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by Paul Gardner on Jun 20, 10:19 AM
I return to the worrying tale of Eric Garcia, the young Man City defender severely injured last Wednesday.
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by Paul Gardner on Jun 18, 11:45 AM
Alas for the English Premier League, usually so deft at promoting itself. Here we had the long-awaited (it's been 100 days) return.
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by Paul Gardner on Jun 13, 12:40 AM
German "ghost games" have presented soccer with a unique opportunity to explore one of its most contentious areas.
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by Paul Gardner on May 20, 12:17 PM
So here comes the difficult bit. Trying to make a coherent whole of my dealings with and memories of college soccer since 1960.
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by Paul Gardner on May 16, 11:00 PM
The 1971 Division 1 Final (Howard 3 St Louis 2) played in the cavernous -- and lamentably empty -- Orange Bowl started my rethink about college soccer.
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by Paul Gardner on May 13, 1:15 AM
College soccer -- the men's version -- has been going through something of a crisis recently. Caused by the fear that the NCAA might take action that would threaten the very existence of many college soccer programs. The threat still hovers.
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by Paul Gardner on Apr 19, 12:19 AM
The immobility of quarantine at least gives one time to think, to reflect, to remember. I've been playing around with all three.
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by Paul Gardner on Apr 6, 6:00 PM
When people start using arcane language to make matters clearer, you can be quite sure that they are not trying to clarify. They are trying to mystify.
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by Paul Gardner on Mar 6, 1:10 AM
Playing in a dangerous manner is what goalkeepers are doing every time they dive to the ground at an opponent's feet.
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by Paul Gardner on Feb 16, 10:56 PM
Something to classify alongside flying pigs: one of soccer's richest clubs being severely punished by the sport itself.
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by Paul Gardner on Feb 14, 2:32 AM
Surely it is time to cry Enough! and do away with the antiquated and dangerously useless International Football Association Board, IFAB?
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by Paul Gardner on Feb 2, 2:34 AM
The phrase "technological doping" has been hovering over sports -- all of them -- for some time now. More as a vague, ill-defined problem than a clearly identifiable threat.
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by Paul Gardner on Dec 30, 3:18 PM
The level of English Premier League play and the entertainment value have been consistently high.
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by Paul Gardner on Dec 2, 11:01 PM
You will know, I think, the medical tale -- a surgical joke really -- about the operation that was completely successful. Just unfortunate that the patient died.
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by Paul Gardner on Nov 25, 2:53 AM
So U.S. Soccer has decided to run coaching instruction courses ... in Spanish. Not all the courses, you understand.