As our own malcontentjake and countless others have demonstrated repeatedly, the numerical shorthand for soccer formations which we're all accustomed to (e.g. 4-4-2) is almost completely useless. Whether you have a 'band of 4' defenders or a 'band of 5' is much less important than what those defenders are doing at any given time.

Geylang is perhaps the most down to earth place in Singapore. It's where people cross the road before the light turns red, cyclists brush pedestrians aside on the footpath and the hookers brazenly display their ways along the lorongs and in the coffee shops.
Into this world have come two former Arsenal trainees, Oliver Nicholas and Rhema Obed who have hit the east after failing to make the grade in England.

Johan Cruyff. Who doesn't know him. People all over the world know his name ( and can't pronounce it). He revolutionised football as a player, as a coach and as a union-leader ( of sorts). Now, he wants to put Ajax back on the international map as an executive.

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Arsene Wenger continues to stick by Andrei Arsharvin despite being a serial under achiever in his three years at the club. Kedah management seem to be thinking that after four games their two Brazilian imports aren't up to the mark. One hasn't played yet but I guess that's just a minor detail.
The manager says the team 'play well so far' but they can't find the goal.

Arsene Wenger continues to stick by Andrei Arsharvin despite being a serial under achiever in his three years at the club. Kedah management seem to be thinking that after four games their two Brazilian imports aren't up to the mark. One hasn't played yet but I guess that's just a minor detail.
The manager says the team 'play well so far' but they can't find the goal.

Get Real Everyone knows that the transfer window is silly season in football, with clubs overvaluing their players, agents hawking out their stars to all and sundry, and the tabloid newspapers sticking a pin in a map and guessing which players are going left, right and centre. The People newspaper has excelled itself this morning, [.

Amare Stoudemire was out due to injury and the New York Knicks were on the road to take on the Sacramento Kings. It turned out to be a walk in the park for the Knicks, who rode Carmelo Anthony's 23 points, seven rebounds and five assists to a 114-92 win.

The Knicks also got 22 points, seven rebounds and three blocks from Tyson Chandler, while Landry Field chipped in with 21 points and five rebounds.

RSVP: Happy Holidays with the Dark Clouds
Miss the smell of smoke bombs, the throbbing bass of Ludwig, Neal on scales and the screaming?
Well, we can't promise any of those, but you can at least commiserate with like minded folks.
Take advantage of this chance to get away from those persistent holiday visitors and see your real family, the Dark Clouds.

Bill's Sports Maps returns to Pitch Invasion, with all the details you could possibly want on Argentina's Primera División for the 2012 Clausura. Bill was assisted by our old friend Sam Kelly of Hasta El Gol Siempre, so you know the details should be spot-on. Click on the map for the full-size version!

Happy Holidays with the Dark Clouds
Miss the smell of smoke bombs, the throbbing bass of Ludwig, Neal on scales and the screaming?
Well, we can't promise any of those, but you can at least commiserate with like minded folks.
Take advantage of this chance to get away from those persistent holiday visitors and see your real family, the Dark Clouds.

Damn boy... bout time to see him finally make it back stateside. The ex-Hoosier who skipped MLS to go to Holland to develop his game, bounced around and after rumors were floated last year that he might come back (salary differences were the contention point supposedly)he's here. This kid was shaping up to be one of the future forwards of US Soccer, and fell off the map.

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Interesting to hear there's a new Banksy effort for us all to look at in Liverpool.
This one is in a car park in Rumford Street
Map / Directions to Rumford Street here
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If you live in the Twin Cities and are a self respecting soccer loving fiend then I expect to see you in St Paul for one of the great soccer matches of every year:
El Classico
Saturday December 10 2011
Real Madrid v Barcelona
3:00pm CT
Join me at the Sweetwater in St Paul.

Part 4 of my mapping series covers the premier division of the North Leicestershire League. The information I have on the league only goes back to 1997.
View N Leics Prem - 11/12 in a larger map
CLUB NAMEJOINED NLL1ANSTEY CROWN20032ANSTEY TOWN2009 (prev. Leicestershire Senior League)3ASFORDBY VILLAGE2005 (prev.

Part 3 of this series covers the premier division of the Leicester & District League - my records for the District League only go back to 1996. If anyone has any information on the league before this then please get in touch.
View Lei & D Premier - 2011/12 season in a larger map
CLUB NAMEJOINED L&D1ALLEXTON & NEW PARKS20102BIRSTALL R.

This post will be the first of several in the next week or so showing the location of grass roots clubs in Leicestershire. Part 1 shows the location of all clubs competing the premier division of the Leicestershire Senior League for the 2011/12 season. Also if known will I try and state they year each club joined their respective league.

Viewing Party at the Sweetwater
Minnesota Stars in the 2nd leg of NASL Semifinals holding a 1-0 lead over Carolina.
Be there to see it all go down!
Kick off is at 6pm CT
Carolina Railhawks v NSC Minnesota Stars
The Sweetwater
at the Best Western Kelly Inn
161 Saint Anthony Ave
I-94 & Marion
St Paul
(651) 224-6373
All ages welcome!

Dear fellow Twin Citians,
Come hang out with a bar full of USA fans for an international friendly match:
-Wed Jan 25
Panama v USA - 7:30pm CT
The Sweetwater
at the Best Western Kelly Inn
161 Saint Anthony Ave
I-94 & Marion
St Paul
(651) 224-6373
All ages welcome!

Kickoff from Goodison Park at 12:45PM BST/7:45AM EST

Ways to Watch:

Live on Sky Sports 2 in England and ESPN2/ESPN3.com in the US.

The Liverpool View has a map of locations around the world where you can watch the match live.

MyP2P.

Kickoff from Anfield at 3:00PM BST/10:00AM EST

Ways to Watch:

Live on Fox Deportes in the US and Setanta in Ireland.

Match will also be shown on delay in the US on Fox Soccer Channel at 5:00PM EST

The Liverpool View has a map of locations around the world where you can watch the match live.

Kickoff from Falmer Stadium at 7:45PM BST/2:45PM EST

Ways to Watch:

Live on Sky Sports 2 in England and Fox Soccer Plus in the US.

The Liverpool View has a map of locations around the world where you can watch the match live.

MyP2P.

Timbers Army Worldwide

Chugger of SCUSA boards started this and I just got wind of it. It is a map of all the TA around the world.

Per his instructions:

It's just a classic push pin map. Right now, I'm probably the only one on there, but in the spirit of the TA, anybody* can contribute to it.

Kickoff from White Hart Lane at 1:30PM BST/8:30AM EST

Ways to Watch:

Live on Sky Sports 1 in England and Fox Soccer Plus in the US.

The Liverpool View has a map of locations around the world where you can watch the match live.

MyP2P.

Minnesota Gopher Women's Soccer will attempt to break their attendance record of 1751.
Support Gopher soccer. Admission is FREE!
-Sun Sep 18
Minnesota v Ohio State - 1 pm CT
Invite your friends and family to Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium (MAP) to help them break their attendance record.

Kickoff from the Britannia Stadium at 3:00PM BST/10:00AM EST

Ways to Watch:

Live on Fox Soccer Plus in the US.

The Liverpool View has a map of locations around the world where you can watch the match live.

MyP2P.bz
StopStream.

Revealed: The truth about Arsenal's injury woes

There is a league table which puts North London back on the map. Sadly, for Arsenal and Tottenham, it's not exactly the Premier League. But, reassuringly, Manchester United are in the top three. The Physio Room is a fascinating website and it goes into detail about every Premier League team's injury list.

Dear fellow Twin Citians,
Come hang out with a bar full of USA fans for a friendly match.
-Fri Sep 2
USA v Costa Rica - 10:00pm CT
Venue: The Home Depot Center, Carson CA
The Sweetwater
at the Best Western Kelly Inn
161 Saint Anthony Ave
I-94 & Marion
St Paul
(651) 224-6373
All ages welcome!

Down, down, Dnipro on down Dnipro 1-0 Fulham (25:08:11) Fulham took 67 fans to their Europa League game with Dnipro, Eddie Freemantle was one of them... If you look at a map more than 25 years old, you won't find Dnepropetrovsk, as the conurbation of more than a million inhabitants was a closed city under the Soviet regime because of its nuclear, ballistic weapons and space rocket building.

Kickoff from Anfield at 5:30PM BST/12:30PM EST

Ways to Watch:

Live on Sky Sports 2 in the UK and Fox Soccer Channel in the US.

The Liverpool View has a map of locations around the world where you can watch the match live.

StopStream.

Kickoff from St. James Park at 7:45PM BST/2:45PM EST

Ways to Watch:

Live on Sky Sports 1 in the UK, Fox Sports in Australia, and Fox Soccer Plus in the US.

The Liverpool View has a map of locations around the world where you can watch the match live.

Graham Zusi has received quite a bit of attention recently. He was just named MLS Player of the Week and has been touted as the next potential national team call up. I spoke to him recently as was impressed by how humble and realistic he is about himself and his situation. Graham shared with us his thoughts on Sporting KC, his future and how he spends his free time.

Kickoff from the Emirates at 12:45PM BST/7:45AM EST

Ways to Watch:

Live on Sky Sports 1 in the UK and ESPN2/ESPN3.com in the US.

The Liverpool View has a map of locations around the world where you can watch the match live.

MyP2P.

-Ben McCormick August 10 is going to be like leaving for a family vacation somewhere far away. The bags are packed, you and the rest of the family are crammed into what space is left, and daddy Juergen is going to put the family truckster in gear and leave the driveway, ready for the long road trip ahead.

• Back in the lab. (ESPN)
• A burgeoning legend. (Guardian)
• Putting France on the map. (The French Connection)
• Joey goes free. Again. (SBNation)
• The Citeh line. (Surreal Football)
• Chop it up. (The DA)

Here's the fourth of our five previews of the upcoming European season, brought to you by Bill Turianski of Bill's Sports Maps. This time the focus is Italy's Serie A but the concept is the same. Bill has put together a chart detailing each Italian club who is taking part in European competition as well as a map of every Serie A club.

The fans of Persis Solo, known as Pasoepati, have had a miserable few years as their team has all but fallen off the football map. While their team withers away they have taken to following Solo Ksatria in the Liga Primer Indonesia and, as is their want, following them in big numbers.
Tomorrow expect to see some Pasoepati in Jakarta as several of them will be heading to the Bung Karno to, hopefeully, see Indonesia defeat Turkmenistan and make it to the next round of the World Cup qualifiers.

1st Leg
Singapore v Malaysia 5-3Turkmenistan v Indonesia 1-1Thailand v Palestine 1-0
Not good for the Thais is it? The slenderest of leads to take to the middle east, defeat against Palestine would cap a memorable period in Thai football, coincidentally under FA boss Worawi Makudi, when they have failed in the SEA Games, the Asian Cup, the AFF Cup and now this?

Here's the third in our series of previews of the upcoming season for the big five European league, courtesy of Bill's Sports Maps. This time the focus on France's Ligue 1.

The first image spotlights each French club that's taking part in European competition this season, from Lille to Rennes, while the second is a map of all 20 clubs in the 2011-12 Ligue 1.

Here's the third in our series of previews of the upcoming season for the big five European league, courtesy of Bill's Sports Maps. This time the focus on France's Ligue 1.

The first image spotlights each French club that's taking part in European competition this season, from Lille to Rennes, while the second is a map of all 20 clubs in the 2011-12 Ligue 1.