Here's the list for our World Cup qualifiers against Serbia and Austria. These games make me nervous. After watching Austria in Euros, I'm thinking that they especially are underrated and could deliver a shock. (Like they did in that friendly with Italy last week. As my co-blogger Chris said, they scored four goals!

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Talk about immediate impact. French international Djibril Cisse, on a season-long loan from Olympique de Marseille, scored the game winner against Tottenham Hotspur. Cisse's header in the final minutes of the match sent Spurs' supporters home with thoughts of last year's start-to-season disaster freshly entrenched in their minds. Click to continue reading...

By Alan
Soccer City FC

The Scottish Premier League and the French Ligue 1 both started last weekend with champions Celtic and Lyon opening their title defences with victories respectively.

Celtic hosted St Mirren in a scrappy encounter at Parkhead and it took a penalty by Barry Robson to claim three points for the Glasgow outfit. Click to continue reading...

Although we've all been waiting for the eventual signing of The Rock, John Mensah -which should happen today, Monday- there are other smaller happenings in the Mercato. I apologize for the shortness of the piece, but transfer news is scant lately. I thought I'd throw in some tiny morcels of info to keep the stomach growling to a minimum for those of us who are genuine transfer news junkies, and for those of us who don't read French.

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By: Alan
Soccer City FC

Clubs in the Premiership are beginning to dive into the market with only four weeks before the first league matches kick-off.

Newcastle have made their second summer signing by clinching the transfer of midfielder Danny Guthrie from Liverpool after a fee was agreed. Click to continue reading...

As most of us already know, Hatem Ben Arfa has come to terms with Olympique de Marseille and for some of us, our worst fears have finally been realized. Like an amorous relationship you know just has to end, as much as it may hurt, you know it's for the best. But HBA's departure still stings, and leaves me with an empty feeling in the pit of my stomach, necessary as it may be.

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The latest rumor to emerge is that AEK is very close to signing Skoda Xanthi's 22 year old defensive midfielder Antonis Rikka. Rikka is an international with the Greek U-21 squad, was born in France and started his football career in Marseille's junior team. During the summer of 2006 he came to Greece to play for Skoda Xanthi, but during [. Click to continue reading...

According to this report at Football Transfer Market Web, Samir Nasri has agreed to remain at Olympique de Marseille through 2011. Several media reports and other rumor mills had the midfielder moving on to clubs such as Newcastle United or Juventus at the conclusion of the 2007-2008 season. Click to continue reading...

The AS Saint-Étienne midfielder scores a similar goal against Marseilles to what l'OM midfielder Mathieu Valbuena did versus Liverpool earlier in the week in Champions League play.
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Is there any greater club tournament than the UEFA Champion's League? The only one I think comes close is Copa Libertadores, but still, Europe is king. What started out as 60 qualifying hopefuls has dwindled down to 16 and now they will join the 16 other clubs that have already been patiently awaiting their group stage fate. Earlier today the drawing for the group stages was held in Monaco and per usual a lot of interesting and exciting matches will be coming our way in the near future, so let's get started. Click to continue reading...