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Silly Season Shopping: Tottenham Hotspur
The one, the only Magic Pixie ‘Tis a thin line between death and glory, and, bless them, our 2010-11 Spurs squad never strayed far from the breach. For every virtuosic dismantling of the European...
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World Cup Final Bootroom: Trophy or Bust
“There is something remarkably strong about a team that wins; and something remarkably weak about that same team when it doesn’t. The team that is “more than just a hockey team,” the athletic,...
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Copa America Bootroom: Two ‘Guays and a Girl
It’s good to be a banker. Win or lose, you always get paid. The same goes for Paraguayans who want to see Larissa Riquelme naked. Whether the national team wins, in which case she’s again promised to...
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In Search of Lost Time: MLS All-Star Game Edition
For a long time, I wanted to go home early… But we were stuck in frickin’ Harrison, Frickin’ New Jersey, where the bloat of people pooling outside the narrow gate to the NYC-bound Path train rivals...
View ArticleEminen’s “Stan”– the Arsenal Remix
It’s either that, as indicated in the headline, or the actual transcript of monologues exchanged between the Arsenal majority owner and the increasingly implausible mug managing his club. One of the...
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Unprofessional Foulcast 201: The Phoenix Rising Episode
That's a real image of The Likely Lad. After a summer of the UF crew being tired, sick of soccer and really not in the mood to talk online — oh, wait, that was just me — it’s Foulcast time again! Like...
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The Making of a Meme
Foremost among the sundry complaints lodged against recently dismissed USMNT gaffer Bob Bradley was that his team never developed a signature style. (It’s my suspicion that he was for a long time...
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UF Exclusive: Q & A With ‘Soccer Men’ Author Simon Kuper (PART I)
'Soccer Men' is Kuper's fourth book Brian Eno, on the subject of the influential Velvet Underground, is reported to have said that while their first “album only sold 10,000 copies, everyone who bought...
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UF Exclusive: Q & A With ‘Soccer Men’ Author Simon Kuper (PART II)
As promised: The second (and final!) installment of our wide-ranging interview with Soccer Men author Simon Kuper. You can find the first part here. Just. Incredibly. Bad. Luck. Or not? Unprofessional...
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Oasis vs. Blur! The Definitive Guide to Britpop’s Biggest Feud (but, really…)
Still with this? Oasis won the battle, Albarn the war. Now read! A girl I love once gave me a book as a gift. It was a good one, notable, but as she said in her inscription, not something I should...
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