"It's onside, linesman, keep your flag down. Your village is missing their idiot..."

Ever hit a dead zone with your cell phone while driving around a large city? Do you have to endure the same area of no coverage on your way home from work every single day? Ever wonder why a farmer in the corn fields of Iowa gets better cell reception than you do? That, in a way, is what this blog is all about.

All two of you who will ever read this are probably wondering "what is this?", "who are these guys?" For several years, we have wallowed through dead zone after dead zone trying to follow "the beautiful game" from the richest, most powerful nation in the world. Eventually, we grew tired of rarely being able to see important fixtures, never knowing a club's schedule and struggling to find user-friendly sources of information on the game. As the description of the blog in the banner indicates, we are far too lazy to continue to exert so much energy to follow the game we love. Hopefully, this blog and the tools it will eventually include can help those similarly situated (on their couches) as a one-stop shop for all things football from this side of "the pond."

So what are our qualifications to do this? Nil. Why should anyone read what it is we have to say? Let us give you an example. A small group of us were watching a Manchester United game. Ji-Sung Park (As a side note, this will be one of many, MANY, rants against Park) was terrible.


Yet time and time again the commentators praised Park's performance and Sir Alex kept him in. Were we watching the same game the "experts" were? Did they really think Ji-Sung Park played well? This blog is like a wake up call for those commentators and experts whose, to borrow from the immortal GolTV commentator Ray Hudson, villages are crying out for their idiot to return home.

It's our hope and intent, that our perspective on the "beautiful game" from this side of the "pond" will provide a new and different slant for those of you who have been following the game and open up the game to those of you who have yet to catch the bug.