Jul 27 2008

American Soccer Reader

Published by Richard

In addition to maintaining this blog, I contribute regularly to American Soccer Reader. The site is maintained by Trevor Hayward, who does a great job of bringing content with an American slant to the site’s patrons. At ASR, my main area of contribution is the English Premiership, though Trevor has been kind enough to let me dive into other areas.

Below is a listing of all my contributions to ASR. It is sorted by date, descending.

Date Article Title Description
September 25, 2008 EPL: Week 6 Preview Previewing Week 6 of the English Premier League.
September 24, 2008 EPL: Week 5, In Review Looking back on the fifth week of action in the English Premier League.
September 22, 2008 EPL: Another Liverpool Scoreless Draw Gives Stoke a Point at Anfield Liverpool ran into a bus on Saturday, the same bus Stoke City parked in front of their own goal.
September 22, 2008 EPL: Chelsea Held by Man Utd, 1-1 Chelsea may have bad the better of play, but they only share the result from their match with Manchester United at Stamford Bridge.
September 19, 2008 EPL: Week 5 Preview Looking at the fifth week of action in English Premier League football, with Manchester United going to the Bridge for the season’s first meeting with Chelsea.
September 19, 2008 EPL: Week 4, In Review Looking back at the fourth week of action in the English Premier League.
September 19, 2008 EPL: Champions League Preview, Sept. 16 Previewing the Premiership match-ups on the first day of the Champions League Group Stage.
September 17, 2008 EPL: Champions League Preview, Sept. 17 Looking a the second day of Champions League group stage action, from the English Premier League’s point-of-view.
September 16, 2008 EPL: Chelsea Brilliance on Display in Win Over City In possibly Chelsea’s strongest performance of the season, Robinho’s City debut was overshadowed.
September 16, 2008 EPL: For Arsenal, When is a 4-0 Win About the Negatives? Arsenal’s 4-0 victory at Blackburn showcased their dynamic attack, deficient defense.
September 14, 2008 EPL: Liverpool Efforts an End to United Anfield Reign Liverpool did not have Fernando Torres or Steven Gerrard in their starting lineup but still pulled out a 2-1 win at Anfield.
September 12, 2008 EPL: Week 4 Preview After a long break from international competition, the EPL returns with two savory matchups.
September 4, 2008 EPL: After Two Days of Uncertainty, Keegan Resigns at Newcastle Kevin Keegan has left Newcastle United after nine months on the job, claiming interference from management in player transfers has made his position unworkable.
September 1, 2008 EPL: United Finally Lands Berbatov In a move that had been speculated about for almost a year, Dimitar Berbatov moves from Tottenham Hotspur to Manchester United.
September 1, 2008 EPL: Robinho Joins City for Record Fee Manchester City’s last second swoop brings Real Madrid’s Brazilian winger to Eastlands, keeping him away from Stamford Bridge.
September 1, 2008 EPL: Manchester City Sold to UAE Group Manchester City’s worries over solvency appear to be over after the club was solve to investors from the United Arab Emirates.
September 1, 2008 EPL: Week 3, In Review Looking back on the third weekend in the English Premier League.
September 1, 2008 EPL: Benitez, O’Neill Engineer 0-0 Tie For Liverpool, Villa The EPL gave any critics with narrow vision evidence against the league in Liverpool’s visit to Villa Park.
September 1, 2008 EPL: Spurs Steal Derby Point From Chelsea Tottenham gets their first point of the season in surprising manner, knocking Chelsea off their 100% record at Stamford Bridge.
August 2008 Submissions
August 31, 2008 EPL: Vintage Arsenal Down Toon, 3-0 Arsenal rebounds from last week’s shock loss with a resounding win versus Newcastle.
August 29, 2008 EPL: Week 3 Preview Previewing the third week of the EPL season, before the clubs take their first World Cup Qualifying break.
August 29, 2008 EPL: Ballack Out Two Weeks Michael Ballack follows Steven Gerrard’s example in being ruled out for the international match break.
August 29, 2008 EPL: James Milner Leaves Newcastle for Aston Villa Newcastle are dealt a blow as James Milner least the club for Aston Villa.
August 28, 2008 EPL: Wright-Phillips Moves to City Shaun Wright-Phillips returns to Manchester City, ending his tenure at Chelsea.
August 28, 2008 Gerrard to Have Groin Surgery, Out 10-15 Days Steven Gerrard will be out up to two weeks after having surgery to repair a groin injury.
August 27, 2008 Kuyt’s Extra Time Tally Puts Liverpool in Champions League Liverpool waits to the last minute to get out of Champions League qualifying and into the competition proper.
August 26, 2008 EPL: Pavlyuchenko to Join Tottenham - Reports Tottenham finds an eventual replacement for Dimitar Berbatov in Spartak Moscow’s Roman Pavlyuchenko.
August 26, 2008 EPL: Round 2, In Review Reviewing the Premier League action from the preceding week, including player of the week, manager of the week, XI of the week, and club rankings.
August 26, 2008 United Gets Season’s First Win, 1-0 at Portsmouth Manchester United rebounded from the opening weekend’s disappointment with a strong performance at Fratton Park.
August 25, 2008 Bounces Save Liverpool in 2-2 Win Over Boro A miraculous win at Anfield saves Liverpool from their first league loss of the season.
August 24, 2008 Cech in Control as Chelsea Tops Wigan Chelsea’s win at Wigan saw Petr Cech take his first steps to resuming a place amongst the world’s elite goaltenders.
August 24, 2008 Arsenal’s Shock Loss to Fulham, 1-0 Arsenal lays the eggs of the season in losing to the Cottagers in a London derby.
August 22, 2008 EPL: Round 2 Preview Brief look, game-by-game, at the second round of the Premiership campaign.
August 20, 2008 EPL: Silvestre Moves From Man United to Arsenal Silvestre - Mikael Silvestre - is the subject of a historic move from Old Trafford to the Emirates.
August 20, 2008 Sunderland Acquires Cisse on Loan from Marseille Djibril Cisse makes his return to England and steps into a massive void in Sunderland’s attack.
August 19, 2008 EPL: Week 1, In Review Reviewing the first weekend in the EPL, including player, manager, and team of the week.
August 19, 2008 Brazil: Handcuffed Grêmio Stay Five Points Clear Wrap-up of the weekend of football in Brazil.
August 18, 2008 Manchester United Salvages Draw Against Newcastle The defending league champions stumble on the league’s first weekend.
August 18, 2008 Chelsea Dominates in Season Opener Chelsea sets the tone for the EPL season with a demolition of Portsmouth.
August 18, 2008 Boro Issues Spurs Wake-Up Call Middlebrough pulls off the surprise of the EPL’s first round.
August 17, 2008 Torres Saves Benitez, Liverpool Against Sunderland A lightning bolt from Fernando Torres saves the Reds from a week of turmoil.
August 17, 2008 Fulham Downed by Hull City The Cottagers give away a point to one of the league’s new arrivals.
August 17, 2008 Arsenal Wins Uninspiring Opener Against West Brom The Gunners score early but only once against the winners of last season’s Championship.
2008-09 English Premiership Preview Articles

August 15, 2008 ASR’s 2008-09 English Premiership Preview
August 15, 2008 Premiership Preview: Manchester United The Red Devils go for three in a row.
August 15, 2008 Premiership Preview: Arsenal Arsene Wegner looks redeem himself and his Gunners by challenging for the league title.
August 15, 2008 Premiership Preview: Aston Villa Aston Villa looks to prevent more goals while keeping the trio of Young, Agbodlahor, and Carew clicking.
August 15, 2008 Premiership Preview: Tottenham Hotspur Can Spurs off-season activity translate into points? Spurs fans are hoping to challenge the top four.
August 15, 2008 Premiership Preview: West Ham United The Hammers try to build upon last year’s tenth place finish.
August 15, 2008 Premiership Preview: Bolton The Wanderers look to battle relegation one more time, though the results stand to be different this season.
August 15, 2008 Premiership Preview: Chelsea Luiz Felipe Scolari looks to move the club out of the shadow of Jose Mourinho.
August 14, 2008 Premiership Preview: Middlesbrough Gareth Southgate looks to take this young team up the table.
August 14, 2008 Premiership Preview: Stoke City Stoke tries to avoid the one-season-drop.
August 14, 2008 Premiership Preview: Manchester City Mark Hughes comes to City to try and keep a sinking ship above the Championship.
August 14, 2008 Premiership Preview: Sunderland Roy Keane’s Black Cats have to deal with Kenwyne Jones’s injury if they are to stay up.
August 14, 2008 Premiership Preview: Everton Everton looks to replicate last season’s strong fifth place finish.
August 14, 2008 Premiership Preview: Hull City Hull City tries to avoid being this season’s Premiership sacrificial lamb.
August 14, 2008 Premiership Preview: Liverpool Can the acquisition of Robbie Keane left Liverpool back to the top of the Premiership?
August 14, 2008 Premiership Preview: Newcastle United Newcastle looks to build upon last season’s strong finish.
August 14, 2008 Premiership Preview: Blackburn Paul Ince is on board, but neither David Bentley nor Brad Friedel have stayed.
August 14, 2008 Premiership Preview: Fulham Looking at Fulham FC’s changes for the 2008-09 Premiership season.
August 14, 2008 Premiership Preview: West Bromwich Albion Previewing the upcoming Premiership campaign for last season’s Championship winners.
August 14, 2008 Premiership Preview: Wigan Athletic Previewing Wigan Athletic for the 2008-09 Premiership campaign.
August 14, 2008 Premiership Preview: Portsmouth Previewing the 2008-09 season for Portsmouth FC.
August 12, 2008 Aston Villa: Cuéllar Acquired From rangers, Continues Back Line Build Up SPL Player of the Year moves to Villa in a huge boost for the club’s chances to qualify for European football.
August 12, 2008 Arsenal: Fábregas Amongst Nine Out Against Twente Arsenal’s best player to miss the first two games of the season, including their Champions League opener, while the rest of the roster also struggles for fitness.
August 7, 2008 Newcastle: Argentina’s Coloccini to Bolster Defense Newcastle addresses their biggest need by importing Deportivo de la Coruña’s star defender.
August 6, 2008 Olympics: Don’t Wait for Brazil-Argentina Final An Olympic Preview, highlighting the formatting faux pas that will keep the tournament’s two best teams from meeting in the finals.
August 5, 2008 Manchester United: Rooney to Miss Opener A virus picked up in Nigeria will keep Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney from appearing on opening day.
August 4, 2008 Brazil: Grêmio and Cruzeiro Creating Room at the Top Update on the top league of Brazil football where Grêmio and Cruzeiro sit atop the table after seventeen rounds.
August 4, 2008 Chelsea: Drogba to Miss First Two Matches Luiz Felipe Scolari reveals his lead scorer will miss August 17 gainst Portsmouth and August 24 against Wigan.
August 2, 2008 Chelsea: Soft Goal From Cech Brings Back Euro 2008 Cech gives fans and Chelsea supporters another scare with a curious goal allowed to Lokomotiv in the Russian Railways Cup.
August 2, 2008 Arsenal: Good News, Bad News with Adebayor Re-Signing Emmanuel Adebayor is staying with Arsenal, signing a new contract. Is that what Gunners-backers want?
August 1, 2008 Brazil: Flamengo Continues Fall Revision of the Brasileirao wrap-up originally posted here. Flamengo’s winless streak reaches five.
August 1, 2008 UCL Third Round Draw Sees McClaren Come Home, Atlético-Schalke headline Recapping the Champions League, third-round qualifying draw that saw titans Barcelona, Juventus, Arsenal and Liverpool avoid the Atlético Madrid thread while Schalke was not as lucky.
August 1, 2008 Guzan Gets Work Permit, Completes Villa Transfer Brad Guzan joins Aston Villa, ending a six month, work permit-inhibited transfer saga.
July 2008 Submissions
July 31, 2008 For Spurs, Capel Would Fit Better Than Bentley Spurs have traded Robbie Keane for David Bentley when they should have continued their pursuit of the midfielder they have wanted all along: Diego Capel.
July 31, 2008 Manchester City Advances to Second Round of UEFA Cup Qualifying If you were sitting in suspense, waiting to see if Manchester City could hold its lead over EB/Streymur, read to have your quest for first round UEFA Cup qualifying news satiated.
July 30, 2008 Tottenham Completes Bentley Acquisition David Bentley moves to Spurs, taking up some of Tottenham’s Robbie Keane money.
July 29, 2008 Brazil: Gremio Rises in Week of the Penalty Kick A wrap-up of Rounds 14 and 15 in Campeonato Brasileirao Serie A, where Gremio climbed into the lead.
July 28, 2008 Robbie Keane Moves From Tottenham to Liverpool This was big enough news to post to ASR first. I am still in shock that Ramos let this happen.
July 28, 2008 Muntari Moves From Portsmouth to Inter Brief news announcement of Sulley Muntari switch from Portsmouth to Inter Milan.
July 28, 2008 Russia: Lokomotiv in Position for Second Half Push After Win Over FC Moscow Revising what was originally a post to this blog, an update on the Russian Premier League.
July 27, 2008 Aston Villa Secures UEFA Cup Birth, Loses Buoma Vilal earns birth into UEFA Cup qualifying via Intertoto while losing left back Wilfred Buoma to long-term injury.
July 27, 2008 Friedel Agrees to Personal Terms, Completes Transfer to Aston Villa The former Blackburn goaltender completes his move to Villa Park.
July 27, 2008 Manchester United to Break British Transfer Record for Tevez United to bring an early end to Tevez’s two year loan with a British record transfer fee.
July 24, 2008 Olympics Represent FIFA’s First ECA Test The ECA has chosen to fight FIFA over the Olympics in what will be the first of many fights between the clubs and the governing body.
July 23, 2008 Premiership News and Rumors The latest edition of paper talk round-up from around the Premiership.
July 23, 2008 Blackburn Accepts Aston Villa Bid For Brad Friedel The initial news that Friedel, subject to agreeing to personal terms, would be leaving the Rovers, with whom he played the last eight seasons.
July 21, 2008 Chelsea Lets Makélélé Move to Paris St. Germain The iconic holding midfielder moves on a free from Stamford Bridge to try an revitalize the Parisian club.
July 14, 2008 Premiership News and Rumors The ninth installment of the paper talk round-up.
July 14, 2008 Cristiano Ronaldo to Miss Premiership’s First Five Weeks Ronaldo’s ankle surgery will see him out of the Manchester United lineup for the first five weeks of the season.
July 11, 2008 Cristiano Ronaldo Could Miss Out on Ballon d’Or Spicing up and redistributing thoughts that originally appeared here, opinion on the news that Ronaldo will likely lose the Golden Ball to Fernando Torres or Iker Casillas.
July 10, 2008 Premiership News and Rumors The eighth installment of the Premiership paper talk aggregation.
July 7, 2008 Peter Crouch Moves to Portsmouth Crouchy’s having his transfer.
July 6, 2008 Why Chelsea Should Sell Frank Lampard Making the case for why Chelsea should close the book on the Frank Lampard era.
July 3, 2008 Premiership News and Rumors New edition of paper-talk update.
July 2, 2008 City Finalize Jô Signing, Isaksson Departure Manchester City completes the acquisition of Brazilian striker Jô from CSKA Moscow
July 2, 2008 Premiership News and Rumors Wrap-up of Premiership paper talk.
July 1, 2008 Mourinho Squashes Lampard Report Inter coach Jose Mourinho denies reports that Frank Lampard has agreed to move to the San Siro.
July 1, 2008 City Open UEFA Cup Qualifying in Faroes Manchester City begin third-round UEFA Cup qualifying with a match-up against EBStreymur of the Faroe Islands.
June 2008 Submissions
Date Article Title Description
June 30, 2008 Deco Moves to Chelsea Former Barcelona midfielder becomes Luiz Felipe Scolari’s first signing at Stamford Bridge.
June 27, 2008 Report: Frank Lampard Signed by Inter France Football breaks news that Frank Lampard has agreed to follow Jose Mourinho to Inter Milan.
June 27, 2008 Bolton Signs Johan Elmander Bolton brings the Sweden international from France to the Premiership.
June 26, 2008 Player Profile: Samir Nasri Profiling Samir Nasri, set to make the move from Marseille to Arsenal.
June 25, 2008 Premiership News and Rumors Diving back into the tabloids to summarize Premiership paper talk.
June 23, 2008 Premiership News and Rumors - Liverpool Edition Concentrating on Anfield for this edition of the paper talk update.
June 23, 2008 Arsenal Completes Nasri Acquisition Young French star Samri Nasri agrees to join Arsene Wenger at the Emirates.
June 23, 2008 Transfer Focus: Emmanuel Adebayor The possibilities and implications surrounding an Emmanuel Adebayor move away from Arsenal.
June 23, 2008 Blackburn Hire Paul Ince Rovers make a historic hiring, bringing in MK Dons’ Paul Ince.
June 20, 2008 Ince Blackburn Favorite After Allardyce Drops Out Sam Allardyce had been the favorite for the Blackburn manager position before withdrawing his name from consideration.
June 20, 2008 Ronaldo Rumors Rekindled After Portgual Exit Portugal’s loss in Euro 2008 leads to rumors of Ronaldo’s impending move from Manchester United to Real Madrid.
June 18, 2008 Schedule Portends Fast Starts, High Expectations for Everton, Arsenal Everton and Arsenal get dream schedules to open the 2008-09 Premiership.
June 15, 2008 Blackburn’s Bentley Hands in Transfer Request David Bentley seeks to leave Blackburn for a club in European football.
June 15, 2008 Premiership News and Rumors The fourth edition of the paper talk round-up.
June 14, 2008 Premiership News and Rumors - Chelsea Edition Combing through the back pages with a focus on Stamford Bridge.
June 11, 2008 Shearer Bows Out of Rover Coaching Search Rover legend Alan Shearer declines to be considered to replace Mark Hughes.
June 11, 2008 Scolari Named Chelsea Manager Luiz Felipe Scolari will assume the manager’s seat at Stamford Bridge after he completes Euro 2008 with Portgual.
June 11, 2008 Premiership News and Rumors Third edition of the football gossip warp-up.
June 7, 2008 Premiership News and Rumors The second edition of the Premiership round-up.
June 6, 2008 Club Delay Decision on 39th Round The Premiership continues to cool on the idea of extending their schedule by one, international match.
June 6, 2008 Giovani Completes Move to Spurs Mexican start Giovani Dos Santos jumps from Barcelona to Tottenham.
June 6, 2008 Ronaldo Speaks, Settles Little, Rekindles Speculation Cristiano Ronaldo makes a final statement on transfer rumors before starting Euro 2008.
June 5, 2008 Middlesbrough Push for Bradley United States’ star Michael Bradley appears on the radar of Gareth Southgate and Middlesbrough.
June 5, 2008 Hughes Confirmed as New City Manager Mark Hughes completes the shift from Blackburn to Manchester City
June 3, 2008 Premiership News and Rumors The first of what would be (too) many News and Rumors articles!
June 2, 2008 Breaking Down the Candidates at Chelsea FC Analyzing the managerial options for Roman Abramovich and Chelsea.
June 2, 2008 Eriksson’s Departure from City Made Official Sven-Goran Eriksson tenure at Manchester City comes to a merciful end.
May 29, 2008 Bradley Waits on Everton Michael Bradley’s rumored to jump from Heerenveen to Everton, should David Moyes want him.
May 29, 2008 Premiership News and Rumors OK. Technically, this was the first, though I always considered it a beta.

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