Felix Magath's struggling Schalke side will host promoted side St. Pauli this Friday afternoon, and will be looking for maximum points. Schalke, who just barely missed out on the Bundesliga title last year, are rooted to the bottom of the league on six points – and one win – from their first ten matches. Magath […]

In this week's installment of the Friday Flashback Videos, we take the time machine back to the 1972-73 season in the old First Division of England. If you haven't seen this before, it's definitely a must-see series of videos. In them, you'll see some of the legends of the game including Brian Clough, Don Revie, Bill […]

After coming home with a one goal lead on aggregate from San Jose, the New York Red Bulls knew that the Earthquakes were never going to give up without a fight at Red Bull Arena. The Quakes absolutely knew they dodged a massive bullet at Buck Shaw Stadium as the scoreline could've been at least […]

The Bundesliga's Europa League contestants played out some tough fixtures in their respective groups, with a mixed bag of results amongst the sides. The matches for the night were Dortmund away to France's PSG, Stuttgart away to Spain's Getafe, and Bayer Leverkusen at home versus Aris Salonika. Here are the results! Paris Saint-Germain 0 – […]

We have our first mid-week contests coming up, so I think the approach I'm going to take this season is to list all 20 matches for the week ahead, rather than 2 separate guides, so take a deep breath, and here goes. If there is one match all year I would give 5 stars to, […]

Tuesday night's performance by Gareth Bale against Inter Milan was one of the most remarkable performances seen on English soil in quite some time. Bale, the Welsh left winger, completely owned Maicon and beat the Brazilian on so many runs. Thankfully someone has captured all of Bale's wonderful runs and touches from Tuesday night in […]

Football Manager 2011 (FM) is released this Friday in Europe and tentatively dated the 16 of November in the US. A Football Management ‘simulator’ you are put in charge of basically any club of your choice in a ridiculously realistic setting. Playing Football Manager can often be like taking a degree in football, you learn […]

On this edition of the Major League Soccer Talk Podcast, I am rejoined by Kevin McCauley who, stepping in to regular co-host Christopher Riordan, helps me preview the second leg of Major League Soccer's conference semifinal match-ups. Also, we discuss the first award given out by Major League Soccer as well as the retirement of […]

Bayern Munich have successfully broken their record for their best European start of all time, and have also secured qualification into the round of sixteen, despite having two fixtures left to play in the group stage. Mario Gomez led the line for Die Roten tonight against Cluj, and made a massive impact for the Bavarian […]

Now that Major League Soccer has started to give out their awards in certain categories, there is one they've awarded that is highly questionable. That's the Rookie of the Year category. The three nominees were Danny Mwanga of the Philadelphia Union, Tim Ream of the New York Red Bulls and Andy Najar of DC United. […]

It's an exciting time in English soccer right now. All four English clubs in the Champions League sit at top of their respective groups. And in the Premier League there is plenty to drool over as each week there seems to be another amazing goal or incredible incident. But out of all of the selection […]

In the ongoing saga that is The Times online and its red headed stepchild that is the paywall, some concrete numbers are starting to emerge pertaining to the overall success of the experiment. First, the good news. According to TechCrunch, The Times online signed up 105,000 paying subscribers plus another 100,000 who were already long […]

Bayern Munich travel to Romania to take on CFR Cluj, in the reverse fixture of a match they were lucky to escape with three points from back in Bavaria. Own-goals were key back in Germany, but Bayern Munich will not want to count on lightning to strike twice for them tomorrow night. Compose and determination […]

Most of already presumed it, but now the news is official. Former England National Team player Steve McManaman has joined ESPN as a soccer analyst for its networks in the United States and United Kingdom. In the U.S., he will primarily serve as a studio and match analyst for the network’s coverage of Premier League matches, […]

Damien Comolli is headed back to England. Comolli, the former Arsenal scout and director of football at Tottenham Hotspur, has been appointed by John Henry and his ownership team as director of football strategy at Anfield. The Frenchman, who was most recently the sporting director at Saint-Étienne, has established himself as a talent evaluator that […]