Cathal Kelly writing about Baseball GM Billy Beane and his love of soccer.
Champions League reform? This one is guaranteed to be divisive.
Gabriele Marcotti on Tottenham’s managerial debacle.
Graham Hunter takes a dim view of Real Madrid’s summer buying spree.
Jason Burt speaks with Obefemi Martins.
David James on goalkeeping.
Rob Hughes takes a look at the captains of Inter, Milan, Roma and Juventus and loyalty.
Klinsmann to LA Galaxy story – don’t be surprised if this move happens very soon.
An extract from Sir Bobby Charlton’s latest autobiography. I still have one he wrote in 1964 called "My Soccer Life" so it will be interesting to contrast it with the book that is about to be published. This piece is for the old timers. The last chapter of the 1964 book Charlton picked his best British eleven. The side he picked in the old 2-3-5 was - Bert Trautmann; Jimmy Armfield, Ray Wilson; Danny Blanchflower, Neil Franklin, Duncan Edwards; Stanley Matthews, Wilf Mannion, Tommy Taylor, Denis Law and Tom Finney.
http://community.foxsports.com/blogs/BobbyMcMahon
Monday, August 27, 2007
The legend Bobby McMahon's links (all worth looking at)
FC Dallas signs Denilson
FC Dallas just signed former Brasil World Cup winner Denilson. He's only 29 -- two years younger than that Beckham fellow. No matter how you spin it, this is an excellent move by the club and the MLS in general. For the Giorgio Chinaglias of the world who say the league needs, "100 Beckhams" -- here is one.
This move will receive a milli-fraction of the attention of the Beckham arrival. On the field, this is just as important as it instantly nudges the level of the league up a little. Considering Denilson moved from Real Betis to Bordeux to Saudi club Al-Nasr now to Dallas in the span of four years, perhaps he might be a little bit of a headache.
The track record of Brasilian players in MLS hasn't been anything to write home about. The first thing that popped into my head was the famous flop Branco with the Metrostars about a decade ago. Yes, Fred and Luciano Emilio have been very solid this season for DC United and Thiago has been useful with Chicago for the last couple years. But overall, the flair that Brasil and his exports are famed for has escaped the league.
Who knows how much Denilson has left in the tank and how much effort he'll bring to Steve Morrow's team. He won't be the headline, gate attraction like Becks, but if Denilson can pull off a few moments of dribbling flair, he'll convert some more non-believers. A definite score for the league, although I doubt it leads the next edition of 'Sportscenter.'
GO FC DALLAS!!!!!!!
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Friday, July 20, 2007
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Clay Aiken at MLS game FC Dallas vs. Chivas USA MLS July 4th 2007
Tomorrow evening FC Dallas is going to be taking on Chivas USA in MLS action on July 4th 2007 at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, TX. Now, stay with me a second because this is amazing...
My friends and I finally have a day where we can all go out to the park and watch some good ol' MLS action because obviously we all have July 4th off and some of my friends usually work night jobs so we can't go on weekends and what have you. So, we all plan on going to see Chivas USA take on FC Dallas, probably about a week ago in advance. Sounds great, everyone is ready to go, and we think we can obviously buy tickets at the door because it never sells out, even though it's July 4th and they will most likely have a fireworks display at the conclusion of the evening. Not so fast!
One of my friends, thank god, is curious and ends up looking and ticket prices online to see how much we will have to pay because he had never been before. So, here is the terrifically horrible part, it ends up that after the MLS game there is a post game concert and (obligatory) fireworks display and that one can not attend the game unless you pay for the entire event, which ranges from $50 down to about $25. Now, although $25 is not a lot more than the usually, say $10-15, but there is the catch... you know who is performing... Clay "WTF" Aiken.
Thank you so much MLS, I love you, there is no one I would rather spend July 4th with than the ambiguously gay solo who looks like a twelve year old girl... are you serious? Are you trying to get people to come watch MLS games and become fans of the game or make them run away in horror because they would be paying to hear Aiken's singing, which sounds like someone is raping a Muppet.
It truly enrages me that the MLS is ignoring the true fans in situations such as these. The David Beckham situation is quite similar in that when L.A. Galaxy comes to town you can't go unless you buy 50 tickets and $20 a piece or something ridiculous like that. MLS... just let the fans go to the games and don't make the tickets always have some crazy catch... Clay Aiken... WOW.
Monday, June 4, 2007
Today [the past couple days] in Sports Nonsense
WHOOOO HOOOO!! I can not believe it is going to be Spurs-Cavs in the NBA Finals. This is not what anyone expected, being that everyone thought it was for sure Spurs-Pistons. I do have to thank Lebron James for getting more people excited about the NBA, although I think that these fans are not the NBA purists who would have loved the great fundamentally sound teams of the Spurs-Pistons (some say dynasties... Spurs are one of the all-time greats)... [Five Quick Thoughts On Cavs-Pistons, Chauncey Billups Is Losing Money, And Nine Other Cavs-Pistons Points.... and from Need4Sheed: It's Over....Again, The Perplexing, yet Provocative, Playoff Potpourri: Cleveland does, indeed, rock]
OHHHH Stray-Rod [THE OBLIGATORY A-ROD/STRIPPER POST, A-ROD'S STRIPPER COULD USE SOME CLOTHES]
UFL and the fact that Mark Cuban is completely worthless [Pipe Dream, Cuban's Blog, Welcome, UFL. May We Suggest Some Franchise Names? (VERY FUNNY)]
Soccer Fix [And You Wonder Why No One Watches MLS..., Posh Spice, David Beckham Won't Be Reality TV Stars,]
Steve Kerr to the dark side [Report: Steve Kerr to Run Suns]
2007 National Spelling Bee [Samir Is Down!]
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Today in Sports Nonsense
Formula One malay [McLaren Rookie Let Teammate Win Monaco Gran Prix]
MLS... Go FC Dallas!! [MLS Powah Rankings: Week 8]
Del Harris... one of the only Mavs I like [Del Harris Has a Great Job]
Summer NCAA Basketball news?? [Kansas' Rush tears ACL; may return by November]
LA Galaxy concerned over Beckham England recall [Story & FIFA: Release him]
