Aston Villa players James Collins, Chris Herd and Fabian Delph have all been fined by the club over
an incident that happened in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The fine relates to a nightclub
fracas that followed the club's annual awards ceremony on Tuesday evening (though the nomination
lists must have been pretty short).
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Dom Dwyer did not know he was heading to the 2012 MLS Combine until a
day before the event kicked off, but that did not stop him from having a decent showing at the
event that he capped off with a goal.
Dwyer helped adiZero (blue) to a 3-1 win over Prime (green) on Tuesday morning, scoring an
insurance goal in the 52nd minute of the game when he pounced on a rebound and knocked the ball
into the back of the net.
Former Brazilian striker Ronaldo has accepted an offer to lead the Brazilian 2014 world cup
organising committee. Ronaldo who holds the record of having scored the most goals in world cup
finals history, will be confirmed in his new role today.
Ronaldo who recently retired after admitting that the injuries he had sustained over the course
of his career had taken a toll on his fitness is regarded as one of the all time best out and out
strikers in the game.
Shana, Kirsten, and Amanda start this week's show with a preview of the MLS wild card and
playoff games, and some Houston v. Philly trash talk for good measure. Amanda has a funny feeling
about Seattle, and once again, you may not want to listen if you support DC or NY. Sorry! In the
second segment, they discuss World Cup rights moving to Fox from 2015 on, what that could mean for
the WNT and youth national teams, and shudder at the prospect of Eric Wynalda trying to plug The
X-Factor.
After three weeks of sifting through hundreds (and thousands) of nominations for the
2010 Soccerlens Awards, we're proud to announce that the shortlists have been
decided and the Awards are now ready for your votes.
You can head over to the Soccerlens Awards website (or just click on the individual award
category links below) and vote for your favourite football sites and writers.
With just a couple of months left until the voting starts for the hosting of the 2018 and 2022
World Cup finals, it is perhaps unsurprising that a story should enter the public domain regarding
racism that involves, to some extent, clubs from the two countries that are the current favourites
to win the nomination to host the 2018 tournament.
With just a couple of months left until the voting starts for the hosting of the 2018 and 2022
World Cup finals, it is perhaps unsurprising that a story should enter the public domain regarding
racism that involves, to some extent, clubs from the two countries that are the current favourites
to win the nomination to host the 2018 tournament.
Lionel Messi is on course to equal Barcelon'a all time leading Goal scoring record of 235 set by
Cesar Rodriguez during his 16 year stint with the club from 1939-1955.
Messi has scored an impressive 120 plus goals in the past two seasons and no matter how much
people may try and hate on him, he is by far the world's best player at the moment.
Lionel Messi is on course to equal Barcelon'a all time leading Goal scoring record of 235 set by
Cesar Rodriguez during his 16 year stint with the club from 1939-1955.
Messi has scored an impressive 120 plus goals in the past two seasons and no matter how much
people may try and hate on him, he is by far the world's best player at the moment.
Why Arsene Wenger IS the perfect choice to be England's next manager
Not that it's his problem any more, but Sven Goran Eriksson has made an intriguing nomination
for next England manager Arsene Wenger. And do you know what? I reckon Wenger would be perfect for
the job.
Mr. Massimo Busacca has finally become a star performer and finally he has earned a nomination
for Laureus sports awards. Mr. Massimo Busacca is very happy with this latest development. In
case you were vacationing on Mars last night, this is what happened.
The EPL Talk Podcast's review of the Premier League's fifth weekend will record at 10 p.m.
England-time (5 p.m. Eastern, 2p.m. Pacific). Of course, these will be lost of talk of Dimitar
Berbatov's hat-trick, and I'm sure we'll have a lot of say about failed clearances and 95th minute
goals.
The EPL Talk Podcast's review of the Premier League's fourth weekend will record at 10 p.m.
England-time (5 p.m. Eastern, 2p.m. Pacific). This weekend's Match of the Week – Everton's
comeback against Manchester United – will be high on the agenda, as will the performances from
Chelsea, Arsenal, and the rest of the League.
Welcome to guardian.co.uk's review of the 2010-11 Premier League season. As the campaign draws
to a close, we want you to help us find the most spectacular goal, biggest flop and best signing,
as well as the winner in seven other categories. Our writers have nominated some contenders, but
this is just the starting point for the conversation: we would like your suggestions so that we can
compile the best into final polls that you can vote on.
The Free Beer Movement is all about "Spreading American Soccer One Beer at a Time" and because
of the generous support of The Shin Guardian we've grown into a successful grassroots organization
for helping build this great American game that we all love.
A few weeks ago, TSG was honored to be named by US Soccer as one of its finalist for best US
Soccer Blog 2010.
Today is in fact the last day to vote for that award...and we don't mind saying it's unlikely
TSG is going to pull an Algeria here. The simple law of numbers and conversion of those from reader
to votes might leave us just shy in the group stage here.
One of the few kits where you actually want a bigger sponsor's logo...
Well, we had to get around to this infamously shit kit sooner or later. Just because a club's
nickname is The Tigers, doesn't mean you have to design quite such a literal-minded kit.
CONCACAF released a press release on Thursday announcing that Cayman Islands Football Association
president Jeffrey Webb will be the only name on the ballot for the vacant CONCACAF presidency when
elections are held on May 23rd. "I would like to acknowledge and thank the CONCACAF member
associations from across the Confederation that have demonstrated their confidence in me through
their support of my nomination for president.
For the fifth in our Hopeless Teams series, we delve back relatively recently into the past by
welcoming Richard Bellis. Richard co-runs Richard and Neil's Football Blog with his brother Neil
and was the proud recipient of a nomination in the recent NOPA football blogging awards run by
Picklive. 201i, however, largely saw Richard and Neil occupy themselves with the production and
dissemination of The Blue & White Fanzine, a new print publication mainly devoted to the reformed
Chester FC: a luscious object designed by our own Michael Kinlan and featuring contributions from
TTUers William Abbs and myself.
Each year the Virginia Youth Soccer Association (VYSA) selects special individuals for awards that
are presented at the annual convention. It is time for those of you who have special people in your
clubs, on your teams, and in general have done exceptional things for soccer in the past year to be
nominated and recognized for their service.
With this nomination, the club will now be able to fully devote themselves to the reconstruction
of a squad that should be amputated by some of their best elements : Jeremy Toulalan being gone,
the likes of Bastos, Cissokho, possibly Kallström, Ederson and pretty much anyone who's not deemed
absolutely untransferable.
Wahl, author and journalist for Sports Illustrated, penetrated deep into internal FIFA politics
during his run for President of the organization. He has written an excellent account of his
attempts to convince various countries to represent them as candidate for President of Soccer's
world governing body.
Ten days, Kickettes it's barely been 10 days since Abbey Clancy gave birth.
And would you check out that backside?!
Thursday's shopping appearance at Zara in Liverpool (with equally attractive Mum, Karen) was
what we consider to be one of the last stops on Clancy's express train to reputation recovery.
What a game!
Five goals, three reds, an imperious performance by Shafiq Ghani culminating in two goals, the
second hotly contested by Geylang players who carried the protest on after the game, the on-looking
Pele and Eric Cantona must have wondered why half the stadium was empty.
The Eagles must have got stuck in the traffic 'cos they never turned up first half.
From what I can tell, it's awards season in the football blogging fraternity. The Soccerlens
awards, the WSC Web Awards and the NOPAs, to name just three. I'm not going to lie to you
GhostGoal didn't get a single nomination from any of them. Did they not hear about my piece in
November's When Saturday Comes that one reader in the letters page described as "not letting the
facts get in the way of a good story"?
Irony is a dish best served ironically. Last year, EPL Talk banned Unprofessional Foul for
posting the script to the EPL Talk awards on Unprofessional Foul's own website (among other
allegations). We are humbled that UF nominated us for "best blog that deserves more traffic",
although that runs at odds with our nomination on another site for "best niche blog that would lose
its small-town feel if stampeded by too many feet.
Last year we here at Hillcrest Road were lucky enough to be a finalist (the only among MLS teams)
for Best Soccer Blog in the Best of U.S. Soccer awards. Nomination time has rolled back around for
the 2010 awards. U.S. Soccer is now taking nominations in four categories: Best Soccer Bar, Best
Soccer Specialty Store, Best Soccer Blog and Best Fan Costume.
