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Written by Jeremy Rueter
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Monday, 16 January 2012 14:06 |
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 The Home Internationals Soccer Tournament, 1946-84, A Complete Record by Gary Watton is a match-by-match record of this annual tournament, once played amongst the four national teams of the United Kingdom - England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Each match gets its own page and the details include lineup (interestingly including which club the player played for at the time, a great touch), scorers, and a brief summary to give it context.
At the end of the book you'll find complete head-to-head records, final tables of the tournament, and as a bonus the league champion in England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland that year. Wales as you likely know would not be included in that because their top clubs played (and continue to play) in the English football system.
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Written by Michael Hund
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Tuesday, 10 January 2012 09:45 |
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 With the holiday season in our rearview mirrors, the MLS pre-season is about to kick into gear. Likewise, the USMNT returns to action with the annual January camp and friendlies. But we begin with the different roster trajectories of the two biggest names in American club soccer…
The Perils of Success
It seemed that the price of the Galaxy’s 2011 success would be an off-season dismantling, headlined by the long-rumored departure of David Beckham. But here we are, in the heart of the transfer season, and Beckham looks like he may extend his stay in LA. Likewise, many of the key cogs that looked to have attracted interest from other quarters were quietly signed to new contracts or departed on short-term loans.
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Written by Wyn Grant
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Tuesday, 03 January 2012 21:45 |
 What can we expect in 2012 in terms of the business side of football? It's an almost unanswerable question because no one knows for sure what is going to happen to the world's main football economies, those of Europe. Asian countries are, of course, big and growing customers for televised games and the prospects there look reasonably good. In the States, against a background of slow economic recovery, the game will continue its steady progress.
No one is forecasting any significant recovery for European economies in 2012. The big question is whether they will enter another recession. That in turn depends on what happens in the eurozone crisis. Italy in particular has to finance a big tranche of debt in the first three months of the year. If Italy can't sell its debt, the whole eurozone is at risk. For what it's worth, my bet would be that although it is possible that Greece may exit, the eurozone as a whole will survive because Germany wants and needs it to succeed.
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Written by Wyn Grant
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Saturday, 17 December 2011 14:34 |
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Portsmouth have faced more challenges than most clubs in recent years and now they have to deal with a new set of problems. In June the club was taken over by Convers Sports Initiatives which is backed by Russian owner Vladimir Antonov.
At the end of November Antonov, and his business partner Raimondos Baranauskas were bailed until 16 December by Westminster Magistrates Court . They were arrested at their offices in the City of London after the issue of a European Arrest Warrant.
They face an extradition request by the Lithuanian authorities in connection with alleged fraud and asset stripping at a Lithuanian bank. Should they be convicted, the Lithuanian court could impose sentences of up to ten years' imprisonment.
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Written by Scott T. Shepherd
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Friday, 09 December 2011 13:56 |
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 Just a week after Stanford University captured the women’s soccer title, four teams gather in Hoover, Ala., for the College Cup to decide the NCAA Division I Men’s Soccer Champion for 2011. Today, top-seeded University of North Carolina will meet the UCLA in one semifinal, while UNC-Charlotte will square off against Creighton in the other. By Sunday night, we will have new kings of college soccer.
However, there was a period when the NCAA – formally known as National Collegiate Athletic Association – was not the king of amateur sports in the United States. In the late 19th century, soccer teams (using the accepted American vernacular) popped up across the country, but mostly in the Northeast. After primarily playing against local amateur clubs, universities began to compete with each other and champions were determined.
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