This is another great weekend in European football and a great weekend for the U.S. television watcher as well. In what I believe is a record dating back to when this site was started, nineteen of the WCR Top 25 Clubs are having their games broadcast in the U.S. in one fashion or another. This total includes three matches that involve a pair of such club that take place on Friday and Saturday. Click to continue reading...

NETHERLANDS

AZ Alkmaar was able to do what few clubs have been able to do this season in the Eredivisie and that's win while leading the league, defeating FC Groningen 2-0 on Friday. Ajax moved into second place, not so much by virtue of its 1-1 draw with Utrecht, but because NAC Breda was surprised by a 0-4 butt-kicking at the hands (feet) of Sparta Rotterdam. Click to continue reading...

BRAZIL

Sao Paulo could have closed the door on Gremio for the Serie A title, but managed only a 1-1 draw with Flumininense, leaving Gremio only three points out of first with one match remaining after Gremio spotted a goal to Ipatinga before coming back and winning 4-1. Click to continue reading...

SPAIN

If you've been following La Liga this season, then you know that most of the good clubs, at least Barcelona, Real Madrid, Valencia, Villarreal and Sevilla have thus far benefited from a freaky schedule by not having to play each other. This ended this week. In the biggest example, Barcelona proved that it was not just good because it was playing weak competition – it's just good – defeating Sevilla 3-0 with a pair of goals from Lionel Messi. Click to continue reading...

ENGLAND

Of course, the match of the past weekend in England, and all of Europe for that matter, was Arsenal's 2-1 victory over Chelsea on the foot of Robin van Persie. The match helped to push Chelsea out of first place and make way for Liverpool at the top of the table. Click to continue reading...

We have a new number one in the World Club Rankings, but it's probably not who it should be. Who is number one? Liverpool. Who should be? I think it's pretty clear to most people that Barcelona should be. So, why aren't they? Several weeks ago, I went into some detail about how the rankings are generated. Click to continue reading...

Yet again, this weekend wouldn't be a bad weekend to lose your remote.  Well, you might want to find it sometime between 9 pm Saturday and 9 am Sunday and switch from GolTV to Fox Soccer Channel.  If you can do that without your remote, I'm impressed.

 GolTV definitely will have the better of the matches on Saturday, beginning at 11:30 am when the clubs that are at second and third in the Bundesliga will take on each other as Bayer Leverkusen hosts Bayern Munich.

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NETHERLANDS

Thus far this season, it's hard to deny that the Eredivisie has been the most fun league among the top leagues in Europe. Every time a club moves to the top, it gets knocked off the apex by another contender. This week, it was Ajax being dropped from first to third after falling 0-2 to the new leader, AZ Alkmaar. Click to continue reading...

BRAZIL

With a 2-1 victory over Vasco Da Gama, coupled with Vitoria's 4-2 defeat of second-place Gremio, Sao Paulo has extended its lead to five points in the Brasileiro Serie A with only two matches remaining. There is excitement near the top, however, as the top four spots in Serie A advance to the Copa Libertadores and there are five clubs vying for those spots – and only three points separating second through fifth. Click to continue reading...

SPAIN

The only good result near the top of the Primera Division standings this week belonged to Real Madrid, who defeated last-place Recreativo 1-0. Barcelona managed only a draw with Getafe and Sevilla and Valencia drew with each other.

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ENGLAND

The big story out of the English matches this past weekend was the impotence of the powerhouse clubs. The top five clubs in the Premiership table combined to score zero goals this week. In contrast, Manchester City managed to score three against Arsenal to add to the Gunners' recent bad form. Click to continue reading...

What was the big story of the past weekend?  Let's see if we can come up with a story by doing a little math.  I like math.  The top five clubs in the top league in the world scored how many goals this weekend?  Let's add them up together.  Chelsea scored zero (in a 0-0 draw with Newcastle United).

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As I sit around watching this afternoon's matches, preparing to draft the next WCR Top 25, I've come to the realization that it's time to change a little bit around on the site.
I've had a blogroll since late last year.  In the beginning, it started as a "Top 25 Blogroll" just for fun.  I posted it as an experiment, expecting hate mail, but interest. Click to continue reading...

Once again, as we always do here at WCR, we have scoured the intertubes to deliver to you a schedule of all of the football action on American television over the weekend. If you only have a limited amount of time, and your remote control is broken, might I suggest that you tune in to FSC on Saturday morning and just veg for several hours. Click to continue reading...

I've been checking out the rankings from this time last year and I've noticed that the rankings are a lot less static this season.  I guess that's a good thing.  Things are starting to settle down a little bit, but most of the best leagues are still only a match away from having a new leader.

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