The Footie Fool

Arsenal will be without Jens Lehmann for the next 2 weeks after he picked up an Achilles injury in Germany’s game against England on Wednesday. There is plenty of speculation in the Arse blogsphere and in the mainstream press that this injury might be an injury of convenience to prevent Wenger from having to publicly [...]

Jen over a Footie Girl has pointed me towards this schedule of all soccer being broadcast this week in Canada. Nice! The page focuses on Premiership, FA Cup, Serie “A” and Champions League – no MLS, France, La Liga or South America, and is usually updated Wednesday night. It also only lists the channels which [...]

A blow for Canada as Copenhagen FC’s Atiba Hutchinson won’t be making the trip from Copenhagen to Reykjavik for Canada’s friendly against Iceland tomorrow due to illness. Also sitting out are Goaltender Lars Hirschfeld with a thumb injury and forward Rob Friend (back). Pat Onstad (Houston), David Edgar (Newcastle) and Rhian Dodds (Kilmarnock F.C.) are [...]

Rob Styles made more than one bad call Sunday in the Liverpool Chelsea match. It wasn’t a penalty, and we all know that thanks to the benefit of replay after replay from 15 different angles. But by going public with it and forcing the league to punish him by sending him down to the lower [...]

As a former radio broadcaster, I love podcasts. Listening to various pundits and analysts weigh in on the events of the game is almost as much fun as the actual game itself. Since I walk to work, and am often shackled to a computer during the day, these 6 podcasts help me escape to the [...]

Dale Mitchell has announced his first roster for a match since taking over the reigns of Canadian national team earlier this summer. Canada will be traveling to Reykjavik next week to take on Iceland in an international friendly match and, not surprising for a game on European soil, much of the squad is being pulled [...]

Buddy of mine with Shaw digital here in Victoria just told me that over the weekend Shaw added Setanta to their digital lineup on channel 154. And I came across this posting at The Voyageurs site by someone who works at Shaw confirming it. Here is the post from a guy named Bill Currie: While [...]

Another EPL season and a fine start for the Gunners, picking up 3 points at the Emirates with a 2-1 win over Fulham Sunday, thanks to goals from Van Persie and Alex Hleb. A few weeks ago, Alex Hleb said he wanted to score 10 goals this season – a right lofty goal for someone [...]