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Bologna fans celebrate the club's centenary. October 9th, 2009.
Photo credit: CapitanBones on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion Photo Pool .
Related posts: Photo Daily | November 12 | Chicago Fire Megabandera It’s the climax of the Major League Soccer season next Saturday, so ...
World Cup
Bologna
Chicago Fire
Italy
Arsenal
Hull City vs. Tampa Bay Rowdies, Anglo-American Cup, April 8th 1984
This week’s classic programme is. . . a classic. A match-up between Hull City and Tampa Bay Rowdies in an obscure 1984 tournament, the most far out part of the whole fixture was the forward to the programme by Hull ...
Premiership
Hull City
Lost in the flurry of news coming out of FIFA’s Executive Committee meeting in South Africa this week was an announcement that the FIFA Women’s World Cup will expand from 16 to 24 teams from 2015 onwards (there will be no change for the 2011 World Cup in Germany).
As I ...
World Cup
Germany
Aberdeen's Red Ultras celebrate their tenth anniversary against Rangers. November 28, 2009.
Photo credit: Aberdeen & Red Ultras on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion Photo Pool .
Related posts: Photo Daily: Újpest FC Ultras Pyro Display Pyro display by ultras from the Hungarian ...
World Cup
Scotland
David Beckham, Ambassador to the World
Big Story
Winning the right to host the World Cup finals is about much more than the actual content of the bid, as we commented yesterday when examining the United States’ solid package .
For England , it’s been a torrid time of ...
World Cup
David Beckham
England
“No nation embodies the values and spirit of the FIFA World Cup™ quite like the United States,” the US’ official bid website boldly proclaims .
The World Cup bidding competition for the 2018 and 2022 finals is hotting up with one year to go until FIFA’s 24 ...
World Cup
In a return of our tifo video series , we stop in Sweden to look at a beautifully choreographed and executed tifo display by supporters of IFK Göteborg in a match against AIK (who we featured just a month or two ago ) earlier this season.
This two-tier display includes flag waving ...
World Cup
Sweden
Australia
Tifo by Marseille supporters in the Virage Nord end of the Stade Vélodrome.
Photo credit: Yogi_OM on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion Photo Pool .
Related posts: Photo Daily – 07.09.07 – Marseille Pyro Photo credit: Masilia.ch on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion photo ...
Euro Leagues
Marseille
France
Ligue 1
Peter Wilt reacts to receiving Matt Pickens’ 2006 US Open Cup medal
An important part of any success I’ve had in my career is the underlying competitive nature of my personality. I suppose to a certain extent, that’s a prerequisite for anyone in leadership positions, but for me, ...
MLS
Chicago Fire
Big Story
I’m pretty sure Sepp Blatter and FIFA’s executive committee is trying to drive me insane, if not kill me. I’m not sure why they’d have a vendetta against a little-known British-born blogger exiled to the United States, but there can be little ...
World Cup
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soccer that everyone who is reading this blog probably appreciates the value of already. FC Dallas obviously have a serious deficit of such supporters , and given the success of ...
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FC Dallas: We Are NOT Spectators
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That is unlikely to be the final name for the stadium, but “rectangular” is a fitting working name as the 31,500 capacity stadium, which will host soccer and rugby, is being made in part to replace the reliance on the oval stadia of Melbourne suitable for Australian Rules Football ...
World Cup
Australia
Crowding around a television set showing a Peruvian match. Huaraz, Peru.
Photo credit: sjgibbs80 on Flickr via the Pitch Invasion Photo Pool .
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Latin America
Peru
Lima
Big Story
When I was 15 or 16, I interviewed Brighton & Hove Albion manager Liam Brady for a school magazine piece that never got published (the magazine never made it to print), and found him to be an amicable and thoughtful man oddly willing to listen patiently and answer ...
Latin America
And then there were…very few. The announcement today by the Rochester Rhinos that they were joining America’s Great American Soccer Independence Movement of 2009 by quitting the USL for the newly revived NASL leaves the status of America’s lower league structure in ...
World Cup
Rochester Rhinos
Football agents are not this cool.
Due to the new requirements in the Football Association’s regulations on agents put in place this summer, the Premier League has released its first public report on the amount spent on club payments to agents, totalling £70,692,513 for 803 payments ...
Premiership
Manchester City
Big Story
There’s been an awful lot of questionable rhetoric already spat out by the leading figures of both sides of the dispute between MLS and the players over their new labour agreement, and finally we have a journalist with the patience and ability to parse through ...
MLS
Don Garber
Nothing goes together like sports and gambling. Occasionally, the consequences of this for the integrity of sport are exposed: whether it’s Pete Rose or Bruce Grobbelaar or Hans Cronje or Matt Le Tissier , a high profile case briefly puts the issue back in the limelight.
And ...
Other
Last week, as the new NBA season settled into its groove, Spike Lee released the DVD of his documentary film Kobe Doin’ Work . The film, which follows Kobe Bryant through a single 2008 game for the LA Lakers, intrigues me as a fan of documentaries, as a casual NBA fan, and as a fan of the ...
World Cup
Zinedine Zidane
The infamous White Horse Cup Final pitch invasion
I didn’t notice until glancing at the Wordpress dashboard just now, but the previous post on here was number 1,000. It took us almost two and a half years of posting to reach four figures, with no fewer than 37 different writers ...
