Sam's Army

Sam's Army

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The wild and wonderful world of soccer from an American perspective. Samuel Army and a rotating cast of fans, athletes and athlete fans discuss all the relevant goings-on from both sides of the pond. Headlines and a weekly recap plus previews and predictions with an emphasis on the Premier League and Champions League, along with the US men’s and women’s national teams, and just enough from the rest of Europe, MLS and NWSL to be dangerous. Episodes also typically feature candid interviews wit...
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Episode List

Palace Are Legit! Are Sunderland Legit? Villa's Season-Saving Injury. (MW #6)

Sep 30th, 2025 3:32 PM

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy PREMIER LEAGUE: Late goals for Palace (vs Liverpool) and Arsenal (vs Newcastle) reshape title race. Sam angers the Tweedles and chat with a hot take on Arsenal and Liverpool. Legit-O-Meter: Palace, Bournemouth and Sunderland. The freak injury that may have just saved Aston Villa's season. HALFTIME: FIFA's Gianni Infantino is up to his old tricks again teasing a 64-team World Cup 2030 despite the fact we have yet to see of/how an expanded 48-team tournament is going to work ROUND THE WORLD: must-watch games in Champions League this week plus a special Hit-It-N-Quit-It MLS Moment (shorter and less pleasurable than our usual MLS Minute) STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

Pep Parks Bus. Amorim Survives - Barely. Ballon d'Ont Care. (MW #5)

Sep 23rd, 2025 9:30 AM

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy PREMIER LEAGUE: people are saying Pep tacitly admitted City don't got the juice this year with his approach to Arsenal match. Amorin receives a red-carded aided stay of execution. Unai Emery may not be so lucky. Another tough matchup (in an underwhelming weekend) coming up for Arteta's lads on Sunday. HALFTIME: Mykhailo Mudryk-related Weekly What If ROUND THE WORLD: Thoughts on Ballon d'Or jumping the shark and MLS Hit-It-N-Quit-it Minute STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

Liverpool's Late Heroics. Villa's Epic Dry Spell. Is Chelsea Do-Or-Die for Amorim? (MW #4)

Sep 16th, 2025 12:48 AM

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy PREMIER LEAGUE: Manchester Daerby postmortem, is Liverpool good or nah, Ange's first test at Forest does not go well, which club is mashing the "Panic" button hardest, what 4 managers may be gone by Christmas, Arsenal/City and Merseyside previews plus why this weekend's Chelsea game may be do-or-die for Ruben Amorim HALFTIME: MLS Cup 2025 pop quiz ROUND THE WORLD: MLS Hit-It-N-Quit-it Minute and what Champions League games are must-watch this week STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs

Spurs Send Levy Packing. Ange Replaces Nuno. Manchester Daerby Prediction. (MW#3b)

Sep 11th, 2025 12:45 AM

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy PREMIER LEAGUE: grading Daniel Levy's performance at Tottenham; Ange replaces Nuno after the latter fell out with Forest owner Marinakis and weekend preview f/t Manchester Daerby (with bonus LOCK prediction on the result) HALFTIME: World Cup 2026 pop quiz ROUND THE WORLD: News and notes from World Cup qualifying in Europe, South America and Africa STOPPAGE TIME: Ivan Toney's Best Bets and GOAWs    

Instant Reaction: USMNT 2-0 Japan = WC26 TROPHY LIFT LOADING...

Sep 10th, 2025 3:31 AM

Support the pod and join our beautiful soccer community: https://www.patreon.com/samsarmy USMNT: Instant reaction to "big" win over Japan (B), thoughts on the shambolic 0-2 loss to Good Korea, and where the program goes from here (starting with what to watch for from next month's far-more-important international window with games vs Ecuador and Australia)

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