Help me choose.

Ok, so it's a real slow day and I was just all over ESPN.com. Apparently, since he enjoyed the World Cup so much, The Sports Guy (TSG) has decided to become a soccer fan (as if it's a decision) and wants to have a Premiership team to call his very own.

There's pages on this, where he lists some of the emails he received in favor of certain teams, where he ranks the teams and finally chooses his new team: the Spurs.

Here's the thing, I'm no newbie to soccer of the EPL, but I too have no specific team to root for. I watch FSC all the time, but I'm not rooting for any one team, I'm just watching some good footie.

But I wonder if it's time for me to pick sides?

TSG has all kinds of criteria and his lackeys all mailed in emails comparing their various teams to the Celtics and the Red Sox in order to get him to like them.

I have no specific criteria, other than I'm not picking Man U, on principle. I like Liverpool because Steven Gerrard is an absolute beast and I dig the loyalty aspect. I like Arsenal for the Green Bay Packers-esque fans-own-the team thing they've got going. And, you know, Thierry Henry doesn't suck either. Since TSG picked them, you'll really have to convince me to pick the Spurs.

I don't buy the bandwagon argument, because frankly it can be made for any team. When your choices are basically 6, it's hard to find one that isn't an "easy pick". I'm undecided on this English vs. non-English player debate. It seems you have to be one side or the other, and yet I can't see why it's so bad for a team to not have tons of English-born players. What that should show is that this is the top league and it draws the top talent.

I like Steven Gerrard, but I kind of hate Peter Crouch. I love saying Fabregas' name. Micheal Owen is rather pretty.

As we can see, there's no clear cut frontrunner here.

The final consideration is that I'm seeing Chelsea next weekend at the MLS All-Star game.

So at the risk of being a SG clone, I wonder what your opinions are. What team should I choose?