It has been a crazy week in football with so much happening on and off the pitch. On this week's good, the bad and the ugly we feature Maradona, River Plate, Liverpool, Tottenham and, of course, Joey Barton. Click on the links to find out more about these stories Good Liverpool beat Chelsea 1-0 at Stamford Bridge [. Click to continue reading...

Hey y'all. If you are in the Gotham area and you'd like to aid in helping fight AIDS in Africa, have a $125 tax write-off in February, and get trollied in the presence of all manner of Soccerati™ you should really think about coming to Ethan Zohn's blowout at Marquee on Thursday night.

Please excuse the ghetto Photoshop job I did on the flyer but I thought that I'd mention some of the names that are expected to be in the house in hopes of enticing you into joining me and a few of the other DP's for a good night out for a good cause. Click to continue reading...

The former Tottenham Hotspur manager Terry Venables has claimed that Dimitar Berbatov was a "poisonous presence" at the club. Click to continue reading...

After watching the Fire get dismantled by Dallas last Sunday I decided that it would be better if I forgot about the game completely and not write about it. So with that being said lets move on to the next game which happens to be tonight against everyones favorite team to make fun of: The LA Galaxy.

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Goal.com says Mike Magee is making his presence felt. Looks more like someone is trying to feel his "presents" to me but that's just semantics. Click to continue reading...

A veritable glut of stuff to get through this morning.

I suppose the biggest story is that of Stan Kroenke being appointed to the board as a non-executive director. It's long been rumoured this was going to happen so it's no suprise but given Kroenke's first involvement with the club it's quite a turn-around.

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The Champions League group games started this week and languagecaster takes a look at how teams from la Liga and the Premier League fared. For learners of English check out our Football Language Resources with: Worksheets and transcripts Vocabulary lists ** NEW ** Football language glossary Transcript Damian - The Spanish Teams Spanish teams usually feature among the favourites at the [. Click to continue reading...

FC Basel 1893 How They Got Here:Basel beat Vitoria de Guimaraes (also known as Vitoria SC) 2-1 on aggregate in the third round of qualifying. Basel won the Swiss League last season. Star Performer: MF Benjamin Huggel. An experienced member of the Swiss national squad, Huggel is a strong presence in central midfield. Click to continue reading...

TORONTO - He got hurt in the 2008 preseason at BMO Field in Toronto. Running onto the pitch, his ankle rolled. He was never the same. But, being Ivano the "Raging Bull" Volpe, he roared on game in and game out playing through injury, and playing his game.

And he was effective. Playing through pain, he never showed it on the field, always charging, tackling, and dribbling the ball up the right flank, ever so often creating chances in the middle for the strikers. Click to continue reading...

TORONTO - After all the rumours, chiefly his own, Ecuadorean midfielder Carlos Quinto has decided to not even to consider moving to FC Barcelona or Real Madrid, in favour of returning to a storied franchise in its own right, Pistolas FC.

Perhaps it was the lack of interest from the Galacticos or Messi's men, or perhaps his passion for playing at PFC was just too strong. Click to continue reading...

Image via Wikipedia the new york red bulls came to the chicago fire ready to play. this game was end-to-end entertaining soccer for 90 minutes. i can't believe the pace that both teams managed to keep up for the entire match, and i also can't believe we left there with no points and gifted chicago with three more in a tough 1-0 loss. Click to continue reading...

The Spanish U/21 National Side has defeated Russia tonight 2-1 to consolidate its Group leadership & guarantee its presence in next years U/21 European Championship. The Spanish team had to make... Read all the news, results, details & comments in English on Spanish Football & Sports Click to continue reading...

TORONTO - "Raging Bull" Ivano Volpe is still suffering from shin splints, ankle and groin injuries and will unlikely play in today's match.

The injuries occured during the Inter Selects and Silver matches that were both played within the span of four days.

There is a small window of hope that he may decide come game time that he'll at least test it out, and his presence alone would at the very least contribute to the substitution situation. Click to continue reading...

Wow - I read today in the Swedish press that Pia has turned down an invitation from Dubya to visit the White House and be graced by his presence. I didn't actually think I could like him less today than I did on July 28 (just to select a random date).  But after watching his smirking [...] Click to continue reading...

As I've mentioned on here before, we're going to have a fairly major presence at the KC Irish Fest this weekend. Our 40X40 tent is right next to a major stage and bar area, so there should be a lot of traffic. Come see us throughout the weekend! Listed below is a schedule of events in our tent, including a watch party for our match Saturday night against San Jose, a showing of MU/Illinois before that and a showing of the Rockhurst HS vs Blue Springs South game this weekend on ESPN. Click to continue reading...

The lone American goal scorer from World Cup 2006 now has consistently played so poorly for the national team if the opponent is not Barbados, that his presence seems to actually help stagnate the side. Dempsey's last good performance for the National Team against a decent opponent was last October in Switzerland. Click to continue reading...

I'm trying to forget about Adebayor's behaviour over the summer. I'd love to try and move on and draw a line under the situation but I cant. So if I cant let go does that mean I'm not the only one?

What I'm saying is maybe morale in the squad isn't the greatest at the moment and maybe one or two players cant forget Adebayor openly offering his services to other clubs. Click to continue reading...

The Croatian National team has played their first game together since their defeat at the Euro 2008. They met with their neighboring country Slovenia, in Maribor, to get in some practice before the big qualifying day. They were without the presence of some key players and shortly after the start ... Click to continue reading...

While watching the US-Guatemala World Cup Qualifier this evening there were a few thoughts I wanted to share.

1. It's amazing what putting on the national team shirt does for a player like Brian Ching. When he's representing the Tang-colored Dynamo the guy plays a less than classy style of football. Click to continue reading...

TORONTO - Star midfeilder and header extrodinaire Davidinho will miss the rest of the season and hopes to be back for the playoffs after injuring his tailbone in Saturday's game against Titnas FC.

Already having missed Sundays game against the Dynamos, Davidinho was involved in a first half collision that sent him to the ground, landing on his tailbone causing serious pain. Click to continue reading...

Soccer City FC's Chris C. commented on the former Bolton player in May. News today has Campo signing with Coca-Cola Championship side Ipswich Town. Will Campo's veteran presence be a positive? Or will he offer up a series of listless performances while in the Championship?

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Sheffield Wednesday have signed Middlesbrough defender Tony McMahon. Click to continue reading...

So, maybe I forgot or just didn't do my homework but last night Argentina played Belarus in Minsk in a friendly.  Well, I really didn't miss much. Despite the presence of first team regulars Tevez, Burdisso, Cambiasso and Zanetti the albicelestes could not take advantage. The score ended up being 0-0 with few chances at goal by Argentina.

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Everton is increasing its presence in the Asian market following the an agreement with Total Sports Asia to distribute official Everton Mobile content throughout Asia (excluding China). Total Sports Asia is an independent full service sports marketing, management and consulting company and will act as Everton's mobile content rights distributor in the region. Click to continue reading...

Can you spot the Matildas in the photo and not just the Wannabee's

Wannabee's Matildas flocked to show their skills to World Cup hero Caitlin Munoz and Asian Cup star Amy Chapman on a cold Friday night at Dickson Oval.

The usual training session was taken by not one, but two, of Australia's star players. Click to continue reading...

DaMarcus Beasley is now the 18th man on the USA roster to face Guatemala in Guatemala City on Wednesday. Beasley was initially left off the roster due to his most recent long-term hamstring injury.  But he has recovered and was made available for the USA's important away qualifier. Beasley's presence, assuming he's healthy enough to start, should only help the Americans. Click to continue reading...

Welcome back! On this week's show we take a look at the start of the Premier League season as well as having a new English for Football phrase. For learners of English check out our Football Language Resources with: Worksheets and transcripts Vocabulary lists ** NEW ** Football language glossary Click here for the transcript Click to continue reading...