While Uruguay's national team takes on France tonight in an international friendly at the Stade Denis in Paris, their league's first division matches have been suspended by the Uruguayan Football Association due to fan violence over the weekend. An official statement from the federation stated that "The Executive Committee has decided to suspend, as a preventative measure, the activity in the professional first division until further notice. Click to continue reading...

Milwaukee, Wisconsin has long been known as the home of the Cunninghams and Arthur Fonzarelli, the home of Harley-Davidson motorcycles and the beer capital of the world.

Tomorrow, albeit temporarily, Milwaukee adds another title: Soccer Blogging Capital of America. By sheer coincidence, at least six of America's soccer bloggers will converge on the Cream City. Click to continue reading...

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Ben Kosky/Kilburn Times - Stand up if you love Rangers
IT'S still unclear whether we can expect some form of organised demonstration of discontent from QPR fans at Saturday's game against Derby.
But if there isn't any, that says more about the way the club has changed than any number of fireworks displays, supermodels, or classy cuisine in the executive boxes ever could. Click to continue reading...

Pitch Invasion still exists, despite the recent lack of updates. A myriad of events, including moving homes, being out of town and having no internet access at home has meant I've fallen way behind on updating and responding to email. I'll start working through the backlog shortly. Normal service will be resumed in the coming days, [. Click to continue reading...

Something to read while you file for 82 divorces... David Bentley dancing around like a fool (The Beautiful Game) Terrible season for Cobh Ramblers (Pitch Invasion) Round 3 round up from Australia (A-League Offside) Joey Barton states the obvious (NUFC Blog) Don't show up late for a match in Uruguay (FCL) Gabby Agbonlahor has been busy (Unprofessional Foul) The mystery behind the [. Click to continue reading...

Pitch Invasion is once again looking for regular or occasional contributors. Please drop a line to tom [at] pitchinvasion.net if interested; including a story idea or two is always a good idea. I also wanted to see what you, dear reader, thought of the Daily Sweeper we ran for the past few weeks. Did you enjoy [. Click to continue reading...

What? You thought I forgot there was a little three decade-long grudge match tonight? Blogger please. I will not rest until I get a call from FSC's Mitch Peacock himself saying "you can stop now, we really don't have the bandwidth for an audience this size." Until then, I'm going to keep reminding you to do whatever you have to do to watch the game on FSC at 11pmEST. Click to continue reading...

Something to read while you make 70,000 people laugh... Remember Footballitis? (The Beautiful Game) Hallo 3. Bundesliga (Pitch Invasion) Hleb has a big mouth (Soccer Weblog) What a week at White Hart Lane (Spurs Offside) Video evidence of Wigan new boy Amr Zaki (101 GG) Trading in soccer talent (NY Times) Kaka going nowhere (Kaka Offside) Click to continue reading...

Something to read while you pay £72 million in rent... Chelsea taking the scenic route to self-sufficiency (Cheer Up Alan Shearer) Premier League on US TV schedule (EPL Talk) Al Ahly vs Zamalek preview (Egypt WCB) Tapping up - all part of the game (Football Fan Cast) When Wolves ruled the world (Pitch Invasion) Will Barca regret shipping out Eto'o and [. Click to continue reading...

This my friends is what you call a dynasty. Us Yanks -- if Brad gets a work permit -- are taking over the nets across the pond.

How you like that England?

And we always qualify for international tournaments... :)

• FIFA looking at three possible 2010 world cup replacement sites.

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MLS Underground is back, and under new management. This is Tom from a blog called Pitch Invasion, and we've been asked by the previous, much missed management to keep this ball rolling. We've decided to do this as the ethos of this blog matches our view on how fans need to approach soccer. During the 90 minutes of play, there's no friendship, just pure rivalry. Click to continue reading...

Tom Dunmore at Pitch Invasion has written an interesting post on the developing academy system in the USA. Find the post, which I highly recommend, here.

You can find the previous posts on our series on player development in the USA here. Click to continue reading...

Web sites that we frequently read: 3rd Degree American Soccer Big Soccer Climbing the Ladder Culture of soccer Du Nord FootyBlog Metro Fanatic MLS Fangirl MLS Insight MLS News and Views MLS Web Site New York Red Bulls Pitch Invasion Soccer Blogs Soccer By Ives Soccer Lens The DCenters The Offside The Offside Rules The Other Football Social Bookmarking Click to continue reading...

With the regular editorial having made way a little while ago for my regular Pitch Invasion column, I've decided to put the page on HEGS to a slightly different use from now on. Periodically (hopefully approximately every two weeks) I'll be posting a piece looking back on a segment of Argentina's long and rich footballing [. Click to continue reading...

Pitch Invasion reader Bahns scalps a ticket to a Euro game, and gets extremely lucky, as he witnesses Turkey's incredible comeback against the Czech Republic. Click to continue reading...

In the world of technology, the top sites aren't magazines or newspapers. They're blogs. Web sites such as TechCrunch, Engadget and Boing Boing lead the way with the latest breaking news and analysis, as well as receiving more visitors than some of the giants in tech publishing. While soccer blogs aren't in the same echelon as [. Click to continue reading...

What was it like to be with the Dutch fans on that magical day in Bern last week? Pitch Invasion reader Bahns was there, and tells the story. Click to continue reading...

Check out this photo I saw over at Pitch Invasion.

A young little Swiss girl experiencing soccer agony.

Classic. Click to continue reading...

If you were watching last night's U.S. game at home you may not know that there was a half-time pitch invasion by some Argentine fan. I don't think it's the best thing to do, but I would be a liar if I said I didn't find it more entertaining than I like to let on. It's sort of like going to Hooters but without the 'hooters'. Click to continue reading...

Pitch Invasion isn't at Euro 2008, but via the magic of Flickr, we can feel like we are. This photo journal will be updated every day during the tournament. Click to continue reading...

If you watched last night's match between the LA Galaxy and Colorado Rapids you may have noticed the match was halted in the 83rd minute.

In what seems to be becoming a trend, yet another match was halted for a pitch invader. This time in LA. In this case he went onto the pitch to high-five and hug Beckham before being taken down by the Galaxy's Chris Klein. Click to continue reading...

If one watched the Saturday Match between Red Bull New York at home to Kansas City Wizards, one might have seen a man in a Red Bull jersey and jeans jump over a considerable wall and on to the pitch without spilling a drop of beer to celebrate with the players after Danleigh Borman's goal in the 80th minute (shown below beginning at 1:00):



MLSR has learned that it is possible this man was former Red Bull, Tim Regan shown at right below:




An alternative explanation is that the man was one Borman's college room mates. Click to continue reading...

We all know Toronto FC has some crazy fans but now we know they also have some very odd ones as well.

If you watched the broadcast of tonights 1-1 drawof Red Bull New York away to Toronto FC
then you likely heard (but did not see) that a man ran onto the pitch in the 65th minute. Click to continue reading...

The above video is of better J League moments

Three words in combination i thought i would never hear.Japanese pitch invasion.But it really happened.Part of me giggled.Japanese soccer has finally has had its right of passage into the darker side of fanatical support.

I am sure this will not happen again. Click to continue reading...

Rangers and Celtic of Glasgow are renowned for their historic enmity; yet the most notorious football riot of the pre-World War One days in Britain saw the two sets of fans united in a pitch invasion at the 1909 Scottish Cup Final. That riot at Hampden Park was one sparked by frustration, as supporters of [...] Click to continue reading...

This new series will look at significant pitch invasions from the past. We start with one of the most memorable: the 1923 F.A. Cup final, the first to be held at the new Empire Stadium (which would later be known as Wembley), and one which attracted the largest crowd ever assembled for a football [...] Click to continue reading...