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/ 6031 days ago

Rangers looking for Champions League recovery

Rangers face a crunch Champions League night this week and one of their stars has stressed the importance of the tie. The Scots are currently bottom of Group G with only one point and enter a tie away in Romania against Unirea Urziceni knowing that another defeat will put an end to their distant hopes […]

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/ 6032 days ago

DC United and Coach Tom Soehn Part Ways

Earlier this morning came the news that DC United coach Tom Soehn would not seek to extend his current contract with the team. Set to expire at the end of this year, Soehn will instead leave the club he has been a part of for the past six seasons – three years as an assistant […]

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/ 6032 days ago

Real line up Italian Maestro?

I think it is fairly safe to say things are not going to plan at Real Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu. After a summer of unprecedented spending they were supposed to challenge for honours on all fronts and regain their place at the top of La Liga from Barcelona. In all fairness they're only a point behind […]

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Ronaldo keen to see Rooney move to Madrid

Cristiano Ronaldo signed for Real Madrid in the summer and had been a star performer in his Real Madrid shirt before being sidelined by injury and the former Manchester United star has said he would love to see former team mate Wayne Rooney move to the Bernabeu to play alongside him again. Ronaldo left Manchester […]

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Fox Soccer Channel Ratings Surge For Premier League Games

Fox Soccer Channel's TV ratings for the past year have been released, which reveal how many viewers the channel has been getting for Premier League, Serie A, Major League Soccer and other leagues and programs. Fox Soccer Channel began being rated by Nielsen on October 1, 2008, so it's perfect timing to reflect how the […]

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/ 6033 days ago

EPL Talk Podcast: The Wenger Way

Brant Parsons of the Orlando Sentinel, and the Orlando Sentinel.com stops by to talk about Arsene Wenger's impact on Arsenal and English Football. Wenger recently collected his 1,000the Premiership point and broke the record for the longest tenure as an Arsenal manager. Among the topics discussed on this show are Wenger's training techniques, his ability […]

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/ 6033 days ago

Odd Weekend of Playoffs Exposes the Worst Flaw of the MLS

For those of us that follow a major European team, there is a weekly pattern that develops over the season. After the weekend game, many fans like myself spend a couple of days absorbing commentary about the game. Youtube is scoured for clips and the blogs are mined for insights. If your team happens to […]

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/ 6033 days ago

Mike Jones Does Phil Brown No Favors

I recently asked the question: When Will Phil Brown Go?, & it seems in all actuality I'm no closer to an accurate answer of that question than when I posed it last week. Hull City lost another football match this weekend at Turf Moor to current over-achievers Burnley, 2-0. Two Graham Alexander goals were enough […]

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/ 6033 days ago

Getafe Fails to Capitalize Against a Ten Man Real Madrid

The fashionable district. The working-class south. The established. The disrespected. Commerce. Industry. A comparison between the two top Madrid clubs. Getafe just wants to be in the conversation. They are in the city too, they say. Real Madrid does not disrespect them because they are not in Real's radar. With Atlético Madrid struggling to steer […]

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/ 6033 days ago

MLS Outperforming EPL on American TV

The Barclays Premier League may be the most popular sports league in the world, but it is not the most popular football league in the United States. That distinction would fall to the Mexican League. But now, we have empirical data that the EPL is trailing our own top flight domestic league, Major League Soccer […]

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/ 6033 days ago

MLS Talk Podcast #118: Simon Kuper

After a three week hiatus, Kartik Krishnaiyer returns to host the show with some excerpts from our EPL Talk interview with critically acclaimed and best selling author, Simon Kuper. Brian Zygo also catches up with Rico Clark to get his thoughts on scoring for the US in front of his father and World Cup qualification. […]

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/ 6033 days ago

My First Impression Of Man United's Gabriel Obertan

Saturday's snoozy session between Manchester United and Blackburn Rovers turned Old Trafford into a literal Theatre of Dreams. Even the linesman sailed off to the Land of Nod, for what other excuse could there be for deeming Rovers sub Nikola Kalinic offside when he banged in Edwin Van der Sar's deflection off a Benni McCarthy […]

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/ 6034 days ago

Hughes, We Have A Problem (Birmingham v Man City)

Is anyone else starting to get a little nervous for the Man City "project"? I was thrilled by the way the team were playing for the first two months of the season. They were incisive, dashing, and had a swagger about them that said "we can do this". As sure as one swallow doesn't make […]

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MLS attendance report: Nov. 1, 2009

The playoff numbers look like this... 5 year comparison Conference Semifinals – 1st Leg Avg +/- Home Teams 2005 12,147 NA Chicago NY Colorado Los Angeles 2006 9,533 -21.52% Chicago NY Colorado Chivas USA 2007 14,245 49.42% Chicago NY Dallas Kansas City 2008 10,476 -26.46% New England NY Salt Lake Kansas City 2009 19,985 […]

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/ 6034 days ago

Lessons Learned from Giornata 11

A Halloween weekend for the 11th matchday saw tricks and treats for various clubs, players and managers. In honor of the holiday, we will take a look at those who got their candy this weekend and those who got toilet papered. Treat: Inter Milan on Top An expected win by Inter over Lavorno coupled with […]