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From the 'You Couldn't Make it Up' department:
http://football.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-5983454,00.html

Four red cards and a tunnel brawl in the Argentine Friendship Cup.

 

Reviving the "your favorite team and why" idea....

Having never actually lived in England, I go for the teams of my parents: Portsmouth and Coventry City.

Yea, I know.

But my support of Portsmouth was forever ingrained during the 2004-05 relegation campaign. With Portsmouth's safety secure, the team traveled to West Brom, one of the four teams involved in one of the tightest relegation fights ever. Knowing that a West Brom win would relegate Portsmouth's bitter rivals, Southampton, thousands upon thousands of Portsmouth fans traveled to the game expressly for the purpose of cheering against their own side.

They've also become ridiculously good at playing well the last six weeks of the season and dodging a well deserved drop. This year, they've got a ton of money to spend, but they haven't found anyone willing to take it for decent players.

As for Coventry...they should have been a second-tier side 15 years ago. Now they are one, and they act like it. Oh well.

 

Thanks for the link.

 

I've long argued that much of the SPL can't hack it in MLS. Outside of Rangers, Celtic and, maybe, Hearts, the teams would struggle and be just as mediocre.

As such, even Celtic and Rangers recognize the mediocrity in the SPL as they pondered a move to the EPL. They came to their better judgment and realized that if they did this, there would be no shot at Europe and they would be upper-middle table competitors at best.


And I heard that MLS came to a deal with FSC. I haven't read the news on it yet, but good for them.

 

I was wondering why the Revs-KC game was on FSC on Saturday night (Yes, my life is pathertic that I DVRed both that game and the RBNY game). Even more pathetic was the fact that I was watching "Rumor Has It" instead of watching either live.

 

It was nice to have a chance to watch the Wizards for the first time in a while.

When faced with the choice of listening to Sean Wheelock or the Revs' SuperHomer combo of Schmucky the Clown and Greg "Tampa Bay 4 Life" Lalas, though, I went with the mute button.

 

Anyone else see that Vieira is leaving Juventus for Inter Milan?

 

It's hard for "Schmucky the Clown" to be neutral considering he is the head of media relations.

 

This explains so much....

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Saw that, Herr Doctor. Going from a crippled Old Lady to Serie A's answer to the L.A. Dodgers -- that had better be a heck of a payday.

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Another interesting read from The Guardian:
http://football.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-5988386,00.html

Guus Hiddink can't be that good, according to a group of top managers. He's not even Russian!

 

Nice little read from the Guardian ... an interview with YA Jay DeMerit.

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,1835715,00.html

 

did you see where Celtic were thrashed by the Yokohama Marinos, 3-0 in a friendly.

also, mexican and french domestic leagues start this weekend.

 

The recent Celtic loss doesn't surprise me at all. They were going to send less than half of their starters to Japan since they have a league fixture this weekend.

Flying there alone would take 24-hours. Then you fly back, another 24-hours. Then you give your players a day to acclimate. You will never get good production out of your players that way.

I have no idea why they would schedule a mid-week friendly in Japan less than a week after their regular season starts. It just makes no sense.