Footballs Are Round!

THE GOOD:
The award for best name in the history of soccer has to go to QPR’s Shabazz Baidoo.

The two Irelands are making sounds about combining their national teams. Irish Rugby has already taken this step, and it has strengthened not only the international stature of the Irish side, but also hopes for Irish re-unification as a whole (though not without problems). It only makes sense that sports should be an instrument for peace, not strife, in the world. Something that brings so much joy to so many people has to have some positive karma left over to spare, right?

THE BAD:
Bruce Arena and Eric Wynalda working together in the booth for USMNT broadcasts. Not that it won’t be entertaining, but it could lead to the first play-by-play vs. colorman fistfight in the history of broadcasting.

THE UGLY:
I’m not sure who the idiots are here. Is it Peter Kenyon and Roman Abramovich for alienating the best manager in all of football, or the English press for making up a story where there isn’t really a story? Either way, it’s ugly.