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/ 5759 days agoWhere Have Those Summer Breaks From Soccer Gone?
Remember the good old days when there was a summer break of a month or two between the end of the English football season and the start of the new one? For me, the summer break was synonymous with following cricket matches, Wimbledon and monotonous days of no soccer news on Sky Sports News for […]
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/ 5760 days agoFox Soccer Channel Cancels Fox Football Fone-In; Kyle Martino to Host New Show
Fox Soccer Channel's weekly soccer call-in program Fox Football Fone-In has been canceled according to the Beyond The Pitch podcast. The show originally began in 2004 as Fox Football Friday, but since then it has changed almost everything including hosts, formats, days of the week, name of the show, sets, co-hosts and more in the hopes […]
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/ 5761 days agoWatch Manchester City vs Sporting Lisbon: Streaming Live Online
You can watch Manchester City versus Sporting Lisbon tonight at 8:30pm ET in the second game of the Barclays New York Challenge. Courtesy of Veetle, you can watch the game live here on EPL Talk. Or, if you own an Apple iPhone, iPod Touch or Apple iPad and you're feeling adventurous, you can try watching […]
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/ 5761 days agoBarclays New York Challenge: Video Interviews with Harry Redknapp and Roberto Mancini
It's definitely a pleasure to have two of the top teams from the Premier League in New York this weekend to compete in a friendly tournament. So many times in the past, the States have gotten passed up as clubs traveled to Asia. Now, this summer is our turn with a handful of English clubs […]
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/ 5761 days agoVeetle Broadcast of Tottenham Friendly Deemed a Success
Weeks from now, the opening game of the 2010 Barclays New York Challenge will have faded from most people's memories when the regular season kicks off. It wasn't a particularly exciting game, and Spurs looked lethargic and out of ideas for large portions of the game. However, the match between Tottenham Hotspur and New York […]
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/ 5761 days agoPro Evolution Soccer 2011 Trailer
Another trailer has been released to promote Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 (PES 2011). Whether you've played PES before or not, you may want to take a look at this video to see how the graphics and playability have seemingly improved. The commentator in the game will be Jon Champion. And the game will be released […]
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/ 5761 days agoBolton Wanderers Away Shirt for 2010-11 Season: Photo
I realize that Bolton's football ground is named Reebok Stadium, but it's about time that the lamb be put to slaughter and for Bolton, if at all possible, to move away from Reebok. Reason being is that their football kit designs just seem to one failed experiment after another. Enter the next piece of evidence […]
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/ 5761 days agoWhat Are Your Earliest Childhood Memories of Soccer?
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Or, for we soccer supporters, which came first for you – playing soccer or watching it on television? Looking back to my childhood, I lived in a village of just a few hundred people in west Wales. My earliest memory of watching soccer on television was probably […]
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/ 5762 days agoNew York Red Bulls vs Tottenham Hotspur: Live Streaming Video
This evening, the Barclays New York Challenge kicks off when New York Red Bulls plays Tottenham Hotspur in the first game of the tournament (8:30pm ET). In the United States, the game is being televised by Fox Soccer Channel, but it'll also be available on FoxSoccer.tv and, for the first time ever, it'll be available […]
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/ 5762 days agoSky Sports Releases Promo for New Season: Park Game
Sky Sports often make a fool of themselves by hyping their own programming to such an extent that they can hardly ever live up to their promises. But, they recently released a new promo in the United Kingdom which caught my eye because it's extremely well done, irreverent, creative and conjures up great memories of […]
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/ 5762 days agoWest Ham United Home Jersey for 2010-11 Season: Photo
West Ham United has unveiled their new home shirt for the 2010/11 season. Designed and manufactured by Macron, the shirt is a combination of retro and modern. It features a retro turn-down collar, as well as the Hammers symbol both at the bottom of the collar and on the back. The claret shirt features blue […]
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/ 5762 days agoWhich Premier League Club Would You Support If You Were Reborn?
Sometimes we pick soccer teams. Sometimes soccer teams pick us. But no matter how you came to support your favorite Premier League club, consider this for a second: What if you were reborn and you had to pick a different team than the one you support now? Who would you switch your allegiances to and […]
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/ 5763 days agoDerek Rae Leaving U.S. to Join ESPN in UK
Derek Rae, one of the most talented US-based soccer commentators, will call his last game for ESPN US next week before he heads to the United Kingdom to work for ESPN UK. Rae will be the ESPN UK's main commentator for the Scottish Premier League, where ESPN UK will air 30 SPL games from the […]
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/ 5763 days agoWould You Still Have Fallen In Love With Soccer If You Grew Up Elsewhere?
I was born and bred in Great Britain and lived there until I was fourteen and then moved to the United States. During those impressionable years growing up in Wales, the sports that were thrust upon me were soccer, rugby, tennis and cricket. After I moved to the States in 1984, the first time I […]
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/ 5763 days agoWigan Athletic Home Jersey for 2010-11 Season: Photo
Wigan Athletic has launched their new home jersey for the 2010-11 season. And they've done it again. Whenever you feel that soccer shirt designs are getting better across the league, you can always rely on Wigan Athletic to bring you back down to earth again with a shirt design that is abysmally poor. Historically, Wigan […]