With Major League Soccer set to start the 2013 season this weekend, I felt it was time to suggest some resolutions for the forthcoming season. Some of these might not be acceptable to some (or maybe a large amount) of MLS fans, but I am of the opinion that trying to abide by these resolutions would result in the 2013 MLS season being an enjoyable season, for us all.
Earlier this spring, Ternana, a football club in Terni, Italy, mathematically qualified for
promotion from Lega Pro Prima Divisione to Serie B for the first time since 2006. To give their
fans a chance to fully celebrate this promotion, the club held a friendly earlier this month. The
picture above and the videos below are from that friendly.
While the race for the Premier League title hots up, let's not forget there is plenty of
football being played outside the top 20 teams in England.
Here are seven stand-out players from the Championship, all of whom could be playing in the top
flight next season:
Albert Adomah
Despite making almost 200 league appearances for non league Harrow Borough and League Two side
Barnet, Adomah was a largely unknown quantity when he arrived at Bristol City in the summer of
2010.
With today's game against Norwich City seeing Alan Pardew's predecessor, Chris Hughton, returning to St James' Park for the first time since his sacking in December 2010, there has been far more of the usual pre match words from the managers on both sides. On the Pardew side, amongst other things, he has been anxious [.
Newcastle United's annual accounts were finally released to the public today by Companies House.
These, of course, are the accounts which cover last season, our first since being promoted back to
the Premiership at the first attempt. As previously announced in a PR statement by the club's
Managing Director, Derek Llambias, operating losses before player [.
"Going Up" "Northern Life" special 1984. 30 minute Tyne Tees Television special programme from
1984, where David Burton reviews Newcastle United's 1983-4 promotion season. Featuring Arthur Cox,
Kevin Keegan, and some classic Keegan, Waddle and Beardsley goals from the days when the club had a
front three that I'm sure quite a few Toon [.
Well, Joey Barton did promise on Twitta that he would "tell all when the time was right" and he's
finally kept his word. Speaking in a long audio podcast interview for the Queen's Park Ranger's
'blog "Open All R's," he finally lifted the lid on his time at Newcastle United and his strained
relationship with [.
With most teams having fifteen or fewer matches to play this season, it is far from certain which
three teams from the Championship will be playing Premier League football next season. As it
stands, the two most obvious candidates are the teams that have led the way for most of the season,
current leaders, West [.
With the season opener Hull v Blackpool commencing Friday evening (KO 19:45) LTLF's gambling column
will look at the bookie's predictions for the season ahead as well as the best odds available for
our upcoming home game against Barnsley [...]
It's not going to happen, so STOP TALKING ABOUT IT! LMA chief Richard Bevan is a bellend for even
mentioning the subject. The fact of the matter is the FA can veto any motion that 14 Premier League
chairmen clump together and try to ratify. So if foreign ownership in the Premier League does rise
[...
When it comes down to it, there are several categories which are splitting the Championship
equally. The resurgence of the newly promoted teams is wowing everybody and shows that you do not
have to spend large sums to get success. Unlike their Premier League counterparts, they do not have
millions to spare and could prove to be tricky.
West Ham United boss Sam Allardyce has called on his players to live up to their reputations and
deliver an instant bounce-back to the Premier League. The Hammers were unlikely relegation victims
last season, but are among the favorites for promotion as the new season kicks off this
weekend.
"We are the favorites, the big boys in this league and I have told the players 'Everyone wants
your scalp, you are going to have to live up to your reputation from day one because they are going
to want to turn you over,'" said the former Bolton boss.
In Canada the reports after the play-off first leg said that "Nottingham Forest is (sic) tieing
zero-zero with Swan-sea City of Wales." So I arranged at my office in anticipation to watch the
second leg "streaming live" and then sat there and became hugely angry and upset and disappointed
and defiant during the game, and immediately afterwards I realised that ultimately I am happy that
I am, have always been, will always be a Forest fan [.
The Premiership finally reaches its dramatic denouement tomorrow afternoon, with things
unbelievably tight down the bottom of the league, five teams separated by only a point, desperate
not to fill one of the two remaining relegation spots.
Heartache should by now be a familiar emotion for Forest fans. Once again, a successful season saw
the Reds renew the flickering light of premier league hope amongst the hearts of supporters, only
for a semi-final defeat at the hands of Swansea to render the play-off dream something of a
nightmare [.
QPR's 1-0 victory at Doncaster on Saturday left them nine points clear of second-placed Norwich
City and, notwithstanding any possible points deduction from the FA for the signing of Alejandro
Faurlin, poised to return to the top flight for the first time since 1996. Yet whilst Neil
Warnock's side have undoubtedly been the Championship's outstanding side all season the question of
who will join them in the Premier League next season is as unresolved as ever.
January 2011's transfer window offered a final dramatic flurry on Monday night before coughing
spluttering, and being laid to rest in the cold hard ground of football history. With obscene
millions being handed from one Premier League club to another, the business conducted in the
football league looked subtle, paltry even, but can it be the case that in the January transfer
window less is more?
And we could be lofted, lofted, lofteeee eed We are in the Premier League era. We are in the Sky
Four era. We are in the era of foreign ownership. We are so submerged in all three of these
statements that we have a blueprint for how successful foreign ownership works. Blueprint is the
obvious word, [.
And we could be lofted, lofted, lofteeee eed We are in the Premier League era. We are in the Sky
Four era. We are in the era of foreign ownership. We are so submerged in all three of these
statements that we have a blueprint for how successful foreign ownership works. Blueprint is the
obvious word, [.
Despite attempting desperately to resist the lures of writing the rather obvious pre-season
transfer desires article, I have managed just one day of this battle with temptation and have
succumbed to entertaining this very issue. Nottingham Forest's failure to reach the play-off
final, and as such the promised land of the English Premier Division, will [.
After a frustrating festive season, with games abandoned and Forest left behind by a group of
sides, few would have dared to dream of the consistency shown since and the position in the table
that Forest now occupy. Is this a sustainable promotion charge that Forest are entertaining? [...]
Following the first win at Pride Park in our history, we are well-placed going into the business
end of the season. So before we get to that point of the season, an evaluation of where we are at,
where we have to go, and how everyone else is looking, is required [...]
Bayern are going to Qatar, Hamburg are going to Dubai and St. Pauli are going ... erm ... nowhere.
The winter training camp is a ritual in German football, but it's also becoming a promotional
free-for-all.
CELTIC Football Club is delighted to announce a prospective new partnership with Mexican Premier
League Football Club Santos Laguna. It is the intention that the new arrangement will allow Celtic
and Santos to exchange a range of ideas which will benefit the footballing and commercial
dimensions of both clubs.
Weihnachten hier, Weihnachten da. Man kommt den vielen Weihnachtsgrüßen, egal ob über Facebook,
Twitter, Youtube oder über ganz normale Internetseiten derzeit nicht mehr aus. Irgendwie gehört
das diese Tage auch dazu. Spieler und Vereine haben nichts zu tun und daher können sie sich ganz
normal auf diese weihnachtliche Art der Promotion (ja was anderes ist [.
Currently the Carolina RailHawks are the class of the NASL. They sit atop the table in the North
American Soccer League after an impressive first half of the season which saw them go on a 10 game
win streak and a record 13 unbeaten matches. Naturally, the questions begin to come about the
future... Questions about the future of players, of coaches, management and ownership.
Off to Old Trafford - but will Huddersfield gain promotion?
Now it's not that I have anything against Peterborough – in fact I always enjoy going to their
cosy little London Road ground and standing on one of the few remaining terraces in English
football – but, along with many of the neutrals, I will be firmly backing Huddersfield Town in
the League One play-off final this Sunday.
REIMS, France Evian won promotion from France's Ligue 2 following a 2-1 victory at 10-man Stade
Reims. Evian, who now have 64 points with one match left, cannot finish outside the top three after
a late Cedric Cambon strike gave them the three points. Evian, sponsored by fresh food group
Danone, had won promotion [.
HAMBURG, Germany — Top German football club St Pauli has shown the red card to strippers
performing inside a corporate box owned by one of Hamburg's many lap dance clubs but they can dance
once matches are over. The Susis Show Bar on Hamburg's main red-light drag, the Reeperbahn, has
installed a large mirror [.
GENOA, Italy Genoa CFC have parted company with coach Gian Piero Gasperini and replaced him with
Davide Ballardini in the wake of Sunday's 1-0 defeat at US Citt di Palermo. The club's third loss
in four games left them 14th in Serie A, prompting them to appoint the 46-year-old former Cagliari
Calcio, S.
