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Disappointing Season For Liverpool Is Their Best In 19 Years

The season brought no trophies to Anfield... Manchester United tied the league title record... The big money summer signing proved a flop... Seven miserable home draws... Mid-season position squandered... Lengthy injuries to the big guns... And Liverpool still had an outstanding season. Their best in 19 years. If Liverpool beat Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday, they'll […]

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Premier League 09/10 Football Kits: Launch Dates

The majority of Premier League clubs have already announced release dates for their new 2009-2010 football kits. Many of the clubs will adorn themselves in new home, away and third kits. Please note that the dates are subject to change. Arsenal: June 25 (away, 2009-2010 season), July 23 (third, 2009-2010 season) Aston Villa: June 20 […]

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Premier League Teams Named For 2009 Asia Trophy

The four teams have been named for the 2009 Premier League Asia Trophy to be played in China between July 29-August 1, 2009. It's the first time the tournament will be played on mainland China when Beijing will be the host to Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United, Hull City and Beijing Guo'an. The games will […]

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ESPN360 Coming To Comcast: Soccer Fans Rejoice

It's the news that soccer fans with Comcast have been waiting for. ESPN and Comcast have agreed to deal to bring ESPN 360 to Comcast customers by the fall of 2009. Up until now, none of the 17 million Comcast subscribers had access to ESPN 360, the broadband video site that features the Champions League, […]

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TV Schedule For Premier League Finale

The final day of the 2008/2009 Premier League season is this Sunday, and all of the attention will be focused on the bottom of the table to determine who will be relegated or not. Here's the TV schedule for residents in the UK and USA: UK: Aston Villa vs. Newcastle – Sky Sports 1, 4pm […]

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Major League Soccer Talk #80: Chris Oakley

Chris Oakley the creator of Some People on the Pitch, who is one of the leading football analysts in the UK joins us to discuss US Soccer from a UK perspective. Following the interview we get an update on the Houston Dynamo from Brian Zygo.

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Welcome back West Brom

The predicted great escape was sadly not to be for West Bromwich Albion, a 2-0 defeat to Liverpool condemned Tony Mowbray’s side to life in the Championship. It seemed a late run of form was going to provide the springboard for the Baggies to perform another miraculous feat, ala 2007, but it was too little […]

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Without Keane, Sunderland Flirt With Relegation

Is Roy Keane smirking right now? Is he rolling his eyes? Both? For two years Sunderland was Roy Keane's baby. He took the struggling side, nurtured it back to health and delivered it from the relegation zone of the Championship and back to the top flight. In every transfer window he made moves to improve […]

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What MLS Can Learn from Indios Story

Many critics of the American game, most with European orientations demonstrate nothing but disdain for the playoff system in football. For these critics the story of Indios needs to be told. Six short weeks ago the Mexican Club which is only four years old was flirting with relegation from the Mexican Primera Division. Based in […]

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/ 6198 days ago

Serie A Roundup – Week 36

After 36 weeks & a New Years/Christmas break, Italy has its champions. Congratulations to FC Internazionale Milano for clinching their 17th Scudetto. The Nerazzurri won the title after arch-rivals AC Milan lost on Saturday 2-1 on the road to Udinese. For good measure, Inter gave their home fans a show by trouncing Siena 3-0 at […]

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Steven Cohen Apologizes For Inaccurate Hillsborough Claims

World Soccer Daily host Steven Cohen issued an apology Monday in response to his inaccurate statements he made in April when he blamed Liverpool fans for being the root cause of the Hillsborough Disaster, as well as other false claims. In an open letter to his listeners and readers, Cohen said "I would like to […]

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Sunderland's Defeat Sets Up Sensational Sunday Showdown

All they needed was a win to make sure they were free of being dragged in to the final day relegation battle against a side guaranteed Premiership Football for next season but Portsmouth proved a bridge too far for Sunderland. They will now go in to Sunday's final round of matches knowing whatever happens they […]

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La Liga Roundup – Week 36

Well the title is finally wrapped up and now La Liga's attention will focus on the races for European cup spots as well as to see who stays in the Spanish top flight and who does not. Also the race for the Pichichi will have a very interesting turn in the days and weeks ahead. […]

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Rio Ferdinand's New Website Is Shocking, In A Good Way

It's perhaps inevitable in this day and age that footballers will not follow in the footsteps of their predecessors into the inevitable job opportunities that present themselves. Manager, Coach, Television pundit, Pub landlord, Priest and Horse trainer are just some of the roles that former players often either fell into, or chose to follow their […]

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Wigan Pass On Amr Zaki

I admit it. I was fully dazzled by Amr Zaki when he first came to play in England. The stunning goals came so quickly. And they were gorgeous. Wigan Athletic's unknown striker just needed half a second on the ball to make miracles happen and it seemed like the goals were going to stream from […]