We’ve Moved!

Please surf on over to our new site located at Bigsoccer!

Ringing in the changes for 2009

It’s been an amazing 2008 for Fighting Talker. I started this site back in March pretty much so I would annoy my friends less by not babbling about soccer as much. Needless to say, this site and the audience we now have has exceeded my expectations by an immeasurable amount. Obviously, it wouldn’t have been nearly this much fun without you, the readers, and both Ed and I thank you enormously for “tuning in” every day.

It’s with great pleasure then, that I announce that Fighting Talker is moving to become a featured blog at Bigsoccer.com. Yes, that Bigsoccer. We’ll be joining some of the best writers and photographers in American soccer like Dan Loney, Andy Mead, and Ollie Irish. Ed and I are both enormously honored to have been approached by Bigsoccer and are excited at the prospect of expanding our readership even more.

That said, with the move will come a few changes. Here is the new address. This site, fightingtalker.wordpress.com, will cease updating later this week. Hopefully, if all goes well, www.fightingtalker.com will begin routing to the Bigsoccer site later on this week as well.

For those of you that subscribe to the site via Google Reader, Bloglines, or other aggrigators, you will need to change the feed to this one linked here.

For now, the podcast’s links and RSS feeds remain the same. If that changes, we’ll be sure to let you know in the future.

When Google News feeds go a bit wrong

That first story really isn’t what I had in mind when I added an “Arsenal News” feed to the site.

Design changes

You’ll notice that the design on this site has been changing a whole bunch. The reason that is the case is that the old theme I was using did not include the author’s name with the posts, so you wouldn’t be able to tell posts written by me and posts writen by Ed apart. That is no good.

I have been experimenting with a few other themes in the past 48 hours until I find one I like nearly as much as the old one. The RSS feeds are totally unaffected by these changes, so those folks reading through aggrigators won’t notice or need to adjust anything.

An addition to Fighting Talker – Ed Morgans

With the explosion of interest in Fighting Talker, and my upcoming week-long vacation to Maine, I have reached out to a good friend and fellow lapsed sportswriter join this fair blog.

I am happy to introduce Ed Morgans to the Fighting Talker fold. Morgans wrote for The Journal Newspapers, based in Alexandria, VA, (and now The Examiner) from 1996-2002; covering United from 1997-2002. He wrote for the team web site in 2003 (sort of the forerunner to Behind the Badge) and has been writing for the Barra Brava site for the past three seasons.. Another former member of the WMET Soccer Show alumni society, he now holds court primarily in the tailgating lot with fellow members of the Barra Brava. Other than United, Morgans also supports:

• Washington Capitals
• Napoli
• Manchester United
• Chicago Cubs
• Pittsburgh Steelers

He’s one of the funniest folks around and I am sure you will enjoy his stuff.

Domain issue solved

WordPress solved the issue I has having with moving my blog to www.fightingtalker.com. That, along with the old .wordpress address both work.

The only potential issue for readers is that folks with old feed-readers may need to re-subscribe to the new feed. I haven’t noticed any traffic drops from syndicated hits since yesterday, so I suspect the problem is very, very limited.

Please let me know if you are having any trouble accessing the feed or the site.

Thanks!

Breaking Blog News

This blog is now available at www.fightingtalker.com. Everything on the site will still look and work the same but if you use a feed reader, you should probably just update it with my new feed addresses. You may not even have to do that, depending on what feed reader you have.

Update: Yahoo is misbehaving with it. For now it’s back at the old address.

Not much to say

I missed the game last night due to travel commitments. I’ll have more on it later.

Congrads in order

Congratulations to the gang over at the DCenters for three years of great service to all DC United supporters.

Win a free copy of Winning at All Costs

Don’t forget that you can win a free copy of John Foot’s history of Italian soccer by clicking here and taking part in Fighting Talker’s little contest.