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 [...]
EDDIE HOWE - NO RELATION, WELL, NOT BY BLOOD! You can tell who was your best coach in a 20-year playing career, when you take into consideration it was your worst spell. Mine came at Arsenal under Don Howe, who was without a shadow of a doubt the best coach I have [...]
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 [...]
THE GREATEST CAPTAIN OF OUR TIME I am very surprised that the Seattle Sounders do not make more of having the great Bobby Moore - who was responsible for me signing for the club - as one of the players in their Roll of Honour. In every football club, or business even, [...]
EXCITING TIMES AHEAD IN THE USA You well know by now that my latest trip to the other side of the Pond was more than spectacular it was absolutely life-changing, in my case. The new League has been brought to our attention by the introduction of firstly David Beckham and lastly Thierry [...]
"He was an acquired taste, Alan Hudson. He was ahead of his time, for sure, and such savants often suffer as a consequence. However, by working tirelessly, showing his colours and winning matches, Huddy emphatically won Seattle over. This week he returns, and the occasion provides an opportunity to share what Hudson was all [...]
August 9th - A Kiss Of Death THE WORLD CUP 1970 Yesterday: In the March of 1970, all my troubles seemed so far away, now it seems as if they’re here to stay, oh I believed in ‘Yesterday’. Suddenly, I was half the man I used to be… I’d done nothing [...]
August 9th - Turnip And Swede (49 days since England’s World Cup exit) No LIE TO ME on this Saturday morning but I spoke of Tim Roth’s assistant and could not resist showing her photograph, for if I had an assistant (I supose a little like Sven Goran-Eriksson) she would be [...]
June 27th - After scoring yet another goal The big talking point this season was ‘Would Liverpool had won the Premier League had Luis Suarez not missed the first eight matches of his incredible season?’ I am not sure, but I do know one thing it triggered [...]