Without the season started Sevilla already bad news comes again. The biggest signing in club's history will not be available for the rest of the year as he will have to endure a severe knee injury. Arouna Kone's career is now in jeopardy after suffering a severe knee injury in a national team friendly against […]

Matchday one is now gone and we look forward to another weekend of action from the Barclays Premier League. As I mentioned last week, I'm going to be tracking my performance in the same manner IKTS does. Even I will admit I was pretty bad by predictions standards last week. Only six out of ten […]

Under Bob Bradley the USMNT has become reliant on set pieces for scoring and quite possibly more dependent on its center backs than any top 50 national team/photo from US Soccer For all the criticisms of Bob Bradley’s tactics by commentators including myself, the continued success rate the United States enjoys on set pieces is […]

For all the criticisms of Bob Bradley's tactics by commentators including myself, the continued success rate the United States enjoys on set pieces is remarkable. This is all the more remarkable when you consider the trouble the United States had scoring on set pieces in the 1999 to 2003 period after Eric Wynalda, Marcello Balboa […]

Sven Goran Eriksson confers with Cuauhtemoc Blanco/Reuters Photo El Tri’s come from behind victory against Honduras in the first match of group play Wednesday at Azteca should not be an occasion to gloss over the very real problems CONCACAF’s traditional superpower faces. Honduras’ ability to control large portions of the match at Azteca with a […]

With a relatively lazy Friday as far as soccer news is concerned, I thought I'd put out a quick primer for the weekend's most interesting matchups. This is something I'll be doing sporadically throughout the year, though more so for domestic and continental cup competitions (when English teams are involved) rather than the Premierhip. Tomorrow: […]

The biggest transfer in Argentina is supposed to happen within the next 72 hours. Many of the people outside of the country know him, but he seems to be one of the biggest promises in the game in three or four years. River Plate' s Matías Musacchio, one of the club's biggest prospect is being […]

Photo from Reuters Mexico was fortunate to escape with a 2-1 win at Azteca tonight over a Honduran side filled with quality. Honduras played some quality football and was unfortunate not to secure at minimum a point as Mexico despite being out thought and flustered much of the night used two Pavel Pardo goals in […]

If you like a drop a couple of [your local currency] having a flutter on the football results, pull up a chair and let's have a chat. I like to look for value, rather than a sure thing, and here is where I see it this weekend. Newcastle v Bolton – Away Win (@ 15/4) […]

Here are the matches for week three in the CCC. Charlton ( W-L) v Reading (W-D) – Madjeski Stadium Birmingham (W-W) v Barnsley (L-L) -St. Andrews Stadium Coventry (W-W) v Bristol City (W-D) – Richo Arena Blackpool (D-L) v Sheffield United (W-L) – Bloomfield Road Crystal Palace (L-D) v Burnely (L-L) – Selhurst Park Cardiff […]

Former Manchester City and England Manager Sven Goran Eriksson and Cuauhtemoc Blanco discuss strategy/Reuters photo The first matchday of group play in CONCACAF World Cup Qualifying brought us some outstanding football and some great escapes most notably by Mexico whose performance against Honduras at Estadio Azteca left little to be desired for seventy minutes. El […]

Photo from Reuters Mexico was fortunate to escape with a 2-1 win at Azteca tonight over a Honduran side filled with quality. Honduras played some quality football and was unfortunate not to secure at minimum a point as Mexico despite being out thought and flustered much of the night used two Pavel Pardo goals in […]

No matter how much Fabio Capello has tried to defend England’s performances in all five of the friendlies he has taken charge of, it remains blatantly clear that the team are not currently ready for the daunting trip to Croatia next month. After previous unconvincing Wembley wins against Switzerland and USA under Capello, and a […]

It took an own goal in the 67th minute by R. Özcan for the Azzurri to draw even after trailing 0-2 on Manager Lippi's return. Italy were expected to ease past Austria in Nice, but Austria hadn't read the script and Emanuel Pogatetz and Marc Janko fired goals past Azzurri keeper Buffon to make it 2-0 by the 38th […]

Andy Williams (Real Salt Lake) Scored a goal in Jamaica's 1-1 draw with Canada Omar Cummings (Colorado) Came on late and helped Jamaica secure a valuable road point. Dwayne DeRossario (Houston) Played the full 90 minutes for Canada and received a yellow card Pat Onstad (Houston) Played the full 90 minutes for Canada in goal […]