The U.S. WNT will play a HUGE match early in year on Friday night, Jan. 27, when it faces Costa Rica in the semifinal of the 2012 CONCACAF Olympic Women's Qualifying Tournament for a berth to the London Olympics.
A HIGHLY motivated U.S. team will kick-off the clash with the Central Americans at 5 p.

Clint, to coin the phrase from former SportsCenter anchor Dan Patrick, is 'en fuego'. Dempsey dumped in three second half goals as Fulham raced to a 5-2 victory against Newcastle this afternoon.
Deuce becomes the first American to score a hat trick in the Premier League - did we mention he scored three against Charlton in an FA Cup match two weeks ago?

Having already knocked out Villarreal and Real Racing Club in this years Copa del Rey, Mirandés, are bow looking to knockoff another of La Liga's big names, Espanyol, in the quarter-finals.

The Spanish third division side are currently enjoying the experience of a lifetime – playing and beating the elite.

Got, Not Got: You Too Can Go To Bed With George Best Shock

Now here's an offer you don't get every day it's your chance to hit the sack with 1970s sex god, boutique owner and noted footballer George Best of Manchester United and Northern Ireland fame. What's more, Alan Ball, Bobby Moore and Gordon Banks come as a special bonus a dream Christmas gift for the lady football fan who previously imagined she had everything.

Video- Nani goal vs Bosnia Herzegovina BiH- Portugal 2011 November is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

Video- Nani goal vs Bosnia Herzegovina BiH- Portugal 2011 November is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter Portuguese winger Nani has given us some crackers in his lifetime and this stunning Nani goal vs Bosnia ( video below) is right up there with the best.

Their Words I was happy to get a few minutes, and hopefully there are more to come. Of course it's nice to get your first cap, but I hope that next time we are going to win. US National Team midfielder Fabian Johnson. Other Sources Klinsmann Has Time on His Side - from The NY Times' Andrew Das: the time left before the next World Cup — is a lifetime in soccer.

Why Wembley fans must not boo young Lions against Spain

Newcastle have found their Moyes, but Ashley won't hold onto him Why Stoke's humiliation gave me the giggles This week could see the fulfillment of a lifetime's ambition for four young Englishman. But before Daniel Sturridge, Kyle Walker and Jack Rodwell get too carried away with the prospect of making their international debuts against Spain or Sweden, and Danny Welbeck on starting his first England game, they should speak to four others who stood in their shoes a year ago.

It's the third time we've played Hull in my lifetime, and I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that for whatever mystical reason these are games I'm not destined to enjoy! Three games, no goals for and two goals against one point earned. Whilst there were shots on target, there weren't many genuine challenges for either keeper the one that did come was for our visitors and it was taken expertly and that was that [.

Pearce calls on players to force clubs to release them for the Olympics

Stars urged to 'do a Messi' and fight for once-in-a-lifetime chances by Team GB manager

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Former English national team goalkeeper Chris Woods has joined the U.S. staff under new coach Jurgen Klinsmann.
Woods was at the U.S. team training session Monday, ahead of an exhibition game against Ecuador. Woods has been Everton's goalkeeper coach for 13 years, and Klinsmann says Everton manager David Moyes had given permission for Woods to take the U.

As modern folk, we live our lives in the world of design. The clothing, the car, the furniture, the food and the wine, the house, the suburb, the road, the mall, the way the light falls across your face as I take your picture...I know that we can still go for a walk in the woods and shake it all away, for a while.

By Alan Duffy

Only a year ago Jay-Z was rumoured to be pondering investing in his favourite "soccer" club Arsenal, and now another hip hop icon, Snoop Dogg, has given a shout out to Welsh wing wizards Gareth Bale and Ryan Giggs.

Snoop is kicking off his new world tour in the UK and will be performing in Cardiff on October 8th, hence the promos.

Photo: Paul Rudderow

What: Union at Sporting Kansas City

Where: Livestrong Park, Kansas City, MO

When: 8:30pm ET, Friday September 23, 2011

Why: Because Columbus plays LA on Saturday, so someone else needs to take over first place

TV: FSC

Radio: None

Aurelien Collin bobble head night is a big event in Kansas City, so make sure you are one of the first 10,000 to arrive at Livestrong Park on Friday.

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Its 3 pm Saturday 10th September 2011. We welcome Swansea City to the Emirates for our second home fixture.

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Its 3 pm Saturday 10th September 2011. We welcome Swansea City to the Emirates for our second home fixture.

After witnessing the worst showing by an Arsenal side in my lifetime I was a bit perplexed as to what exactly I should choose to write about for this match. On the pitch, the team ...

The New York Yankees hit three grand slams against the Oakland Athletics on Thursday afternoon. How rare is this feat? The Yankees became the first time in the history of baseball to hit three grand slams in the same game!

Who hit the three Yankees grand slams? Robinson Cano hit a grand slam in the fifth inning, Russell Martin hit a grand slam in the sixth inning and then Curtis Granderson finished the feat with a grand slam in the eighth inning.

szólj hozzá: Bolton - Manchester City 2:3

Jussi Jaskailanen could have done better with a David Silva shot which he failed to stop cleanly. However there was no mistaking the quality of the Gareth Barry goal which followed. This was one in a lifetime because when was the last time Barry and quality were mentioned in the same sentence?

The Midfield – The Engine Room of MUFC Success Written by Rob B. It's without doubt the most common game MUFC fans get to play over their lifetime. It's your typical ‘Who Is Your Favourite Player' debate. Who would you play where? At a team like United it's an utter minefield. We all have [...]

The Argentine 5th division, so jealous of the week's happening yonder London, decided to take out their own aggression on The Man and descend into a frenzy. It resulted in lots of good YouTube footage and likely, several lifetime banishments, both on merit, or lack thereof, and also because no one really cares about the fifth division anyway.

"The Derry Pele."

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• Without a doubt. (The DA)
• The future in the past in the present. (The Best Eleven)
• Frightening headline. (The Ball Is Round)
• This is ubiquitous and funny. (KCKRS)
• Mini Arsene in France. (The French Connection)
• Refs get the lifetime axe.

By Puck Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back into the Happy Hour. My apologies for missing last week's gathering. I was home in Rochester, New York, land where USWNT stars are born, to celebrate my old man's 60th birthday. As you turn 60 once in a lifetime, unless of course you are the Dali Lama or [..

By Puck Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back into the Happy Hour. My apologies for missing last week's gathering. I was home in Rochester, New York, land where USWNT stars are born, to celebrate my old man's 60th birthday. As you turn 60 once in a lifetime, unless of course you are the Dali Lama or [..

A year ago today at 11:28 AM, a little post on a new Blogger page called 'Go Live in the Fire' popped up. It was a Mid-Season Report Card for all the Fire players in 2010. That blog post was the beginning of what is the site you are reading now, Hot Time In Old Town. Like being a fan, this is an experience that is sometimes frustrating, sometimes discouraging but mainly filled with times of great excitement and exuberance.

The new Nike supplied kit for the 2011/12 is officially being unveiled at Star City tonight, a neat connection to new main sponsor Genting. Of course, the away kit had already been launched and leaked images surfaced on the interwebz last month. The home kit had leaked even earlier, way back at the beginning of May.

Pics: Reds thrill Chinese Kopites

They had waited a lifetime to see their Anfield heroes in the flesh and Liverpool's Chinese supporters weren't left disappointed after an afternoon to savour in Guangzhou.

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Liverpool fly off on their Standard Chartered sponsored pre-season tour today with Managing Director Ian Ayre hoping the Reds leave a lifetime of memories for their fanatical Asian fans to savour.
The Reds' squad departs Liverpool John Lennon airport this afternoon for a thirteen hour flight to Guangzhou ahead of the first leg of their Asian tour.

Liverpool fly off on their Standard Chartered sponsored pre-season tour today with Managing Director Ian Ayre hoping the Reds leave a lifetime of memories for their fanatical Asian fans to savour.
The Reds' squad departs Liverpool John Lennon airport this afternoon for a thirteen hour flight to Guangzhou ahead of the first leg of their Asian tour.

Reds ready for Asia 2011

Liverpool fly off on their Standard Chartered sponsored pre-season tour today with Managing Director Ian Ayre hoping the Reds leave a lifetime of memories for their fanatical Asian fans to savour.

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In my lifetime, there are three players that I enjoyed watching them more than any other stars and superstars. I am talking about the joy of the game, irregardless of the performance. Zinedine Zidane, Lionel Messi and Romario.
Yep, I enjoyed Romario, much more than Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Rivaldo, Cristiano Ronaldo, or any other star.

In my lifetime, there are three players that I enjoyed watching them more than any other stars and superstars. I am talking about the joy of the game, irregardless of the performance. Zinedine Zidane, Lionel Messi and Romario.
Yep, I enjoyed Romario, much more than Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Rivaldo, Cristiano Ronaldo, or any other star.

It's been coming by KeefyWK Speaking as a 45 yr old lifetime fan of the Arsenal, this situation has been creeping upon us for a while now. Whilst Arsene has refused to add quality players each season to the squad it was just a matter of time before players desired to be elsewhere. Players such [...]

The Sons of Ben announced on Friday that co-founder Brian James has stepped down as president of the Philadelphia Union supporters group.

Matt Ansboro, the vice-president under James, will take over as president of the supporters group. Gameday capo Core Furlan will be the new vice-president.

Arsenal Flashback- A Sentence Wenger Probably Regrets by Max Baker It's the off-season so it's safe to say there isn't a lot to do in our free time here at the justarsenal.com corporate headquarters, other than watch Sky Sports News, Google transfer rumors, and look out the windows of our massive 35 storey office building [.

Four players from the U.S. Women's World Cup Team were present yesterday when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton helped launched the Women's World Cup Initiative. Here are Clinton's remarks from the event. The event was attended by goalkeepers Jill Loyden and Nicole Barnhart, midfielder Lori Lindsey and defender Ali Krieger, as well as U.

It is GSL purchase time in MLS again. With the 2011 All Star purchase window closing, we thought we would revisit an interview we did with Brad Pursel of MLS about the Guaranteed Seat License program.

For the last few years, MLS has offered its fans the opportunity to purchase a "Guaranteed Seat License" for the MLS Cup and MLS All-Star game.

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2. It takes a lot of bottle to step up and take a penalty, knowing that if you score, your team wins the league, and if you miss, you're going to get so much flack for the next week, and possible lifetime, if your team don't bail you out. For Wayne Rooney to smash that penalty in said a lot about his character and I'm very pleased for him.

Next up for Italian Serie A, Sunday's Derby della Lanterna. But the real question is... will Genoa C.F.C place the nail in Sampdoria's coffin? Il Doria sit in 17th place, one point above relegation. The slide into Serie B could well depend on derby results in little over 24 hours time. Has club president Riccardo Garrone made the mistake of a lifetime?

Written by Geoff Strong

During the 17 seasons from 1930 to 1953 (excluding the war years), Arsenal Football Club won 7 league titles, 3 FA Cups and had only 7 barren seasons, never waiting more than 3 seasons for a trophy (of which there were only two per year). A golden age, the best of times.

We get the fourth and final El Clasico Tuesday and Barcelona coach Josep Guardiola is expecting an anxious evening at the Camp Nou despite his side's 2-0 first-leg lead over Real Madrid. REal Madrid assistant coach Aitor Karanka played down criticism of his side's approach in the first match as he said José Mourinho's touchline ban would not be a problem for Madrid.