SOUNDERS EXPECT BRAWL IN CRUCIAL WESTERN CONFERENCE SHOWDOWN WITH SALT LAKE CITY The Seattle Sounders have weathered a summer that's included a combination of depth-depleting injuries, international absences, suspensions and a franchise-record goal-scoring drought. But now, they've finally snapped out of their recent slump with a resounding 4-0 blowout of Orlando City SC at [...]
Great memories Alan, except for me diving into your knee! Many great names and players. I miss those days as I age. I was so fortunate to play with the likes of you, Bobby Moore, Mike England, Harry Redknapp, those you mention, and so many more! But I also will never forget how you personally [...]
Funny thing happened to me this week amidst my bout of being ‘out of the game’, and and the first sign was a name coming up on my mobile telephone and what a lovely surprise as Tommy Jenkins name flashed up. Tommy is a gem and one of those rough diamonds that they used to [...]
ALL SAINTS DAY It was incredible that within only a few days Southampton, who played superbly for Ronald Koeman, showed Chelsea how to behave when Matic was incredibly not sent off on a second deliberate foul. What was even more deliberate was that unlike the Chelsea players against PSG on Tuesday night did not [...]
Wrong side of ‘The Pond’ For those watching Chelsea’s Champions League exit last night let me tell you, ‘it was not something that happened over 90 or 120 minutes, it was something that has been happening since our team won the 1970 FA Cup. I’ll give you four reasons, Brian Mears, Ken [...]
It is now 7.35am., and I have been writing on and off since 9am., when bringing you my thoughts on the latest Sounders performance. I went for a lunchtime stroll (limp) and on my return logged into Wikipedia and found what you have just read and like some of you, for the very first time. [...]
I turned to Fox Sports to watch the opening match of the season, having just seen Orlando play New York City a few hours prior. Firstly, the Orlando match - with 63,000 supporters inside the Citrus Bowl - was a total joke with the two main “superstars” the Spanish World Cup and Champions League winner, [...]
Forecasting Major League Soccer seasons before the first ball has even been kicked is a fool’s errand. In a league with salary-cap-enforced parity and a steady churn of player turnover, clubs dramatically ebb and flow from year to year. See: D.C. United, which finished bottom of the Eastern Conference in 2013 and first a season [...]
England and the USA are worlds apart in many ways and I’ll give you two typical examples: Let me tell you about my first two homes, one on the outskirts of Wimbledon - where Americans will relate to our greatest sporting event - where my home in Southfields, which is the closest railway station to [...]
I always say about that 1970 injury that cost me so very much, and hurt so much, it was like watching all of my toys being put under the tree the night before Christmas only to wake early to find Santa had not come. But as luck had it I found out there was no [...]
