Thanks to a singular Premier League fixture and some midweek matches in Mexico, a handful of
Americans Abroad saw the pitch on Wednesday.
Two Americans went head-to-head against each other in London, as Brad Friedel's Aston Villa
traveled to Upton Park out to pile misery on West Ham and Jonathan Spector.
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Thanks to a singular Premier League fixture and some midweek matches in Mexico, a handful of
Americans Abroad saw the pitch on Wednesday.
Two Americans went head-to-head against each other in London, as Brad Friedel's Aston Villa
traveled to Upton Park out to pile misery on West Ham and Jonathan Spector.
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Everton midfielder Jack Rodwell is certain that a win over Benfica in Thursday night's Europa
League fixture will boost Everton's confidence. The Toffees currently lie in 13th in the Barclays
Premier League table, and Rodwell believes that the side could be ready to turn the corner.
"We feel good about the performance against Villa but not about the result," said Rodwell.
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Little to say after what promises to be one of the most surreal thirty minutes in recent
memory.
Chronologically:
-Torres off, Ryan Babel on. Apparently uninjured. Maybe with the midweek Champions League
fixture in mind...but after that first half stunner, tough pill to swallow.
-Goal Fulham.
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A demoralized Manchester United team takes on a flu-struck Blackburn side at Old Trafford on
Saturday. Sir Alex Ferguson will be hoping his side can recover from their disappointing 2-0 loss
at the hands of rivals Liverpool last weekend. A convincing win over Barnsley midweek in the
Carling Cup provided some encouragement for United's youngsters, but it should be back to business
for the bulk of the United first team.
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Everton manager David Moyes has not contained his anger at the Carling Cup organizers for
forcing a Tuesday kickoff at White Hart Lane. The match will be Everton's third in a six day span,
and Moyes is pointing the fingers at the tournament's organizers.
The Carling Cup fixture against a strong Tottenham Hotspurs side comes just days after Everton's
Premier League fixture at Bolton and their Europa League fixture away to Benfica.
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SoccerLens 24 October @ 01:06 AM EST
You can watch Schalke v Hamburg Live online here.
Schalke v Hamburg
Bundesliga
Sunday 25 October 2009
Kickoff: 17:30 CET
Two early pace-setters go head to head a battle of the heavyweights in the Bundesliga. Schalke
are 3rd in the table, trailing Hamburg by 2 points (who themselves trail leaders Bayer Leverkusen
on goal difference).
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Bordeaux vs Bayern Munich:
This match features the two leaders of Group A. Both sides have 4 points from two games and will
be looking to take a strangle hold on the group in their next two fixtures.
Bordeaux hope to take full advantage of their home turf and upset the German giants before they
meet again in a little less than a fortnight.
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Players report back to London today, and hopefully by the end of today or early tomorrow we'll
have an inventory of who picked up knocks playing in internationals. At the moment, the only one
I've heard is Gael Clichy, who injured his thigh playing for France yesterday. This must have
frustrated Wenger, who was actually commentating on the match for French television, noted that
Clichy was hurt and should be substituted, only to watch him struggle through to the end of the
game.
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Anfield Talk 06 October @ 02:02 PM EST
Alberto Aquilani could finally get his Liverpool career up and running within a fortnight after
Rafa Benitez today issued a positive fitness bulletin.
The Italian international has yet to kick a ball in anger for the Reds since his £20m move from
Roma in August but his manager hopes that will all change within the month.
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Here it is. Like The Riddle Of The Great Pyramids, the Red Bulls have been staring at this
mathematical equation for the better part of two seasons now, and that number continues to
escalate. 25 game winless streak on the road. Another Osorio record. But can Richie turn it around
against San Jose?
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Click on the "envelope" for a bigger view
Scribed this on the back of an envelope.
Please don't be confused by those "arrows" and the hideous handwriting (it was a scribble-on
anyway), allow me to explain with some helps from the "wiki" pages on the subject.
As you can see for yourself on the top of the envelope, I scribbled "Top 8 (AFL)", while at the
lower half of it, you should noticed the words - "Super League (RL)".
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(All times - UK)
Monday 21st September
19:45 Cliftonville v Linfield, IFA Premiership, Sky Sports 1
We start this week with another all-too-rare dipping of the toes into the world of Northern Irish
football. You have to go back almost exactly three years for the last time Cliftonville beat
Linfield in a league fixture and on current form fourth-placed Linfield should beat their opponents
three places below them again.
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Having already received charges of both violent and improper conduct this week, Emmanuel
Adebayor was officially handed a three-match ban for his stomp of Robin Van Persie. This means that
he'll miss out on what is going to be perhaps the most important Manchester derby Old Trafford will
ever see.
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Having already received charges of both violent and improper conduct this week, Emmanuel
Adebayor was officially handed a three-match ban for his stomp of Robin Van Persie. This means that
he'll miss out on what is going to be perhaps the most important Manchester derby Old Trafford will
ever see.
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MLS Daily 16 September @ 05:18 AM EST
Needing a win to avoid falling completely out of touch in Group B of the CONCACAF Champions League,
DC United rode an early Christian Gomez penalty kick to a crucial road victory against Trinidadian
side San Juan Jabloteh on Tuesday evening. The result was especially encouraging, considering that
DC was missing several regulars through injury or a decision to rest, including Jaime Moreno,
Santino Quaranta, Fred and Josh Wicks.
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Jose Mourinho has continued his special ways as he announced his Inter Milan starting eleven an
entire day before his side's crucial Champions League fixture against Barcelona. The former Chelsea
manager was never afraid to pull this stunt during his time in the Premier League, and his latest
display raises the question: is the special one arrogant or intelligent?
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Former Gunner set for lengthy ban.
Manchester City striker Emmanuel Adebayor has been hit with a double charge by the
Football Association in the wake of last weekend's win over former club Arsenal.
Adebayor has been charged with violent conduct for his challenge on Robin van Persie and he has
been charged with improper conduct for his goal celebration at Eastlands.
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A statement from the FA said: "The Football Association today issued two charges against Manchester
City's Emmanuel Adebayor following Saturday's Premier League fixture between Manchester City and
Arsenal. Under the fast-track disciplinary process, Adebayor has been charged with violent conduct
following an incident with Robin van Persie, which resulted in the Arsenal player receiving facial
injuries.
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The FA has announced Emmanuel Adebayor will face charges of violent conduct and improper
conduct:
The Football Association today issued two charges against Manchester City's
Emmanuel Adebayor following Saturday's Premier League fixture between Manchester City and
Arsenal.
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I knew it was too much to ask for for our players to get through an international break without
getting injured, and I was right. Andrei Arshavin, who had to come off injured with a groin injury
against Manchester United, rushed back too early to play in yesterday's game against Wales. Guus
Hiddink, being the loyal Chelsea man he is, made sure Arshavin played all 90 minutes, and of course
he re-injured his groin, and will now miss our next two matches the league fixture against
Manchester City and the Champions League match-up with Standard Liege.
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EPL Talk 31 August @ 07:00 AM EST
What do we want from a ninety minute bout of football devotion? A win, obviously. Maximum points
from a league fixture. Advancement from a draw. But beyond that we want a strong performance. We
want reassurances for the future. Points and advancement get us closer to the goal, but a pure
display of great football gives us so much more.
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EPL Talk 30 August @ 04:34 PM EST
Laurence McKenna joins Kartik Krishnaiyer for our weekly review show. Topics discussed
include:
- Violence inside and outside the ground for West Ham-Milwall
- Eduardo's shameful dive versus Celtic
- Wayne Rooney and diving
- Arsene Wenger wrongly and comically sent off by Mike Dean
- Spurs benefit from an old friend's mistake
- Chelsea continue to roll
- Milan derby is no contest
- Manchester City unblemished
- Aston Villa, Everton and Fulham in Europe
- Stoke, a permanent premier league fixture?
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by JAMES CURTIS It's been a topsy-turvy last couple of days for Gooners, having comfortably
sealed a place in the Champions League group stages, only to be bashed on by football's apparent
high and mighty.
This heavenly troupe, who have seized on the Eduardo dive scandal tooth and nail, are lead by
none other than Patrice "fisticuffs" Evra and The Independent's chief sports
writer James Lawton.
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Remember the last time we played the Clarets? Maybe the picture below will help jog your
memory.
Last season. Carling Cup. Another penalty shootout calamity. Lets move on, shall we?
Saturday's meeting at Stamford Bridge will be the first between the two sides in a league
fixture since the 1982-83 season.
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After being out with a thigh injury for a month, former Mutiny defender, Frankie Hejduk [left in
action for the Crew] returned to training with the Columbus Crew on Monday. He could be in the
lineup as quickly as tomorrow in the Crew's Concacaf Champions league fixture against Cruz Azul of
Mexico.
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EPL Talk 24 August @ 11:25 AM EST
When I first started watching English football, I rarely got to watch the league matches live.
I worked in a bar with no TVs. My friends George and Noel would bring us VHS tapes of the weekend
matches. George taped the Setanta matches and my Noel taped the FSC matches (often tacking on
Sopranos episodes from HBO after each match).
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Last weekend the Premier League kicked off a new season and this weekend it was the turn of the
Serie A to start a new season.
Italy
With the fixture list handing them a comfortable-looking opener against promoted Bari, Inter coach
José Mourinho had reason for optimism ahead of the Italian champions' first 2009/10 league
fixture, but Sunday's game was to be a big let-down.
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For the first time ever, Premiership Talk's Thursday Throwdown is here. Each week we'll bring
the A to Z list of the happenings in the Premier League. Without further adieu...
A is for Ancelotti. Carlo Ancelotti got off to a phenomenal start at his new
club as Chelsea picked up six out of six points during the opening week of action.
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Cove Rangers 4-0 Brora Rangers (15:08:09)
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Such was the efficiency and helpfulness of Rainbow City Taxis (ironically sponsors of Cove Rangers)
that 20 minutes after watching Aberdeen lose to Celtic, the EFW team were on the terracing at Allan
Park in good time for this Highland League fixture in the Aberdeen suburb of Cove Bay.
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Anfield Talk 17 August @ 02:12 PM EST
According to The Sun, Liverpool dispatched scouts to check on Fernando Amorebieta in Athletic
Bilbao's 2-1 defeat to Barcelona in the first leg of the Supercopa de Espana on Sunday.
The Reds are reportedly keen to bolster their defensive options following a defeat at the hands of
Tottenham Hotspur in their opening league fixture, and the 24-year-old appears to be well-placed on
manager Rafael Benitez's shortlist.
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SoccerLens 17 August @ 05:57 AM EST
In the aftermath of Arsenal's perhaps suprising but fully deserved 6-1 victory over Everton in
the Premier League's opening weekend, the confidence mustered by many of the Celtic fans following
the Champions' League qualifying draw may have just evaporated away.
Arsenal were simply breathtaking.
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The 2009/2010 season is here and Nike's top athletes are ready. They've set themselves targets
and pledged their ambition. They've even put pen to ball and signed the T90 Ascente which will
feature in every Premier League fixture.
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goalpost.tv 14 August @ 11:12 AM EST
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This is one of the tastier clashes on offer in the first round of the Premier
League, and it promises to be one that is filled with all the excitement that usually goes
a crunch league fixture.
Liverpool faltered in their title ambitions last season due to their inability
to win games against teams that were not as strong in comparison.
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