0 comments by Phillip Bupp on 12/6/2014
Sergio Aguero, the EPL goals leader, went down with an apparent knee injury within the first minute of the Manchester City/Everton game. If Aguero is out, this could have major implications in the EPL table. Aguero is responsible for just under 50% of Manchester City’s EPL goals and with Vincent Kompany out, Man City is […]
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic is one of those players who thinks about the game on a different level than the rest of us. The things he does is something that none of us could even fathom and he makes it work. This free kick is just another example. If there’s one thing we have learned time and […]
0 comments by Phillip Bupp on 12/5/2014
Hooliganism has long been a black eye on the sport of soccer. To many, it would seem as if it was something we read in the history books and doesn’t happen all that often. If this week has been any indication, there is still hooliganism and no one seems to be doing anything about it. […]
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Harry Redknapp, manager of next to last place Queens Park Rangers, has essentially cancelled Christmas for his players. Redknapp says in a Sky Sports story, “No, I’m not into Christmas parties, not for footballers.” Redknapp goes one step further and explains the dangers of QPR players going out. “I think it’s more aggravation than it’s […]
0 comments by Phillip Bupp on 12/4/2014
It has currently been 10 months since David Beckham and representatives from Miami and MLS announced a new MLS team which would play in Miami with Beckham as an owner. Since then, it has not gone as planned for everyone involved. Beckham has been trying to get a team in Miami for a while. A […]
0 comments by Phillip Bupp on 12/3/2014
Smooth passing + bad defending = great looking goal. That’s pretty much what happened here. Eden Hazard very easily got through the Tottenham back line via a 1-2 pass with Didier Drogba. Once Hazard passed, he left the Spurs defenders before they noticed he was gone, took the pass from Drogba and beautifully finished to […]
You can’t charge him with corruption if he can’t hear you.
0 comments by Phillip Bupp on 12/2/2014
Sepp Blatter is in that zone where you wouldn’t be shocked by anything that he says. Blatter tested that in Sri Lanka by deflecting responsibility for Qatar’s labor situation to individual companies who employ those workers. In a report from The Guardian, Blatter said that, “[companies from European countries] are responsible for their workers and […]
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The November 22nd matchup between Arsenal and Manchester United became the most watched EPL game in US history. The Man U 2-1 win over Arsenal averaged 1.41 million viewers, breaking the previous record of 1.38 million set with a Chelsea/Man U game in February 2012. What is interesting to note is that the Chelsea/Man U […]
0 comments by Phillip Bupp on 11/30/2014
A report from the print version of The Sunday Times said that UEFA president Michel Platini allegedly accepted a Picasso painting from the Russian 2018 World Cup bid committee in exchange for Platini’s support for Russia hosting the 2018 FIFA World Cup. This was after it was reported that Platini would not be subject to […]
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Andrea Pirlo sees Sergio Busquets’ winner and raises with his own winner in the dying seconds from about 25 yards out. Pirlo is simply timeless, the legend astounds us all once again. I don’t think I can ever imagine a world where Andrea Pirlo isn’t playing soccer. He’s 35 years old but still has the […]
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When I mean dying seconds, I mean DYING seconds. The 93rd minute of a match with three minutes of stoppage time, this happens. Just simply stunning. Barcelona defeats Valencia and stay within two points of Real Madrid in the La Liga table.
0 comments by Phillip Bupp on 11/29/2014
It’s something that doesn’t usually have much of an impact on a game but every stadium has some sort of advertising surrounding their field. Most teams now have LED boards where ads change throughout the game. Having worked on those LED boards for a pro soccer team in the past, I can say that those […]
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Liverpool has had a lack of urgency in the past few weeks. It seemed as if they have been in neutral and the performance and results have showed. In the 2nd half, the gloves came off and Liverpool and Stoke both played as if they had nothing to lose. Going into the 85th minute, Rickie […]
0 comments by Phillip Bupp on 11/28/2014
New MLS team, Orlando City SC, has some strange people working their twitter account. First, they sometimes tweet “BuiltNotBought” in regards to them getting into MLS through playing in USL Pro and having a solid fan base instead of their expansion counterpart, NYCFC, who writes a check and the team appears. While that is true, […]
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It’s been three months since EPL season started we’re around a third of the way into the season. We can now start to get a sense of what’s going to happen in the league. While some managers have been impressive, others have been rather dissapointing and really need to look over their shoulder because they […]
