Soccer Limey in America

The announcement of the World XI by FIFPRO was instantly criticized for its lack of Premier League players. Here is our Premier League World XI whom we believe can compete and win against the FIFPRO XI.When choosing teams like this, it is often hard to do because there are more than one deserving players at [...]

BBC Sport – Premier League could use goal-line technology in 2012-13 season. When I first saw the headline this morning, I had to stop and take a second look at why suddenly, this venturethe idea of goal-line technology has suddenly gone from the back burner to possible usage next season in the top football League in the [...]

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 [...]

Under normal circumstances, I don’t usually pay much attention to the press releases that emanate from FIFA Headquarters in Switzerland, mainly because a lot of it reminds me of how our politicians talk these days. It usually sounds good at first but once the fancy wrapping is stripped off, it usually has no substance. However, [...]

If you have read my postings over the last 3 months or so, you will already appreciate that I am not a fan of the men who administrate our sport, at any level. On Saturday in Zurich, the International Football Association Board and FIFA met at the 124th Annual General Meeting to discuss the important [...]

FIFA recently released it’s latest rankings and there were few surprises, except one. Sitting proudly in 10th spot, sits the Egyptian National team moving up fourteen spots from the previous month. Quite an achievement for a team that recently won the African Cup of Nations and definitely a boost for fans of the Pharaohs who [...]

The inevitable became a reality down in South Africa this afternoon when FIFA, via Sepp Blatter, finally decided that video technology would not be used at the World Cup next June and to make matters worse , they also decided that expanding the 4th officials’ duties or putting a linesman behind each goal would not [...]

If all that has transpired this week about FIFA and it’s bumbling President Sepp Blatter regarding the controversy surrounding Thierry Henry and the handball incident ( I’m assuming by now that you don’t need an explanation ) , isn’t enough to curl your toenails, then please, Mr Blatter, step forward and stuff your head up [...]

Soccer Limey in America For those of you not familiar with “Fred Karno” , he was a British theater impresario very popular in the 1900′s who listed amongst his pupils Charlie Chaplin and Arthur Jefferson . (Trivia – Who was Arthur Jefferson ? ) . His ‘circus” was a travelling  opera troupe of clowns of [...]

I would have liked my opening blog to have been about something positive in this beautiful game of ours but I find myself choosing a topic which threatens the future of this sport . FIFA. If you haven’t heard or seen reference to dubious refereeing decisions over the last 2-3 weeks then I ask you [...]