The English FA just unveiled the most obvious blueprint for player development
Let’s be honest from the get-go: England may be home to one of the most entertaining and continentally dominant domestic leagues around the world, but the national team’s performance on the...
View ArticleJourney from England to college soccer is no easy decision
College soccer is littered with English players. The ease of language transition and cultural similarity makes a jump from England to the States relatively straightforward, and for many the prospect of...
View ArticleThe perfect template for all scoreless draw highlight videos
Doncaster hosted Fleetwood Town in an English League 1 match last weekend (the game was played at Keepmoat Stadium, which is the greatest). BBC Sport listed seven shots on target, but their three...
View ArticleWales surpassed England in the FIFA rankings, which are meaningless
If you needed any further proof that the FIFA rankings are a glorified listicle conspiracy clandestinely put out by Buzzfeed to up the international eye roll quotient, Wales passed up England in the...
View ArticleStuart Pearce, 53, is coming out of retirement for the worst team in England
Google ‘Stuart Pearce psycho.’ I’ll wait. …. Sufficiently terrified yet? Pearce, once a mortally horrifying defender for England and most notably Nottingham Forest, spent the majority of his career...
View ArticleCrystal Dunn’s golazo leads the USWNT past England
In lieu of a trip to Europe for this year’s Algarve Cup, the U.S. women’s national team are hosting the She Believes Cup with France, Germany and England making the trip. Crystal Dunn’s penchant for...
View ArticleWales-England is the Euro’s greatest dumb rivalry
Present circumstances considered (form, club, man-bun status), Gareth Bale would be the best English player in a generation, the best since Paul Gascoigne and maybe stretching even further back than...
View ArticleJack Harrison will never play for the U.S. (time for England to wake up)
Before Jack Harrison was taken with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2016 MLS SuperDraft, the English FA had no idea who he was. There was a reason for that. Harrison, from the down-and-out Lancashire...
View ArticleFormer USMNT international David Wagner is doing fun things in England
Before Jurgen Klopp took over for the fallen Brendan Rodgers at Liverpool in 2015, there had been a single German head coach in Premier League history. In 2014, Fulham hired Felix Magath and broke the...
View ArticleEngland endured a very England end to the UEFA U17 title game
, Results don’t really matter on the youth level unless they shatter your psyche and leave you grasping for philosophical truths that make your existence both relevant and meaningful. England’s loss to...
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