Manchester United is the third richest sports franchise in the world. It is publicly traded (NYSE: MANU.US), and, although they’ve been relatively weak in the field this season, United have noses and whiskers twitching in the stock market. Yet a few weeks ago, during the […]
First and foremost, let me get this out of the way. If you want something new and different, it’s just simply not happening. Come on now, it’s EA, these folks are conservative and they know their audience better than you do yourself. FIFA 15 is fundamentally […]
Images by Maxisport / Shutterstock.com With the World Cup’s all-singing, all-dancing, all-bribing traveling circus set for its four-year voyage to Russia, we can finally speculate about outrageous transfer activity, whether Shaktar Donetsk will be able to field a team, and offer a post-mortem for what should […]
Not long ago, my friend Carol was lamenting the fact that she had become a “golf widow,” by which I assume she means that her husband spends so much time out on the links that he might as well be dead, so far as she’s […]
Fivestar Training with Wayne Rooney: Training Video & app Instant Video on PC, Kindle Fire, XBox One, PS3 & iPad Ball Control: $1.99 Finishing: $2.99 Passing: $9.99 Any England fan watching World Cup games right now probably owns a hair shirt and a cat-o’-nine-tails. The […]
What we learned from the group G opening games. On the strength of their opening game against Portugal, all evidence suggests that Germany will swagger their way through the group very much in the same way that Slash swaggers his way out of the desert […]
This is it lads. It begins. Winter might be coming in George R. R. Martin’s world, but the FIFA World Cup is already here. Whether or not Brazil is ready, the games must go on. Are you excited? I am. I still remember four years […]
Despite the low expectations and dread surrounding this year’s World Cup offering, the United States Men’s National Team still has a lot of to feel fortunate about, and if they play it just right, they might just be able to get out of the ‘group […]
FIFA World Cups are rarely strangers to controversy. In fact, FIFA World Cups and controversy are so familiar they probably have pet names for each other like ‘fifi’ and ‘connie’. In recent memory there was the 2002 World Cup where the host nation South Korea […]
Last week we saw the decimation of Pep Guardiola’s Bayern Munich at the hands of Carlo Ancelotti’s Real Madrid. Within minutes of the final whistle, pundits, commentators and heartless mercenaries like myself were taking to their respective publications to sneer at Pep Guardiola’s once lauded […]
Above: Manager David Moyes of Manchester United speaks during a press conference at Rajmalanga Stadium as pre-season tour of Bangkok on July12, 2013 in Bangkok,Thailand. Image by mooinblack / Shutterstock.com Eight months into his tenure as Manchester United manager it seems as though their once patient fans […]
Gary Madine was a striker for the English Championship Division soccer team Sheffield Wednesday, who punched two fans in two separate nightclub attacks and was consequently jailed for 18 months. Madine, who already had a previous conviction for knocking a man out in a Carlisle […]
