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Don’t Let City and Chelsea Make You Forget About Real Madrid’s Historic Season

Filed: May 21, 2012 7:54 AM CDT by
Real Madrid celebrating after a goal - by DigitalArtists on Flickr

With all the drama of the Premier League’s closing weekend, and Chelsea’s “tense” and stoic win in Munich to capture the Champions League title, it’s no wonder that most of the talk in the past two weeks has been about English football. Add in the timely exit of Kenny Dalglish from Liverpool, and it would [...]

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Dalglish Example Shows That, Once Again, Money Trumps Anything At All Meaningful

Filed: May 17, 2012 12:47 PM CDT by
Liverpool coaches banner - by "Eric The Fish" on Flickr

“As a Liverpool supporter of a vintage that fondly remembers Kenny Dalglish the player and not just the manager, I’d love to have seen the man being given more time to realise his plans,” writes Football365’s Paul Little, adding the qualifier: “but in the cold light of day, the reality is that Fenway Sports Group [...]

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Becks and L.A. Galaxy Visit White House to Promote “Let’s Move” Initiative

Filed: May 15, 2012 8:07 PM CDT by
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Becks and Michelle Obama - Getty Images (from daylife.com)

Today the Obamas hosted the L.A. Galaxy at the White House to congratulate the team on its recent championship and to promote Michelle Obama’s national fitness initiative, “Let’s Move.” President Obama, who called the Galaxy the “Miami Heat of soccer,” touted their three MLS Cups and their resulting celebrity status, saying that unlike other professional [...]

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“I Remember Swearing a Lot”—Reactions to City’s Premier League Title

Filed: May 14, 2012 10:43 AM CDT by

There were few people at the pub on Sunday watching the Swansea-Liverpool match, and even fewer rooting for Swansea. There was some beautiful passing on both sides, and if Andy Carroll had found the back of the net with his bicycle kick, it would have been the goal of the season in my mind. However, [...]

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Trans-Atlantic Debate Part 5: Best and Worst Kits for 2012/2013

Filed: May 11, 2012 2:03 PM CDT by
Arsenal's Freddy Krueger inspired away kit

As I’ve previously written, uniforms matter. They carry storied traditions onto the pitch. They symbolize belonging and group cohesion. They impart psychological advantages. How popular (or effective) would Real Madrid be without their iconic, classic, fascist-looking white uniforms? How endearing would Liverpool be (if one finds them endearing) without their solid red kit and powder [...]

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Does Roy Hodgson Know Too Much?

Filed: May 10, 2012 11:13 PM CDT by
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Roy Hodgson (center) - Zulfikar Aleksandri

“My response is probably not what the curators from Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries and the New York Public Library’s Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection had in mind,” writes Paula Martinez Cohen in her recent article in The Smart Set (of H.L. Mencken fame), adding, “But who knows if my response is typical. Perhaps everyone else will think [...]

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Surprise Surprise, Real Is Not the Only Team from Madrid

Filed: May 9, 2012 9:52 PM CDT by
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While often overshadowed by their ostentatious in-town rivals, Atlético Madrid has done their best to remind everyone that there are indeed two teams in la capital by winning the Europa League in dominating fashion against La Liga foes Athletic Bilbao in Bucharest. Atlético also sits fifth in the league table, only two points behind fourth-place [...]

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Chelsea Set to Play PSG in Yankee Stadium This July

Filed: May 7, 2012 12:56 PM CDT by
View from the new Yankee Stadium - John Dalton

When the Hotel Chelsea was closed for renovations last year, Tom Leonard opened his article about it in the Daily Mail by highlighting the hotel’s famous (and often infamous) history, writing: “Every room has a story, most of them memorable and few of them printable.” Sid Vicious (or someone else, he can’t remember) killed his [...]

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Dear Liverpool, Please Sign Clint Dempsey and Let Us Forget About This Nightmare. Sincerely, a Concerned Fan

Filed: May 5, 2012 5:04 PM CDT by
me, smiling at the thought of ending this season and starting anew - photo by Stella Floyd

According to this article by Jonathan Gottschall, fiction is good for you. Liverpool coach Kenny Dalglish apparently agrees, considering his choice of tactics and personnel in today’s woeful (to coin Alan Dymock) 2-1 loss to Chelsea in an FA Cup Final that, frankly, left a lot to be desired. King Kenny’s head must’ve been filled [...]

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This Just In: Some Women Like Soccer Regardless of Men’s Opinions

Filed: May 2, 2012 8:25 PM CDT by
Portland Timbers supporters, many of whom are women - public domain

When one starts a comment with the preface “It’s going to be a little unpopular to say this…”, then one might want to rethink continuing one’s statement. Unfortunately for Simon Borg, Major League Soccer’s ExtraTime Radio Editorial Staff member, he didn’t heed such advice. On Monday he felt the urge to wax misogynist about women [...]

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