Popular English Premier League Liverpool FC have officially unveiled their 2010/11 adidas home kit. According to the Liverpool FC website: The brand new Liverpool FC Home Kit takes inspiration from the kit worn during the triumphant 1989/90 title winning season, when greats such as Barnes, Beardsley and Rush graced the Anfield turf.

Kevin Alston & Darius Barnes: passing judgment on the aged so I don't have to since 2010.

Name2010
Guaranteed Compensation
Kevin Alston
$124,000.00Darrius Barnes
$56,250.00Zak Boggs
$40,000.00Preston Burpo
$70,000.00Mauricio Castro
$77,750.00Nico Colaluca
$133,000.00Mkhokheli Dube
$89,000.00Cory Gibbs
$128,142.86Jason Griffiths
$40,000.

photo credit: mwilkie

The Side: The New England Revolution won the 2007 US Open Cup, but other than that one major trophy, they have never delivered any hardware to Robert Kraft, a man who likes to win titles. Kraft is also a man who loves good coaching, and that is why he has employed Stevie Nicol almost as long as he has Bill Belichick.

Nice idea I saw via the England Team wesbite, run by the charity Keep Your On The Ball, who raise awareness about prostate and testicular cancer.

The odea is that age old one you have to pick your all time England XI. But there are a couple of caveats. First off it has to be someone who represented England at the World Cup (seemingly since 1966, so erm not really All Time then), and second if you want to win Gordon Banks shirt, you have to pick the same starting XI as Terry Venables, who has picked a special secret XI (revealing only Banks in goal).

So the challenge was simple enough: Pick an MLS starting eleven that which has a total 2010 Guaranteed Compensation under $1,000,000.

The results were simple enough too. A pretty good team, I'd say. (Review it here.)

But as it turns out, the process of choosing the team and some insight about the league that came from it are probably what was the most interesting.

Sky pundit's interesting priorities There lots of ways a little baby can come into this world. But playing second fiddle to Richard Keys is not a pleasant way by anyone's standards. That's precisely how Alexander Barnes arrived yesterday. Dad John was busy being a Sky Sports pundit on the Liverpool-Chelsea match and missed the birth.

UPDATE: According to Colin Tattum at the Birmingham Mail, Birmingham are set to hold talks with trialist Giles Barnes, Boss Alex McLeish said,

"Giles is still training with us. We haven't seen him yet in a game.

Fears are growing for a UN worker from Leigh on Sea who was working in Haiti at the time of Tuesday's earthquake.
59 year old Ann Barnes has been missing since the quake - measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale - devastated the tiny Carribean island.
She is thought to have been on the second floor of the UN building, in the capital Port au Prince, when it collapsed.

Photo by ISIphotos.com

The biggest trade of the MLS offseason was finalized on Thursday, with Colorado and New England completing a deal that had been rumored for some time.

The Colorado Rapids and New England Revolution have completed a deal that will send defender Cory Gibbs and goalkeeper Preston Burpo to the Revolution in exchange for Wells Thompson and the rights to Jeff Larentowicz will go to the Rapids, the Boston Herald reported on Thursday evening.

Photo by ISIphotos.com

The biggest trade of the MLS offseason was finalized on Thursday, with Colorado and New England completing a deal that had been rumored for some time.

The Colorado Rapids and New England Revolution have completed a deal that will send defender Cory Gibbs and goalkeeper Preston Burpo to the Revolution in exchange for Wells Thompson and the rights to Jeff Larentowicz will go to the Rapids, the Boston Herald reported on Thursday evening.

The body of Ann Barnes - a Haiti UN worker, who was originally from Leigh on Sea - has been identified.
Ms Barnes was not heard from since a devastating earthquake hit the island more than two weeks ago. Around 200,000 people died. Relatives feared the United Nations worker was buried with colleagues in the rubble of the UN's headquarters in the Haiti capital of Port-au-Prince.

In a nutshell Kevin Alston believes Khano Smith looks like Morpheus out of The Matrix, Darius Barnes believes Steve Nicol swears a lot, and I think Darius Barnes looks like T.I.

Liverpool legend Alan Hansen has insisted football's biggest names still want to play for the club despite last season's disappointing campaign.
Hansen, 54, enjoyed a trophy-laden 14-year spell on Merseyside before retiring in 1991. He believes current manager Rafael Benitez still has the core of a title-winning side in place, even though the Reds could only stumble towards a seventh placed finish in the Premier League last season.

As Championship runners up last season West Bromwich Albion are back in the Premier League, and young star Giles Barnes hopes to avoid the pain of another relegation. The midfielder was a part of the infamous Derby County side that still holds the record for fewest points in a Premier League season, but he is confident that this West Brom side can stay up.

As West Bromwich Albion prepares for the upcoming Premier League season, they'll do so knowing that their young star Giles Barnes is more than ready mentally and physically. After a summer vacation with teammates in Las Vegas, Barnes is delighted to be fit and taking part in preseason.

"It's good to be out here, good to be on tour, being able to get a pre-season under my belt," said the former Derby County player.

Starting Line Ups

Fire

GK Johnson

D Segares, Robinson, Brown, Conde

M Pappa, Husidic, Pause, Castillo

F Ljungberg, McBride

Subs: Dykstra, Kinney, Krol, Watson-Siriboe, Banner, Lowry, Carr

Revs

GK Reis

D Alston, Osei, Barnes, Gibbs

M Nyassi, Joseph, Phelan, Tierney

F Stolica, Perovic

Subs: Shuttleworth, Sinovic, Griffiths, Schilawski, Smith, Linck, Mansally

For those that missed my Tweets pregame last night, I was incredibly unhappy with the decision to Birahim Diop up top in the center striker position. Diop has been very unsuccessful when he's come on as a substitute this season as a striker. The biggest was his poor finishing against Toronto FC when he had the full goal to shoot for.

New England Revolution's attempts at winning the North American SuperLiga title for a second time were dashed on Wednesday as they were defeated at home by Mexican opponents Monarcas Morelia by two goals to one in front of a disappointing 10,000 crowd. The Revs had previously won the competition two years earlier having beaten compatriots Houston Dynamo in a penalty shoot-out but any repeat of that triumph was put to the sword after Morelia left the American hosts with too much to do after taking a two goal lead in this game.

After each match the contributors to New England Soccer Today will rate the performances of the Revolution players who made an appearance on a 1 to 10 scale (1 horrendous, 5 average, 10 perfection). This week Brian O'Connell and Sean Donahue contributed ratings for the Revs' 2-2 draw against the Columbus Crew.

After each match the contributors to New England Soccer Today will rate the performances of the Revolution players who made an appearance on a 1 to 10 scale (1 horrendous, 5 average, 10 perfection). This week Brian O'Connell and Sean Donahue contributed ratings for the Revs' 2-1 loss to Real Salt Lake.

After each match the contributors to New England Soccer Today will rate the performances of the Revolution players who made an appearance on a 1 to 10 scale (1 horrendous, 5 average, 10 perfection). This week Brian O'Connell and Sean Donahue contributed ratings for the Revs' 1-0 victory over Kansas City.

The New York Red Bulls close out their regular season tonight with a chance to clinch the regular season Eastern Conference title with a win against the New England Revolution (7:30pm, ESPN2).

The Red Bulls clinch with a victory, but beating the Revs has never been easy for New York, which hasn't beaten New England in 15 straight matches.

Steve Nicol will look to protect 11 players for the upcoming expansion draft. (Getty Images)

Time to dive back into the expansion draft lists here. I've already covered D.C. United, Chivas USA and the Philadelphia Union. Today we'll continue up the standings with the New England Revolution.

So Ireland manager Giovanni Trappatoni wants to scour North America for players with Irish-sounding names to help bolster Ireland's national team. It sounds like he's not Euro-snobbing with this and willing to consider anyone in the hunt for new blood but it sounds kinda messed up in a way, almost offensive maybe to some people.

Make to sure come out to Barnes & Noble in Georgetown tomorrow between 11:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., as United for D.C. will be gift-wrapping purchases at the bookstore throughout the day in return for support of the club's United Reads program. United for D.C., along with D.C. United staff and supporters will be on hand to volunteer their time for all of you busy holiday shoppers.

*The Galaxy announced today they have re-upped midfielder Jovan Kirovski, 34, on a new one-year deal.

His option was initially declined by the club and he has presumably re-signed with a cut in pay, although terms were not announced.

The Escondido native is in his second stint with the club and scored four goals last season in a reserve role.