Blackpool's promotion to the best league in the world today was exactly what the Premier League needed. In a season with plenty of highs and lows on and off the pitch, it was down to feel-good stories from Fulham, Portsmouth and Blackpool this season to end the 2009-10 football calendar on a high. Congratulations go […]

If you want to get Barney Ronay's thoughts on today's Champions League Final between Inter Milan and Bayern Munich, watch this short trailer which was created and produced by the video design team of Laurence McKenna and Max Bell. The entire interview with Barney Ronay, which was filmed inside The Guardian's offices, will be released […]

Today's Championship Playoff Final is often called the richest final in the sport. The winner stands to gain around 90 million pounds, which is far more than the 36 million pound prize on offer in this afternoon’s Champions League final between Inter Milan and Bayern Munich. Needless to say, this match is massive for both […]

The United States Soccer Federation has used money from a preseason bond submitted by AC St. Louis to make the club's Friday, men's club payroll commitments, sources close to the situation have confirmed. The club, however, remains without adequate funding to complete the season, with the USSF continuing to work towards a solution that will […]

[polldaddy poll=3237954] While the Premier League season may be over and there's three weeks to go before the World Cup begins (yippee), there is the matter of three games this weekend. All of which are important for different reasons. Blackpool v Cardiff City, 10am ET, Saturday, Fox Soccer Plus and FoxSoccer.tv Bayern Munich v Inter […]

Excuse the Stephen Colbert reference above (I wish he would return to UK TV screens!). Saturday signals a great day for football with the Champions League final taking place, but before that there is a game that is worth even more money to the victor. The Championship playoff final takes place at Wembley in a […]

The fifth video in the "OneGoal: Road To South Africa" series has been released and this one focuses on the USA's crunch game they had against Honduras down at the Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The video does a great job at capturing the mood in Honduras among the US fans (and […]

I'm definitely an optimist, but having experienced a lot of ups and downs in my life, I'm also a realist. Having said that, I have some concerns and reservations about the 2010 World Cup. And that is that I hope the tournament goes off without a hitch. Too many times in the past, negative incidents […]

One of the co-authors of Soccernomics, Simon Kuper is also an expert on Dutch soccer. On this edition of the World Cup Buzz podcast, I talk to Simon about the romance surrounding the Oranje, when we learned about the team from Euro 2008, and whether he feels a suspect defense and hold up in South […]

One of the co-authors of Soccernomics, Simon Kuper is also an expert on Dutch soccer. On this edition of the World Cup Buzz podcast, I talk to Simon about the romance surrounding the Oranje, when we learned about the team from Euro 2008, and whether he feels a suspect defense and hold up in South […]

This was a fantastic match that had a lot of pace & action going on the field for both sides. But while the Red Bulls couldn't convert all their chances, all the Columbus Crew needed were two and they punished New York with two quick goals within a four minute span. 35th minute Frankie Hejduk […]

The much anticipated World Cup TV commercial from Nike has been released. It features a cast of soccer superstars including Wayne Rooney, Ronaldinho, Cristiano Ronaldo, Didier Drogba, Fabio Cannavaro, Franck Ribery, Andres Iniesta, Cesc Fabregas, Theo Walcott, Patrice Evra, Gerard Pique, Ronaldinho, Landon Donovan, Tim Howard and Thiago Silva. Directed by renowned Hollywood director and […]

Athletic Club of Saint Louis is on the verge of folding its North American Soccer League and Women's Professional Soccer clubs, sources have confirmed. The club's weakened cash reserves may not allow them to make their next payroll obligations, and despite ongoing conversations amongst the United States Soccer Federation, NASL, and WPS, no plan is […]

Even while Landon Donovan, Edson Buddle and Sacha Kljestan train with the U.S. men's national team in hopes of making the World Cup roster, the MLS schedule churns on this weekend. There are two games tonight in advance of a four-game menu on Saturday, topped off with a lone Sunday fixture. Here's the schedule: Tonight's […]

The season is over (save a Champion’s League final on Saturday) and the World Cup is not starting until mid-June. If other fans are anything like me, they are looking for a fix through whatever English football scraps they can find. Transfer rumors are these scraps. Every spare moment I would usually spend watching a […]