Every game I’ve attended before this, I’ve taken my camera and shot putting boring shots. This game could have changed all that and what do I do?? Forget the camera in the car. It’s as if I was being punished for leaving it in the car. Needless to say …

The worst thing that can happen on hump day is a bad day at work. After what happened two Saturdays ago I have a feeling that DC is going to be that tyrant boss that makes you (Columbus) wish you called in sick. Tomorrow night twenty-two guys will take…

Two footie blogs written from a female perspective. The wonderfully named You’ll Never Blog Alone from the USA and Footie Girl – a Canadian who supports both the Reds of Liverpool and Manchester. Methinks a choice should be made on that last one soon.

What now for the humble groin strain, the everyday hamstring pull or the much-maligned thigh strain? Now surely the wimps of the football injury. How can Premiership players look their physiotherapists in the eye and complain of such ailments? “A thi…

If there’s one thing that I absolutely love is when one of my off-the-wall predictions comes true.So regular readers of the footcer sections will realize that I’ve long made fun of Ecuador for their complete inability to win when they’re off their moun…

Before I begin I have to say that I didn’t watch the second half of the DC United and KC Wizards game. When my DVR stopped recording the final score was DC-3 KC-1. I was upset enough that I let myself look at the TV screen when, in the back of my head,…

I was looking for the word to describe what I thought went wrong for the US in the Morocco game. The word I kept coming back to was experienced: the guys Arena started in that game were experienced players. That’s precisely why we lost.
In the context of American soccer, when I say someone is [...]

It’s very odd that I have completely missed the fact that Northern Ireland and Romania are playing at Soldier Field tomorrow evening. The crackhead is with the Romanian team so it would be cool to see one of the most talented players on Earth in Chicag…

So as regular readers know, strategery is not my strong point when it comes to footcer. I understand formations and the like but somehow I can watch the same game and come up with different results than anybody else. This is why I usually stick to th…

The world-wide stereotype of U.S. soccer fans are that they are passive. There is no fire, no emotion, when they are at soccer games. Obviously those of us who go to the games, especially DC United games, know different but common observers still belie…

Here’s a look at the DC United-Columbus game from the Crew’s point of view by Walter Wheeler.Relatively old article by Jeff Carlisle spotlighting Alecko Eskandarian: Back with a Vengeance.Awesome new MLS website launched by Adidas. The DC United sectio…

According to a writer of the Mid-Atlantic Soccer Report, DC United, among others, are playing on a completely different level than the rest of the league. I whole-heartedly agree and certain games this year you’ve seen games that resemble a high school…

With the World Cup imminent and my workload easing over the next couple of months, I’m hoping to get back on the football blogging horse - so to speak. So much has happened over the past couple of weeks and I can’t believe Istanbul was a year ago.O…

For those people who live in Chicago, read the Red Eye, and also actually read the entirety of my footcer related entries in here, let me tell everyone once and for all that I am not Whizzer.Though I think that Whizzer, who is a cartoon animated dog wi…

So on Saturday I watched the game at my parents’ house. Turns out that their cable was on the fritz and Comcast had no sound.Either way I watched the game and boy what a game it was. Well the second half was forgetable but the first half had plenty of …

So the danger of my new policy of just dragging the footcer specific stuff from my LiveJournal over here without editing (besides the spelling errors) is that some things sneak in - like politics. I apologize if I offended anyone else with the “idiot …

The current MLS standings are a little wacky with the disparity in number of games played. Therefore I present the standings league-wide (no conferences) based on points per game:Major League Soccer Table (Adjusted)Rank Team Games Played Total Points P…

Everyone has to lose sometime. It’s the way DC lost that bothers me. We were not beat by a better team. We were beat by our own careless mistakes.How well did DC United stick to my “Keys for United”? In terms of patience, it looked to me that DC was ru…

I haven’t had a chance to catch any of the Rapids games this season so I’ll focus on what DC needs to do.The game is being carried by Comcast SportsNet at 9:00 PM ET and MLSLive.tv.They are playing in Colorado and it’ll be around 58 degrees with a 40% …