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A few weeks ago I took out my frustration with the 2008 season on the Galaxy front office, sending a lengthy e-mail to my season ticket rep and laying out my conditions for renewal. I turned that e-mail into this post from September 10th.

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The Ajax players had this trivia game at the Belgrade airport, after their UEFA cup win. Of the last 13 "classics" in Rotterdam (competition, national cup and play-offs), how many did Ajax not lose? Huntelaar knew the right answer: "Ten matches, we didn't lose out of the 13. Pretty good eh?" Although Click to continue reading...

On Tuesday the u-21 selection surprisingly kicked out the holders of the European competition, the Netherlands, in a game that was an in or out for Switzerland. Right before the game, in a group where only the winners would qualify for the play-offs, Switzerland was trailing 3 points behind the Click to continue reading...

With the new season now well under way, a mixture of results and a division where anyone can beat anyone on their day leaves us in 18th place, but only 8 points off the top and 6 points off the play-offs. After two straight defeats against Wrexham and Eastbourne we needed 3 more games to pick up our first win. Click to continue reading...

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Kent News/Glenn Pearson - Sittingbourne Manager, Garry Abbott on Assistant Manager and Striker, Richard Brady (Once of QPR)
"SITTINGBOURNE manager Gary Abbott believes he has the squad in place to challenge for the Ryman South play-offs. Click to continue reading...

So, FInland are in the play-offs. A good performance from everyone, with special mentions for Juha Hakola, Tim Sparv and substitute Jarno Parikka, and it was a good attendance too. The support from the Finland fans was mentioned in Niklas Hägen's excellent report in HBL, in particular that there were songs to the tune of [. Click to continue reading...

Bruce Arena is a tired retread who ran out of ideas ages ago. Bruce Arena is just the tonic the LA Galaxy needs to salvage its disastrous two and a half year run, during which it has managed to miss the play-offs in each year. Or both, depending upon whom you ask. Tim Leiweke, the President and the [. Click to continue reading...

Southend United's player of the year last season, Nicky Bailey, has moved to Charlton Athletic in a deal worth up to £750,000.

The midfielder tied up the deal this afternoon after putting pen-to-paper on a 3-year deal with the Addicks.

The initial fee is thought to be around £375,000 with add-ons subject to Athletic getting promoted/Bailey's appearances/goals. Click to continue reading...

It's easy to forget that the Rams had a brilliant season the last time they were in the Championship. Under Billy Davies, they made numerous comebacks to win games by a slender margin, eventually culminating in promotion through the play-offs. One of the key players in Derby's successful campaign was . Click to continue reading...

One of the stories attracting most attention from fans this month on footballeconomy.com has been the 30 points deduction imposed on Luton Town by the Football League. The club faces likely relegation to the Blue Square Conference and possible extinction: they would probably have to get 80 points next season to survive, as many as Rochdale got to reach the play offs. Click to continue reading...

This season sees the first campaign for Germany's 3rd Liga, a new national division for the third tier of German Football. It's nothing new for us in England - we've had a national third division for the last fifty seasons. Indeed, since the inception of the non-league conference in 1979, our league stays national all the way down to the fifth tier. Click to continue reading...

I get a bit tired of the ex-MLSer rumors that involve them coming back to the MLS to play for the same team they played for before their move overseas. Often they don't make sense given the situation whether it's because of the MLS' arcane rules for bringing an ex-MLS player back from overseas or just that their ex-club didn't need them. Click to continue reading...

Chivas USA take no points against RSL.

Tough loss, reminds me a lot of our loss against Kansas City in the play offs last year. RSL went up by one and then 11 players sat behind the ball. Frustration.

Like always, trying to stay on the positive. Players are inching their way back to health, and both Wicky and Bornstein saw minutes.

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Who comes up, who says? So it's almost the end of the season and thanks to McCarrot, the summers highlights for half the Premiership players are getting a new whistle for Rooney's wedding followed by a week in roasting Marbella while the remaining half are preparing for Euro 08, cheers Steven you charisma-shy twat. Click to continue reading...

Excitement is reaching fever pitch in south Essex as Southend gear up for their most crucial match of the season so far. The Blues take on Doncaster at the Keepmoat Stadium in the second leg of the League One play-off tie.
The two teams fought out a very entertaining goalless draw at Roots Hall last week and not much separated the teams. Click to continue reading...

Kostenoglou will be taking his usual squad with him to the Appostolos Nikolaidis stadium. The squad will include Macho, Moretto, Dellas, Bourbos, Arruabarrena, Papastathopoulos, Pliatsikas, Geraldo Alves, Edson Silva Ramos, Kone, Julio Cezar, Liberopoulos, and Blanco. Georgeas and Manduca are still not 100 percent ready. Click to continue reading...

Southend confirmed their place in this season's League One play-offs with a superb win at Brunton Park.

The Blues went ahead on 7 minutes when Charlie Mulgrew scored direct from one of his wicked free kicks. The visitors dominated the opening period and were comfortable with the 1-0 lead. Click to continue reading...