Really good interview with Mark McCullers by Columbus Alive's Chris Deville. Are you watching, Grant Wahl? The whole thing is pretty good, particularly if you're a Crew fan, but the best part for me was the comment on youth development:

But if [the youth we develop] sign other professional contracts and they haven't signed a contract with MLS, then yes.

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How is this guy one of the best regarded soccer writers in America? He's sure as hell not a good interviewer:

SI.com: Without being too self-conscious about it, I wanted to ask you what you thought of my book, The Beckham Experiment?

I mean, honestly. And check out the picture Wahl posted on twitter:
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Okay, I know, 3 posts in one day is a bit excessive. But one was part of a planned thing, the other was new injury news, and there are several things here that I thought you find interesting.

First, and most importantly, Kieran Gibbs did not break his foot, only suffered brusing, and is expected to be back and ready for action against Chelsea on the 29th.

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For ranking methodology and other information about the series, see the original post. To read the about the No. 7-rated stadium, the Camp Nou in Barcelona, click here. To see all "soccer mecca" entries click here.
No. 6 Estadio Bernabeu, Madrid
Open since: 1947
Capacity: 80,000
Tenant(s): Real Madrid
World Cup hosts: 1982
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The 35 year-old Robert Kovač has followed in the path of his brother, Niko, and has retired from national team play. Robert first joined the squad 10 years ago in April of 1999, when they hosted Italy in a friendly match in Zagreb. He has played an important role in ... Click to continue reading...

Last week, I asked you to vote for you favourite 20 players of the decade, here in this very post, are the Top 100 players of the last 10 years, voted for by you, the readers and bloggers of the offside. First thing I want to say is thank you, everyone for the absolutely amazing response [...] Click to continue reading...

Arsenal are a rather special team, for many reasons. Manager Arsene Wenger has been in the job for more than a decade, which is an achievement in itself. In a day and age whereby managers come and go like candidates to be Sir Alan Sugar's apprentice, 10 years in the job deserves a gold medal. Secondly, [. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal 3-0 Tottenham

For a football fan, there can be few things as satisfying as an epic goal bundle.

In order to achieve optimum conditions for bundles, several key elements need to be in place. Surprise is definitely one. Scoring against your old rivals is another.

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Hello to all of you reading this on a Sunday or Monday or maybe even 3 years time when you are caught reminiscing about this game making it 20 games unbeaten against Spurs.

Like the title says, 11 seconds, that is all it took for Spurs to crumble and fall to the knees (literally when Cesc went past half of the Spurs team for his goal).

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Chris Hughton at least has the right attitude, and few Newcastle fans would disagree with that. Chris Hughton wants to be Newcastle manager long term How could anybody else survive at the Newcastle club over the last 20 months, (close to 10 years at normal clubs), and actually love the club a lot more than when [. Click to continue reading...

Match thoughts on our result will follow shortly but here's a unique opportunity? to suggest your own headline on our win. If you suggest I'm devoid of imagination yes this is partially true but I'll tell you where I'm stuck or give you suggestions as a base to get this thing started.

You could focus the headline on.

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Tottenham have not won a game against Arsenal in the premier league for the last 10 years and history repeated itself.They went down tamely.Van Persie scoring two and Fabregas another.Goals

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By Gf60 There� are no games in the season that fill me with more terror than the Spuds. It's 90 minutes of having a pulse rate way too high for an old fart, bitten fingernails, and nervous twitches...and that's when we're a few goals up. Yes it has been 10 years almost to the week since the scrawny [. Click to continue reading...

This Saturday will once again see another North London derby.� A fixture which is one of my favourite throughout the year and yet at the same time one that I dread the most.� For the last 10 years, Arsenal have been the favourite to win the derby which means that anything less than this feels like a victory for Spurs.

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Newcastle United's opponents the 'morra, the 'Vikings', or 'Rovers' as Doncaster are better known, have had a fairly similar history to Scunthorpe, their closest neighbour. They have yo-yoed through the lower divisions before dropping out of the football league altogether for a time about 10 years ago. Click to continue reading...

John O'Shea recently completed his 10 years at Old Trafford and looks determined to look forward. He has been one of Fergie's favorite players and has rescued Manchester United many times either through his defending or his goal scoring ability. The Irish international - O'Shea made his debut for Manchester United in October 1999 in a League Cup defeat at Aston Villa. Click to continue reading...

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For the sixth time in 10 years Redlands native Landon Donovan was named Honda Player of the year today in Los Angeles.

Donovan previously won the award in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008 and this year beat out goalkeeper Tim Howard and striker Jozy Altidore to win the award yet again as the best player on the national team.

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... on this week's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Vocabulary support can be found for the words in bold at the foot of the post.

The Good

What more could you want from a game? Argentina met Peru, the latter team with no chance of qualifying and seen by many as a whipping boy ready to roll over for Argentina and allow Maradona's team the chance to get to the finals, and produced a thrilling, nerve-shredding qualifier.

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There isn't exactly a definitive conclusion with stats like these. Liverpool improved in six seasons (marginally in two of those), worsened in three, and stayed the same exactly once. Unsurprisingly, eight games don't make a season. We're less than a quarter of the way through the league. Click to continue reading...

It has been announced that since the takeover of Birmingham city by a Hong Kong businessman that David Gold was asked to take a role as Vice President of the club and the new owner, Carson Yeung, was going to bring in someone who heads one of his companies. � At that idea, Gold quit.

Can you blame him?

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• Simão hopes you and your grandmother will go all out to support Portugal when they face Hungary on Saturday. "We do not know what to expect from Hungary. We will have to (put on) a great display to win. We will fight in order to be in the World Cup. Hopefully people will support us again, so that together we can go there" he said.

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The Spanish Football Federation is celebrating its 100th anniversary and to mark that, they held a group photo session with more than 400 past and and present members of the national team.

Also on hand was Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who decided to test his skills with a penalty kick against Iker Casillas.

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David "top red" Beckham has again been perpetuating the lie that his move away from Manchester United was completely out of his control. Whilst we'll never know all what happened behind the scenes, Beckham gave a good indication at the time to what the situation was, with his lacklustre performances, interviews with the press and blinding performance against Real Madrid in the Champions League.

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Today, Arsene Wenger becomes the longest-serving manager in the club's history surpassing the legendary George Allison on his 4,749th day as manager of the Arsenal. It is, then, a suitable occasion for a bit of retrospection and maybe even a bit of sentimentalism and nostalgia as well.

Having started following the club in the late-90s, I have never known an Arsenal side that was not managed by Arsene Wenger.

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One of Man United's fans favourite players Wayne Rooney has said that he wants to stay at Old Trafford for atleast another 10 years. Rooney wants to emulate players like Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and...
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One of Man United's fans favourite players Wayne Rooney has said that he wants to stay at Old Trafford for atleast another 10 years. Rooney wants to emulate players like Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Gary Neville who have been at the club for years and years.
Rooney joined Man United in the summer of 2004, since then he has gone on to make 241 appearances for United, scoring 104 goals. Click to continue reading...

After losing on Wednesday 1-0 away from home, we decided to dedicate Thursday and Friday's practices to shooting and finishing...boy did that idea pay off!!!

We played away against a school who had a record of 19 wins and 1 loss against us over the last 10 years. In that time we only scored a total of 4 goals to their 80 goals!

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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes Philippe Senderos is not "starting again" with the Gunners after spending some time on loan with A.C. Milan.

Speaking ahead of tonight's game which will see the Swiss International making his debut for Arsenal, the Frenchman said:

I don't believe he is starting his career with us again because we know how good he is but it is a new start let's say.

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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes Philippe Senderos is not "starting again" with the Gunners after spending some time on loan with A.C. Milan.

Speaking ahead of tonight's game which will see the Swiss International making his debut for Arsenal, the Frenchman said:

I don't believe he is starting his career with us again because we know how good he is but it is a new start let's say.

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by CARL ELDRIDGE Clear your throats ahead of tonight's rendition of that old school Arsenal classic: "Phillippe Senderos, la, la, la, la. la (repeat to fade)." Because, yes folks, he's back! Just when you thought it was safe to pass your Senderos shirt (I still have my Igor Stepanovs top BTW) to the charity shop, the big Swiss defender returns for the Gunners in tonight's Carling Cup clash with West Brom at the home of football.

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Joe Bennett was recently held back from going to the Under-20 World Cup with England by Gareth Southgate, a clear indication that he is in and around the first team squad and could find himself in the first team before too long.

Bennett is an very talented left full back who currently finds himself behind Andrew Taylor and Jon Grounds in the pecking order, but many think it is a matter of time before Bennett makes the breakthrough.

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There have been some truly magical European nights at Anfield since I became a supporter over 10 years ago. Barcelona in 2001. Chelsea and Juventus in 2005. Chelsea in 2007. Arsenal and Inter Milan in 2008. Real Madrid in 2009. Debrecen in 2009 is surely not in this list. Though we won 1-0, thanks to Dirk Kuyt's [. Click to continue reading...

If you have not come across "Talk like a pirate day" before, or indeed if you are not resident in England, it may come as a bit of a shock that there is such a thing. But there is, and it has been around for about 10 years go to http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html if you don't believe [. Click to continue reading...

Fernando Torres has insisted he is looking forward to staying at Liverpool for a long time to come.
The Spanish striker has enjoyed two successful seasons with the Reds but speculation regularly resurfaces linking him with a return to his homeland.
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Liverpool's much-maligned midfielder Lucas Leiva believes that his good form so far this season shows how much he has improved during his time at Anfield, and he is hopeful that now he has a positive future ahead of him on Merseyside.
The Brazilian also feels that playing alongside some of the game's biggest stars means that he cannot fail to better himself in Rafa Benitez's side. Click to continue reading...