I admit it. I was wrong. When Fox Soccer Channel announced in the Spring that they had acquired the US TV rights to the UEFA Champions League for the next three seasons, I recommended to the EPL Talk readers that Fox should hire the world feed that featured the UEFA commentary team instead of putting Fox's crew behind the mic.

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Fox Soccer Channel really know its soccer. I love the cable network, and I love the broadcasting duo of Max Bretos and Christopher Sullivan, who worked Saturday's 3-0 Real Salt Lake victory over the Colorado Rapids.

And although they don't work every Rapids game, the offered keen insight into the team and its playoff fortunes throughout Saturday night's telecast from Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah.

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Last evening I caught a bit of the RSL and Houston Dynamo game and I was reminded of the incessant verbiage of Max Bretos and Christopher Sullivan who have the attention spans of fruit flies. Their attention to the match waxes and wanes as they offer their diatribe on what the match should look like which bears little resemblance to how the match is actually playing out.

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At the risk of sounding naïve actually, check that. Embracing naïveté with two magnificently clenched thighs, riding naïveté down through the upper atmosphere like the bomb in Dr. Strangelove, I can't understand why I'm supposed to accept that "the point" of the Gold Cup was to audition players for South Africa.

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For the first 53 minutes, the US appeared to have the better of the play, stifling Mexico's attacks and developing some threatening counters and possessions of their own. This all changed when Courtney Campbell chose to have a massive impact on the game by awarding an extremely questionable penalty to Mexico in the 54th minute. Click to continue reading...

All that has come before this moment is meaningless.
Well, not totally meaningless. Freddy Adu still played himself off the World Cup squad, that still happened.
I was all concerned about trying to chart who has helped themselves potentially grab a 2010 roster spot, and who hurt their chances. Click to continue reading...

Fox Soccer Channel will be televising friendlies this summer featuring Spanish powerhouses Real Madrid and Barcelona.

The action gets underway on Saturday, Aug. 1 at 10:30 p.m. ET when Fox Soccer Channel broadcasts Barcelona against LA Galaxy live from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Max Bretos and Christopher Sullivan will be commentating.

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FIFA rejects calls to ban the wind instrument.

"It's been compared to a deafening swarm of wasps. Or a herd of flatulent elephants."

How about we will never have to suffer through Max Bretos and Christopher Sullivan's whingeing drivel?

For all those naysayers who think SA is going to be a crime haven, the vuvuzela will be the perfect crime stopper.

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Hearing Max Bretos and Christopher Sullivan's drivel on FSC was enough to make Beckham's re-entry less painful. I could not decide between the two for a long time till I heard Sullivan's summation of Beckham's performance after he struggled to put two passes together in 70 minutes as "simple, smart, and intelligent.

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As I discussed yesterday I love the Gold Cup. Perhaps the tournament needs to be moved back to February or made once every four years but I do support the event wholeheartedly.

The United States is in CONCACAF and I have made an effort to understand the rest of CONCACAF as well as I understand the USMNT.

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Hi all: an anonymous poster suggested you guys up in New York have an opportunity to meet Barcelona up close and personal while benefiting a fantastic global cause. Of course Barca is known for their altruism (forgoing millions in kit sponsorships to advertise UNICEF, etc.) and they've picked New York as the kick off of their next global gesture. Click to continue reading...

As a player, I am all about creativity, vision, and other attacking attributes that Christopher Sullivan likes to repeat ad nauseum. I have never understood why someone would want to to make it their job to stop all of that. I angered hundreds of teammates throughout my "career" refusing to defend. Click to continue reading...

This is a subject near and dear to my heart due to my history of being in the broadcast world over the last few years. I've been working on coming up with some sort of guide for people for when it comes to who they will probably be listening to on a broadcast of a [...] Click to continue reading...

So I'm doing the time-shift shuffle through TiVo-land last night as I zoom through my own personal highlight reel of the Israel-Russia European Championship qualifier (subtitled "The Abramovich Cup"), when what to my wondering ears should appear but another verbal nugget from FSC's Christopher Sullivan. Sulli's linguistic genius sparkles and fades with an ephemeral grace that leaves you Click to continue reading...

Let's put aside for just a second the weird "demi-accent", the ability to get a word in edgewise over the sheer volume of mostly nonsense and hot air churned out by Max Bretos, and the occasional "what game is he watching?" moment; and instead place our focus upon Christopher Sullivan's ability to dip into the vast pool of the English vocabulary and pull out some absolute stunners. Click to continue reading...