Cleared Off The Line

Cameron Lancaster and Louisville City are synonymous with longstanding USL success. The Englishman is the club's all time leading goalscorer and bagged the lone strike in the team's first ever title win in 2017. He is as club legend as club legends get. But, he moved on awhile back. Lancaster has been in Lexington with the Greens for two seasons. Eight goals in USL1 last year, but nothing...

Mike Kozlowski and Joe Stadlin came up in the soccer world as Maryland natives who let the beautiful game take them across the world. This month, outside of Raleigh, North Carolina, they are playing in TST (The Soccer Tournament), an annual small sided competition with a prize of one million dollars. Every year, teams from professional clubs around the world bring household names to the set-up. Bu...

The soccer balance of power in Ohio may be shifting as the MLS season kicks off! Forrest is joined by Kenta Hagiwara (Area Sports Network) and Justin Blair (Cincy Soccer Talk) to break down the expectations for two Ohio state superpowers. FC Cincinnati has aced the test of signing replacements for several key departures, one of which is probably the best player in club history, to get ready for th...

Women's soccer has seen a rollercoaster of a past 20 years. Right now, the sport is seeing something that has never happened before. Does that sound familiar? 100%. For the first time in United States soccer history, there are two women's professional leagues with Tier One status. The United Soccer League Super League is playing in its inaugural season this fall. Anna Witte, a sideline rep...

In the middle of the horse racing and Kentucky basketball kingdom a new soccer club is trying to make its way into the hearts of the Commonwealth. Lexington Sporting Club is a United Soccer League franchise that's made it clear that it wants to succeed as one of the emerging powers of American lower and top league soccer. Within three years of existence, the club has professional, pre-professi...

Interesting people happen to kick a ball for a living all over our world. One of them is Lauren Chang, a player of FC Sparta Praha Zeny in Prague, Czech Republic. Chang is someone who I've watched play for awhile, but off of the pitch she is just as interesting as on it. I covered her and the South Carolina Gamecocks Women's Soccer team in college. Whether its being a bookworm, master (hom...

The most important coaching search in US Soccer history is happening right now. Whoever comes in to manage the Yanks will have to take this team to new heights during the 2026 World Cup. As names swirl and days pass, it's clear that US Soccer has to take its time with hiring a new manager at the most pivotal time in its history to date. So, when will the new manager be in place? In time for th...

Becoming and being a professional footballer is a challenge unlike any other in and of itself. Nothing can diminish the hard work that players must pay to receive a trial, contract, spot in the match day squad and even a start or substitute appearance. Goalkeepers have it harder than anyone because, unlike outfield players, they are one of one in the starting eleven. Our guest today is a young, up...

Pundits and analysts are everywhere when you turn on a match of football. Some have had illustrious playing careers. Others have had careers that are not as well known. Regardless, being a professional at any level is a remarkable accomplishment. Whatever the caliber of their career, someone in the broadcasting industry has vetted these ex-pros to be on television or radio, which is a tough proces...

Copa America, The Olympics, The Euros, International Friendlies, The Soccer Tournament, MLS, USL, NWSL, The Open Cup, The Leagues Cup AND SO MUCH MORE soccer is on the way to the American public this summer! It's a schedule that many U.S. footy fans would've though was a pipe dream years ago, but not anymore! So the question is... how much soccer is too much? Men in Blazers Director of Mar...

Forrest and Terry are going yankee soccer heavy on this episode of the podcast.  From the jump they talked about Carli Lloyd's reveal to the LA Times that she spoke to her family for the first time in 12 years recently. The boys divulge into what this says about Lloyd and how this fits into the narrative of we already know about her. Next, a 21 year old from Oklahoma is tearing up the English...

Forrest and Terry have met their fair share of international students while at USC, one of them is Dom Kuhn from Switzerland. The boys wanted to give the COTL fam an idea of what the beautiful game is like in the land of good cheese and chocolate so they're joined by Dom to talk all things Swiss soccer. Dom filled the lads in on what it was like playing as a kid in his home country, who he support...

Forrest and Terry took out the stat book for this one as they determined which EPL players were either over or underrated. The boys compared Nick Pope and Jordan Pickford, AWB and Reece James, Sadio Mane and Raheem Sterling just to name a few. Thanks for listening!

All three of the boys are back for this one as they analyzed La Liga's dip in form when it comes to European competition. Barca, Atletico and Sociedad all lost in their respective matches this past week and Real Madrid is not exempt from poor performances in the UCL. Taking a deeper look the boys traced these woes back to transfers that did not work out for Barca and Real as well as the difference...

We're kicking off season 4 with a blast from the past that took Forrest and Terry down memory lane. Cue nostalgia!  Around the 2014 World Cup there were major innovations in boots, soccer balls and kits. Not to mention Neymar was plastered... not by drinks... but on everyone's television. The boys also looked at what content Nike and Adidas put out with commercials (Risk Everything, First Nev...

We started where we left off last week with three more clubs to cover in the midseason review in the EPL. Timecodes below. From the top Carolina Toffees member Robert Morrison was happy with Everton's changes for the better, but injuries are proving troublesome for the Toffees who lack depth. Olly Wilson joined us again and had plenty to say about Chelsea's woes. He thinks that Lampard has too man...

After a very entertaining EPL season so far, the boys rounded up some fans to talk about their clubs. Look below for the time codes of your favorite club. Listen from the start as we talked to Clay Sellers about Liverpool. He thinks the Reds can repeat.  Tom Watson came on to talk about Manchester United and said that Liverpool is not considered a title challenger at all in his mind. (7:40) T...

All three of the boys were able to get together for this one as they discussed a wide range of topics in footy news. Vanderbilt University Women's Soccer GK Sarah Fuller's ceiling shattering achievement as the first woman to play in a Power 5 American Football game was the first priority of the boys this week. Listen from 00:30 for that. Next up at 08:15 was a talk about the unusual La Liga table...

Trey is back everyone! Him and Forrest got out to training early today to record. To start off, boys recapped the Gamecock Womens Soccer team's performance against Mizzou from Tuesday and looked ahead to the SEC Tournament semifinals that happen tonight (Nov. 19). The Gamecocks play the number one ranked Arkansas Razorbacks. Forrest and Trey also previewed the other teams in the semis. Skip ahead...

Terry and Forrest were happy to talk about plenty of different news today on the pod. The midweek release date is unusual, but every club has to play Wednesday night matches at some point. Off the top the boys talked about Zlatan's resurgence with AC Milan. Should he get a Sweden call up? Then at the 6:40 mark, with Alex Morgan's debut for Spurs, Forrest and Terry discussed how American players ar...

Forrest has always been a fan of grassroots football and he brought along someone that could help him talk about it. Sid Curtis is a grassroots footballer from South Croydon, England and plays for Sporting 50 Reserves. Sid has played local football his whole life and was able to give us a better idea of the how's and why's of the grassroots game. Forrest and Sid talked about how team sponsorships...

Forrest and Terry were playing duos without Trey this week as the third man had some business to attend to. (Shhhh don't tell anyone.) But, the episode was a success as the boys talked about Arsene Wenger's new role at FIFA and his proposed rule changes. Wenger's ideas include changing the offside rule and having kick ins instead of throw ins amongst other ideas. Listen to get the full story and w...

Terry, Trey and Forrest got down to business about their EPL table predictions this time out. While the boys and similar ideas of who would finish at the top and bottom of the table, there was some disagreement about where the Foxes, Toffees and the Arsenal would end up. Manchester United's recent woes combined with Terry's My Take Monday about United fans wrongly blaming Ed Woodward gave us some...

Forrest, Trey and guest Nyal Johnson sit down to discuss the latest transfers in Europe and what they mean for the cubs buying the players as well as the controversy surrounding Luis Suarez's Italian citizenship test. What happens when politics and football collide with tons of money in the mix?  The second weekend of the EPL saw some eye-drawing action as Man Utd fell to Palace. The boys dis...

Terry, Trey and Forrest sit down for a new age of COTL and discussed a lot in the season three curtain raiser. Time codes for the episode content below! 1:00- Leeds United vs Liverpool really had the boys talking about the upcoming season for both historic clubs. Is Liverpool going to be able to repeat without any new signings this summer?  10:00- Terry also followed up on his MTM post about...