Can you call yourself a U.S. soccer fan if you don't support MLS?
Alexi Lalas' Twitter feed is a curious place. It's less a social stream and more a Star Wars cantina of ideas where the emotional and the rational, …
Balance of power is shifting in Europe
Perhaps inadvertently, our American sense of European football can be as skewed as Saul Steinberg's map of the "World As Seen From New York's 9th Aven…
An Ayre of confidence at Liverpool
Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre is a man who believes slow and steady wins the race. His club have recently emerged as one of the Premier League'…
Terry: Captain, leader, social media guru?
The world feels a poorer place for the absence of John Terry's Instagram account. The feed, which sparked to life during Terry's prolonged knee injury…
Faded FA Cup glimmering again
In a televisual moment of perfect symmetry this weekend, the FA Cup's third round will kick off as "Downton Abbey" returns for its third series. One i…
How will MLS cope without David Beckham?
Has an athlete's star wattage ever eclipsed that of the league in the way David Beckham has Major League Soccer? Michael Jordan and the NBA, or Wayne …
Can anyone crack the Fernando Torres code?
Rafael Benitez, Chelsea's new coach, may have a title that is a mouthful -- interim first-team manager until the end of the season -- but his mandate …
A footballing cornucopia at Thanksgiving
As a relative newcomer to American shores, Thanksgiving is a holiday that has taken me some time to adjust to. Its true meaning has slowly revealed it…
Miracle man Wilshere the last action hero
Every English school kid can corroborate a national myth about the ravens that dwell in the Tower of London. If the black-plumed birds ever flee the T…
Landon Donovan, on the record
Since breaking through in 1999 as a bleached-blond phenomenon who scooped up the Golden Ball at the U-17 World Cup, Landon Donovan has catalyzed socce…