1. Not enough Stats

American sport lovers, love stats, as do I. Football (Soccer) doesn’t have enough. A game like Cricket really should do far better stateside, that sport has more stats than just about any sport known to man. However it seems unlikely that a sport that can take five days to complete and still end a draw will catch on in the US.

2. Other Sports Have Had a Headstart

The stellar success of the major sports in the US will always give them an advantage when it comes to drawing supporters to the games as well as drawing athletes to opt to participate in other more established pastimes.

3. The Usa Is not Very Good at Soccer

When your nation is number one at the sports it enjoys most it is always going to be tough to try to garner excitement about a sport where they are average at best. Again the Usa is far better at Soccer than it realistically should be given the relatively short amount of time that it has had a successful domestic league. The country should be proud of what it has achieved thus far but it will take quite some time for them to really be up with the big hitters but if/when they do then expect the sport to be taken far more seriously by the nation as a whole.

4. Not enough stoppages for advertising

Advertising is of course paramount in all countries and across all sports. It just so happens that the big sports in the US, Basketball, Baseball and American Football all have handy intervals that allow the maximizing of revenue from sponsors. Soccer does not cater for such possibilities quite so easily.

5. No full time buzzer

There is something very exact in nature about the way the big sports in the US come to a halt. Soccer can meander on at the referee’s discretion, something that can both confound and confuse even European Soccer fans. Personally I think a full time buzzer and countdown would benefit the sport.

6. Not Enough Cheerleaders

Again this is something I am all for introducing. Just as long as the Cheerleaders that are used are extremely attractive and are forced to wear as little clothing as possible, especially on those cold winter nights.

7. The love of other sports to great to allow another pastime to break into the big leagues.

There is simply not enough room in the American market for another big sport. This is perhaps the biggest reason against Soccer becoming a Major League success. In many ways it has more of a chance of making it as a niche pastime.

For this very same reason American Football and Baseball don’t get much of a look in in Europe.

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He surprised many by maintaining his ambition to play for England by maneuvering a Loan deal to Milan. He also sprang a further surprise by playing considerably well for the Rossoneri.

Now the cherry on the cake has well and truly arrived.

AC Milan have announced a Loan agreement with LA Galaxy that could be the most Complicated in footballing history. The only one to run it close was the ‘one season at Real, one season at Barca’ deal with Los Blancos legend Alfredo di Stéfano, although that was eventually overlooked by Barca.

This new deal will see ex-England captain playing at the San Siro until the end of the 2008/2009 season. He will then jet back to LA to play out the remaining 13 or so games of the MLS season. Once July arrives, Goldenballs then goes back to Milan for the start of the 2009/2010 season. The loan deal comes to an end in November 2010, when Beckham arrives at the mysterious buyuot point of his Galaxy contract. Furthermore, Beckham has agreed a salary cut to engineer the move.

The initial impression is that it is good for both clubs and the play. Milan do not have to spend £12m on a 32-year-old. Beckham gets to play high-quality football and keep in Capello’s mind. LA Galaxy do not lose face by being muscled out by a European giant, while also being able to sell his shirts as he is still ‘their player’. However, one cannot help but think that once this deal reaches November 2010, the Galaxy may see the back of Beckham for the last time.

Studs Up riffs on Tottenham‘s craptastic early season form. After a summer of bringing in glittering attacking talent, they sit rooted to the bottom of the Premier League – and as Studs Up sees it – there is only one reason why. They are crap, because they are Tottenham.

The Offside takes a few steps back for a more panoramic view of the entire Premier League and brings us a fantastically crafted 10 Things We Learned in the Premier League. Amongst these 10 nuggets are some bad news for Man Utd fans, apparently Edwin Van Der Sar is past it and Dimitar Berbatov was a needless signing.

The Spoiler, brings us on this dreary Monday news of a Ronaldo ruckus. Apparently Ronnie (the original one) started an epic birthday drinking session which ended with the news that “a shirtless Ronaldo was heard to be asking someone if they wanted a fight, and had to be restrained by his hangers on”.

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