The English Premier League has its last match before the international break on Monday, November 9, 2009. Liverpool hosts Birmingham City as both clubs are needing points. Birmingham is in a relegation battle and fighting to stay up while Liverpool is hoping to finish in the top 4. The match will be covered live at our other site, Free Live Sports TV, at the link below.

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I haven't been able to find highlights but I did find a video of all four goals. The emotionally unstable amongst us may not want to watch it as it's pretty depressing. As my father said the only positive thing to take away from that match is the fact that we can't do any worse on Saturday. Now I must say I didn't really expect a win, I don't think any Wanderer did, but 4-0?

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West Ham 2 (Cole 74, Diamanti 80) Arsenal 2 (Van Persie 16, Gallas 37)
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Perhaps we can excuse the players for thinking the game was won at half time. I certainly did. West Ham were toothless, gutless, and quite frankly, hopeless in the opening 45 minutes.

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How delicious it might have been if relegation loomed for some of these MLS sides.

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Major League Soccer has played 223 matches of its 225-match schedule

Round 32 of contests started with a dizzying, indecipherable array of playoff possibilities.

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The English Premier League had six matches on Saturday, October 24, 2009. Here's a recap of Saturday's matches in the EPL along with video highlights.

English Premier League Recap Video Highlights Saturday, October 24, 2009

Chelsea went top of the table with a 5-0 thrashing of Blackburn Rovers.

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In his 2006 book "Floodlit Dreams", writer Ian Ridley brilliantly summed up the small town politics that drive the running of so many football clubs. He had taken the chairmanship at Weymouth Football Club with big ambitions, but a combination of under-achievement on the pitch, vultures circling overhead and internal squabbling saw him eventually removed by a coup d'etat.

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I'm with Martin Luther King here. I've been to the mountain top and I've seen the Promised Land. The view from the heights of the Premiership is not bad at all. There seems to be a couple of teams down there already shaping up for a relegation battle, but that needn't concern us now. It appears to be a four team dogfight to be the best of the rest. Click to continue reading...

Patience is a virtue, and for two of the Premier League's best players, that patience has finally paid off. The crazy thing about it all? These two players are on the same team! And the lucky team is Sunderland.

It was just last season that Sunderland were in the heat of the relegation battle.

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A look ahead at this weekend's games in the Premier League. Last weekend I went 7 out of 10, bringing my season record to 42 out of 56 or 75%.

Bolton v Tottenham
Tottenham have shown already this season that why they cannot quite compete with the big four, they are more than capable of beating the poorer teams in the Premier League.

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A look ahead at this weekend's games in the Premier League. Last weekend I went 7 out of 10, bringing my season record to 42 out of 56 or 75%.

Bolton v Tottenham
Tottenham have shown already this season that why they cannot quite compete with the big four, they are more than capable of beating the poorer teams in the Premier League.

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Given the title of this article, I could be about to tell you about how the strike duo of Darren Bent and Kenwyne Jones will be leading Sunderland to new heights in the Premier League this season, but we will save that for a later date. I'd rather make a bold statement and talk about the bottom of the table at the moment.

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With yet another exciting Premier League weekend in the books it's time to review this weekend's winners and losers.

Winners Robbie Keane

Robbie Keane emerges from this weekend as the biggest winner. The Tottenham striker has had a relatively quiet start to the season, oftentimes playing second fiddle to the red hot Jermain Defoe.

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.With half a dozen games gone already in the Premier League this season it seems remarkable that there have been very few drawn matches – just four draws from a total of 56 games to the end of the weekend Sunday 20th September. Stoke City in tenth place have been involved in half of the drawn [...] Click to continue reading...

The English Premier League continued on Saturday, September 12, 2009 with some great mtaches. Two of the biggest were Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester United, Stoke City v Chelsea, and Manchester City v Arsenal. Was Manchester City able to show they are for real against Arsenal, did Tottenham continue their great start against Man U at home?

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The English Premier League continued on Saturday, September 12, 2009 with some great matches. Two of the biggest were Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester United, Stoke City v Chelsea, and Manchester City v Arsenal. Was Manchester City able to show they are for real against Arsenal, did Tottenham continue their great start against Man U at home?

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It was another full weekend of matches for Americans playing abroad in the top European leagues. In the French Ligue 1, Carlos Bocanegra was with Stade Rennais and Charlie Davies for Sochaux. Steve Cherundolo for Hannover 96 played in the German Bundesliga while Kenny Cooper continues to have an impact for Bundesligs 2 side 1860 Munich.

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He always reminded of a Dolphin, not sure why?

Skysports.com understands Hull City and Newcastle United are rivals to sign Aston Villa striker Marlon Harewood on loan.

Hull are desperate for attacking options and spent the summer attempting to secure reinforcements to avoid a repeat of last season's Premier League relegation battle.

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It sounds daft to say it so early in the season but Saturday's match at Bolton really is a must win game.
Two defeats in the first three games isn't the start any of us were expecting and the players have to put things right.
Teams have won the league despite losing five games in recent years but there is now little room for error if we are going to challenge at the top. Click to continue reading...

I know this will be an unpopular stance to take. Many Bolton fans have been calling for Megson's head since last season, during our dreadful relegation battle. Although I haven't been to the Reebok this season (as much as I love the Wanderers, the 4768 mile commute is just not doable every Saturday), I have a feeling it will be (painfully) similar to last season.

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Man United Re-Ignited

United's 5-0 destruction of Wigan did much to reassure their fans all is well within Old Trafford. However, by all accounts they were ropey in the first half and Wigan's spirit was broken after conceding. Berbatov and Rooney looked good together yes, and Owen got on the scoresheet - but it was never the worry that United would struggle to break down the likes of Wigan.

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There were several Americans playing abroad in the top European leagues on Saturday including French Ligue 1 and the German Bundesliga. In France, Carlos Bocanegra continues to be a regular start for Stade Rennais as they challenge for a spot in European soccer next season while Charlie Davies is adjusting quickly to his new team Sochaux.

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Hull City had a roller coaster of a season last time, which began with full of promise, but ended in a harsh relegation battle that saw them avoid the axe by a hair's breadth.

Presently, the club are in their sophomore season, and manager Phil Brown has shown a lot of initiative in bringing in much needed talent to the Tigers.

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The English Premier League kicks off its 2009-2010 season this weekend and it promises to be an enthralling season again in Europe's top league. So far we have looked at the likely relegation battle candidates and those teams who are destined to be middle of the table and the Europa League contenders.

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The English Premier League kicks off its 2009-2010 season this weekend and it promises to be an enthralling season again in Europe's top league. So far we have looked at the likely relegation battle candidates and those teams who are destined to be middle of the table.

Today we will look at the five teams that will be competing for UEFA Cup spots.

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Jozy Altidore is Hull City's big summer signing. The US international might only be on a season-long loan deal, but the fact the Tigers have the option of signing him permanently at the end of the campaign for £6.5m reveals the size of role that Hull boss Phil Brown envisages for the former Red Bulls hitman. Click to continue reading...

The English Premier League kicks off its 2009-2010 season this weekend and it promises to be an enthralling season again in Europe's top league.

Yesterday I looked at the likely relegation battle candidates and today I will look at those teams who are destined to be middle of the table With the transfer window still a couple of weeks away the prospects for many teams will rise and fall on how is added or leaves between now and then.

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The English Premier League kicks off its 2009-2010 season this weekend and it promises to be an enthralling season again in Europe's top league.

With the transfer window still three weeks away the prospects for many teams will rise and fall on who is added or leaves between now and then.

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The second tier of English football, The Championship, kicks off this week and in this post we take a look at which teams we think will be involved in the promotion race or the relegation battle.

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The 2009-10 German Bundesliga season is set to begin on Friday August 7, 2009 as Wolfsburg look to defend the league trophy. The Bundesliga was very competitive last season with the gap between the top 6 teams at only 10 points. Bayern Munich finished a disappointing 2nd but will be looking to regain the league trophy as they have retained most of their top players.

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Soccer By Ives is reporting that Gazzeta dello Sport is reporting that Livorno is reporting that they are planning to put in a bid for Donovan to MLS. For those unfamiliar with Livorno, they earned promotion to the Serie A last year. Although are not historically good (before the 2004-05, they had not taken part in the top flight since 1949), they have emerged as a respectable club in the last several years, even participating in the UEFA Cup during the 2006-07 season.

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Australia's greatest ever player Mark Viduka looks sets to attempt to finish his career in the style a player of his ability deserved.
The Duke never played for a top side other than Celtic in Scotland, flirting with Leeds who were in the Dukes day on a roll for awhile.
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TPS won MYPA 3-1 and Lahti took a 2-1 win over Tampere United. The latter meant that my prediction accuracy fell from 100% to 50% compared to Wednesday's round of games, and I'm too disillusioned to round the games up in any more depth now. I will round them up later, however, once the whole round is over.

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Will Rossi be back in Manchester?

One positive to come out of Italy's disastrous Confederations Cup adventure was the emergence of Giuseppe Rossi. Having been on the fringes of the Azzurri squad for some months, he finally made his breakthrough against the nation of his birth, putting himself firmly in the shop window this summer.

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The rumours have been rife for the last couple of weeks but in recent days, more substantial stories have appeared claiming Robbie Keane will once again be leaving Tottenham before the season gets underway. Opinion seems to be very divided over whether this is a good or a bad thing as far as the future of the club is concerned.

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It was quite a season, 2008/09, with possibly the tightest challenge for the title in many a year. Even the battle for relegation was tight for up to ten clubs until the last few weeks of the season, and few would have predicted that outcome at the beginning of August 2008.

The previous season, Manchester Utd had won the premiership title and scraped the European Champions League final.

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