Arsene Wenger is faced with an interesting problem. Last week he watched his youngsters and reserves destroy a decent Championship outfit in Sheffield United, 6-0 in the Carling Cup. On Saturday, he watched his much lauded first team go down 2-1 at home to newly promoted Hull. The question is, how much better than the reserves are the first team? Click to continue reading...

Pretty simple one here :- The RFK stadium in Washington will probably never forget this footballer, for he scored one of the finest goals in the history of the beautiful game there. The referee of this game has also officiated in a Champions League final featuring Real Madrid. The team that he scored the goal [. Click to continue reading...

This was so two days ago, but who cares. I hesitate to ask what is so pressing that John must removed his pants in the tunnel leading toward the locker room, rather than waiting until he's within the cozy confines. [Spotted on The Beautiful Game] Click to continue reading...

If you're a fan of GolTV than you are a fan of Ray Hudson. The former Newcastle United player and D.C. United and Miami Fusion manager has become the most colorful commentator on the beautiful game in the U.S. and... Click to continue reading...

When Sheffield Wednesday and Burnley FC have visited Cary over the last couple of years, our supporters club has hosted their traveling fans for some social events before and after those matches. Fans from both clubs expressed genuine amazement at how friendly we were towards visiting supporters. Click to continue reading...

What a remarkable show the Arsenal youngsters put on against Sheffield United in the Carling Cup last night. A team with an average age of nineteen saw off the pretty decent Championship outfit 6-0. Arsenal's youngsters handed Sheffield United a football lesson as they eased into the fourth round. Click to continue reading...

I listen to several different football podcasts and try to read as much about the beautiful game as possible (while trying not to get fired from my other job that actually pays me money). In the past few days I have noticed a disturbing trend in the coverage of Manchester United's newest player, Dimitar Berbatov.

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Just like Jeff Cunningham's career the FC Dallas blog has been resurrected.

I'm Louis, a 21 year old college student who loves the beautiful game. I like to watch a little bit of everything but my favorite is MLS and the US National Team. I'm thrilled to be writing for The Offside and will be bringing you the latest Hoops news, fiery opinions, and general nonsense for seasons to come.

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Because you're someone who lives and breathes the beautiful game, I want to tap your knowledge for a couple of minutes to find out what are the obstacles and/or pains you encounter when trying to watch or follow the Premier League on a weekly basis. Sure, HD broadcasts of games would be wonderful, but what - [. Click to continue reading...

I know, I know. I promised 31 straight days of posts and what happened?

Anyways, I'm here.
As you know, I also write for New African Soccer magazine.

What is that? According to the site:

New African Soccer Magazine is the only monthly English language magazine and ezine dedicated to African football. Click to continue reading...

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Tom Luntz - Guardian Blog

Long-suffering QPR fans forced to jump through financial hoops
With Rangers doing well on and off the pitch, it's galling for many fans that ticket prices have been hiked

There's always a price for success. For Julius Caesar it was a backstreet spinal tap, for a post-Croatia Theo Walcott it's the sour breath of a thousand hulking full-backs on his neck and for the Stereophonics it was, well, you've heard Just Enough Education To Perform, right? Click to continue reading...

Football is not always a beautiful game; sometimes bookings are necessary. Thankfully, we're on hand to keep all these bookings straight. There are 34 distinct offences that the DFB considers bookable. In their honor I've written this paean to the punished: We are here not to castigate but to celebrate these masters of [. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has been pretty good recently when it comes to moaning but he was back to his best after last night's draw at Dynamo Kiev. Wenger was furious at the lack of protection afforded to Theo Walcott.

"The referee should have sent off the left-back three times at least because he destroyed Walcott. Click to continue reading...

It's not unusual for knackered old has-beens to spoil a decent game of soccer. Anyone unlucky to have caught Carsten Jancker lumber through his final days at SV Mattersburg will attest to that. But never has a dried-up, former superstar managed to get a match cancelled, however lame their performance. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal Premiership: Class gap a chasm as Blackburn given the run-around

Arsenal and their Premiership ambitions were given a huge boost after this performance. Star of the show, was England man Walcott.

Walcott's pace and vision made the opening goal for Robin van Persie and his continual pacey runs constantly showed up the immobile Blackburn defence and midfield. Click to continue reading...

Through 4 games, Arsenal have 9 points, and the starting strikers, Robin Van Persie and Emmanuel Adebayor, have each scored 3 goals. It's rare to have two players on the same team score 20 league goals, but Arsenal could do it this year.

Last season, Arsenal earned a whopping 83 points, and although it wasn't enough to win the league, clearing the 80-point threshold is a big accomplishment, one that often does result in the league title, and one that Arsenal could repeat, if these strikers can keep up their early-season form. Click to continue reading...

In another adventure of the saga called As the Stomach Turns, Jack Warner blasted back at Roy Keane with comments that you can read in this article. You know its funny, I've been to Ireland many times and I never realized that it was such a large country. Jack Warner truly is a clown and an example of all that is wrong in this game. Click to continue reading...

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London Informer/Paul Warburton - Warbo's Word: 'How to run a football club' by QPR
With a trio of super-rich owners at the helm clubs are looking at QPR for tips on how to make their finances work best.
Interesting that Newcastle owner Mike Ashley covets QPR as a "model" for his own club. Click to continue reading...

Stuff to read while you eat 23,000 Big Macs...... Player breaks leg during goal celebration. Goal disallowed. Insult, meet injury. (The Beautiful Game) Fergie's hardest ever decision. No, you won't believe it either. (The Spoiler) Picking an England squad Mourinho-style. (Kornheiser's Cartel) The Three Lions need a cricket player. Click to continue reading...

The Football Manager series is the best, most realistic soccer simulation game out there, bar none. It satisifies the itch you can't even begin to scratch by playing games like FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer, which don't delve deep enough into off-field matters and what it's really like to build and lead a team. Click to continue reading...

Today the American soccer community mourns the loss of one of it's true icons with the midweek discovery that Shep Messing's mustache is dead. This unexpected loss was first made public by Mr. Messing when he appeared on the set of episode 67 of ExtraTime without what one female acquaintance remembers as "the most enjoyable ride in New York that isn't at Coney Island. Click to continue reading...

Accountability and football in England go together like Michael Bolton's voice and opera: badly. You can count on one finger the amount of people who are accountable to lovers of the beautiful game and even then you'd struggle to work out who. There are those who should be accountable, but they wriggle under so many [. Click to continue reading...

I've been dreaming for the great one to journey to my hometown of Portland, Oregon, for many... well, two years now. Not as a member of my club the Timbers, not in the flesh, but in 24-frames per second. Moving pictures... in the hyper-reality of cinema... in the celluloid guise of the brilliant film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait. Click to continue reading...

The new subscription structure of Football Is Fixed includes provision for a couple of Flashback posts per month, in order that we may either demonstrate our prescience or allow for the continuation of the arguments set out in the original post.

The following post was published on April 21st 2008. Click to continue reading...

For two years, RailHawks' fans have enjoyed excellent coverage of our favorite soccer team by Cary News sportswriter Tim Candon.
But TSF has learned that Tim has left the Cary News to become the editor of HighSchoolOT.com, a new local high school sports website produced in concert with WRAL and 99 The Fan sports radio. Click to continue reading...

In my never-ending quest for quality entertainment, I recently discovered that MLS has put out a new DVD for me to add to my collection. It's called "Gamebreakers: The Stars of Major League Soccer", and it allows me, the viewer to, "(c)elebrate the exhilarating action of the world-class stars of Major League Soccer with a high-energy look at clutch, game-winning moments steeled in the red-hot forge of the beautiful game. Click to continue reading...

Something to read while you file for 82 divorces... David Bentley dancing around like a fool (The Beautiful Game) Terrible season for Cobh Ramblers (Pitch Invasion) Round 3 round up from Australia (A-League Offside) Joey Barton states the obvious (NUFC Blog) Don't show up late for a match in Uruguay (FCL) Gabby Agbonlahor has been busy (Unprofessional Foul) The mystery behind the [. Click to continue reading...

It was a hectic weekend here in Erie, but one that I wouldn't mind living again. I posted early last week that I'd be taking a brief leave of absence to get situated at college, which is what I've been doing for the past few days.

Clearly I've missed a lot in the soccer world with the transfer deadline having come and gone and a whole round of fixtures played. Click to continue reading...

Paying for field access has become part of the price of the beautiful game for some.

On the one hand, it's a great thing that soccer fields are in such high demand.

On the other hand, things shouldn't get to the point where people are gouged to use a field.

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As a soccer writer based in the Northeast region of a country that already has four other sports to worship, watch, and play, there's a great perk to covering soccer. The accessability to soccer players is much greater than your run of the Major League Baseball players and NFL heroes, and thus, real stories are easier to report. Click to continue reading...

As many of you have noticed, Soccer Statistics recently changed our main picture from one featuring the majestic Cristiano Ronaldo to one featuring the superb yet underrated Salomon Kalou - really, he's awesome. We'll be writing on the reason for this change in the next week sometime.

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Sometimes the beautiful game connects with people in a beautiful way.

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Another action packed weekend rumbles by for all those involved in the beautiful game. In todays Sottish football Barrel-Scrape-O-Thon we feature more contentious refereeing decisions involving Old Firm clubs or, more accurately, contentious refereeing decisions in favour of Old Firm clubs, the first "no, honestly, I pick the team" statement of the season emerges from [. Click to continue reading...

Sunday was a sad day for Italian soccer, as one of the most charismatic club presidents of Serie A passed away. In things of this nature there is no club distinction: we are all bound by the same love for the beautiful game, and when one of us leaves the family it's always a sad [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "AC Milan 4-1 Juventus: Rossoneri Win Trofeo Berlusconi 2008", url: "http://www. Click to continue reading...

...without an ownership group or a stadium.

But that won't stop this dude in Detroit from trying to get one.

MLS Rumors found the site, which appears to be a one-man army to bring the beautiful game to the Motor City.

While it will likely never happen in my lifetime, I commend the effort. Click to continue reading...