If you've been following the conversations in the comments on this blog, you know that last week Sébastien Frey followed in David Trezeguet's footsteps and announced his international retirement.

You also know that Frey is 28. Which is... Well, it may not be infancy for a goalkeeper, but it's not exactly retirement age either.

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Could it be? Could we have come across the first MLS Expansion scam?


In a sure sign that MLS is growing in popularity it appears one clever person has set up a donation scam site (as near as we can tell) called www.mlsdetroit.com

A casual search of the public domain name records uncovered:

Mlsdetroit

2700 Glenmore Drive
Westlake, Ohio 44145-3930
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy. Click to continue reading...

Yes, we are liveblogging this game. Since I am a hardcore France fan and my co-blogger Chris is a hardcore Italy fan, we decided to have this game liveblogged by a neutral -- Daryl, The Offside's editor. So be sure to stop by this site and leave Click to continue reading...

I'll be liveblogging this game also. Let's hope I can bring them more luck than I did on Monday. Stop by here and leave lots of pro-France comments! And here's a fun photo of Frey and Coupet. May they have many reasons to smile today! Click to continue reading...

If any of you don't visit UEFA.com's coverage of Euro 2008, you should because it's full of a lot of interesting things like articles, photos, trivia, statistics, and all those other details that we footie nerds find so gripping (or maybe it's just me...). One of the newer features is Click to continue reading...

Morning all. Still sick so not doing so hot. Not much in the news today but we'll get through most of it.

We'll start off with a story involving Kolo Toure. The Sun (yes I realize it's the Sun) reports that Kolo is fed up because he thinks Arsene Wenger is giving preferential treatment to William Gallas. Click to continue reading...