In 2003, Challenges Await - Hartford Courant Miami a tough sell to NBA free agents - Miami Herald Arena would lack sporting chance at attracting new teams - Kansas City Business Journal Year Highlighted by Pats Title, Sox Owners (also in the Hampshire Gazette) Blues Rally to Tie Up Coyotes - Oakland Tribune (also in other Bay Area papers)
Punditshaillatest`newPele' - South Florida Sun-Sentinel Concacaf Argument is Half-Baked - L.A. Times Inside Soccer - Atlanta Journal Constitution Fired Fitzgerald bounces back with NCAA Title - Houston Chronicle Brazil on Hot Seat - Boston Herald Twice as Nice for U.S. Soccer - Miami Herald Playing with Pain has no Gender - N.Y. Times thanks for the start, Sachin -jim
"What utter drivel" is Jones' thoughts about concacafs 3.5 slots. He thinks they deserve only 2. "What utter drivel" is a good way to describe Grahame Jones' thoughts. Best he relocate to Europe and take his mechanical typewriter with him. He lives in the past and cannot adjust to change. He does not want to see soccer grow around the world. He wants to keep it forever in Europe and SA. Uefa has enough slots. They just have to come up with a decent qualification process that will not eliminate The Netherlands for Slovenia. Slots arithmetic is all about expanding soccer around the world, and about the politics of voting. Although CAF, AFC, Concacaf and Oceania have never won a WC, their votes rule the roost. It comes down to Conmebol only having 10 votes because they have the smallest membership roster. As a result, Uefa does not have any substantial outside support within fifa. Uefa could concentrate on its Uefa Cup, but it will never approach the World Cup in stature.
i wonder if grahame jones knows what the internet is, let alone that his articles are on there for everyone to see and laugh at
I like this one. Thankfully nothing that bad has happened to me. A couple weeks ago there were four torn ligaments, two torn tendons, and a broken ankle all in one game.
"Julio Grondona, president of the Argentine Football Assn. and, like Warner, a FIFA vice president, was oddly restrained, but he might have a hidden agenda. "We have to accept it," Grondona said. "We can't be too disappointed. There are more important things in the world than half a place more or less at the World Cup." This is outstanding work from Jones.....NOT!! Grahame seems to think it outrageous that a citizen of an economic wasteland like Argentina might actually be exhibiting some perspective on this matter, rather than plotting fiendishly behind the scene. Of course, it really makes no difference to Argentina, who is apt to qualify no matter the changes. It would have been far more instructive to use the quotes from one of the marginal COMEMBOL(sic?) organizations like Ecuador or Paraguay that will actually be impacted by this, but that could have been too much to ask.
but c'mon, easybake why should grahame care about those podunk countries? his only concern is argentina, brazil, england, italy, germany and a couple of other eufa countries everyone else doesn't belong at the world cup (well, maybe mexico)
http://www.teamtalk.com/teamtalk/Country_News/0,2539,762,00.html#567506 Keller talks about playing in MLS about half way down.
Yes, they certainly do. Just remember, somewhere in Southern California a puppy is doing his business on Grahame Jones's column.
did the l.a. times fire grahame? but he keeps on coming in to work and doing these articles? but they don't tell him to leave because it's free labor? i wonder if works in the basement or supply room hmmm
I seriously think the folks at the LA Times like him. I haven't been reading the LA Times regularly in the last couple years (generally a lousy paper) but when I was in the habit he got quite a bit of column space. Indeed, I thought he kept getting more and more space.
My favorite part of the article is where he talks about how the European Championships will be more important than the World Cup.
OK. So, I know the appropriate response is to ignore Sir Jones. I have been doing a great job of that for well over a year now. But this one, I simply must respond to. Just spent some time wandering through the LA Times website and couldn't find a decent email address. Am I really going to have to use the 'letters to the editor' form with their dinky text area?
What is Europe's record on American soil? Not quite as stellar would be my guess. Am I right: No European team has won a World Cup outside Europe? Geez, Grahame. Do you live in LA or North London?