On the 1st of November most of us will be either flocking in our drones to the shops, or sitting tentatively by the post box for one reason: FIFA 11. This article will help you save some money as you prepare to make one of the essential purchases of the year...

If your an 'arry Redknapp wheeler, dealer then getting the game upon release at Tesco might be a risk worth taking.

By Jeff Maysh

Diego Maradona in a Spurs shirt! If ever there was an image that made us fickle Spurs fans ponder, ‘what if?' it was the vision of football's primo anti-hero wearing our bleedin' shirt. Okay, okay, Diego was trotting out, half-cut, for his pal Ossie Ardiles' testimonial – but what a player.

EA Sports has released a video featuring a behind-the-scenes look at the making of their TV commercial for FIFA 11. The video stars Wayne Rooney, Andres Iniesta, Kaka, Mesut Ozil, the Arsenal ladies and more.

If you haven't seen the FIFA 11 TV commercial yet, watch it now.

And don't forget that FIFA 11 will officially be released on Tuesday, September 28 in North America, September 30 in Australia and October 1st in Europe.

If you're jonesing for soccer during the international break and can't wait that long until you see the next match, do the next best thing. Play FIFA 11 online. This is just a quick reminder that an EPL Talk league has been setup on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

To join the league on either system, please follow the directions below.

Real Madrid soccer jerseys are one of the most sought after jerseys in the world. This is brought about by the club's league and Champions League success and the top football stars in its lineup.

They were the top selling jersey seller when David Beckham used to play for the Spanish club.

An FC Barcelona jersey for Christmas? Why not?!

Barcelona's recent thumping of Real Madrid surely increased the former's reputation as the best club in Spain, if not the world. More victories, especially against an arch-rival would also mean an increase of the club's value. And as the value increases, so does the sales.

The year is 2010. Fox Soccer Channel still doesn't have a podcast, which would have been a perfect medium to tell people about going to HD, and to answer questions about Fox Soccer Plus. And neither Fox Soccer Channel nor the Premier League have an official iPhone app, although in case of the Premier League, maybe it has more important things to worry about right now such as the first EPL club going into administration.

A theory doing the rounds in some quarters is that the crunch games in our push for fourth is not the quartet against the big boys (Man Utd-l'Arse-Chelski-City) but the four against the less glamorous mob – Pompey, Sunderland, Burnley and Bolton. Anything less than three points against each of this lot, so goes the theory, and we really will throw away fourth spot.

Jimmy Reilly was angry. He knew he was angry, because every few seconds, he reminded himself he was angry. To be angry furious was the official position of the team, and Jimmy was a member of the team, wasn't he? Who else had played left fullback for the last twelve minutes against Kelly Foundation Garments?

The Pepsi 2010 Football advert was the first to use the Oh Africa song Featuring Akon and Keri Hilson and is now available to download as an MP3 or buy as a single. Its huge successful advertising campaign has helped boost the levels of interest in this song and it is being downloaded all over the world by different fans.

Wow, it seems Robert Green has had a lot of free time since losing his starting job to David James. We all had thought he'd dealt with the aftermath of his howler against the US fairly well, but apparently he's been venting about his experience with Jabulani, the Adidas match ball, in some rather strange places.

Por HalftownNo vamos a repetir por enésima vez la historia del New York Cosmos, una de las mayores aberraciones de la historia del fútbol, entre otras cosas porque se puede leer aquí muy bien redactadita por orden cronológico. O comprarse el documental "Once in a Lifetime" en Amazon.
Para los no iniciados, el Cosmos fue el espíritu de Florentino antes de Florentino, la acumulación de estrellas con fines más comerciales que deportivos.

Last week we started our series on the business of selling MLS and WPS merchandise online. The first post looked at sales through official websites for the leagues and teams. You can view that post here. Today, we will take a look at third party sellers of MLS merchandise.

We started with a simple Google search for "soccer jerseys" and the first hit was WorldSoccerShop.

Good news for soccer fans in the United States. The Damned United, the brilliant film by Tom Hooper and starring Michael Sheen, will be available in DVD format in the United States beginning February 23, 2010.

The movie which tells the story of the working relationship between Brian Clough and Peter Taylor is one of the finest British soccer movies seen on these shores.

I recently took a vacation and as always decide to catch up on some reading, or in this case go back into the vault. When I was looking into books for my trip I wanted to find a soccer book to gain some more insight on the game or its history. I came across the 2004 autobiography by David Beckham - Both Feet On The Ground, and decided this was the one.

Do you need a new book? I don't but I want one (I have 6 footie books right now that I have yet to read but my megalomania will not allow me to pass up even a paperback so I'll probably buy this one anyway). So let's read Amazon has to say about my future purchase:
Woodburn High's Bulldogs, aka Los Perros, started their 2005 soccer season with eight undocumented students, a midfielder groomed to play for a pro Mexican team, a goalkeeper living in his third foster home, three boys who spoke almost no English, and an Irish-descended white coach desperate to lead all of them to success.

It's competition time again. Up for grabs for the week to come is a book about the best chants in football.

Throughout the country every weekend, football stadiums ring with the sound of hundreds of thousands of supporters singing the praises of their favourite players, rubbishing the opposition, having a go at the ref and waxing lyrical about past legends.

As we all know Tottenham have many dedicated fans, but few are more dedicated than Morris Keston, a fan so devoted to the mighty Spurs that a book is due to be published about his amazing life.

The biography of Morris Keston is entitled Superfan! and it's author is the writer and fellow Tottenham fan, Nick Hawkins.

What ho. If I've been doing this right seasoned visitors to AANP Towers should know that as of this Saturday the book "Spurs' Cult Heroes" becomes available to buy in shops. To mark the occasion and whet your appetite, I have posted a world exclusive no less – below, for your visual delectation, is the Introduction to Spurs' Cult Heroes.

Parish noticeboard – for those who fancy meeting Gary Mabbutt, the last man to lift the FA Cup for Spurs (although not for long...) he will be signing copies of AANP's new book Spurs' Cult Heroes, on the following dates:

Waterstones Riverside Hemel Hempstead; Easter Saturday 3 April, 12 noon

Waterstones Leadenhall Market, City of London; Thursday 8 April 12.

Ahoy-hoy. If you're in two minds about the new AANP book Spurs' Cult Heroes, have a listen to this little nugget from the always excellent Spurs Show Podcast - and win one of two signed copies:spurs_cult_heros1

You can listen to the full podcast from this – or any other week – right here.

Local writers from the Storehouse Writers Workshop are set to launch their first book of collected stories - all set in Southend.
The Writers Workshop was given a small grant by Turning Tides Neighbourhood Management - a project supported by Southend Association of Voluntary Services (SAVS).

As many of you are probably aware by now, David Beckham injured his achilles in a match for AC Milan during the weekend. The injury has removed Beckham from the England World Cup squad and will force him to miss the rest of the Serie A season. If Beckham is able to return at any point this season it would be in the fall for the end of the MLS season with the LA Galaxy.

Surely we couldn't do it again... could we? After the 120 minutes against Pompey, and epic win on Wednesday night, I'll be impressed if half of them even make it through the warm-up, but yet another Herculean effort is required today if we are to take advantage of the last-minute defeat of Man City this lunchtime.

ESPN, "the Worldwide Leader in Sports", has already dropped their 2010 World Cup Guide "bookazine" and next month will lay upon us the 256-page, hardcover ESPN World Cup Companion written by David Hershey* and some other guy with a foreword by Canuckistan's most-fabled Celebrity Glory-Seeker, Steve Nash.

Attention fellow book-nerds: if you made it through Markovits & Hellerman's Offside: Soccer & American Exceptionalism AND Rangers, Rovers & Spindles with a smile on your face have I found a treat for you. It's called Star-Spangled Soccer and it has interviews with everyone who has ever had anything to do with American soccer over the last 20 years except for Tiffany May; Chuck Blazer, The Don, Sunil Gulati, Clark Hunt, Jonathan Kraft, Joe Roth, Will Chang, Tim Leweike, Mark Abbott and John Skipper are just a few of the people quoted in this 256-page, hardcover textbook that may actually make the footie-business nerd in you want to go back to school.

While mooching a burger from the buffet in the Qwest Field press box during First Kick 2010, I met a photographer by the name of Richard Morrison. Turns out he's actually a doctor by trade but a footie-freak who knows his way around a camera. On June 1 he'll add "published author" to his almost Barbie-esque resume when Sasquatch Press drops his first book, Seattle Sounders FC: Season One.

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In celebration of England's passionate supporters, England 'Til I Die (compiled by David Lane) reveals the funny, the absurd, the emotional, the peculiar and unbelievable that is part and parcel of being a die-hard England fan.

Following England home and away has become a way of life for many people.

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It's REGIONAL READER WARS IV: The REVENGE!

Or something like that.

I am guessing that New Jersey didn't like getting "pwnd" as I described in our last installment, and came in with numbers that nearly knocked New York off the top spot!

Estonia seems to be on the decline, surrendering a long held #2 spot, and Norway proved to be a one hit wonder (Sorry Oslonians).

He is one of the most awesomist wordsmiths ever -like Neil Tennant if he took up soccer writing in place of pop stardom. You have to listen to the first two minutes of this audio interview with him promoting his superb new book on Amazon.com. The way he describes being a footie freak back in the day is pretty much amazing; he somehow makes admitting you're a soccer fan sound like coming out of the closet (not that there is any reason to be in a closet unless you are R.

3 Lions 2010 by The Squad featuring Robbie Williams and Russell Brand is now available to download as an MP3 or buy as a single. The Official England World Cup song has not be adopted yet by the British public and there are a few contenders including Terry Venables with If I Can Dream and James Corden and Dizzee Rascal's Shout for England.

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Wavin' Flag by K'Naan the Canadian rapper, is now available to download as an MP3 or buy as a single. It joins the long list of World Cup songs and anthems including 3 Lions 2010 The Squad ft Robbie Williams and Russell Brand, Terry Venables with If I Can Dream and James Corden and Dizzee Rascal's Shout for England

This is a good tune and has been out for a while, but still may be a contender for best World Cup song.