Soccer Limey in America

A late Robin Van Persie equalizer for Man Utd against a sturdy West Ham United team at Upton Park tonight, saved manager Sir Alex Ferguson’s blushes yet again. His 91st minute shot forced a replay at Old Trafford in their 3rd Round FA Cup Tie.

Accrington Stanley FA Cup tie just the latest step for ambitious AFC Fylde – FA & League Cups – Football – The Independent. Sometimes as a writer, you get a chance to wax lyrical about an aspect of your life that suddenly is projected into the national spotlight. Today, I get that chance as up [...]

Here we are again, people. I know it’s been a while but another howler of a decision by a refereeing crew in England today in a massively important football game has again thrust the issue of video technology onto the front burner again worldwide. Premier League referee Martin Atkinson ruled that Chelsea had scored following a frantic [...]

One of the lasting benefits of watching soccer (football or whatever you want to call it) is how it never ceases to surprise and just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, everything changes. Such was the nature of today’s FA Cup Third Round match between Premier League Leaders Man City and their [...]

As much as it pains me as a United fan to write a title like this, I will hold my hand up and admit that today at Wembley, in the FA Cup Semi Final as Man City beat Man Utd, that the Berties fully deserved their 1-0 victory. On a day that promised so much [...]