Hi, I’m Jon and I’ll be your occasional international correspondent on LolaSportsTalk for as long as they’ll have me. Below is my right hand clutching Arsenal season tickets, borrowed from a family friend. Wednesday night was to be an FA Cup third round clash between the fifth placed team in what you guys for some [...]
I was hanging home Saturday afternoon, trying to figure out ways to knock myself unconscious until football started the following afternoon. I got a facebook message from a friend who had a spare ticket to an Atlanta Silverbacks soccer game. If you didn’t know, Atlanta and its surrounding area is devoid of any MLS Teams, [...]
Thar she blows: Red Bull Arena, one of the wave of new, smaller, more sensible MLS stadiums. On Saturday the Red Bulls hosted the Vancouver Whitecaps, an expansion team at the bottom of the table. The Whitecaps are part owned by NBA player, documented soccer enthusiast,and NY resident Steve Nash. The stadium looked pretty cool [...]
This trip was from March but I’m posting it in honor of the Battle of the Guays (Uruguay v Paraguay in the Copa America Finals) on today. Enjoy. The last stop on the the Southerny Midwesterny Road Trip was Nashville Tennessee, where me, my friends and 29,055 other people went to LP Field [...]
The last leg of the “So This is What the Lockouts Have Brought me to?” Tour also took place in Philadelphia, where I watched the Philadelphia Union take on the Barclay’s Premier League team Everton. The Union are surprisingly atop the MLS Eastern Conference table and their Revolutionary War theme should clash well with [...]
