Compilation Fridays are back and this one is for anyone who thought American girls soccer just suddenly turned epically violent in the last two weeks. This video is from one high school team over one season in 2007. There's stuff in there that would make hardened Premier Leaguers take jobs at Hello Kitty shops.

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You might have noticed that I often link to books that are listed on the Scottish Football Blog Bookshop.This is my own Amazon aStore. It doesn't make much money but I'd like it to be useful as a library of decent football books.So feel free to let me know of any books that you think I might have missed. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal Highlights is pleased to announce a partnership with Voucher Alerts to bring you the best deals on buying official Arsenal merchandise online.

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Soccerphile is pleased to announce a partnership with Voucher Alerts to bring you the best deals on buying official football merchandise online.
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Say you're on the fence. You're sanding away the rough part of the day in the games store, and you're thinking, "Gosh, I'd really like to buy Football Manager 2010, but I need some additional motivation beyond the fact that it is part of the greatest video game series ever created."

Here. Here is your motivation.

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Long-time Columbus notebook author Steve Sirk has just published his first book. A Massive Season: Sirk's Notebook Chronicles the 2008 Columbus Crew is now available at Crew Stadium and at Amazon.
Check out Sirk's web site here. I'll have a review up on this site as soon as I can. Click to continue reading...

One shouldn't be in the business of making blind endorsements, but I'm going to step out and echo my dude Dunny's co-sign on Steve Sirk's new Columbus Crew book, A Massive Season. I haven't read it but it's just nice to see some American soccer-based product available in Amazon.com.
This coupled with the long, long, long-awaited release of Simon Kuper's upcoming book, Soccernomics, makes for a banner month for The Largest Library of Soccer Related Literature on the Jersey Shoreâ„¢. Click to continue reading...

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Good news/ bad news day today. Best to start off with the bad news I guess just to get it out of the way. Have a whiskey to settle your nerves.

Modric; who many were led to believe that could be running around our left-hand side once again is unfortunately feeling a bit of a twinge on his broken fibula.

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Soccerlens is excited to present a brand new feature - a video show reviewing the weekend's big stories from Europe's top football leagues.

Andy Brassell - of World Football Phone-In fame (on BBC 5 Live), author of All or Nothing: A Season in the Life of the Champions League, a seasoned journalist contributing to UEFA's Champions magazine, Skysports.

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Is there is no rest for the World Cup-bound? In addition to tomorrow night's qualifier finale against Costa Rica, the Yanks will march on to Aarhus in November for a friendly versus Denmark on the 18th. There is also talk of matches in the spring against the Dutch and the English...to which I say "bring it". Click to continue reading...

Barney Ronay of The Guardian is the latest guest on the EPL Talk Podcast to discuss his newest book, The Manager: The Absurd Ascent Of The Most Important Man In Football.

Ronay is best known for his appearances on the The Guardian's Football Weekly Podcast as well as the top writers at the newspaper.

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The recent success of the informal campaign to bring the deeply unpleasant nature of Man United's fans chanting against Arsene Wenger to the wider attention of the public is to be applauded. Led by Arseblogger, the issue made it to the wider press last week, at long last, and led to widespread condemnation against Man United, and also against Amazon and Play whose website carried a CD including a Click to continue reading...

Amazon have dropped a Manchester United album full of terrace chants after an official complaint from Arsenal FC The song they are directly referring to is the "Sit Down You Paedophile" song, lovingly sang by United fans, too the touchline on visits from the North London crybabies giants, or on the rare occasion that Graham Rix [. Click to continue reading...

Hello there,

I must apologise in advance this morning as today's blog is a bit of a cuntfest. There's no other way to describe it really. I shall try to temper the cunts with some non-cunts to decuntify things a bit though.

Firstly, Amazon. They've withdrawn the CD that was on sale after Arsenal's legal department got in touch.

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In one of my many attempts at avoiding getting a proper career, there was a time when I worked for Amazon.com customer service. Basically, the job involved replying to the emails sent to customer service by anyone who had used the .com site and had a problem or query and getting paid silly money to do so (silly in the good way).

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"I come in peace, to give penance for winning three titles that should be rightfully yours"

Outrage at Arsene Wenger's treatment at the hands of Man Utd fans during Arsenal's visit to Old Trafford seems to have percolated up from Gunner blogs and online forums and entered the mainstream.

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Let us state that after a thorough hasty photographic inspection, we are thoroughly convinced 75% of the Valencia roster were manufactured in a dilapidated warehouse tucked far away in The Land of Hobbits. Oh, and just as these miniature men were placed on the Chiseled, Rock Hard Thigh assembly line, the machine combusted.

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Alright you lot,

for the very first time the Wenger chant was discussed on the radio this morning. Yes, it is 13 years too late but something has to be done about this chant. United are the main culprits but as seen here, Sp*rs fans are fond of it too.

It was discussed on Radio 5 Live on the Victoria Derbyshire show, the same one that discussed the Phil Brown spitgate saga last season, and made him look like a total and utter div in the process.

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Morning.

I don't know how long Man United fans have been singing that song about Arsene Wenger, years and years. I know I've mentioned many times on this blog. It's always audible when the games are on TV it's been a huge credit to the manager that he's never reacted to them. And how difficult must that be when you consider what they're singing.

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Well its now official. I have a Blog Store opened in conjuction with Amazon.co.uk and you can access my Blog Store via the Blog Store link at the top tab menu. Make sure you come and check it out. I have just opened the store and will be adding more and more Chelsea related items asap!If you want to head directly there click this link Click to continue reading...

Well its now official. I have a Blog Store opened in conjuction with Amazon.co.uk and you can access my Blog Store via the Blog Store link at the top tab menu. Make sure you come and check it out. I have just opened the store and will be adding more and more Chelsea related items asap! There are over 48 pages of carefully selected Chelsea goodies for all of you to have a look at. Click to continue reading...

"And I'll have the 'Labrador rack' on a bed of wild rocket, thanks...
"Nyum nyum nyum."

Today, the ever-watchful Arseblogger alerted me to the existence of an album of Manchester United football chants.
It's called "Manchester United Chants [Explicit]", which is about as unambiguous a title as any fan could wish for. Click to continue reading...

You can - at time of posting - buy an album of Man Utd chants at Amazon's MP3 store. Track four lasts 30 seconds and goes something like this: "Sit down you paedopile, sit down you paedophile! Sit down...

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There is an ingredient in Diet Coke that stops it from fizzing up like crazy at the soda fountain. Whatever that ingredient is, it's not approved in the EU, so Diet Coke fizzes up like crazy either when you serve it as a member of staff or when you serve yourself.
There are ingredients in Diet Irn Bru that prevent it from being distributed in the United States in it's original recipe. Click to continue reading...

There is an ingredient in Diet Coke that stops it from fizzing up like crazy at the soda fountain. Whatever that ingredient is, it's not approved in the EU, so Diet Coke fizzes up like crazy either when you serve it as a member of staff or when you serve yourself.
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Before I had a chance to read The Beckham Experiment by Sports Illustrated soccer writer Grant Wahl, I surmised that it could end up being the most important piece of American soccer journalism (while certainly there are a number of incredible pieces of soccer literature, never has the story taken place nearly exclusively in the good ol' U. Click to continue reading...

Cantona The Rebel Who Would Be King is the new biography of Eric Cantona by the French football journalist Philippe Auclair. Auclair has interviewed every key player in Cantona's life to produce a biography that reveals, for the first time, the heart and inner thoughts of the King.

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As it turns out, today is also the third anniversary of the podcast! But because my nine-month hiatus yielded on four other episodes in the past year, there won't be an outtake clip show like there was in 2007 and 2008.

Also, it wasn't until after I put this together yesterday that I realized that there's an Americana theme running through all four acts.

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Any hopes of a WPSL Sunshine division title and a playoff berth in their inaugural year evaporated for the Clearwater Galactics Amazons after a 2-2 draw against the visiting Miami Kickers. The match was played under full sun in temperatures in the mid nineties at St Leo College Wednesday afternoon in front of a crowd of about 30 supporters. Click to continue reading...

This week it was announced that the Mexico-US match at Azteca next month will only be available on Telemundo and Mun2, with Mun2 carrying the English feed. This means many USMNT fans will have to watch the Spanish language feed. This would not be so bad if it was on Univision or Telefutura, but the Telemundo commentators are over the top in their Mexico bias. Click to continue reading...

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My newest book project took me away from the show for a few weeks one to work on it and the other to unwind from it. But I've got five CDs for you to check out, one of which, One Last Century by The Damnwells, is available for free from their website. As for the other four, well they're definitely worth something, too.

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Grant Wahl's extraordinary book The Beckham Experiment was finally released today.
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By now, the world has absorbed the first excerpt from Grant Wahl's book The Beckham Experiment, which is officially released Tuesday and is already No. 9 on Amazon.com's Sports best-sellers list. (Note to myself on my other beat: Hmmm, Forrest Griffin's book is doing really well. Click to continue reading...

The steady release of excerpts from Grant Wahl's forthcoming book "The Beckham Experiment" continues to stir interest (and no doubt pre-orders on Amazon) as more behind-the-scenes details from his tumultuous time in LA emerge.
The latest tidbit, that ESPN paid Beckham's management company to produce a one-hour special on Beckham sounds even more crass than the previous charge that Becks was a cheapskate. Click to continue reading...