Welcome to match day 29 and the always entertaining Derby della Capitale, it should be a cracker. More... Zeman sees Roma triumph (courtesy of channel4 football.com) Former Lazio and Roma boss Zdenek Zeman has tipped the Giallorossi to secure bragging rights in this evening’s Derby della Capitale. "Roma play the best football in Italy," Zeman […]

Club brass decided to take their suspension to the highest authority in the land. Real Betis look to appeal their two-match stadium ban and loss to Athletic Bilbao this past weekend after Basque goalkeeper Armando was struck with a water bottle by a Betis supporter.

In case you missed it, pictures of Liverpool's home, away and third shirts for the 2008/2009 season have been leaked courtesy of our friends at Football Shirt Culture. Here's the home shirt: As you can see, Adidas has designed a very classy home shirt with a similar style to the Chelsea home shirt (except for […]

Park in the lot across the street? Not John Terry. Capt. John parked his Bentley in a handicapped parking space while having lunch with his family at Pizza Express. Surely, he will stand up and be counted by paying his 60 GBP fine.

Want to enrage Arsene Wenger? Try buying one of his young lads an ice cream. According to the Guardian, the Arsenal manager will report Inter Milan to UEFA, after the club tapped up Alexander Hleb during the team's trip to Milan. Hleb reportedly left Arsenal's hotel with an agent Claudio Vigorelli, who Wenger believes escorted […]

Ivan Gazidis/MLSNet We have received some very consturctive and valid feedback over the past week about my piece from last week, MLS Failing in its Mission. Once again I feel the difference of opinion is genuine. Many of you rightfully want to see top club football in the United States. I however, am much more […]

Derby 0 – Manchester United 1 This match epitomizes the season for both clubs. Derby worked but weren't quite good enough. United's only enemy was their own cuteness. Ronaldo should have scored at least three, or more according to his own verbal tally. Birmingham 1 – Newcastle 1 The result risked being critical, but little […]

Ho-hum. Another day, another winless result for Kevin Keegan and Newcastle today as his side managed to earn a 1-1 draw at fellow bottom-feeder Birmingham City. Michael Owen's oh-so-masterful toe-poke into the back of the net levelled the score in the second half and both teams came away with a point, a point that could […]

Fulham FC sprang back to life on Sunday, with a startling 1-0 victory over European-bound Everton. The win, Fulham's fourth of the season, places gives them 23 pts – an effective four points away from safety. However, Odds and Sods will now make a bold prediction. Fulham will not be relegated. The club has momentum. […]

The top four all win in Serie A making for no surprises but Roma did require a call to the bench to maintain the status quo. Second half substitutes, Guily and Vucinic, scoring late and within 3 minutes of each other, helped Roma come from behind to do the double on AC Milan. The Rossoneri […]

I kept hearing the Star-Spangled Banner in my head during Fulham's critical 1-0 victory over Everton today as six Americans, five of whom currently still play for the national team, took part in the game. Kasey Keller, the US all-time leader in wins and shutouts, posted another of each at the club level for Fulham […]

The United States road through Olympic Qualifying has been littered with peril to this point. The three match group stage in Tampa featured exactly no United States goals from the run of play and three opposing teams who in their own manner showed better shape, discipline and quality than the United States. But […]

After returning home from the hospital on Wednesday after being away for almost six weeks, I was finally able to watch some live Premier League matches on Fox Soccer Channel yesterday. The matches du jour for me were Liverpool against Reading and Arsenal versus Middlesbrough. What I witnessed brought a smile to my face. Here […]

Arsenal have just one defeat in the league this season – shoddy solace for a third-place finish. The Gunners have played four Premier League matches since Feb 11. Though maintaining their ever crucial unbeaten streak, they have dropped eight points to Manchester United, who are now level on points, ahead on goal difference and have […]

You almost had to figure that Jeremie Aliadiere would score the goal that would see Boro to a 1 – 1 draw at the Emirates. This is the guy that could not buy a goal during his long stay at Arsenal yet pops up with one that leads again to points dropped by the Gunners. […]