Footballistically

Boo Boo

Timothy Boyd — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:50:49 +0000

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Scent of the grass

Timothy Boyd — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:05:48 +0000

“I am in football because I love to breathe in the morning the scent of the grass and go out there and that’s where I feel I’m still a little boy who plays football, you know?” Wenger says. “If it’s just to sit behind a desk, I don’t think I will be the same. What I enjoy is to see a player improve, to build a training session where you feel the team goes forward, and I believe that once I do not enjoy any more to go out on the pitch, then I will stop anyway because that is 90% of my pleasure. When I am on the phone until three o’clock in the morning, I must tell you frankly, I can delegate that easy.”

Sorry Bill

Timothy Boyd — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:38:56 +0000

“I am very pleased to wear that number, it should be worn by a striker or a midfielder.”

—Robin van Persie

It’s all Icelandic to me

Timothy Boyd — Tue, 18 May 2010 15:38:10 +0000

“I don’t know the name of the volcano, it’s too difficult, so it’s Gudjohnsen.”

—Jose Mourinho

Space Age

Timothy Boyd — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:28:07 +0000

“It’s such an unusual and interesting combination of things. It’s a deeply traditional club but has always had this tradition of innovation. When you think about the Marble Halls of Arsenal and the Bank of England club you might think of a stuffy place with cobwebs in the corners.

You probably don’t imagine a French manager with a radically different vision for how the game should be played with a spaceship stadium in the middle of London.”

—Ivan Gazidis

Sport!

Timothy Boyd — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:26:51 +0000

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Or Something

Timothy Boyd — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:33:06 +0000

“When you have problems everyone has a different reaction,” said Benitez. “It is more than just football; agents, money, TV, radios and internet everyone needs to talk – everyone has a Twitter or something like that..”

Stevie looks good with that haircut

Timothy Boyd — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:29:43 +0000

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Training Wheels

Timothy Boyd — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:14:40 +0000

“Agbonlahor (pronounced ag-BON-la-hor), the son of a Nigerian father and a Scottish mother, tallied the winner for visiting Aston Villa against Manchester United on Saturday. It was Villa’s first win at Old Trafford since the start of the Premier League in 1992-93.

“England Considers its World Cup Strike Force” – New York Times Soccer Blog

Sometimes I wonder who that blog is for. Like, is there somewhere on the great big Venn diagram of soccer/football fans where the circles for “is into it enough to follow soccer blogs on the internet” and “doesn’t know how to pronounce Gabriel Agbonlahor’s name” significantly overlap enough that I’m overlooking?

It feels a lot like when John Harkes and JP Dellecamera, god bless ‘em, insist on referring to anything other than the US as “overseas.”

Maybe this is all just part of the big build up to the ENG-USA match in South Africa, a match that anyone in their right mind who has seen these two teams play recently is bored to death just thinking about. It’s like they both work very hard at having no style, an anti-style of football.

But, hey, they speak English! And they’re mostly white guys! I mean, they are, right? Special relationship!

Simple Maths

Timothy Boyd — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:58:53 +0000

“After the first half it is difficult to explain why we have not won.” — Rafael Benitez

I’m no football scientist, but I suspect the loss has something to do with not scoring as many or more goals than Arsenal in the 2nd half.