Persib Bandung's first home game of the season tomorrow night sees them up against Pelita Jaya at
the Jalak Harupat Stadium in Soreang. Persib have lost both their games so far this season and they will welcome Sinthaweechai 'Kosin'
Hathairatnakul back on a loan spell while fellow Thai international Suchao Nuchnam will also get
his first run out. Click to continue reading...
In what seems to be a classic case of that old expression (translated here for the benefit of
all our readers) known as 'Keeping the Mouth', Wenger's masterstroke forward has been done in by
those devious Italians.
And so it happens.
There's a reason why the knowledgeable football fan thinks 59 times on an average before calling
Arsenal title contenders.
New Major League Soccer franchise Philadelphia Union has unveiled its adidas 2010/11 home game
jersey. The new kit will be used for the team's inaugural 2010 MLS season. According to the Union's
website, the 2010 Philadelphia Union adidas home jersey has the following features. * Midnight blue
is the dominant color * The club crest is centered on [. Click to continue reading...
Saturday 14 November 07.00 New Zealand v Bahrain, World Cup Qualifying Play-off 2nd Leg (0-0), British Eurosport A treat for early risers to decide the 24th qualifier for next summer's World Cup. A goalless first
leg sees the All Whites as narrow favourites to progress. Bahrain haven't relied on Brazialian
ringers for their success (unlike their neighbours) and fully deserve their shot at getting to the
finals. Click to continue reading...
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.
Opening round of fixtures 7 March Muang Thong United v Samut Songkhram Bangkok Glass v Navy Rayong PEA Ayutthaya v Chonburi Pattaya United v BEC Tero TOT v Si Saket Army Buriram v TTM Samut Sakhon Bangkok United v Thai Port Osotspa Saraburi v Police United The Champions Muang Thong United start off with a home game against Samut Songkhram while runner's
up Chonburi travel to PEA, 2008's champions. Click to continue reading...
Another home game, another win, another game with over three goals. Nearly three months into the
season and we have not scored less than three goals in a home game in any competition, it shows
just how strong we have been at home this season and any team visiting the Grove will be aware of
this record and aware of how strong the squad we have is.
For those wanting to keep up with the potential future of the Kansas City Wizards, the Wizards
Juniors U18 and U16 teams are getting ready to kick off their first season in the US Soccer
Development Academy. The season runs from November to May. Both teams begin their season on the
road down in Texas on the 21st of this month. Click to continue reading...
Expectation, expectation, expectation. With a sense of frustration following four games on the spin, the unanimous feeling around the
blogs and forums this week is that tomorrow's game takes on an extra significance. Back at home
(easy to forget three of the four draws were on the road) and against a side who have badly
struggled on their travels so far suggests three points is a given. Click to continue reading...
Real Salt Lake finished off a huge first round upset tonight, defeating the Columbus Crew 3-2 at
Crew Stadium to win their Eastern Conference Semifinal series 4-2 on aggregate.
Real Salt Lake got behind the 8-ball early in the game, surrendering two first half goals to
fall behind the Crew 3-2 on aggregate.
Without doubt the highlight this weekend is the climax of the season in Malaysia with Kelantan
taking on Negeri Sembilan in the Malaysia Cup final at Bukit Jalil. Earlier in the season some
40,000 fans from the north east descended on the nation's capital to see their heroes take on
Selangor in the FA Cup Final only to go home broken hearted. Click to continue reading...
Sriwijaya have still not been able to pay their players and figure they will be unable to do so
until they bank the gate reciepts from their home game against Pelita Jaya on 21 November. The Vice
President Finance of the club says he understands the players' concerns but calls on them to be
'professional'. Click to continue reading...
Conspiracy theories don't usually do it for me, but tonight's farce is enough to make me pause
for thought. If Jack Warner can retain a high ranking position in FIFA than nothing in football
is impossible; could it be that UEFA, frightened by Roma's poor start to the campaign and desperate
to show off their new Europa League, have issued a far reaching anti-non-famous club mandate?
Last week, we reported on exhibit A in how to alienate fans in Australia by A-League expansion
team Gold Coast United's billionaire owner Clive Palmer. The club closed three
sides of their stadium, Skilled Park, and capped capacity to just 5,000, forcing supporters out of
their usual position in the stadium.
Champions League View: Bayern Munich and Liverpool FC could get 10 points and still not
qualify.
An entertaining set of Champions League games threw up some unexpected results, great games and
the odd ninja (but not a very effective one). Almost all of the big names have a chance to reach
the knockout stages, even though the likes of Bayern and Liverpool have made it very, very
difficult for themselves.
Brown's in the box dive for a penalty should lead to a suspension - despite the spot kick being
missed. Referee Ben Williams should be ashamed of himself the number of times he has waved on
legitimate penalties from the Roar, and give this one. What has become obvious is the home ground advantage for Wellington. Click to continue reading...
Rangers face a crunch Champions League night this week and one of their stars has stressed the
importance of the tie.
The Scots are currently bottom of Group G with only one point and enter a tie away in Romania
against Unirea Urziceni knowing that another defeat will put an end to their distant hopes of
qualifying for the next round, or even booking a place in the Europa League.
The possibilities for for the Wizards 2010 home schedule are starting to come into view. Earlier
this week, the T-Bones came out with their schedule for the 2010 season, meaning we know what dates
the Wizards won't be at home due to baseball being played at CAB. We also know that the Wizards
won't be playing any games at all from June 10th through June 25th due to the announcement that the
league will take off during the group stages of the World Cup this coming summer. Click to continue reading...
One of the big questions of the offseason, is who will be the Wizards coach next season? A few
weeks ago after the final home game, Peter Vermes talked about potentially becoming the permanent
coach for the Wizards, and Robb Heineman said that he wants to have the head coach in place before
the MLS expansion draft, the week after MLS Cup. Click to continue reading...
5 year comparison Conference Semifinals 1st Leg  Avg +/- Home Teams  2005  12,147 NA
 Chicago  NY  Colorado  Los Angeles  2006  9,533  -21.52%  Chicago  NY  Colorado Â
Chivas USA Â 2007Â Â 14,245Â Â 49. Click to continue reading...
Hajduk Split have had a terrible start to the season in Croatia, especially by their elite
standards, sitting 14 points behind leaders Dinamo Zagreb after 12 games up until this weekend. Fan
anger though with no reports of any incidents or threats prompted police to step-up security during
training and at matches this week.
I managed to catch a live match courtesy of the Beeb for the first time this evening. Having missed
out on their previous offerings for a variety of reasons, I made sure to be in for Cardiff's late
afternoon home game against Forest, and I thought that it was well worth it. Terrestrial TV is
usually best avoided at 5pm on the Sabbath, but a bit of Championship football proved to be the
perfect Click to continue reading...
The weekend schedule attempted to match the excitement of Thursday's opener, and Columbus - Real
Salt Lake failed miserably. The reigning champions did nothing to remind anybody that they're the
team to beat. Instead, a game full of examples of dire soccer got capped with a late goal and a
Columbus loss. Click to continue reading...
This was Everton's third successive home game draw and Villa's third successive draw.Diniyar
Bilyaletdinov had opened the scoring for the Everton but John Carew equalised within two minutes of
the restart to tie the game 1-1 at Goodison Park. Click to continue reading...
Hello Gooners. Hope you are all well this friday. Don't know about you but I am super pumped up
for this north london Derby. Not that I wasn't pumped for it all these years....
..Living in a place about 200 miles from North london, it used to be pretty hard to develop that
aversion for Spurs.
The major non-event of last weekend was the cancellation of the Classico between Marseille and
Paris SG. The supporters made up for it by rioting in downtown Marseille antagonizing locals and
behaving like the idiots they are. Many arrests, mostly local fans when it seemed like the
Parisians started it all. Click to continue reading...
Marouane Chamakh, Hull City's interested... The major non-event of last weekend was the cancellation of the Classico between Marseille and
Paris SG. The supporters made up for it by rioting in downtown Marseille antagonizing locals and
behaving like the idiots they are. Many arrests, mostly local fans when it seemed like the
Parisians started it all. Click to continue reading...
The midweek Copa del Rey match went far better for Valencia than it did for a few of the other
top leaguers this week. Though not spectacular the single away goal by Joaquin has placed Valencia
firmly in the drivers seat for the upcomming home game.
Joaquin scored a a gorgeous little chip shot to gain the winning goal in the 10th minute of
play.
Sriwijaya have that said they could not meet the demands of Singapore international striker
Aleksander Duric. The club who have won the Copa Indonesia in the last two seasons say that they were unwilling to
pay for Duric and his family to stay in an executive apartment at Palembang's only 5 star hotel
after they had arranged a mansion for his use. Click to continue reading...
I was genuinely excited when the FFA announced that one of the new clubs to join the A-league this
year was to be Gold Coast United. Here was a team to be based in the fastest growing area of
Australia, was backed by one of Australia's richest men and would have one of the more interesting
(if slightly insane) characters of the game here in Australia guiding them in Miron Beilberg. Click to continue reading...
ERIC SAMUEL The Sultan Mohd IV Stadium in Kota Baru is a "football heaven" for Kelantan coach B.
Sathianathan. The former national coach said that teams should look forward playing in Kota Baru and not be
intimidated by their partisan fans. "The kind of atmosphere you get playing here is lacking in Malaysian football," said Sathianathan
after Kelantan, backed by a sell-out 25,000 crowd, defeated KL Plus 3-0 in a Malaysia Cup
quarter-final second-leg match on Saturday to advance 4-1 on aggregate. Click to continue reading...
