Archive for the ‘Fan Culture’ Category

Union music video shoot — want in?

Jay D Clark rocks out his Union song, "Join or Die"

So y’all know about Jay D Clark and his song about Philadelphia Union, “Join or Die”. Now the much-awaited, much-delayed, finally-happening-for-real-this-time-we-swear live video shoot and performance of the song will happen Wednesday night, and they’re looking for Union fans to be part of the video.

May 25, 2010 Fan Culture, Union 1 Comment

What are you gonna watch?

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This Saturday afternoon the Champions League final starts at 2:45pm. The fourth game of the Stanley Cup playoffs starts at 3pm. What are you gonna do?

May 20, 2010 Fan Culture, Featured 2 Comments

Who Are Ya?

Union fans entering the stadium

Getting to know Union fans at the FC Dallas game

May 18, 2010 Fan Culture, Union 4 Comments

Deconstructing the Union mythos

photo: Daniel Gajdamowicz

Philadelphia Union need to drop the tough guy act. This is soccer, not hockey or American football. The discipline and beauty of soccer calls for a scalpel as a opposed to the precision of a machete. Aggression is certainly needed but in a highly controlled manner.

May 6, 2010 Fan Culture, Featured, Union 0 Comments

Union fans — Who are ya?

Daniel McDaid (left)

WHO ARE YA? is a new feature looking at Philadelphia Union fans at the home matches. Basically — this is us, these are Union fans, and we think they’re pretty cool. Come meet a few.

April 14, 2010 Fan Culture, Featured, Union 3 Comments

Philadelphia Union viewing party on Thursday at the 700

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The Philly Soccer Page is having a viewing party for the Union’s debut against the Sounders on Thursday night. It’s at the 700 in Northern Liberties and you’re invited!

March 23, 2010 Fan Culture, Local 2 Comments

Cheer up, a new soccer shop is in town!

Scarves and hats at Covent Garden

With the very real possibility of a strike threatening to overshadow Philadelphia’s triumphant return to the top flight of American soccer, the PSP looks for something positive in the city’s soccer scene and finds it in a new soccer gift shop on Head House Square.

March 19, 2010 Fan Culture, Local 5 Comments

I want my Fox Soccer Plus!

Hey Comcast, I want my FSP!

Why doesn’t Comcast offer Fox Soccer Plus in the Philadelphia area?

March 11, 2010 Fan Culture, Local, Soccer on TV 4 Comments

On Spirituality and Football

The BBC World Service recently ran a segment concerning the confluence of faith and football. It was interesting in that it depicted how nuanced and sophisticated, as well as deeply entrenched, one’s spiritual beliefs can be with their sporting life in the beautiful game. The discussion ran the gambit from small town English clubs that [...]

January 8, 2010 Fan Culture 0 Comments

All Ugly World XI 2010

AUXIpics After reading about 4,237 different best XI of the decade lists, I thought I’d switch it up a bit.  I wanted to consider not just the most gifted players of the Premier League or La Liga or Serie A, etc. but rather the most talented footballers who also possess the uncanny ability to make [...]

January 7, 2010 Fan Culture 2 Comments

Very Nice, Readers!

Soccer fans everywhere anxiously await the second half of the season. January arrives with a new transfer window: a month-long binge in the footy speak-easy, where clubs gamble on high-priced additions who are all described as The Missing Piece (did Afonso Alves really cost Middlesbrough over 10 million pounds?). It’s also a chance for smaller [...]

December 28, 2009 Fan Culture 0 Comments

Legal Handballs

Last week, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger commented that throw-ins may be the wrong way to restart play from the sidelines. Wenger argues that the throw-in gives an unfair advantage to teams who feature long throwers, noting that soccer is a game played with the feet. The Arsenal manager somewhat obliquely suggested that eliminating the throw-in [...]

December 28, 2009 English Premier League, Fan Culture 0 Comments

My Team of the Decade

The end of the decade brings with it a lot of really annoying end-of-the-decade lists.  Everyone from the Guardian to Soccernet to the guy from your indoor team is compiling their world football team of the decade.  While these carefully selected lists include some of the greatest players ever to lace up boots, they don’t [...]

December 25, 2009 Fan Culture 0 Comments

Robbers use football to cover-up heist

Robbers use football to cover-up heist

Brazilian police suspect robbers waited until Sunday, the last day of the Brazilian football season, to pull off a daring robbery of a cash delivery firm. It is thought that the robbers rented a nearby house (posing as residents, even putting up a Christmas tree) and tunneled 490 feet to complete the caper in which [...]

December 7, 2009 Fan Culture 0 Comments

Adidas World Cup Uniforms are Tight

via examiner.com Honey, does this shirt make me look invisible? Sorry for bringing up France/Ireland again, but here is the official Adidas press release about those skintight jerseys France wore when Henry basketball dribbled around the Irish and threw William Gallas an alley-oop dunk. The TECHFIT will be the official World Cup jerseys for Adidas-sponsored [...]

December 2, 2009 Fan Culture, France, World Cup - International 0 Comments

Anybody buying; anybody selling…Anybody ready to pick their seats?

Union season ticket holders have been waiting for some time to be able to choose their specific seats for the upcoming season. They may get to do so in time for Christmas. The team has targeted a mid-December start date to begin the seat selection process. Preceding this process will be the roll-out of their [...]

November 26, 2009 Fan Culture, MLS, Union 0 Comments
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