There has been a lot of reaction to our recent defeat to Hull, most of it pretty sensible, even if some of it has been a little over the top and out of perspective, that's only in my humble opinion after all. Arsene has had some strong words to say and even admitted that he was made 'physically sick' by the performance. Click to continue reading...

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Stan Bowles' Perspective - At least, according to the Sunday People!

Sunday People/Peter Ward - 28 September 2008 - TIGHT Rs BLASTED
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QPR legend Stan Bowles has branded the club's billionaire owners skinflints after being sidelined from his hospitality role. Click to continue reading...

Our friend Gruff offers us some fresh perspective on the impact of the US financial sector crisis on a certain Premiership side. Check it out here. Click to continue reading...

Serie A is back in business, and it's in full swing. There were some great games over the weekend. For a full list of results, click me.

But of course, this is an Azzurri blog so I tend to look at everything from the perspective of our national team. That being said:

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Former Liverpool player John Barnes feels his former side are showing championship-winning credentials so far this season.

Pool have not set the world alight with their standard of play so far this season, but results are going their way with recent victories picked up against Manchester United and Marseille. Click to continue reading...

  The recent press reports linking Arsenal and other Premier League clubs to 14 year old  attacking midfielder Charles Renken whose sterling play for the US U-17 team in the Bradenton Invitational last year caught many eyes is terrifying from my perspective as an American football fan. Despite the success Arsenal has had in developing young [. Click to continue reading...

The recent press reports linking Arsenal and other Premier League clubs to 14 year old  attacking midfielder Charles Renken whose sterling play for the US U-17 team in the Bradenton Invitational last year caught many eyes is terrifying from my perspective. Despite the success Arsenal has had in developing young footballers, Americans have had nothing [. Click to continue reading...

Stuff to read while you fall asleep committing a robbery..... ManU gets a new sponsor. (Unprofessional Foul) Chelsea is the new ManU. (Kornheiser's Cartel) Mike Ashley isn't exactly trying hard to sell Newcastle... (The Spoiler) Another perspective on Hoffenheim. (ESPN) Psychological gameplay in Amsterdam. Click to continue reading...

Theo Walcott has been praised to the high heavens over the past few days-and rightly so.

His performances for England have a nation bubbling and on Saturday he looked good at Blackburn.

I'm sorry to be a damp squid and burst the bubble but I think we need to calm down a little and get things into perspective. Click to continue reading...

Let's start by saying that my perspective of this game comes via the warped lens of Limarzi's radio call and the video highlights. With that in mind, my reaction is necessarily going to be more focused on the implications of last night's 2-2 draw against Coop and the Hoops. Now that we've got that bit of business out of the way . Click to continue reading...

If you're visiting EPL Talk after reading the article in The New York Times or International Herald Tribune, welcome. The goal of EPL Talk is to provide you with daily news and analysis of the Premier League.  We have a team of more than a dozen writers who bring a unique perspective on the world's most [. Click to continue reading...

This morning's post will likely be quick, as I've gotta make 2 dozen sandwiches for some soccer-game tailgating by 7:30 AM.  But enough about me! On Truthdig I came upon this Palin Perspective from John Dean (yes, that John Dean).  Basically he argues, rather damningly, that were a sitting President in the position of having to [. Click to continue reading...

Two tired and/or banged up teams desperately needing points to stay in the playoff hunt stagger into Gillette Stadium at 4 p.m. today live on ESPN2 as Chivas USA visits the New England Revolution.

Chivas USA forward Alecko Eskandarian is suspended for the game.

Brief game preview here.

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Back and forth we go, and I'm loving it! No burger joint endorsements implied there. Anywho, Mr. Anonymous came through with yet more perspective on the current state of the US National Team in the comments, and I'm obliged to respond in kind, hoping that the match tonight will dispel my despair, but expecting that it will only make me all the more maudlin. Click to continue reading...

Rafael Benitez has attempted to put into perspective the intensifying competition at the top of the Premier League - and the pressures on him and his team to deliver the title.

Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez is aware that expectations are building again for the Reds to mount a sustained challenge to win the title that has eluded them since 1990. Click to continue reading...

$250 000 000 seized from Mexican Meth Dealers, Sept 2. 2007 Courtesy I-Am-Bored.com To put this into some sort of perspective, Abu Dhabi United Group is pricing Cristiano Ronaldo at the same dollar amount as the Arab League invested in the Darfur region last Fall. Click to continue reading...

In our world, death is inevitable. Except when you decide it's not. It took me 14 years to apply this perspective to my soccer fanaticism. Like many things that apply to soccer, it applies to real life as well. This may sound a bit dramatic, but what's soccer without a little drama? The story of my support for the Spanish national team begins and ends, as many stories do, with short gentlemen from Southern Europe sporting bad haircuts. Click to continue reading...

Four clubs surprised the pundits by pulling off impressive victories against higher ranked outfits. Based on current rankings:

• Anorthosis Famagusta (ranked 193) defeated Olympiacos (ranked 44)
• FC BATE Borisov (unranked) defeated Levski Sofia (ranked 80)
• Atlético Madrid (ranked 67) defeated Schalke 04 (ranked 22)
• Dynamo Kyiv (ranked 74) defeated Spartak Moscow (ranked 61)

FC BATE from Belarus and Anorthosis from Cyprus are the first clubs from their perspective countries to ever qualify for the UEFA Champions League.

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D.C. United Co-Managing Partner Victor MacFarlane has put his San Francisco condo - all 20,000 square feet and two floors of it - up for sale. The price tag is $70 MILLION.

Interested?

To put this into perspective:

• the construction costs of a stadium at Poplar Point would total about $150 million.

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Football fans are notorious in their lack of perspective.  As a Tottenham support right now I am seeing that more than ever.  We've lost our first two league games of the season and it's widely being hailed as an absolute disaster.  We're already six points behind Liverpool who we were hoping to beat to fourth [. Click to continue reading...

Since Wayne Rooney exploded on the International football scene during Euro 2004, he has faced some criticism in this country, particularly from the England supporting perspective. Whilst all England players massively under perform, there aren't many players who are the receiving end of more negative England press. Click to continue reading...

You know, the window through which I viewed this match was pretty encouraging. I should note, however, that said window only opens about 37 minutes into the game. From this (admittedly warped) perspective, we earned a hard-fought draw on the road and completely dominated the run of play for large patches without really creating enough solid chances to actually win the match. Click to continue reading...

Before everyone moves forward with the Bruce Arena Era, I thought about trying to put some perspective with Ruud Gullit and his time with the Galaxy. I was actually considering writing a column on this but Arena's taken over so there goes that.

I wanted to compare Ruud with other big-name foreign coaches who failed in MLS. Click to continue reading...

I'm 111 posts in on this thing and need to freshen up the scenery. We need to showcase other perspectives from around the world. With that in mind, please consider contributing a post or two.

My thinking is, if you're like me, then you're probably already spending time on your favourite football news sources - from Serie A to Australian A-League, or maybe AC Milan to Sydney FC. Click to continue reading...

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"IN CASE YOU MISSED IT"

With some people exiting work early on Fridays and not logging back on again till they return to work on Monday: Some of the items posted on QPR Report over the 'long' weekend (besides all the Sheffield United previews and post-mortems. Click to continue reading...

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After many years, the very distinguished QPR fan magazine, "A Kick Up The R's (AKUTR'S)- An Independent View of QPR" has also gone online. AKUTR's won last season's Championship Fanzine of the Season Award. (The printed AKUTR's publication very much continues). See The AKUTR's website .

From The new AKUTR'S Website:
"At Long, Long, Long Last. Click to continue reading...

Here's a really good article from the London Times written by former Republic of Ireland forward Tony Cascarino. I have always found Tony to have an interesting perspective and in this article, he really makes the case for Manchester United's potential signing of Dimitar Berbatov to be a great move, which I agree with. Click to continue reading...

What? You thought I forgot there was a little three decade-long grudge match tonight? Blogger please. I will not rest until I get a call from FSC's Mitch Peacock himself saying "you can stop now, we really don't have the bandwidth for an audience this size." Until then, I'm going to keep reminding you to do whatever you have to do to watch the game on FSC at 11pmEST. Click to continue reading...

Every few weeks or so, D.C.'s own Soccer Insider, Steven Goff, answers questions about all things soccer.

This space will compile his thoughts on prospects for a new D.C. United stadium. To say that Mr. Goff spends some time around United would be an understatement, so its just obvious that he provides a unique perspective on the stadium issue.

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Maybe you haven't noticed all the big name arrivals but lets put this into perspective, all roads are leading to Rome or more accurately all roads are leading to Serie A, once you consider AS Roma are the one club having difficulty signing a big name striker.   Looking at the numbers after consulting the transfer sites, more [. Click to continue reading...

In the course of being engrossed by the game to game mentality and analysis, it is easy for me to lose perspective of an entire season. At times like this, it is useful to look back on previous posts to remind myself of what I was thinking earlier, and to reapply that perspective to where we are now.

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Apologies to SF over at The Offside Rules for the photo-caption-style-jack, but it was too easy to pass up. I consider myself pretty level-headed for a blogger and message board poster, and I try to keep things in perspective, for better or for worse. Allow me now to throw that all out the window, as [. Click to continue reading...

I read this article by Jose Moran from Fox Sports.com and I disagree with a lot of it. Its very easy these days to criticise Gareth Barry, but to say that he betrayed Aston Villa is taking it a bit far. You have to try and look at the situation from his perspective for a minute. Gareth Barry has given his all to that club for many years and they continue to be a team that will finish in the top half of the table, with a slim hope of challenging for a place in Europe. Click to continue reading...

I took the bait,i thought wow this is very interesting.I'll blog about it.And i was wrong.I had written Monday that,

"And in some cooler news,Brian McBride who is on Olympic duty may have signed with Toronto. Which in perspective makes some sense why Jeff Cuningham has been banished to the nether reaches of BMO field. Click to continue reading...

Thirteen years of supporting a team (DC United) and twelve years as a member of a supporters club (The Screaming Eagles) can give you a little perspective. Paul Sotoudeh has that and more as we find out, going from contributing to a club fanzine (remember those!) to organizing road trips to his current position as Screaming Eagles club president. Click to continue reading...