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What Is David Moyes Up To These Days, And Why….?

This Is What It’s Come To, Again….   When we last checked in on David Moyes, he’d been appointed manager of Manchester United at the behest and recommendation on  of Sir (Lord) Alex Ferguson who was retiring after 26 years on the clock. Moyes was the former manager of Everton, and as I mentioned, was…

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Who The Hell Is Davide Zappacosta

Zappa Costa Zappacosta   It shouldn’t have been so surprising to me, so confounding….but given my circumstances, it was more than understandable that I would have had no idea whatsoever who Davide Zappacosta was and why he was playing for Chelsea. I perhaps should mention that I should have had no idea who or what Chelsea…

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Transmissions From The Representative From AMTRAK 8

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Amtrak 8 will be arriving on YOUR planet shortly!!   I’ve pored through my photo archives and it dawned on me that I really have almost no pictures of Amtrak 7, the Empire Builder from Chicago to Seattle. Almost all my Empire Builder pictures are of the eastbound Amtrak 8. It’s most likely down to…

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The Curious Return Of Captain Britain

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Wayne Rooney Goes Home To Roost   With far less fanfare than That Villan John Terry, Wayne leaves Man U and returns to his old home club, Everton from whence he sprang into Britain’s….well, England’s at least….football imagination so many years ago. There wasn’t the major salutations that surrounded Terry’s departure from Chelsea. Which does…

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Except For Beer, International EVERYTHING!!

International Football

International Biker Chicks   In case I haven’t already announced it, I hereby officially announce my retirement from International Football. That’s it. I’m done. I’m hanging up the boots. Jürgen Klinnsman can come begging all he wants. But sorry. I’m through. I want it understood, however, that while I’m retiring from international football, that does…

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It’s Talladega, Baby!! Fall 2015 Surface Transportation Edition

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It’s Talladega, Baby!! And you know what THAT means!!!   Yes indeed, it means exactly what it has meant around here all these years….the things that gives most men a raging boner. But now, this time around, it will also mean things that give some men a raging boner. And no, I’m not referring to…

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Dragon, Lions & Haggis

Euro 2016

Look at my Fucking Red Trousers!!!!   When Roy Hodgson led his team out to play Switzerland….oh wait a minute. He’s leading the Swiss national team out to play in the 1994 World Cup…most likely the United States which despite the happy smiling faces, would end in a 1-1 draw as Erik Wynalda equalized just…

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Oh Europa!!

Premier League 2015-16 season

Astra 2     West Ham United 1 Vitesse Arnhem 0      Southampton 2   This morning , the race for the 2017 Europa League Championship began in England at Old Trafford. ManU(re) momentarily holds a 1-0 lead at halftime courtesy of a Kyle Walker own goal that Wayne Rooney celebrated as if he scored it himself, but…

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Un, Duex, Trois…

Women's World Cup

More time spent with this, than with (writing about) what your are about to read:   It’s almost as if I’m a utility man for a lower mid-table League 2 team, say…for example, York City, and of course it’s summer break and being a utility player I’m certainly not playing international football, so….it’s summer break…

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Poetic Justice, Inc.

The English Premier League Weekend in poetic form.   Since I’m not well versed (see what I did there, Clive?) in classical Japanese poetry, I can’t and will not even pretend to try anything more clever than  a well known 3 line poetic form based on the concept of 5 syllables, then 7 syllables and…

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Little Worlds of Spite and Hate

What colour Dress are THESE twats wearing??   Against a real football club, such as ArseAnal ((see what I did there, Clive?)) or thier Noisy Neighbors, or my beloved Chelski ((See? I do have a sense of humour after all…)), ManU(re) would not have won this game based upon their run of play. But, alas,…

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Cardboard Football

Ireland 4     USA! USA!! USA!!! 1   Jürgen Klinsmann had an amazing scheme Tuesday for team USA vs Ireland. It worked to perfection. Instead of trotting out an actual team, he set-up cardboard cutouts of Team USA and set them around the pitch at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin like they were training cones, and…

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With All Their Guns Blazing

Louis van Gaal and Manuel Pelligini share a bit of pre-Manchester Derby banter….   The most important thing that will happen tomorrow, as I write this, or one hundred years ago, as you read this, is the Manchester Derby. Not the Breeders Cup, the US Gran Prix, the Texas 500, nor Washington 23  Minnesota Vike-Queens…

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Beef, Hops & Cider

Paulton Rovers 1      Hereford United 2   There were better days for Hereford United, but even then, they still had shite to clean up. Now, they’ve fallen to the 7th division of English football, are £1.3 million in debt, and their most recent former manager is forcing them into bankruptcy because he hasn’t been been…