By John Nicholson The Champions League returns this week. Thank God. It seems to have been away for months. With 5 British clubs involved, at last we'll see some proper, competitive football games featuring the Premiership big four and Celtic. The top sides in the domestic leagues are so far ahead in terms of resources […]

Fox Soccer Channel is causing a bit of a stink down under, but it's not the sports network's fault. It seems that a web site named channelsurfing.net is playing an illegal stream of Fox Soccer Channel to viewers around the world, which has particularly upset executives in Australia. The Age newspaper from Melbourne, Australia, is […]

Soccer Shout, the daily podcast on English and Scottish football, has launched a redesigned version of their web site. The new-and-improved site will feature blog posts (previously at cleverfootball.com) as well as links to all of the latest episodes of the acclaimed podcast. Check it out when you get a chance.

For you soccer die-hards who have been waking up at all hours of a Saturday or Sunday morning to get your Premiership fix, relief is on its way. Beginning March 11, the U.S. will move to Daylight Savings Time several weeks before usual, while the European Union won't move their clocks one ahead until March […]

Let me preface this blog post by saying I am in no way a fan of Steve McClaren and feel he is completely out of his league coaching England. But he does have one thing right: Friendlies need to be used to deepen the player pool so when major tournaments roll around you are fielding […]

Chelsea is paving the way forward for Premiership clubs after they announced a deal with YouTube to offer videos online for their fans. This is a first for a Premier League club. This is a perfect example of how clubs such as Chelsea and Manchester United are miles ahead of the Premier League in terms […]

The Premier League has announced that they're redesigning their premierleague.com web site. Incredibly, the current design of the site hasn't changed since December, 2004. In fact, the design from September, 2002 looks remarkably similar. For a corporation that's bringing in $4.5 billion in TV revenue over the next three years, the current state of their […]

Paraguay and Columbia join the US and Argentina in Copa America Group C. More on Copa America and the US prospects this weekend.

It was a marathon, but I really enjoyed watching last night's FA Cup Fourth Round replay match on Fox Soccer Channel between Bolton against Arsenal. Arsenal made it all the more entertaining by missing two penalties and Adebayor squandering an open goal. But Bolton had their chances too hitting the post in the first half […]

It's never too early to start looking at the new kits that the Premiership clubs will be unveiling this summer for the 20072008 Premier League season. There's already been a lot of activity, but here's what we know so far: Arsenal:Will be keeping their same home shirt, but will be coming out with a new […]

During the past few weeks, America is suddenly in vogue in regards to soccer. The latest development is that representatives from UEFA attended this year's Super Bowl in Miami to see how they can take some of the American ideas and make them work for the UEFA Champions League final scheduled in Athens this May. […]

Manchester United has agreed to sell Tim Howard to Everton for an undisclosed fee. With Ben Foster making his England debut last week in the loss to Spain, Manchester United has found their keeper of the future to replace Edwin Van De Sar. Foster who is on loan at Watford has been outstanding all season […]

The rest of the draw will be made later today. This is certainly a challenge for the US Men but if we do send a true "A" side (which has not been indicated by the USSF) this could prove to be an invaluable building experience for our national team.

New UEFA President Michel Platini has the answer for how to reduce the number of incorrect decisions made by referees: Add two referees in a match, so there are five officials on the pitch at one time. Platini's idea is to place a referee's assistant in each of the penalty areas to assist with offside […]

In the continuing series that explores my recent trip to England to watch top flight football, we take a look at my visit to Arsenal's Emirates Stadium: It's not often that the outside of ground looks just as attractive as the inside, but Arsenal's Emirates Stadium (or Ashburton Grove as many prefer to call it) […]