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by Paul Gardner on Dec 30, 10:35 PM
Pele became, during the 1958 World Cup, probably the most important influence in the development of my soccer understanding.
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by Paul Gardner on Dec 18, 7:25 PM
Lionel Messi got his reward. I almost feel that the sport owed him that, for all the pleasure he has given us.
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by Paul Gardner on Dec 16, 6:01 PM
The deaths of Grant Wahl and Alex Yannis have left me with a sadness, and a spell of that "this shouldn't be happening" feeling.
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by Paul Gardner on Nov 21, 8:00 AM
The excitement of red-hot fan support for the host team is not likely to be a feature of this World Cup.
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by Paul Gardner on Nov 7, 3:48 PM
Baseball, we're told, is a game of inches. Right, and soccer is a game of feet. Ha ha, hilarious joke. But hold the knee-slapping
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by Paul Gardner on Nov 7, 1:54 AM
MLS Cup 2022 gave us a bit of everything that soccer has to offer.
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by Paul Gardner on Oct 20, 12:00 AM
What the treatment of these head-clashes shows is that neither in MLS nor in the EPL is the concussion problem taken seriously.
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by Paul Gardner on Sep 18, 5:34 AM
Of all the groups involved in soccer, I would rank referees as the group with the highest IQ.
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by Paul Gardner on Sep 14, 1:20 PM
Soccer is, and should be, a fluid sport played in many different ways and styles.
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by Paul Gardner on Jul 26, 10:35 PM
A rather unpleasant article popped up on the website run by PRO, which oversees referees engaged in pro soccer in the USA.
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by Paul Gardner on Jul 9, 12:23 PM
Total bafflement. That pretty much sums up my response to LAFC's recent activities in the transfer market.
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by Paul Gardner on Jul 5, 2:40 PM
The early end to his life, the agonies he went through, the wretched suffering of his loved ones, are now all a matter of record.
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by Paul Gardner on Jun 24, 12:27 PM
You will remember the famous Anatoliy Puzach ... No? ... Ukrainian-born forward for Dynamo Kiev and the USSR?
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by Paul Gardner on Jun 13, 3:46 PM
I have been enjoying MLS games so far this season: plenty of good, varied attacking play, plenty of individual brilliance.
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by Paul Gardner on Jun 2, 2:57 PM
It takes us back many, many years, to 1878 when the sport's rules first recognized the goalkeeper as a special player.