So Friday at 23:00 GMT the transfer window slammed shut on European football. This edition of The Soccer List will take a look deadline day, or as Sky Sports News loyalists and I call it ‘Jim White Day‘. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Jim White, allow me …
Read More »The Soccer List – A Serious Question and Analysis of the Golden Ball
STOP! Collaborate and read it! The Soccer List is back with a brand new edition! Now if you’re like me, and I’ll be honest I can only hope you aren’t for your sake, you have spent most of your week analyzing, nay, over analyzing Monday’s FIFA Ballon D’Or ceremonies, as …
Read More »The Soccer List – The Triumphant Return of Irreverence
Happy New Year Readers! Much like broken New Years resolutions The Soccer List is back from it’s Christmas vacation, refreshed and with sharpened blades ready to take on the biggest stories in football, and failing that stories which might be amusing (Editors note: Not a guarantee). This edition of the list, will …
Read More »The Soccer List – Arsene Gets Shirty!
It’s Monday and well that means it’s time for me to climb inside “The Week That Was” machine and re-visit some stories from…errr…the week that was, it’s another edition of The Soccer List. 1. Things get a little shirty at the Emirates Sometimes the history and unwritten rules involved in …
Read More »The Soccer List – Featuring an Ashes Tribute and Le Coupe Grey
G’day and welcome to your regularly scheduled edition of The Soccer List, where every Monday (usually morning) I channel my inner Pat Benatar and Hit You With My Best Shot (kids if you don’t know that reference look it up it’s classic music), of news and views from the week past and including …
Read More »The Soccer List, Midweek Edition – Electric Bugaloo
So after a pretty crazy couple of international World Cup qualifiers it’s time to bring up a rare mid-week “The Soccer List“. I’ve boiled the kettle and am ready to dive into the biggest and weirdest stories from the last 48 hours. 1. Ronaldo Pretty Much Seals Balon d’Or I …
Read More »The Soccer List – The Legend of the Drunken Linesman
Hello and as CBC Radio One host Jian Ghomeshi is prone to saying “Happy Monday”. Welcome to a shorter than usual edition of The Soccer List, thank you International Break! Rest assured SC101 universe I’ll be throwing up a celebratory “Zlatan is in the World Cup” edition Wednesday morning, or …
Read More »The Soccer List – Black Cats at Night? Sunderland’s Delight
Hello or if you’re reading in Australia, G’day! Welcome back to The Soccer List, your one stop shop for all the major (and some not so major) stories from the last week in soccer. So hopefully your cup of tea is sufficiently mashed and we can take a Monday morning …
Read More »The Soccer List – Boots, Blowouts, Blowups and Wizards (Yes Wizards)
Hello, and welcome to the inaugural edition of The Soccer List, your one stop shop for all of the major (and occasionally minor) talking points from the recently passed week in soccer, and on the review front here on the site. Given that this is SC101 there will of course …
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