It has been remarkably, really. The number of elite European soccer clubs who have been in the U.S. this summer is … astonishing. Real Madrid. Bayern Munich. Manchester United. Manchester City. Liverpool, Arsenal. Atletico Madrid, Roma, Inter Milan, AC Milan, Monaco, Olympiakos. Those names look like most of the final 16 team in the European […]
Entries Tagged as 'English Premier League'
The European Summer Soccer Invasion
July 31st, 2014 · No Comments · Arsenal, English Premier League, Football, soccer, Travel
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Explaining … Manchester 7, Galaxy 0
July 23rd, 2014 · 2 Comments · English Premier League, Football, Galaxy, Landon Donovan, soccer, Sports Journalism, The National
Not even Brazil lost this badly. Manchester United 7, LA Galaxy 0 — as reported in The National by our correspondent in Pasadena, Gregg Patton. Wow. The Galaxy probably is the marquee franchise of Major League Soccer, with the four MLS Cup championships, and all … but all that was left of them after their […]
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Soccer Breakthrough in U.S.? Not Yet
July 6th, 2014 · No Comments · Barcelona, Baseball, Basketball, Brazil 2014, College football, English Premier League, Football, France, Galaxy, Italy, NBA, NFL, Olympics, soccer, World Cup
This comes up every four years. Or every four years after the U.S. national team has, at least, made the second round of a World Cup. Like this time around. “Is soccer about to make a breakthrough in the U.S.?” Will it be mentioned in the same breath as football and baseball and basketball? Or […]
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Soccer’s Hardest Job: Being an England Fan
June 19th, 2014 · No Comments · English Premier League, Football, soccer, World Cup
In the John le Carre novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy* the mole in British Intelligence is finally unmasked, and when asked why he betrayed his nation to the Soviets, Le Carre gives him a response something along the lines of: “We were bred to empire … and it was gone before it was our turn.” […]
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My Favorite World Cup Team … until Jurgen Is Gone
June 9th, 2014 · 1 Comment · English Premier League, Football, France, Italy, soccer, Travel, UAE, World Cup
As I have outlined on this blog, I cannot bring myself to support the U.S. team in this World Cup, not while it is run by that Enemy of American Soccer named Jurgen Klinsmann. If you clicked on the first link, above, you may have noted that several commenters on that entry seemed ready to […]
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Liverpool’s Meltdown
May 5th, 2014 · No Comments · English Premier League, Football, soccer, Sports Journalism
One of the most fascinating concepts in sports is the spectacular collapse. A team is way up (Dodgers over Giants, 1951; Yankees with a 3-0 ALCS lead over the Red Sox in 2004) , a sure thing, no problem at all, a fat lead … and then a break in momentum, a turning point, panic […]
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UAE Newsmaker: Jose Mourinho
April 27th, 2014 · No Comments · English Premier League, Football, soccer, Sports Journalism, The National, UAE
I suppose the people involved with any news website come to know their audiences. And how unpredictable, capricious and utterly inexplicable they can be. Why no “hits” on this local story? Why scads of hits on this non-local or semi-local story? At The National, for instance, we can get a nice number of page views […]
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