Regular visitors may recall the frustration I have felt about Indonesian clubs lack of marketing savvy.
When Thai Port, a club with average attendances below 5,000, can have a club shop up and running selling a range of apparel seven days a week yet clubs here can't even flog badges there is something wrong somewhere. Click to continue reading...

According to Sky Sports News, West Ham United defender Matthew Upson has no desire to leave the club. He was quoted as saying,

"Losing at West Ham is not affecting my performance ... You take pride in that no matter where the team is."

"It is not easy and it probably is better to be somewhere where you are winning matches, but West Ham is where I am at.

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I remember when I was young.I remember it always being sunny with quick witted street urchins running happily on the car free streets performing footballing miracles with tennis balls.Actually, I don't.I do, however, remember our old sage Craig Brown. How he would puff his chest out with pride when talking about the sudden availability of "young Alistair" or "young Paul. Click to continue reading...

Moving as I do mostly through non-footballing circles, I've been asked, "hey, what's the deal with Toronto FC? Did they make the playoffs? I heard they lost something like 10 nothing to some nobody team in the states."
These post-mortems can get boring, so let me just throw down my two-cents on this club as I see it so we can all move on. Click to continue reading...

I'll keep this very brief.
I don't care what they've achieved recently or in the past. I don't care how much better they are than us. I don't care how big their stadium is or how illustrious their manager is. I don't care what players they've got or whether their better than ours or not.
The truth is they're a bunch of cheating, arrogant, whining Frenchmen and no matter the score today or any other day, we will always, always be the pride of North London. Click to continue reading...

Nice soccer team ya got there.
Be a shame if something happened to it. Like, God forbid, your playoff hopes go for an evening cruise on the Stugots with a couple of fat guys in see-through socks.
Or soaking wet young Senegalese guys
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Take a picture of you wearing your Cantona mask today, wherever you may be, and win yourself a copy of Andy Mitten's new Manchester United book, "Glory Glory Man Utd in the 90's"

"COMPETITION: Wear Your Cantona Masks With Pride" was originally published at The Republik of Mancunia. Click to continue reading...

If Alan Shearer comes back to manage Newcastle soon,� there's one thing you can be sure of that Alan will immediately put discipline and pride back into the Newcastle club. Alan Shearer - still wants the manager job It hurts Alan, just like it hurts other stalwart Newcastle fans, to see how the club is [. Click to continue reading...

City beat AFC Totton yesterday 3-2 in the FA Cup Fourth Qualifying Round. It was an exciting game with an exciting (£12,500) pot of prize money for the winner. There was lots of exciting play and definitely an exciting finish. For reasons of my own the second half and the hour following the match were especially exciting. Click to continue reading...

DC United's playoff hopes pretty much ride on a win in Kansas City in the last match of the season, but the Wizards have nothing but pride to play for and DC has had about their best week of the season after improbable results against the Crew and in Mexico against Toluca. Click to continue reading...

This My Dear is England - 2010 England World Cup supporters song.
In support of both 2010 World Cup and England's Troops this song "This My Dear Is England" is what Soccer and Footy love is all about here. The song will be the next the 2010 World Cup Supporters Song - If you are a true believer in 'Uniting the Nation' as one, then support this song as a chunk of all funds raised goes to our 'War heroes'.

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Toronto @ NY, DC @ Kansas City, Colorado @ Salt Lake, Dallas @ Seattle, San Jose @ LA, Houston @ Chivas, and New England @ Columbus.� This, my friends, is your final weekend of the 2009 MLS Regular Season.

Chicago already locked up a spot with a win at Chivas and Seattle jumped into the playoffs as well.

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This is it! The final World Cup qualifier! Are you excited?

Yeah, neither is anybody else. Let's still hope for a good showing.

As Jeff discussed, Serbia's win over Romania means France has no chance to go top of the group. France's win over Faroe Islands means that France is guaranteed the second-place playoffs.

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Going into last weeks World Cup Qualifiers, Belarus found themselves playing purely for pride and no longer are competitively seeking a spot in this summers World� Cup in South Africa.� The small Eastern European country is actually still searching for their first World Cup birth during their short football history.

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It is the day after the U.S. national team's impressive 3-2 comeback victory in Honduras and American fans woke up today to the reality that the USA has qualified for the 2010 World Cup.

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It is the day after the U.S. national team's impressive 3-2 comeback victory in Honduras and American fans woke up today to the reality that the USA has qualified for the 2010 World Cup.

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This is tricky because there are so many fixtures you'd think would be boring to watch until you consider one or two auxiliary factors.
Let's take for example Liechtenstein v. Azerbaijan. Who's gonna watch this hopeless run around? Well, let's say someone told you this was the only game you would ever be allowed to watch again for the rest of your life. Click to continue reading...

South Africa vs Norway. Can South Africa beat Norway on Saturday? I think Bafana Bafana fans, who are a pretty optimistic bunch, already have this sick feeling in their stomach because they know what another loss will mean to the morale of their team.

2010 FIFA World Cup Norway Didn't Qualify

Now, Norway hasn't qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup and South Africa, who is losing all its matches has qualified automatically as the host of the World Cup there is a bit of pride at stake in this South Africa vs Norway friendly

According to 365.

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There are literally dozens of international games taking place across the world this weekend, from Argentina to Bahrain to Croatia and beyond. For many countries, there is nothing left to play for but pride. They may have already qualified, as is the case with Brazil, or have been eliminated, like Peru. Click to continue reading...

GOALKEEPERS (2): Nicole Barnhart (FC Gold Pride), Hope Solo (St. Louis Athletica) DEFENDERS (6): Brittany Bock (Los Angeles Sol), Rachel Buehler (FC Gold Pride), Lori Chalupny (St. Louis Athletica), Amy LePeilbet (Boston Breakers), Heather Mitts (Out of Contract), Cat Whitehill (Washington Freedom) MIDFIELDERS (8): Yael Averbuch (Sky Blue FC), Shannon Boxx (Los Angeles Sol), Tobin Heath (North Carolina), Angela Hucles (Boston Breakers), Lori Lindsey (Washington Freedom), Carli Lloyd (Out of Contract), Heather O'Reilly (Sky Blue. Click to continue reading...

Contrary to the last one, Arsenal go into this new International break with plenty to smile about. Back-to-back wins, six goals, players clicking together, Cesc Fabregas back to his best and we're also closer to the top of the table.

Writing about such an incredible win comes easy, reason why I prefer amongst other things of course to expand a little on Abou Diaby.

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Contrary to the last one, Arsenal go into this new International break with plenty to smile about. Back-to-back wins, six goals, players clicking together, Cesc Fabregas back to his best and we're also closer to the top of the table.

Writing about such an incredible win comes easy, reason why I prefer amongst other things of course to expand a little on Abou Diaby.

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Yep. From Mark McCullers:

Nordecke Supporters:
I have received several emails regarding the increased security presence in the Nordecke for the Saprissa match. We have respectfully requested that the chants including profanity, most importantly GTFO, cease. Unfortunately that chant has continued, specifically during the Cruz Azul match and then several times during the LA match.

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Click on the "envelope" for a bigger view
Scribed this on the back of an envelope.
Please don't be confused by those "arrows" and the hideous handwriting (it was a scribble-on anyway), allow me to explain with some helps from the "wiki" pages on the subject.
As you can see for yourself on the top of the envelope, I scribbled "Top 8 (AFL)", while at the lower half of it, you should noticed the words - "Super League (RL)". Click to continue reading...

Argentina plays it´s World Cup 2010 future against Peru &Uruguay in the next South American qualifiers. Coach Diego ArmandoMaradona has suffered a serious "knock" to his pride & seems to be listening to others & their advise, plus seeing some reason.(photo:Higuáin/marca.com)Finally REAL MADRID forward GONZALO HIGUAÍN has been calledup to the Argentine National Team by Diego Maradona who has Click to continue reading...

Ahead of kick-off on Sunday a 'Welcome to Manchester' banner was hung from the East Stand in response to City's poster about Carlos Tevez.

Whilst they were bragging about a striker who'd scored on just five occasions in the league last season, our banner took pride in all the trophies we've won.

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TORONTO - Looking to put the '09 season behind them, Pistolas FC look to regroup today for the final match of the year; the 3rd place consolation finals.
"The team needs to put forth their best effort and go out on a winning note. As with every match, no team can be taken lightly, as was the case last week against Inter Selects. Click to continue reading...

Please? I'm really quite good at them.
While Terry got the headlines for announcing he would take a penalty for England in a very brave attempt to put national aspirations on the line to repair his damaged ego following a disastrous spot-kick for Cheslea in the Champions League, Robert Green held a press conference of his own. Click to continue reading...

WPS personnel experts surely know more than overworked journalists, but from first glance here, Philadelphia seems to have put together a ferocious backbone in just three picks. Lori Lindsey is a quiet but effective central midfielder, Jen Buczkowski showed plenty of potential in Sky Blue's playoff run, and Nikki Krzysik is a proven young player. Click to continue reading...

So your favorite bros have probably done everything together except Ibiza because Kaka doesn't drink or dance. Here they share their experiences about being a member of Perez's second project!

ON THEIR PRESENTATION

Kaká: It was a fantastic experience.

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Never in my life as an Argentina fan have I seen a national team like the current one. Regardless of the players called up and their merit or lack of in being in the starting lineup, I have never seen an entire Argentina team play with so little heart, with so little pride, with so little soul, with so little dignity, with so little personality, with so little inner strength.

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One of the first posts I ever made was about how official gear from the stores in the USA is just awful. There's not really any selection and it looks like the merch that is sent here are only the things that wouldn't sell in the UK. As excited as I am about piggy banks and slippers, I would really appreciate it if someone would throw us a t-shirt that looked cool.

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Ok, first things first: Giants Stadium is huge, and terrible for soccer. Red Bull Arena can't open soon enough. I'm sure that The Meadowlands is a great place to go watch throwball, but for footie—not so much. It's cavernous, it's empty, the pitch is tiny, and the surface is almost comically hard.

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The (Torrance) Daily Breeze, LA Daily News and other sisters newspapers in Southern California have a nice-looking graphic preview of today's game in the print editions; sadly that does not translate to the Web.

So here's what you need to know:

*I set the stage earlier in the week with this column.

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. There were some interesting results in the play-off stage in the Champions League, and some teams progressed with pride into the biggest club competition in Europe, while for some other, it was a case of a slip between the cup and the lip. Cypriot First Division club APOEL FC overturned a 1-0 deficit with a 3-1 [. Click to continue reading...