To All my friends in the Baltimore Area: Welcome to the footbol / soccer page!
- By Scotty

Let me start buy saying I am nervous to have anything I write shown in a public forum but my good man Miguel has asked me to get the ball rolling for his website. I think he asked me to do this as a form of payment for all the tequila that he has bought me in the past.

A little background – when I met Miguel it became fairly obvious that we had few vitally important things in common.

Good Food – which he cooks and I eat like it’s my job
Good Drink – which I also consider at least a part time job
And Footbol – which is much closer to a spiritual thing

And since that time we have spent hours in what I would like to call discourse but in reality is unfortunately more like a dissertation (see #2 above) of all things football.

We started talking about how limited the choices in Baltimore are when trying to find places that share all three of these things.

I mean – I think we have all been to places that will grudgingly put a Champions League game on until some mis-guided soul states “Soccer!!! - put on the Bass master’s highlight show” and poof there you are yet again – a second class citizen.

So when Miguel started putting the concept of his new place together he stated right up front that it would become a Footbol / Soccer destination in Baltimore. The kind of place where the food is excellent the atmosphere unique and a bartender will be fired on the spot if a channel is touched while a match is on. A place where you can come for an 11am EPL match with your Fulham shirt on, change into a Barca shirt for the 1pm kickoff and finish off the afternoon in your DC United gear.

Here is the game plan –

There will always be great food!!!
There will always be drink specials for big matches and supporters groups!!!
And -- If the doors are open there will always be matches on the big screens!!!!

Scott's Shots

I remember when I was a kid watching a two week old Soccer Made in Germany on a PBS channel that was as snowy as our weather lately --- now look at this.

Weekend TV listings

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/soccerinsider/2010/02/weekend_tv_listings_55.html#more

I came across a link to a cat that has a gaggle of vintage US centric games when I was trying to remember the old TV show – If you’re into it WOW

http://www.davebrett.com/

At this point it looks like the MLS season should start on time but I can see a strike right around the world cup.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/sports/stories/2010/02/26/mls-must-loosen-reins-on-players.html?sid=101#story-continues

If you don’t know who Ray Hudson is check out this clip –

I want this guy to do my eulogy with the Dropkick Murphy’s as the soundtrack –

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YOEO7jtIs4

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The Nat’s win last night left me unimpressive – same tactics – same players -- I’m not feeling great about this summer’s world cup yet.

http://www.ussoccer.com/News/Mens-National-Team/2010/02/Stoppage-Time-Goal-Lifts-US-Men-Against-El-Salvador.aspx

That was the time to try something anything different and is just me or does Bob remind anyone else of the icons from Easter Island?

When comparing it to Mexico’s 4 goals in 21min and 5-0 overall we look very average.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/report?id=288005&cc=3888

So Wayne Bridge has decided to opt out of this summers world cup – Wow the fact that someone on the team slept with your old girlfriend is enough to kill a world cup dream is terrible.

http://www.soccer365.com/english_premiership/story_25210131022.php

Background story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1248816/John-Terry-sacked-England-Captain-showdown-manager-Fabio-Capello.html

John Terry = Asshat

English Media = parasites

Websites

Also since I am the kind of geek that lives this stuff here are some links and podcast’s that I check daily to get my fix.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/soccerinsider/

http://www.noshortcorners.com/

http://soccer365.com/us_news/

http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=13

http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=13

http://dcunited.mlsnet.com/index.jsp

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soccer/

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/?cc=5901

http://www.soccerbyives.net/soccer_by_ives/

http://www.yanks-abroad.com/

http://www.ussoccer.com/

Link for those hard to see matches

http://www.rojadirecta.org/

Podcasts

http://www.wfdpodcast.com/RSS_feed.xml

http://epltalk.libsyn.com/rss