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England's second-string lost to Brazil on Saturday in Doha, an event that was expected but led to the expected round of national team bashing by the English press.

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It was an amazing night on Thursday, November 12th as John Strong started his regular radio show on Sports Radio 95.5 The Game (95.5 FM). During the spring and summer months, Strong hosts an hour-long sports program from 6 PM to 7 PM that talks about various topics. Click to continue reading...

For the second episode of my international radio broadcast Eat Soccer!, I had the wonderful opportunity to introduce the listeners to one of the most courageous, motivated athletes I know. Brandon Culpepper is an American football player, and he took time out of his busy NFL schedule to give soccer players tips on how they can develop the courage to pursue their dreams to play soccer. Click to continue reading...

Come on New Zealand.
It's their Nov 16th 2005 moment, on Saturday in Wellington. 35,000 fans dressed in All White as NZ take on Bahrain for one shot at glory and a place in the 2010 World Cup.
The Nearpost is pumped for what should be a great game, an historic event.
All the A-League news, Socceroos talk and more All White talk than you could ever hope for on an Aussie football show. Click to continue reading...

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This week's episode focuses on the title races across Europe, with the first stop being the Premier League title race and the United v Chelsea game. Manchester United gave a strong showing at Stamford Bridge on Sunday, possibly one of their best performances at the Bridge post-Ranieri and despite the defeat all signs point to an open, three-way title race.

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This week's episode focuses on the Premier League relegation battle (it's already started), and the spotlight is on Portsmouth (who lost their first seven games, just beat Wigan 4-0 and are still bottom of the table) and Hull (who have been lurching from weakness to weakness, but still have faith in their unfortunately named manager).

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Episode 49: "Only Snorlax Can Hold 10! Look at Him, He's F***ing Huge!"
Host: Scott
Panel: Sandra, Kevin McCauley, Jason Longshore
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This week on the show we welcome another newbie, while the lovely Sandra checks in from her quarantine bubble and the goodiest do-gooder of all time, Jason returns to infect the show with his nice guy nonsense. Click to continue reading...

Episode 50: "The 2nd Annual Halloween Show"
Host: Scott
Panel: Brian Bentley, Ginge, Richard Oram
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A couple of months ago in the midst of a conversation with my friend Bill Turianski he mentioned a radio show he listened to and a reference to the competitiveness (or not) of Major League Soccer. I followed up asking what podcasts he listened to and he gave me a couple of suggestions to get me started.

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Join celebrated football pundit, author, radio show host and DJ Andy Brassell every Monday on the Soccerlens Show.

This week's episode focuses on the swine flu outbreak at Paris Saint-Germain, which led to a late postponement of the PSG-Marseille game that riled not only the supporters of both sides (and led to some unsavoury scenes between the two sets of fans) but also Marseille themselves, who were adamant that the match should have gone ahead.

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Episode 48: "In Which Devin Bought The Ladies a Bottle of Boone's Farm"
Host: Scott
Panel: Sandra, Gina Z, Devin Howard
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This week on the show, Sandra returns and is joined by two rookies who will attempt to defeat the veteran diva. Click to continue reading...

Episode 47: "Sarah Wilson's Two-A-Day Workout Championship"
Host: Scott
Panel: Zach, MJ and Hank
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The United States of America has a long history of fantastic triple-threat battles. Click to continue reading...

Episode 46: "No, We're Not Swordfighting"
Host: Scott
Panel: Zach, Brian, Erin Dutka
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This episode was supposed to be the first ever "All Lovely Lady" panel but like most of the best laid plans, they tend to come crashing down around you. Click to continue reading...

Guarantees just aren't what they used to be. Back in the day a guarantee was something extraordinarily, spectacular: A sacred declaration of one team's predicted dominance over another.  It was something that got fans to pay close attention to an event even if the game didn't fascinate them.

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Episode 45: "Lion Force Voltron Kicks Butt"
Host: Scott
Panel: Sandra, Zach, Brian Zygo
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Another week finds Winning Ugly back with another hour of eargasmic goodness for all our loyal listeners and fans. Click to continue reading...

Episode 44: "The Curse of El Scott-O"
Host: Scott
Panel: Sandra, Zach, Hank
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Everyone's favorite New Eng-er-land-er, The Element of Honk, returns to Winning Ugly after his long exile joining The First Lady and the Black Cloud. Click to continue reading...

Below are the interviews for the remainder of the week looking ahead to our match Saturday against FC Dallas:
Tonight--7:00 pm--The Jimmy Conrad Show--Sports Radio 810 AM
Thursday--7:50 am—Jimmy Conrad in-studio radio interview--Star 102.1 FM
Thursday--8:05 am—Jimmy Conrad in-studio radio interview—Mix 93. Click to continue reading...

When Bill Archer calls you out, please take it with a little bit of self respect, ok? Like an adult? Not this "Archer Award" rubbish:

Ah, there's nothing like getting ripped by the schoolyard bully. I used to dread moments like that – back in Grade 4 – but now I find it quite exhilarating.

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I've had a lovely weekend.
I had Friday afternoon off, spent taking a leisurely walk along the canal bank with my lover. Followed by a refreshing beer in The Golden Fleece, passing time with some local 'characters'.
I caught up with a few emails and other bits of paperwork yesterday morning so I feel more on top of things. Click to continue reading...

Because he says what I'm thinking, only he says it more succinctly and he's funnier than I can ever hope to be:

"This is the national team that can beat Spain and sweat bullets against Trinidad. That's life as an American soccer fan, and it's actually way better than it was.

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Episode 43: "Longshore, Stop Eating Pistachios"
Host: Scott
Panel: Sandra, Sarah, Jason L.
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After all the various beer bottles, lampshades and misplaced undergarments were cleaned out of the studio from last week's 1-year anniversary celebration, it was back to business as usual. Click to continue reading...

Episode 42:
"The Answer to the Question of Life, The Universe and Everything Else"
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Panel: Sarah, Brian, Jason D.
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"Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm. Click to continue reading...

Thanks to computer meltdowns of epic proportions, we have dug back in to the Winning Ugly Radio Show vaults and bring you the often referenced but rarely heard very first episode of the show! Yep, we have decided to let you hear the train wreck that was our first broadcast. http://www.csrnusa.com/csrnplayer.

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Episode 41: "The Lost Episode"
Host: Scott
Panel: Sandra, Zach, Erik
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Like the "Final Five" remained a tantalizing mystery, the mythical first episode of Winning Ugly Radio has alluded many of the show's fans. Click to continue reading...

I have been working three jobs at a stretch of seven days a week for months now. My Itunes membership to World soccer daily had not downloaded a show for a few days and i didn't become suspicious partly because i was tired and partly due to my ignorantly thinking Steven Cohen had probably extended his vacation another week. Click to continue reading...

The following article is a summary of events this summer regarding the American football radio show World Soccer Daily, which went off the air last weekend after a sustained campaign of protest by Liverpool supporters' groups. In the interests of brevity, it skips over some of the finer details of what has become an extraordinary story involving alleged death threats, anti-semitism and even the involvement of the FBI.

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This show is a tribute to World Soccer Daily. Myself, along with Kartik Krishnaiyer, Matthew Semisch, and Kevin Walker just talk about what World Soccer Daily meant to the North American audience, will we see another national daily radio show, and...
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His name is Antony Ananins, known to many as Tony New Mexico, a frequent poster on various Liverpool and soccer related message boards (including the World Soccer Daily boards) and the founder of a Facebook group called "Putting Steven Cohen Straight". Thanks to Tony's efforts and the efforts of many others, people have been able to express their disagreement with Steven Cohen's much publicized comments concerning the events surrounding the Hillsborough tragedy, comments that led to the LFCNY's sponsorship boycott. Click to continue reading...

Tomorrow marks the third inaugural "Beckham invades DC Tour". I've been to the two before, and I'll be to the third. In the two previous meetings, we saw two wins for DC, and the win last year in decisive fashion. The circumstances leading up to tomorrow's match are starkly different, with DC United on a steep decline and LA Galaxy as hot as fire.

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Tomorrow's itinerary;
9.00 Get up
9.15 Wash and put on Leicester home shirt
10.00 Go to hairdressers
12.30 Buy a pie for My Lover
1.00 Prepare for radio show
3.00 Radio show whilst following all the results
5.15 Celebrate Leicester's outstanding defeat of Barnsley
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Episode 40: "MJ Does Dallas"
Host: Zach
Panel: Sandra, Sarah, MJ
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We are only two weeks away from the 1-year anniversary of the Winning Ugly Radio Show! Click to continue reading...

It seems as if the past eight weeks have meant nothing to Mike Ashley and Derek Llambias. Newcastle United means something to us, with the consistent "we're confident something will happen next week" bollocks it appears that this fine football club means less than dirt to those in charge at St.

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Episode 39: "That Is the Definition of Stupid"
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Panel: Zach, Sandra and Graham Bell
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For the first time CSRN "Big Boss" Graham Bell comes to Winning Ugly Radio to test his mettle against battle tested veteran panelist Ginge and Sandra. Click to continue reading...

Episode 39: "That Is the Definition of Stupid"
Host: Scott
Panel: Zach, Sandra and Graham Bell
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For the first time CSRN "Big Boss" Graham Bell comes to Winning Ugly Radio to test his mettle against battle tested veteran panelist Ginge and Sandra. Click to continue reading...

Episode 38: "The Government's Gonna Go Tienanmen Square on Them"
Host: Scott
Panel: Zach, Sandra and Richard Oram
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This week's show brings the debut of a new panelist and another round of our patented hard hitting questions that cut right to the collective bone of the football world. Click to continue reading...