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Manchester United Files For IPO On New York Stock Exchange

Manchester United Ltd. has filed a registration with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) to offer stock to U.S. investors via an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Manchester United intends to raise up to USD $100 million from the sale of Class A ordinary stock, which will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange […]

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ESPN’s UEFA EURO 2012 Audience up 51 Percent vs. 2008

European soccer is growing by leaps and bounds in the United States. According to ESPN, Sunday's Euro 2012 Final between Italy and Spain set a record as the most-watched European Football Championship game in United States history. The match was seen by an average audience of 4.068 million viewers in 2.699 million average television households, based […]

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Who Scored the Best Goal of Euro 2012? [POLL]

Goals in football are as few and precious as the days of summer. The sizzlers of Euro 2012 rank up there with the most sumptuous scores in the grand history of this great game. Here are five worthy candidates for top goal of the tournament. Andrea Pirlo: Raging against the twilight of a brilliant career, […]

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Feuerstein's Fire #107

Feuerstein's Fire #107 Tuesday, July 3rd 8PM EDT – 5PM PDT Guests: Chris Riordan MLS Talk Podcast host and DC Correspondent on DC United's season Patrick Quinn Colorado Rapids fan discussing the files on fans gate with Dick's Sporting Goods Park security NASL Segment: Re-Capping this past weekend games Red Bulls Hour: Re-Capping the one […]

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Premier League News Links: Andre Villas-Boas Named Tottenham Hotspur Boss

Starting today, we're going to bring you a daily post featuring the latest Premier League news stories. Even though Euro 2012 is over and the Premier League season doesn't start until mid-August, there's still plenty of news as you can see below. André Villas-Boas confirmed as new Tottenham manager — The Guardian Stuart Pearce has […]

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Has Stuart Pearce Scored an Own Goal Before a Ball Has Been Kicked?

Selecting players to represent the Great Britain Olympic Football Team (“Team GB”) was always going to be a controversial and ultimately thankless task; however Stuart Pearce appears to have made two grave errors of judgement with the official announcement of the final squad selection. The first of these errors was the omission of David Beckham […]

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MLS Must Show Spine and Suspend Beckham

It's finally come. After a few years of dangerous tackles and public outbursts against officials, MLS finally has a very public example of poor behavior by David Beckham that will either lead to a suspension or a discrediting of league management. Saturday night saw the best and worst of Beckham: his lovely free kick goal […]

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Behind The Scenes With ESPN's Coverage Of Euro 2012 [VIDEO]

Now that Euro 2012 is over, many of us in the United States will miss ESPN's excellent coverage of the tournament. Other than the opinions of the pundits who often polarize viewers (and so they should, since they have strong opinions), it's hard to fault ESPN's coverage, which I thought was spectacular from beginning to […]

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Stuart Pearce Names 18-Man Team GB Football Squad for Summer Olympics

Stuart Pearce has named his 18-man squad for the Team GB football squad to play in the 2012 Summer Olympics. After last week's news that David Beckham would not be included in the squad, the attention has switched to focus on the youngsters — and a few older footballers — who will be flying the […]

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How to Pick an English Premier League Team

One of the hardest things for new fans is figuring out how to pick a Premier League team. It's often said that supporting a soccer team is a bit like a marriage. I could trot out the old cliches about “ups and downs," twists and turns. But, to be honest, some marriages don’t last. Rather, […]

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Eric Wynalda Named Interim Head Coach of Atlanta Silverbacks

Eric Wynalda will be named today as interim head coach of NASL team Atlanta Silverbacks, according to an industry source. Wynalda will replace Alex Pineda Chacon, who was fired Sunday night after a disappointing record in charge of the Silverbacks team. It's understood that Wynalda will take immediate charge of his Atlanta side, beginning with […]

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Euro 2012 News: ESPN And BBC's Beautiful Video Montages of Euro 2012

After Spain's incredible and well-deserved 4-0 win against Italy yesterday, here's the final set of Euro 2012 news headlines. I hope you've enjoyed the daily news updates, served up every morning since late May. I've enjoyed being part of your daily ritual. If you've enjoyed them, please let me know if you're interested in having […]

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Toronto FC 1-1 NY Red Bulls: Early Goal Explosion Ends In Drab Draw

After an emotional victory at home against DC United, it was time for the Red Bulls to keep on marching along and trying to stay level or go past United for the lead in the Eastern Conference Table. But the next task at hand was a trip to BMO Field and facing a different Toronto […]

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Seattle Sounders Find New Way To Extend Winless Streak

After a hard fought win in San Jose last Tuesday, Seattle seemed to be figuring out what ailed them in the last eight winless league matches. After giving up a 12th minute off-side goal to Saer Sene, Seattle fought back to take the lead behind two Eddie Johnson headers. Only to have it negated by an […]

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Italy vs Spain, Euro 2012 Final: Open Thread

Spain vs Italy 2:45pm ET TV schedule Buy Spain and Italy shirts With the news that Vicente Del Bosque has decided to start three strikers for Spain today, it sounds like we'll have a match in store. Will Del Bosque's late decision to play three strikers have a detrimental impact on Spain since they're not used to playing that system, […]