ESPN will broadcast all 2010 World Cup games this summer live on ESPN Radio in addition to its coverage on television, broadband and mobile phones.

Tommy Smyth has been named as the lead analyst for ESPN Radio and will probably do all of the games as well as being in the stadium to broadcast the World Cup Final live.

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Yesterday i was at soccernet.com and came across a Damian Hughes article on the psychology of succeeding in team sports. The article is really about any organization that consist of a group of people who need to be lead to achieve success. Its a great piece that attempts to understand why England under one manager can suffer but under another thrive. Click to continue reading...

Just because a couple of thieves are busy robbing both teams blind while they play each other doesn't mean they don't care about results. During the non-league Bristol Premier Combination match between home side Brimsham Green and Oldland Abbotonians Reserves last Saturday, that's exactly what happened.

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If you're like me, you probably find that it's getting harder and harder to watch Premier League games without being interrupted. And the interruptions are sometimes my own fault whether it's my laptop and my inclination to open as many tabs as possible on my Chrome browser. Or my addiction to Twitter, or the ability to watch more than one Premier League game at a time.

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by Steve Candy
Like mineral water and volcanic rock it seems that all money in football must now be filtered through agents. I don't want to attack agents; it happens often enough and in my opinion they thrive because football needs them to exist. In order to go back to ‘the good old days' we would first have to remove 24/7 television coverage, the internet, mobile phones and players' inability to speak for themselves. Click to continue reading...

England boss reminds players of his rules via the medium of crashing metal covers Emile Heskey reportedly found himself in Fabio Capello's bad books in the build-up to England's qualifier in Ukraine after being caught texting under the dinner table. The Italian's rules dictate that no mobile phones should be brought to group meal times. Click to continue reading...

This is one of the most hilarious goals of recent times, unless you're a Liverpool fan.
And, of course, by any standards of common sense it shouldn't have been a goal at all. (I just tested this on my wife, incidentally, who is conversant with the rules of the game and considered the awarding of the goal an outrage. Click to continue reading...

Things are not great in Argentina at the moment. The national team is, as you may have heard, riding through tumultuous times at the hand of perhaps the only unfireable man in the country. Fortunately they're masters of their own destiny this evening, so perhaps that will change. Domestically it was a tough start to the [. Click to continue reading...

It's a fact of life: footballers, mobile phones and denim belong together. They're like champagne and strawberries. Vodka and soda. Martinis and olives. Baileys and breakfast.

Is it drinking time yet?

Sorry, what were we on about? Oh yes, footy players and their favourite uniforms.

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It's a fact of life: footballers, mobile phones and denim belong together. They're like champagne and strawberries. Vodka and soda. Martinis and olives. Baileys and breakfast.

Is it drinking time yet?

Sorry, what were we on about? Oh yes, footy players and their favourite uniforms.

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When I launched EPL Talk in 2005, my initial vision for the site was that it would be highly interactive and would embrace technology to bring English football supporters closer together. The main feature at that time was an online chat that would be hosted every weekend so that website visitors could chat at the same time they were watching Premier League matches, no matter where they lived in the world.

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The next time someone in Canberra tells you we've a huge junior base with 20,000 kids/registrations tell them they are dreaming, same goes for 260,000 registrations across NSW or the paltry 50,000 in Victoria.
What we have is a lot of people playing independently in their own clubs, maximum community in Canberra is Woden Valley 1800. Click to continue reading...

On the season opener of the Soccerlens Podcast, Stephen Darwin is joined by twofootedtackle's Chris Nee to discuss the opening week of the the Premier League season, the midweek Champions League qualifiers and to preview Serie A and La Liga.

The show will be looking at the Premier League's perennial title contenders and how they have begun the season, there's a chat about Juventus and Milan and their chances of dislodging Inter in Serie A and Chris lets us in on a little secret involving one Samuel Eto'o.

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(l to r) Danijel Pranjic, Franck Ribery and Philipp Lahm lark about with mobile phones during Bayern Munich's official pre-season photocall. A subtle nod to Bayern's telecom co. shirt sponsor, I guess. [Photo: Andreas Gebert/DPA/Press Association]...

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Cashley Cole's hatred for all things Arsenal can be seen in encounters. He gestures to fans and is aggressive in the tackle with our players. He thinks that he is god's gift to Chelsea. In fairness he does receive alot of vile and offensive abuse. The intimate use of mobile phones and associations with homosexuals being some of the false accusations levelled at the player.

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We're just weeks away from the start of the 2009-2010 Premier League season, and the excitement and suspense is already building (Fulham today played the first friendly of the season involving an English team down under today). But this upcoming football season will be unlike any other because of the Twitter effect, the impact that the social media tool will have on the way we follow the world's most popular sports league.

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Ringtones are standard features on any mobile phone nowadays. They can be set to any jingle, melody or song. Some mobile phones allow users to assign different ringtones to their contacts. This feature allows them to recognise who is calling without even looking at the phone. Football ringtones are some of the most frequently used by mobile-phone users due to their fantastic tunes.

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The Sunday Times list of richest sportsmen sees David Beckham at the top with a personal fortune of approximately £125 million.The next footballer in the top 20 is Michael Owen whose fortune stands at a measly £40 million in comparision.
And here's the secret of his success - as revealed to Elmo ( the red furry monster with an orange nose)

So now you know how he does it .

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The Sunday Times list of richest sportsmen sees David Beckham at the top with a personal fortune of approximately £125 million.The next footballer in the top 20 is Michael Owen whose fortune stands at a measly £40 in comparision.
And here's the secret of his success - as revealed to Elmo ( the red furry monster with an orange nose)

So now you know how he does it .

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So you'd think that with more people in the world (isn't the world population increasing?) and new avenues to watch football (cell phones, etc.), the audience for the 2010 World Cup would be the highest ever.
Not so, according to a report from Reuters.
FIFA claimed an audience of 26. Click to continue reading...

As a child playing in the Youth Cup for Everton, Wayne Rooney showed a "once a blue, always a blue" shirt, proclaiming his love for his boyhood club.

As he became a young man and the relationship with the Everton manager broke down, Rooney was offered the opportunity to play for Manchester United, which he of course took.

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The Scottish Football Blog is now available on mobile phones thanks to the wonderful resources that is MoFuse. Enjoy and thanks to The Arab Blog for the head's up on this one. Click to continue reading...