On Friday night, Tigre kept up the pressure on leaders San Lorenzo, who kept their noses in front thanks to a comfortable win over Arsenal the following day. Sunday was clásico day, with River matching Racing blow-for-blow in a supremely entertaining match of six goals before Estudiantes eased past neighbours Gimnasia in the clásico de [. Click to continue reading...

Porto got back to winning ways in the league by beating Pacos de Ferreira 2-0 Friday night with goals by Raul Meireles after a great assist from Lisandro Lopez (pictured above, right), and Hulk after being set up by man-of-the-match Meireles. Jesualdo Ferreira decided to rest star man Lucho Gonzalez ahead of the Champions League [. Click to continue reading...

  Steve Guppy is one of two players capped by England's National Team at the senior international level to be playing his club football in the United States currently: the other is David Beckham. Guppy, now 38 scored the game winning goal Friday night as the Rochester Rhinos beat the Charleston Battery in the first leg [. Click to continue reading...

A light but compact crowd gathered at Bull McCabes in Durham on Friday night to watch the USL-1 Carolina RailHawks take on the Charleston Battery. It came as a surprise to some at the bar that such significant emotion could be generated for somthing that they did not heretofore know existed.
Yet, there it was, a handful of grown men screaming with arms raised when Matt Watson pulled the midfield lever that sent Hamed Diallo racing through to goal in the 8th minute. Click to continue reading...

San Lorenzo lead the Apertura following Friday night's win over Colón in the Nuevo Gasómetro, but they've got some competition, and on Saturday Vélez Sársfield reminded them of that fact with a 2-1 victory at home to Rosario Central. El Fortín played well after an early scare, and now sit two points back on San [. Click to continue reading...

With a full slate of Friday night games, Ryan Guy and St Pats travel to Bray to take on the Wanderers, while Chris Konopka and Bohemians stay at home for their Finn Harps contest in weekend Irish soccer action. Click to continue reading...

Atlanta, say goodbye to Macoumba Kandji, at least for a little while. He's on loan to the New York Red Bulls through the end of the 2008 season, with an option to buy his contract. The transfer is rumored to be between $150K-200K. This gives New York a bit of time to see Kandji up close and decide if he's worth the hefty transfer fee. Click to continue reading...

Eintracht Frankfurt were supposed to be play Karlsruhe on Friday night in the Bundelsiga. But that didn't happen, and it's all Madonna's fault. Actually it's Madonna's fans' fault. Madge performed at Frankfurt's Commerzbank-Arena on Tuesday night and apparently her fans trampled the grass, presumably dancing a little too enthusiastically to "Like a Virgin" et al. Click to continue reading...

The 2008 Southern Derby will be decided next Friday night in Charleston.
With a win or a tie against the Battery on Friday, September 19th, Carolina will retain the Southern Derby Cup for the second straight year. A loss would give Charleston their 3rd title.
Last year, a number of RailHawks supporters made the roadtrip down to Blackbaud Stadium to support our boys and saw Connally Edozien turn in the first hattrick in RailHawks history in route to capturing the Cup. Click to continue reading...

By Bobby Freakout In what shapes as the match of the season thus far, United travel to the Telstra Dome on Friday night to take on the A-League's early pacesetters. Form Guide Both teams sit on 7 points with two wins and a draw, though Melbourne's positive goal difference of 7 has them leading the league [. Click to continue reading...

Singapore Armed Forces recent poor run of one win in five had the fans staying away in droves on Friday night as they took on Sengkang Punggol at Jalan Besar.

Just 1600 turned up to see an 87' own goal secure the three points for the Warriors that puts them in second spot. Click to continue reading...

I live in the most violent country in Western Europe. Homicides are more common here than anywhere else that wasn't run by communists until the early 90s. Someone was stabbed in the chest in the central square of Tampere on Friday night, I have seen numerous fights there, and when people are drunk you know [. Click to continue reading...

The FFA's match review panel has met. I can hear you sniggering, stop it.

Put your hand up to handle a ball or show a "charades like" let's book him Ref Card, and yep you're banned.

Kick the bejaysus out of someone, trip, pull and interfere with skilful players, exactly what the fans come to see. Click to continue reading...

Missouri State - 1
Tulsa Golden Hurricane - 0
Another positive result at Plaster this afternoon as the Lady Bears got the job done against their regional foes from Oklahoma. The goal was scored from a set piece, when Christine Cross was taken down on a hard tackle in front of the Bears bench.

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It was a disheartening loss for our Colorado Rapids. That said, who was you Man of the Match for the FSL - Colorado match Friday Night? Class VI members can vote here.... Click to continue reading...

Saturday:
Bolton vs. West Brom
Everton vs. Portsmouth
Hull City vs. Wigan
Middlesbrough vs. Stoke
West Ham vs. Blackburn
Arsenal vs. Newcastle

Sunday:
Chelsea vs. Tottenham
Sunderland vs. Man City
Aston Villa vs.

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Just two matches left to wrap up the first leg of the preliminary round. Well, just one, actually. The Harbour View-UNAM match has been postponed due to Tropical Storm Gustav and rescheduled for Friday night. Guatemala's Jalapa and Panama's San Francisco are playing right now, and Jalapa have a 1-0 lead in the second half. Click to continue reading...

Jared Jeffrey and Club Brugge finally kick off their season on Friday night while Oguchi Onyewu and Standard Liege return from Liverpool for a Sunday afternoon contest in Belgian soccer action. Click to continue reading...

With another great week in football that saw its end with a great match between Manchester United and Portsmouth, I look back at all that made it special.

This week started early with a game between DC United and the New England Revolution. This match comes after New England lost to San Jose 4-0 and DC beat Colorado 1-0. Click to continue reading...

Watching the Carolina Railhawks playing the Minnesota Thunder Friday night (beating them 2-1), I was struck by a kind of déjà vu when I saw Minnesota's home jerseys. Notice any similarities?

That grainy picture on the left is a screenshot of the USLlive video feed, because oddly enough, I couldn't find photos anywhere on the web of that Thunder jersey. Click to continue reading...

Sorry I couldn't post this sooner, I have been working and all of a sudden it was Friday night and I hadn't posted a weekend preview. There are a few good games going on in North America this weekend, the best of which takes place in Mexico. The number 2 and 3 teams in the rankings play tomorrow. San Luis (2), the best offensive team in Mexico, has 13 points from 5 games and Tigres (3), has only conceded one goal in three games. Click to continue reading...

The Olympics effectively end for me Friday evening with the Gold medal game between Nigeria and Argentina so click on the photo above (Lars Baron/Bongarts/Getty Images) for some more beauties from the opening ceremonies like this one.

What about the game? Here are some highlights I've found on the web

SHANGHAI, China (AP) - The players that won Nigeria its first gold medal in soccer at the Atlanta Games have become legends in their homeland.

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For one week only, Longpier LIVE moves to Friday night to get fresh reaction from Southend's performance against Brighton.

Come and have your say on the Blues from 10.30pm - return to this website and click on the "Longpier LIVE" picture to enter the Skypecast. Click to continue reading...