Pitch Invasion

Photography

Links

Well, it might piss off Buzz Bissinger, but I’m going to link to some of crazy things called blogs again.

• Football at Chernobyl [The Global Game]
• Why Portland Rules [Offside Rules]
• Clips from that brilliant Zidane movie [A Pretty Move]
• MLS’ African pipeline growing [Soccer Insider]
• Looking at the Euro 2008 venues [Two Hundred Percent]
• Uncertain future for California Victory [1906 Supporters]

World Football Culture

An MLS fan heads to Cuzco in Peru, and finds a new level of footballing passion. Michael Coroneos reports on Cienciano vs. Flemengo.

American soccer

Who says MLS is meaningless and boring? Here’s video proof of the torment an MLS team goes through when it loses to a rival.

News & Notes

Forbes focuses on ten super stadiums being developed in the world of sport, and two of them are, perhaps surprisingly, in MLS.

Non-league football

They might be on their way to Wembley in the FA Trophy, but the idea of running a football club and picking the team through the magic of Web 2.0 looks doomed just months after MyFC took over Ebbsfleet United. Their tagline reads “Own the club and pick the team”, but many now feel that for the ordinary members, neither is really true.

Hooliganism

Why does racism persist as such a serious problem in Italian football? Our Rome-based writer, Vanda Wilcox, considers its context in Italian society and looks at possible solutions.

History

As Ghana’s drive to the final of the African Nations Cup continues, one man is missing: Nii Lamptey, Ghana’s Pele, who is tending his farm in Accra rather than leading his country to victory. His tale is one of tragedy and torment.