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.

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.

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 [.

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!

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.

The United States national rugby team recently changed uniform providers from Canterbury to adidas. Now we have our first look at the Rugby World Cup 2011 bound Eagles 2010/11 adidas home jersey. The new USA kit saw action this past weekend in the second leg of the Eagles Rugby World Cup qualifier against Uruguay in Lauderhill, [.

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 [.

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 [.

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!

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.

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 [.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

This is the rarely seen 2009/10 Canterbury third kit of English Premier League strugglers Portsmouth Football Club. It has been used once thus far for Pompey' s 09/10 English Premier League campaign. The new kit features club's new shirt sponsor, Jobsite and uses a black and blue colour scheme. It carries retro feel similar to Portsmouth's [.