In the short two-years he's been in Germany, Matt Hermann has become a Bundesliga junkie, and he's happy to have found a job where he can get paid to watch it. On those "working" weekends you'll hear him hosting Deutsche Welle Radio's Sports Report; other weekends you'll find him drinking at various taverns in Cologne or Bonn, because he's too cheap to spring for satellite TV at home. Click to continue reading...

On ESPN soccernet they have shiny new toys for English and German gamecasts. Click on gamecast and then on features and you can see 'Player Heat Maps', diagrammatical representations of the passing moves which led to goal attempts, and each player's average position on the field of play. I have no idea how I'm going to incorporate any of it into my data, but it's terribly pretty all the same. Click to continue reading...

Here's a follow-up to my recent post about where one could get one's soccer fix after the Aztex season finished. While I still miss the games out at Dragon Stadium, it's hard to argue there's not enough soccer to keep a fan busy.

• Stoke City - their season is underway, so there are games every weekend.

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Cause and effect. It's something we learned about as young kids.

Now, we get to see cause and effect in motion in the world of professional football.

The cause: The rise of African football, coupled with the advent and wide use of satellite teleivion.

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Rejoice DISH Network customers! You can finally get Setanta Sports on DISH Network - Channel 406. Here's the announcement: NEW YORK and ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Aug. 2 /PRNewswire/ Just in time for the English Premiership season opener and the Rugby World Cup 2007, Setanta Sports, the leading sports broadcasting network dedicated to international soccer and rugby, [. Click to continue reading...