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MLS Talk Chat: Oct. 18, 2008

Follow MLS live and online today via the MLS Talk Chat featuring football/soccer fans discussing the match from around the world. The chat will begin at 7:25 pm EST, 4:25 PST

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Man United v West Brom: Live and Online: Oct. 18, 2008

Follow Manchester United against West Brom live and online today via the EPL Talk Chat featuring football fans discussing the match from around the world. Kick off time is 12:30 pm ET/5:30 pm BST.

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Is Canada's Club Football Brighter than in the US?

While the Canadian National Team has been eliminated from securing its first World Cup qualification since 1986, this has been an otherwise banner year in Canadian Soccer. Toronto FC has been a few terrible (and dare I say blatant) officials calls away from making the MLS playoffs as a second year franchise. The Thunder Bay […]

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Does Club Football Have a Stronger Future in Canada?

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Arsenal v Everton: Live and Online

Follow Arsenal against Everton live and online today via the EPL Talk Chat featuring football fans discussing the match from around the world. Kick off time is 10:00 am ET/3:00 pm BST. The chat is currently ongoing. We will also be keeping everyone up to date on Aston Villa v Portsmouth, Bolton v Blackburn, Fulham […]

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"We Needed A Change"- Messi

Hey, for those of you that were hating my last piece... you are absolutely right! There was nothing going on in Argentina, and that was confirmed by Lionel Messi when he arrived in Spain, he expressed his satisfaction after Alfio Basile resigned from the national team position. "When things aren't going well, there needs to […]

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Friday Night Links

Previews of the weekend's fixtures courtesy of The Sun, The Telegraph and Sky Sports. The Injury Front Michael Owen does it again. I guess it's comforting Beye, Gutierrez and Martins are coming back...then again, maybe not. If Kinnear can stay calm about this, it will be the first sign of hell freezing over. Arsenal lose […]

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Ramos's Poor English Speaking Skills Will Be The Downfall Of Spurs

It's no wonder that Tottenham Hotspur are playing so abysmally this season. Have you heard Juande Ramos's English? Seriously, if you were a player on the Spurs squad and you listened to Ramos speak, would you understand him, respect him and be motivated by him? Listen to his Friday press conference below and you tell […]

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Scolari Is God, Benitez Is The Devil

It's so rare these days that a football manager says anything new or remotely intelligent other than the rehearsed lines he memorizes from media training. Other than Joe Kinnear, of course. But Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari said so many refreshing things on Friday that I felt compelled to write about it. When asked about […]

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Bolton Giving Away Free Beer To Lure Fans

Bolton against Blackburn isn't one of the biggest derbies in the Premier League season, but Saturday's battle between the two Lancashire sides — separated by 17 miles — will be watched by the biggest home crowd of the season including 1,000 fans supplied with free beer in the new Fanzone and "singing end" behind one […]

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The Third Half 4 is Live

This edition of The Third Half with Johnathan Starling starts with Christopher Murphy as we discuss the upcoming weekend in the Bundesliga. Shakira Graham from Championship Talk discusses the upcoming weekend of the Championship along with some news tidbits. Kartik from Major League Soccer Talk talks about the week that was CONCACAF World Cup Qualifiers […]

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Messi Could Be Culprit Behind Basile Departure

Fresh off of one of the worst performances in decades, Argentina find themselves in shambles. As of Thursday afternoon, the local media were reporting the possibility of coach Alfio Basile stepping aside due to inner conflicts and lack of response from the team the news would be confirmed hours later. Basile's irrefutable resignation had to […]

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Gonzalez Out For Three Months

It was one of the biggest and ugliest collisions this week in World Cup qualifying play. Nicolás Burdisso and Mark González bumping of heads left more than just a simple headache the following morning. Betis' Mark González suffered a second-degree craneoencephalic traumatism and a third-degree knee sprain that will keep him out for three […]

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No Ligapokal for Old Men

Earlier this year the Ligapokal was cancelled due to fixture congestion in the aftermath of Euro '08, but was expected to return bigger and better. Understandable, if unfortunate. Now according to kicker the old men at the DFL* have already cancelled the 2009 edition of the competition. The reasoning behind the move? According to DFL […]

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US-Trinidad and Tobago analysis

While Mexico struggles to get out of the semifinal round of CONCACAF Qualifying, the US clinched a birth in the final round with two games to spare. This gave Bob Bradley the opportunity to try a new lineup against a side that qualified for the 2006 World Cup on the road: in other words Bradley […]