Things are not going particularly well for Tottenham at the moment and Sunday’s draw away from Everton was another example of that. But on this week’s show, the guys also used the 104-minute tragedy-fest to illustrate just how badly the recent VAR-centric revamping of the laws of the game have made the game… just wrong. […]
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#Pondcast: Long overdue
Leicester tied a record, Liverpool beat Spurs (again), Arsenal’s captain told his own fans bad things, and plenty more happened in the Premier League’s wild weekend, and we obviously got into it all on this week’s show. On this side of the Atlantic, we were treated to the best round of MLS Cup playoff action […]
#Pondcast: Perfect imperfection
Last weekend’s Premier League action finally saw Liverpool’s red-hot start to the campaign slightly cooled at Old Trafford, as Ole’s Red Devils snatched the first points away from the leaders so far this campaign. We analyzed how the draw might impact Liverpool’s title hopes, then explored further D.J.’s Spurs-shaped misery before recapping the rest of […]
#Pondcast: Recapping sadness in Cincinnati with Pat Brennan
It may have taken us ten shows into season seven to get our first guest on the Wrong Side of the Pond podcast, but in our opinion, it was mostly well worth the wait. That guest? Pat Brennan (@PBrennanENQ), The Cincinnati Enquirer’s beat writer covering the local soccer scene, joins us to earn his second […]
i want: #pondcast holiday gift guide
Normally, the “I Want” series I run on the blog catalogs a list of the items throughout the course of the year I personally want. And judging at the cost, diversity and frequency of the items I identified in 2015, it’s clear I’m a very greedy person. But with us up to our necks in the annual […]
from the ground up: branding the new dayton dynamo
I’m a doodler. Always have been. If it were possible to drum up my notes from my years in school — hell, even my notepads at work today — you’d find a timeline of my interests sketched out in the margins. Things like dinosaurs, Ghostbusters and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles featured heavily in my early childhood drawings. But once soccer became […]
an open letter to u.s. soccer
Board of Governors U.S. Soccer Federation 1801 South Prairie Avenue Chicago, IL 60616 Greetings and good afternoon: Running American soccer — at least I’d assume, seeing as how I have no experience in doing so — is an incredibly hard task. It’s probably a pretty thankless task at times as well. Few probably reward you for […]
i want: nike free flyknit mercurial
If you’ve followed my I Want series for any length of time, you’re probably well aware that I have what you might call a shoe addiction. In fact 5 of the twenty-five posts I’ve made in the series so far have been some sort of shoe — be it boots to be worn on the pitch, […]
WSOTP x AO: just for tonight, let’s be lovers
This is a short excerpt from my first featured post for the American Outlaws — the largest and most well-known US soccer supporters group — and their newly launched blog, ‘Voice of the American Outlaws’. After applying in December of last year, I found out in May that I was one of nine lucky entrants to be […]
WSOTP stadium guide: colorado’s dick’s sporting goods park
Welcome to the WSOTP Stadium Guide, the latest major undertaking on here on Wrong Side of the Pond. With traveling supporters steadily becoming a fixture at MLS matches, there aren’t a lot of great resources for visiting fans to research ahead of their travels. Over the next few seasons, I aim to visit and provide an […]
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