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MLS Announces New York City FC
MLS drops the bomb. Expansion team awarded to New York New York, the town so nice they named it twice. Cohiba Don has his 20th. Out of the blue partnership with New York Yankees – take THAT Wilpon creeps – and Manchester City (code name for “that Arab guy”) as …
Field of Schemes Too: Rise of the NeoCosmos
In the movie The Candidate – the quintessential treatment of the American political process – there’s a scene where the title character, played by Robert Redford, is meeting with a smarmy, back slapping union boss who, now that Redford’s campaign is surging, is all of a sudden anxious to be …
Chuck Roast featuring “The Obama Visit”
There are any number of odd details included in the CONCACAF forensic auditor’s report which simply leave you shaking your head, but my favorite is in the section that deals with Chuck Blazer’s credit card usage. They note that it was Blazer’s longtime habit to pay for anything and everything …
Jack Warner Resigns from T&T Government
In a development that’s somehow both shocking and wholly unsurprising, former CONCACAF President Jack Warner offered his resignation as Defense Minister to T&T Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, who accepted with little public comment. Because none was necessary. Everybody knew she had stood by him as long as humanly possible – …
“It’s Bad, It’s Very Bad.” UPDATE: Gulati Wins FIFA ExCo Seat
UPDATE: Simon Evans from Reuters is reporting that Sunil Gulati defeated Justino Compean by ONE vote and won the North American seat on FIFA’s Executive Committee The Mexican media is reportedly calling it the “Clásico personal” and I suppose we should be grateful that for once there’s no quibbling about …
Sepp Blatter: Shocking the World
FIFA Grand Poobah for Life Sepp Blatter is in the Caribbean this week. He’ll be stopping over in several countries as he makes his way to the sure-to-be exciting CONCACAF Congress in Panama later this week where he’s going to come face to face with the results of the corruption …
The question is a simple one: in their relentless drive to install a stadium and a team in New York City, is MLS callously acting like an evil corporate beast, ruthlessly trampling on the rights, needs and concerns of the poor, immigrant and working families of Flushing, Queens? These folks …
Stuff I’m Not Writing About and The End of Fox Soccer Channel
The pantheon of stories I have neither the time nor the interest in pursuing just keeps growing. Upon his arrival in Honduras, FMF President Justino Compean cheerily offered the locals the Fickle Finger of Fate. Dirty Tackle has a video which I would link to if I was writing about …
To the surprise of absolutely no one at all, FIFA has politely declined to interfere with the result of the USA/Costa Rica qualifier, concluding: the result of the match played on 22 March stands and is considered as valid. Rather than telling them that they need to put on their …
“Furious” Costa Rica Says They’ll Ask FIFA For a Do Over
In view of all the confusion in the booth last night, apparently nobody from USSF could stop glomming on to free stuff from the vendors and loading up plates at the buffet tables long enough to offer some actual technical assistance to the poor schmoes in the booth. (Ian Darke …
