Yet again, in the cross-hairs of sport, politics, nationalism and one's own moral stance .......
Clever strategy, may it work ..... http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/kiel200511040829.asp
Talk about tinkering with the game (yet what somber matter for our times ... ) http://www.nationalreview.com/ledeen/ledeen200510110840.asp
Simon Kuper, soccer journalistic heir to Brian Glanville and Paul Gardner, on Maldini's secrets of longevity....
For me, a well reasoned, insightful addendum to the subject. http://www.reason.com/0504/cr.my.wide.shtml
The euphoria about the post-communist, united, ascending Europe is now surely over. With the country-by-country European Union constitution...
http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.asp?ref=/ledeen/ledeen200503300759.asp
to GRUNT: Alas, all of my sources were secondary except The New York Times archives. Two books were most valuable: Colin Jose's The United...
Posted at GRUNT's suggestion, with pleasure: The Mexico-United States men’s soccer qualifier, for World Cup 2006, on Easter Sunday at Estadio...
Easter Sunday’s Mexico-United States qualifier, for World Cup 2006, at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City will be the 50th full international game...
A now hardly remembered soccer great passed away this week. His life (1924-2005) recalls the vicissitudes and heartbreaks, some of us would say...
Bravo, Platini, as those of us, lacking a good command of French but remembering Michel’s days in Turin would say a propos his recent visit in...
Congratulations to both you and Gerd. Interestingly, if I read the compilation right and if my memory serves correctly, Gerd has never played...
The 17th day of November, 2004 will mark that one hundred years ago that day, at the third Modern Olympic Games in St. Louis, Missouri, Canada...
Yesterday, October 23rd marked the 48th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution against the Soviet puppet regime as well as the 15th...
Our friend Artillero recently said in a reply post that too many of our fellow bigsoccer experts, ignorant of history, believe that “ … David...
On the History of the Game, yes but certainly not the beautiful side. The recently published STALIN - The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag...
A nice try. The Brazilian Federation lists Brazil as having played more than 1,000 international games. This amount far exceeds the number of...
Can Brazil, now one-half century after the first Brazil-Hungary encounter in 1954, manage to beat Hungary ? Yes, it is true; they have never been...
We had an echo, ... the New York Times on England-Hungary http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/25/sports/soccer/25SOCC.html
England-Hungary, November 25, 1953 - 50th Anniversary Hungarians, along with a multitude of soccer followers around the world, undoubtedly the...
..... the universe is shaped like a soccer ball http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/10/09/universe.soccer.ball.reut/index.html
Remembering Bobby Moore The anniversary reminds me of a brief obituary in the Financial Times ten years ago, that concluded (paraphrased): ".......
NY Daily News writer Michael Daly, an heir to columnists Pete Hamill and Jimmy Breslin: School fields a dream team
Something positive for Hungarian fans Nice to see success from a Hungarian team. Ferencvaros, a.k.a. Franzstadt, FTC, Fradi, is Hungary's...