Hotdog & Friends

Editor’s Warning: this is a soccer post.

Sunday against Manchester City, Liverpool Football Club showed they have exactly what it takes to mount a serious bid for the Premier League crown. Down 2-0 at half, the Reds rode Fernando Torres’ heroics to an improbable 3-2 victory at City.

As my emotions are still buzzing from this thrilling encounter, what follows is a just a few disorganized thought that needed to be put to paper:

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Constable Echelon

I don’t fault Hotdog’s love of Liverpool for two reasons:

(1) As he’s said before (and I believe it to be true): “You don’t pick your Premier League team, it picks you.”

(2) I think a big reason that most soccer types seem to go for one of the Big 4 (Man U, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool) is that until recently those were the only teams you were ever likely to see on tv or hear about. If you were into the Prem before the last couple of years those four teams were your options.

Fox Soccer Channel has changed the game in that regard. You can choose anyone now and be assured of a chance to catch at least a third of their games. If you want to go a little deeper BBC Sport is a fine website (certainly a cleaner navigating experience than Soccernet), and every team has numerous fan sites of varying quality to keep you in the loop. (In my team Everton’s case I get my news from ToffeeWeb.)

The increasingly available EPL means that you don’t have to be the out of area douchebag that roots for the Yankees or Cowboys or Celtics because they win.

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