It's another gala weekend of domestic football action across Scotland this weekend. With the teams recovered from their mid-week cup success (unless you're St. Mirren) they're all no doubt chomping at the bit to get back into the saddle as they jockey for position at the top of the table. Dispensing with the horse metaphors for [. Click to continue reading...

It's another gala weekend of domestic football action across Scotland this weekend. We have the first of this season's New Firm Derby's to look forward to, and Kilmarnock face the green half of the Old Firm when Celtic travel down to Ayrshire. Can Kilmarnock keep up with Rangers at the top? Down in the [. Click to continue reading...

It's all domestic football this week. Without so much as time to take a breath, the seventh round of the Apertura is already looming. There's an all-Sur clash between Arsenal and Banfield in Sarandí, leaders San Lorenzo host Colón and Racing are in bad need of a win against the newly managerless Estudiantes. Click to continue reading...

After the break for the World Cup Qualifiers (which saw the national side play two games as they began their World Cup qualification bid) it's back to league action for the four divisions in Scottish domestic football. As always, this week sees the usual mix of interesting fixtures, not least in Division Two and Three [. Click to continue reading...

The Mariners have launched their Academy programs today.

And it's interesting to see the numbers of players involved in their Academies. For example, One centre for 9 years olds will train 16 players. And there are FIVE centres. That's 80 players per age group.

At least five centres spread across the Region. Click to continue reading...

The ISL will continue on through the fasting month this season with games kicking off at 9pm to allow the players to break their fast and recover from their first meal.

Normally there has been a break but this season given the Independence Cup in Jakarta and the Merdeka Cup in KL we could have been without domestic football from the end of August till the end of October and then where would we be? Click to continue reading...

Before we press on with other matters, here's a final word on the subject of football kits.

Just before the current domestic football season started here in the UK, we carried out some research to see which kit manufacturers were the most popular among the 92 league clubs, and duly compared our findings to those of last year. Click to continue reading...

Ladies and gentlemen, these are exciting times.

At this very moment, the Olympic football tournament is enthralling a worldwide audience in Beijing, China. Throughout Europe, qualification games for the Champions League and UEFA Cup are already sorting the men from the boys as the quest for continental domination starts its long and arduous journey. Click to continue reading...

It's our great pleasure now to welcome back an old friend to Some People Are On The Pitch that we haven't heard from for some time. Kedge has been watching Euro 2008 with great enthusiasm over the last few weeks, but now the action's all but over he wonders whether England fans can afford to be optimistic about what's to come. Click to continue reading...

After over a month of no laser lightshows, and no killer whale mascots, the J League returns to action tomorrow. With the European Championship winding down, the attention in Japan will be returning to domestic football, and since we've been a bit distracted ourselves, let's take a look at how things stand in J [. Click to continue reading...

For the second time in two weeks, a Serie A player scored a decisive goal in a game, took his short off to celebrate and was immediately handed his marching orders for a second yellow card. Siena's Massimo Maccarone scored a sublime free kick in the 80th minute against Tuscan rival Fiorentina and was so [. Click to continue reading...

Is Essam El-Hadary going to be our test case for the Webster ruling, or isn't he? The battle is on. Just last week Daryl was saying that Essam El-Hadary, the African Cup of Nations-winning goalkeeper from Egypt, was going to be the Webster test. Webster, if you remember, is the extremely controversial new ruling [. Click to continue reading...

Way back in the summer 2006 of the Selecao were the prohibitive favorites to take home one of sport's most coveted mantle pieces. It was a little bit of a Tiger Wood complex, in fact. There was Brazil and then there was "The Field". Any time an interview was taken it was less "who do [...] Click to continue reading...