How is this guy one of the best regarded soccer writers in America? He's sure as hell not a good interviewer:

SI.com: Without being too self-conscious about it, I wanted to ask you what you thought of my book, The Beckham Experiment?

I mean, honestly. And check out the picture Wahl posted on twitter:
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If you haven't seen it already, Eboue scored a goal for Ivory Coast in an international friendly against Germany yesterday.

The goal was brilliant showing he may very well be the perfect striker: the strength of Drogba, the creativity of Henry, and the finishing of Owen. He's the complete package, folks.

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I'm working around the clock on something that will change everything, alienate half of you, and blow the minds of the other half, so don't think I'm neglecting this place, even if actual blocks of text with my name attached have been in short supply lately. I'm here behind the scenes, listening to Annette Hanshaw records in a posture of revolutionary toil.

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How does this look for a best XI lineup. � This is the group that was named to the MLS best XI for this 2009 season. � Only a single player from the best XI will be represented in the MLS Cup this Sunday. � That is of course Landon Donovan US player of the decade.

Conor Casey Jeff Cunningham

Dwayne De Rosario Landon Donovan Stuart Holden Shalrie Joseph Freddie Ljungberg

Geoff Cameron Wilman Conde Chad Marshall

Zach Thornton

So what do you think, is this a good lineup?

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Houston travels to L.A. on Friday to take on the Galaxy for the Western Conference crown.� This is the matchup of all matchups.� The two best teams in the West (which makes it all the more funny that RSL is in the East and yet the city is farther west than Houston, but who's counting really?

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I don't really want to go back to the Michael Owen issue, but, since with eerie regularity people mention his "great goalscoring record for England" I might as well chip in. First of all, a "goalscoring record for England" is put together over a long period of time, especially in his case, since he made his debut back in February of 1998. Click to continue reading...

It has been a long and sometimes unforgiving decade for the Bulls. They played in the highest of highs (an MLS Cup Appearance) and the lowest of the lows (2009), suffered extreme anguish over injustice (Diallo, Petke is still gunning for you), and extreme ecstasy (Mathis - those 5 goals were a thing of beauty).

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Last week, I asked you to vote for you favourite 20 players of the decade, here in this very post, are the Top 100 players of the last 10 years, voted for by you, the readers and bloggers of the offside. First thing I want to say is thank you, everyone for the absolutely amazing response [...] Click to continue reading...

The bald one, Peter Kenyon, set a goal of winning two Champions League crowns within a decade when he took over as Chelsea chief executive in 2004. Our new chief, Ron Gourlay is upping the stakes.

"Over the next five years we've still got to shoot for the stars," Gourlay said. "I'd still like to think we can win the Champions League twice in the next five years.

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There is a great community of soccer bloggers out there delivering soccer news and original content and one blog that is really doing it right is No Short Corners.

Greg Seltzer and Sean O'Connor run the blog and their resume in soccer journalism is very impressive.� Combined, the two have reported on soccer across the globe for over a decade, covering MLS, U.

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As I let you know back when I posted up this year's FFT100, I'm a bit of a junkie for lists. They are utterly meaningless, and yet compelling at the same time. With it being the end of the decade, there are tonnes of lists of the best albums, films, videos, celebrities etc floating around. [...] Click to continue reading...

After a decade in relative anonymity at the wrong end of the English football league pyramid, you would think Hull City fans would be enjoying their spell in the limelight. But given the worrying nature of the headlines over the past few weeks, you could forgive them for wishing for a return to the peace and quiet of the lower leagues. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal are a rather special team, for many reasons. Manager Arsene Wenger has been in the job for more than a decade, which is an achievement in itself. In a day and age whereby managers come and go like candidates to be Sir Alan Sugar's apprentice, 10 years in the job deserves a gold medal. Secondly, [. Click to continue reading...

More than a decade before "The Full Monty", the decline of the city of Sheffield and the effect of the collapse of the city's steel industry was already well documented. This week's Video Of The Week goes back to 1984. "Steel City Blues" traces the decline of the city and ties it together with Sheffield Wednesday's attempts to get back into the First Division for the first time since 1970.

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Count the years off one by one. Every single year in this decade we have played Spurs home and away in the League. And out of twenty matches we haven't lost a single one. Not a single one.
Even if we had lost one, we could still reflect on the annual difference between the teams shown by the League table. Click to continue reading...

People are surprised and angry he got fined? What was it he said again?

"We don't want to play like Colorado or New England, which most of the season sat with eight or nine guys behind the ball. How many people go to watch Colorado or New England play? That's a problem for our league.

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Henrik Larsson and a teary-eyed farewell. Dinamo Zagreb get a heavy sentence from UEFA. (Dinamo Zagreb Offside) Where are the Carling Cup Cinderellas? (Fanhouse UK) The problems at Real start deep within. (SoccerLens) Sport.co.uk lists ten poor transfers. (Sport) UF gives their take demolishes that list. Click to continue reading...

This was a game where, more then anything else, Liverpool were looking to see which players would enhance their reputation. And, in that respect there is plenty about which to be satisfied despite the defeat. Make no mistake, this was nothing like last year's feeble surrender at Tottenham: Liverpool played with determination and commitment that deserved a better outcome. Click to continue reading...

It's that time again soon! The 00's are coming to an end. We need to talk "Best Players of the Decade". That means, any player who played somewhere from 2000 till now. Dennis Bergkamp, for instance, qualifies for this list. There's a massive questionaire being put up by the OffSide Weekend Blogger and I Click to continue reading...

The New York Red Bulls played their last game at Giants Stadium Saturday night, Oct. 24, 2009, putting to rest 13 years of (mostly bad) memories. They did so in impressive fashion, defeating Toronto FC by a 5-0 score that ended TFC's playoff hopes.

The massive Swamp was never meant to be anything beyond a temporary waystation for the New York/New Jersey Major League Soccer franchise.

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Sir Alex Ferguson has won 33 trophies in 22 years at the helm of Manchester United, and he was recently recognized for his tremendous success. The makers of Football Manager 2010 had Ferguson topping their poll of the Greatest Manager of All-Time.
The poll features other Knights of the Realm such as the late, great Sir Bobby Robson, Sir Matt Busby and Sir Alf Ramsey but despite their fine records, none of them can match Sir Alex's two decade long domination of the English game. Click to continue reading...

Today they, the ubiquitous they who say many things and say them often, have awarded the Galaxy's own Landon Donovan the 2009 Honda Player of the Year award. This is given away annually (hence the "of the year" part) to the best player for the year on the US Men's National Team.

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Brent Latham from ESPN Soccernet checks in with a story on the U.S. U-17 team for the upcoming FIFA U-17 World Cup in Nigeria. A good portion of the team the U.S. is taking to Africa played here at our Swope Park Training Center last week, falling to a team made mostly of KCW Reserves 3-0.
In full national team news, Jermaine Jones has been cleared by FIFA to play for the United States after initially representing Germany in three friendlies. Click to continue reading...

United States National Team midfielder Landon Donovan won his sixth Honda Player of the Year award on Wednesday. Donovan was also named the Honda Player of the Decade, winning six of the nine awards available in the 2000's. Donovan was the youngest award winner when he won in 2002, and has twice won the award three years in a row. Click to continue reading...

Vintage, in this context, means 1970s and brilliant. Borussia Mönchengladbach were the league's most dominant club during that decade and won a then record five Bundesliga titles. Moreover they were also the ambassadors of style, with inspirational midfield and attacking talent in players like Jupp Heynckes, Günter Netzer (Ballon d'Or runner up 1972) or Allan SImonsen (Ballon d'Or 1977).

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The voice that will guide American viewers through 2010 FIFA World Cup is a familiar one to international soccer fans. SI.com has learned that Martin Tyler, the venerable British announcer who was voted the FA Premier League Commentator of the Decade, has been hired by ESPN to be the lead play-by-play voice for the network's English-language coverage of next summer's tournament in South Africa. Click to continue reading...

It was a moment we will have probably forgotten in a year from now, but at the time, it felt like one of the worst moments of the decade.

The return of Carlos Tevez to Old Trafford had been built up beyond belief, with some sections of the press claiming he should be greeted warmly, whilst others recognised that he was deserving of the abuse he would receive.

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I have said it before and I will say it again.� Lionel Messi is flat out the best player in all of the world.� End of the discussion.�

Messi brought home the first ever treble for� Spain's La Liga and the forward won the Champions League Player & Forward� of the Year awards� and also� the LLTO Player of the Year to name a few of the most coveted trophies in his case at home.

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Rafa Benitez has offered a unique insight into the driven nature of his skipper Steven Gerrard, which he believes makes the midfielder one of the best in the world.
The Liverpool manager revealed that Gerrard, even after playing at the very top for the past decade, and is still desperate to learn and take his game to the next level, and analyses his performances in microscopic detail. Click to continue reading...

Rafa signs one for the future.

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But at least Liverpool have signed 16-year-old Benfica "wonderkid" Toni Brito Sa, who sounds like he might run into a series of amusing misunderstandings if he was ever asked to give his name during a parade drill by Windsor Davies playing a bumptious Army sergeant in a much-loved but still strangely unfunny 1970s Saturday night sitcom.

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Today is a special day for two reasons. First I actually remembered that it was the anniversary of the launch of LTLF. And secondly, it's the 10th anniversary no less! So, many thanks to the innumerable people whose contributions have helped keep this site going and developed it since I began it a decade ago, not [. Click to continue reading...

On the heels of the worst World Cup result of a USA under-20 team in over a decade, Goal.com's Andrea Canales reports that a transition in development in Bradenton, Florida and the lack of an MLS reserve league could be the root of these problems.
I wasn't terribly surprised when the USA under-20 team, a squad where many members do not see regular playing time (partly as a result of MLS having no reserve league right now), had its worst performance of the World Cup against a South Korea team known for speed and fitness. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool slump to their third defeat. Losses to Chelsea, Aston Villa and Tottenham mean that Liverpool have already lost more games than the whole of last season. But it's still early in the season, isn't it? Plenty of time to turn things around! This campaign will be different. there are new challengers, Manchester City, Aston Villa, and Spurs are in the top half too!

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*As Greg noted, Highbury is now open as an apartment block.Having lived only a long ball from England's most historic stadium for most of the past decade, I've followed the metamorphosis closely, and I made sure I got on one of the last stadium tours to see it all before it fell. I'd been several times as a fan but I was amazed by the locker rooms, literally a museum piece like the rest of the Click to continue reading...

Yes, it is indeed a full decade since our last win at Anfield. And while that record is not something to be proud of, there are plenty of other teams with longer winless runs at our original home, so why not celebrate that win and see the anniversary as a motivation for a better future.
lets zoom back to the end of the last century, to the 27th September 1999 to be precise, and a Monday night clash with the old enemy. Click to continue reading...