In our final week before the next international break, I count forty-three matches being broadcast in the United States this weekend, so there's definitely something for everybody. The only match between two ranked clubs takes place on Saturday from a league that is used to such matchups but including a pair of unlikely suspects as Levante hosts Valencia on ESPN Deportes.

We have a frightening Top 25 for you this week. At least it's frightening for a few. Levante, for example, who lost its first match of the season in the Primera División, which dropped it from first to third in the table and, consequently, dropped it from number two in the rankings to number eleven.

After a few very exciting weekends of football, this one seems a little mundane. There are no matches between WCR Top 25 Clubs. Once again, the highlight is a matchup between English powers, but let's face it – these days Chelsea/Arsenal pales in comparison to United/City. Still, it is an important London derby and should be fun for supporters of both clubs.

This was a tough week for a lot of the clubs at the top of last week's rankings. Needless to say (thought that won't stop me), the toughest week was had by Manchester United, whose 1-6 loss to intercity rivals Manchester City was its worst home loss since the 1930-31 season. That wasn't the only slip near the top, though.

As usual, there is plenty of action taking place on U.S. television this weekend, but let's face it, there's one match that dominates the schedule. This past weekend, Manchester United faltered and dropped to second in the English Premier League behind intercity rival Manchester City and also lost the top spot to its hated adversary in the latest WCR Top 25 Clubs in the World.

As you know if you've followed these rankings for a while, it's difficult for anybody to take over the top spot from the first place team in the English Premier League table until that club has been eliminated from the Champions League. It has happened before, but it doesn't happen often.

Thank goodness that international crap is over for a while and we can get back to what we like best, club football. Of course, the match that everybody is looking forward to this weekend is Saturday's Liverpool – Manchester United matchup. Manyoo has been on a roll recently and will look to keep that up at Anfield.

Since there is an international break in club action this weekend, we are going to take advantage of the break to bring the next entry in our series of Annual Club Rankings.
For the second time in three years, Juventus headed the top of the Annual Rankings despite finishing as runner-up in the European Champions Cup.

It's that time of year again. Most of the domestic league action is on hiatus so the world can enjoy international football. Here, we're not particularly adverse to international football, although we are know much more for our fondness of domestic league action.
There will be some club action in the Western Hemisphere and you can find much of that on GolTV and, in the case of Mexican league play, on the Spanish-language channels in the United States.

Another month has come and gone and so it's time for another WCR Monthly International RPI Rankings. With all of the matches in September, I was expecting a lot of movement. I guess there was quite a bit but nothing as significant as I had expected. The most movement occurred with clubs in UEFA.

What have we been telling you about for weeks? Months, even? Have you been paying attention? Do you know what's happening this week? If you guessed that all hell was breaking loose in the rankings then you've been paying attention.
A few weeks ago, when English and Portuguese clubs had last season's numbers drop out of the equations, it didn't cause a huge tremor in the rankings.

This coming Monday will be a big week in the rankings as Italy and Spain reach the point in the season where all of last season's data is dropped out of the computations. Leading up to that are some great matches this weekend that will have a large say in how next week's rankings play out.

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This weekend should be a great one for football but in a less traditional way. There are no Manchester United/Chelsea or Barcelona/Real Madrid matches going on but there are some matches in other countries that might be considered the local equivalent at the moment. The three in particular that I will have my eye on are Porto/Benfica on Friday, Shakhtar Donetsk/Dynamo Kyiv on Saturday and Twente/Ajax, also on Saturday.

There aren't a lot of changes in the rankings this week but there were some. Most notably, Lyon enters the Top Ten after its win against Marseille pushed it to the top of the Ligue Un table.
Let's just call this the calm before the storm, though, okay? If you've been paying attention, you noticed (because we told you) that last week, the German Bundesliga and French Ligue Un numbers from last season were purged from the calculus.