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Serie A On TV Updated For Matchday Four And Five

Serie A On TV has been updated for this week so check out the Match Day 4 and Day 5 TV schedule. Serie A has a mid-week set of matches don't miss the excitement, Canadian viewers will have the benefit of evening repeat broadcasts.

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Time For West Ham To Pay Up And Shut Up

Sheffield United have won the latest legal round against West Ham United over the Carlos Tevez saga. A Football Association arbitration hearing ruled in the favor of United and now are seeking £30 million in compensation from West Ham. During the 2006/2007 season, the Hammers fielded Carlos Tevez who was an ineligible player. The striker, […]

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How Arsene Wenger Motivates His Arsenal Players

In preparation for every game, Arsene Wenger gives his players a motivational handout that helps to focus his team on the task ahead. A copy of the handout was found in a Bolton hotel for this past weekend's 3-1 win by Arsenal at the Reebok Stadium. Here's a transcript of what the handout said: Confidential […]

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How To Make Newcastle United A Successful Club Again

Contrary to popular belief, Newcastle United is not a poisoned club. Nor are they jinxed with injuries. At worst, they're a poorly run club who has made one bad decision after another after another. With news that a Nigerian consortium are interested in buying Newcastle, Toon fans will be keeping their fingers crossed that current […]

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Everton Launches Live Goodison Park Webcam

Everton has become only the second club in the Premier League to feature a webcam showing live pictures from its stadium. The other club is Chelsea who have had webcams pointing at their ground for at least a few years. Everton's Goodison Park, one of the most historic stadiums left in the Premier League, has […]

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MLSLive.tv To Be Free Next Season?

Adweek has a very interesting article about network and league sites that are getting into online streaming. In it, MLS gets a mention and rightfully so. Since day one of the league, they have always had an online media presence in some way or form. From being the first to stream games, to their partnership […]

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FIFA And The Contest for World Football: Free Book

The best things in life are free, and that even includes the football book "FIFA And The Contest For World Football," courtesy of Google. Well, 20 percent of it that is. In Google Book Search, the search engine features thousands of books that are viewable online. According to Google, "You can search within the book, […]

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The Problems at Spurs

The attention before and after this weekend’s Premier League fixtures was focused towards Stamford Bridge and the first meeting of Chelsea and Manchester United since the European Cup final in May. Fans of clubs outside the ‘big’ four’ often bemoan their lack of coverage in the media but one club should be thanking their lucky […]

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Bayern’s 2-5 Defeat to Bremen in Historical Perspective

Having had the time to digest Bayern's 2-5 mauling by Bremen (no need to rehash things here, if you need a refresher check out the excellent post at Deutsche Welle's Ballspiel or the video highlights at 101 Great Goals), I wanted to know exactly how bad it was for the Bavarians. No matter what your […]

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Football League Rules In Favor of Derby

The Football League ruled today that ticket prices for the QPR-Derby match on Saturday will be what was agreed between the clubs before the season began. QPR raised ticket prices for Derby fans by 10 quid but Derby refused to pay the increase and appealed to Football League. The ruling today states that Derby fans […]

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Match Day Four – Serie A Italian Calcio

Remember Serie A tifosi this is a short week in Italy, Match Day 4 games are being played on Wednesday, September 24th. Tricky match for Roma away to Genoa this match day and although they've found their footing and confidence, in beating Reggina 3 – 0 Match Day 3, I think this one is going to […]

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La Liga Team Of The Week – Week Three

The La Liga Team Of The Week for Week 3 of the Spanish 1st division was an easy choice. Considering the results and the environments the TOW had to perform in, there is no doubt that the runaway Week 3 winner of the La Liga Team Of The Week is: Villarreal Club de Fútbol The […]

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The Special One's Goal of Week Three

The AC Milan vs Lazio match saw a variety of impressive goals but the one which sticks out above the rest was the winner scored by Gianluca Zambrotta. Zambrotta's is Goal of the Week for the following reasons, 1. distance 2. location 3. power 4. as a fullback Zambrotta doesn't score often, making this a very special goal compared to the rest netted by seasoned goalscorers this week. (honourable […]

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No Excuse for Attack of Manchester United Team Bus

Shortly after Manchester United's 1-1 draw at Chelsea yesterday, their team bus was attacked by an as-of-yet unknown assailant, who cracked the bus' front windshield (as pictured here) with a thrown bottle. No one was hurt, and United continued their short trip across London to the train station and following trip back to Manchester. Let's […]

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Do Soccer Celebrations Go Too Far For American TV Viewers?

Slowly but surely some of my repressed memories of being a soccer fan in the States are coming back to me. Almost a year ago, I wrote about the common "soccer is for fags" insults I remembered hearing in the 1980s. Then, all of a sudden last week, I remembered another insult that American jocks […]