Editor's note: As a follow-up to the recent article about ESPN2's number of viewers for Premier League games it has shown so far this season, I asked EPL Talk readers if anyone would be interested in analyzing the data more closely. New York City resident LD Montejo responded to the call and has produced these very eyeopening observations and charts below.

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Ever have that girlfriend or boyfriend who drove you absolutely nutso batty? You fought like gangsters. You both knew the buttons to push to make the other pop like a tart.

But the sex rocked and you had someone to eat breakfast with. Life was far more interesting with them, and came one moment every single day you were deliriously happy they were around.

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This might be the 3rd biggest match in the team's short history (the win over DC United to take the Open Cup, and the away game against Houston in the playoffs were bigger).

World Cup previews. They can be a bit dull and not particularly helfpul when it comes to predicting who will qualify from each group. One reason for this is that they focus too much on things like players and formations and not enough on the really good things. Like quality of national anthem, team nickname and potential celebrity spokesperson.

With the 2010 World Cup in South Africa just a few days away you will want to be sure that you are able to watch every game of this prestigous competition and you may have to consider being able to watch the World Cup online if you are going to be stuck at work where your employers won't allow you to watch the matches.

The 2010 World Cup has exploded on US television with record ratings. During the first weekend, the audience numbers for the first five games for the 2010 World Cup on ESPN were twice as high as those from four years ago during the 2006 World Cup. And now, during the second weekend, Univision is reporting that their broadcast of Mexico against France was the largest audience for a World Cup match on its network.

I was really motivated this morning by the Guardian's discovery of Darius Vassell's lonely blog from Turkey, which includes typical footballer fare like "Can't get any sleep, just thinking about the many problems that i have here and the best solution. Lying there awake in bed, the sound of the air conditioning is like the engine room to a train of stressful thoughts .

ACES (Any Club Except Seattle), the supporters group which has a cup for the team which beats the Sounders the most times each season, pulled off a big Stunt at the Sounders' home opener against the Philadelphia Union. They had a plane fly over Qwest with the banner "ACES: GO UNION!"
Now that you know the back story, read this information from an anonymous source (who also provided the picture above):

Just before game time and as the broadcast was switching between ESPN studios there was a little activity in the booth as Harkes and Dellacamera were drawn to the window.

A few weeks ago, ESPN2 achieved a record high TV viewing audience for a broadcast of a Premier League match on US television. That game on April 3, 2010 between Manchester United and Chelsea drew an audience of 526,000 viewers. And now with this past Saturday's derby between Manchester City and Manchester United, ESPN2 scored an equally impressive viewing audience.

Some Lovely Links and a Video featuring England fans drowning out Scotland Bagpipe player!

Join the COS Fantasy Football League and you could win £5k and various other prizes including an official club/national shirt of your choice for winning the COS mini league itself! CLICK HERE to enter, you'd be a fool not too!

Take that, FIFA broadcast Uploaded with ImageShack.us Apart from Ricardo Osorio, whose howler let in Gonzalo Higuain, the fall guy of Argentina's second goal was the cameraman who ended up taking a couple of whacks from Gabriel Heinze. The cameraman was firstly headbutted by Heinze as he filmed the goal celebrations.

It seems the English broadcast giants Sky Sports have run out of iconic sports figures to help in their advertising campaigns and have turned to former Manchester United legend Eric Cantona instead. The controversial Frenchman is always one who has a way with words, and in this commercial (entitled "the Word") Cantona is back to quoting his best!

so you want to be a soccer writer?

Stay in the game long enough, doing whatever it is that keeps you afloat, and you're bound to get the email – how do I become a soccer writer? How do I make money off my website? They come from kids and adults, from established bloggers and newly launched dreamers.

Beeb broadcasts c-word at tea-time The c-word is one of the last remaining taboos in British broadcasting. It occasionally slips out in live interviews (just ask Steven Bywater), but rarely makes it into an edited news package. Produced by the BBC. Broadcast as people are tucking into their dinner. But when Rangers fans visit Manchester [.

FootBrazil picked out ten players who are set to have a massive future in the game. Some of them you'll already know. Some will be new names. But all of them have bags of talent and also fitted our criteria of being under 23. Naturally, we couldn't fit everyone on the list. So, if you want to see seven more young stars in the making, check out Brazil: the talent factory 2010.

Sunday's massive match between Chelsea and Liverpool (11am ET, Fox Soccer Channel) should be a relatively straightforward game for the Blues. Considering how both teams have played so far this season, Chelsea should overpower Liverpool with ease. But such is the game of football that you never know.

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The Kansas City Wizards took part in the pre-draft ritual of endless trade talk, but unlike other teams, the Wizards wound up the subjects of one of the juicier rumors of MLS Draft Day 2010. Various reports, including one on the ESPN broadcast of the MLS Draft, reported that the Wizards were shopping around U.

WV Hooligan found the TV schedule for the big show. Looks like the games will generally be on at 4 a.m., 6:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Pacific time (eek!).
Both ESPN and ABC have a huge blowout planned for the broadcast. They've already signed Martin Tyler and hinted to 3-D coverage. Games will all be covered live and on site -- unlike last time, where some games were broadcast from the studio.

Chelsea has been eliminated from UEFA Champions League, having lost 1-0 to José Mourinho and Internazionale at Stamford Bridge, leaving the tournament on Tuesday after a 3-1 aggregate defeat. On this edition of the EPL Talk podcast, Kartik Krishnaiyer and myself review the Special One's return to the Bridge and ask how the surviving English Premier League sides would fair against Mourinho's Inter.

Since this weekend features the semi-finals of the FA Cup, I thought it'd be interesting to take a trip down memory lane to see what a FA Cup semi-final from 1982 was like featuring two teams that in today's age would seem like unlikely participants at this stage in the tournament.

Queens Park Rangers played West Bromwich Albion in the 1981-82 semi-final.

Boy, Steve Davis hits it on the head with this one. I know I've harped over MLS broadcasts before and Davis made several points I'd said in the past. Quality read for those (like me) who get annoyed easy while listening to a MLS game.

I always say the best cure for it is to do what Seattle is doing, a single broadcaster calling the game.

Sadly, most of them can be applied to national tv broadcasts, too.

Stop talking. Seriously. You aren't being paid by the word. Your witty banter ... well, it isn't. Witty that is. In one match this weekend, two goofballs were going back and forth about their anniversaries and their sons and daughters and such.

It happened over a week ago, but I just acquired a tape of the Rowdies' first home game broadcast against Austin on May 8, and, for those of you who haven't seen the highlights, here they are. To paraphrase the old Bullwinkle cartoons, it's "Penalty Kick Theatre" or "When Passion For and Knowledge of the Game of Soccer are Optional for an Announcer.

Yesterday's broadcast featured another video update of stadium progress from our TV Reporter Kristin Bock. Check out that piece, then click here to read last week's progress report from Turner Construction.

For a couple of hours this afternoon, I was absorbed by the broadcast of the England v. Mexico friendly international match at Wembley stadium in London. I sat down to watch two teams in their final preparations for the World...

With 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa kicking off in two days, it's time for soccer fans within the USA to plan their lives for the next month. For those not making the trip to South Africa, television and internet match broadcast avenues abound. Here are the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa first round [.

The most anticipated game for England in four long, long years, one marked by optimism and hope and all those nasty words that lead down the inevitable road to tears for all but one. And then Steven Gerrard, the captain by default...and default again, found some space, kicked the ball and held his arms aloft so that fans could celebrate alongside him after years of disappointment and.

BBC is considering filtering out crowd noise from its World Cup broadcasts following a deluge of complaints about vuvuzelas.

By Tuesday morning, the BBC had received 545 complaints from viewers about the constant buzzing sound of the plastic horns used by fans at games in South Africa.

Sunday afternoon's broadcast of the Mexico-Argentina match was the most-watched program ever on Spanish-language television. Almost 9.4 million viewers watched the game on Univision.
Coverage of the game was the No. 1 program of the week in any language in such key markets as Los Angeles, Miami, Houston and Dallas among total viewers 2+, adults 18-49, adults 18-34 and persons 12-34.

Bill Griffiths, Farmers Gastropub owner

The final two matches of the 2010 World Cup are this weekend. As has been his habit for the entire tournament, Bill Griffith's and his staff at Farmer's Gastropub downtown will open their doors for fans of the world's game. Join us for excellent food, beverages and futbol.

During the broadcast of the game against Colorado tonight Wizards President Robb Heineman confirmed that Sunil Chhetri will play against Manchester United on the 25th. That should excite his many fans around the world and give Wizards fans a good look.Sunil Chhetri at practice...

You can watch Manchester City versus Sporting Lisbon tonight at 8:30pm ET in the second game of the Barclays New York Challenge. Courtesy of Veetle, you can watch the game live here on EPL Talk.

Or, if you own an Apple iPhone, iPod Touch or Apple iPad and you're feeling adventurous, you can try watching the game live by using Safari to browse to http://www.

Seems Jurgen Klinsmann was thisclose to being named the new USA head coach not once, but twice in the last four years. The California based ex-Germany manager was favourite to succeed Bruce Arena after the 2006 World Cup, until Bob Bradley was announced as interim and then perma-coach.

We'll start our weekend recap in Chicago, where almost 32k saw an entertaining match between the US and Poland. Soldier field was chosen as the venue for the match (rather than Toyota Park) and the additional capacity was important. The crowd looked good and appeared to be a reasonable mix of Polish and US fans.

Juan Pablo Angel is moving on after this season.. (Getty Images)

In a way most of us weren't shocked to hear the news last night that New York Red Bull striker and Designated Player Juan Pablo Angel was most likely not to return to New York after this season. When asked last night on the broadcast of the US-Colombia game if he would return next year to the Red Bulls he said "I probably won't".

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Ever since we are made known that Mediacorp Channel 5 decided to DELAY telecast, instead of LIVE telecast the crucial AFF Suzuki Cup tie between Singapore and Vietnam on the 8th of December, there are fans voiced their disappointment over the broadcaster's decision.
While it was made known that the time-slot for "NEWS 5 TONIGHT" program being the reason for not being able to live telecast of the match.

As Major League Soccer enters its sixteenth season, it is reaching an impasse. Average attendance across the league continues to slowly but steadily increase but its position in television leaves much to be desired.

Today, we officially introduced Curt Onalfo as the club's sixth head coach. Below is the archived broadcast from today's dcunited.com live stream. In addition to the press conference, you'll see exclusive interviews with Santino Quaranta, Rodney Wallace, Dave Kasper, Kevin Payne and, of course, Mr.

"ESPN is going 3D," Edward C. Baig writes, adding that the network "will launch ESPN 3D on June 11 with a World Cup soccer match, creating what it says will be the first all three-dimensional television network to the home. ESPN 3D expects to showcase at least 85 live sporting events during the first year.