USSF TOA decision
It has been widely reported that the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) will be meeting this
weekend in Seattle, Washington to make a decision concerning the breakaway TOA league and their
request for a new 2nd division league in the US. Of course parties from the USSF and Major League
Soccer (MSL) (who are often one and the same) will be in Seattle for the MLS Cup final which takes
place on Sunday evening.
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kenn.com 20 November @ 08:58 PM EST
Statement tonight from the United Soccer Leagues:
"In response to the Team Owner's Association (TOA) announcement that the Tampa Bay
Rowdies and Crystal Palace Baltimore will be joining a prospective new professional soccer league,
United Soccer Leagues (USL) has issued the following statement:
"Both the Tampa Bay Rowdies and Crystal Palace Baltimore have contractual commitments to USL to
play in the 2010 USL First Division (USL-1) season.
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USL News Release Friday, November 20, 2009
TAMPA. Florida – In response to the Team Owner's Association (TOA) announcement that the Tampa
Bay Rowdies and Crystal Palace Baltimore will be joining a prospective new professional soccer
league, United Soccer Leagues (USL) has issued the following statement:
"Both the Tampa Bay Rowdies and Crystal Palace Baltimore have contractual commitments to USL to
play in the 2010 USL First Division (USL-1) season.
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This morning, my personal site, the Kartik Report along with partner site Inside Minnesota Soccer
was among those breaking the story that Crystal Palace Baltimore and Paul Daglish's Tampa Bay
Rowdies were joining the new TOA "breakaway" league . Later it was reported at USL News, Â and
discussed at Match Fit USA among other places, today it was revealed that Miami FC purchased the
trademark for the defunct North American Soccer League.
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According to the Whitecaps website the TOA League is now 11 teams strong!
The addition of Tampa Bay and Baltimore brings the new league to nine teams, as they
join the owners of the Atlanta Silverbacks, Carolina RailHawks, Miami FC, Minnesota Thunder,
Montreal Impact, St. Louis Soccer United and Vancouver Whitecaps FC.
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WVHooligan 20 November @ 02:16 PM EST
Just when we were beginning to wonder if this TOA league would really get off the ground with
just seven clubs they go and add two more. Yup, now they are up to nine as Inside Minnesota Soccer
has learned they have snatched two prime USL teams away with Tampa Bay rejoining the group and now
a new addition in Crystal Palace Baltimore.
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Match Fit USA 20 November @ 01:24 PM EST
The Team Owners Association announced today that they have added Crystal Palace Baltimore and the
Tampa Bay Rowdies to their new league. The two clubs brings the TOA's total up to nine, putting
to...
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The Tampa Bay Rowdies and Crystal Palace Baltimore have now joined the Team Owners Association
(TOA). This has brought the number of teams to 9 for the TOA, who will release a name for the
league next week.
This is throwing the USL into chaos at this point. I wonder with this loss of teams if USL will
decide to rework the league rules and spending to allow a merge of USL-1 and USL-2 and make it just
United Soccer League.
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TAMPA, BALTIMORE TO JOIN NEW PROFESSIONAL SOCCER LEAGUE
Expansion brings new league to nine teams
Nov. 20, 2009 – The Tampa Bay Rowdies and Crystal Palace Baltimore have joined the new
professional soccer league announced last week, beginning play in the United States and Canada in
April 2010.
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Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger is ready to try again for Crystal Palace superkid Victor Moses.
The Daily Star says Arsene Wenger has tracked the Eagles forward, 19, for two years and came close
to snaring him in August 2008.
But the Gunners baulked at the south Londoners' £5m asking price and were only prepared to fork
out £1m plus add-ons for a player they saw as unproven.
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Avenell Road 13 November @ 06:19 AM EST
Ian Edward Wright, known now by many a name but during in footballing career he was fondly known
as ‘Wrighty'.
Born in the fine year of 1963, he went on to be a half decent striker at Crystal Palace and then
Arsenal and boy, did he love to score!
He had a bit of a strange start to his career in football, he had trials at both Southend and
Brighton while in his teenage years but neither club thought he was good enough and let him go on
his merry way.
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Wenger to make move for England Under 19 international.
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Arsenal are set to make a move for Crystal Palace youngster Victor Moses, who is rated
as one of the best young footballers around.
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SoccerLens 12 November @ 04:38 AM EST
February 7th 2009, and "moneybags" Manchester City play a televised match against Gareth
Southgates Middlesborough. City needed to bounce back after a 1-0 loss to stoke, and they very
nearly lost it had it not been for one of Mark Hughes' shrewdest of signings.
Irish international Shay Given was making his first appearance for the Blues.
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Two up and coming youngsters on the White Hart Lane radar.
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Harry Redknapp has today been linked with moves for two up and coming England youngsters who are
making a name for themselves in the Championship.
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EPL Talk 11 November @ 05:20 AM EST
After viewing photographs in The Guardian last week about the greatest number of league
grounds that can be seen on a single train trip in Great Britain, the feature got me thinking about
my life growing up in Wales.
From as far back as I can remember, I always loved traveling.
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This week's Video Of The Week takes us back to the race for the Second Division title from the
1978/79 season and features three matches from an episode of London Weekend Television's "The Big
Match", presented as ever by Brian Moore. The first match is between from Selhurst Park and is
between Crystal Palace and Notts County, the second match is from The Goldstone Ground and is
between Brighton & Hove Albion and Blackburn Rovers (about whom Moore says, "they've already been
relegated to the Third Division, so at least they'll be relaxed) and the final match is from Roker
Park, and is between Sunderland and Cardiff City.
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EPL Talk 06 November @ 04:30 AM EST
Here are the video highlights for the very first season of the Premier League, 1992-93. Included
in the video is the great Brian Clough, once-great clubs such as Norwich City, Crystal Palace and
Ipswich Town, as well as the intriguing race for the title featuring Manchester United, Aston
Villa, Norwich City, Queens Park Rangers and Blackburn Rovers.
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The English Championship, League One, and League Two divisions are all taking shape as they are
well into their 2009-10 season. Here's a recap of all three divisions along with video
highlights.
English Championship Video Recap
Its still very crowded at the top as Newcastle, West Bromwich Albion, Cardiff City, and
Leicester City are all within one point of each other.
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This weeks accumulator is:
Stoke to beat Wolves
Middlesbrough to beat Plymouth
Preston to beat Crystal Palace
Leeds to beat Yeovil
Dag & Red to beat Port Vale
Celtic to beat Kilmarnock
This accumulator is available at 16-1
As our bonus this week, we bring you.
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With a history of recent slip ups to lower league opposition, there is a tendancy to view fixtures
such as last nights with a degree of trepidation, and when we gifted Scunthorpe an equaliser after
going ahead so early, there could well have been a sense of foreboding around the stadium.
This season though there has been the first suggestions that the old mentality is being cast aside
and rather than Scunthorpe's goal spelling disaster, the exact opposite was true as we went on the
front foot and sealed our progression through to the quarter-finals in convincing fashion.
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LTLF 25 October @ 05:02 PM EST
Crystal Palace 1 Nottingham Forest 1 A fairly laboursome game was always likely with managers like
Davies and Warnock in charge of the two clubs they're both fairly well-versed in employing spoiling
tactics to inhibit the other side, and this was pretty much the order of the day at Selhurst Park
yesterday.
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Fulham striker Andy Johnson is just days away from making a return to action following his
injury that has kept him out of action since October 4th. Johnson is facing a race to be fit for
Fulham's crucial Europa League match against Roma on Thursday, as the former Crystal Palace man
hopes to join Bobby Zamora up top for the Cottagers.
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A row went on down near Sloper Road on Saturday with Cardiff City's one time Perugia hit man, Jay
Bothroyd accusing an unspecified Crystal Palace player of a racist comment directed towards his
team mate Michael Chopra. According to Bothroyd, "I wasn't there but I spoke to Chops and he said
one of their boys made a racist comment to him".
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QPR Report 16 October @ 11:47 AM EST
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- QPR REPORT...UPDATED THROUGHOUT THE DAY:
Checkout the TWO QPR Reports! This QPR Report site.
And, the second combination messageboard and quasi-blog QPR Report Messageboard. If you're
interested in constantly-updated news re anything QPR-related and also QPR nostalgia, this site has
both - along with assorted eclectic non-QPR football material. Click to continue reading...
Now that the championship season is well underway I thought it would be fitting to give you a
list of the ten top players who have set alight the championship this season. The quality of the
championship is phenomenal these days and has become a training ground for top up and comers, as
well as one of the most entertaining leagues in the world.
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