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Time for world soccer -- especially the USA -- to start taking Mexico seriously
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, June 18, 2018
The Mexicans have been very, very patient. Far too patient, I think, ...
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VAR and the insidious spread of technology
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, June 13, 2018
There are problems with the VAR system that FIFA has decided to ...
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Should referee calls be swayed by player reputations?
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Thursday, June 7, 2018
For some decades now, I have been asking referees -- at all ...
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From Liverpool to Calvary, via Kiev
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, May 30, 2018
It was not to be, was it? Too many surreally bad things ...
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The Drawbacks of the Jesse Marsch Approach
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Some assumptions are necessary here, before I get to my main point. ...
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More Problems with VAR and Goalkeepers
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, May 11, 2018
The oddities that surround VAR decisions continue to baffle. Last Wednesday's decision ...
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Referees and communication: a long history of non-compliance
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Tuesday, April 17, 2018
We can thank VAR for the almost vaudeville images we now see ...
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Ronaldo's golazo: The best ever? Maybe, along with quite a few others
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, April 11, 2018
The gasps of astonishment and the avalanche of praise that greeted Ronaldo's ...
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Mourinho: 'I won't change.' Nor, it seems, will goalkeepers
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, March 26, 2018
Two things: 1) trying not to be irritated by Jose Mourinho, and ...
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Making a case for soccer nonsense
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Trapped in my New York apartment. An exaggeration. But it is snowing ...
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The Phantom Foul that injured Harry Kane exposes rulebook flaw
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, March 12, 2018
Harry Kane is seen by English fans as a major reason for ...
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Referees' pro-defense bias: an unfounded, damaging tradition that must be abandoned
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, March 9, 2018
Decidedly interesting comments from former England striker Michael Owen. He came clean ...
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MLS refs, and VAR, follow English lead by going easy on physical fouls
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, March 5, 2018
Both in the English Premier League and in MLS there were some ...
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The four-letter word that threatens to sabotage MLS moves against goalkeeper violence
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, March 2, 2018
The news from Howard Webb and his PRO group of referees is ...
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Finding a way to make a meaningful vote
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, February 9, 2018
I have been pondering how I shall vote in the U.S. Soccer ...
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J'accuse!!
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, January 31, 2018
I have an accusation to level at the sport of soccer. Against ...
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Wenger and Guardiola on English refs -- too chatty and too focused on diving
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, January 5, 2018
It's taken a while, but a top coach in England has had ...
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On replacing warm-ups with a pill
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, December 27, 2017
NBC's coverage of EPL games regularly features occasions when we're transported early ...
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College Soccer: A game in search of definition
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Saturday, December 16, 2017
Is college soccer ever going to wake up to the reality of ...
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Pro-defense bias continues to mar English refereeing
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, December 4, 2017
Watching a couple of EPL games on Sunday provided a telling insight ...
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Oh dear, Toronto vs Seattle again. Here's hoping for a real game this time.
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, December 1, 2017
Coming up -- the MLS final between Toronto and Seattle. Well, we've ...
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Big Sam -- the worst possible candidate for U.S. national team coach
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, November 24, 2017
Steve Nicol's opinions as a soccer-panelist guru do not often coincide with ...
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Attack-minded goalkeepers? Not Really.
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Tuesday, November 21, 2017
It is one of the persistent claims from the goalkeeping fraternity that, ...
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Is it the ball? Or is it simply bull?
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, October 27, 2017
The German soccer legend Uwe Seeler once told us: "The secret of ...
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The USA's World Cup fiasco and the vain search for culprits
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Sunday, October 22, 2017
Two individuals long prominent in American soccer have been hit hard by ...
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Clay Berling & Soccer America -- his inspired invention
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, October 9, 2017
The death of Clay Berling stirs up memories of my first days ...
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From goalkeepers, from referees ... the sound of a scandalous silence
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, September 29, 2017
The appalling story came from Germany, just 14 days ago. It was ...
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Rugby, not soccer, pursues promising concussion test
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Thursday, August 31, 2017
I am being reluctantly forced to the opinion that official soccer's attitude ...
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Exposed! The shabbiness of the English anti-diving campaign
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Sunday, August 6, 2017
It was totally right and proper that the farce of the English ...
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VAR: Howard Webb's skewed videos
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, July 28, 2017
In no time at all we shall be getting, in MLS, the ...
