While Celtic where huffing and puffing their way to yet another away defeat in the Europe, Inside Left decided to forsake the money and the glory of the Champions League, switch of the telly and go in search of some proper football. At Princess Royal Park, Banff, the first of two preliminary games in this years [. Click to continue reading...

One thing it's difficult to complain about at the moment in La Liga is the sheer amount of footy on the telly. There was a midweek league programme to make up for the weekend lost to internationals, and I managed to take in Barça v Betis and Sevilla v Espanyol, with the occasional trip to the kitchen to make a cuppa. Click to continue reading...

So tonight it's the Milk Cup, and Wenger's latest crop of impossibly young professional footballers looks set to take on Sheffield United. Wenger told the Arsenal website:

"You are likely to see Gavin Hoyte, Abu Ogogu, Aaron Ramsey, Mark Randall, Jack Wilshere, Fran Merida and Carlos Vela.

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Some soccer and television stuffs, in case you're interested.

I'm interested in anything that puts more wonderful soccer on the telly. Click to continue reading...

Apparently Ricky Herbert is furious with his sides display last night!

I'm more furious. I had to turn it off at half-time. Yes I lasted that long.

The difference between me and Uber Coach Ricky was I knew what was coming.

Some of the Fox Sports guys have talked the Phoenix up since they started in the league. Click to continue reading...

Samantha Harris from Stock - one of tonight's finalists

The final of Miss Essex FM takes place tonight (Thursday) at the Festival Leisure Park in Basildon. longpier.com reluctantly agreed to give up 3-hours of telly watching to see 24 lovelies from across the county battle it out at Liquid & Envy nightclub in Bas Vegas. Click to continue reading...

So United are on tour in South Africa doing their bit to spread the gospel and expand the brand, last night they took on Orlando Pirates in Durban in a game that was at times fairly competitive due to several meaty challenges by the home team. Lee Martin scored a well taken goal to win the match in doing so propelling the Reds into Saturday's final of the Vodacom Challenge Cup where they will probably meet the Kaizer Chiefs who they drew with on Sunday in Cape Town. Click to continue reading...

It's not quite the pre-season, but more like the season before the pre-season. We affectionately call it the 'Pre-preseason', that dead zone when transfers take place, rumors abound and general silliness prevails.

There's no football on the telly, no basketball, American football or ice hockey to keep us entertained.

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Roberto Di Matteo the scorer of the fastest FA Cup Final goal (43 seconds) has taken over as manager at newly promoted MK Dons.

Roberto takes his first managerial job, without any experience BUT with the qualifications, from Paul Ince who has gone to Blackburn Rovers and who has been given dispensation by the Premier League to obtain his qualifications within two years. Click to continue reading...

Is anyone else fed up with the speculation about Cristiano Ronaldo and whether he will leave the ManUre to go to Madrid?

Yes? Me too. So lets not talk about it.

Lets talk instead about last night's match.

I mean are those Italians spoilsports or what? Their style seemed to me to be characterised by a script along the lines of "We aren't actually going to put much effort into winning but we want to make sure you don't either". Click to continue reading...

Yes I will admit I stayed up in the late hours to watch a little preseason soccer on the internet telly. I watched enough of the Dynamo game to get a sense that Houston will still be fine even though they played a club that was on the way out of their season and that [...] Click to continue reading...