David France, a football philanthropist and previous owner of the world's largest football memorabilia collection, is the guest on the latest episode of the EPL Talk Podcast.

France has an incredible story to tell about the 20 years he spent traveling the world and assembling the most amazing and comprehensive collection of memorabilia items for any English football club.

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The above image is the rumored jersey that the United States team will be wearing in the 2010 World Cup. The red, white and blue shirt features a Nike logo and US soccer crest, but is it real or not? We'll find out soon when Nike and the USSF officially unveils the jersey.

If this actually the shirt, what are your thoughts about it?

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Our old friend Eva Roob/Samira Summer, the female footballer turned stripper, has returned to her footballing roots by pulling on the boots one more time to play with men's team SC Leichlingen. But first she pranced around in the dressing room in her lingerie, making her perhaps the best teammate in the history of football.

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A new series on Pitch Invasion debuts, though it's actually a bit of a return to our roots as half the reason I started this site back in the day was to show tifo displays from around the world.

To kick things off, we look at Australia with a video documenting the making and display of a variety of banners by supporters of Sydney FC in the A-League.

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We're going back to our roots, Kickettes.

We've heard your pleas and are pledging to bring you more Cristiano Ronaldo skin exposure news as opposed to burning your pupils to a fiery pulp with shots of whatsherface.

Side note: speaking of Nereida, she just went to the hairdressers.

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We're going back to our roots, Kickettes.

We've heard your pleas and are pledging to bring you more Cristiano Ronaldo skin exposure news as opposed to burning your pupils to a fiery pulp with shots of whatsherface.

Side note: speaking of Nereida, she just went to the hairdressers.

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I saw an interview on ESPN yesterday where someone was talking about the need for an overhaul in youth Soccer and then I just read an article (part of a looooong series) about it from the 4-letter network. I'm not sure where this push for an overhaul is coming from, but being that I actually played Soccer as a kid let me chime in and see if I can't figure out what is truly needed.

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Michael Owen scored a dramatic and late winner for United today in the Manchester derby, which has gone some way in helping our fans forget his scouse roots.

"If there was any doubt before then maybe this has sealed the deal," Owen said of his relationship with the fans. "Me coming to Manchester United was always going to create a bit of noise.

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The first map of the 2009-10 European season comes to us from regular Albion Road contributor Bill Turianski, focusing on the German Bundesliga. Several of Bill's regular features are included here including a few new ones. On the right we've got Bill's attendance map - the emblems of all 18 clubs by location and sized proportional to their attendance.

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As you know, I normally avoid the F-bomb for Cut of the Day selection, but today's gets a pass because it is a title track preview of The Roots' newest album, due out October 20th...#1 - Unless I'm mistaken, NSC pal Grant Wahl broke the news last night that Landon Donovan has the H1N1 flu (the virus formerly known as Swine). Click to continue reading...

As you know, I normally avoid the F-bomb for Cut of the Day selection, but today's gets a pass because it is a title track preview of The Roots' newest album, due out October 20th...#1 - Unless I'm mistaken, NSC pal Grant Wahl broke the news last night that Landon Donovan has the H1N1 flu (the virus formerly known as Swine). Click to continue reading...

As it turns out, today is also the third anniversary of the podcast! But because my nine-month hiatus yielded on four other episodes in the past year, there won't be an outtake clip show like there was in 2007 and 2008.

Also, it wasn't until after I put this together yesterday that I realized that there's an Americana theme running through all four acts.

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"When you look at Arsenal you see all the great players have left and are now in the past," Toure was quoted as saying in British media on Sunday.

"Players like (Thierry) Henry, (Patrick) Vieira and (Ray) Parlour that brought success to Arsenal and I believed it was right at this stage of my career to also move on.

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Former England manager Sir Bobby Robson has passed away at the age of 76, having finally lost a long battle against cancer.
Robson, who distinguished himself first during a lengthy tenure that put Ipswich Town back on the map with FA Cup and UEFA Cup wins in 1978 and 1982 respectively, took on the England job and led them to the semi finals of the World Cup in 1990. Click to continue reading...

Summer transfers bring to and take so much from a club, but none moreso than the potential transfer of Kolo Toure to Manchester City. In terms of squad development, if we get £15m+ for him and use that to buy an adequate replacement we will be no worse off, in fact, a case could be argued that we will be better positioned.

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Sunday's papers is awash with loads of transfer news this morning which hasn't been the norm for quite a time now; I will digress.

Eboue to Fiorentina

I haven't posted this story on Arsenal-highlights this week because I was unsure of it's roots but it seems now that there is firm proof that Fiorentina among other clubs will bid for Eboue, although personally I can't deem it to be the £8 million which the media have reported.

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Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish has paid tribute to Steven Gerrard in a statement read out during his court case.
Gerrard is currently facing charges of causing affray, and he has received strong support from Dalglish.
The former Scottish international's statement was read out in court, and The Mirror quote it as saying, "I have known Steven Gerrard since he came to Liverpool FC as a 14 year old. Click to continue reading...

If you don't know much about English club Burnley FC, it might be because the small club has spent the past 23 years outside of the English top flight. That drought ended last spring when Burnley earned promotion to the English Premier League.

The club has plans to stay in the top flight and grander plans to establish new sources of talent to help make that happen, and one of Burnley's ideas is to establish feeder clubs in the United States, with the hope of uncovering some gems on this side of the pond.

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Tomorrow sees a meeting in Jakarta that could change the face of football in the capital city. Again.
Following weeks of conjecture and rumour talks will go ahead about a proposed merger between Persija and Persitara, the two Jakarta based clubs currently in the ISL.
At face value these two sides merging is akin to Chelsea and Millwall becoming one. Click to continue reading...

It's a player peroxide fiesta of late, Kickettes. Not sure if the summer heat has literally gone to everyone's heads or what, but let's investigate:

Alan Smith has returned to his former bottle blonde bleached-out avec roots look after a brief dabble in au naturel;

John Arne Riise has gone from ginger to strawberry blond to just plain blonde.

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Images via Sergio-Ramos.com

Just 24 hours after our concern for the well being of everyone's favourite fashion plate, we have located Sergio Ramos.

He is tanning. He is topless. He is with a random blonde. All is right with the world.

Apparently, Sergio has been laying low because he feels his "glamorous" life has done damage to his image.

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Images via Sergio-Ramos.com

Just 24 hours after our concern for the well being of everyone's favourite fashion plate, we have located Sergio Ramos.

He is tanning. He is topless. He is with a random blonde. All is right with the world.

Apparently, Sergio has been laying low because he feels his "glamorous" life has done damage to his image.

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In a perfect world, a Swedish Cup fixture against a Superettan side like Mjällby would provide AIK with an easy victory by a three goal margin. Reality is unfortunately a bit more complicated and the Swedish Cup quarter-final on Wednesday promises to provide quite a challenge for our beloved AIK.
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In case you haven't seen it over at ussoccer.com, here's today's Studio 90 News. The Studio 90 crew talks to Brazilian-born Benny Feilhaber about his roots in the South American country and tomorrow's big game:
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Although he plays for the "other team" in the I-95 rivalry, hes ok with me due to the fact that he roots for the Gunners. Click to continue reading...

Although he plays for the "other team" in the I-95 rivalry, hes ok with me due to the fact that he roots for the Gunners. Click to continue reading...

The current England manager has always had a certain air of mystery about him.
There were the murky allegations about his tax affairs for example.
Well this girl football lover has an exclusive story to share with you that will blow the stuff so far right out of the water. Click to continue reading...

Another season of the Premier League is now in the books, and Premiership Talk today celebrates its first birthday! On June 7, 2008, Premiership Talk was founded, and a year later the site stands lightyears ahead of its basic roots...although we're still talking about the same things today that we were a year ago (the Cristiano Ronaldo transfer saga was the very first post on Premiership Talk).

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In the past day this has been sent to me via Twitter by at least five people, so I really have no choice but to blog it. Paul Simon singing Late In The Evening on Jimmy Fallon's show backed by The Roots and the horns from Antibalas.

Simon misses a ton of notes here, but it doesn't matter because everybody else is so hot (on drums, ?

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The Dynamo Girls: Version 2010?

So we all have our guilty pleasures. I count among mine gummy bears (but only the gold Haribo kind), Salt and Vinegar flavour crisps and Avril Lavigne. *Sigh* Yes, yes, I know. One other I indulge in on a daily basis is the ever popular and sometimes accurate MLS-Rumors.

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The first goal ever scored in Serie A was scored in Vercelli, three minutes into Pro Vercelli's 3-3 draw with Genoa on the first day of the new competition, October 6, 1929. The player who scored it was named Bajardi, and he played for Pro Vercelli, though beyond that, information about him or about the moment is hard to find.

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Scottish Premier League giants Celtic FC have launched their Nike 2009/10 International kit. The kit is expected to be Celtic's first choice strip for the club's non-Scotland based games next season. Here's a description of the new kit from the Celtic's website. The new International kit, out on June 12, is inspired by the club's roots [. Click to continue reading...

I hate people who root against something... publicly. You know the guy/gal, they're the Chelsea supporter who comes in to watch Arsenal v. Bolton and roots for Bolton. I mean, who could possibly root for Bolton? You'd have to be a massive c*nt to root for Bolton and an even bigger c*nt to be a Chelsea supporter publicly rooting for Bolton because you hate Arsenal.

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MISSISSAUGA - Throughout the annals of history, there have been quite a few players who have sported the ponytail.
For England, there's been the likes of David Seaman....
...and David Beckham.
Italy has celebrated 'The Divine Ponytail' himself, Roberto Baggio. Click to continue reading...

By now, you have likely read a couple of articles about the shenanigans which took place both in and outside Crew Stadium on Saturday. Perhaps you have seen the infamous YouTube video which shows a TFC fan being tasered by state police. It is my view that the print media has taken this incident completely out of context.

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