England's starting line-up for today: Joe Hart, Kyle Walker, Gary Cahill, Phil Jagielka, Leighton Baines, Michael Carrick, Tom Cleverley, Theo Walcott, Wayne Rooney, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Danny Welbeck. England kicks off its World Cup qualification match against San Marino today in front of a sold-out crowd of 90,000 fans at Wembley Stadium in London. For […]

FOX Sports's national broadcast of Newcastle United against Manchester United, shown on delay over its free-to-air FOX network, was watched by an average of 1.4 million people on October 7, 2012. The tape-delayed broadcast of Newcastle-Manchester United garnered a rating of 0.9. The broadcast of Newcastle-Manchester United had a 29% higher rating and a 40% […]

FOX Soccer has a new TV commercial that's currently running in heavy rotation on its network to promote its "Being: Liverpool" marathon, which will air this weekend. The 30-second commercial seems innocuous enough, making viewers aware of the 4-episode marathon it'll be running. But listen closely to the words of the voiceover. "You've heard the […]

The way that Jurgen Klinsmann has managed the selection and publicity of this weekend's World Cup Qualifying roster for the Men's National Team, you'd think this is a simple friendly and not a win or bust set of games. Last week, many of the nations who will be caught up in qualifying battles announced their […]

When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, there were 32 countries in UEFA, up only seven from the 25 that founded Europe’s governing body for football in 1954. The winds of change that would spur the Scorpions to lay down their greatest hit swept through Eastern Europe and redrew borders that had tenuously confined its people […]

This week some American soccer fans have decried Jurgen Klinsmann’s decision to leave Jozy Altidore off the U.S. Men’s National Team roster for the two upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Antigua and Barbuda and Guatemala. Altidore’s omission is a wise decision by Coach Klinsmann. It is also a good thing for the U.S. team and […]

The Italian FA yesterday confirmed that Liverpool striker Fabio Borini has suffered a fractured foot. The U21 striker has been ruled out of the Azzurri's World Cup qualifying match against Sweden today, after picking up the injury in training. A statement issued on the Italian FA website confirmed the 21-year old had went for an […]

Today marks one giant step closer to justice for the 96 people who died at the Hillsborough Disaster after Britain's independent police watchdog is "to launch a major investigation into allegations of misconduct by South Yorkshire police, West Midlands police and others arising from the Hillsborough independent panel report published last month," according to The Guardian. This […]

Juventus legend Alessandro Del Piero says he declined a summer move to Liverpool and chose to move to Australia instead because of the Heysel Tragedy. The Heysel Stadium Disaster occurred in May, 1985 when 39 Juventus fans tragically died after a wall in the stadium collapsed. The incident happened after Liverpool fans breached a fence […]

While the debate about diving rages on, there's still plenty of real news to chew on this evening including Santi Cazorla saying that joining Arsenal has helped him get noticed in Spain. Deservedly so based on his performances thus far. Read below for more details regarding that story and much more. Here are the Premier […]

Spain doesn't just rule the world in soccer, but they're also champions in Subbuteo, the table soccer game that has long been a tradition in England and around the world. In this 30 minute documentary entitled "Can You Flick It? A Subbuteo Story," there's plenty of fascinating video to watch including armed police coming in […]

Now that we're in the international break, it's a perfect opportunity to review your Fantasy Premier League team and to think ahead about some of the changes you may want to make. The beauty of Leighton Baines (7.4): A Bob Dylan fan who spends vacations wandering around Greenwich Village. A defender who keeps clean sheets, […]

Everton's Marouane Fellaini has been ruled out for three weeks due to knee injury he suffered in the weekend match against Wigan. That's the bad news. The good news is that the two week international break will mean he won't miss as many matches as he normally would during the busy Premier League season. Here […]

Italian sportswriter Luca Caioli’s new biography entitled Roberto Mancini is readable, revealing, but yet somehow incomplete. Caioli relies exclusively on interviews with influential contemporaries of Mancini to paint a picture of the man as a player and as a manager. The interviews are filled with interesting nuggets, including Gianluca Vialli — his Sampdoria teammate — […]

After reading some online reviews of the new FIFA 13 game, there were some comments on the articles that struck really struck me. Whilst the majority of them were overwhelmingly positive, there were some voicing their disappointment that the creators had yet to include one particular feature. The option to ‘take a dive’ is one […]