By Chris Wright

Over-stuffed Crystal Palace shirt? Check. Forearm full of Navy tattoos? Check. Leather gauntlet? Check. Massive North American Golden Eagle? Check. Yep, pretty sure this guy's legit....WAIT A GODDAMN MINUTE, THAT'S A FAKE BEARD!

Indonesia Super League
Persiba v Persela 0-0
Indonesia Premier League
Arema v PSMS 2-1 (Noh Alam Shah, TA Mushafri; Julio Cesaer Alscorse) 13,000
Officials boasting that 13,000 fans attended this game but last year there would likely have been double that crowd. The Arema team in the IPL is the same as the team that competed in the ISL last year, they just have different, more IPL-friendly, owners than the other ISL Arema.

On Sunday December 4th, the United States finally managed to best Germany on the pitch with a 9-2 victory that will surely be remembered by American soccer historians for centuries to come. I kid, I kid. Actually, on Sunday a group from the US Navy managed to beat a group from the German Navy at that lovely little paradise in Africa known as Djibouti.

"My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better."
~ Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
Sounds like our coach.
Heading to Seattle Friday for NWCL weekend. Schedule;
12/3/11
11:00am vs Spokane Shadow G95 U16 Navy @ Redmond HS Turf.

Got, Not Got: What to buy the Man U fan who imagines he's got everything...

Between the years of 1966 and 1979, the Leicestershire toy manufacturer Palitoy sold no less than 8 million jointed action figures – no, they weren't dolls, and they didn't bear any resemblance to doll, okay?

Much is made of the booming interest in the Thai Premier League but I wonder how booming it really is. Yes, 2009 was a good season but instead of consolidating or improving, 2010 was a mess and so is the current season for reasons I have covered before.
But how about attendances? Are the fans supporting their local team?

Virginia Men's Soccer Entertains Navy at 7 p.m. Tuesday
There will be plenty of quality soccer for fans to keep track of today as UVa Men host Navy at 7 p.m. Virginia saw a jump in the polls (No. 18 Soccer America) following their defeat of then No. 2 Maryland giving the Terps their first loss of the season.

By Chris Wright

Presenting: Umbro's swish new Peter Saville-designed Special Edition Away kit range, a modified version of the current strip which sees a couple of subtle changes made to the badge and the collar with Saville's 'Modern England' design (the interlocked St George's crosses) cut-and-pasted from the 'eye-catching' goalkeeper's jersey and the Three Lions rendered in monotone navy.

Thai Premier League
Raj Navy v Sisaket 2-0Samut Songkram v Sri Racha 1-1 1,700
Not much happening eh? Glad I went away for the weekend!

Following the recent launch of its 2011/12 away strip, last season's Australian A-League regular season second place finishers and playoff finalists Central Coast Mariners Football Club have officially unveiled their navy blue and yellow hummel 2011/12 home kit and goalkeeper jerseys. According to the Mariners' website: Central Coast Mariners today officially launched the club's playing [.

Malaysia Cup
Kedah v Johor 3-3Perak v Sabah 2-1Terengganu v Sime Darby 1-0Negeri Sembilan v PKNS 0-2Kelantan v Sarawak 4-0Felda United v Johor FC 1-1Selangor v T Team 1-2KL v PDRM 0-0
Thai Premier League
Buriram PEA v Bangkok Glass 2-1Siam Navy v Pattaya United 1-2Army United v Osotspa 1-1Chiang Rai United v BEC Tero 1-3Sri Racha v Khon Kaen 4-1TOT v Thai Port 1-0Sisaket v Police United 1-1
1 - Buriram PEA 22 16 5 1 39-10 532 - Chonburi 22 13 6 3 43-19 453 - Muang Thong United 21 13 5 3 34-14 44
14 - Surayuth Chaikamdee (Bangkok Glass)13 - Leandro (Army United), Ronnachai Rangsiyo (BEC Tero)11 - Wasan Natasan (Chiang Rai United)
Thai League Cup
Muang Thong United v Chonburi 0-0

Here they are;
South Bracket
THUSC Sodium
Eastside United FC Arsenal
OSSA 95 Blue
FC Portland 1995G Navy
Boise Nationals
FC Nova
North Bracket
Eastside FC Red
VUSA Timbers
Greater Renton FC
NW Nationals
Spokane Shadow
River City
At first glance it looks like OR vs WA but then Boise Nationals and FC Nova are in the South.

Chelsea and adidas have officially unveiled their new third shirt for the 2011-12 Premier League season. The new Chelsea third shirt is white with navy and yellow solid blocks on the upper chest. We first revealed what the shirt looked like on July...
This is a content summary. Visit http://www.

With the World Cup Qualifiers a month ahead Indonesia are facing the usual old problem. They can't find opponents! It doesn't matter who runs the game in this country while the rest of the world is busy arranging its international calender 12 months in advance the FA here struggle to book hotels for their players and officials.

By Chris Wright

Action from the Thai Premier League now, in which Siam Navy 'keeper Chinnakorn Deesai takes umbrage at Chiangrai striker Edvaldo obstructing his path (after being buffeted to the ground by a Siam defender) and promptly kicks the Brazilian...very hard.

Highest Thai Premier League 2011 Attendances
24,712 Buriram PEA v Chonburi24,125 Buriram PEA v Chiang Rai United21,370 Muang Thong United v Si Sa Ket20,011 Muang Thong United v Buriram PEA16,360 Buriram PEA v Thai Port
Lowest Thai Premier League 2011 Attendances
429 Navy v Pattaya United437 TOT v Pattaya United447 Pattaya United v Navy629 Navy v TTM673 Pattaya United v Osotspa
Can we learn anything from these numbers?

A long time ago in the 19th Century........

SPURS
WARS

A magical N17, North London football team was formed in 1882 who played in white and navy and were called Hotspur FC. That quickly changed to the name as we know it now, the mighty Tottenham Hotspur!

A long time ago in the 19th Century........

SPURS
WARS

A magical N17, North London football team was formed in 1882 who played in white and navy and were called Hotspur FC. That quickly changed to the name as we know it now, the mighty Tottenham Hotspur!

By Chris Wright

Pies may have bought you the launch video yesterday, but we've now come into possession of a large brown e-envelope stuffed with rather swanky photos of the new, navy and turquoise Arsenal away kit for 2011/12 being displayed in Nike's new-fangled 'Twilight Zone' dressing room.

You started off with a bang and never looked back this weekend. 12-1, 3-1, 3-0 to get to the play-offs. Then a spectacular 2-1, double OT victory over one of Spokane's finest, River City G95 Black, the #2 team out of Washington. And now the fun begins. At 8am tomorrow you take the pitch against a team who has had a similar run.

Emily Cline, Glendale Falcons (2011)

The Post-Dispatch has the story from Wednesday's U18 Girls Final at the Missouri State Cup:

Cline came off the SLSG Green Academy bench to score the lone goal in a 1-0 victory over SLSG Navy in the Under-18 women's championship game Wednesday night at the Scott Gallagher Complex.

Another nice day on the pitch ahead of us as temps started out in the low 70′s and aren't supposed to exceed 79 later this afternoon. Slight cloud cover, it's pretty sweet compared to what we've experienced in the past.

Springfield SC
Four teams competing today, with Boys 13-16 games.

Indonesia Super League
Persisam v Persiwa 5-2Persijap v Sriwijaya 1-1Bontang v Persipura 1-1
Thai Premier League
Thai Port v Khon Kaen 3-0Raj Navy v Sri Racha 0-1Buriram PEA v Chiang Rai United 5-0
Malaysia FA Cup Final
Kelantan v Terengganu 1-2
Trailing 1-0 going into injury time, Terengganu equalised in the 98th minute before winning the north east derby in extra time through Nordin Alias

Chonburi v Muang Thong United 1-1Khon Kaen v Bangkok Glass 0-2Si Sa Ket v Buriram PEA 1-0Police United v Thai Port 0-1Army United v Pattaya United 3-3Chiang Rai United v TOT 2-0BEC Tero v Osotspa 1-3Sri Racha v TTM Phichet 1-2Samut Songkram v Raj Navy 2-0
They may have lost their first game of the season, away to north east neighbours Si Sa Ket, but Buriram PEA will still look back on a good weekend with nearest rivals Chonburi and Muang Thong United cancelling each other out in Chonburi.

Liga Primer Indonesia
Solo v Persebaya 0-2 (played in Surabaya)
SLeague
Young Lions v Geyang United 3-3 (Fazli Ayob, Nazrul Nazari, Haris Harun; Hafiz Rahim, Vasile, Kim Jae Hong) 523
Well, how about that?! Six goals, six yellows, one red, two penalties, two goals on half time, a penalty in the last minute.

Malaysia Super League
Terengganu v Selangor 1-1Perak v Kedah 1-3
Malaysia Premier League
Selangor PKNS v Penang SDM Navy 6-0Johor v ATM 0-0Penang v Penang USM 2-5Sarawak v MP Muar 6-0Pos Malaysia v Sime Darby 0-3
SLeague
Woodlands Wellington v Gombak United 0-1

BEC Tero v Khon Kaen 3-1Chonburi v Chiang Rai United 1-0Sri Racha v Muang Thong United 0-0Samut Songkram v Bangkok Glass 1-1Siam Navy v Thai Port 0-0Army v Police 0-0Sisaket v Pattaya United 2-0TTM v Osotspa 1-2Buriram PEA v TOT 1-0
1 - Buriram PEA 10 8 2 0 16-2 262 - Chonburi 10 7 2 1 24-9 233 - BEC Tero 10 6 1 3 16-8 194 - Police United 10 5 4 1 10-6 19

TOT v Army United 1-0Pattaya United v Sri Racha 2-0Osotspa v Buriram PEA 0-3Bangkok Glass v Siam Navy 4-0Muang Thong United v Samut Songkram 2-0Chonburi v Sisaket 5-0Khon Kaen v Chiang Rai United 3-2Police v BEC Tero 1-0
1 - Buriram PEA 9 7 2 0 15-2 232 - Chonburi 9 6 2 1 23-9 203 - Police United 9 5 3 1 10-9 184 - Muang Thong United 9 5 2 2 13-8 17
6 - Leandro (Army United)5 - Ronnachai Rangsyio (BEC Tero), Wasan Natasan (Chiang Rai United), Sarayut Chaikamdee (Bangkok Glass)

Here are the brackets followed by the schedule! Bracket #1 THUSC Sodium OSSA 95 Blue EMFC Magic OSSA 95 White BSC Portland 95 Black Bracket #2 ESUFC Arsenal FC Portland Navy WSM Havoc FC Portland White United Platinum Schedule 4/16 - 10am @ Tigard High School OSSA 95 White vs Sodium 4/16 - 5:15pm @ Aloha HS Varsity Sodium vs OSSA 95 Blue 4/17 - 3:30pm @ REC #1 Sodium vs EMFC Magic 4/23 - 2:

Hardly rolls off the tongue does it?
Anyways, today sees Siam Navy host Chonburi and the visitors won't be short of support with Sri Racha Shark saying they will have up to 8,000 fans making the short journey.
More on this game and things Chonburi can be found here.

1st Round
Harimau Muda A v Penang SDM Navy 4-0T Team v Kelantan 1-1 (Kelantan win 6-5 on pens)Selangor PKNS v MP Muar 5-0Pahang v Sabah 2-1PDRM v Perak 1-4Melaka v Sime Darby 0-5ATM v Sarawak 2-0Penang USM v Terengganu 1-2Johor Melodi Jaya v Harimau Muda B 0-4Penang v Johor 1-5Johor FC v KL SPA 5-0Perlis v Felda United 0-2
2nd round will be played 4 March.

As part of its 40th Anniversary celebration, French Ligue 1 club has launched a limited edition Nike 2010 jersey called the Generation PSG shirt. The Generation PSG kit is in the club's traditional home colors of navy and red (being used for PSG's away kit this year only) and features the names of all 373 players [.

Match ups for Sunday 2/13/11; OPL FC PDX Navy (3-1-0) vs Pacific FC Avalanche (0-2-2) OSSA (1-1-0) vs WSM Havoc (0-3-1) ESUFC Arsenal (0-1-0) vs PCU Impact (1-2-1) EMFC Magic (3-0-0) vs THUSC Sodium (2-0-0) NWCL No games today After the games today I post the "Standings" for both leagues. GO SODIUM!

Too cool, I'm so getting one right now (even if it would've looked better with navy neck and sleeve ringers). If you want one, hurry; they are only taking orders for a week.Ready, steady, go!- Greg Seltzer

Indonesia Super League
Persija 2.3 million USDPersiba 1.87 million USDSriwijaya 1.65 million USDPersipura 1.65 million USDPSPS 1.37 million USDPersisam 1.32 million USDPersela 1.21 million USDDeltras 715,000 USDPersijap 660,000 USDBontang 660,000 USDPersiwa 660,000 USD
Pelita Jaya, Arema, Persib and Semen Padang rely on raising money on their own while the above clubs have to go cap in hand to the local government for their funding and that will soon be withdrawn from them.

The following is the OPL Winter Schedule for THUSC Sodium; 1/29 - 1:00pm vs WSM Havoc (formerly Strikers) @ REC #2 1/30 - 8:00am vs FC Portland 95G Navy @ Liberty HS 2/13 - 3:00pm vs EMFC Magic @ Lane Community College (Eugene) 2/19 - 2:00pm vs EMFC MAgic @ Placeholder Field (PDX) 2/27 - 12:00pm vs ESUFC Arsenal @ Barlow HS 4/3 - 5:00pm vs ESUFC Arsenal @ REC #1 4/9 - 12:00pm vs PCU