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Landon Donovan converted a penalty kick in the 43rd minute and Bocanegra scored on a diving header off Dempsey's knock-down header in the 68th Saturday night for a key 2-1 victory over Honduras.
Carlisle:
U.S. shows some grit + player ratings

The USSF can be pretty depressing. While certain problems are to be expected due to the relative youth and lack of resources of US Soccer, others are just baffling. My biggest complaint of all is the inability of the USSF to part ways with personel. Senior national team coaches are guaranteed a minimum of four years.

Head over to ESPN Soccernet and read a nice piece about one-time Rowdies midfielder, Hugo Perez. The article is by Jeff Carlisle and details the career of one of the better US national team players of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Before Claudio Reyna and Landon Donovan, there was Hugo.
He played just two seasons with Tampa Bay and unfortunately his career coincided with the dark years after the collapse of the NASL.

Morecambe have taken former Liverpool youngster Craig Lindfield on trial, skysports.com understands.
Lindfield is looking for a new club after having his contract at Liverpool cancelled by mutual consent.
The 21-year-old came through the ranks with the Reds and helped them win the FA Youth Cup in 2006 and 2007.

It was a difficult year for the Bay Area boot squad, but an easy choice on who to ask for some answers. Sorting through the Earthquakes rubble for us is ESPN & Center Line Soccer all-star Jeff Carlisle.NSC: What went wrong?JC: Just about everything. Players like Francisco Lima and Scott Sealy werent adequately replaced at the start of the season.

If Boro haven't been brought back down to earth already after the semi final victory over Ebbsfleet United, then they certainly will have by tomorrow night when they visit Histon in the Blue Square Premier. It's back to the bread and butter for Westley's men after reaching Wembley and another 10 cup finals await, this [.

Soccernet's Jeff Carlisle gets the engines warm for the first Superclasico of 2009. With the way LA has played so far, on paper this should fall to the Goats. But the derby atmosphere is the wild card as it always elevates the level of play to unusual heights. It really is a toss up for me.

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This man without a team may finally have his prayers answered in San Jose.
Jeff Carlisle over at Centerline Soccer (please click here and here for the original and full details at his site) is reporting that 28 year old Trinidad and Tobago international striker Cornell Glen is training with the San Jose Earthquakes for the week, after which they will decide whether to offer him a contract or not.

Championship Playoff Final: Burnley 1 - 0 Sheffield United
Burnely completed a fairy tale season by winning the ultimate prize, promotion to the top flight of English Football. Burnley was not considered one of the better teams in the league when the season began, but they completed an historic season by beating Sheffield United 1-0 in the playoff final.

Before I give my short pre-game analysis of Saturday's game at the CAB I would like to say that I feel honored because it seems that Coach Curt Onalfo took the time to read my last post and e-mail me his opinion on my criticism about the team, the players and his coaching. Since the Coach sent me an e-mail and did not post his answer in an open forum (comments) I will not answer his e-mail in an open forum (although I will do it if he's OK with that), but regardless of his displeasure with how I see things, I can only say that my article is actually based on facts and my opinions were based on those facts.

Of all the Italian players in the new jerseys, the standout was the kid from New Jersey.Teaneck-born Giuseppe Rossi scored twice in the second half, Daniele De Rossi had a goal and Italy rallied to overcome a Landon Donovan penalty kick and beat the United States 3-1 Monday night in its opener at the FIFA Confederations Cup.

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- Today: Fan Open Day and Kettering (who also played a game last night)
- QPR's Win at Wycombe: Reports and Comments
- Current Promotion Odds
- Burnley and Clarke Carlisle Profiled/Interviewed - Carlisle on Ian Holloway "He's a beautiful man, he's very loving and very giving.

Liverpool will travel to League One leaders and old rivals Leeds United in the third round of the Carling Cup.
Championship side Preston will be hoping to stun Premier League high-flyers Tottenham, while Portsmouth face a long trip to League One Carlisle.
There are five all-Premier League ties with holders Manchester United hosts to recently promoted Wolves.

The US National team have an all-important World Cup Qualifier against El Salvador on Saturday night, and Jeff Carlisle of ESPN SoccerNet has a preview of what lies ahead.
The U.S. hasn't lost a home qualifier since Sept. 1, 2001, when it fell to Honduras 3-2. Since then, the Americans have gone 16-0-1 at home, the lone blemish being a 1-1 semifinal round tie versus Jamaica during the 2006 campaign that occurred after passage to the final stage had been secured.

Earlier today, we featured the review of the book 'Secret Diary of a Liverpool Scout' which, I think is a must read for all Liverpool fans. Now here's a chat with the writer of the book Simon Hughes about what went into the writing of the book. We hope you'll enjoy.
How did the idea to write a book about Geoff Twentyman come about?

EPL on ESPN2: Portsmouth - Manchester United at 10am. On Setanta: Manchester City - Hull at 10am, Fulham - Bolton at 5pm, and Blackburn - Stoke at 8:30pm. On Fox Soccer Channel: West Ham United - Burnley at 10am, Aston Villa - Spurs at 12:30pm, and Wigan - Sunderland at 7pm. FA Cup on Fox Soccer: Staines - Millwall at 9pm.

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League One
Leicester City have won League One and bounce back to the Championship a season after being relegated. Peterborough continue their climb up the divisions and will join Leicester in the Championship along with the playoff winner. Scunthorpe needed a late goal from captain Cliff Byrne to earn a 1-1 draw against Tranmere to claim the final playoff spot.

Jeff Carlisle shows some Orange love on his West notes column (click here) over at MLSnet.com, focusing primarily on Geoff Cameron and Andrew Hainault.
My favorite part of the piece is in this quote from The Dom:
"You always try and put your best team on the field," said Kinnear.

Soccerword's League Two Awards for 2008-09

Player of the Year: Grant Holt, Shrewsbury
Manager of the Year: Andy Scott, Brentford

League Two Player of the Year
2008-09: Grant Holt, Shrewsbury
2007-08: Aaron McLean, Peterborough
2006-07: Izale McLeod, MK Dons
2005-06: Karl Hawley, Carlisle
2004-05: Lee Trundle, Swansea

League Two Manager of the Year
2008-09: Andy Scott, Brentford
2007-08: Paul Ince, MK Dons
2006-07: Richard Money, Walsall
2005-06: Paul Simpson, Carlisle
2004-05: Gary Johnson, Yeovil

League One 2009-10 Predictions

1. Leeds
2. Norwich
3. Charlton
4. Huddersfield
5. MK Dons
6. Millwall
7. Colchester
8. Southampton
9. Southend
10. Oldham
11. Brentford
12. Tranmere
13. Brighton
14.

Newcastle United have been drawn away to Peterborough United in the Third Round of the Carling Cup. Ties will be played week commencing Monday, September 21. Liverpool will travel to old rivals Leeds United, Preston are at home to Premier League Tottenham, while Portsmouth face a long trip to League One Carlisle.

Arsenal will face West Bromwich Albion in the third round of the Carling Cup, competition which Arsene Wenger usually approaches by making use of the reserve side.

Below is the complete set of fixtures for next month, games to be played week starting September 21:

Arsenal v West Bromwich Albion
Chelsea v QPR
Bolton v West Ham
Barnsley v Burnley
Hull v Everton
Leeds v Liverpool
Manchester United v Wolves
Manchester City v Fulham
Sunderland v Birmingham
Peterborough v Newcastle
Carlisle v Portsmouth
Nottingham Forest v Blackburn
Stoke v Blackpool
Scunthorpe v Port Vale
Preston v Tottenham
Aston Villa v Cardiff

Charlie Nicholas believes Yossi Benayoun underlined his value to Liverpool as his hat-trick blew Burnley away at Anfield.
The Isreal international was making his third start of the season, but pressed his claims for a permanent starting role as Rafa Benitez's side ran riot against the Premier League newcomers.

"If I had a cat I'd buy another one so I could kick one and then the other."
The fur flies from Carlisle boss Greg Abbott after seeing his side concede a soft winner to Norwich.

"He made one mistake, that is all, and that was for the penalty. The only other one was for the goal.

What's the best move for Stuart Holden and Ricardo Clark? (Getty Images)

I won't lie, I've been busy today with loads of last minute work at the office thanks to everyone taking their holiday breaks tomorrow and due to having to finalize all my Christmas shopping. Yes busy day and I'm partly to blame for the ladder of those two items since I put that kind of stuff off until the last minute.

St Patrick's road trip was all in vain as they left Carlisle Grounds with no points, falling to Bray to drop to fourth place in the Irish Premier Division.

Remember that roster spot which opened up when San Jose traded Nick Garcia to Toronto? Well it looks as though they are poised to fill it:
Courtesy of Jeff Carlisle at Center Line Soccer:

The San Jose Earthquakes' extreme makeover looks set to continue, as the team is on the verge of signing Canadian international midfielder Antonio Ribeiro, CLS has learned.

The bad thing about having a "real job" is that I don't blog about the beautiful game as much as I'd like. There is a silver lining though, I get to ignore lots of topics that are only marginally interesting to me and rather focus on some more interesting theories.

I decided to sit down for a few minutes and think about an article that for blogger standards is ancient (August 26) but that struck a chord for me.

During this week stockportinsider.com has had views from countries and towns you may not expect to recieve them from.

We would like to thank everyone who has viewed the site this week as we have only just got it back up and running, here is a short list of some of the views we have

had during this week from Tuesday onwards to today :

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The 2009 MLS playoffs are set to kick off tonight with the Houston Dynamo taking on the Seattle Sounders and SBI will spend the next two days previewing the four first-round match-ups.

We will preview the Houston-Seattle series later today, along with the Chicago-New England series.

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The 2009 MLS playoffs are set to kick off tonight with the Houston Dynamo taking on the Seattle Sounders and SBI will spend the next two days previewing the four first-round match-ups.

We will preview the Houston-Seattle series later today, along with the Chicago-New England series.

Lineups are in:

Burnley: Jensen, Mears, Caldwell, Carlisle, Jordan, Eagles, Elliot, Alexander, Bikey, McDonald, Fletcher. Subs: Penny, Kalvenes, Gudjonsson, Blake, Nugent, Thompson, Guerrero.

Arsenal: Starters: Almunia, Sagna, Gallas, Vermaelen, Silvestre, Cesc, Song, Diaby, Nasri, Arshavin, Walcott.