For some reason, it seems like ages since last had a round of club football, but we're sure happy that it's back on the agenda this weekend, because, well, this has been another particularly stressful week in the constantly varying Scottish football landscape. Most friendlies are futile. These days they serve only as an excuse to increase [. Click to continue reading...

Big Apple Soccer, home of everything New York Soccer, reports speaking to "El Professor" Juan Carlos Osorio about his move to Once Caldas. His reply?

"The offer is a very good offer," he said. "The club is a very good club. I am considering the offer. However, I would like to stay in the United States.

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George Burley was finally removed from his post as manager of the Scotland national side this evening, bringing to an end the managerial run of a man who in the end "managed" to make even Berti Vogts look good, and whose dismal record in charge of the national squad is second only to the late [...] Click to continue reading...

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Rather than looking back at the week that was, let's look forward to this weekend's World Cup qualifying games by linking up all the WorldCupBlog previews.

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Around Germany today, people were still in shocked over the death of former National Team goalkeeper Robert Enke. According to reports in Europe, Enke committed suicide after battling depression for many years. The story was front page all over Germany this morning
Here is how some of the German newspapers cover Enke's death

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It was 20 years ago today that the Berlin Wall fell, and so Jan posted the above video about Helmut Klopfleisch on Bundesliga Offside, which I'd also like to share with readers here on the front page. Klopfleisch was either very brave or very crazy, because in a nutshell he lived in the GDR [...] Click to continue reading...

The dust has only just settled on the weekend fixtures, but there's not much rest for some of the teams, as the Quarter Finals of the Scottish League Cup takes place over the next two days. We preview the upcoming fixtures. Dundee v Rangers Dundee currently lead the Scottish First division, having dropped just one point [. Click to continue reading...

Martin Allen to spend more time on his own plotIts not dull supporting a lower league team. Whilst dramas are reported daily from the dizzy heights of premier league they still seem remote. Down in the basement its personal and up close. Someone knows someone who's on the staff or makes the tea or drives the bus. Click to continue reading...

Credit:Mexsport Mexico 4-1 El Salvador ESTO's front page said "Gracias", to Javier Aguirre, to Cuauhtémoc Blanco, to all the Mexican national team, and I think all of Mexico feels the same way. Javier Aguirre is Mexico's Mr. Fix-It. He turned around the looming disaster in the Mexican national team after the Sánchez and Eriksson eras left the side on the verge of the playoffs, incorporated young players like Vela and dos Santos into the lineup, and brought back the old soldier Blanco. Click to continue reading...

Inside Left joins Kris Boyd in the ranks of the walking wounded. With the international break coming up, it's time to catch our breath and recover. Click to continue reading...

Fort William, the Highland League's perennial strugglers, win their first game since September 2007. Inside Left sheds a tear and opens a tin of Tennents Export to celebrate! Click to continue reading...

After a lot of controversy, it's finally official as United seem to have completed the deal to bring 16 year old defender Michele Fornasier from Fiorentina, according to the official site.

United have confirmed the arrival of 16-year-old Italian defender Michele Fornasier. He'll join the Reds' Under-18s squad with the rest of the first-year Academy scholars.

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For archival purposes. As seen on the front page...

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Inside Left tries to figure out what's going on at Ibrox. Click to continue reading...

The "Scottish Football Under The Spotlight" public debate is held at Stirling University this evening. Inside Left hoofs a desperate ball up the park with 10 questions we feel need answering. Click to continue reading...

Rangers, Aberdeen, Dundee, Ross County, Livingston, Queens Park, Fort William and Auchinleck Talbot. Yes, this weeks Four to Follow features some household names, as well as some you might just want to go and Google. Click to continue reading...

There's a promotion on the MLSnet front page that is tough for me to resist - you see, I love "Spot the difference" games.
Unfortunately, actually playing the game probably puts you on the AXE BODY SPRAY!!! mailing list, and I think I'd rather be on the list they were using in "Munich."
Fortunately, we can play Spot the Difference here on BigSoccer! Click to continue reading...

Aberdeen are knocked out of the CIS Cup by Dundee. Your normally impartial editor is not fucking happy about it. What is it with Aberdeen and Cup competitions? Click to continue reading...

Read the column here.

(BTW, the column will appear in the print edition of the (Torrance/South Bay) Daily Breeze Wednesday; it's on the front page of the Daily News sports section today for the two of you who like to keep the print edition as a souvenir).

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Inside Left gets another prediction horribly wrong as Scotland miss out on another World Cup. Nevermind, there's always Euro 2012 right? Click to continue reading...

Real Madrid fanzine Marca has done it once again, trumpeting the next brilliant move by the most bestest football club in the history of ever (officially). Today's front page offers up Florentino's manifesto, a list of rules by which Galacticos 2.0 must abide. Most are tame, some present a few problems for certain members of [. Click to continue reading...

As Livingston take their case against demotion to the SFA against a backdrop of skulduggery and alleged bribes. Scottish football once again hangs its dirty laundry out to dry. Click to continue reading...

Inside Left avoids using tired old clichés about how Scotland need to win on Saturday by inventing some completely new clichés. And in a quiet football weekend, we also look at games in the ALBA Challenge Cup and the Highland League. Click to continue reading...

With the Scotland squad about to start a series of games that will hopefully qualify us for the World Cup in 2010, we continue our story of how Scotland recovered from the disappointment of Argentina to reach the next world Cup in ‘82. Click to continue reading...

Inside Left plumbs new depths of football prediction incorrectness, failing to pick so much as one winner in its Four To Follow. Is it time to get the ouija board out? Click to continue reading...

There was but one circumstance that would keep Green Street Hooligans Part Trois from a viewing and simultaneous chronicling, to be plastered in columns and rows on PmP's ashy downtown walls. And because Obama isn't near the Hammer he is White Sox fan, lil' ol' modest ol' me, out here just meekly West coastin', couldn't seem to negotiate himself a stream even cable-porn-grainily broadcasting the tie. Click to continue reading...

The second round of the League Cup, otherwise known as the Co-Operative Insurance Cup takes place tonight and tomorrow. Click to continue reading...

McGhee proves there's no room for sentimentality in modern football Click to continue reading...

We preview Scotland's upcoming make-or-break game against Norway. A win would push us a long way to qualification, providing other teams do us a favour. A familiar story, no? Click to continue reading...

We received the following earlier today by email:
Looks like DC United is raising the bar for the Open Cup final against Seattle. Check out the sticker that was on the front page of the Washington City Paper this morning Click to continue reading...

That's us away for our holiday then. We leave you with a quick round-up of what's to come in the next two weeks, and we give Aberdeen some much needed love. Click to continue reading...

While the rest of the UK is still fannying around in meaningless friendlies, up in Scotland the season has started for the clubs in the Scottish Football league, as this years Alba Challenge Cup kicked off. Click to continue reading...

Visit the FoxSoccer.com website and you certainly can't miss the news that Fox Soccer Channel will begin its Champions League TV coverage on August 18, 2009. The first thing you see on Fox's website is a landing page featuring a clock counting down the number of days until the first Champions League match on Fox.

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From Marca, the Madrid-based Spanish sports daily. It leads with the headline "the cure of humility"
Madrid's AS also puts it on the front page witht the headline, "so rare it is to lose"
For Barcelona's El Mundo Deportivo, the loss is far outweighed by Barca's chase after David Villa. Click to continue reading...

You know that Marca's page designers are desperately in need of a holiday when they put a photo of Kaka - with what appears to be one of those water float squirting guns (what is the exact term, btw?) - on the front page of the newspaper.

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