Lionesses Are One Game Away

England and Manchester City captain, Steph Houghton has said that the Lionesses reaching the Semi Final of the Women’s World Cup is the biggest game in England women’s football history. While I agree with Houghton I would like to go further and say it is the biggest game in England’s football history, period. Certainly it is the furthest either the senior sides have reached for a quarter of a century when the Men’s side were eliminated from the same position in 1990 in Italy.

Pennsylvania And The World Cup

Soccer in the USA has been steadily growing for many years now. The MLS is in its 20th season and the men’s National side has performed well in the last two World Cups. But the countries association with what the rest of the world calls football goes a lot further than that, not hurt by the fact that an American led investigation into FIFA which has its members scurrying away to a dark corner.

Untouchables: Footballs Dirty Not So Secret Secret

You may know them as being the title of that one soccer game you own, others may know more. Recently, however, the name FIFA, or the ‘Federation Internationale de Football Association’, has been plastered all across the worlds media for arrests of top officials amid allegations of corruption.
Founded in 1904 the intent was to oversee International competition of the worlds most beautiful game. Starting off with good intentions and eight nations it now finds itself 110 years old, with a member base of over 200 countries, and episode after episode of embarrassment. If you go to their website you will see their mission statement is still ‘For the game. For the world’. On recent, and frankly, all too familiar events and allegations, I would argue it would be more honest if it instead read, ‘Forget the game. Own the world!’