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/ 5871 days agoU-S-A Chants At Premier League Matches Are Insulting
During Saturday's Manchester United against Chelsea match at Old Trafford, you may have heard the sarcastic chants from Chelsea supporters of "USA, USA, USA." The chants were directed at the Manchester United supporters. They were part tongue-in-cheek humor as well as a little bit of banter to wind up the Man United supporters and mock […]
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/ 5872 days agoPremier League Matchday 33: Key Observations
With so much of the focus in the build up to this Premier League weekend being on Manchester United against Chelsea, it was unfortunate that many of the other big clashes didn't get as much attention. Especially at this time of the season where every point means so much. I managed to watch 3.5 games […]
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/ 5872 days agoManchester United v Chelsea: Open Thread
Feel free to post your observations about the biggest match of the season throughout the game today. A few observations before the game has kicked off: Didier Drogba is on the bench. Could Chelsea be more powerful today without him? If they played like they did against Aston Villa, the answer is yes. Alexi Lalas […]
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/ 5872 days agoDo You Want a MLS Talk iPhone App?
If you're a regular reader of Major League Soccer Talk, I want to see if you'd be interested in having an iPhone app created for MLS Talk where you could check on the latest posts, read the latest comments, listen to each new episode of the MLS Talk Podcast and read the latest MLS Talk […]
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/ 5874 days agoPremier League Launches Official iPhone App
The Premier League has launched its own official Premier League iPhone App for soccer fans around the world. We've been waiting forever for something like this. And the technologically slow Premier League has finally caught up with the times. The features of the app include: Updates on the long list of the Premier League's latest […]
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/ 5874 days agoArsenal Pulls Off Miracle Draw Against Barcelona
There's a magic about soccer that sometimes feels like hypnotism. Whenever a goal is scored, it's almost as if everything that happened before it is erased from the person's mind. On Wednesday night, never mind the fact that Arsenal was outplayed for 75 minutes in their Champions League match against Barcelona. Instead focus on the […]
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/ 5875 days agoPoll: Can Arsenal Beat Barcelona?
Who am I to outsmart Arsene Wenger, but I really feel that the Arsenal manager is making the wrong decision to play its typical brand of soccer against Barcelona in the Wednesday night Champions League match at Emirates Stadium. An open game from both sides will be entertaining but it'll be a brutal blow to […]
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/ 5875 days agoVan der Sar Saves Man United's Blushes Against Munich
As a neutral observer, the best thing that could have happened on Tuesday night in the Champions League was for Manchester United to lose. After Wayne Rooney scored one of the easiest goals he's ever scored in the second minute at the Allianz Arena against Bayern Munich, it seemed as if this was going to […]
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/ 5876 days agoMan United Coming to America, GolTV in HD And More
Manchester United looks very likely to be the opponent in this summer's MLS All-Star Game, according to press reports. That's just one of the headlines in the news. Here are the latest Premier League-related stories that are making the news in the past 24 hours: GolTV will launch in HD beginning August 1, 2010. GolTV […]
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/ 5877 days agoWhy We're No Longer Watching the Same EPL Matches
For the past several years in the United States, the majority of soccer fans who were watching Premier League matches saw — for the most part — the same games. The vast majority of us watched the Saturday 10am ET game on Fox Soccer Channel, as well as the 12:30pm ET one and the match […]
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/ 5878 days agoMLSsoccer.com: Where Did All The Goals Go?
Is Major League Soccer's new website, MLSsoccer.com, purposefully trying to downplay the low number of goals that are scored in the league or are they just incompetent? The answer is the latter. Or at least a technical snafu where the games aren't being updated with the final results. The above screenshot was taken just a […]
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/ 5879 days agoNani's Twists and Turns Against Bolton: Video
Bolton Wanderers 0 – 3 Manchester United Bolton Wanderers 0 – 4 Manchester United Every once in a while, you see a footballer make an incredible move. It's so good that you have to rub your eyes, rewind the DVR and watch it in slow motion to see how he did it exactly. In the […]
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/ 5880 days agoWhy the USA Needs Match Of The Day
Fans of English soccer in the United States have everything they could possibly wish for: All Premier League games shown live through television and the Internet. A daily UK sports news program from Sky Sports. Matches shown in HD, when and where available. Ways to get around the BBC blocking radio commentaries. And an Internet […]
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/ 5882 days agoZen And The Art Of Fast-Forwarding Through Soccer Games
We may not admit it to our friends, but we've all done it before. It seems sacrilegious to say it, especially on a soccer web site, but here goes: I fast forward soccer games. Gulp, there I said it. It's true. Let me add that I don't do it all the time. In fact, it's […]
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/ 5882 days agoWest Ham 1-3 Wolves: Wanderers Hammer Zola
Despite what the headline in Tuesday night's Daily Telegraph says (see above picture), the scoreline in the West Ham United against Wolverhampton Wanderers was 3-1 to Wolves, not 3-0. But it may as well been 3-0 such was the way that Wolves annihilated Gianfranco Zola's West Ham United with three clinical goals that were top […]