Soccer Limey in America

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 [...]

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 [...]