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Welcome back Landon

December 16, 2011
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Yesterday was a good news day for Everton. Landon Donovan will be returning to Goodison Park. His loan will start in January (possibly against Bolton on the 4th) and his last game will be on February 25th, the Merseyside derby. With the drumbeat of Internet rumours growing about a possible loan deal for Pienaar too, Moyes will suddenly have quite a few options at his disposal. Our Scottish manager has got quite a bit of stick for being too defensive; and for being stubbornly obsessed with 4-5-1. This isn’t the case. In a number of games Moyes has flirted with 4-2-3-1 – a fluid and believe it or not...

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Detroit – Motown is no town for Football

July 9, 2010
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Detroit – Motown is no town for Football

World Cup 2010: USA https://twitter.com/TimHoward2010 “Detroit has a nice smile, it’s just that some of her teeth are missing.”   Detroit’s slump comes in more varieties than Heinz Ketchup. She’s an ugly one industry town. Her ex-Mayor is in jail for stealing from her, and worse still a documentary ran recently that gave her that final kicking, a beating in the face from the buckle of the rust-belt. The infamous, can’t pull your eyes away from the screen  – watch through a crack in your hands – moment came when a hapless Detroiter showed the camera how he catches and sells raccoons as food.   One of Detroit’s strengths...

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Everton's American returns from the light to darkness

March 23, 2010
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So Landon Donovan, our footballing pen pal, has returned to LA. The Home Depot Center in Los Angeles – a distant football colony – with Tom Cruise watching and David Beckham hobbling must be a far cry from the Old Lady Goodison Park. A move back to Everton is possible, and we should push for it as much as we can. Whereas Beckham was brought to the US as a footballing missionary to garner attention for MLS, exporting Donovan will focus foreign eyes on Merseyside. We shouldn’t underestimate just how much of a star we have on our hands either; when Everton signed Lie Tie and Li Weifeng millions...

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More MLS Ranting

July 26, 2007
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It is highly frustrating, I flew back to the UK for 2 weeks and during that time ALL the major football news was happening in LA on the side of the pond I just left. I like to think that whilst I was flying to London, Becks and his cultural attaché Posh were up in the air too, flying in whilst I’m flying out. There seems to be a lot of confusion in both countries as to what Posh and Becks have come over for; Posh isn’t coming to LA to act and Becks definitely isn’t coming over to play football. At school I was a history boy, it...

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Mephitic Lumpen Soporiphic

July 5, 2007
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There has been an explosion of writing on the subject of US soccer ever since Becks decided to join the LA Galaxy. A constant stream of articles from the Guardian have outlined:a) How appalling the standard of MLS is…b) How frustrated Europeans are with America’s lack of world view.. (WORLD Series, NFL WORLD Champions etc etc).c) How the MLS fans are a gruesome chimera of a loyal and fierce enclave of hardcore fans and an indifferent mass of bums on seats, the “sunday drivers” of football fandom.“Sawker” in the States is seen as a either womans sport or a kids sport, as full of ponces and divers, and crucially...

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LA Galaxy: Premiership Football Is Worse Than The MLS

June 20, 2007
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Alexi Lalas obviously has a huge chip on his shoulder, perhaps replacing the iridescent orange facial hair he used to have. A few weeks ago Alexi caused a stir, by implying that he might not release Becks for international matches (he’s unaware that they don’t have a choice) and that his move from Real Madrid to LA Galaxy would not be a step down. Today he riled me up even more by suggesting that the Premier League isn’t that far ahead of the MLS in terms of quality: “We know when we’re being patronized and I get so irritated when I hear the experts in England talk about David...

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