Sunderland manager Paolo Di Canio said he would not be watching tonight's Premier League match between relegation rivals Wigan and Swansea but then admitted he was telling porkies. After his side's 1-1 draw with Stoke last night, Di Canio was asked in his interview with Sky Sports whether he would be settling down in [.
Another successful week last time out, with the punt on Robin Van Persie to score two or more goals
easily vindicated (and actually frustrating given that we should have predicted a hat-trick).
Forest and Sheffield United also came in as a double, meaning that our £30 stake returned over
£73. It's easy, I tells ya.
George's predictions are back. Last time out on the final day of the season, George got an amazing
8 results right and three perfect scores. Let's hope he starts this season with a bang.
Saturday 1 September 2012
West Ham United 1 v Fulham 1
Swansea City 2 v Sunderland 1
Wigan Athletic 1 v Stoke City ‎0
Tottenham Hotspur 2 v Norwich City ‎0
West Bromwich Albion 3 v Everton ‎2
Manchester City 3 v Queens Park Rangers 0
Sunday 2 September 2012
Liverpool 0 v Arsenal 0
Southampton 1 v Manchester United ‎ 2
Newcastle United 2 v Aston Villa 0
Steve looking chuffed with his new job...
Image: expressandstar.comBrendan Rodgers faces a relatively kind start to his Premier League
season as Liverpool travel to the Midlands on Saturday to face West Bromwich Albion. The pre season
friendlies and the start to the Europa League provided some relief to those football withdrawal
symptoms but it's safe to say we're very close to being in full swing now.
Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas has criticized Liverpool midfielder Charlie Adam for a heavy
challenge on Gareth Bale in their goalless pre-season friendly in the United States.
Spurs and Liverpool played out a 0-0 draw at the M&T Bank Stadium, home of NFL franchise the
Baltimore Ravens.
In a game which marked the Liverpool debut of summer signing Fabio Borini, Villas-Boas was critical
of Adam who has previous history with Bale.
This comes courtesy of Matt Demlein, who offered to give a bit of a look at Montpellier, ahead of
tomorrow's friendly.
On Tuesday night, Sporting Kansas City plays the French Champions, Montpellier. Montpellier were a
surprise this past season, holding off Paris Saint-Germain during the second half of the season
despite having a budget that was smaller than the transfer fee PSG paid for Javier Pastore.
Southampton's Jason Puncheon left the field for unusual circumstances against Everton tonight... as he had to use the toilet. The Saints were left with 10 men on the field while their winger left the field to use the club's facilities. He was welcomed back rather amusingly by chants of: "Jason Puncheon, he went for a [.
Liverpool defender Martin Skrtel has got plenty of experience of going under the needle to get tattoos and now he's got experience of being, erm, above the needle. The Slovakian centre-back tried his hand as a tattoo artist as part of a fund-raising effort for the Hillsborough families. Some 96 Reds fans decided to [.
Michael Owen is set to make his Stoke debut at home to Manchester City on Saturday. Goals are unlikely to come as easily as last time he put in a decent shift at the Brit, but at least he won't have Neville Southall to contend with this time. The Potters' stadium was the setting for [...]
1 p.m. on Prime and KWHY. Given what happened the last time these two teams met, this could be
another ugly game of potentially epic proportions for Chivas USA in what goalkeeper Dan Kennedy
called a "brutal" slump. How many of you will dare watch? Here's more from the Sounders
Whatever the real meaning behind John Terry's abusive words to Anton Ferdinand last October, we can
all agree that the Chelsea captain's verbal salvos towards opposition players are usually somewhat
antagonistic to say the least. In a refreshing twist on that consistently fulfilled caricature, the
England international was caught on camera (and indeed on mic) [.
The last time the Dynamo faced the Montreal Impact, it got quite nasty after the game. Impact
sporting director Nick De Santis, who has refused to comment about the incident, lit a fuse by
allegedly confronting, taunting and berating Adam Moffat in the players' tunnel on June 23 after
Moffat drew a red card.
If you read my Tuesday column you know just how crucial this game is for both teams. There is a
capacity crowd in Vancouver for this one while the memory of the last time these teams met remains
fresh. The viewing party for the game tonight is in Old
Following his analysis of York City's prospects in our Season Preview fortnight, John Dobson was
present as the Minstermen put an end to Oxford United's strong start at the weekend. Here are his
impressions: The last time Oxford United and York City met was in a downpour at Wembley in a
Conference play-off final just over two years ago.
Paraguayan International forward NELSON VALDEZ is one step away from returning to Spanish
Football - La Liga - after playing two seasons with Hercules last time. This time around the 28
year old current RUBIN KAZIN player is about to land in VALENCIA CF with the only prerequisite
left of passing the obligatory medical exam.
"Get a good look at it you young'ns because it's the last time you'll ever bloody see it!"Â
With Chevrolet coming in as Manchester United's shirt sponsor as of 2014/15, Sir Alex has
already put a brisk kibosh on any of his younger players' dreams of milking a gratis high-powered
Yank Tank out of the company banning all players under the age of 23 from accepting sweets from
strangers anything too sporty from the Chevy range.
"Get a good look at it you young'ns because it's the last time you'll ever bloody see it!"Â
With Chevrolet coming in as Manchester United's shirt sponsor as of 2014/15, Sir Alex has
already put a brisk kibosh on any of his younger players' dreams of milking a gratis high-powered
Yank Tank out of the company banning all players under the age of 23 from accepting sweets from
strangers anything too sporty from the Chevy range.
Well here is the last bastion of hope for any hardware this season and hopefully Portland can
play the role of spoiler for the rest of the season. For those of you who don't remember the
standings for the Cascadia Cup head here. The question I have been thinking about is can Portland
do something it hasn't done since July 3rd?
After the totally frenetic show last time, Twiggs takes it easy this week! Mostly concerned
about two Leeds fans in serious need of cheering up. Two games played this past week to report on
and thankfully some listener emails fill out this weeks GGL. One email offering a possible new
feature for the coming season's shows!
Sunday night, the Houston Dynamo will hope Columbus will be Crew-el to be kind in the right
measure to the tune of three points to the Orange. And after last week, I think we're all hoping
for a very, very, very good sign that our march to the MLS elite will continue apace.
The Orange face the Crew, hoping to extend our home unbeaten streak to 21 games, at BBVA Compass
Stadium Sunday at 8 p.
The New England Revolution are completing a grueling stretch of three games in seven days this
weekend when they stop off in the American Heartland to take on Sporting Kansas City. The last time
the Revs made the trip to LiveStrong Park they were posterized 3-0 by an SKC team marching on to a
seven-game winning streak.
For the second time in his short yet promising professional career, Ruben Luna went a full 90
minutes for FC Dallas in Saturday's 3-2 win over Colorado. The last time the young striker went the
distance was on April 1, 2011 at Columbus. And by all accounts, Luna was solid against the Rapids,
displaying some of the same skills-like holding the ball, drawing cards and generally making life
difficult on the opposition, that everyone who has seen him play knows he can display at a moment's
notice.
Geoff hit on it this morning - it's only been ten days since the last time the Timbers played
Chivas, and all we had to say about them then was that they were the most boring team in MLS.
Ten days haven't changed that.
In fact, the only thing that has changed for either team in the ten days since is they've both
lost another game.
Kevin Mirallas Reveals That Talks Are Underway Between Arsenal And Olympiacos by AM The Belgium
international Kevin Mirallas has been linked with a move to Arsenal this summer. The Olympiacos
striker had a wonderful season last time around and was the top scorer in the Greek SuperLeague.
With his future at the club being the [.
Arsenal will start their 2012 Asia Tour in Malaysia, just like last year - at the Bukit Jalil
Stadium against the Malaysia XI side. This is the first time this season that Arsenal fans
will have a chance to see their first team in action, as the pre-season friendlies thus far have
seen the participation of exclusively reserve and youth players.
Arsenal will start their 2012 Asia Tour in Malaysia, just like last year - at the Bukit Jalil
Stadium against the Malaysia XI side. This is the first time this season that Arsenal fans
will have a chance to see their first team in action, as the pre-season friendlies thus far have
seen the participation of exclusively reserve and youth players.
Nothing is certain but death and taxes... and not losing to Spurs. They may score from the half
way line in the last minute, plain for all to see, but it won't be given. They may be 3-0 up at
half-time, but we'll score five in the second half. They may believe they have a freekick after one
of our players blatantly handballs it, but the ref will play advantage and we will score a goal
regardless.
The press is full of reports surrounding Charlie Adam's tackle on Gareth Bale at the weekend
which left the Spurs midfielder on crutches. However, thorough examination of the stories has found
nothing relating to the extent of the injury itself.
Spurs fans instantly recalled another horror challenge by the same player on Gareth when Adam
was at Blackpool,
"There are pictures on the internet of what he did before when he snapped all my ankle
ligaments.
USSF series recap - Tier 3: USL-Pro - Tier 4: NPSL and PDL - Tier 5: USASA and USCS Last time, on
the third tier, we skirted the NASL en route to our breakdown of USL-Pro and its many, many
roadblocks on the road to its ultimate incarnation. The main reason for those trip wires? You
guessed it — the NASL and the defection of its owners.
USSF series recap - Tier 5: USASA and USCS Last time we waded through the expansive lowlands of the
last rung of the American soccer ladder, comprising both the USCS (our club soccer bros) and USASA
(basically everything else under the sun). From here, we beginning reaching the borderlands of the
fun parts, where developmental gears start clicking together in ways recognizable to the
Not much new to talk about here from our perspective, but the MLS Players Union has released an
updated mid-season salary list for all MLS teams, including our own Portland Timbers. While the
Timbers haven't been terribly active this mid-season with regards to bringing in new players,
specifically new players from outside the league, the two new players, Danny Mwanga and Kosuke
Kimura, you probably didn't catch last time salaries released are now there.
For those of you that don't already have tickets for the US Open Cup final a week from today
against the Seattle Sounders, you may want to get them. Today it was announced that the US Open Cup
final for this year (and the next two after that) will be shown on Gol TV. The station that most
people have to get another tier on their cable provider to be able to watch the game.
It's not often the USMNT holds an open training session. Even us scribes usually only get to see
about 15 minutes near the end. However, on the morning of September 9th, the fine folks of Columbus
get the whole enchilada. In case you forgot or missed it, this is how it went the last time the
Nats held one of these.
Kinley McNicoll wasn't even born the last time the University of Wisconsin
women's soccer team posted consecutive shutouts to start the season.
But Sunday afternoon, the freshman midfielder opened the scoring with her first collegiate goal
and added her inaugural assist in the second half as the Badgers thumped South Dakota State 5-0 in
a non-conference match at the McClimon Complex for their second straight clean sheet.
It has been ten days since the last time we had a Portland Timbers game to watch, but with the
changes that have been made in the interim, it seems like an eternity. Emotions will be running
high for the Portland faithful today, as, for the first time since April 2011 -- a run of 51 league
matches -- a Timbers game will start without Troy Perkins in goal.
Carra played his 700th game in Belarus...Gomel will be the
opposition at Anfield on Thursday evening as Brendan Rodgers looks to send Liverpool through to the
next round of the Europa League in his first match as manager in front of the Kop.
The first leg ended in a Liverpool win after Stewart Downing found the back of the net but it
wasn't an easy victory for the Reds as Gomel provided the defence with several problems.
The last time a pro soccer All-Star Game took place in Philly, the NASL's Team America all-stars
took on England at JFK Stadium on May 31, 1976. Philadelphia-area born goalkeeper Bob Rigby and
defender Bobby Smith were two of only six US players on the team.
