No big news in France-land that I'm seeing, aside from the fact that we apparently broke Philippe Mexès when he was on international duty. Oops. Hate when that happens. (Get well soon, Philou. At least for Roma's sake.) And on a related note, was Eric Click to continue reading...

Ian Rush has once more voiced his support for Liverpool new-boy Robbie Keane, claiming that the Irishman has proved his importance despite his lack of goals.

Much was expected of Keane following his £20million summer move from Tottenham Hotspur. He scored 107 goals in 254 games during his six-year spell at White Hart Lane, and it was presumed he would instantly transfer that form to Merseyside. Click to continue reading...

Manchester City News: Micah Richards impressed with Robinho

The latest Manchester City news lis that defender Micah Richards has heaped praise on new signing Robinho, saying he has impressed his teammates with the amount of work he gets through.

Richards said: "It is not just about his tricks.

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I'm beginning to get the feeling that Man City are going to regret letting Sven Goran Eriksson go. He is a manager that has proven time and again at club level that he can handle a club that is going in the direction that Man City are with their newly found money and big name additions that we are all expecting over the course of the next year. Click to continue reading...

After the 2-1 defeat to Germany last year I booed England, as did some others. After many equally poor performances, including the sucessives defeats to Russia and Israel I booed and many more people booed even harder. Switzerland, France and the Czechs only made the hissing, justifiably louder. I booed at the TV once again at half time versus Andorra. Click to continue reading...

Last week, the top two teams in MLS, the Columbus Crew and the New England Revoultion, met in a match that would be critical to this year's race for the Supporters' Shield. And Guillermo Barros Schelotto, or as I will call him for brevity's sake "GBS", absolutely embarrassed New England. He had a goal. Click to continue reading...

They say that history repeats itself. In England's case, stupidity repeats itself, ad nauseam. You could drive yourself insane hypothesizing how England will line up against Croatia (doesn't matter if players lack discipline and composure), criticising lack of upcoming talent (yes, we get it) or for fun's sake, put on your progressive hat and champion [. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal's performance tonight was sublime. It was an absolute pleasure to watch at times, we played some fantastic stuff.

Although I'm very happy with the result and the way we got it, I can't help but feel that the gloss of the performance has been taken away slightly.

The sight of Robin Van Persie hobbling off around the pitch with his boot in his hand dampened my mood. Click to continue reading...

Johnathon Woodgate has accused Dimitar Berbatov of betraying his team-mates. The Spurs striker is desperate to join Manchester United. And last night both clubs were inching closer to a £28million deal. (the sun)

But Spurs centre-back Woodgate rapped: "What he's done doesn't give out a great message to the supporters, if I'm honest. Click to continue reading...

Common knowledge at this point, but for the blog's sake, here's our Group: GROUP D Atlético de Madrid Liverpool FC PSV Eindhoven Olympique de Marseille MATCH DAY 1: PSV v Atleti MATCH DAY 2: Atleti v Marseille MATCH DAY 3: Atleti v Liverpool MATCH DAY 4: Liverpool v Atleti MATCH DAY 5: Atleti v PSV MATCH DAY 6: Marseille v Atleti [. Click to continue reading...

Christ, what is it with all this complaining at the moment? Nemanja Vidic has since denied he ever made the comments posted earlier about Manchester and British weather, but surely they must have come from somewhere, even if it was just a light-hearted joke? Today though, we are approaching the final straw as one of the game's most selfish men,™ Emmanuel Adebayor, has now started complaining about the taxes in this country. Click to continue reading...

Arsene Wenger insists he will not be forced into buying players for the sake of it amid heavy criticism from some quarters. Arsenal have endured a difficult start to the season, following up last week's unconvincing 1-0 win over West Brom with a disastrous defeat to Fulham at the weekend. Having failed to replace the outgoing list [. Click to continue reading...

Another twist has come in the Robinho transfer saga.  Robinho was told that in order to move to Chelsea he must personally pay Real Madrid 45 million euro. The 45 million euro would cover the 40 million that was offered by Chelsea, and the 5 million still left on his contract.  I hope for the sake of both teams that this issue is sorted out soon, because any distractions are unneeded with Click to continue reading...

Does anyone really want to do the physical? OK, maybe the guy who ran a 5k in the morning and then went to the physical - but the rest of us? No, I didn't think so.
The last two years, I tried running my ass off during the winter to get ready for this thing, any it just didn't work out. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal boss drops the F bomb "If I go into a season and I say, 'For fuck's sake, if we don't win anything, they will all leave,' I have already lost. The problem of the media is always to imagine... Click to continue reading...

Arsenal boss drops the F bomb "If I go into a season and I say, 'For fuck's sake, if we don't win anything, they will all leave,' I have already lost. The problem of the media is always to imagine... Click to continue reading...

Other media outlets are confirming this afternoon what Phil Collin wrote in his Galaxy-Chivas USA game story last night that many of you read here: "Sources said the Galaxy are expected to have a press conference next week to announce the hiring of Arena."

I'm betting the press conference is Monday.

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Tom Sermanni expects all Matildas to line-up for the W-League opener expected to be late October.

Lisa De Vanna and Kate Gill are the only doubts at this stage but he's hopeful they wil return from Sweden in time to play.

Speaking from China where Sermanni is scouting the Japanese men's group for Olyroo's Coach Graham Arnold the Matildas Coach was delighted with the new league and delighted there would be eight teams. Click to continue reading...

...I really hope, at least for the Crew's sake, that Pat Noonan stays in one piece. Image:... Click to continue reading...

O what am I that I should not seem For the song's sake a fool? Yeats It's impossible to separate Ray Hudson's appeal as a sportscaster from his appeal as an object of mockery. But because even most of the people who mock him basically like him, no one ever quite acknowledges this, and a strange situation [. Click to continue reading...

I could write a lot about today, but it's considered bad form to wash your dirty laundry in public so I'll keep it brief for everyone's sake. In short: I got promoted this morning, interviewed someone for a job after that, but there is no job, which we both knew going in, bad times at the [...] Click to continue reading...

In a summer when clubs and players have acted fairly appallingly to engineer transfers I find it rather heart-warming that we have a manager who not only doesn't engage in the same kind of tactics but who is brave enough to speak out against it.

I know that after three years without a trophy and almost over a week without making a signing himself Arsene has his critics amongst Arsenal fans but to man Arsenal fans should be right behind him when he says that big clubs need to act better.

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I have to admit, when I got home yesterday and saw that Scott Carson had been sold to West Bromwich Albion for a grand total of 3.25 million pounds (depending on benchmarks, that fee can rise...to only 3.75 million), the lunch I had just enjoyed with Kartik Krishnaiyer of the American Soccer Show nearly escaped me.

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Phil McNulty: Manchester City's pursuit of Ronaldinho has been an interesting sideshow to the summer of speculation - and for their sake let's hope it becomes nothing more than that. Click to continue reading...

I have to admit when I first read the comments from Sepp Blatter to Sky News, I did a double take. When I read them again, I was pretty much speechless. But a speechless blog is pretty much a worthless blog so after chewing on Blatter's words I came up with the only logical thing I could say...

Seppy Baby, SHUT UP!

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No surprise to learn that Marca, the unofficial **** stirring press organ of Real Madrid are today reporting that Fergie hasn't contacted Ronaldo following his recent ankle operation.

The claim is that the relationship between player and manager is now frosty. If this story came from another source it might be more credible and of course Real Madrid would love it to be true, wouldn't they? Click to continue reading...

You may not have heard of Ashley-Paul Robinson, I hadn't either. You can sure laugh at him though. He currently plays for Crystal Palace, but he might have been playing for Fulham next year. Unfortunately for him, and fortunately for comedy's sake, he posted his secret negotiations with Fulham... on his facebook profile. Click to continue reading...

Or retourneth, really. Rumors are swirling around the Internets that Josh Wolff may be making a return to Kansas City. With the Wizards hurting for goals - they have less than Landon Donovan, for pete's sake - the front office is in a position where they have to be on the lookout for a new striker.

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The Unlikely Fan, obviously still reeling from his adopted Oranje's exit from the tournament and taking it about as well as Hillary Clinton, gives his thoughts on today's semifinals. Along with a brief shot of his orange skivvies. I know everything is fair game for the sake of comedy, but Click to continue reading...

For those whining about our kits next season (for heaven sake, it's a bloody football kit, it doesn't matter that much) here's the genius way Conference side Stevenage Borough are advertising their new kit... Stevenage Borough are pleased to confirm the arrival of the new home kit for the forthcoming season. Click to continue reading...

As we all know the Turks love football. However they also love music. So what could be better then combining them together for the sake of the national team? Click to continue reading...

With Euro 2008 acting as a stick in the spokes of the summer rumour mill, all Liverpool fans have to feed off is 'The Continuing Story of Gareth Barry'. Will he? Won't he? Oh for heaven's sake guys, just sort it out and let the papers move on to something more interesting. For a club with [...] Click to continue reading...

It's hard to take for Petr Čech's sake: one of my favorite players, and one who's already dealt with a heartbreaking loss this summer. Also in a game that took place under driving rain, and that somehow became more than it was supposed to even as the sales pitch surrounding it told us it was [...] Click to continue reading...

With the second highest chance of winning the lottery for Isreal Sesay, the LA Galaxy beat out Real Salt Lake to win the rights to 16-year old. I wasn't expecting any playing time for Sesay this season but with as many games as the Galaxy have left, it wouldn't be too much of a shocker really [...] Click to continue reading...