“The spiritual forces aligned just so for me in the televised sports world this annum when I somehow found myself with access to Fox Soccer Channel and the promised land of the English Premier League—home to Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool, and (ultimately) Chelsea,” writes Post blogger Michael Conniff. “Heretofore I knew next to nothing about football beyond the imminence of the World Cup in June and an occasional brush with the Premiership. I had played just enough soccer in high school to know the real thing when I saw it: the occasional glimpse of Man U or Arsenal—replete with announcers speaking the Queen’s English—was enough to make me salivate for full-contact, long-ball soccer with stars from around the world.”