Tag: English First Division
GOODBYE, GEOFF: Ex-Kicks goalkeeper, coach Barnett passes away
Former Minnesota Kicks goalkeeper Geoff Barnett has passed away.
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LONDON CALLING – PART VII (1996): Goalkeeper is sleepless in London: New York native Sommer learning trade with QPR
It was 1:15 a.m., three hours after the game and Queens Park Rangers goalkeeper Jurgen Sommer could not sleep.
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LONDON CALLING – Part V (1996): Millwall falls like a rock: Keller tries to reverse club’s quick skid
One day you’re in first place, the next you’re in seventh.
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LONDON CALLING – Part IV (1995): They can’t even cry in their beer: Brentford match called off due to frozen pitch
A local bartender likes to boast that the Brentford Football Club is the only team of the 92 pro teams in English soccer that has a bar or pub on every corner of the ground.
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TAKING A PASS (Day 30): When a mighty Quinn made a sportswriter (turned radio analyst) sound like a genius
It is a game that is not even listed as an official game in the U.S. men’s national team media guide.
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TAKING A PASS (DAY 7): Visiting not one, but two Dens at Millwall
Back in the 1990’s, particularly in the early part of the decade when there was no pro soccer as we know it in the states, I visited England quite frequently to write stories about Americans who performed in the various leagues.
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OFFSIDE REMARKS: A personal remembrance of the late, great Gordon Banks
Way back in the stone-age days of 1977 when there were no cellphones, internet, soccer on TV every day and instant information, I had the opportunity to interview the man who backstopped England to its one and only world championship.
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