Forget Man United and Arsenal. The biggest hit this holiday season is Setanta Sports and their hilarious Jose Mourinho parody. View the Jose Mourinho parody video: If you enjoyed the parody, the good news is that Setanta will be producing more episodes. Read the full scoop on the mCalcio blog.

The 2007 season for MLS was its most visible on both the American sports scene and on the international football scene. For first time since the early days of the league, MLS was scouting Latin America for talent and playing in the international transfer market. But it seems the never ending conflict within MLS to […]

The continued constant realignment and tinkering with USL makes it difficult to keep track of USL-1 especially when so many former USL-1 teams are in USL-2 and expansion teams come and go as the California Victory did this season. In the upcoming seasons USL-1 is likely to expand to and may simply put teams where […]

Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton will spend New Year in jail after being arrested on charges of common assault and affray (similar to disturbing the peace). Barton appeared at Liverpool Magistrates' Court where it was disclosed that he and a group of friends were allegedly involved in two separate incidents following a dispute with another group […]

2007 was an interesting year for the US National Team. A transition year to say the least, at times the US looked worse than any point since prior to hosting the 1994 World Cup. The American performances in the Gold Cup and Copa America were un-inspirational to say the least. Despite winning the Gold Cup […]

Best Performance: The US' 2-1 victory over the Pato led Brazil squad at the U-20 World Cup in Canada Biggest Revelation: Sal Zizzo. The UCLA product playing out wide in the US midfield for the U-20s got himself a contract in the Bundesliga with his outstanding World Cup. Worst Performance: John Hackworth's U-17 team imploding […]

Yes, Arsenal is hitting a sticky patch right now and are not playing the type of fluid football they're renowned for especially in their away match against Portsmouth at Fratton Park. Watching the match, I kept on asking myself the question in my head, "Are they playing like Premier League title contenders?" The simple answer […]

This is traditionally the busiest time of year in the English Football season with the Boxing Day matches on the horizon and the January transfer window about to open. But here in the United States we are consumed by meaningless college bowl games between sixth place finishers in their conference. Can you imagine if we […]

1998 was an expansion year in MLS. Chicago and Miami entered the league and MLS sensing it needed to expand the pie of potential players in the league increased the number of foreign players allowed in the league from four to five and the results were less than pleasing. Perhaps it was a sign that […]

The draw to determine pairings for the first knockout round of the UEFA Champions League was held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon. Here are the matchups with my predicted winners highlighted. Schalke v Porto Roma v Real Madrid Olympiacos v Chelsea Liverpool v Internazionale Celtic v Barcelona Lyon v Man. United Fenerbahçe v Sevilla Arsenal […]

It's not a stretch to say that hundreds have died as a direct result of football hooliganism. We've seen recent problems with football-related violence in Italy, Croatia and England just to name a few places. Some pundits claim that the violence has less to do with football than it does with societal unrest. It was with […]

What a crazy time it has been already within MLS. Juan Carlos Osorio ends up with the Red Bulls and Chicago is left without a coach. The franchise in its ten years of existence has had three head coaches and two of them have been poached away by the New York franchise. What makes Osorio […]

euFootballBiz is reporting that Liverpool will likely tour the United States and Canada next summer to play several friendlies. Liverpool may play in the MLS All-Star Final against an MLS All-Star team. If so, the 2008 final is scheduled to be played in Toronto in July. euFooballBiz also indicates it's likely that Liverpool will play […]

Watching the highlights of last night's impressive performance by what is essentially Arsenal's B side against Blackburn in the Carling Cup, I was yet again impressed by the legacy that Arsene Wenger has built at his club. He's spent little money, invested in the future and the rewards for that policy are paying dividends this […]

Performancing, one of the leading websites for bloggers, interviewed me recently as the first part of a series of interviews with bloggers from different walks of life on the Internet. The interview discusses how I got started in blogging, who's the one person I'd love to meet, how much time I spend blogging each week, […]