Soccer Limey in America

Up the ‘Pool: Why Ian Holloway’s departure was inevitable. I wanted to write an article today on ex-Blackpool manager Ian Holloway’s departure to Crystal Palace over the weekend, but I was fortunate to find an article that not only explains my thoughts and beliefs, but does a much better job that I would ever do. [...]

Scattered amongst the news articles this week in the soccer world were two disturbing stories of financial failure involving top clubs in both England and Scotland. Sadly, fans of Rangers and Portsmouth awoke to the news that their clubs had entered “administration” due to overwhelming financial debts which, according to the rules of their respective [...]

Kevin Phillips to make Blackpool switch – Blackpool FC – Blackpool Gazette. Encouraging news this morning from my old stomping ground on the NorthWest coast of England that former England international Kevin Phillips today signed a one year deal that takes him to Bloomfield Rd for the upcoming season. He also has an option to [...]

It’s not often in the sport of soccer that you get to watch a game where you badly want both teams to win, or more accurately in this case, neither team to lose, but coming up this Sunday afternoon, one of those scenarios occurs in the English Premier League at Old Trafford when League Champions [...]

When Harry Redknapp’s Tottenham side arrived at Bloomfield Rd tonight for their English Premier League clash with Blackpool, you would have thought that they would fancy their chances given the confidence of last week’s win over Serie A leaders AC Milan at the San Siro. With Blackpool’s current run of poor form, the result looked [...]

As you approach the seaside resort town of Blackpool from the south along the coast road from Lytham St Annes, one of the major attractions that people travel to from all over the country, immediately comes into view. It’s an extravagant amusement park, similar to Great America, called The Pleasure Beach. Since May 2010, there [...]

As I watched my hometown team, Blackpool, toiling away at home against Manchester City today at Bloomfield Rd, I couldn’t help but wonder how some teams get relegated from that Division in their first year. However, as the game progressed, I started to see the reality of life in the English Premier League laid bare [...]

In the frantic world of football yesterday, there were two games played in Europe that epitomized some of the reasons why we all love this great game of ours. In Madrid, Spain, we were treated to a yawning spectacle of how one team can choke the life out of another as Jose Mourinho’s Inter Milan [...]