(GFOP Curtis vents after an incredible weekend. Send your telegrams to meninblazers@gmail.com)
To Roberto Mancini and the Manchester City players,
First off, thanks for making Survival Sunday an epic day of football. What an unbelievable finish to the season.
Second, amid all the celebrations, home fireworks displays, and Boddingtons-soaked orgies… take a second to realize what you’ve accomplished this season. Man City, with your billions of dollars and elite world-class squad, you managed to (barely) beat a Man United squad with the median age of an old folks home… consisting of a retired mid-fielder, more than a few should-have-been-put-out-to-pasture players and a half blind goalkeeper. And it took you until the very last day of the season… dramatic pause… in the final 5 minutes of stoppage time. Way to go chaps.
Maybe instead of all the celebrating, Roberto, you should be calling your squad in tomorrow to start running drills for next season.
Former Chicago Fire player C.J. Brown is inducted into the ceremonial “Ring of Fire” and thus presented with a patch-worthy blazer. This is yet another effort by an MLS that we wholeheartedly endorse. (HT GFOP Garrett Malcolm)
A hip new sport threatens to topple Soccer from it’s perch as America’s 37th most popular sport — Camel Jumping. Help save America’s Sport of the Future Since 1972™. Listen to the pod, subscribe to the GFOP Newsletter, “like” us on Facebook. (Photo via Getty’s brilliant Ed Ou)
The final day of the EPL season is upon us. And finally, U.S. broadcasters have assigned channels to all ten of the matches. Prepare to venture into the farthest depths of your programming guide.
All matches start at 10:00am ET on Sunday, May 13. Which will you watch?
Entering the final weekend, Manchester City’s Roberto Mancini is poised to win both the battle of the minds with Manchester United’s Sir Alex Ferguson and the Premier League title, even though he’s loath to admit it. A storybook ending for “The Little Train That (received a multi-billion dollar overhaul and) Could.” The crosstown rivals both eked out wins Sunday, but one of the victories wasn’t like the other. In this week’s pod, the Men in Blazers recap both the wins in the penultimate weekend, take stock of the battle for third and fourth place, and then bid Blackburn and their fowl farewell as the second team to cement relegation to the Championship next season.
Supporter’s embrace. Football can make you do many a strange things. Here’s a couple of Newcastle fans during last week’s win over Chelsea. (HT @zane_rm)
More from the MiB archives. Here’s our interview with El Rey Ray Hudson of GolTV. In these divine 13 minutes, Ray waxes poetic on Newcastle, the Brazilian league, and repeated overtures for collaborating with The White Stripes. A true role model for today’s American youth.
As an olive branch to GFOPs everywhere for our reckless behavior canceling this week’s Men in Blazers pod, we offer a selection from Friday morning’s SiriusXM show, where they appear live twice weekly Mondays and Fridays at 9am ET. Here, Michael and Roger discuss the seismic Champions League semifinals including Barcelona v. Chelsea, also known as Good v. Evil.
