Tottenham remain bottom of the Premier League after yet another defeat. This time they have been beaten by Harry Redknapp's Portsmouth to leave them with just two points from a possible eighteen, leaving manager Juande Ramos under severe pressure at the helm.

It was two former Spurs strikers that bagged all three points for Pompey. Click to continue reading...

The English tabloids pride themselves on having the 'pulse' of the nation. In truth, they are opportunists, shamelessly using exaggeration and false morality to paint themselves as whiter than white (NOTW 'undercover' agents investigating prostitutes and drug dealers always cracks me up). Sometimes they step over the line, as NOTW have done several times in the [. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool overcame local rivals Everton to go top of the Premier League table. Everton finished the game with ten men after Tim Cahill was shown a straight red for a challenge on Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso.

Liverpool keeper Jose Pepe Reina didn't have one save to make all game and in truth the result never looked in doubt once Fernando Torres scored his first goal since the first game of the season. Click to continue reading...

I was exchanging messages with Elisa the other day as she thought that I was a tad hard on Athletic Bilbao.  She thought that I was putting them in second division, which is far from the truth. THIS is how I sound when I tap a team to second division. After four weeks in the La Liga [...] Click to continue reading...

Here is a response from Allen Skaggs, A Crew supporter to my post the other day: Your accusations against the Crew supporters is so far from the truth that I dare you to find out for real what's going on in the Nordecke. I would love to speak with you about the Toronto FC situation.  I [...] Click to continue reading...

The Irons 4 Lambeth 5 As it's early days and the Irons are a new team, we'll go easy on them for now, truth is, they do deserve a coating for the friendly defeat on Saturday, but on a positive note there's room for improvement, and thanks to UK Football Finder they have found a few gems. They also looked the dogs in their new UKFF sponsored kit! Click to continue reading...

The folks who give out the Player of the Year Award for the US Men's National Team are pestering me again to vote. I'm honored to be asked (more honored than deserving, truth be told, but once you get on the list, it's apparently hard to get off), but of two minds when it comes to [...] Click to continue reading...

There are a number of elephants but three are obvious.

Elephant 1. The ref was not up to it. Here are two incidents:

- on 59 minutes Matt McKay and Elrich end up in a tangle on the Newcastle penalty box. Elrich gets up and grabs McKay by the throat. Ref doesn't see this. Then they push each other. Click to continue reading...

I am not witty enough to make a good one; if there is such thing as a good pun. Well there is actually. Not relevant to Leo in the slightest though. It is 'Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I'll show you A-flat minor.' Now onto Messi. He is in danger of losing his status as one of the world's best. Click to continue reading...

Sky Sports (not always the paragon of truth, but you live with what you get) has reported that Ashley has met with Keegan today, with the obvious conclusion being that Keegan is due to be re-instated as Newcastle manager. Is Keegan coming back? One, I don't think Keegan made his decision to leave without thinking long [. Click to continue reading...

TNFtermath: There is no truth to the rumor that Taylor Twellman is now the minority owner of Chivas... Click to continue reading...

Jozy Altidore hipped me to this clip of 8 year old nasty-boy Eric Valentine via Facebook this afternoon. All you need to do is watch the first 55 ankle-breaking seconds to know that this kid is the truth. Or Clint Dempsey 2.0.

This kid is just straight up outlandish. And he's repping for Prince William Sound Courage U-9's out of Manassas, VA so if you are reading this DC United, get those Discovery Claim form's up & poppin' ASAFP. Click to continue reading...

Sometimes we find unusual conduits for the truth. Buddhists for example have their core doctorines channelled through a disavowed prince who constantly tried starving himself to death. Hindus have an overweight man with four arms and an elephant's head. Black people have Ice Cube.

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Mission accomplished for Italy's U21 team. In order to qualify for the Euro 2009 knock-out round, a win or a draw against Croatia was necessary for Casiraghi's boys Tuesday, a task which the Azzurrini completed with brio. In truth, the final scoreline doesn't really reflect how this match played out, because of over 83 minutes [. Click to continue reading...

TORONTO - Many will remember that memorable summer day when Davidinho emerged from his defensive shell to knock in two all but diving headers, showing the world he'd arrived.

Truth be told, Davidinho has actually long been with the Pistolas FC organization, and now prepares to enter his 5th season with the storied club as he rejoins in 2009. Click to continue reading...

Six points in the bag and little doubt the US will advance to the hexagonal. However the truth be told I think the United States finishes third in the hexagonal on current form and must improve its linkup play and general possession play in the final four matches of this qualifying stage. With this in [. Click to continue reading...

Alvaro Arbeloa has poured cold water on reports that he is looking to engineer a move away from Liverpool.

Rumours that the 25-year-old Spanish defender is unsettled at Anfield surface intermittently, despite both he and the cub continuously insisting that such concerns are completely unfounded. Click to continue reading...

It's my kind of Sunday! First, this is an excellent sharp retort from Boltgirl to Rudy's  bull about Obama's record.  Truth will out (I hope). On the first full day of NFL action the Pats pulled out a scary win - and it remains to be seen what Brady's status will be.  He walked off ... but [...] Click to continue reading...

As spoken by Robert Evans in the amazing 'The Kid Stays in the Picture' -- "There are three sides to every story, yours, mine and the truth." The way you want to look at the USMNT's 1-0 win over Cuba Saturday night in Havana falls somewhere in that middle. On the one hand, the result is the result. Click to continue reading...

I've gotten a few emails - well, ok, one, about not posting much these days. It's nice to be missed, I guess.

What's funny is the idea that I've somehow slacked off on my duties, or that this blog falling behind the pack in some way is supposed to wound my pride.

The simple reality of the media world today is that the blogs where writers are getting paid to blog should be the best ones out there. Click to continue reading...

It seems like Jesus Padilla keeps modifying his history. First he was born in Mexico, but raised almost entirely in the U.S., then he accepted that he was born in the U.S., but maintained that it was only for a little while, saying he was basically raised in Mexico. Now it's a combination. Try to keep track of it all. Click to continue reading...

Remember our old Ronaldo to CD Chivas USA rumor?

There was truth in it...

Courtesy of World Soccer Daily.


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We don't need no Premiership.

We don't need no Champion's League.

We've got - the Johnstone Paint Trophy competition!

This will be the first time we have ever had the opportunity to compete as it is only open to Leagues One and Two.

And of course, as we know, this is the first time EVER we have been outside the top two tiers. Click to continue reading...

Good morning insiders, and today I am filling in for the injured PGL, bit of a sick-note truth be told; I hope it is not a Nelson Vivas style substitute appearance, we wouldn't like to let a mate down like that. Today I am joined by Mr Eddy Suryadi of from the [...] Click to continue reading...

Peter Kenyon isn't one to let stats get in the way of the truth. While most of us might consider a return of 22 goals for the princely sum of £30 million a little extravagant, there are others amongst us that are far too sensible to simply associate strikers with ... Click to continue reading...

You know how I sometimes say "You heard it here first"?

I just want you to know its the truth.

For example I was talking about this issue back in August last year.

And do you remember the time I predicted Gary Megson would become the Foxes' manager? And I was right of course (although to be fair, with the advantage of hindsight I wish I hadn't been)

Now it seems some people are recognising that the idea of team GB is politically driven. Click to continue reading...

Former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has fired a shot at his old striker Andriy Shevchenko by saying that he failed at Chelsea because he was too used to being treated like a prince at AC Milan. Mourinho, now manager at Inter, wasted no time in making his comments about his City rival's new signing. Click to continue reading...

The quotes in today's press from Ramos have made me laugh. We have all known for weeks we need to let Berba go to Utd but only now we have lost our first two games, Ramos has decided to speak out.

"We need to get this matter resolved before the transfer deadline.

"If Berbatov goes, we will need time to sign a replacement. Click to continue reading...

So from next season England could have a Spanish goalkeeper playing for them. How shit have England become? Are we now so bad that we now rely on other nations to produce players for us! And we used to laugh at Scotland doing it!


So Manuel Almunia for England? Not for me. It's been said there is a possibility of Almunia playing for England to solve the England goalkeeper crisis. Click to continue reading...

This is sure to be news to Scolari & Co.

Didier "I don't know what I want" Drogba, who missed Chelsea's opening match of the season with Porstmouth, looks to be out until October if Ivory Coast manager Vahid Halilhodzic is to be believed. Drogba was inclued in the coach's 22-man squad for the Coast's Wednesday friendly with Guinea, but was not used.

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I cant believe Toronto FC have waived Laurent Robert.In the same week they will say goodbye to Maurice Edu who has signed with Glasgow Rangers Toronto has released the 33 year old Midfielder.In his stead Toronto has signed former L.A. Galaxy striker Carlos Ruiz to the club.Ruiz is five years younger and has an MLS pedigree before loosing his job to Edson Buddle. Click to continue reading...

The Sunday Mirror are reporting today that James Milner is staying at Newcastle after Kevin Keegan turned down Aston Villa's £9M bid. James Milner - improved contract at the club The Mirror says the winger is unsettled but that is far from the truth, as Kames is enjoying his football under Kevin Keegan, and it shows. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool take the three points and will be rightfully delighted with that, but the worry will be that it took a moment of individual brilliance to break the deadlock after they struggled to break Sunderland down.

What a strike from it was though from Torres. Alonso played an excellent ball through to the striker, who steadied himself in space and buried it in from 20 yards out. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal got their Premier League campaign off to a good start, beating one of the league newcomers, West Brom 1-0 at the Emirates this lunch-time. It was one of the Gunners summer signings who earned Arsene Wenger's men all three points.

Yes, £12 million midfielder Samir Nasri put his side 1-0 up early on with a neat finish from all of six yards. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal flatter to deceive, Steve McClaren stays a loser On the face of it, this is a very solid result for Arsenal. But in truth they were second-best to Twente for long periods of this scrappy game - 1-1 would... Click to continue reading...