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Wow, what a tear RaSz is on for Man City. Nice looking curler last night ftw. And then there was Wazza turning back the clock ... <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">ROONEY! FROM HIS OWN HALF! <a...

Totally Football Podcast is my go-to. Love Jim Richardson's hosting and Michael Cox's analysis. The other I have not tried yet; will definitely give it a listen. Yeah, and even the tactics they employed were a little weird. If you are going to park it, Shane Long should be starting, for me...

Oh, very cool! I sometimes listen to the Guardian Football Weekly podcast, and I recall Barry Glendenning mentioning that last year Dundalk became the first Irish club to reach the Champs League play-off round and then the first Irish club to win a Europa League group stage game. Great...

Wow Christian Eriksen. What a performance. I wonder if he will be at Spurs next year. Is it true that Barca had interest, or was that misdirection to put pressure on Coutinho to force a move? Regardless, any club would be lucky to have him, the way he's been playing. I always knew he was...

I was reading about this and wondering how Kyle Martino, who has a young family, is going to be able to finance an unpaid leave from his job for several months. Then I googled him and learned that he is Susan Sarandon's son-in-law?! Shocker. Did not see that one coming.

UGH. That was disgusting to watch as a Liverpool fan. Moments of shockingly boneheaded defending plus inability to defend set pieces equals more of the same for Liverpool, i.e. a match in which they were not really outplayed and yet did not give themselves a chance to win. OTOH, I give Poch...

Everton are a complete dumpster fire

Surprised to see Spartak crush Sevilla. This is not quite how I thought Group E would go. The two knockout stage spots from that group are very much up for grabs. Liverpool need to build on that great performance against Maribor and gain some momentum. What a game yesterday between Chelsea...

Dead on. He's one of those guys who is really exciting to watch in some matches, but makes no impact at all in too many others. Wow, yeah. They are really rolling. KDB is genuinely my favorite player in the world. I love watching him because he makes exquisite passes look easy. Then you...

Love it, what a result. (Unrelated, but) I just checked the teamsheet for today's Barca match and I am still confused about how Gerard Deulofeu couldn't regularly get into the Everton team, but Barca still wanted him back. (On the other hand, I always liked Deulofeu and frankly thought he...

Describing the Allardyce and Blanc reports: Report: Sam Allardyce, Laurent Blanc want to be next USMNT boss – ProSoccerTalk Allardyce is an intriguing possibility. I think his pie-eating, back-slapping, drinking-wine-in-a-pint-glass style would play well in the States. As dublin said, he...

Ugh, I am still so mad and frustrated. All the stuff we have been saying in this thread about what's wrong with U.S. Soccer, it's mostly true, but none of it should have prevented us from qualifying for the WC. We were undone on Tuesday by bad coaching decisions and a bizarrely gutless...

So true. I've always said that this is why Clint Dempsey is the best American player of his generation. He grew up traveling hours each way to play for organized soccer clubs in Houston, but he also played lots of sandlot soccer in his hometown of Nacogdoches with the Latino neighbor kids...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The first two articles anyone entertaining the idea of leading US Soccer into the future should read. <a href="https://t.co/z2OlcKrctV">https://t.co/z2OlcKrctV</a></p>— Kyle Martino (@kylemartino) <a...

I think it's the latter. The problem isn't so much that guys don't want to play abroad as it is that have struggled to get established there. Fortunately, that appears to be changing. I do not think the problem is that our players are generally less athletic or less athletically talented...

So true. For example, isn't it the case that Jack Harrison of NYCFC in MLS was in the Man U academy at 14, and his mom decided to move him to the U.S. so that he could play soccer and get an education? England's 'Golden Boy' Jack Harrison on why he quit Man Utd's academy for America We...

Great discussion. It's funny, I heard Rafa Honigstein on a podcast talking about his "Das Reboot" book, which someone mentioned above, and one of his points was that part of Germany's problem was that it had limited its player pool essentially to the lower socioeconomic classes because there...

Yes, that is my hope. I really don't think the problem is that Liverpool lack quality in the attack. I think they are just in a rough patch. But I am famous for being overly patient and optimistic with sports coaches and teams. You guys haven't seen me criticize Brian Kelly yet. ;0)

Ugh, so frustrating. Liverpool fans focus their ire on the lapses in defending and the silly soft goals Liverpool concedes, and of course anyone can see that those are serious problems, but if Liverpool could just get in sync in the attacking third they would be outscoring teams and winning...

Oh, he's tailor-made for one of the two defensive midfielder spots in a Mourinho 4-2-3-1. He and Matic next to each other are a formidable center midfield pairing.