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Bringing Down the House

What a great week to be an MLS fan. As with much of what goes on in American soccer, 95% of the sportsnation population is of course entirely oblivious to the combine and subsequent draft, and as far as I'm concerned it's their loss. I waste no pity on ...

From CENTER HOLDS IT, Soccer Blogs,  12 Jan 2010

Togo

Thanks to Matt for forwarding me this link: Togo officially disqualified from African Nations Cup There just had to be a better way of doing this. This was semantics, of course - the Togolese government pulled the team over the wishes of the actual ...

From CENTER HOLDS IT, Soccer Blogs,  12 Jan 2010

The Fort Lauderdale Drinking Society

MLS Combine Day One: The blues beat the greens, the whites tied the reds and the biggest winner of the day is the bar staff at the The Westin Beach Resort Fort Lauderdale who'll have to work double shifts this weekend. The lousy weather conditions were ...

From CENTER HOLDS IT, Soccer Blogs,  10 Jan 2010

Love Potion #9

Am I reading too much into Landon getting Dixie Dean's old jersey number? I realize they don't retire numbers in association football, but Brazil and Argentina don't give the backup goalkeeper #10, either. It's just that 9 is a very low number to give ...

From CENTER HOLDS IT, Soccer Blogs,  8 Jan 2010
Related Topics: Dixie Dean

"USSF D-2": Fear and Loathing in New York

The United States Soccer Federation held the functional equivalent of a shotgun wedding yesterday, with Sunil Gulati playing the role of the backwoods daddy holding a Remington double barrel 12 gauge. And they say chivalry is dead. When the confetti ...

From CENTER HOLDS IT, Soccer Blogs,  8 Jan 2010
Related Topics: United States Soccer Federation,  Sunil Gulati,  Ford Motor Company

War of Words

Not too long ago I had a hearty chuckle at Major League Soccer Players Union boss Bob Foose, whose dire warnings about how FIFA would throw the US out of the World Cup if MLS didn't cave in to the players was met with derision far and wide. As I said ...

From CENTER HOLDS IT, Soccer Blogs,  7 Jan 2010
Related Topics: FIFA

Schnell! Like the bad guy in Die Hard

Video games are no mirror of the real world, especially football games that allow old, weezy washups like us to win championships and gold boot awards. But real life, like video games, gets boring when accelerated to, in the words of Rick Moranis in ...

From CENTER HOLDS IT, Soccer Blogs,  5 Jan 2010
Related Topics: Rick Moranis

Feeding frenzy. Prem action, FA Cup-sets and more catch-up than a Heinz factory

Oh so much, dear readers, to feed on in 6's and 7's absence. While we were lost in the snowy mountains with nothing to sustain us besides frozen pizza, Straub beer, and... hmm that sounds like most nights at ours, well there was loads to watch on the ...

From CENTER HOLDS IT, Soccer Blogs,  5 Jan 2010
Related Topics: Liverpool F.C.,  Manchester City

Eric Frimpong: The Injustice Continues

From time to time I've looked in on the Eric Frimpong case and the stench that surrounds his imprisonment. Now comes THIS INVESTIGATIVE PIECE which sheds new light on some of the circumstances which have led to this young man's incarceration. It's sad. ...

From CENTER HOLDS IT, Soccer Blogs,  30 Dec 2009

Dandy Don?

Maybe you've noticed - Lord knows I have - that whenever you write something positive about MLS Commissioner Don Garber (or anything that that doesn't include at least a few derogatory comments about his competence, intelligence or overall honesty) you' ...

From CENTER HOLDS IT, Soccer Blogs,  30 Dec 2009
Related Topics: Major League Soccer

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