National League Division 2 South Fixtures

Would dearly love to go to a Richmond V Barnes fixture :

Saturday, 07 November 2009

Barking v Westcombe Park, 15:00

Bridgwater & Albion v Rosslyn Park, 15:00

Canterbury v Southend, 15:00

Dings Crusaders v Worthing, 15:00

Ealing v Henley, 15:00

Lydney v Clifton, 15:00

Richmond v Barnes, 15:00

Why?

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Scottish Rugby and their kit supplier, Canterbury of New Zealand, has launched its new official Scotland 2010 home and alternate jerseys. According to Scottish Rugby's website: The new home jersey will make its debut when Scotland take on Fiji at Murrayfield next month (Saturday 14 November 2009). It will also be worn in the subsequent fixtures against [. Click to continue reading...

English Premier League side Portsmouth Football Club have unveiled their 2009/10 Canterbury home kit. It was seen for the first time during Saturday's English Premier League 0-1 loss at Fulham. The new kit features club's new shirt sponsor, Jobsite, and uses Pompey's traditional home colours of blue, white and red. Click to continue reading...

What the hell is going on at Portsmouth? Despite Sulaiman Al Fayed passing the fit and proper persons test that the Premier League subjected him to, he's still not completed the takeover at Fratton Park. The fans of Pompey deserve better than this, it's not fair and it's getting beyond a joke.

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English Premier League side Portsmouth Football Club gone 1970s style retro with their new 2009/10 Canterbury away kit. The new kit was unveiled to fans yesterday complete with the club's new shirt sponsor Jobsite. Pompey have gone back to their traditional away colours of blue, white and red kit after last season's all-blue kit in celebration [. Click to continue reading...

Portsmouth FC have released an image of their new hone shirt for the 2009/2010 season.

The new home jersey for Portsmouth is designed and manufactured by Canterbury, the New Zealand company, and is sponsored by Jobsite. Canterbury Europe went into administration recently but the new kits for Portsmouth were already created, so it appears very likely that Pompey will be wearing Canterbury kits this season and will have new kits from a different kit manufacturer next season.

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French Ligue 1 side Lille Olympique Sporting Club (or Lille OSC) presented their new signings, 2009/10 team and season kits to their fans at the Stadium Lille Métropole yesterday.  The new Lille OSC 09/10 kits are among the first offerings from Canterbury that we've seen for the season. Of note is that Canterbury Europe Ltd. Click to continue reading...

As reported by TSC, New Zealand outfitter Canterbury is in dire straits in their European division. Teams like AZ Alkmaar went back to Quik and Deportivo signed with Lotto shortly after their jerseys were presented.
This was due to the Kiwi company not following through on their obligations as far as per their contract with various clubs in Europe. Click to continue reading...

Artistic drawings of Portsmouth's new home and away football jerseys for the 2009-2010 season have been revealed showing what the shirts will look like that are designed by Canterbury, the shirt's manufacturer.

The Portsmouth home shirt in the classic Pompey blue features an aerodynamic design that looks very modern with a dark blue trim that's accentuated with white flecks.

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SPL side Motherwell have released their new home jersey for the 2009-10 season, manufactured by New Zealand based Canterbury. It is an amber shirt with claret and white trim and claret hoop. The Canterbury logo is below the collar, with the Motherwell crest and the logo of sponsors JAXX below it. It is accompanied by yellow [. Click to continue reading...

Yup - next year Philly gets its own WPS Team - and they'll be playing at the new soccer-specific stadium in Chester - a venue they will share with Philly's new MLS team. I like the combo and am glad that the City of Brotherly Love will be playing WPS soccer next summer!

Turning to the Breakers, here's a profile of defender Sue Weber - a third round pick out of Hofstra who's a solid defender for the Blue!

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Dutch Eredivisie champions AZ Alkmaar have revealed their 2009-10 shirts. The AZ Alkmaar 2009-10 kits are made by Quick. They were made by Canterbury last year, but AZ have decided to switch back for Quick for this season. Check out the photos of the 1.) New AZ Alkmaar 2009-10 home shirt 2.) New AZ Alkmaar 2009-10 away [. Click to continue reading...

Yup - it's a busy day in Canterbury, with lots of computer work on tap, as well as some growing grass to catch up with, a bike to get to the bike shop, maybe even a little bit of exercise (other than mowing) and reading to squeeze in along the way. (Hah!)

Here's the WPS preview for the weekend - with some interesting match-ups, starting with FC Gold Pride and the Daniela-less (and MacNeill-less) Athletica tonight at 8PM ET.

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Preston North End Football Club is an English professional football club located in the Deepdale area of the city of Preston, Lancashire, currently playing in the second tier of English league football, The Championship. They were a founding member of the English Football League in 1888 and were the first English football champions. Click to continue reading...

Happy Saturday morning ... as the clouds roll in, bringing some much needed rain to these parts. I went for a run yesterday after work and jogging by the fire house, noticed the sign saying that the fire danger was "extreme." (Breathed a small sigh of relief that I wasn't lounging by the chiminea, endangering the neighborhood without realizing!

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HollyCornblog is back on line and sent along some photos of what it was looking like in her world yesterday. Here's a beauty! In the meantime, I had the occasion to drive over toward the Monadnock region of NH (actually Antrim, Peterborough, Greenfield, etc.) and was absolutely shocked at the devastation. Click to continue reading...

Portsmouth will launch their new third shirt for the 2008/2009 season this Thursday, September 18. The new kit is designed by Canterbury and features the same design as the away kit except that the third kit is black with gold trim. The shirt celebrates Portsmouth's 110th anniversary as a football club. Click to continue reading...

After Carli Lloyd's goal in the first half, the score held and the USWNT defeated a good Japan squad 1-0 to gain three points and move into second place in their group. Next up, New Zealand on Tuesday at 7:45 AM ET. Here are some comments from Pia et al (from the USSF [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "USWNT Notches a Win", url: "http://www. Click to continue reading...

Slavia Prague have pushed the envelope: You can buy one here. It's an exciting time for off-field fun: Middlesbrough's new kit is waterproof Hummel have released the new Zanzibar kit, and, let's face it, you won't find anything like this in the Premiership And Lille have moved to Canterbury kits.  Which means that Airness have lost another account Meanwhile, a certain [. Click to continue reading...

Sometimes it's difficult to remove your team bias and the emotional connection you feel with the colors of your favorite club. But try, for a minute, to be objective and open minded as you read through EPL Talk's list of the Top 5 Worst Football Shirts of the 08/09 Premier League season (in order from [. Click to continue reading...

North Atlanta Soccer Association - NASA
Year Established: March 8, 2006
(note that NASA is the result of two previously existing clubs, United Quest and Metro North Youth Soccer Association, the later of these being one of the first football associations in Cobb County)
Director: Dave Smith
President of the Board: Shaun Williams
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This is a continuously updated post on my experiences as a "player's parent" with the local Atlanta area youth soccer scene.
Below is a list of all of the clubs in Atlanta and beneath each is my "review" of sorts. For each review, I have qualitatively assessed player quality, coach quality, and sportsmanship. Click to continue reading...

A photo of Portsmouth's new home shirt for the 2008/2009 season has been leaked. Manufactured by Canterbury, the home shirt features a blue and gold design that will mark the club's 110th anniversary. Thanks to the Football Shirts web site for discovering the picture. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Click to continue reading...

A picture of the new Portsmouth away shirt for the 2008/2009 season has been leaked. Manufactured by Canterbury, the white and blue shirt design has a retro look about it especially with the old school collars. The image is courtesy of our friends over at Football Shirts. As their readers point out in the comments section [. Click to continue reading...

The new 07/08 Portsmouth home shirt was unveiled last night. This season, Pompey will be wearing kits from kit manufacturer Canterbury who are more synonymous with rugby than soccer.
Canterbury is to be applauded for a sleek design. The gold trim around the edge of the Pompey shirt looks impressive, and I'll be looking forward to seeing how the shirts look in person after the new season kicks off on August 11th. Click to continue reading...