MLS’ season opened earlier this year than it has since the league dropped the schedule from 32 games down to 28 and then back up to 30. In typical MLS style however, the opening weekend seemed to coincide with other prominent events on the American sporting calender so “First Kick” became the exclusive province of […]

Claudio Lopez, in the Club America shirt above scored on his Kansas City debut, but the match itself was tough to watch given the surroundings. MLS' season opened earlier this year than it has since the league dropped the schedule from 32 games down to 28 and then back up to 30. In typical MLS […]

How good was the move by Portsmouth for Defoe? Defoe has a goal per game average with six since the move while Benjani has scored just once since joining City. Manchester United is a wrecking ball heading for a double. Right now Christiano Ronaldo is virtually unstoppable and I feel lucky to be watching him […]

Friday our sister site EPL Talk broke the story on former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho meeting Inter Milan president Massimo Moratti, but what a difference 24 hours makes as Mourinho now denies holding talks on becoming the Nerazzurri manager next season. More... Mourinho issued a statement yesterday contradicting his own spokesman, who said he had […]

Former Chelsea boss and current "I'm on Setanta Sports" presenter Jose Mourinho has had discussions with Inter Milan about becoming their new manager. Current Milan boss Roberto Mancini previously mentioned he would resign at the end of the season, before retracting the comment one day later. The situation would be ideal for Mourinho. The man […]

The historic Santiago Bernabéu, home stadium of Real Madrid CF, in Madrid will host the 2010 UEFA Champions League final, with UEFA awarding the same season's UEFA Cup final to the Arena Hamburg. Now boasting a capacity of over 71,000, the Bernabéu has staged three previous European Champion Clubs' Cup finals. Real Madrid won the […]

AC Milan owner, chairman and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi indicated earlier this week he would veto any potential Air France take over of Alitalia if and when he wins Italy's general election next month. More... Ahead in polls as the next Italian prime minister, Berlusconi, is feeling the pulse of a nation with this response. […]

As I speculated on in an earlier post, it seems that Roberto Mancini's "I'm leaving...wait...no I'm staying" routine has contributed to Inter's shocking decline of form. The announcement was made moments after Inter had been dumped out of the Champions League by Liverpool by a 3-0 aggregate scoreline. Going back as far as February 16, […]

The 2010 Champions League final will be held at the Bernabéu, home to the team that has won Europe's top club competition on more occasions than anyone else, Real Madrid. The Spanish stadium has hosted the final three times, most recently in 1980, and was battling for this honor with Wembley and the Olympiastadion in […]

Everton midfielder Tim Cahill will likely miss the rest of the season, manager David Moyes said today, after the Australian was diagnosed with a recurrence of a broken bone in his foot. It's no secret that I think very highly of Cahill as a player; in December, I wrote a post illustrating and praising his […]

It seems that Liverpool FC co-owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett will not learn from their mistakes. The American owners continue to air their dirty laundry in public, which is doing a disservice not only to them (as professionals), but also to Liverpool FC and its fans. The latest episode in this real-life soap opera […]

Given a choice, I might not normally put much thought into viewing this game but I decided that I needed to watch at least one complete Derby match this season to truly assess if they are the worst Premier League team ever. The numbers for Derby are staggeringly bad. -54 goal differential, no wins away […]

Wayne Rooney will be the latest puppet to join the hit show, "I'm On Setanta Sports." Rooney will join Jose Mourinho and Sven-Goran Eriksson on a weekly basis beginning Saturday, March 29th. It'll be interesting to see how the dynamic between Mourinho, Eriksson and Rooney will work. The combination of Mourinho and Eriksson has been […]

Chelsea's summer pre-season tour may exclude the United States for the first time in a few years. Yesterday, Chelsea announced that the club will be playing friendlies in Malaysia and China in July 2008. In prior years, Chelsea played friendlies in California and Illinois. Most notably, the Blues played against L.A. Galaxy in 2007 and […]

The last time a Merseyside derby was scheduled as the match of the week (in the much-coveted Sunday timeslot of 4pm GMT/11am ET), it was three years ago. Liverpool beat Everton 2-1 at Anfield with goals by Gerrard and Luis Garcia. Cahill pulled one back for Everton, but of course the match featured the obligatory […]