Focus of the Week – Return from international break! I’ll watch soccer in pretty much any form. MLS, European leagues, Texas Premier League, high school games in my neighborhood. I’ve settled on this opinion: the Champions League is the best…
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The Futility of Planning
A double loss week for Sporting Kansas City saw them take a serious tumble in the power rankings, while the Rocky Mountain teams sit atop the multi-league rankings. FC Dallas took advantage of a double-game week to beat Portland on…
Bookable Offenses – April Fails Edition
Your infrequent list of things to be irritated with in the world of soccer. This week, all of the most annoying events are in the United States. The Stop Football! movement will temporarily be renamed to Stop Soccer! First Yellow: US…
US Open Cup Revamp
So in a previous post, I talked about the Chilean Cup in a Football Manager save I was playing, and how I appreciated the format, which in my game, starts with a four team group where the teams play each…
A Second Go
This set of friendlies was always likely to be the trend breaker. In 2015’s international windows, the US Men’s National Team tended to look better in the second friendly. Terrible versus Chile’s C team, much better against Panama, as they should be.…
Hudson River Derby and US Open Cup
Thank you, New York. You provided a nice palate cleanser to a long weekend with your throaty, energetic contest between old new money and new new money. After dealing with Tottenham tanking a game to avoid the Europa League, and…
Battle for New York
There’s a fascinating chapter in Soccernomics where the authors discuss the fact that the city of London had never won a Champions League until Chelsea lifted the trophy in 2012. Up until that point, English success in Europe had been based…
Cutting Out the Noise
After catching bits and pieces of the two US Open Cup games that were streamed over the internet this past weekend, I decided to alter how games were scored. Instead of copying the European coefficient systems and awarding teams points…
US Power Rankings 04/20 Edition (Cue Jokes)
League Team 2015 MLS Red Bulls NY 2.56 PRO Rochester 2.56 PRO Oklahoma City 2.41 MLS Vancouver 1.99 PRO Orange County 1.99 PRO Louisville 1.87 NASL NY Cosmos 1.84 PRO Charleston 1.83 PRO Arizona United 1.76 MLS DC United…
Full of Light and Full of Fire
Austin maintains a prominent place in the US music landscape despite the city and its scene undergoing some growing pains (deaths at SXSW, expansion of ACL to two weekends) as jobs, money, and people flow into the town seeking to…
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