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. [...]

This week sees another international date in world football for FIFA World Cup Qualifiers and a few other meaningless friendlies. In particular, England face European minnows San Marino at Wembley on Friday, and then have a difficult away match in Poland next Tuesday. One of the topics of conversation this past weekend has been complaints [...]

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 [...]