A More Splendid Life: Meanwhile at Soccerlens...

Friday, December 19, 2008

Meanwhile at Soccerlens...

My only regret is I didn't include Bobby McMahon.

2 comments:

Colin Smith said...: Great post Richard! Apparently Pascal Milano does a good blog on La Presse Web site, but sadly my French is shit. Ballon rond. http://blogues.cyberpresse.ca/soccer/

I would have to put Soccer By Ives up there in the top five for sure. I really like his hard news style and all the NYRB fanatics who post comments deriding anything non-NYRB.

Ben Knight also has a new blog going...
http://onwardsoccer.com/; December 21, 2008 at 4:15 PM
Colin Smith said...: Oh. Also: Yes, you should regret not including Bobby McMahon. Anyone who manages to maintain one of the most authoritative voices in North American soccer punditry while living in Winnipeg definitely deserves a mention.; December 21, 2008 at 4:20 PM

"It turned you into a member of a new community, all brothers together for an hour and a half, for not only had you escaped the clanking machinery of this lesser life, from work, from wages, rent, doles, sick pay, insurance cards, nagging wives, ailing children, bad bosses, idle workmen, but you had escaped with most of your mates and your neighbours, with half the town, cheering together, thumping one another on the shoulders, swapping judgments like Lords of the Earth, having pushed your way through a turnstile into another and altogether more splendid life."
J. B. Priestley