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While the club has a proud history, there's no denying that Liverpool Football Club is one of the most disliked Premier League clubs in English football. The amount of people wanting Liverpool to fail is palpable. The club is often the butt of jokes and lazy stereotypes. And it seems that whether it's on social […]

Let's start with a clear statement. I don’t really like international football and I hate international breaks. I didn’t used to have this feeling, but I do now. I should also add that while I live in the United States, I am English, since that may be a factor. The exception being the Euro Championship […]

As the clock pushed on towards the 90-minute mark on Friday night, most United States Men's National Team supporters were dreading the worst. A 1-1 scoreline against the weakest team in Group A, yet another disappointing away result for a team that looks the least dangerous it has looked in years, and the odds of […]

Didier Drogba, Demba Ba, Papiss Cisse and several Premier League players were forced off the field tonight during a riot in the game between Senegal and Ivory Coast. With Ivory Coast leading 2-0 until the 20th minute, the Senegal fans began to riot, setting off fireworks. The Africa Cup of Nations playoff match was then […]

A recent Sunday morning in Portland, Oregon. Early. A brief gargling with Scope does little to wash out the heavy taste of Saturday night’s Rogue Ales and Jamesons. The streets are as deserted as those in The Walking Dead and the sun is only a dull hint in the sky. By all rights I should still be […]

Don't worry Steven Gerrard. Wayne Rooney respects your position as captain of the England team. But if the opportunity ever did come along, Mr. Rooney would love to captain England again. In the meantime, Rooney says that he plans on leading by example and improving his behavior, helping young players and being more captain-like. See, […]

While San Marino was hardly tough opposition, Wayne Rooney played an exceptional role in England's 5-0 win against the minnows on Friday night with a wonderful performance as captain and attacking midfielder at Wembley. Here are tonight's Premier League news headlines: Wayne Rooney proves worthy of the honour as England's latest captain — The Telegraph […]

It's incredible to see how far Joe Hart has come in such a short time. At the 2010 World Cup, when I was hosting a World Cup viewing party at Wowies sports bar featuring USA and England, Umbro was nice enough to send a pair of autographed Joe Hart gloves to give away as a […]

“It is an ode to defeat” is how the organizer of an art exhibit at Paris’ Pompidou Center describes a recently-unveiled statue of Zinedine Zidane. The 16-foot work, by artist Adel Abdessemed, is unusual in that it doesn’t show Zizou in his pomp like most artistic depictions of athletes. Rather it depicts his “moment of […]

England's starting line-up for today: Joe Hart, Kyle Walker, Gary Cahill, Phil Jagielka, Leighton Baines, Michael Carrick, Tom Cleverley, Theo Walcott, Wayne Rooney, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Danny Welbeck. England kicks off its World Cup qualification match against San Marino today in front of a sold-out crowd of 90,000 fans at Wembley Stadium in London. For […]

FOX Sports's national broadcast of Newcastle United against Manchester United, shown on delay over its free-to-air FOX network, was watched by an average of 1.4 million people on October 7, 2012. The tape-delayed broadcast of Newcastle-Manchester United garnered a rating of 0.9. The broadcast of Newcastle-Manchester United had a 29% higher rating and a 40% […]

FOX Soccer has a new TV commercial that's currently running in heavy rotation on its network to promote its "Being: Liverpool" marathon, which will air this weekend. The 30-second commercial seems innocuous enough, making viewers aware of the 4-episode marathon it'll be running. But listen closely to the words of the voiceover. "You've heard the […]

The way that Jurgen Klinsmann has managed the selection and publicity of this weekend's World Cup Qualifying roster for the Men's National Team, you'd think this is a simple friendly and not a win or bust set of games. Last week, many of the nations who will be caught up in qualifying battles announced their […]

When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, there were 32 countries in UEFA, up only seven from the 25 that founded Europe’s governing body for football in 1954. The winds of change that would spur the Scorpions to lay down their greatest hit swept through Eastern Europe and redrew borders that had tenuously confined its people […]