah, Alisher, don’t you learn? As Chicken Yoghurt notes today, Usmanov’s recent claim that Craig Murray’s statements about his past were ‘beneath his dignity’ to respond to ring rather hollow when his lawyers continue to harass independent websites republishing Murray’s article, yet they also refrain from going after Murray himself, despite his pleas that [...]
Wednesday’s Washington Post Style section features an excellent report, complete with multimedia online, on D.C. United supporters groups — particularly the Barra Brava.
In the beginning, 11 years ago, a real estate agent from Bolivia named Oscar Zambrana bought 15 tickets for the first D.C. United home game. The only way he knew to root for [...]
There’s plenty of amusing fun to poked at MLS, and most of it makes it into the following clip from Fox Soccer’s show “David Beckham’s Soccer USA.” But there’s also highlights, praise, and a great feature on Toronto’s fans, all served up by English television. Yes, this is pretty small-time, but the respect has to [...]
The July issue of FourFourTwo magazine features a lengthy article on supporters at the LA derby, courtesy of MLS fan wonk Steven Wells. His colleague Martin Kelner at The Guardian is giving it his attention, too:
They do not quite get it, bless them, but America’s soccer fans are giving it their best shot. The [...]
