The Footie Fool

With Bolton out of the way, my next favorite team is up on the sked in the FA Cup – Blackburn Rovers. With a Champions League tie with PSV coming up on Tuesday, Arsene Wenger talks about the need to rotate his lineup for the FA Cup tangle. Thiery Henry also talks about the [...]

Dear Arsène Wenger,
I write on behalf of the many Arsenal fans like me. You know us – the 40 year old guys who like to drink beer (and it shows), and whose 3 time weekly trip to the gym for workouts have been replaced by the endless shuttling of kids around from one activity to [...]

More evidence that the Canadian senior men’s team is struggling. The new FIFA rankings are out and Canada has slipped another 6 spaces to #87, tied with Albania, Guatemala, and the U.A.E..
Compare that with Scotland, which moves up 6 spots to crack the top 20 – the highest ever ranking for Scotland. Pretty impressive, especially [...]

With Arsenal’s announcement about a new business partnership with Major League Soccer club Colorado Rapids, is ManU about to become the next EPL franchise to hook up with an MLS franchise? And, if so, could Toronto FC be the club?
I was reading SoccerCentral host Gerry Dobson’s blog earlier today and came across this interesting tidbit:
Now [...]

For those of us living in North America, sometimes being a footie fan can be a lonely and isolating experience, fraught with the constant demand that we explain our devotion to the beautiful game to fans of other sports when we encounter them in social situations. And, occasionally, we come across the old school “soccer [...]

Houston Dynamo striker Dwayne De Rosario and Vancouver Whitecaps forward Christine Sinclair have been named Canadian Players of the Year for the 2006 soccer season by the Canadian Soccer Association.
Atiba Hutchinson (FC København (Copenhagen) in Denmark) has been named the inaugural CanadaSoccer.com Fan’s Choice winner. Hutchinson became just the second Canadian player to score in [...]

Up until the Senderos sending off, the Boro – Arsenal game had been a typical ho-hum affair. Boro is one of those teams that I am totally indifferent to and, if I would have missed this game, I wouldn’t have shed a tear. And, even though Boro have had a good run since Christmas [...]

For some reason, Owen Hargreaves has been given a weekly column on the BBC website. In his most recent column, written just before the transfer window closed, Hargreaves claims that all the speculation swirling around a player during the transfer window isn’t noticed by the player. Says Hargreaves:
There is obviously an appetite for speculation but [...]