I am Back !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After a long hiatus , I have finally decided to restart my blog. At first, I thought will I be able to find the time to maintain a blog , but then I thought and thought more and said What the Hack !!! :) . Let's give it a try once more. Click to continue reading...

CSKA Moscow v Manchester United
Wednesday 21 October 2009, Luzhniki Stadium
UEFA Champions League
Kick-Off: 19:45 UK (20:45 CET)

With Juande Ramos managing CSKA Moscow and United returning to the scene of their last European triumph, you could be forgiven for thinking that it's 2007/2008 all over again.

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Real Madrid v AC Milan
Wednesday 21 October 2009, Santiago Bernabeu
UEFA Champions League
Kick-Off: 19:45 UK (20:45 CET)

Real Madrid host AC Milan in the Champions League as the two most successful teams in European cup football play their first of two group games.

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Chelsea v Atletico Madrid
Wednesday 21 October 2009, Stamford Bridge
UEFA Champions League
Kick-Off: 19:45 UK (20:45 CET)

After a night of 'upsets' where only 1 out of 8 home teams managed to win their Champions League games (and 5 of them lost), Chelsea fans will be hoping that Wednesday night brings better luck to the home side.

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Inter Milan vs Dynamo Kiev
Tuesday 20 October 2009, Stadio Giuseppe Meazza
UEFA Champions League
Kick-Off: 19:45 UK (20:45 CET)

Inter go into this midweek game against Dynamo Kyiv on a high - having thrashed Genoa 5-0. They're unbeatable in Italy but will Inter be able to break their European hoodoo?

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Barcelona v Rubin Kazan
Tuesday 20 October 2009, Camp Nou
UEFA Champions League
Kick-Off: 19:45 UK (20:45 CET)

Barcelona will be expected to take three points from this easy Champions League home game - while Valencia's performance would have given other teams in Spain hope that Barcelona can be beaten, Rubin Kazan aren't in the same class as Valencia and home advantage should nullify any hopes they might have had of causing an upset.

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Liverpool v Lyon
Tuesday 20 October 2009
Anfield, Liverpool
UEFA Champions League
Kick-off: 19:45 UK (20:45 CET)

Liverpool go into this Champions League game on the back of three consecutive defeats and are looking rattled. Lyon too suffered their first defeat of the season but seem to be in better shape mentally than their more illustrious Champions League opponents.

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England will play Brazil in a friendly game in Doha, Qatar, on 14 November 2009. The date falls in the last international break of the year and also coincides with the final World Cup qualifying playoffs. Both England and Brazil qualified at the top of their respective groups and therefore directly qualified for next year's World Cup finals.

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You can watch Blackburn Rovers v Burnley Live online by signing up with us here on Live Sport Network, the leading source to watch live football.

Blackburn Rovers v Burnley
Sunday 18 October 2009
Ewood Park, Premier League
Kickoff: 13:00 BST

Since football official restarted back in 1992, a team called Blackburn Rovers have always been there, with the exception of two seasons in the wilderness.

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Real Madrid vs Valladolid
Saturday 17 October 2009
Santiago Bernabéu Stadium
Kick-Off: 20:00 CET

Real Madrid will be eager to quash the notion that they cannot win without Cristiano Ronaldo this Saturday, while Valladolid have somewhat expectedly struggled in the opening matches of the 2009/10 campaign.

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You can watch Manchester United v Bolton Live online by signing up with us here on Live Sport Network, the leading source to watch live football online.

Manchester United play host to Bolton at Old Trafford in the Premier League on Saturday 17 October 2009. United have Rooney and Owen out to injury but Edwin van der Sar and Rio Ferdinand should return to the starting lineup, although Hargreaves is still a month away.

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You can watch Arsenal v Birmingham Live online by signing up with us here on Live Sport Network, the leading source for watching live football online.

Arsenal host Birmingham City at the Emirates in the Premier League on Saturday 17 October 2009. Arsenal are chasing their fourth consecutive win in the league while Birmingham, newly taken over by Carson Yeung, are struggling and will in all likelihood struggle till January, when Yeung has promised the team sacks of cash.

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You can watch Aston Villa v Chelsea Live online by signing up with us here on Live Sport Network, the leading source to watch live football on the web.

Aston Villa welcome Chelsea at Villa Park in an early Premier League kickoff on Saturday 17 October 2009 as both teams try to build upon their good starts to the season.

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I'm writing this post in order to bring some hope to you men (mostly), whose partners for life give them a hard time over their fascination with the beautiful game. I'll start at the end:

In May 2009, a business trip "forced" me to go to Barcelona. The trip happened to coincide with a home match against Villareal, and I hoped that the game would be the championship game.

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On the football league show this weekend this man popped up completely unmentioned. Saturday was Crystal Palace's family day for the match against Blackpool. I think family days are a great way to bring the children in and get young lads and lasses hooked on live football. I'm sure they all had a great time with the sun shining and Palace winning 4-1.

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The Football Association will broadcast the England Under-21's European Championship qualifier against Macedonia on Friday for free.

The match will be the first England game streamed live on the FA website and will start at 1945 BST. The contest will take place at Coventry's Ricoh Arena.

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The Future of Live Football

If you want to watch England in this Saturday's World Cup qualifier against Ukraine you have three choices — travel to Dnipropetrovsk or watch it live on the internet or at a cinema.

Setanta would have been showing the match on TV if the company had not ceased trading in June 2009.

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My view at the Valley, December 2006
Abu Zilif writes:

MLS made me a soccer fan. I stopped hating soccer because I got to experience the World Cup while I was traveling in Germany, but without MLS I would have become one of those people who follow the USMNT like they follow Michael Phelps every four years.

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So we're a month or so in to 2009/10, and it's been pretty hectic, to say the least. Lots of flashpoints, talking points and most importantly, lots of football. So what have been the characteristics of this opening month that have captured the imagination?

1.   There has been an awful lot of football played.

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Cheer Up Alan Shearer's Top 10 TV Football Moments
6. "They've Never Heard Chris Rea."
I can almost see the pitch at Sky Sports HQ now.
"Yes, I know we haven't got any live football that we can show on Saturday afternoon. But, what we can do is ask four ex-professional footballers to watch the games for us, and explain to us what's happening. Click to continue reading...

After writing an article in response to City's 'worry' about us singing the racist Adebayor song, I got an e-mail from a fella called Jack who is behind the City blog, The Lonesome Death of Roy Carroll. If my track record for receiving e-mails from City fans was anything to go by, I was fully expected a hate-filled rant, calling me a Munich bastard and ending with the hope I died in a plane crashed.

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Cheer Up Alan Shearer's Top 10 TV Football Moments
8. "A Match Already Being Described As 'On This Sunday'"
It would be fair to say that Sky Sports are prone to a little bit of over-enthusiasm about their range of live football. Their 'Grand Slam Sunday' was my particular favourite, considering football doesn't have a 'grand slam' and that whoever triumphed in such an event would have to presumably win four matches in different parts of the world at different times of the year. Click to continue reading...

Is football hooliganism in the U.K. more prevalent than ever?

In an age of astronomical transfer fees, CCTV, better policing methods, higher ticket prices & all-stadium seating, one would think not. Aren't we always led to believe that football in the U.K. has emerged triumphantly out of the dark ages of the 70's & 80's?

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Watch Manchester United take on Wigan live online here.

Wigan take on the English champions at the JJB in this 3pm Saturday kickoff. Both teams lost their previous league games in 'shock' defeats and will be eager to get back on the winning track today. You can watch the game live on your PC by joining our dedicated live football members' area.

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This week there are a raft of Champions League, Premier League, and Football League game on TV. A great site to keep track of where they are all being shown is Where's the Match - not only for football either, you can track live games in all sports, and never miss one again. Although your girlfriend will probably be pretty pissed off.

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England's Barclay's Premier League is unquestionably the world's most prestigious football organization in existence today. The Premier League is the top tier of English football. The league consists of 20 member teams and operates as a corporation, with each team considered a shareholder and holding one vote.

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The folks at the Guardian got in touch with us to inform our readers about their package titled, The Season. This is a preview package for the upcoming season and it includes comprehensive information and preview for all sides and for our purposes, lots of Manchester United as well.

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It is only very seldom that we re-run articles on here but, in view of the fact that today is the day of the Brighton Gay Pride festival, we thought that it would be appropriate to run a piece that first appeared on here in March 2007 on the subject of football and homophobia. It was our intention to run more articles on this subject and we will do in the future - if you can help, feel free to get in touch.

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No one likes us, we do care.
My recent trip to England revealed a few interesting tidbits of info, c/o of some seasoned overseas football writers with whom I had a nice stout-soaked chat. Perhaps the most interesting was the revelation that it is near impossible to watch a full, live, 90 minute MLS match in the UK. Click to continue reading...

A fledgling sportswriter's first attempt at covering a big match.

I arrived at Gillete Stadium yesterday unsure what to expect. I mean, I knew AC Milan were about to face Inter Milan some four thousand miles from their usual sparring ground.  I knew attendance for the event would be staggering compared to the NE Revolution's regular season draw.

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GREAT news for the global family of football fans – the INSIDER group has got bigger and better with the addition of SIX more exciting FREE-TO-USE websites to follow in the footsteps of their great site for Arsenal fans – www.arsenalinsider.com<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office">

Due to popular demand and keen interest from supporters of Manchester United, Tottenham, Liverpool, Chelsea, Aston Villa and League One side Stockport County, INSIDER have now launched dedicated sites for fans of these clubs to give them somewhere they can catch up on all the latest news, views and opinions about their teams.

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The Premier League has hit a road bump in its lawsuit against YouTube.

In the Premier League's claim, which was filed more than two years ago, it argued that YouTube was profiting from a knowing violation of its copyrights in the league and in footage of games in that league. Now, however, a US district judge has filed an opinion that the Premier League cannot claim statutory damages against YouTube for user-submitted video clips of non-live football matches, even if it proves that the site infringed its rights, because it failed to register its copyrights.

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Normally June is a quiet month in football.  Players, at least those from the top divisions, go to sun themselves in exotic locations and even managers take a break, although they make sure they have their cell phone with them in case selling and buying opportunities arise.
However, this June has been unusually busy.

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Normally June is a quiet month in football.  Players, at least those from the top divisions, go to sun themselves in exotic locations and even managers take a break, although they make sure they have their cell phone with them in case selling and buying opportunities arise.
However, this June has been unusually busy.

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I have no sympathy for the demise of Setanta Sports only sympathy for the couple of hundred Mr and Mrs 'Normal' who will lose their jobs.
I have no sympathy for those presenters and commentators who jumped ship from their previous employers to board the gravy train that was Setanta Sports. Click to continue reading...