- 1. Weekly Howl 03-09-10
- (2010)
- ... A young club, this one, but that does not quite excuse the irksome perkiness of their crest. The team's name is very North American, jauntily literal with the suggestion that an eight-year-old made ...
- Created on 08 September 2010
- 2. World Cup 2010 TV diary – Group stages
- (World Cup 2010)
- ... e the Slovenes are clearly doing more of the holding. Lineker has a deeply patronising send-off: “Message to watching Americans, that’s what makes football so special.” They won’t be thinking that aft ...
- Created on 21 August 2010
- 3. World Cup 2010 TV diary – Knockout stages
- (World Cup 2010)
- ... his feet and lashes it past Tim Howard – a goal from a 1950s newsreel. Drury’s heavily prepared epitaph, “So it’s bye bye, big American sigh”, will have left many viewers with a rage heaving inside of ...
- Created on 21 August 2010
- 4. Continental drift
- (International football)
- ... American Samoa 31-0 then facing a rampant Uruguay in a play-off) is an excellent side dish, the main meal is about something a little more complicated: money. Europeans take for granted their national ...
- Created on 14 May 2005
- 5. Oceania's eleven
- (Oceania)
- ... such as American Samoa the embarrassment of massive drubbings against Australia – in 2001, the Samoans actually did watch 31 goals go past their goalkeeper. This time around, Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands ...
- Created on 14 August 2004
- 6. Made in Germany
- (WSC)
- ... Kostedde and William “Jimmy” Hartwig, both the sons of American GIs and German mothers, had played for West Germany in the 1970s. What made Asamoah different was not the colour of his skin. It was that ...
- Created on 14 August 2003
- 7. Gol olimpico
- (Playing the game)
- ... let it in, he started an avalanche: it was the first goal in Australia’s record 31-0 win over American Samoa. Two goals were scored direct from corners in European Cup-Winners Cup finals. The second, ...
- Created on 14 March 2003
- 8. Choice of the nation
- (Players)
- ... at youth level, including at the 1989 South American Youth Championship, which was subsequently used to qualify teams for the World Under-17 Championship in Scotland. Yet although Gutierrez didn’t travel ...
- Created on 14 January 2003
- 9. Direct action
- (Oceania)
- ... to Australia’s 31-0 hammering of American Samoa during last year’s qualifiers. Australia, when its team is at full-strength (which is all but never), is undoubtedly the region’s giant and, given the opportunity, ...
- Created on 14 November 2002
- 10. Letters, WSC 185
- (Readers' letters)
- ... if OFC gets an automatic spot. I had the pleasure (?) of being in the crowd watching Australia beat American Samoa (31-0) and Tonga (22-0), but also saw a strong showing from Fiji who were only beaten ...
- Created on 14 July 2002
- 11. Best and worst of 2001
- (Miscellaneous)
- ... time Ken Bates opened his trap. This man accused Gordon Taylor of arrogance! Australia 31 American Samoa 0. No easy games in international football, my arse. Southampton’s chairman Rupert Lowe flying his ...
- Created on 14 January 2002
- 12. Letters, WSC 173
- (Readers' letters)
- ... aren’t going to help much, and neither is playing all the games in Australia. The Australian defender who admired the American Samoans “lining up with two guys up front” was either very naive or very patronising ...
- Created on 14 July 2001
- 13. April 2001
- (Diary)
- ... foot of the Third. Australia set a world record by beating American Samoa 31-0 in an Oceania World Cup qualifier. Wednesday 11 Man City set their sights on the First Division after losing 4-0 at home ...
- Created on 14 June 2001
- 14. Rout masters
- (International football)
- ... figures against American Samoa), but Fuchs’s tenth was their last. They probably thought enough was enough, but if they’d set him up for a couple more he would have broken the world record instead of ...
- Created on 14 June 2001
- 15. Goal islands
- (World Cup 2002)
- ... Salapu picked the ball from his net 57 times during his country’s four World Cup qualifiers over Easter, but then he is the goalkeeper for American Samoa, officially the worst national team in the world. ...
- Created on 14 June 2001
- 16. Worst teams of the century
- (Playing the game)
- ... of competition.” But even this isn’t bottom of the international rock. It seems the very worst teams play on islands in oceans (though their rugby isn’t bad). American Samoa’s first taste of international ...
- Created on 14 July 1999
- 17. Sepp mire
- (Governing bodies)
- ... Brazil have no more weight than FIFA’s newest members such as Palestine and American Samoa. It is through the manipulation of this system and the husbandry of the third world vote that the South American ...
- Created on 14 August 1998
