Our own Stephen Wood sits down with Fraser to talk about music, football, and runaway success. If you’ve been on Soccer Twitter at all since May, you’ve probably seen Bands F.C. It’s been a meteoric rise for the Twitter-account-turned-international-firm, which started with the simple idea of making soccer badges, but for bands. It has since …
Tottenham have established themselves among England’s and Europe’s elite under Pochettino. Can they cope with the pressure? Tottenham Hotspur were merely a bang average Premier League team for years—sometimes even struggling for survival. Now, under Pochettino’s new era, there is a sea change. Finally, the club are a force to be reckoned with. But now, …
LAFC’s last regular season home game of their inaugural MLS campaign brought together the sights, sounds, and smells of this unique new community. Alcohol, barbecue, custom banners and apparel, percussion instruments, songs, smoke screens and flares. The universal elements of fútbol aficionado culture were all here. The aficionados themselves arrived by mid-morning for a game …
Red Star Belgrade has fought tooth and nail to re-establish themselves in Europe. A match-fixing scandal is threatening to undo their efforts. On August 29, Red Star came from behind to hold Red Bull Salzburg to a 2-2 draw, and the away goals rule sent the Serbian club to their first-ever appearance in the Champions …
As the sexual assault allegations against Cristiano Ronaldo gain wider public scrutiny, fans must examine how and why we put footballers on pedestals. cw: sexual assault I may never have loved him as a footballer or a person, but I have always cared about Cristiano Ronaldo. It has been hard not to. For a long …
Lionel Messi wore a silly suit as part of a silly branding play last week. That is not an obviously newsworthy development. Messi has never been particularly fashionable, and recent history suggests no branding play is beneath a football club. If Messi started wearing turquoise suits because a petro-state or Rocket Fuel Malt Liquor offered …
The young Liverpool fullback challenged the defending World Champion to a friendly game. It went about as well as you’d expect. There really should be a complicated German word for the odd feeling that happens when several of your interests smash into each other. Before checking in with England for international duty, Liverpool fullback Trent …
They say to wait until Week 10 before looking at the table. But what fun is that? As the Premier League sadly heads into another international break, we look back at another thrilling weekend of goals, tactical trends, and (almost) meltdowns. Wolves are the best of the rest After steamrolling to the Championship title in …
