May 2013
1 post
March 2013
3 posts
“Yes: here comes everyone. And everyone, these days, is a football journalist. Open the curtains and look outside. That man isn’t a bus driver. He’s a football journalist driving a bus. We all are now.”
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*walks away sheepishly*
February 2013
3 posts
“Ronaldo has scored 16 headed goals in the last three years out of a total of 151. And yet it is the headers we tend to dwell on, like a carpenter who spends half an hour gazing with rapt attention at Picasso’s Guernica and comes away muttering that you just don’t get precision dovetail framing like that any more.”
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BARNEY
Play
January 2013
12 posts
“Ronaldinho’s first junior team in Porto Alegre was called New Kids, named after 1990s teen pop sensations New Kids on the Block”
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Ronaldinho banishes thoughts of James Joyce as a leprechaun | Barney Ronay | Football | The Guardian
Great nugget hidden in Barney Ronay’s (expectedly fantastic) Ronaldinho piece.
When Arsenal Played Long Island - NYTimes.com →
goal.blogs.nytimes.com
Despite the talent, the visitors lost to the Express, 7-5, themselves playing their first game as a club.
And indoor at that!
“He’s hosting history’s most appalling drive-time talk show for an audience of zero, and somehow he keeps signing bigger and bigger contracts.”
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Sepp Blatter criticizes MLS - Grantland
What he said.
