He's baaack!

I like to think my post yesterday made the difference. That it was the final piece that brought Buddle back. Okay, maybe not. But I can still think that.

I was excited when Buddle first joined the Galaxy. He was not so highly rated, but I had seen him play and thought he had a lot of potential.

The past few days have altered the landscape of MLS, the Western Conference and, specifically, Cascadia. While many of us have always believed that the West was much stronger than the East, the amount of talent that has flooded in during the past week alone has only strengthened that belief.

Let's review: The Portland Timbers have added Kris Boyd, the leading scorer in Scottish Premier League history; the Vancouver Whitecaps traded for Sebastien Le Toux, who's contributed to 45 goals over the past two seasons; and the LA Galaxy brought back Edson Buddle, who scored 19 goals during the 2010 season.

Talksport: Earl Barrett previews Liverpool v Oldham

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Currently considering trading TFC Academy for magic beansFor a brief period a little over a year ago, Earl Cochrane was in charge of Toronto FC lock, stock and Barrett. While Jurgen Klinsmann was busy searching the planet for the management team that would eventually be headed by Aron Winter, Cochrane had the keys to the player cabinet and even seemed to be in the running to grab the permanent GM job.

Ok, I am in a strange place mentally today.
Imagine that Toronto FC had instantly become the Barcelona of MLS and everything they had ever done had turned into football gold. Expansion draft day arrives for Montreal and their leadership says we must pick up all the ex-TFC players that we can, since their castoffs might still have some of the Toronto magic to them.

MLS Cup dream shattered: Chad Barrett will miss MLS Cup through injury (Getty Images).

It's a sickening blow for the Galaxy and UCLA product Chad Barrett, the Galaxy's second leading goalscorer.

The seven-year MLS veteran, playing his first season in Southern California, dislocated his right ankle in training today.

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BY ADAM SERRANO

CARSON, Calif. – A little more than a week until MLS Cup, the Los Angeles Galaxy's hopes of an MLS Cup took a devastating blow.

Forward Chad Barrett will miss the MLS Cup Final after suffering a dislocated right ankle during the club's training session on Thursday.

Qualification for the knock-out phases of the NextGen series will have to wait after Villa's U19s failed to get a result in Norway, losing 3-2 to Rosenborg.

Derrick Williams cancelled out Ole Kristian Selnæs' 29th minute opener from a Samir Carruthers corner in the 39th minute. Daniel Johnson sent the visitors into the break 2-1 ahead just minutes later with a wicked shot from a tight angle.

I can't be the only one who still finds himself humming "This is LA...." every few minutes.

Sunday night was the most thrilling night I have ever spent at the HDC. I don't think I have ever heard the crowd louder. My favorite fans, pictured above, cheered their brains out, as it seems did 20,000 other fans.

At first if you don't succeed, try, and try again.

Los Angeles Galaxy forward Chad Barrett must have been uttering those words at halftime of LA's Superclasico matchup against Chivas USA. The Galaxy forward had numerous chances in the first half, but it wasn't until the 53rd minute when Barrett finally broke through, as his header off an Adam Cristman cross finally found the back of the net, and that strike was all Los Angeles needed to hold off Chivas USA on Sunday evening at the Home Depot Center.

Barrett: Liverpool would like a fairer distribution of the total TV rights

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Rooney Rule: I've applied for nearly 50 jobs and not had one interview says ex-England defender Barrett

Former Villa and Everton star reveals frustration at lack of opportunities for black managers

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Galaxy 1 Colorado Rapids 0

It's not me, it's you: Landon Donovan acknowledges the teammates who set up a finely worked move he ended with a confidently taken finish for the win over Colorado Saturday in Carson (AP Photo).

*Notable: With the win the first place Galaxy became the first MLS team to clinch a playoff spot.

This week's Monday Profile comes from our Yeovil previewer Ben Barrett, whose writings can usually be found at http://barrettsportswriting.webs.com/. Browsing through the BBC Sport pages, you quickly learn that there really have been a lot of comings and goings this summer. Some, like Aguero and Nasri, attract worldwide media attention.

Galaxy 1 Alajuelense 0

Galaxy forward Chad Barrett enters the game in the 74th minute for Adam Cristman; it's the UCLA product's first appearance since July 4.

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Landon Donovan got a 68th minute yellow card for flinging an opponent to the ground.

The all new Fulham Review!

The fifth book in the series. Featuring all the usual reports, essays and statistics.

A match report from every game. A look back at Jimmy Conway, Steve Earle and Les Barrett by Nick Johnson. Kieron "Swiss Ramble" O'Connor writes about Fulham's Finances.

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Barrett: 'There are probably two or three new signings to be made at Anfield'

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It's that time of the week you've all been waiting for - Diary of an MLS Convert is back, and the convert have, as usual, got plenty to say this week. Topics covered by supporters of Western teams include criticism over pitch dimensions, expansion opponents 'the best medicine' for poor form, a local derby in the Reserve League, England adopting features from MLS, a debutant covering Colorado Rapids and the hot streak of a certain Texas side.

It's that time of the week you've all been waiting for - Diary of an MLS Convert is back, and the convert have, as usual, got plenty to say this week. Topics covered by supporters of Western teams include the sack race, needing a break from the team, marketing in soccer, gushing over a big win, questions about MLS transfer policy and being the second best team in MLS right now.

We are pleased to welcome back Ben Barrett for his first post for us since February - Ben contributed an entry to our Great Teams series then, as well as a profile of Bristol City's Stephen Henderson but he's been far from idle in the interim, providing his favourite play off memory for The Seventy Two just recently.

CARSON, Calif. – After four long and often frustrating years, David Beckham has learned to bend it once again. That famous right foot, so effective and prolific that it spawned the title of a movie, has been quiet for much of his Los Angeles Galaxy career, but its effectiveness has returned with a vengeance this [.

Anybody remember that old movie Excalibur? It's the old Knights of the Round Table story. Lancelot and Gwyneviere betray the king and Arthur plunges Excalibur into Lancelot's gut. He survives, they make amends, but when Lancelot fights in battle alongside his king again he is clearly in pain.

It's that time of the week you've all been waiting for - Diary of an MLS Convert is back, and the convert have, as usual, got plenty to say this week. Topics covered by supporters of Western teams include Cascadia rivalry, the bad injury to Morales, injury to a loanee from Spurs, yet more on the Seattle-Portland game, reflection on the big NY-LA clash and the inspirational Charlie Davies.

County Stamp Out Relegation Threat Notts County 1-1 Brighton (07:05:11) A warm welcome back to Brighton fan and all-round genius David Hartrick.... Okay, I suppose we better address the EFW match-report shaped elephant in the room. My last article from the Oldham vrs Brighton game this season may have contained one or two factual errors.

It's that time of the week you've all been waiting for - Diary of an MLS Convert is back, and the convert have, as usual, got plenty to say this week. Topics covered by supporters of Western teams include questioning the play-off format, a disappointing week for soccer fans in Utah, fading optimism, free haircuts and tacos, the crazy weather in Frisco and the reward of staying up deep into the night to watch an MLS game.

Landon Donovan sat out the Los Angeles Galaxy past few matches nursing a sore knee, but he showed no signs of the knee being a problem last week, scoring two goals and adding an assist in the Galaxy''s 3-0 win against the Portland Timbers. His performance was good enough to earn him SBI's MLS Player of the Week honors.

Chad Barrett has always been an enigma. He has all the tools to be a productive forward, gets himself in good spots during games but has been plagued with poor marksmanship.
He was able to set that aside for one match at least, as he scored his first LA Galaxy goal in Sunday's 2-1 win over Chicago.

Dominic Oduro -- Getty ImagesBRIDGEVIEW, Ill. -- The Los Angeles Galaxy was without its star power Sunday, but the struggling Chicago Fire could not withstand the rest of L.A.'s depleted roster as Chicago dropped its third straight, 2-1, in front of 18,203 at Toyota Park.
Former Fire forward Chad Barrett and Galaxy defender Omar Gonzalez provided the Galaxy's scoring as L.

The past two MLS Cup champions square off in Utah in the latest edition of the Rocky Mountain Cup.

Unbeaten Real Salt Lake and the defending league champions, the Colorado Rapids, have their first meeting of the year at Rio Tinto Stadium, where an intense match between bitter rivals is anticipated (9 p.

Nottingham Forest 2-5 Yeovil Town, May 2007 Your boys took one hell of a beating is a post from: Just Football

by Ben Barrett

The story you are about to read is not one out of a story book; it was not plucked from a comic or magazine nor is it a case of a wild imagination.

I know this was an away game, but I still feel like Galaxy fans should get a refund. I managed to pull the game up on my iPad and watch it live. If you are waiting for the 10:30 tape delay, don't bother.

By the time the game actually loaded on my iPad LA was down 1-0. Within a few minutes Saunders had a clear foul in the box for a PK that made it 2.

Lord, what's a cubit? I ask because about half way through last night's game I was sure we were going to need to build an ark right there in the middle of HDC. My hat goes off to those brave souls who ventured into the elements for their free poncho. Discretion being the better part of valor, I opted for Chinese delivered to my door and Galavision.

Like Angel, Gonzalez, and Ricketts, Nathan is suffering through an injury today, so post game duties fall to me.

Somewhere in a penthouse in Vegas there is a guy snorting lines and rolling in hookers because he put $100 down on Mike Magee starting for the Galaxy in their opening match. Don't know how far down your probability depth chart that was, but I'm still diving to find it on mine.

A game, an actual game featuring Aston Villa! Okay, it's the reserves, but Bannan, Delfouneso, Herd and Baker are in action and I haven't done a live blog since pre-season, so it seemed like a good excuse.

Aston Villa Res. vs, Chelsea. Res

Villa Starting XI: Parish; Herd, Devine, Williams, Baker; Carruthers, Gardner, Bannan, Steiber; Forrester, Delfouneso.

Includes when it was called the CONCACAF Champions Cup. Qualifying games like the ones Colorado and LA played in the 90s are not included. However, the preliminary round games that are a part of the new Champions League are included (as they're considered part of the final tournament).
Alltime Records
GP W L D Pts GF GA GD DC United 40 16 14 10 58 64 58 6 Houston 22 7 8 7 28 28 31 -3 Columbus 18 8 7 3 27 25 26 -1 Chicago 11 6 3 2 20 18 14 4 Los Angeles 14 5 5 4 19 20 24 -4 San Jose 8 5 3 0 15 10 12 -2 Real Salt Lake 6 4 1 1 13 17 11 6 Toronto 10 3 3 4 13 8 10 -2 Kansas City 8 3 3 2 11 9 11 -2 Seattle 8 2 5 1 7 8 12 -4 New England 6 1 4 1 4 4 12 -8 New York 2 0 1 1 1 3 4 -1 Chivas USA 2 0 1 1 1 1 3 -2
This season, Colorado and Dallas will make their debuts in the competition.

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Saturday 12th February 1994 Aston Villa 5 Swindon 0

Dean Saunders (31, pen 66, pen 84), Steve Froggatt (55), Kevin Richardson (73).

Villa Starting XI: Bosnich, Cox, Barrett, McGrath, Froggatt, Houghton, Richardson, Townsend, Daley, Saunders, Atkinson.

In his second contribution to the two unfortunates in as many weeks, Ben Barrett profiles Stephen Henderson, scourge of many a League One striker. The role of second choice goalkeeper must be one of the most frustrating jobs in football, yet being a back-up and then seeing your club sign an England stopper must make your heart sick.