The mid week edition of The Third Half starts with Johnathan Starling and Kevin of Serie A Talk discuss the weekend that was Serie A along with discussing the Italian National Team that will play in the upcoming World Cup qualifiers. Click on the image to the right to download this week’s complete The Third Half […]

Manolo Zambrano saw the writing on the wall after his side lost at the weekend in disheartening fashion against Málaga 4-0. Prior to this match, the Boquerones (Anchiovies) were the team with the most water in their gunpowder in the entire league. Prior to their match against Recre, they had only scored two goals in […]

La Furia remain atop the FIFA/Coca Cola Rankings for a fourth consecutive month. They were able to distance themselves from Italy and Germany in the rankings as they earned 52 more points than the reigning world champs and 71 more than Die Mannschaft after more than convincing wins against Bosnia Herzegovina and Armenia. The Spanish […]

The last time Tottenham endured such a poor start to a season was the year the Titanic went down, and if the dreadful results continue at White Hart Lane in the coming weeks then manager Juande Ramos will be the one sinking into unemployment. The board and directors are unforgiving at Tottenham, as Martin Jol […]

Jaroslav Drobny (HBS) 13 saves! This is what it takes to stop Bayer. Fantastic effort by the Czech puts him above Lehmann and Rost, who were both impressive as well. Pedro Geromel (Köln) This is the second straight week for Brazilian. He had a fantastic game neutralizing Rob Freund and he had a goal-line clearance […]

UEFA's general secretary David Taylor has lost his marbles. He's warned clubs that they may face being banned from competing in European competitions if they continue to carry excessive debt. "There would be forms of communication, even warnings, even reprimands before one would ever get to a situation of exclusion but it's absolutely possible," said […]

Yesterday, the Bundesliga's five UEFA Cup entrants were handed very tough groups for the upcoming middle stage of the UEFA Cup. While group previews will be prepared later this month, let's take a look at the draws for Hertha, Schalke, Stuttgart, Wolfsburg and Hamburg. 1. Group A Schalke was a top seed, despite being throttled […]

Well that was one of the biggest headlines of the week in both England and Spain as well as in Italy. Not pleased with Claudio Rainieri´s job during his 14-month tenure with La Vecchia Signora, the club is already looking for a replacement and the Spaniard is at the top of the list. Somehow they […]

The continued outstanding form of the Houston Dynamo and the likelihood that Houston will win yet another MLS Cup title this year begs the question: Have MLS proponents and the league once again exaggerated MLS’ quality, this time in claiming how competitive the league is top to bottom. Consider this: Historically one of four clubs […]

Kyle Beckerman/AP Photo The continued outstanding form of the Houston Dynamo and the likelihood that Houston will win yet another MLS Cup title this year begs the question: Have MLS proponents and the league once again exaggerated MLS' quality, this time in claiming how competitive the league is top to bottom. Consider this: Historically one […]

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This week, some of the top decision makers in world football met at the Leaders In Football conference at Stamford Bridge in London to discuss a host of topics. Richard Scudamore, chief executive of the Premier League, spoke about his vision for making the Premier League into a global league. When interviewed about the topic, […]

With the prediction by Lord Triesman, head of the Football Association, that the current global economic crisis could spell a ‘terrible danger' to clubs with spiralling debt, meaning could we actually see a Premier League club go to the wall? According to Triesman the Premier League is currently in £3bn worth of debt so the […]

La Furia got together on Tuesday as they begin preparations for their upcoming World Cup qualifier matches against Estonia and Belgium. Valencia midfielder Raúl Albiol joins Barcelona's Carles Puyol (foot infection) and Andrés Iniesta (knee), Villarreal's Santi Cazorla (leg contusion), and Sevilla's Diego Capel (hamstring) in the list of players that come into the international […]

AC Milan have a smaller obstacle to overcome en route to a UEFA Cup title. Tuesday's draw in Nyon saw them favored in the group stages as they will face off against Heerenveen, SC Braga, Portsmouth, and Wolfsburg. Meanwhile, Sampdoria and Udinese will see it extremely difficult in groups C and D respectively. La Samp […]