Last night at Bishan Stadium Super Reds defeated Home United 3-0 to move five points clear at the top of the SLeague. A goal in each half from Park Mun Ki plus an effort from Choi Dong Soo put the memories of thoe dropped points at home to Gombak behind them.

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Who: Columbus Crew at New England Revolution
What: MLS Regular Season
Where: Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, Mass.
When: Saturday, 7:30 p.m. (TV38, Cox 3 [R.I.])

The New England Revolution, now well-rested and on a more MLS-like one game a week schedule, return home to Foxboro on Saturday to face off against the league-leading Columbus Crew. Click to continue reading...

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Professional Footballers Association (PFA) - Vote for your favourite player - and meet the stars
PFA 2UP Fans' Player of the Month Contenders: September 2008

The PFA's search for the Official PFA 2UP Fans' Divisional Players' of the Year Awards is now under way - and there are plenty of big names in the frame to succeed last year's winner Cristiano Ronaldo as the fans' choice. Click to continue reading...

Jermaine Pennant intent on regular berth

Jermaine Pennant is hopeful he can force his way back into contention for a regular place in Liverpool's starting line-up after an impressive performance in their 2-1 Carling Cup win over Crewe.

From Telegraph.co.uk

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Jermaine Pennant is hopeful he can force his way back into contention for a regular place in Liverpool's starting line-up after an impressive performance in their 2-1 Carling Cup win over Crewe.

Pennant was a constant menace on the right flank and delivered the cross for Lucas to score the winning goal after Daniel Agger's free-kick had given Liverpool the lead on Tuesday night. Click to continue reading...

Spurs loanee Simon Dawkins looks set to be back in contention to resume his spell with Orient after nearly a month on the sidelines with an ankle injury. Ironically the young striker, who returned to training yesterday picked up the knock during the 4-2 Johnstone's Paint Trophy victory at Southend at the start of September, but [. Click to continue reading...

3pm Eastern Time, not on TV in the US

Last three matches:
Liverpool: 0-0 Stoke (h); 2-1 Marseille (a); 2-1 United (h)
Crewe: 3-4 Southend (h); 2-0 Colchester (h); 2-5 Leeds (a)

Referee: Michael Oliver

Guess at a squad:
Cavalieri
Degen Agger Hyypia Insua
El Zhar Plessis Lucas Benayoun
Ngog Keane

I'd be very surprised to see many first-team regulars. Click to continue reading...

The Carolina RailHawks had to win Saturday night in their season finale to have any hope of making the USL-1 playoffs. And just when it looked like a Kupono Low penalty miss and a great performance in goal from Chase Harrison would keep the RailHawks scoreless, Martin Nuñez, who earlier in the evening had been crowned a co-offensive player of the season along with Santiago Fusilier, found the game winner in the 4th minute of stoppage time to give Carolina a 1-0 victory. Click to continue reading...

Winless for more than three months and in dire need of maximum points to avoid falling out of the playoff race altogether, the Los Angeles Galaxy cruised to a 5-2 victory over D.C. United on Saturday night - capped by a Landon Donovan hattrick - and instantly vaulted themselves back into postseason contention. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool's first-choice goalkeeper Jose Manuel Reina insisted that he is going nowhere so soon after reports in Spain claimed that he was hoping to make his return to the La Liga by next season.

The former Villarreal goalkeeper was reported to be keen to return home after being linked with Atletico Madrid. Click to continue reading...

Newcastle midfielder Alan Smith needs surgery on his foot after suffering a stress fracture. He could be out for up to three months and is unlikely to be back in contention before Christmas. Twenty-seven year old Smith struggled to keep his place in the side last season and hadn't featured at all this season. Click to continue reading...

2:45pm, live in the US on Setanta

Last 3 matches:
Liverpool: 2-1 United (h); 0-0 Villa (a); 1-0 Liege (h)
Marseille: 1-1 Bordeaux (a); 2-1 Sochaux (h); 1-0 Le Havre (a)

Referee: Konrad Plautz (AUS)

Guess at a squad:
Reina
Arbeloa Carragher Skrtel Dossena
Kuyt Gerrard Alonso Riera
Torres Keane

In my guess at a squad, I'm assuming Gerrard and Torres are fit enough to start, although, like over the weekend, it'll be a late decision. 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...

As I read the press reports and watched extended highlights from last night's matches, it was clear that in most cases the final score didn't tell the entire story of the game. In the afternoon Costa Rica scored a valuable win on the plastic pitch in Haiti, but they faded from portions of the game and allowed a battling Haiti side to climb back into contention. Click to continue reading...

SA's preparation for the World Cup has already been subject to intense scrutiny but their team continues to lower the bar on already low expectations. They lost to Nigeria, 0-1 and were eliminated from ACN contention. Yesterday, they lost to Guinea in a friendly, 0-1.

Joel Santana resignation/ firing countdown begins.

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Having switched off from football for two weeks (hey, we all need a break from time to time), I return to find Real Madrid has, in that time:

• - won the season's first title in contention (the Spanish supercup against Valencia)
• - lost the league opener away to Deportivo
• - sold Robinho to Manchester City for a club record €40 million

Which of these is the most surprising news item? Click to continue reading...

WE NEEDED THAT. Big time.

Props to Terry Cooke on his service on that corner; he did a good job spotting the coverage lapses. It was probably more of a Dallas error than a Rapids play that scored, but a big part of soccer is capitalizing on errors. And Mike did just that.

Tight road games might be the best example of why the Rapids need Pablo so badly, so I'm glad he didn't go down to Cuba as a Rapids fan (although it's always a bit of a let down as an American.

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Not much happening, to be honest.

We're at the very height of the Interlulll and you know things are slow when Arsene Wenger is talking about international football. Still, Arsenal's star summer signing can help ease the blues as he's going to be back from injury any time now.

Amaury Fishshop was signed from Werder Bremen for free (they even threw in all his plaster casts and traction) and he's hopeful he'll be back in contention for a place in the squad soon.

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After last nights victory over FC Dallas to put us back into contention for the playoffs, I decided to do a little analysis of players to see what kind of impact they have on the team. Now all these stats... Click to continue reading...

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London Informer/Paul Warburton - It's going to hap-Ben
QPR will play the waiting game over Ben Watson - and eventually laugh all the way to the bank.
Renewed speculation over the weekend predicted Rangers would splash out £2m for the Crystal Palace midfielder, who turned down a late bid from Nottingham Forest, having set his heart on a move across London to Loftus Road. Click to continue reading...

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Dave McIntyre/BBC606 - Buzsaky is back
Akos Buzsaky is back and hoping to feature against Southampton on Sunday week.
Buzsaky played the second half of a reserve game against Charlton on Tuesday afternoon and looked encouragingly sharp for a player who had been out since since April. Click to continue reading...

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QPR Official Site - EXCLUSIVE: BUZ BACK IN TRAINING
Akos Buzsaky has resumed full training and could be in line to make his comeback in Tuesday's Reserve fixture against Charlton Athletic at Loftus Road.
The Magical Magyar underwent surgery on his left ankle at the start of June, but has responded well to recent treatment and returned to First Team training earlier this week. Click to continue reading...

If Wes Brown plays today, he will be making his 200th league appearance for us (308 overall), meaning he is just a few games short of matching Brian Kidd, Harry Gregg and Norman Whiteside's totals. However, Gary Neville should be in contention for starting, which would be his 350th start for the club, and his 543rd [. Click to continue reading...

Javier Mascherano is unlikely to be involved in Liverpool's Champions League crunch tie against Standard Liege on Wednesday.

Mascherano led Argentina to a second consecutive Olympic title in Beijing after his country retained their crown by beating Nigeria in the football final and he is heading back to Merseyside after his triumph. Click to continue reading...

Who doesn't love a doubleheader like tonight with two big games, one right after the other? DC's trip to New England tonight represents a real opportunity to put themselves in contention for the top two places in the Eastern Conference. Then, after that game, the USA visits Guatemala at 10 p.m. as World Cup Qualifying [. Click to continue reading...

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- Photos from the game (QPR, wearing their third strip of black and yellow)

Guardian/Mark Tallentire - Blackwell sticks to his guns and sees Sharp shoot down QPR
"... Kevin Blackwell stuck by the Sheffield United side who lost their previous league match in the final minute and had Saturday's game won before his players had even broken into sweat - proof, if newly rich QPR needed it, of the value of knowing your best team and sticking by it. Click to continue reading...

On the face of it, the expected arrival of Dimitar Berbatov should be a good thing for United, but with having so little time to bed in with his new team-mates, the manager is facing something of a selection nightmare - especially in the early weeks of the season. Here's why.

United will be without Ronaldo (recoving from injury) and Nani (suspended), so in the flank positions Fergie's options are limited to Giggs, who is the only recognised genuine wide player, alternatively the manager could deploy Tevez on the left as he did in the Champions League Final. Click to continue reading...

3pm Eastern Time. As far as I can tell, it's not on TV in the States. Last year, the 3rd round of CL qualifying was on GolTV, but they're showing the Bayern Munich friendly tomorrow.

Referee: Tom Henning Ovrebo (NOR)

As YNWA.tv writes, this is weird, as Overbo was in charge of the friendly at Vålerenga last week. Click to continue reading...

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Another thing to get used to: All the media coverage of QPR! Again references to the involvement of Briatore and the pressures on Dowie

The Guardian/Mark Tallentine - Dowie waving not drowning at new-look QPR

The ambition of Flavio Briatore is not in question and a close-season refit of the ageing stadium which has provided a big screen, padded seats, swish hospitality units and a bumper-sized directors' box with overspill area for the entourages of the fabulously wealthy owners only add to the view that QPR can buy their way to promotion. Click to continue reading...

United welcomed club captain Gary Neville back into the first team for the Community Shield curtain raiser on Sunday, it was a fairly comfortable afternoon for Neville & Co in the Reds back four with Portsmouth's new strike force of Crouch and Defoe failing to hit the high notes on what was a pretty forgettable day for Pompey and their fans. Click to continue reading...

With the dark red and blue colors of Barcelona pouring out of my ears at this point, it is my pleasure to turn our attentions back to the MLS season and a huge upcoming rivalry game. The resurgent DC United is in town, looking to quell the hopes of their Red Bull rivals.

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All in all, Arsenal outperformed both Juventus and Madrid in our two Emirates Cup matches. The difference in each game was merely a goal: Juve got a dodgy one in the first, and we got a pretty soft penalty in the second.

We played with pace and fluency, but still looked a little lost when we get to the box. Click to continue reading...

We've already looked at Wigan defenders as likely cheap value this season, and today we look at a Wigan midfielder. Anyone would think I was a Wigan fan (I am not). However they are a solid squad that even the bookies think will not be relegated; most betting outlets putting them a comfortable 3 teams above the drop come the end of the season. Click to continue reading...

After steering Spain to glory at EURO 2008, Fernando Torres hopes to guide Liverpool back to winning ways this season.

Torres capped off a remarkable 2007-08 campaign by scoring the only goal in the final as la Furia Roja downed Germany last month to claim their first title since 1964. Click to continue reading...

Martin O'Neill has warned Liverpool he is ready to set a deadline for them to meet his valuation of want-away Aston Villa skipper Gareth Barry.

O'Neill insists Villa cannot continue to be at the "behest" of the Merseysiders who have failed to offer the £18million he is seeking for the England midfielder. Click to continue reading...