The US is going to South Africa.  As I followed Grant Wahl’s twitter feed of Saturday’s game from San Pedro Sula, an odd experience of using a 2009 technology to get around the 1980 closed circuit, I was surprised, impressed, and pleased with th...

Big Story Your editor is behind today, as  I spent last night meeting with Chicago Fire owner and chairman Andrew Hauptman, discussing many of the issues I raised in my open letter to Fire ownership last month. At the end of that letter, I asked...

Nabisco Cup final, Kawasaki Frontale vs. FC Tokyo, November 3rd 2009. Photo credit: dillo-h.com on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion Photo Pool. Related posts:Photo Daily: Kawasaki Frontale Tifo Big flags and little flags in the Asian Champions...

Our Thursday programme series last week went back 56 years, to the first ever floodlight match at Tottenham Hotspur’s White Hart lane.  Today, we hop across North London to Highbury, and Arsenal’s first major floodlit fixture against Hapoel Tel...

Last week, we reported on exhibit A in how to alienate fans in Australia by A-League expansion team Gold Coast United’s billionaire owner Clive Palmer. The club closed three sides of their stadium, Skilled Park, and capped capacity to just 5,000,...

Big Story Jack Warner has returned a handbag given to him by the England World Cup bid because of “embarrassment”, launching — even by his absurd standards — a bizarre rhetorical attack on the Football Association. Most odd was his wording at the...