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Arsene Knows Best? 27 Aug 2013 | 01:56 am
The Premier League owes many thanks to Arsene Wenger. Wenger is largely responsible for dragging English football into the modern era. He introduced a scientific, methodical approach to coaching and t...
Vucetich Shown the Door 26 Aug 2013 | 10:38 pm
No one questions his quality. He was won titles just about everywhere he has coached. He converted a perennial underachiever into the strongest team on the continent, and in so doing gave the club and...
The day the U.S. packed them in 26 Aug 2013 | 09:16 am
There have been instances in recent years when fans of the other team came out to see a U.S. national team game because the opponent was the United States, but those mostly were World Cup qualifiers w...
This one goes out to the one I love 24 Aug 2013 | 08:47 am
In an infamous and now-deleted editorial posted on Wednesday, former Chicago Fire director of communications Dan Lobring told the world that attending his team’s games is a potentially unsafe experien...
Many More International MLS-Based Players in 2014 World Cup Likely 22 Aug 2013 | 09:33 am
by Derek Richey For a league that still gets trampled on and derided by American Euro-league-snobs and presumptuous foreigners who haven’t seen an actual MLS game for 4-6 years, there seems to be rea...
DP now means “Defender Paid”; or, Deuce ex Machina 19 Aug 2013 | 08:53 am
It’s not like Major League Soccer has never shelled out money for an American defender. Eddie Pope was given enough money to play his entire career here. Marcelo Balboa was the face of the Colorado ...
Hey! Gatorade! (Because although Kool-Aid is usually the metaphor used to denote blind enthusiasm, it’s actually pretty inappropriate when you look at... 15 Aug 2013 | 06:45 pm
Boy, was Sacha Kljestan booed, or what? I went back and checked, and while Kljestan’s background is Bosnian Serb, his father Slavko couldn’t have had much to do with the 1990′s strife, having left wh...
The N-word 15 Aug 2013 | 02:45 am
Mexico will try to put the pieces together against the Ivory Coast at the Meadowlands in their FIFA Friendly match. The game has become a lightning rod for a number of reasons: can Jose Manuel “Chepo”...
The ink-stained Milt Miller 12 Aug 2013 | 06:36 am
I’m a retired newspaperman, so it’s not surprising that many of my soccer heros are people more famous for writing about soccer than for playing it. Some of those heros are contemporaries of mine, suc...
Not A Sane League 10 Aug 2013 | 09:39 am
Dave Martinez of Empire of Soccer has done an incredible job this past week showing that NASL commissioner Bill Peterson is completely crazy. There have been three parts posted so far, and each one c...
