There was NASL soccer played this week? Gee, I don’t remember seeing any NASL soccer played this week. My memory is completely blank from the hours of 7-9 on both Wednesday and Saturday of last week, so I really have no idea what happened. Guess I’ll have to watch the video highlights to job my…

At this point in the year, we are more or less halfway through the season. There’s never a precise middle point, because some teams have played seventeen matches and some have played fifteen. But most teams in the league have sixteen contests in the book at this moment, and so we’re going to call the…

Are the Power Rankings going to start coming out on Tuesdays now? It’s been a few weeks where my normal punctual Monday schedule has been upended by a lot of work and other commitments. The answer is no, I still will try to publish on Monday. But these things take a while to write, and…

There was a lot of action in the NASL this week. Nine league games and one high profile EPL friendly were played, two teams set attendance records, and Joe F*cking Cole scored a bicycle kick goal. What was especially odd about this past week was that of the nine league matches, just one ended in…

It was one of those odd weeks in the NASL where most of the matches were between teams who, at least to this writer, seemed more or less even. The result of these weeks is almost always that the power ranking doesn’t change much. It’s instructive to watch each team, but doesn’t say much about…

We’re back! Yahoo! Despite all the diversions, whether across the US or in France, I still missed you, NASL. I missed your silliness, your unpredictability, your terrible fields, your questionable attendances… all of it! Except for your broadcast deals that put games on television stations that nobody has, and that are literally unavailable in one…