A new paper published by Danish sports data company RunRepeat and backed by the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) makes it clear that soccer commentary in the United Kingdom, United States and Canada has a racism problem. Researchers from RunRepeat sampled 80 games from the 2019-20 seasons of the English Premier League, French Ligue 1, Italian […]
cwick (Chadwick Matlin, deputy editor): Grace! Tony! Ryan! We’re back! After months away from professional soccer and these chats, we’ve blown the klaxon and assembled again. Very excited to talk about soccer with all of you, especially on the occasion of a new champion! After decades in the wilderness and what seemed like centuries of […]
It hasn’t been the smoothest road, but American team sports are almost back. The first league set to return is the National Women’s Soccer League, which kicks off Saturday with the Challenge Cup, a special, COVID-designed tournament. The NBA, NHL and MLS have similar tournament-style events planned to get their seasons back on track and […]
As the English Premier League picks back up this week, Liverpool is on the verge of winning its first English soccer championship in 30 years and its first Premier League title ever. If Manchester City loses to Arsenal on Wednesday, Liverpool can wrap up its long-awaited Premier League title with a derby win against Merseyside […]
The Premier League is set to restart on June 17 when Aston Villa and Sheffield United square off behind closed doors at Villa Park. As far as pivotal opening matches go, the league could certainly do worse: Villa currently occupies the 19th position in the table and desperately needs every point it can pick up […]