For @nyctourism.bsky.social I wrote this guide to 36 good New York City bars and restaurants to visit for all your World Cup watching needs, places sprinkled across all 5 boroughs and catering to every type of fan www.nyctourism.com/articles/soc...

Getting the word out about the new book and the new outlet reaches the hometown paper. While headline may sound like I’m on someone’s 26-player roster in reality I’ll just be editing and writing a bunch of @nysoccerjournal.com coverage

"Two of the five signings in Traore and Pablo are represented by Nuno’s agent, Jorge Mendes." Epitome of West Ham's approach to recruitment: "Which agent has the most influence with our owner and/or manager?" Then when they did try a Director of Football (Tim Steidten) he was an unmitigated disaster

“Four Major North American Men’s Professional Sports Leagues” is such a fake, dumb qualifier to add when trying to justify writing off the actual recent New York sports champions for your “all the NY teams are ringless for __ years” graphic

People focus on him balancing the city’s budget, meanwhile I’m amazed all it took was one Mamdani visit for New Jersey’s only good sports team to put the word out that they’re ready to move to Queens www.nysoccerjournal.com/gotham-fc-to...

Evander scored a stoppage time goal while Denkey most certainly did not, but AP got turned to slop, so here we are

Soccer gods heard I launched a new site so they hit me with the 95th minute rewrite for the first gamer I’ve done for @nysoccerjournal.com www.nysoccerjournal.com/nycfc-vs-fc-...

Sorry moms, but at CVS in Astoria, the next holiday is officially World Cup

I'm a media founder now. I was a writer for Hudson River Blue when Vox cut it loose, then was executive editor when HRB got shuttered. Now, I go again with @nysoccerjournal.com, an independent, nonprofit outlet with one mission: To provide the coverage valued by our local NY soccer community

They say people won’t read about sports anymore, but they overlook a key demographic: Local elected officials who are too busy to watch their English soccer team play in real time hellgatenyc.com/mayor-mamdan...

The price gouging will continue until World Cup morale improves

Jorginho retracts and completely exonerates Chappell Roan as Italy takes another humbling loss on the international stage

Moussa Sylla went all 90 minutes and scored the winner for Schalke today, penny for that City Football Group doctor’s thoughts on that

Possibility of no Thiago Martins (questionable) at BC Place tomorrow night: Less than ideal for NYCFC while facing one of the league’s best attacks www.mlssoccer.com/news/mls-pla...

Upgrade of the season: Taty Castellanos, 4 Premier League goals in 12 career appearances for West Ham Niclas Füllkrug: 3 Premier League goals in 26 career appearances for West Ham

So New Jersey canceled the cash grab $10-plus-fees-per-ticket World Cup Fan Fest in Liberty State Park, but replaced it with a…Fan Hub at Red Bull Arena with tickets that cost “$10 plus fees, with free entry for youth ages 12 and under.” Consider the deck chairs sufficiently shuffled on the Titanic

Personally my favorite part of this episode was slipping in an aside about Pulisic getting dumped hurting his goal-scoring form and @thepigeonsnycfc.bsky.social hitting us with the “we don’t have enough time in the show to get into all *that*”

Sounds like a disaster in so many different ways. 4 matches midweek near and around commuter hours, and most insanely, “…public transit ticket prices are not yet known for those taking NJ Transit to World Cup matches in East Rutherford…” They quadrupled the train fares in Boston, so uh, good luck?

🚨⚽️ Now exactly 1 month until my first book publishes: The Complete Book of Soccer Trivia, featuring 750 questions about all aspects of the men’s and women’s game Preorder your copy and I guarantee you’ll outperform your xA (expected answers) in any soccer trivia contests or challenges you encounter

According to this report from ge globo, NYCFC signed 20-year-old Brazilian center-back João Loiola on loan from Fluminense with intent that he plays for NYCFC II in MLS Next Pro. No official announcement yet pending visas and medicals (according to this report, anyway)

Already up to “1” on the counter of times Vasgersian mistakes him for Brandon Webb, confident it could still go up if the baseball game ever begins

Only one MLS team is about to permanently move into the borough home to the Mo Salah halal cart, easy answer as to where he signs next

Said what could be said about the end of Hudson River Blue in the first few minutes of this podcast, urge you to give it a listen if you’d like to hear it straight from those impacted by its death. The pod will continue, as will our previous coverage, more details on all that coming soon

Polymarket and its ilk are so easily exploited and manipulated by those with insider knowledge, cannot wait to read about the first major “is this insider trading?” scandal that rocks MLB and/or MLS, now both official Polymarket partners!

Is this the most somber Mamdani has ever looked while doing something soccer-related? He seemed happier to be hanging out with Gianni’s other friend at the White House

The your/you’re mix-up at least gives me some hope that this post wasn’t written by AI

This was the 10th NYCFC home opener I’ve attended, somehow not the first one to end in a 5-0 win for the home team, but this definitely was the first to include a 39-year-old running the midfield show and a pigeon mascot making their MLS debut

A familiar voice is back on NYCFC broadcasts for the first time since 2022 for the home opener, with Ian Joy on the Apple TV call Spoke to Ian about returning to NYCFC commentary, the state of the current squad, and watching James Sands play at his former FC St. Pauli club

My wife has been busy making a major change in her impressive media career, meanwhile, I’ve spent all that time patiently waiting for the moment I could turn it into fake Soccer Transfer Content

Tried to dive into how NYCFC operates when Nico Fernández Mercau, very much not a striker, lines up at striker Heat maps, dribbling maps, some comps to the player he’s replacing: All in here as I attempt to make sense of the team’s striker-free approach to start this season

Had a great time hopping on @soccerwisehq.bsky.social with @empiregass.bsky.social to chat NYCFC ahead of the 2026 season The work Soccerwise and @kickbacksoccer.bsky.social are doing for soccer media in this country is truly vital, so to play even a small part in their coverage is a huge honor ✌️

This is why you should subscribe to Matt Doyle’s new site, nobody else out there is moving like this for Seymour Reid save for his agent and his family tacticsfreezone.ghost.io/my-first-pow...

Cutting the best writer and analyst from their website not long after they did the same to their long-running fantasy game: why does MLS so badly want to kill its own website, and what will they think of next in their endless quest to piss off and alienate the most engaged of their fans?

Luis Gil repping Atlanta United while arriving for Spring Training? Someone needs to get him one of those Yankees+NYCFC hats from last season

MLS believes in its own version of the “flood the zone with shit” approach because they had a whole bunch of new kit releases scheduled for 11 AM today, which is when they also chose to formally reveal that the league outsourced its long-running fantasy game to some German app maker

Would love a peek into the alternate timeline in which Hank Steinbrenner, apparently a “big soccer person” on top of owning the Yankees and a bunch of racehorses, convinces his family to buy Manchester United for under $1 billion in the early 2000s www.nytimes.com/athletic/700...

Not seen with the squad for last weekend's Austin friendly, not pictured in any of the group training activities recently shared across the club's social channels, now shown running with a still-rehabbing Malachi Jones: Our guy Jonny Shore sure seems Injured

Excited for Taty while also terrified in the knowledge that West Ham are specialists at throwing away 2-0 leads…

A lot has changed since Brad Sims said this to me about NYCFC and the pigeon as mascot in March 2024 www.hudsonriverblue.com/new-york-cit...

The Moussa Sylla transfer might collapse but at least we’ve taught Schalke fans about the weird timing of the MLS transfer windows; we laugh at their “Deadline Day” urgency while the window here hangs open until 3/26

Plenty of reasons why West Ham will go down but spending a combined 73 million pounds on Max Kilman and Jean-Clair Todibo should be high on that list of reasons, as it bought them the worst defense in England

Important to teach those kids the principles of “shut up and dribble” and “you aren’t allowed to have opinions” as early as possible, all a part of The US Way

Solidarity can come in many forms, we’re not disrupting major capital by having a soccer blog go quiet for a day, but it’s at least a way for us to use (or not use, more accurately) the platform we have to make a meaningful statement

A “prediction market” is still just betting and personally I think MLS does nothing to improve its product or appeal to new fans by better “integrating prediction markets into the fan experience” so they can fuck off with that

Good website for finding a way to help while not in Minneapolis, lots of different ways laid out on there to contribute, too www.standwithminnesota.com

Xhaka rattled by chirping from the flat cap brigade behind the bench? West Ham might really be back

My new role as USMNT player-related fact checker of vertical videos I watched on Instagram is going great: James Sands will be playing his second Hamburg Derby since he went 90 minutes in the first one of the season on August 25

Tim Weah has no connection to Staten Island, he was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Rosedale in Queens and his family still owns a house in nearby Springfield Gardens. No one really needed this to be fact checked but I couldn’t help it due to Staten Island lineage reasons

Doing “I asked AI to write like Julian Barnes” and then reading it to him for the interview is some dirty work bbc.com/news/article...

Taty Castellanos will be the 3rd player to sign for both NYCFC and West Ham, after Frank Lampard and George John, with the latter 2 infamous for not signing actual contracts with NYCFC before the 2015 season even if they pretended they did. George John never played a match for either NYCFC or WHUFC