Category Archives: World Cup 2014
Odds & Ends: I Prefer To Remain In Denial Edition
I’ll star with the only good things that has happened in my football life since the last installment of “Odds & Ends”: the USMNT took 4 of 6 points from … Continue reading
Italy: The World Cup 2014 Shirt Has Arrived
It turns out that there’s no translation engine on the interwebs that will tell me that the Italian word for “meh” is. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a bad … Continue reading
New England Revolution 0 – 0 Sporting Kansas City
As you may have heard I attended today’s New England Revolution home opener with faithful reader and commenter KCGunner- here are my observations: It was cold- very cold. It was … Continue reading
Jurgen knows what he’s doing- right?
I’m not going to say that United States National Team coach Jurgen Klinsmann is getting desperate, but the roster he has selected for the upcoming World Cup qualification matches against … Continue reading
Let’s Hope the Wee Man has a Wee Plan
Tomorrow afternoon the Scottish National Team will take on Estonia at Pittodrie Stadium in Aberdeen in an international friendly that will mark Gordon Strachan’s first match in charge of the … Continue reading
Klinsmann Names Team For Honduras Match
United States men’s national team coach Jürgen Klinsmann has named his roster for the trip to Honduras for the opening of the fourth round of CONCACAF qualification for the 2014 … Continue reading
Craig Levein is out as Scotland’s manager
Though the decision was delayed by a few days (purportedly because the S.F.A. is in such dire financial straits that it did not know if it could pay him and … Continue reading
Introducing the new Scotland “U25″ National Team: Part One
As I’ve mentioned directly or indirectly several times over the past few months there is quite a bit of young footballing talent in Scotland both domestically and in the various … Continue reading
U.S.A. 3 – 1 Guatemala
I don’t have time to discuss the USMNT’s win over Guatemala at length today but I would like to share a few thoughts with you on what I think was … Continue reading
Odds & Ends: International Weekend Edition
I was shocked when I recently stumbled upon the fact that 39 year old Argentinian international Javier Zanetti was still playing! Though he has not played for Argentina this year, … Continue reading
