Via Football Shirt Culture (if you squint, you can make out the watermark on the images).

This is supposedly the new Nike USA home shirt, due out next year. What do you think? Good? Bad? Real? Fake?

I need to digest this for a bit before passing judgment. I think this was the site that leaked the last set of jerseys, and they turned out to be the real deal.

Looks like there's a new player in the analyzing-US-National-Team-player-ratings game. They may be three years late, but we'd like to welcome the New York Times Goal blog to the party! What took you so long, boys?

NYT's John Godfrey seems to be taking the approach outlined in our post from 2008.

A report has just come out stating that Alejandro Bedoya has been added to the Gold Cup roster, presumably replacing the injured Benny Feilhaber. You can find the report here (in Swedish).

We're waiting to confirm this with a source we're familiar with. At that point, we'll remove the question mark from the title and update the post.

A friend of P2010 forwarded us an article a while back a Q&A with his former youth coach, which you can (and should) read here.

You may not know Tom Howe I didn't before I read that article but you really should. For many years he coached at the famed St.

I don't want to kick a good man while he's down, but how do you make £40,000 a week and end up £5million in debt? Isn't Friedel supposed to be good at saving? [cue rimshot] But seriously folks, The Mirror has all the details.