Soccer is a cruel game, and Chivas USA felt that cruelty tonight. While the Galaxy may have done enough to win the game, Chivas did not deserve to lose it. On the pitch, the differences between Chivas and the Galaxy were small and on the margins. Off the pitch, the difference in huge – the Galaxy will spend their week preparing to face Houston on Friday and Chivas will not.

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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...

Thursday night's draw in Seattle sets up Houston for redemption in the opening round of Major League Soccer's playoffs. Last season and facing the same scenario against New York, the Dynamo lost 3-0 at home. A physical game at Qwest Field takes the series to Robertson Stadium with both teams able to point to things that worked. Click to continue reading...

Vive la Foot!

A belated Vive le Foot this week since I found myself flying to the land of Ligue 1 overnight...sadly enough I will not be able to attend the PSG -Nancy tie in Paris...but my SF correspondent will be at the Emirates scouting some Frenchies vs. Blackburn...

Boulogne lost the match of the promoted last weekend and will face a Lille side that destroyed Slavia Prague 5 - 1 in the last 15 minutes of their Europa League tie.

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In England, Liverpool is beaten 2-0 by a powerful Chelsea side which moves to the top of the Premiership.
In Italy, Italian champions Inter Milan move to the top of the Serie A beating Udinese 2-1 with a late winner by Sneijder in stoppage time.
In Spain, Real Madrid is taken down by Sevilla 2-1, while Barcelona struggle with Almeira winning 1-0 with Pedro scoring. Click to continue reading...

To start off with several of the Sodium team volunteered their time to help with the Summerset West Soccer Club's team picture day. Normally they hire high school students for this event but this year Sodium offered some of our very responsible players to help. Picture day went very smoothly and to show their appreciation, SWSC is donating to each volunteers player account. Click to continue reading...

After scoring an unnecessary goal in Man City's eventual 4-2 win over Arsenal on Saturday, Emmanual Adebayor, who has been publicly stewing over how Arsenal fans stopped liking him when he started expressing interest in other clubs' money, ran the length of the pitch in order to tauntingly celebrate in front of the visiting Arsenal supporters section.

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. Chelsea had a stern test of the physical game at the Britannia Stadium, before taking all three points away from home to maintain their 100 per cent record in the Premier League this season. James Beattie succumbed to injury early on, but the Potters remained resolute and got a goal in the first half, thanks to [. Click to continue reading...