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Here's what I've been scanning as I watch EPL games this morning:

* Phil Collin's profile of Galaxy goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts.

* Steven Goff's profile of former Maryland duo A.J. DeLaGarza and Omar Gonzalez.

* The Salt Lake City perspective.

Alan Gordon: Poetry in Motion

Also:

College Roundup.

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Martin Samuel brings some perspective to the Fergie and Maradona punishments

Red Rants takes a look at Henry's disgraceful action from last night

Soccerlens looks at how United can improve

A Kick In The Grass previews our visit from Everton

The Evening News talks about Dimitar Berbatov ahead of Everton game

The Daily Mail looks at the top ten teenage sensations

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By Graig Carbino - ALBANY, NY (Nov 19, 2009) USSoccerPlayers -- As someone watching a soccer game from the perspective of "analyst," it would be nice to always come up with spellbinding ideas of what worked and what didn't. We'd all like to have our own unique take on what just happened, why and why not, and all that. Click to continue reading...

Is to wait and see how this one plays out. To the Columbus fans, welcome to the silly season.
Lest we forget, everything in the transfer window is dramatic with Guille. Remember when he first came to Columbus? It took forever to get the deal signed, McCullers was back and forth, the deal was announced before it was finalized, and yours truly was beside himself:

So McCullers can introduce this guy to the press.

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To do it they had to come from behind to beat Hartwick.

With the victory over Hartwick, the No. 1-ranked Zips tied Evansville's mark for the fourth-longest single-season win streak in NCAA history. The Zips have won three consecutive MAC crowns and will find out their draw in the NCAA Division I Tournament Monday evening.

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Sad reports are surfacing over the past hour that German national team goalkeeper Robert Enke has committed suicide. We have not yet seen official confirmation and will continue to look for it, but Enke reportedly had thrown himself under a train.
So, while we spend our days discussing David N'Gog's Tom Daley-esque diving skills and find humor from all corners of this beautiful game, we sometimes need to put it all in perspective. Click to continue reading...

Northwest MO State Bearcats, Shannon Fitzgerald (2010)

I sat down with Shannon Fitzgerald last week, following her final college game for the Northwest Missouri State Bearcats, a 2-1 loss to the Southwest Baptist Bearcats. You may recall the short update I did on Shannon and her teammates in late October

Shannon is a Catholic 2005 graduate who played on 2 State tournament teams for the Irish, and played in 74 games for the Bearcats.

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Northwest MO State Bearcats, Shannon Fitzgerald (2010)

I sat down with Shannon Fitzgerald last week, following her final college game for the Northwest Missouri State Bearcats, a 2-1 loss to the Southwest Baptist Bearcats. You may recall the short update I did on Shannon and her teammates in late October

Shannon is a Catholic 2005 graduate who played on 2 State tournament teams for the Irish, and played in 74 games for the Bearcats.

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First off, I apologize to everyone for not being able to get a post-game analysis together for last week. It was one of those times when life bitch-slapped my futbol blogging time. In the future, I will, at a minimum, create posts where you all can share your own reactions and analyses, even if I can't start your comments off with a comprehensive review from my perspective.

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Watch this interview with a local reporter (Jared Lloyd/Desert News) who covered this match. He points out that the "refs allowed" for a "physical game" - and offers a well informed perspective on the tone of the game (explaining New Mexico's use of a physical style of play to break up BYU's movement up and down the field). Click to continue reading...

What in the world is Pep wearing? This is certainly not his best moment in press conference attire, or any occasion attire, for that matter.
We're mortified a bit. Why would you even glance twice at such an abysmal sweater - except to gawk at it - let alone buy it and actually wear it? At a press conference in front of forty hundred cameras? Click to continue reading...

Great to see Rookies doing so well! Interesting to hear their perspective on how their season went.

JM

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The events of week 10 only serve to confirm just how exciting the English Premier League is. Though not as competitive in terms of talent as the La Liga, the Premiership still remains the most intriguing and captivating football league in the world.
Who would have thought that Burnley would be in the Top 4 for League's best home record. Click to continue reading...

Chivas USA 2 Galaxy 2

An entertaining if error-ridden game with all four goals coming from unmitigated howlers has ended all square.

Alan Gordon missed a trio of chances for the Galaxy after coming on a as a second half sub that could have made the difference, but Chivas USA had their own burden to bear with striker Justin Braun seemingly intent on giving away virtually every ball he touched.

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Gabriel Obertan has made a bright start to his Manchester United career, putting in a good performance against Barnsley in the week and impressing during his half hour run against Blackburn yesterday.

With ten minutes left to play and the game still at 1-0, Obertan had the opportunity to make it a dream start when Valencia presented him with a chance to score from five yards out.

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Arsenal won midweek in the Carling Cup 2-1 over Liverpool, so Liverpool are out, and Arsenal advance.
Tomorrow morning is the North London Derby, and it's on ESPN 2 (8:30 a.m. Eastern, I believe).
The consecutive draws, in the two matches before the Carling Cup victory, were a pain, especially the loss of the 0-2 lead against West Ham in the league. Click to continue reading...

I'll stop with the potato themed titles now, it amuses me you know. I'll assume you gathered that and move on...

Quick one today folks as I have a thousand and one things to do before heading to bed for an early night and a 4am start to get my 6am flight for my trip to the Emirates for what is our biggest home match of the season so far. Click to continue reading...

Ok, so it has not been the best start to the season by a long way, but I am sick and tired of reading on a daily basis people continually ripping into Liverpool and Rafa Benitez. Yeh we had a good season last year (from a premier league perspective) and yeh we have not had the best of starts to this years campaign, but to continually keep saying they are out of it and then the next week they are back in it is starting to do my head in.

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Guardian Headline: Phil Brown has insisted that his players are "a million per cent" behind him despite speculation mounting that his job as Hull City's manager is under threat.
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And so to the League Cup, in some ways a chance to put the Stoke defeat behind us but these days the midweek cup bears little resemblance to the issues facing us or any Prem team in the league. From Everton's perspective a kick-about in the Goodison car park has a greater priority than this evening's [. Click to continue reading...

Handsy's REAL fantasy team
All those David Dunn (5.6M) and Christopher Samba (4.9M) owners may not have been worried when their (clearly benched) players weren't in the squad vs Chelsea this past weekend. But maybe there should be some worrying going forward. Latest reports out of Ewood Park are saying that the duo are suffering from "virus like symptoms" [read H1N1? Click to continue reading...

Chivas USA (playing its third game in nine days) and the Houston Dynamo (eliminated from the CONCACAF Champions League Wednesday) stagger to the MLS finish line at noon at Home Depot Center with playoff seedings and pairings on the line for themselves and virtually every other club in MLS it seems.

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You can watch Sevilla v Espanyol Live online here.

Sevilla v Espanyol
La Liga
Saturday 24 October 2009
Kickoff: 22:00 CET

Third meets Eight in this late Saturday night La Liga kickoff, as Big Two pretenders Sevilla host Catalunia's real giants Espanyol.

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Who would have thought Chelsea would be hosting Atletico Madrid in the Champions League group stages, and the press would be viewing it as somewhat of a relief for the hosts. Wasn't this side supposed to be the Blues' main challengers in Group D?

That's just how bad Madrid have been thus far this season.

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While everyone was busy anxiously awaiting FIFA's latest release and the seeding for the playoff spots, UEFA was busy concocting a ranking of their own and releasing it under unsuspecting eyes. At this point it means little and will only serve to put Euro 2012 qualifying seeding into perspective, still some way off yet, but it's always interesting to see how others differ from the entirely rubbish FIFA ranking system.

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View from the sidelines
This section is dedicated to my editorial comments. Some parents may not like it. If you are easily offended by any of my earlier posts I suggest you stop reading now. Proceed at your own risk but don't go slamming me on any forum later, I warned you!
A parent came up to me during the LOSC game and said; "There just another team". Click to continue reading...

Looking at things from an outside perspective, what you see is this: most of the squad just returned from an exhausting international break, and directly went head to head with a top La Liga team, playing away without two of our star forwards. And we still managed a draw. Sounds pretty good, doesn't it? Click to continue reading...

Paul Tomkins is one of the best writers in the football world, who puts things in perspective especially for us Liverpool fans. He does not manipulate statistics to suit his views and does his research extensively.Â

To read his in-depth analysis nowadays we need to subscribe, which is value for money.

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The structure of your site's URLs has a serious impact on crawlability, SEO, and user-friendliness. A solid SEO will know how to craft effective URLs, but other people who have a direct impact on building your site developers, IT staff, and management may not necessarily be in a position to think about how they structure your URLs.

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After a very disappointing summer, things seem to start looking up for our Club, at least from a financial perspective.

The Stg 80 million 4-year shirt sponsorship deal with Standard Chartered is done and dusted, and the re-financing negotiations with RBS and Wachovia included some measures prone to reduce the liabilities of the Club.

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After a very disappointing summer, things seem to start looking up for our Club, at least from a financial perspective.

The Stg 80 million 4-year shirt sponsorship deal with Standard Chartered is done and dusted, and the re-financing negotiations with RBS and Wachovia included some measures prone to reduce the liabilities of the Club.

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There could have been some unfortunate news being reported yesterday, if Newcastle fans were able to read between the lines. Mike Ashley and daughter is he staying at Newcastle? In many of the Sunday papers it was reported that Ashley had planned to give out around £8M to Kevin Keegan, at least from a planning perspective, [. Click to continue reading...

With ManU dropping points today against Sunderland, the table sets up nicely for the winner (if there is one) of the Liverpool Chelsea clash Sunday at Stamford Bridge. As part of my blogging for the Liverpool FC Supporters Club of Chicago, I examine the Liverpool-Chelsea rivalry, from an extremely pro-Liverpool perspective, of course. Click to continue reading...

First off, don't forget to read Javier's post from yesterday. It's a good one.

Today, it's an analysis of VCF's 'defense' from the perspective of last weekend's Atletico Madrid draw by intrepid supporter/commentator Nithin, complete with videos from Kyle's excellent Locos 4 Los Che.

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I know, I know, it sounds silly. Â Anton Ferdinand puts in an own goal and gives Manchester United a draw (which allows them to stay atop the EPL rankings) and that somehow exhibits Man U's power? Â It does. Â Let me show you.

Remember, I'm writing from an American Sports perspective.

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