Soccer Limey in America

Arsenal 1 New York Red Bulls 1: match report – Telegraph. Once again, so-called Gunners fans showered themselves in glory earlier today following a 1-1 draw in The Emirates Cup game against the New York Red Bulls and Thierry Henry. From match reports, it appears that Arsenal’s performance was somewhat below par, but to the [...]

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 [...]