The Premier League made it’s triumphant return after a “lengthy” four-week layoff since the end of the pandemic-delayed 2019/20 season, and with that return also comes the return of the things that drive us crazy about the Premier League. For example, continuing to support your favorite side despite remembering that they’re actually terrible, or seeing […]
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#Pondcast: Welcome back for the eighth time
The shortest offseason ever is over and your fifth favorite American soccer podcast is back just in time for the return of the 2020/21 Premier League season. This episode marks the first of the eighth season of the “Pondcast”, and just as we did in the previous seven seasons, we kick things off with our […]
#Pondcast: The seventh culmination
We never thought it would come, the end of this European — and Pondcast — season. But here we are, 47 episodes later, at the end of our seventh season for this humble little podcast. In season-ending tradition, D.J. and Jeremy ran down the entire 20-team Premier League slate, casting judgment along the way. Too, the guys […]
#Pondcast: Will they stay or will they go
As the Premier League season enters its final weekend, the guys dive into who is likely to make the drop and qualify for Europe. Promotion, too, was on this week’s running order. Over on the domestic side of things, the MLS Is Back Tournament nears the completion of the group stage and we start to […]
#Pondcast: The end nigh
No hackers this time… D.J. just forgot to hit publish again. A bad habit to get in near the end of the campaign, but believe it or not, the neverending season is nearly over. And as a result, the guys were compelled to cover the fate of Norwich and the impending doom of Bournemouth. Once […]
#Pondcast: Thick and fast
Oh, you missed soccer, huh? Well, there’s more Premier League, MLS, NWSL, and more than you can possibly consume. But somehow, Jeremy and D.J. attempted to break down the matches that mattered. In England, there’s a widening race for European places and relegation to consider. In MLS, there was the long-awaited start of the MLS […]
#Pondcast: The lost episodes of the pandemic #3
Finally, we’re all caught up! This is the third and final installment of backdated Pondcast episodes that fell victim to a malicious hack on the website. Now that things are straightened up again, we’re happy to present the latest conversation between the boys. On this show: Liverpool are champions… but what now? We look at what […]
#Pondcast: The lost episodes of the pandemic #2
We continue on with our “lost episodes” — thanks to a malicious hack on the website — as you now feast upon on the second of three backdate episodes. This show was supposed to publish on June 27th… so you’ll be hearing about the Premier League’s “Project Restart” finally getting up and off the ground. […]
#Pondcast: The lost episodes of the pandemic #1
So you might be wondering why you’ve gone a few weeks without Pondcast, only to get smacked with three in succession. The short version of a long story — we got hacked. And among the many things that went down, our virtual assailants deleted posts, podcasts, files, and even modified our hosting set-up. So when you […]
#Pondcast: The middle
On this week’s episode of your fifth favorite American soccer podcast, Jeremy and D.J. looked at Major League Soccer’s return in the form of what we’ll just refer to as “The Orlando Tournament” and why we don’t quite know what will come after it. After dancing through the latest news of professional soccer’s gradual return […]
