Before Wednesday's USA-Brazil friendly, the National Soccer Hall of Fame officially welcomed the class of 2012. United States NationalTeam alumni Desmond Armstrong, Tony Meola, and Claudio Reyna were inducted alongside builder Tony DiCiccio and journalism award winner Grahame L. Jones. In at times emotional ceremony, the inductees stressed to the audience of family, friends, and American soccer dignitaries the kind of commitment and support it takes to have a Hall of Fame career.

As Untold Arsenal has steadily increased its audience, we have started to attract many comments on the site from fans of other clubs. Now, for the first time, we are publishing an article by a non-Arsenal fan.

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Living Legend or Past his Sell by Date? By Rob McCauley, a lifelong Norwich [.

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Mighty impressive stuff, keeping up the season chat over at the Wigan thread. Have to say, I'm very impressed at the level of commitment shown towards this blog.

Unfortunately, this blog is all but defunct now. Martin, Brenton, Darren and I simply do not have the time to continue blogging here.

In an effort to reach out and be more accessible to a wider audience, there have been some changes here at MLSReserves.com. First off, we've picked up some new writers. Brad Snook, William Schulz and Leanne Elston join Pedro and I with the possibility of more joining on as well. What we want is to provide you the readers with more content on a more regular basis.

TV Sports Ratings shared some very eyeopening numbers yesterday regarding this past Monday's derby between Manchester City and Manchester United, which was televised live on ESPN to a record-breaking audience of more than 1 million viewers. The most...
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Hollie Cavanagh's bid for the title of American Idol got a huge boost last night, when Jamie Carragher and his teammates sent her a good luck message from across the pond.

Hollie, who lived in Allerton, Liverpool before her parents moved to Texas ten years ago, was seemingly overwhelmed when Ryan Seacrest introduced Carra before her performance, although it's not entirely clear whether the majority of the audience understood what he said.

Don Garber: We Need a Broader Audience

Don Garber and MLS have sold a 25% stake in SUM (roughly $125-150 Million). Garber said "the cash will help finance MLS programming on NBC and Youtube, as well as other future media ventures"

Pop and country music superstar surprised her audience by performing in the New Zealand All Blacks adidas home jersey at the Vector Arena in Auckland on Sunday night. The American singer...

Their Words "But we started sloppily and were punished for that. We bravely fought back from two goals down and held out in the second half and deservedly reached the quarterfinals." AZ coach Gertjan Verbeek. Other Sources Standing on a chair and singing for my U.S. teammates - from Goal.com's Brek Shea: The difference between the senior national team and youth levels is familiarity.

We all hoped this would be a better number for MLS First Kick on NBC. But...well...yeah. Ouch

MLS (NY/DAL) on NBCS Sun=82k viewers. 9 hunting/fishing telecasts on channel that day had larger audience.

- TVSportsratings (@tvsportsratings) March 13, 2012

Technically, Derrick Rose and the Chicago Bulls were playing a road game against the Milwaukee Bucks. But with more Bulls fans than Bucks fans in the audience, it felt like a home game for the Bulls. And when Derrick Rose hit a buzzer beating game-winner to win in Milwaukee, the crowd roared with approval.

Some CONCACAF Champions League Basics - Seattle Times

Our audience probably doesn't need to be told this, but the Seattle Times has a good piece explaining why fans should be interested in CONCACAF Champions League. Good to see this hitting the mainstream.

To err is human. To err gravely is footballer. In the last few months, we've seen some pretty atrocious actions by a few soccer players. The EPL has been marred by dissidents and racists. La Liga has been cursed by malevolent dubsteppers. However, I always hate the sin, not the sinner. And by "sin" I don't mean "Sin Bad", although I never did get the contemporary comedian's jokes.

When I sit down to write a blog post that I suspect will annoy most of my faithful readers, there is always this brief moment of pause, where I ask myself "why bother?"

I pick topics somewhat randomly as it is, so I could simply "pass" on audience-angering topics. Heck, I already pick to write about things as they interest me seemingly on a whim and have never felt obligated to cover each and every result, player rumor or team announcement.

So its almost upon us, the biggest derby in the Premier League.
Man Utd v Liverpool FC at Old Trafford today at 12:45pm, live on Sky Sports to a watching and waiting audience of millions arounds the World.
With Utd chasing for their 20th League Title and Liverpool aiming for The Champions League, its all to play for in this lunch-time kick-off.

By J Hutcherson - WASHINGTON, DC (Feb 6, 2012) US Soccer Players -- As halftime came to an end during Sunday's Chelsea - Manchester United broadcast on Fox, studio host Rob Stone fell back on what has become a cliché of getting professional soccer over to a broader audience. Each and every game is of unquestioned importance.

We are starting to see a glimpse of the upcoming Super Bowl ads. In this one, Matthew Broderick reprises his role from the classic movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Honda just launched "Matthew's Day Off", an extended version of their upcoming Super Bowl commercial. (You might have seen the 10 second teaser, which went viral last week.

By J Hutcherson - WASHINGTON, DC (Jan 17, 2012) US Soccer Players -- It's the dawn of another Major League Soccer draft, this time the Supplemental Draft that until recently was part of what made the SuperDraft super. Now, it's a Tuesday afternoon exercise in player selection minus the television coverage or live audience.

By Chris Wright

Congratulations Sir. You've just successfully broadcast your hairy crevice to an audience of millions. Good job...

Oh to be a Liberty Stadium steward.

The January 19th replay between Jozy Altidore's AZ and Ajax will be a romping room indeed, as children will be comprising 85% of the audience at Amsterdam ArenA. At this point, Ajax are basically telling schools to bring all the kids for the afternoon do-over. I may need to go witness this for myself.

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As the year comes to an end, awards circulate. Everybody speculates as to who will win the Ballon d'Or. Some say Messi. Others say Xavi. A few say Ronaldo. However, the most shocking award involves none other than Ricardo Kaka.

I very nearly ducked this one. I really want to duck this one. I've spent days telling myself how tacky posts like this one are, and how I should just let it go and not write it. How I shouldn't write it out of dedication to literary piety. But I know better. I know the real reason is that I have something to say, and I don't particularly want to say it for a whole host of reasons - personal, professional, and otherwise.

By Chris Wright

In which, while presenting a post-match phone-in in front of a live audience on Monday evening, BBC Five Live presenter Mark 'Chappers' Chapman falls for one of the oldest, most stale tricks in the book hook, line and, indeed, sinker...

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Manchester United staged their 'Big United Quiz' for MUTV t'other day which, at one point in the proceedings, saw Wayne Rooney charged with leading Ryan Giggs and Jonny Evans in an innocent game of charades.

Rooney was tasked with acting out 'Bend It Like Beckham' to his teammates and, considering his audience, our Wayne's choice of mime for the fourth word of that particular film title has to be seen to be believed.

Why does Steve Kean get so much grief when rock bottom Owen Coyle gets away with murder?

Throw a stone anywhere in the areas of Greater Manchester and Lancashire and chances are you'll break a window at a professional football club. The North West is the undisputed home of the domestic game, with 12 teams spread over the four professional leagues.

With a remarkable strike from Robin van Persie, we're back in the top four, at least for the moment. It was a deserved victory, as we dominated the chances and could have won by a few more. The win gives us 29 points from 15 played, and puts us one ahead of Chelsea, who host Man City on Monday.

The draw for the 2012 UEFA European Championship, to be held in Poland and Ukraine from 8th June – 1st July next year, has been made in the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv this evening. Sixteen nations will contest this competition for the last time before the next tournament, to be held in France in 2016, will see an increase in the number of finals entrants to 24.

FBM looking all "journalism-y".Wondo: "You're so funny." FBM: "I know." (Note: These words are not apart of the audio recording below.)So handsome.During MLS Cup 2011 weekend we had the pleasure of running into San Jose forward Chris Wondolowski. Wondo was in town for a bunch of MLS W.O.R.K.S.

Joint leaders atop Italian Serie A going into this weekend, managers Eddy Reja and Antonio Conte both knew this was going to be a huge test of their scudetto potential. Juve's Andrea Pirlo passed a last-minute fitness test to start, and the Olimpico audience welcomed back ex-Roma star Mirko Vucinic just like old derby days.

Joga Bonito A video showing Brazilian star Ronaldinho, erm, working on his solo skills has been leaked. The footage of the ex-Barcelona star and his laptop enjoying some alone time in the bathroom were posted on YouTube and, although the original video has since been removed, has now spread around the internet.

FOX Broadcasting Company broke the record Sunday for the most viewed English Premier League game in U.S. television history. The tape-delayed game featuring Chelsea against Liverpool scored an audience of 1.67 million, beating out the previous...
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Last week we brought you an exclusive detailed look at the Bakline Rugby Spring 2012 Collection. The feature was so popular among the Football Fashion audience that the team at Bakline Rugby are offering you a 15% OFF ALL PURCHASES discount at their online store until December 31st, 2011. This deal comes just in time [.

It was supposed to be a landmark game, moved controversially to a midday kick-off in Spain to help Real Madrid reach a massive 7pm prime-time Saturday night audience in China.

Week after week, planet football delivers magic moments that deserve a wider audience. Prior to the invention of YouTube, those wonderous nuggets would have been lost in time, remembered only by those brave souls who attend matches in the violence-blighted Argentinian Fourth Division. But not any more and this week is no exception.

The Major Indoor Soccer league opened this past week for its 2011-12 season. Per a press release, nearly 13,000 fans were in attendance across three games from Thursday and Friday nights. MISL Senior Director Chris Economides was very positive on the opening, "We are absolutely thrilled at the response of our fans.

By Chris Wright

Two Persepolis players, Mohammed Nosrati and Sheis Rezaei, have been banned from entering any and all Iranian stadiums after partaking in a post-goal 'bum grope' celebration during the Persian Gulf Cup match with Damash Gilan - a match that was broadcast live to a vast audience in the staunchly conservative Islamic county.

As usual the yearly Arsenal shareholders meeting comes around, and there have talks of mass protests after Arsenal's disastrous start to the season, but now the Gunners have started to string some wins together, Arsene Wenger is not worried about facing the (usually) tough audience on Thursday. He said: "I do not meet with the [.

Some photos from my first trip to Philadelphia's PPL Park. We played the Union last season in the club's inaugural MLS match, but that contest was hosted at Lincoln Financial Field. PPL Park was a much more intimate environment, and like its European predecessors, the venue rises out of a working class neighborhood (Chester, Pa.

Rafa Benitez has stated several times over the last year that he would like to manage Liverpool again one day. Hopefully, Kenny Dalglish will be in the hotseat for years to come, and will bring lots of success to the club, but when the inevitable day comes for the King to retire, would you take Benitez back at Anfield?

By Cesar Diaz - Harrison, NJ (Sep 28, 2011) US Soccer Players -- With all the coverage that's invested in various soccer leagues worldwide, it's easy to forget that the United States has a soccer history of its own. Whether or not many in the audience recognized it, that point was stressed by last week's US Open Cup final.