The future is now as Germany are hit by injury to Robert Enke. Not that I wanted any injury to Enke, as I think he is a fantastic keeper and seems like an all around good guy; however, he has broken his hand during the run up to this round of World Cup qualifiers for […]

Other than a few soccer blogs and a handful of literate newspapers, there isn't a plenitude of intelligent football writing available. But there is one last bastion that we can continue to depend on and that's football books. A good way to find out which books to buy are to find the ones nominated for […]

If you're a Comcast Cable customer and you want Setanta Sports, the time to act is now. I just spoke with a source inside Comcast Cable who confirmed that their head office in Philadelphia has signed a contract with Setanta Sports so that local Comcast Cable companies have the green light to add the 24/7 […]

Michel Platini is making a fool of himself again this week after his tirade against the prominence of English teams in European football. If you caught his interview on Sky Sports, you wlll have seem him ramble on and on, venting his anger and seeming quite unfocused and unpresidential — especially for someone who is […]

With a league title on the line Sunday the Puerto Rico Islanders rested several regulars for tonight’s Champions League match in Mexico against Santos Laguna. The results were disasterous even with Santos resting several regulars. 3-0 was the final scoreline which proves USL sides have neither the depth nor the quality to really compete against […]

With a league title on the line Sunday the Puerto Rico Islanders rested several regulars for tonight's Champions League match in Mexico against Santos Laguna. The results were disasterous even with Santos resting several regulars. 3-0 was the final scoreline which proves USL sides have neither the depth nor the quality to really compete against […]

FA chairman David Treisman mentioned introducing a salary cap, to combat the “very tangible dangers” of the current financial climate. Premier League clubs have a combined £3 billion of debt. But, is wage expenditure really the most prominent issue? Yes, players make an absurd amount of money for wearing short pants and playing a […]

Martin Rogers of Yahoo! Sports joins Kartik Krishnaiyer for a free flowing discussion about a wide range of topics related to US Soccer and World Football. Among the topics discussed: Nevan Subotic's thought process as to why he may play for Germany instead of the US whom he played for at the youth level, Jose […]

The mid week edition of The Third Half starts with Johnathan Starling and Kevin of Serie A Talk discuss the weekend that was Serie A along with discussing the Italian National Team that will play in the upcoming World Cup qualifiers. Click on the image to the right to download this week’s complete The Third Half […]

Manolo Zambrano saw the writing on the wall after his side lost at the weekend in disheartening fashion against Málaga 4-0. Prior to this match, the Boquerones (Anchiovies) were the team with the most water in their gunpowder in the entire league. Prior to their match against Recre, they had only scored two goals in […]

La Furia remain atop the FIFA/Coca Cola Rankings for a fourth consecutive month. They were able to distance themselves from Italy and Germany in the rankings as they earned 52 more points than the reigning world champs and 71 more than Die Mannschaft after more than convincing wins against Bosnia Herzegovina and Armenia. The Spanish […]

The last time Tottenham endured such a poor start to a season was the year the Titanic went down, and if the dreadful results continue at White Hart Lane in the coming weeks then manager Juande Ramos will be the one sinking into unemployment. The board and directors are unforgiving at Tottenham, as Martin Jol […]

Jaroslav Drobny (HBS) 13 saves! This is what it takes to stop Bayer. Fantastic effort by the Czech puts him above Lehmann and Rost, who were both impressive as well. Pedro Geromel (Köln) This is the second straight week for Brazilian. He had a fantastic game neutralizing Rob Freund and he had a goal-line clearance […]

UEFA's general secretary David Taylor has lost his marbles. He's warned clubs that they may face being banned from competing in European competitions if they continue to carry excessive debt. "There would be forms of communication, even warnings, even reprimands before one would ever get to a situation of exclusion but it's absolutely possible," said […]

Yesterday, the Bundesliga's five UEFA Cup entrants were handed very tough groups for the upcoming middle stage of the UEFA Cup. While group previews will be prepared later this month, let's take a look at the draws for Hertha, Schalke, Stuttgart, Wolfsburg and Hamburg. 1. Group A Schalke was a top seed, despite being throttled […]