Yesterday, we looked at a seemingly odd story about Millwall fans and their complaints about a friendly with Sierra Leone being used to commemorate the abolition of slavery. I emailed Pete Garston, the Millwall Fan Director, to follow-up on the issue.
Rather than adding my own editorial stance, I’d rather let Pete’s words speak for [...]
If you’re a sportswriter who’s penned a Beckham article in the past week and your name isn’t Grant Wahl, you may not have noticed that MLS and American soccer aren’t gasping for their last breaths. But such is the dominant theme in the soccer-related media these days: Beckham as long-shot deus ex machina to [...]
Whatever you think of GOLTV’s geordie commentator Ray Hudson’s sometimes infuriating and always bombastic commentary, you couldn’t ask for any more than his description of Riquelme in a Copa America game this week (note: obviously not the final).
Matador - Look at him, so languid. Look at him walking. He’s like a big beautiful zombie. Like [...]
Say what you will about ESPN’s influence on the American sports marketplace, they are masters of sport as theatre, even in a thirty-second advertisement.
Who decides how soccer is reported in the United States? Let’s lay-off ESPN for five minutes - Cardillo at That’s On Point explains how news comes down the wires, and why it matters that the Associated Press does not have a national soccer writer.
After ESPN, the Associated Press probably influences the minds of sports [...]
It’s pretty hard to avoid David Beckham right now in the United States, and it’s not often (Mia Hamm in the 90s? Pele in the 70s?) we can say that about a soccer star in this country.
Editor’s note: Michael Coroneos, a Toronto FC supporter, will be writing periodically on Canadian soccer for pitchinvasion.net. As your editor discovered himself in May on a trip to Toronto, soccer has taken off this season in Canada. And as Michael explains, the ball is now really rolling.
I woke up this morning in Toronto and [...]
When MLS fans talk about growing the league and making it fully mainstream, the target they have in mind is usually the NHL. Soccer will never eclipse football or baseball, the argument goes, but with time and effort it could easily knock off hockey for a place in the dubious Big Four category. [...]
There was a time when soccer fans in the United States, I am told, were only able to obtain fleeting glimpses of the game via a weekly show on German soccer. I can’t even imagine that; since I’ve been living in the U.S., I’ve been able to watch more soccer cheaper than I ever [...]
