If you can’t quite make it over to England, sometimes you can catch English soccer teams touring the US, playing friendlies against MLS teams or other teams from the UK and Europe. But which teams, where, and when? Most of this is part of the International Champions Cup (ICC), which brings teams from all over to […]
Who Got Promoted and Relegated This Season in English Soccer?
With the 2016-17 English football season now in the books, who got relegated, and who got promoted? The season formally ended on Monday May 29 — Memorial Day in the States — with the “richest game in world football” at Wembley Stadium. It was a complete dud, 120 minutes of 0-0 non-action, and then Huddersfield Town took […]
Yankee Groundhooper #7:
The Home Stretch + Burton Albion FC
Issue #7 of my Yankee Groundhopper English soccer newsletter is out. In this issue: The madness of the season’s last day — in all the leagues Yes, England does have playoffs Getting to know Burton Albion, the best story in football no one is talking about A video of a Spanish hero blowing kisses to his “mental” Welsh admirers […]
Meet an English Football Club: Burton Albion
Every couple of weeks I introduce you to an English football club which I assume you (my non-English readers) don’t know much about. In other words, you won’t be reading about Man U or Chelsea in this space. This week we meet a plucky little club from near Birmingham who did something amazing in the last year; they got to, and […]
Yes, English Soccer Does Have Playoffs
One of the biggest differences between English soccer and every American sport is that we Yanks rely on a postseason playoff to determine champions, whereas in England they just go by the best record during the season. More importantly, we can drink beer in the stands — hell, we can buy beer in the stands […]
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