Posts by Men in Blazers
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Men in Blazers: Special Guest Gus Johnson
After dispatching Everton 2-0 over the weekend, Manchester United may now have the Premier League title safely in hand. But as for the rest, nothing is decided. The table is all wheels within wheels, battles within battles. The Premier League isn’t the only destination for must-watch soccer these days. This week, the Champions League returns […]
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Men in Blazers: USMNT World Cup Qualifying and Premier League Action
The Men in Blazers go global in this week’s pod as Roger Bennett reports live from the most violent city in the world (in 2011) ahead of the United States’ World Cup qualifier against Honduras. Merry Hexmas one and all! Meanwhile, over on the other continent, the Blazers recap a weekend of Premier League football […]
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Men in Blazers: Special Guest Tim Howard
American soccer fans battling the Black Dog after last night’s eye-acher against Canada can find solace in the one thing our nation does astonishingly — producing a pipeline of the world’s finest follicularly challenged goalkeepers. In this week’s pod, the Men in Blazers sit down with USMNT and Everton’s Tim Howard for an expansive interview. […]
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Men in Blazers: Special Guest Rob Stone Talks Clint Dempsey, Brek Shea, and More
It was a snowy weekend of mid-season football in the Premier League, with the weather providing a cleansing effect for Clint Dempsey in Tottenham’s home meeting with Manchester United. After close to 93 minutes of disappointing form, Deuceface slotted home the equalizer as America, Andre Villas-Boas, Manchester City, and Under Armour all rejoiced. In this […]
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Men in Blazers: All Roads Lead to Manchester
Michael Davies and Roger Bennett examine a Manchester-dominated weekend and answer telegrams about singular names, manager habits, and school poetry. Listen to this podcast here.
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Men in Blazers: The FA Cup, Liverpool, and Luis Suarez’s Handball, With Special Guest John Oliver
Apparently, England’s antiquated past is the new present here in the U.S. The weekend offered a welcome return of everyone’s favorite aristocratic family, the Crawleys, of PBS’s Downton Abbey. We laughed, we cried, we gasped at the audacity of Sir Anthony’s bold sexual advances upon Lady Edith’s virtue. Elsewhere on the dial, the FA Cup […]
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Men in Blazers: Chelsea Swaps Strikers, Spurs Find Their Form
In this week’s Men in Blazers podcast, Michael Davies and Roger Bennett overcome the lingering effects of their holiday hangovers to reconcile with a much-changed English Premier League. In their absence, Chelsea have swapped strikers, Roberto Mancini and Mario Balotelli have fallen out of love, Spurs have found their form, and Manchester United remain atop […]
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Men in Blazers: Special Guest Bill Buford
Let’s call it an off week for the English Premier League. Liverpool fans and Ryan Shawcross’s cheekbone may not agree, but this was a week in which there were few surprises. Luckily, the Men in Blazers were joined by bestselling author Bill Buford for an extended conversation revolving around his seminal soccer tome Among the […]
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Men in Blazers: Special Guest Alex Morgan
The football again provided superlative theater over the weekend. Goals, pitch invasions, blood, Scientological sightings — the Manchester Derby had it all, even it did feature two teams neutrals love to loathe. In this week’s pod, Michael Davies and Roger Bennett brave the apocalyptic 12/12/12 to recap all the action from league, a place where, […]
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Men in Blazers: United and Chelsea Fall Off the Pace, Beckham Says Good-bye
Over in England, Surprise Scoreline has wrestled all headlines away from lesser, more predictable characters. In yet another wild weekend in the Premier League, Rafa Benitez’s Chelsea fell yet again, Manchester City relinquished points to United, and Tottenham continued their crawl up the table to claim fourth. Michael Davies and Roger Bennett review all the […]
