Soccer Limey in America

It’s just over two years since a totally uninspired England team managed by a frustrated Fabio Capello, sputtered to a shambolic draw against tournament minnows Algeria in a Group match in South Africa at the 2010 World Cup. The result left England with a do or die match against a weak Slovenia side, which ironically, [...]

Michael Bradley: Guatemala game is the kind of pressure we welcome – Yahoo! Sports Prior to the USA vs Antigua game last week, I was amazed by the reaction of US fans who couldn’t understand why the 2-1 scoreline was so close. I wasn’t surprised in the slightest as this game was played on a [...]

Oceania Champions Tahiti Hammered 4-0 by New Caledonia – NYTimes.com. It’s headlines like this that remind me of just how global the game of soccer is in modern times. While the World Cup qualifiers in Europe and South America are held in state-of-the-art stadiums with the biggest superstars of the game involved, thousands of miles [...]

Quite predictably following an over-hyped victory over football minnows Moldova last week, England’s 3rd ranked senior side struggled to salvage a 1-1 draw against a stubborn Ukraine side at Wembley stadium last night. A late Frank Lampard penalty salvaged a lame point for a team that labored to contain the East Europeans who were content [...]

I have to admit that watching England make easy work of the Moldovan national team on Friday in their opening World Cup Qualifier for Brazil 2014 was a pleasant experience in direct contrast to their previous competitive match in the Euro2012 Quarter Final loss against Italy in the early summer. Gone were the stifling defensive [...]

Lebanon achieve the impossible – Lebanon Daily Star. As a sidebar to all of the hype surrounding the Euro2012 play off qualifiers this past week, I noticed a great story emerging out of the Middle East which deserves more than a mention. Asian power South Korea were beaten 2-1 in Beirut by Lebanon who rank [...]