Paul Kennedy recently noted at Soccer America that we owe a big thank you to Koman Coulibaly, the referee who made a controversial call against the U.S. a few days ago. "He accomplished what no one else could in more than 100 years. He made Americans care passionately about soccer." Indeed, I may have to take back what I wrote last week in my post "Happy at the Margins.

The new Burnley home kit for the 2010-11 season was unveiled today morning at 8am. This new Burnley strip has been designed by Puma to replicate the first claret and blue strip worn by the club 100 years ago. Fun 88 are the sponsors of the new Burnley shirt. Here is the photo of the new [...] Related posts:

1. New Burnley 2009-10 home shirt Click for the Burnley FC 2010-11 season home kit.

The England rugby team will wear a special one-off kit for their Six Nations opener against Wales this Saturday. The Nike kit will be used to mark 100 years of international fixtures at Twickenham, the first of which was a meeting between England and Wales in 1910. The retro England strip is based on that worn by [.

Now that Liverpool FC is finally sold (!), it's time to take a look at what exactly has been sold, and what debts/liabilities will be paid by off with NESV's £300m purchase money.
What company has been sold?
Q. Is it Liverpool Football Club and Athletics Grounds Ltd (LFCAGL) that has been sold, or is Kop Holdings Ltd (KFL)?

For some reason, the concept of goal line technology, essentially a NON-ISSUE, now threatens the very the integrity, if not the very innocence of football. Platini, the incorrigible leader of UEFA, lamented that the introduction of goal line technology would turn Football into Playstation football.

Please feel free to make your own handball jokes as TH14 goes one on one with Barcelona basketballer Roger Grimau... 100 years of Old Trafford, in photos (BBC) And one photo of the debt protest outside David Gill's house (Dirty Tackle) Air Cesc, now offering complimentary apologies (Unprofessional Foul) Putting Bellamy vs Mancini in perspective (The Lonesome Death of [.

Burnley Football Club is the first current English Premier League side to officially launch a 2010/11 kit. The Clarets unveiled their Puma 2010/11 home kit earlier tonight at the club's 100 years of Claret and Blue exhibition in which every Burnley kit from the past century was on show. According to Burnley's website: For the 100th anniversary [.

photo credit: Lance Shields

The Host: Break out your pinatas everyone, because today is my (stream of consciousness style) surprise birthday party for the United States Soccer Federation. Happy 97th birthday, USSF! If I may borrow from an old advertising campaign,"you have come a long way baby.

Old Trafford - the official home ground of Manchester United completes 100 years this month. The centenary time for this glorious ground has also seen it become the home to the England team between 2000 and 2007 while Wembley was redeveloped. Manchester United legend Sir Bobby Charlton called their Old Trafford home ‘The Theatre of Dreams' and the name has stuck.

Irish defender Shane Duffy underwent life saving surgery Friday night after a freak collision with a goalkeeper in a friendly game against an Irish amateur iv side.

Muricy Ramalho about 100 years ago

The Brazilian Football Confederation have just announced that Muricy Ramalho is to become the next Brazil coach.

Ramalho is still in charge of Fluminense and it's not clear whether the coach will continue his duties with the Laranjeiras club.

The 54-year-old former midfielder won the Campeonato Brasileiro with São Paulo three times in a row between 2006 to 2008.

On Saturday there is a celebration of 100 years of British Red Cross in Nottinghamshire since getting in touch with Max (the unfortunate Forest fan running the Great North Run dressed as Robbie Savage thanks to some merciless friends!) I've been in touch with them about the event, which includes a raffle for a [.

The football World Cup today lost one of its final links with its origins, when Francisco Varallo, the former Boca Juniors forward, died in the early hours in La Plata, aged 100 years and six months. He had been the ... Continue reading →

The governing body of world soccer, FIFA, continues to diversify its brand and celebrate the heritage of its World Cups with the global launch of a new limited edition ‘FIFA Heritage Tees' range for Autumn/Winter '10 that relives 100 years of football history in art form. These beautiful t-shirts celebrate previous FIFA World Cup™ tournaments [.