Jimmy Conrad Reveals Possibly True USMNT Rumors
Plus: David survived France. How ’bout that Iceland!? Bobby makes his friend Kelley O’Hara deeply uncomfortable. George’s tiki-talka gets even grosser than Joachim Löw. And Dummy’s lone listener in...
View ArticleMessi’s Retirement Backstory Plus Megan Rapinoe—What a Delightful Person
We’re having a live show with special guest Anatol Yusef! Thursday July 7th in Brooklyn. It’s an intimate venue and we can only accommodate 30 guests, so please check out shop.howlermagazine.com and...
View ArticleWhy Dempsey, Bradley, and Yedlin are being sued by their former youth clubs
Jorge Arangure of Vice Sports joins to discuss his reporting on the case, filed Friday in Texas, that could upend everything from pay-to-play to MLS’s single entity status. Plus: Abkhazia, world...
View ArticleLOL New York Times
This week in the New York Times Magazine, Jay Caspian Kang published a confused mish-mash of a story claiming, among other things, that “crowds who gather in M.L.S. stadiums and bars and sing songs...
View Article1v1 with Robbie Rogers: “I’ve always been an outcast”
Robbie Rogers played for the Columbus Crew and the U.S. national team before going abroad and joining Leeds United. Soon after, he abruptly quit the game and announced that he was gay. When he came out...
View Article1v1 with Carli Lloyd: “I’m always gonna keep fighting like an underdog”
In Dummy’s second installment of 1v1 we bring you Carli Lloyd. You’ve probably heard of her, but here are the basics anyway: current FIFA World Player of the Year, the second person ever to score a hat...
View ArticleThe Soccer Roots of Turkey’s Coup and Crackdown
James Dorsey joins to discuss the ways that soccer fans and administrators play a role in Turkey’s complex and tumultuous political realm. Then Sam Patterson explains why roughly 50 members of La...
View ArticleWe Answer Your Questions About Rules, Careers, and Hairstyles
George, Bobby, and David answer your questions—they dive right into it with a debate about desired rule changes to the sport of soccer. They then talk about what drives and motivates their respective...
View ArticleRick and Bobby Go Globetrotting
Dummies beware! Rick Karr is back in the host’s chair after hacking into the servers at the very posh and definitely real Howler Tower. Rick is joined by Bobby Warshaw for a wide-ranging conversation...
View ArticleAn Important Correction
A soccer podcast about pretty much everything EXCEPT what happened on the field last weekend. Hosted by Howler’s editor, George Quraishi, with David Goldblatt, author of The Ball is Round, and...
View ArticleHaving a Gas in London
Bristol Rovers, aka the Gas, played Chelsea in the League Cup Tuesday night. George was in London and met up with Dummy’s own Gashead, David Goldblatt, for a chat before the game. Since 2010, the Gas...
View ArticleAmobi Okugo: the Frugal Athlete
Portland Timbers' Amobi Okugo joins the show to talk about his one-man mission to help young athletes learn how to manage their money. Amobi, George, and Bobby also touch on the homophobic slurs...
View ArticleToot toot! All aboard the Pulisic hype train!
Everyone except Bobby, that is—in fact, he really wants George to calm down. GQ and BW discuss a U.S. national team in transition: some older faces fading away and the newer ones replacing them....
View Article1v1 with José Mourinho: “Man. United—the question is: why the last three...
This week on Dummy we have a special guest. You might call him the most special guest we could possibly book. In fact, he might even say that about himself. José Mourinho talks about the methods he...
View ArticleGuardian of the Galácticos
Most people know Florentino Pérez as the rich dude who likes to overspend on soccer players so his club, Real Madrid, can win lots of trophies. And that’s true, but his story and relationship with the...
View Article1v1 with Sean Johnson: “Nobody knows your story”
It’s election season, so we talk polling. Then, 1v1 with Sean Johnson. As a teenager, the Chicago Fire and USMNT goalkeeper slept through his ODP regional tryout (oops!), and his discovery by then-U-20...
View Article1v1 with Alexi Lalas: “I lived the power of what a World Cup can do to an...
This week’s poll: What is your current first choice center back pairing for the U.S. men? Give your answer here: http://fifa.wtf/2dTpgZ9 Alexi Lalas became the face of the U.S. men’s national team...
View ArticlePeter Wilt on American soccer’s next big markets
Click here to take this week’s Dummy poll: http://fifa.wtf/2dTD4R1In the past couple of years, we’ve seen some pretty surprising cities markets explode in frenzy of soccer love: Kansas City,...
View ArticleOh my Darlington PLUS: FIFA bad guys—where are they now?
We don’t know many of the details about why Darlington Nagbe declined to play for the U.S. national team in the last two friendlies, but Will Parchman and Bobby Warshaw join to discuss what we do know,...
View ArticleTampa and Ottawa self-relegate to the USL
The Tampa Bay Rowdies and Ottawa Fury announced that they would be leaving the NASL and joining the USL, a move from the U.S. second to third division. Peter Wilt comes back to explain what this...
View ArticleDavid Goldblatt’s game at the end of the world
The phenomenon of a single away fan traveling to support his team. Mike Goodman on squad lifecycles and how the best teams manage their rosters to stay competitive every season. David Goldblatt makes...
View ArticleOur Jurgen Klinsmann Problem
Bobby and George talk about a calamitous few days for the U.S. men’s national team. What went wrong against Costa Rica. Can it be fixed? Could Bruce Arena take over? And does that open the door for...
View ArticleMaking sense of the Klinsmann era
Simon Evans: “Jurgen Klinsmann, a lone revolutionary in conservative U.S. soccer culture”•Watch the Puskas Award nominees and then vote for the that one is most embarrassing for the defending team in...
View ArticleRob Stone, MLS playoffs, and the year’s best goal
Check out this incredible, injury-time equalizer bicycle kick scored by a goalkeeper.•Join the Dummy email list.•Dummy is supported by Futchi. Get $20 off a Futchi Rebounder with the promo code HOWLER.
View ArticleClint Irwin steps into the time machine
First, we catch up with Clint Irwin, starting goalkeeper for Toronto FC ahead of Saturday’s MLS Cup final, aka the Biggest Game of His Life. Then, we hop back to the summer of 2015, when George was...
View ArticleDavid Peace talks Red or Dead
This week, Dennie Wendt and David Peace discuss his masterpiece, Red or Dead—the first selection of the Howler Book Club. We’ve published several essays about the book on the website.•Join the Dummy...
View ArticleFive-a-side is the future
I grew up in Tampa and played 11-a-side club soccer very seriously from as early as I can remember to age 18, which is also when I moved away. When I moved back last year, I started playing at a place...
View ArticleMexican soccer is huge, so why do we largely ignore it?
Mexico’s LigaMX is the most-watched soccer league on American TV, but it receives relatively scant coverage in English-language media. Maxi Rodriguez joins to discuss. Check out Maxi’s newsletter on...
View ArticleArguing about the 48-team World Cup plan
Bobby and George disagree about whether changing to a 48-team World Cup will detract from the tournament. George asks Stefan Szymanski, co-author of Soccernomics, to explain the huge changes taking...
View ArticleHow we make Howler (with the Total Soccer Show!)
This week, I was a guest the Total Soccer Show, where Daryl Grove got into the nitty gritty about how we make Howler and especially the newest issue, which we just sent to the printer! We discuss the...
View ArticlePro/rel with Peter Wilt
George and Peter Wilt discuss his essay about pro/rel from the new issue of the mag. (You can read The Pro/Rel Manifesto here.) Then Matt Pyzdrowski, goalkeeper for Helsingborgs IF in Sweden, joins to...
View ArticleThe story of FA Cup darling Sutton United
George and Bobby discuss Bruce Arena’s first match back in charge of the U.S. men’s national team and the three questions that need his immediate attention. Sutton United, which plays in England’s...
View ArticleThe challenges of coaching in the 4th division w/ David Lindholm
David Lindholm, who worked in the front offices of several MLS teams, was last on the podcast to discuss his essay for Howler on why the best American goalkeepers tend to be bald. Now he returns as the...
View ArticleJordan Morris on soccer and… personal finance
Jordan Morris is a striker for the Seattle Sounders and the U.S. men’s national team, and he makes his Dummy debut to discuss playing for Jurgen Klinsmann and Bruce Arena, what he has learned from...
View ArticleCan you write about soccer without writing about politics? Should you?
A liberal soccer journalist (George) speaks with a conservative soccer journalist (Dave Martinez, formerly of Empire of Soccer) about Bryan Curtis’s essay in The Ringer about how sports journalism has...
View ArticleThe Goalmouth for Wednesday, March 1
Last year we launched The Goalmouth, a daily 5-minute podcast with all the soccer news and nonsense you need to start your day. Please enjoy today’s episode. If you’d like to subscribe, here are the...
View ArticleDax McCarty and Clint Irwin
Dax McCarty on his career thus far, playing with the US national team, and how he thinks the Chicago Fire can improve. Clint Irwin on almost winning MLS Cup, politics in the locker room, and prepping...
View ArticleOMG Barcelona
This week George chats with his friend Karl Taro Greenfeld, a journalist, novelist, and now TV writer (for the show Ray Donovan). They talk about yesterday’s ridiculous Barcelona-PSG match, why Karl...
View ArticleRyu Voelkel’s astonishing soccer photos
Like the best players in the world, Ryu Voelkel sees soccer differently than most people. But unlike those players, who often struggle to describe how they do what they do, the genius of Ryu’s vision...
View ArticleMeet Cyril the Swan, outlaw mascot
Jeff Maysh wrote one of Howler’s best-loved stories, about the West Ham fan who heckled his way onto the field for his favorite team in a pre-season friendly back in 1994. Now he’s back to discuss his...
View ArticleArena averts Hexit
George and Bobby discuss the U.S.’s 6–0 win over Honduras and 1–1 tie with Panama. George gives his ideal starting back four; Bobby disagrees. Is there any way to avoid a dreary game when Bradley and...
View ArticleDo soccer stats pit quantity vs. quality?
After Minnesota United’s Jeb Brovsky wrote about the shortcomings of statistical analysis for whatahowler.com two weeks ago, our friend Oliver Miller-Farrell emailed George and Bobby to say that while...
View ArticleCANUSAMEX ’26 and the future of the World Cup
Jamil Chade is a sports business journalist for O Estado de Saõ Paulo who is based in Switzerland, where he covers FIFA and the IOC. On this episode he chats with George about the internal politics...
View ArticleMountain of Fire and Miracles FC w/ Goldblatt
David Goldblatt just got back from Nigeria, where he watched A LOT of soccer, including Lagos’s entry in the Nigerian top flight, Mountain of Fire and Miracles FC. He and George also talk about the...
View ArticleThe 2017 MLS Salary Release Party
On Tuesday, the MLS Players Union made its annual release of league-wide player salary information, which revealed that 28 players make more than a million dollars per year… and none of them play for...
View ArticleHow Cristiano’s game has changed
Is it just me (George), or has Cristiano Ronaldo subtly changed the way he plays? The data, provided by our friend Oliver at OPTA, backs him up: Cristiano’s goals in the Champions League have been...
View ArticleThe Dirty Tackle podcast goes studs up into your eardrums
Last year, Dirty Tackle joined up with whatahowler.com, and now the dudes have their own hilarious podcast. In this episode of Dummy, George and Dirty Tackle impresario Brooks Peck talk about why...
View ArticleHow FIFA became Assad’s collaborator
Steve Fainaru’s new feature for ESPN on the Syrian national team reveals how the Syrian government has targeted athletes for murder (38 soccer players and counting) and turned Team Syria into a...
View ArticleToo excited about the US U-20s with Brian Dunseth
After a pair of matches, the US U-20s currently lead Group E at the world championship in South Korea, and they've already played their two toughest opponents. Today I speak with Brian Dunseth, who...
View ArticleThey Hanged a Monkey (AUDIO FIXED)
*If you have Dummy set to autodownload, listen to this version and delete the previous one—we had a few audio issues that have now been corrected.This week, Hartlepool United unveiled a new crest, and...
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