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By Richard Farley, on August 18th, 2010
Nigerian attacker Peter Odemwingie has been rumored with moves to the English Premier League for some time. Last year, he was prominently linked with Fulham, though he would stay another season in Moscow, remaining one of Lokomotiv’s most recognizable players.
Now, Odemwingie’s finally set to move, this time to West Brom. He still has visa issues [...]
By Richard Farley, on August 18th, 2010
Luciano Spalletti is right to think Zenit should have had more. When I looked at the last decade’s worth of numbers, a 1-0 home win usually portends to a club going through; however, Zenit had a chance to put this tie away, and between this performance and the preceding round’s 1-0 aggregate victory over [...]
By Richard Farley, on August 18th, 2010
Of course he is.
Legendary Dutch defender/midfielder Ronald Koeman wants to move to Aston Villa, and with coaching stops at PSV, Benifica and Ajax he certainly has a pedigree. That in addition to being a truly classic player and Villa could do worse, right?
Remembering the state of Valencia at the end of Koeman’s reign there, I’m not [...]
By Kevin McCauley, on April 28th, 2010
Sorry I didn’t get the preview up earlier, it just showed up in my feed. If you’re DVRing the game and watching later, it’s still very useful to you. You can find the match preview here and the minute by minute here, both from Set Piece Analysts.
By Kevin McCauley, on April 28th, 2010
The most recent edition of the EPL Talk podcast is an interview with Mike Forde, who holds the title of Performance Director at Chelsea. Him and Richard discuss performance analysis in football and what football clubs can learn from the analytical approach that lots of teams take in Major League Baseball. Listen to the interview [...]
By Kevin McCauley, on April 28th, 2010
Richard’s round-ups of the Lyon-Bayern tie are up at Set Piece Analysts. You can find his match report here and his player ratings here. I loved the insane first comment on the player ratings article, check it out.
By Kevin McCauley, on April 27th, 2010
Hey everyone, Richard is doing the live minute by minute thing again today for the Bayern-Lyon match. Check it out over at Set Piece Analysts.
By Kevin McCauley, on April 27th, 2010
On this edition of All Things Footy, Kevin McCauley and Richard Farley go all around the world as is custom on the show. They start by reviewing the weekend’s action in England, Italy, Germany, and Spain. After that, the discussion moves to the Champions League ties. They close out the show [...]
By Kevin McCauley, on April 27th, 2010
There is a contingent of people that consider Frank Ribèry amongst the best players in the world. They persist in this view despite the match-to-match evidence from Bayern’s opposite flank, showing a tangible difference between greatness and elite.
Frank Ribèry is great, but it is the slightly erroneous notion that he is [...]
By Kevin McCauley, on April 27th, 2010
Dominic Fifield is the London football correspondent for the Guardian. On this edition of the EPL Talk podcast, Dominic and I talk about the five London-based clubs in the Premiership, putting their season’s performance in the context of how their managers have performed. Along the way, Dominic gives his [...]
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About Richard Farley Richard (me) is a writer and broadcaster in San Diego, California who spends most of his time analyzing The Beautiful Game. This site, his "personal" blog, serves as a scratch pad and content aggregator for the other places he publishes (listed alphabetically).
Most readily, he (I) serves as Soccer Editor at SB Nation and host of the EPL Talk and Major League Soccer Talk podcasts. If you are have inquiries regarding appearances or possible work, please contact me at richardfarley aht gmail dot com.
You can also follow Richard through his iTunes stream or via Twitter ... and now, Facebook.
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