European Soccer Needs a Dose of American-Style Socialism
The sport's cut-throat capitalism mercilessly punishes failure http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/09/european-soccer-needs-a-dose-of-american-style-socialism/244557/ Last week the pretenders lined up to challenge the titans of

European Summer Transfers so far
Transfers from European Leagues so far Serie A First I have only included transfers I regard as big, so apologies if some are not on the list Currency in Euros Luc Castaignos (Feyenoord to Inter 3,000,000) Marco Borriello (AC Milan to AS Roma

European version of Soccer AM's Teammates
I saw some clips on Youtube of the Teammates segment that they do on Soccer AM. Thought it'd be interesting to do a European version, based on what us fans can see on the pitch or know through other sources. I'll start off with Barcelona: Best

Euro-Eleven European Fantasy Football game 2011/12
Euro-Eleven present a new free to play European Fantasy Football game for the 2011/12 season. You can select players across the 5 major European leagues and win weekly, monthly and overall prizes. Messi, Ronaldo, Rooney and Robben all in one-team? Of

Never relegated?
I just read an article, and I quote: In Italy, Inter also has the distinction of being the only team to never be relegated from Serie A with a league record of 99 seasons in top division. They are also the only top flight professional football team to

European Scooters
I travel to europe on occasion which lends the opportunity to see scooters that people in the states never see. There is a much greater variety of scooter there because fuel prices are a lot higher there than in the USA. I have many scooter pics from past

Premier League Matches 20-22 November
Saturday Arsenal v Tottenham Birmingham v Chelsea Blackpool v Wolves Bolton v Newcastle Manchester United v Wigan West Brom v Stoke Liverpool v West Ham Sunday Blackburn v Aston Villa Fulham v Manchester City Monday Sunderland v

a New European Super League would be better?
The format could be just like the CHampions League, except that this would only be for the top teams. I mean Uefa has gone nutz introducing more minnows in the competition. There was a time when the groupstages were actually really exciting and

European Team Championships, Stockholm, Sweden June 18-19
I think it's about time we got a thread going over the European Team Championships in the top flight that commence tomorrow and stretch across the weekend, with the British team well involved despite forced to field a well-depleted line-up. With the likes

UKA announce British team for the European Team Championships in Stockholm
Bit surprised that Anyika Onoura was prefered to Jody Williams in the 100m and maybe the selector(s) did not realise that Shana Cox could not compete for GB this season ! No outstanding performances yet by our 400m or 1,500m men so the reluctance to

02 Ranking by soccer.stat.05
I don't know who has seen the 02 rankings below that soccer.stats.05 was nice enough to do. They are posted in the 04 section and I decided to copy them into the 02 section so we could see them and thank soccer.stat.05 for the work. Apparently there i

Pan-European league table
if we were to group together all European top flight teams and made a final table, as if they had been playing a common league, what would the first 20 teams be? ONLY TAKING INTO ACCOUNT LEAGUE FORM. e.g. 1. Man U 2. Chelsea 3. Real Madrid 4.

Germany may boykott the Euros
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is reported to be considering boycotting Euro 2012 football matches in Ukraine to protest its government's treatment of the country's jailed former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko. There is a growing debate among German

Capital cities and the European cup
Most large capital cities in Europe do not have a team that has won the European cup: London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Rome, Athens. The only exception really being Madrid. why is this? Is the city often divided into smaller teams, not specifically a

Lifetime Membership to the European Tour
This is something I briefly touched on before in a thread about an ET event. It has again come to light this week and something I find quite infuriating. Probably me being a saddo for letting it bother me but it really does when I look at who has lifetime