By Thomas Negron If you talked to a Leicester supporter this time last year, they would probably not describe their Christmas as being merry. Leicester, who were playing in the Premier League for the first time in 10 seasons, sat...
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By Thomas Negron After a stunning first half of the season, Leicester see themselves in first place. However, it is hard to see a way for them to continue this run of form over the second half of the season. They are...
By Carlos Pena-Lobel In what will hopefully be a 3 part series, I will take a look at parity in European Soccer. But parity is a buzz word without a well-defined meaning. In this post, we look at 2 different types of parity:...
By Brendan Kent Keeper penalties are quite simply the best. First of all, if a keeper is taking a penalty we are most likely in sudden death penalties of a knockout match. Pretty exciting to begin with. Now add the fact that the...
By Brendan Kent In very few nations does politics become entangled with everything else so much as in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Political ideology manifests itself in film, music, cultural celebrations, and...
By Thomas Negron Last season’s Premier League title was all but won last April at Emirates Stadium where Chelsea secured a 0-0 draw to maintain a 10 point league lead over Arsenal with just five matches left to play. As the...
By Nathan Goldberg, Maja Campara, Christopher Martinez, and Siqi Zhao After a glorious 26 year and 38 trophy spell at Manchester United, Sir Alex Ferguson decided to step down from his role as manager immediately after winning...
By Andrew Puopolo Today, Robert Lewandowski came on as a halftime substitute for Bayern Munich as they trailed 1-0 at home to VfL Wolfsburg. 14 minutes later, following the most incredible sequence of events, Lewandowski had...
By Daniel Silberwasser The term “form” is often used in soccer to refer to either a player or a team’s recent performance. A key aspect to the idea of form is that form influences future success. For example, one might say...
By Daniel Silberwasser With legal sports betting becoming a possibility in the U.S., it might be in our financial interest to investigate the track records of various U.K. soccer bookmakers. Using bookmaker data on the English...