WSOTP Pod: Season 1 Episode 4 Round four of the WSOTP Pod is a hefty one, but before you go blaming us, have a look at the calendar. With yesterday being Transfer Deadline Day in Europe, we could have made a whole show out that alone. But we also managed to squeeze in a round-up […]
Category: local soccer
from wembley to… piqua?
As the sun slowly set behind the main stand of Wertz Stadium, it cast long shadows across portions of the pitch that provided little respite from the heat. Despite the clock tipping just past the 7 o’clock hour, the players taking to the field last Tuesday night still faced a sweltering 93° F — or 34° […]
let’s make this thing happen
The talk has been going on for ages. The numbers are there to make it happen. I’ve seen them with my own eyes, multiple times. But for one reason or another, it’s just never gotten up off the ground. However, that may be about to change… That’s right kids, Dayton may finally get their own chapter […]
enter the hagdome
This is a short excerpt from my second featured post for the acclaimed In Bed With Maradona, an award winning collective voice of some of the world’s best football writers, bloggers, journalists, photographers and artists with more than two million readers. To read it in it’s entirety, please click here or click the link at the end of the post. […]
the WSOTP shop grand opening and giveaway!
I’ve been writing Wrong Side of the Pond for just short of four years now, and it really is a marvel to see how far the site has come along. No longer just a basic soccer blog, it has slowly morphed into a site where fans of the beautiful game can come to find and […]
a mission with a purpose
Summers in college are one of those things that stick with you for the rest of your life. The reasons for that are as varied as you might expect, unique to each group and individuals’ personalities. While a majority of students spend most of their summer days slaving away at a job or internship, there’s […]
an interview with professional olympic gold medalist heather mitts
To slightly misquote Irish rock band Thin Lizzy, the girls are back in town. Yup, you heard that right. Women’s professional soccer is back. Resurrected from the ashes of the failed WPS and WUSA through a jointly subsidized venture by the USSF, the Canadian Soccer Association and the Mexican Football Federation, the new eight team […]
how about a brace?
A second post in one day? This may seem impossible for wrong side of the pond, especially considering that it’s sometimes a struggle for me to pop out two in a week. But my regular readers know this kind of event can mean only one thing: Chris Rolfe must have done something special. And special […]
an interview with professional goal-scorer chris rolfe
Sometimes, it’s all about who you know. Personal connections are the engine that drives the planet: from the business world to the world of sports. Many a successful career have been launched off the backs of people’s relationships with existing big achievers. And in the case of my blog, it’s probably all about who I know. Since […]
dude from dayton doing work again
unlike most of us good folk here in the states that spent all of friday preparing for today’s coming rapture, the pagans over in denmark decided it was still okay to play some footie. so you could be forgiven if you missed the solid performance put in by chris rolfe for aalborg against silkeborg yesterday. […]
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