Soccer Limey in America

Today in Frankfurt, Germany, the USA WNT faces Japan in the Final of the 2011 Women’s World Cup in an attempt to win the trophy for the second time in 12 years. I think it’s fair to say that 95% of soccer fans around the world, especially, of course, in the US and Japan, will [...]

  BBC – David Bond: Qatar ‘spent big’ to win 2022 World Cup. I can’t help wondering as I listen to David Bond’s interview with Hassan al Thawadi, the executive in charge of Qatar’s successful bid to host the World Cup in 2022, that we all got suckered in by first of all, a very smart [...]

Mexico Makes the U17 Final… Dramatically – Sunshine Pumping…Optional – Soccer Blog – BigSoccer. Mexico’s U17 squad will play Uruguay in the Final of the FIFA U17 World Cup at the Aztec Stadium on Sunday and what a burnburner that proposes to be. Enthusiasm has been building throughout this tournament for the host country and [...]

One of the reasons I have delayed writing a post about the shambolic events that took place at FIFA Headquarters in Zurich last week, was to try to take some time to digest what happened and come to an educated conclusion without calling the FIFA executives a bunch of crooks. Now that sufficient time has [...]

With four days to go before FIFA decides who will be the host countries for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup Tournaments, the fog is beginning to clear and what is becoming more apparent by the day, is that England will once again let a World Cup slip through its grasp. Celebrated back home as [...]