After a pair of gripping conference finals, our MLS Cup match-up for next weekend takes the all-East flavor from last year's final out west. It will be the Los Angeles Galaxy (yes, THAT L.A. Galaxy... paging Sky, BBC, iTv and every rotten paper rag to the airport, pack as if staying in London) pitted against upstarts Real Salt Lake at Qwest Field in Seattle a week from today. Click to continue reading...

It's a busy weekend of international matches on Saturday, November 14, 2009 in the world of soccer. In UEFA there are playoff matches in 2010 World Cup Qualifying while other regions such as CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, and AFC also have qualification matches taking place. Many matches will be televised and here's a full set of TV listings for the United States and United Kingdom.

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Whilst it is normal for one or two Football League clubs to be given a bloody nose by a non-league club at some point during the early rounds of the FA Cup, predicting where this will happen is a slightly trickier business. Yesterday, ITV went with the "romance of the cup" and saw Norwich put seven goals past a Paulton Rovers side whose defence's pre-match training didn't appear to contain any extra "hap" sessions.

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Yesterday bought us news that Silent Stan Kroenke has upped his stake by two hundred shares to 18,594 or 29.9%. One hundred of these shares were bought from our esteemed chairman Peter Hill-Wood, he who famously pronounced that we didn't need "his sort" when Kroenke bought into the club via ITV plc's 9.

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The UEFA Europa League continues its group stage matches on Thursday, November 5, 2009. While not as prestigous as the UEFA Champions League, its a chance for smaller clubs and clubs from smaller countries to prove themselves. Here's a list of predictions, previews, and USA/UK TV Listings.

Previews

Full previews of the upcoming Europa League matches can be found UEFA's official website here.

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We have a fairly idyllic life at the Nedved homestead, especially on Sundays. This past Sunday morning was spent dossing around, eating breakfast in front of the telly, and revelling in the extra hour of sleep from daylight savings' introduction. All the while, though, I was keeping one eye on the clock. Click to continue reading...

Around 650 Arsenal Holdings shareholders gathered this morning (Thurs 22 October 2009) for the company's annual general meeting.

The two main stories to emerge were manager Arsène Wenger's statement that he felt the team could win trophies this season and biggest shareholder "Silent" Stan Kroenke maintaining his silence on his intentions for the club.

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Peter Crouch, for all his sins, made the strongest case possible to be included in the England squad for the World Cup in South Africa next summer. And, despite his two goals and general dominant display, it wasn't enough to stop ITV and Steve Bruce's love-in with David Beckham. The decision to award Goldenballs with the man of the match award was more like handing Osama Bin Laden the Nobel Peace Prize, rather than Fabio Capello's particular analogy. Click to continue reading...

Good old Peter Crouch. His scoring record for England now reads: played 35, started 17, scored 18; comfortably inside the hallowed ‘goal every other game' ratio international strikers look to operate in. More prolific than Michael Owen's 40 in 89 haul and offering a greater return, even, than Shrek Rooney (25 in 55); Capello's favourite man-child.

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England coach doesn't think Becks was man of the match Fabio Capello took a slight dig at David Beckham after his bearded substitute received the man of the match award against Belarus. The Italian compared ITV pundit and Sunderland manager Steve Bruce's decision to give the award to Beckham to Barack Obama receiving the Nobel peace [. Click to continue reading...

England wraps up its UEFA 2010 World Cup Qualifying on Wednesday, October 14, 2009. Neither team has anything play for as Belarus is out of contention for qualification and England has already clinched their ticket to South Africa. The match will be televised on ITV in the UK and Fox Soccer Channel in the USA.

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Man United manager Sir Alex Ferguson (and the press) put poor Jonny Evans under a little bit of pressure during a press conference. Ferguson was talking about how marriage has improved Wayne Rooney and then the attention turned onto Evans.
Sportsmail asked Evans if it was time for him to get married to his girlfriend Kate. Click to continue reading...

According to an article from the DailyMail, Sir Alex had some fun when Jonny Evans attended a press conference with the gaffer yesterday before the� Champions League match today vs. Wolfsburg, along with his girlfriend, Kate, in the audience as she is on work placement with ITV. Sir Alex was talking about Rooney's marriage and how [. Click to continue reading...

Right, I dont normally do stuff like this but the National Television Awards are out and my best friend was in a Drama that is up for the award.

The programme was called A Place Of Execution and was on ITV earlier this year.

It would be great if you could vote for it, my friend deserves it and the drama made very, very good viewing!

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16 months after retiring as the Football League's oldest player at the age of 42, Manchester United and Spurs great Teddy Sheringham is returning to football with Beckenham Town in the Bulmers Cider Kent League the 9th tier of English football. So, unlike many professional athletes, he's definitely not coming out of retirement for the money.

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Sorry there was no blog yesterday. I'd like to say I simply forgot but that would be a lie. I was very busy, in awful form, and basically, couldn't be arsed. Besides, you know when I can't be arsed you get a three-line blog full consisting of thrown together crap, not the quality you are about to get today. Click to continue reading...

Bromley 3-0 Lewes (31:08:09)
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Fancy a trip to Hayes Lane to see EFW faves The Rooks take on the Lillywhites of Bromley anyone!? Not arf....where do we sign!? Given the fact this virtually constituted a Summer holiday, everyone was up for this one: The Fuller family, Daggers, Cynical, Big Deaks, Fenners to name but a few. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal's youth team managed to squirm their way through to the Groupie Stage of the Euro Cup last night on the "Most Goals Scored" rule. "It really is ludicrous," said Letmedrivethe Koach talking on ITV, "no other competition in the world uses this method of deciding the winner.� What has the issue of who scored the [. Click to continue reading...

Special1 TV will not be returning to Setanta Sports in the immediate future, according to a Setanta Ireland representative.

The cult hit parody show featuring puppets of Jose Mourinho, Sven Goran-Eriksson and Wayne Rooney will not be returning to the airwaves in the foreseeable future unless the program is picked up by another broadcaster.

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So Saturday Evening's Football League round-up show was 'accidentally' interrupted and replaced for a good 30 seconds by footage from the film on ITV that was airing at the same time. That film was the god awful Blue Crush however the switch over just happened to coincide with the film's most captivating scene, when Kate Bosworth (officially the worst actress to have ever drawn breath) is filmed paying a visit to the lavatory!

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With Norwich throwing in seven goals at home and Sven managing five on his League Two debut, they can't say that had a paucity of stories to choose from. The BBC launched their Football League coverage in a bold and brash style, with a live match and a highlights package that will now become part of the landscape of Saturday evenings.

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ITV are lobbying the government to ensure that all World Cup and European Championship qualification matches involving the 'home' nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland be added to the list of sporting events that is protected for 'free-to-air' broadcasters such as, well, them.Obviously, if this were to happen, it would diminish FIFA and UEFA's ability to profit from such Click to continue reading...

ITV soap loses its Wednesday night primetime slot If any indication of the power of football was needed, surely this is it. ITV bosses are moving long-running soap Coronation Street from its traditional Wednesday evening 7.30pm slot to ensure that they can bring you coverage of Steve Rider's cardboard hairdo whenever they like. Click to continue reading...

After a weekend of bidding, and to absolutely no-one's surprise, the television packages for Premier League football which had been by Setanta have been purchased by the American-owned sports company ESPN. The Premier League had been in something of a hurry to get Setanta out of the way, to the extent that it is rumoured to have recently been lobbying the EU competition commission to get rid of the rules that they put in place specifically to deal with the sort of stranglehold that Sky has over British sport.

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England has a lot to look forward these days when it comes football. With the senior squad all but assured a place in next year's World Cup and the U-21's playing Germany in the European Championships' semi-final round, it's safe to say things couldn't be going better at the moment.

The coverage regarding the national squad and the Premier League around the country comes at a feverish pace that sometimes leaves many of us overwhelmed by the number of stories floating around the internet.

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The Premier League have announced that they have terminated their contract with Setanta Sports in the United Kingdom. That means that Setanta has lost the TV rights for the 2009-2010 Premier League season and will sell the rights to the 46 lives games to the highest bidder.

The bidding deadline for the TV rights to those 46 games in England is Monday.

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Do I not get a say in this?
BBC Licence fee could be shared
I don't really want my money going to pay for ITV or Channel4...quite frankly their crap. The BBC is ace. If the sponsors and advertisers aren't enough to keep Coronation Street in the production values it is accustomed to then tough luck. Click to continue reading...

I hate that I do!

When I were a lad, the only person best placed to see if the ball was over the goaline was the local mongrel. That were a long time ago but now the powers that be have finally got their act together with some changes. FIFA have laid down a new rule for the new all singing all dancing EUROPA cup.

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Despite an injury list that would be extremely worrying if� the situation was repeated� in South Africa next year, we're going into the next two qualifiers in an extremely favourable position to ensure automatic qualification. We should beat Kazakhstan on Saturday (4:00pm on Setanta, highlights 10:00pm on ITV) and Andorra on Wednesday (7:45pm on ITV), but arguably the most important game in the group is the one between Croatia and the Ukraine, which kicks off at 7:15pm on Saturday: it's pretty safe to say that if Ukraine lose, they're unlikely to get to South Africa next summer, leaving the Croats as the only obstacle to overcome.

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So, I thought we'd cover this match live this afternoon. Everton haven't played in a major cup final since the 1995 FA Cup Final when they beat Manchester United 1-0 thanks to a goal from Paul Rideout, of all people. Chelsea won the FA Cup in 2007, also beating Manchester United 1-0 in a match so boring that I fell asleep ten minutes in.

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Legendary British Football Presenter Jon Champion joins host Kartik Krishnaiyer on the EPL Talk Podcast. Champion currently works for Setanta Sports, ITV and TWI International.

Hear Champion's thoughts on this Saturday's FA Cup Final, his coverage of the Premier League and his five previous World Cups.

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Arsenal.com Anfield '89 feature

Where did those twenty years go?

26th May 1989 was the moment that has come to define Arsenal's modern era - a league title that propelled us forward as a club. It was also the most impossibly close finish to a league season - the goal required to win the title coming in the last minute of the last game against the other team challenging for it.

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When it all gets to much

If I don't watch, then everything will turn out okay. And so it proved for the second year running as Chelsea edged past Liverpool in the Champions League. And for the second year running I spent the majority of the game in blissful ignorance of the drama that was unfolding.

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� Arsenal suffered two injury setbacks on Tuesday night.� First Almunia went off with an ankle injury and the Gallas had to leave the field after Rossi fell on him.� Whilst both are blows for Arsenal, just as we are getting players back, the loss of Gallas will be felt more at the club than Almunia's absence.

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