United favorites to claim three points against Southampton - originally posted on
Soccerlens.com
Manchester United take on Southampton at St Mary's on Sunday (4pm KO, Live on Sky Sports 1) and
at 1.57 with Betfred look a great bet to come away with all three points.
They have won on their last four visits in all competitions, and having got back on track with a
3-2 win over Fulham following their opening game defeat at the hands of Everton and in reality
should prove far too strong for The Saints.
It's another blank mid-week as far as Arsenal are concerned, our next fixture being the clash
with Manchester City which kicks off at 4pm on Sunday at The Emirates.
The dust has just about settled after QPR ended our eight match un-beaten run and plenty has
been said about that disappointment.
Venue: St James' Park, Newcastle. Date: Sunday 2nd September,2012. Kick-Off: 4:00pm. Referee: Lee
Probert. UK TV: None. Sunday brings Premier League football back to St James' Park as Aston Villa
provide the opponents for a 4pm kick-off. There will be no UK TV broadcast of the fixture so it
will be time to scour the [.
The Philadelphia Union announced today that they will host Aston Villa at PPL Park on Wednesday,
July 18 at 7:30pm, confirming an earlier announcement on the Premiership club's website.
Tickets for the event are included in full season ticket packages at no additional cost.
"Card-carrying season ticket holders will have the game loaded on their season ticket card and
those with printed tickets will have tickets for this match mailed to them by mid-June," said the
announcement.
Today is decision day for the New England Revolution front office. Based on reports it appears
the New England Revolution fully intend to select Juan Carlos Toja, but the question remains
whether or not he will be playing for the Revs as the New England Front Office entertains offers
from around Major League Soccer.
The Midnight Riders are offering an alternative way to get to Gillette Stadium on Sunday when
the New England Revolution takes on the New York Red Bulls.
For $40 anyone looking to catch the game can get a ticket and a bus trip from Boston – The
Phoenix Landing to be precise. Lower cost options are also available if a ticket isn't needed or
one is already a member of the Riders, an independent supporters group of the New England
Revolution.
Tomorrow night Starfire will be a-rockin as the Seattle Sounders take on the Atlanta
Silverbacks, but the 3rd round of the US Open Cup actually starts tonight with 28 of the 32
remaining teams in action. All of (US-based) MLS will be entering this round, thanks the the
elimination of the weird play-in bracket for the top pro division.
MLS released the Reserve League schedule on Monday. The schedule for the Philadelphia Union is
as follows:
April 9 New England Revolution (10am, Chester Park)
April 11 Toronto FC (TBD)
April 15 Columbus Crew (6pm, Chester Park)
May 14 NY Red Bulls (10am, Chester Park)
May 26 at Toronto FC (6:30pm, BMO Field)
June 19 DC United (4pm, Chester Park)
July 10 at DC United (4pm, DCU training field)
July 21 at New York Red Bulls (5pm, Montclair St.
Manchester United's Rio Ferdinand has been charged by the English Football Association (FA) for
comments on his twitter account. The charges are in reference to a tweet Ferdinand made referring
to Ashley Cole and using the term "choc ice" which has been viewed by some as racist.
Ferdinand responded that racicm charge (a few weeks ago) by tweeting the following
The latest news from Stamford Bridge is that Chelsea is saying that the snow is no major problem,
and that the match today will go ahead as planned at 11am ET/4pm GMT. FOX must be breathing a huge
sigh of ...
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Liverpool officially kicks off their 2012 US summer tour with their friendly today against Toronto
FC at Rogers Centre. The match kicks off at 4pm ET and will be televised live on FOX Soccer for
viewers in the United States. ...
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On Monday, Major League Soccer and Creative Artists Agency announced the full World Football
Challenge schedule. Venues include Seattle, Toronto, Miami, the Home Depot Center, and Yankee
Stadium. July 18 Seattle Sounders FC v Chelsea FC CenturyLink Field Seattle, WA 9:30pm ET July 21
Toronto FC v Liverpool FC Rogers Centre Toronto, ON 4pm ET July 22 Chelsea FC v Paris Saint-Germain
Yankee Stadium New York, NY 7pm ET July 28 Chelsea FC v AC.
Another weekend without a lot of national available options. On Saturday, NBC Sports Network has
the Portland - LA game at 11pm. Sunday brings us two MLS games: New York - Seattle on ESPN at 4pm
and Houston - DC on Galavision at 9pm. There's a Monday game on GolTV: the Monaco - Newcastle
United friendly at 1pm.
Well, today is quite the action-packed day for soccer fans across the world. Across the Atlantic
Ocean in Kiev, England takes on Italy in the Euro 2012 quarterfinals at 1:30 CST on ESPN. Shortly
after that, The Portland Timbers host their Cascadia Cup rivals Seattle Sounders at JELD-WEN Field
at 4pm.
Saturday Fox Soccer has England - Belgium at 12pm. ESPN Deportes has Norway - Croatia at 1pm ET.
Sunday NBC Sports Network and Univision Deportes have the USA - Canada friendly at 7pm. The Mexico
- Brazil game is on Univision at 2:30pm. ESPN Deportes has Spain - China at 4pm ET. Monday No games
today.
Saturday MLS on NBC Sports: NY - New England at 3:30pm. EPL on ESPN2: Stoke - Arsenal at 10am. On
Fox Soccer: Wigan - Newcastle at 9:30am, Norwich - Liverpool at 12pm, and Everton - Fulham at 5pm.
On Fox Soccer Plus: WBA - Aston Villa at 9:45am, Swansea - Wolverhampton at 6pm, and Sunderland -
Bolton at 9pm.
Saturday MLS on NBC Sports Network: Toronto - Chicago at 3:30pm. EPL on ESPN2: Arsenal - Chelsea at
7:30am. On Fox Soccer: Newcastle - Stoke at 9:30am, QPR - Spurs at 12pm, and Fulham - Wigan at 5pm.
On Fox Soccer Plus: Aston Villa - Sunderland at 10am, Blackburn - Norwich at 2pm, and Bolton -
Swansea at 6pm.
Sporting Kansas City has started the season in perfect fashion, winning every match they've
played, but today will offer a different kind of test as they take on the LA Galaxy at Livestrong
Sporting Park (4pm, NBC Sports).
SBI will be providing live commentary on today's match, so please feel free to follow along
here.
The New York Red Bulls are looking for the first win of the season and will try to do so in
their 2012 home opener as they take on the unbeaten Colorado Rapids (4pm, NBC Sports Network).
The Red Bulls endured a rough pair of road games against Western powers to start the season, but
take on a Rapids team today that will be without key midfielders Jeff Larentowicz (suspended) and
Pablo Mastroeni).
The Philadelphia Union play their first home game of the 2012 MLS season today when they take on
the Colorado Rapids at PPL Park (4pm, NBC Sports Network).
The Union come in smarting after a rough 3-1 loss at Portland, and will be without midfielder
Freddy Adu, who is now with the U.
The Philadelphia Union will try to shake off a tough season opener loss in Portland when they
face Colorado Rapids in their home opener this Sunday at 4pm (NBC Sports), and the KYW Philly
Soccer Show has a preview.
In part one, KYW's Greg Orlandini and Philly Soccer Page writer Eli Pearlman-Storch talk with
Union forward Danny Mwanga, who entered Monday night's 3–1 loss as a sub in the second half.
From Jun 4-7 ESPN Classic will re-show old European Championship matches, mostly from the 2008
tournament, and a few from 1996. Those must be the only two years they own the rights from.
Match Schedule:
-Mon Jun 4
Portugal v Germany (Quarterfinal 2008) - 9:30am CT
Croatia v Turkey (Quarterfinal 2008) - 11:30am CT
Germany v Turkey (Semifinal 2008) - 2pm CT
Germany v Spain (Final 2008) - 4pm CT
-Tue Jun 5
Germany v Croatia (Quarterfinal 1996) - 8:30am CT
France v Czech Republic (Semifinal 1996) - 10:30am CT
Germany v England (Semifinal 1996) - 1pm CT
Czech Republic v Germany (Final 1996 - 5:30pm CT
-Wed Jun 6
Croatia v Turkey (Quarterfinal 2008) - 9:30am CT
Spain v Italy (Quarterfinal 2008) - 12pm CT
Russia v Netherlands (Quarterfinal 2008) - 2pm CT
Portugal v Germany (Quarterfinal 2008) - 4pm CT
-Thu Jun 7
Turkey v Czech Republic (Group Stage 2008) - 8am CT
Serie A on Fox Soccer: Bologna - Cagliari at 2:30pm. La Liga on GolTV: Villarreal - Malaga at 2pm
and Sevilla - Zaragoza at 4pm. ESPN Deportes has Racing Santander - Mallorca at 3pm. Copa
Libertadores on Fox Deportes: Flamengo - Lanus at 6:30pm and Nacional - Vasco de Gama at 8:30pm.
All Times Eastern
It's not a real day of the week without an entertaining Paolo Di Canio quote. The Sunderland manager is ready to wield the axe after getting fed up of the lack of discipline among his players. He said: "I don't care to have argument with my players but they have to go through the rules. [...]
The statistics say that Dallas is a bad team. On paper they are not really "in" the competition
for a MLS Cup Playoffs spot. This is one of the cases where those systems can not accurately
reflect how good FC Dallas is. They've recently gotten David Ferreira and George John back. In
their last ten games they have 17 points to Seattle's 18.
This article titled "England's draw with France in Euro 2012 attracts over 12m viewers" was
written by Jason Deans, for guardian.co.uk on Tuesday 12th June 2012 10.43 UTC
England's 1-1 draw with France in their opening Euro 2012 match gave ITV1 a welcome ratings
boost on Monday afternoon, attracting an average audience of more than 12 million viewers.
There aren't many matches on the schedule today, but the few on the slate should provide plenty
of entertainment, including the Brazil-Mexico showdown this afternoon in Texas (2:30pm,
Univision).
Brazil is coming off a stellar 4-1 victory against the United States, and will be facing a
Mexico side that needed a late Javier Hernandez winner to beat Bosnia.
This round the second and third tiers of the US Soccer pyramid enter the fray as NASL and USL
Pro begin play. We're pretty much out of local teams until MLS joins in the next round, as the
Kitsap Pumas were eliminated in the last round by Eric Wynalda's Cal FC and the Portland Timbers
U23s were similarly upset by USASA's PSA Elite last week.
The Sounders Women will be broadcast live on KKNW AM1150! The final seven matches of the season,
and four "Sounders Women Weekly" shows will be broadcast live. Did you hear that? It's yet another
exciting step that the Sounders Women are taking to get their team into the big time. Okay, let's
not put the cart before the horse, but still it's cool.
Ben Lederman: The first American at the world's best academy!
Barca Day 7
No need or urgency to wake up early as there were no planned activities in the morning.
Ben Lederman
First thing on the agenda was attending Cuitat Esportiva to watch Academy games. We arrived at
4pm to watch the FC Barcelona Alevin A (2000′s) team vs San Andreu.
