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The more eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed that we're slowing down on this series now that the new season is properly under way. We'll work our way through the rest of the Football League over the next few weeks and months, but tonight we continue with Crystal Palace and we have six matches from the years between 1971 and 1990.

This morning, we return to our series of videos of the clubs of the Football League Championship with another of those relegated from the Premier League at the end of last season, Blackburn Rovers. Blackburn Rovers is a club whose initial decline arguably started with the advent of television, which makes archive footage of them a little difficult to find, but we do have six matches for you today from the years between 1968 and 1994, kicking off with a trip to Craven Cottage to play Fulham in 1968, and this is followed with a home match against Sheffield United from the 1969/70 season.

Regular readers of this site will by now be fully aware of the fact that our Match Of The Past series has now finished with the Premier League and is now ploughing its way through the Football League Championship, and those of you that have been keeping tabs on this series may well scroll down this page with a little surprise to find that we have seven videos rather than the usual six this morning.

We continue our series of the Football League Championship clubs' matches of the past this morning with Bolton Wanderers, and six matches from the years between 1954 and 2003. The first match comes from 1954, and sees Bolton travel to the Manor Ground to play Headington United, who were of course to later become Oxford United, on a snow covered pitch in the FA Cup.

We continue our series of archive videos of the clubs of the Football League Championship this morning with Blackpool. Amongst the giants of the immediate post-war era, Blackpool entered a steady decline in the 1970s before recovering their composure and eventually finding their way back into the Premier League, and last season they were only narrowly beaten in the play-off final for a place back in the top division by West Ham United.

And so we reach the end of the current run of Match Of The Past, our summer series covering some of the great matches in the history of the clubs that will be making up the coming seasons Premier League. Our last club and these haven't been done in any particular order, in case you were wondering is one of the founder members of the Football League in 1888, Aston Villa, and we have six matches from the years between 1972 and 1994.

At their picturesque home on the banks of the River Thames Fulham have long been a favourite of the television broadcasters, and today we have six matches from their archive, from the 1960s, the 1970s and the 1980s. The sixties began with the club having just been promoted to the First Division for only the second time in its history, and our first match is home match against Nottingham Forest from November 1967.

Having been elected into the Football League in 1978 and spending the next quarter of a century in the bottom two divisions, finding inclusions for Wigan Athletics turn on our Match Of The Past series hasn't necessarily been easy. However, we have managed to find six matches from the years between 1982 and 1997 for you this evening, starting off with their last home match from the 1981/82 promotion season, when the cameras of Granada Television (and a young Martin Tyler) were persuaded to Springfield Park for a match against Mansfield Town, and next up is a trip to Wembley from 1985, as Wigan take on Brentford in front of a crowd of almost 40,000 people in the final of the Football League Trophy.

The next in our series of Match Of The Past which will have covered all twenty Premier League clubs soon and will be moving onto the Football League thereafter focusses on Stoke City, and six matches covering the years between 1970 and 1996. The 1970s were a happy decade for the club. In 1972 they won their first major trophy, and there was a hint of what was to come year before, when they reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup before losing to Arsenal.

What most people don't understand is that home field advantage isn't always about where you play. Just as often, it's about what you're playing for. And no matter where the games are played, US Open Cup matches are home matches for the Seattle Sounders, because this is their Cup. It's our Cup. Sounders players have been stomped, cut, mocked, and bruised for it.

Tomorrow's match between the Sounders and Colorado Rapids is ripe with the kind of drama that catches national attention and it's no surprise that NBC dispatched Arlo White and crew to broadcast this one.

Sigi has been coy about the availability of Steve Zakuani, who had a tantalizing appearance on the bench versus Sporting Kansas City but has not appeared on a gameday roster since.

The sun should be shining, and the crowd should be a sellout for the Seattle Sounders Women on this Friday evening. This will be the final home match of the 2012 season. Game time is 7:00pm at the Starfire complex. The FO says there should be an Olympian or two available for autographs, but they will not suit up for the game.

Today's match against the San Jose Earthquakes was always going to be an unwelcome fixture. The third match in seven days (and fourth in ten) it tags along like an annoying little brother. The priority was, of course, the US Open Cup Final on Wednesday. And between the regular season matches that book-ended the final, you'd prioritize the home match against the LA Galaxy over the away match to San Jose, and so it looks like we did.

The San Jose Earthquakes avoided a second half collapse, the LA Galaxy fought back for a draw, Houston edged Sporting KC, and much more in Major League Soccer on July 18, 2012.

New York Red Bulls 1-0 Chicago Fire

A Thierry Henry goal was the difference as the Red Bulls moved within one point of Eastern Conference leaders Sporting KC.

The Los Angeles Galaxy travel to Portland, Columbus hosts Kansas City, and much more in MLS this weekend. There are seven matches on Saturday including top Western Conference sides San Jose and Real Salt Lake meeting.

Below are Major League Soccer Weekend Match Previews for July 7, 2012.

Those waiting for the AVB era to begin at Tottenham will have to delay their excitement just a little longer as our game against Newcastle is now the late kick off on the opening Saturday.

ESPN will be screening this one live and therefore the kick off time has been put back to 5.30pm

Under the opening TV schedules, Sky aren't quite so thrilled about the new regime and anyone not travelling to a game will have to wait until Sunday the 16th of September to watch our away trip to Reading.

Win two tickets to England v Ukraine at Wembley in September - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

With Euro 2012 all done and dusted and the new 2012-13 season underway, England's players will be starting to look towards the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The Three Lions start their World Cup qualifying campaign in September against Moldova, with the side's first home match against Ukraine at Wembley on September 11th.

The Missouri State Bear's have a double-header on tap Friday night.

The Lady Bears will lead off at 6:00 pm when they host Nebrask-Omaha. The Maverick's made the move from D2 and the MIAA two years ago and is in the final year of their transition to D1 and the Summit League. Coached by CBC grad Don Klosterman, a win Friday night would be his, and the program's, 200th overall to go with one national title (2005 D2).

Great scrimmage tonight by both squads! Update on districts: 2012 class 3 district 12 host: Joplin. 2013 class 3 district 12 host: Kickapoo

- Kickapoo Soccer (@KickapooSoccer) August 22, 2012

That news came across Twitter late yesterday, courtesy of the Kickapoo Chiefs.

Their brave new world wasn't meant to turn out like this. When Kettering Town moved out of their Rockingham Road ground to the then recently vacated Nene Park, the former home of near rivals Rushden & Diamonds, the aim was surely for a place in the Football League. Last night, however, the club played its first home match of the season in the Premier Division of the Southern League in front of a little under 600 supporters and was beaten by two goals to one by Hemel Hempstead Town.