Following up from an earlier article I'd like to pose a question to all the non ex-pat North American readers of EPL Talk: How Did You Find Who You Support?

It's ultimately a broad question that has more potential answers to it than current injury concerns at Liverpool. But I believe the question sparks an interesting debate as Americans are still searching for their place in world football.

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The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) kindly announced today that they would grant Chelsea's request for a stay in the club's transfer ban, meaning Chelsea will now be free to flash the cash in January. Of course their final judgement over the club's alleged wrong-doing over the signing of Gael Kakuta is still to come, but in the short-term Chelsea will be able to strengthen the squad if Ancelotti feels reinforcements are needed.

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The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) kindly announced today that they would grant Chelsea's request for a stay in the club's transfer ban, meaning Chelsea will now be free to flash the cash in January. Of course their final judgement over the club's alleged wrong-doing over the signing of Gael Kakuta is still to come, but in the short-term Chelsea will be able to strengthen the squad if Ancelotti feels reinforcements are needed.

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Football has changed immeasurably over the past ten or twenty years and, with it, Chelsea Football Club. Fans no longer exclusively hail from the Kings Road, South West London or Surrey. Since Roman Abramovich bought the club in particular, Chelsea has drawn increased interest from all over the world with blue shirts appearing on pretty much every continent.

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Football has changed immeasurably over the past ten or twenty years and, with it, Chelsea Football Club. Fans no longer exclusively hail from the Kings Road, South West London or Surrey. Since Roman Abramovich bought the club in particular, Chelsea has drawn increased interest from all over the world with blue shirts appearing on pretty much every continent.

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Cruzeiro Esporte Clube is a Brazilian football club, from the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, founded on January 2, 1921. Cruzeiro currently campaigns in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. They finished in 3rd place last season and currently lie in 6th position in the league as the current Brazilian soccer season winds down. Click to continue reading...

The Journal today published an article with quotes attributed to none other than our favorite cockney geezer, Derek Llambias.

With most sane Newcastle fans venting fury at the clubs efforts to sell naming rights to St. James's Park next season, the club appear to be trying to alleviate some of the damage.

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I have wanted to write a piece about Stan Kroenke for a while now, about a year ago I wrote a story about the ownership of Arsenal just after Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith left the board.

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Early on Saturday morning I was listening to the World Football Phone In on BBC Five Live and their correspondent for North America was asked about Stan Kroenke what he is like as a guy, what his intentions may be in the future and what we would want to get out of a club like Arsenal.

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One of the most intriguing aspects of Spanish football is the way in which the different sets of supporters around the country react to defeat.
It's becoming better known nowadays that Spain is really a loose collective of chalks and cheeses, where you can cross a regional border and suddenly feel as though you are on a different planet - so it comes as no surprise that each football club in the country is un mundo (its own world). Click to continue reading...

African telephone company Globacom has signed a five-year sponsorship deal with Man United. Young players from Nigeria, Benin and Ghana will be able to train with Man United's academy.
There will also be promotional packages for Man United fans in these countries- they will be able to watch Man United matches. Click to continue reading...

Tottenham Hotspur

Position: 4th, 6-1-3 (19 points, +7 goal differential)

Recent Form: LWDWL

Away Form: 3-1-1

Last Meeting: Tottenham 0-Arsenal 0 (2/8/09)

It's here. The North London derby.

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Let's face it unless you spend a lot of time on the toilet or in airports, it's difficult to pry yourself away from the television and/or internet long enough to actually read and actual book. So in the interest of focusing your book readin' efforts on the few works actually worth sacrificing valuable YouTube time for, we present the first book to earn the DT seal of approval: Finn McCool's Football Club.

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First, and most importantly, there is some sad news for the Wanderers World. Our dear Jussi is retiring from his international career. His Finnish team failed to make South Africa 2010, and Jaaskelainen announced his retirement earlier today. He was first capped in 1998, and has earned 55 since. Jussi, pure class as ever, came out with this statement:

"I have considered this decision long and hard, and I believe that it is now the right time to give younger Finnish goalkeepers the chance to play on the international stage.

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Spanish football club Valencia have recently admitted that they still have some serious financial problems. Valencia's star player David Villa has sacked his agent Luis Tamargo, after he failed to secure him a move away from the club.
Man United, Chelsea, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Liverpool have all been linked with a move for the player. Click to continue reading...

Manuel Pellegrini's coaching career at Real is in danger. The shocking defeat at the hands of lowly Alcorcon has sent shock waves through the echelons of the most decorated football club in the world.

Jorge Valdano and Florentino Perez have given the Chilean the Getafe match this weekend and the return match against Milan in the Champions League next week to prove himself.

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Just when we thought things couldn't get any worse, news tonight emanating from St. James Park is that Mike Ashley has removed Newcastle United from the market and the club is no longer for sale.

Here is the press release in full from the club's official website:

NEWCASTLE United are delighted to announce that Chris Hughton has been named the permanent manager of the Club, his contract will run until the end of the 2010/11 season.

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Such has been the forensic focus on Ranger's perilous finances over the last couple of days that following Scottish football has been like studying for an accountancy degree. Not so much fans with typewriters as fans with calculators.To save everybody the hassle of crawling into every nook and cranny of the internet in the search for news about the country's most bombastic football club Click to continue reading...

So far I haven't been able to find full highlights unfortunately, though I have found a video of all the goals (you'll have to watch an advert about toothbrushes, but it's worth it). I will admit, I did not see the match, nor have I been able to watch full highlights (I was playing rugby), so this report will be a bit of an amalgamation of tidbits I stole form other reports.

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The Goal That Saved Fergie's Career
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The legend goes that had Mark Robins not scored to put United through to the 1990 FA Cup final, which we went on to win, Sir Alex Ferguson would have been given the sack. This is a story that the manager denies but after almost four years in charge and not a trophy in sight it stands to reason that time might have been running out for the manager.

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Here's an interesting little fact for you: the two longest serving managers in Premier League history also happen to be in charge of the two most successful teams in Premier League history. So why is it then that fans and chairmen are so quick to jump on the back of a struggling manager and demand change?

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Andy Goram came to Manchester United on loan during the 2000-2001 to help us out during a time when our other goalies, Fabien Barthez and Raimond Van der Gouw, were unavailable Barthez on duty with the French side and Van der Gouw struggling with injury.

His first game was our 4-2 win over Coventry in the league although was subbed off with an hour played with the scoreline at 2-2.

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by CARL ELDRIDGE� Arsene Wenger has so far refused to be drawn on the boardroom battle between Stan Kroenke, who was given a place on the board last year, and second-biggest shareholder Alisher Usmanov. But in this morning's paper he does throw some light on his opinions of the matter.

He told the Sun: "The only important thing is the club is run properly in every department.

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Keith Harris is regarded as the No.1 mover and shaker on football club takeovers, coming close last year to pulling off a Middle East deal to buy Liverpool, so there can be few greater authorities on the current crisis gripping Anfield.
The boss of high flying City firm Seymour Pierce spoke to ESPN Soccernet about the situation gripping the giant Premier League club on the eve of their critical clash with Manchester United at Anfield on Sunday. Click to continue reading...

Unione Sportiva Citt� di Palermo is an Italian football club from Palermo, Sicily currently playing in the Italian Serie A and coached by former Italy national goalkeeper Walter Zenga. Following its return to Serie A in 2004, the club became one of the most prominent in Italy. It has obtained a UEFA Cup / Europa League [. Click to continue reading...

Since Flavio Briatore bought Queens Park Rangers, everyone knew that Formula One world will intervene with the destiny of this famous football club from London. Lately it seems that this connection might be crucial for popular Hoops' future. Actually, Briatore resigned to the post of Renault Formula One boss after the accusations of fixing last year's race for Singapore Grand Prix.

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Middlesbrough have announced that manager Gareth Southgate has been 'relieved of his duties'.

Boro have endured an in-different start to the Championship season following relegation from the Premier League last term.

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Gareth Southgate has been relieved of his duties as manager of Middlesbrough Football Club with immediate effect. The decision was announced in the early hours of this morning and came hot on the heels of yesterday's 2-0 victory over Derby County at the Riverside.

The win over Derby ended a run of three straight home defeats in the Championship, and it is this along with falling home attendences - less than 17,500 for the Derby game - that is being rumoured as the contributing factors to Southgate's dismissal.

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Opinion is polarised in football about Birmingham's new frontman Carson Yeung (not ‘owner,' you'll notice; takeovers just cannot be that simple). Some would agree with the man who sneered: "He's not going to put a penny in...I don't think that's likely to change." Others would back the man who declared: "We believe his people can take this football club to the next level".

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And before you ask, Reading is a football club, not a school program. Click to continue reading...

The Vancouver Whitecaps Football Club has quietly become the most authentic football organization on the continent. Vancouver has methodically implemented a... Click to continue reading...

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You really can't argue with the title. Seriously you can't so don't even try.

As Arsenal return from the 2 week break with a good win if not spectacular over Alex McLeish's Birmingham, some opposition fans chose to greet Liam Ridgewell's crunching tackle on Theo Walcott with a distasteful chant of "there's only one Martin Taylor".

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Associazione Sportiva Bari is an Italian football club founded in 1908 based in Bari, Apulia. They're known for bouncing up and down between the top two divisions in Italian football,� Serie A and Serie B. A.S. Bari is currently campaigning in Serie A after finishing first in Serie B at the end of the 2008/09 [. Click to continue reading...

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Mike Ashley, Newcastle United's much maligned owner has dropped the price of the club to £80 million. Ashley has given Barry Moat one more week to come up with the funds to buy the club (even though a few weeks ago we were told he had made a formal offer and that money was in the bank).

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For reasons that we don't know or really care about, the mayor of Barcelona, Jordi Hereu, wants U.S. president Barack Obama to visit the city. How does he intend to achieve this? By having sent Obama an invitiation... accompanied by two FC Barcelona shirts!
The way Señor Jordi sees it, the Barca shirt is the "most internationally recognized symbol of the city" which makes it in order to gift a pair of them to the president of the United States. Click to continue reading...