MLS playoffs on TeleFutura: Seattle - Houston at 3pm. ESPN2 has Chivas USA - Los Angeles at 7:30pm. EPL on Setanta: Hull - Stoke at 8:30am and Wigan - Fulham on Setana Xtra at 10am. On Fox Soccer Channel: Chelsea - Manchester United at 11am and West Ham United - Everton at 5pm. FA Cup on Fox Soccer: Northwich Victoria - Charlton at 7pm. Click to continue reading...

MLS on Fox Soccer Channel: New England - Chicago at 8pm. EPL on ESPN2: Spurs - Sunderland at 10am. Setanta has Manchester City - Burnley at 10am and Blackburn - Portsmouth at 6:45pm. On Fox Soccer: Aston Villa - Bolton at 10am and Wolves - Arsenal at 12:30pm. Championship on Setanta: Swansea - Cardiff at 7:45am. Click to continue reading...

Bundesliga on GolTV: Bayer Leverkusen - Eintracht Frankfurt at 2:30pm. Championship on Setanta: Derby County - Coventry at 2:40pm. All Times Eastern Click to continue reading...

In my NyQuil haze, I screwed up the math. Through some combination of the time change (which happens earlier in England than in the States) and me sleeping through my usual routine of checking multiple sites to figure out the kickoff, I was an hour off. As I slumped into the pub, sucking on a cough drop, I still thought I was early enough to grab a seat and some pre-match breakfast, but I found a room full of sullen Liverpool supporters and a match well underway.

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Champions League on Fox Soccer Channel: Atletico Madrid - Chelsea at 2:30pm, Manchester United - CSKA Moscow at 5pm (on Setanta at 2:40pm), and Milan - Real Madrid at 7pm. Setanta also has Bayern Munich - Bordeaux at 6:45pm. All Times Eastern Click to continue reading...

Championship on Setanta: Sheffield United - Newcastle at 8:30pm. All Times Eastern Click to continue reading...

U-17 World Cup on ESPNU and Galavision: USA - UAE at 10am. MLS playoffs: Chicago - New England on Fox Soccer Channel at 2pm and Chivas USA - Los Angeles on ESPN2 at 5pm. EPL on Fox Soccer: Birmingham Ciry - Manchester City at 11am. Championship on Setanta: Cardiff - Forest at noon and West Bromwich Albion - Watford at 5pm. Click to continue reading...

EPL on ESPN2: Arsenal Spurs at 8:30am. On Setanta: Fulham - Liverpool at 11am and Everton - Aston Villa at 10pm. On Fox Soccer Channel: Bolton - Chelsea at 11am, Manchester United - Blackburn at 1:30pm, and Sunderland - West Ham United at 6pm. Russian Premier League on Setanta: FC Moscow - Zenit St. Petersburg at 7am. Click to continue reading...

Carling Cup on Setanta: Barnsley - Manchester United at 3:45pm. All Times Eastern Click to continue reading...

MLS on TeleFutura: Houston - Chivas USA at 3pm. On ESPN2: New England - Columbus at 6pm. Under-17 World Cup on Galavision: Colombia - Holland at 2pm. EPL on Setanta: Bolton - Everton at 9:30am and Manchester City - Fulham at noon. On Fox Soccer Channel: Liverpool - Manchester United at 10am and West Ham United - Arsenal at noon. Click to continue reading...

Champions League on Fox Soccer Channel: CSKA Moscow - Manchester United at 12:30pm (same time on Setanta) and Real Madrid - Milan at 2:30pm. Setanta has Chelsea - Atletico Madrid at 2:40pm. CONCACAF Champions League on Fox Soccer: Metapan - Houston at 10pm. Colombian League on GolTV: Medellin - Tolima at 8pm. Click to continue reading...

Champions League on Fox Soccer Channel: Inter Milan - Dynamo Kiev at 2:30pm, Alkmaar - Arsenal at 5pm (on Setanta at 2:15pm), and Liverpool - Olympique Lyonnais at 10pm. Setanta also has Barcelona - Rubin Kazan at 6:45pm (on Fox Sports en Espanol at 2:30pm). CONCACAF Champions League on Fox Soccer: Toluca - DC at 8pm. Click to continue reading...

MLS on Fox Soccer Channel: New England - Chicago at 6pm. USL-1 final second-leg on Fox Soccer: Montreal - Vancouver at 2:30pm. EPL on ESPN2: Aston Villa - Chelsea at 7:30am. On Setanta: Manchester United - Bolton at 9:30am, Arsenal - Birmingham City at 8:30pm, and Everton - Wolves at 10:15pm. On Fox Soccer: Sunderland - Liverpool at 10am and Portsmouth - Spurs at 8:30pm. Click to continue reading...

CONCACAF World Cup Qualifying: Costa Rica - USA is on ESPN2 with the pre-game starting at 7:30pm and Mexico - Trinidad & Tobago is on Telemundo at 8pm. Salt Lake - New York is on ESPN2 at 10pm. WCQ on GolTV: Germany - Finland at noon and Italy - Cyprus at 2pm. On Setanta: Portugal - Malta at 2:40pm and Greece - Luxembourg at 5pm. Click to continue reading...

Under-20 World Cup semifinals on ESPN2: Ghana - Hungary at 10:15 am and Brazil - Costa Rica at 1:45pm. Cliftonville - Celtic is on Setanta at 2:15pm. Click to continue reading...

Quick look at the most meaningful World Cup qualifiers Saturday. Home teams first, all times Eastern, all predictions wrong.
ASIA/OCEANIA
Bahrain-New Zealand (11:30 a.m., FSC). First leg of a playoff to send a team to the World Cup that will excite no one.
EUROPE (second-to-last group games unless noted -- group winners advance, eight runners-up advance to playoff)
Group 1: Portugal-Hungary (3:40 p. Click to continue reading...

This is it. The entire world wraps up the group rounds of world cup qualifying. After Wednesday, there will only be 5 slots (4 in UEFA and the CONCACAF-CONMEBOL play off) left to fill. Who will handle the pressure? Who won't? Who will be the shock entrants, and who will shockingly miss out? Click to continue reading...

I hate that I do!

Right, it's been a while since my last rant so here goes!

After the recent success of the 3 Lions qualifiers with 2 games to spare, I'm still going to have a grumble. Believe it not children, England are playing the Ukraine on Saturday. It is a WC qualifier and gives Fabio a chance to work with the squad without the pressure of putting points on the board.

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The Future of Live Football

If you want to watch England in this Saturday's World Cup qualifier against Ukraine you have three choices — travel to Dnipropetrovsk or watch it live on the internet or at a cinema.

Setanta would have been showing the match on TV if the company had not ceased trading in June 2009.

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Punters shouldn't have to pick up Setanta's tab... again As the fallout from the Setanta shambles continues, news agencies are this morning reporting that England's World Cup qualifier in Ukraine next Saturday will not be available live on any television channel. In a surprising turn of events, it will be available only online on a pay-per-view [. Click to continue reading...

Next weekend sees a big test in the ongoing debate over whether people will pay for premium content on the internet, when the World Cup qualifier between Ukraine and England in Dnipropetrovsk next Saturday. The match is due to be shown in the UK live over the internet only following the collapse of Setanta during the summer.

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MLS on TeleFutura: Kansas City - Houston at 3pm. USL semifinals on Fox Soccer Channel at 7pm. EPL on Setanta: Arsenal - Blackburn at 8:30am and Everton - Stoke at 1pm. On Fox Soccer: Chelsea - Liverpool at 11am and West Ham United - Fulham at 5pm. Russian Premier League on Setanta: Lokomotiv - Rubin at 6am. Click to continue reading...

Match Fit USA, Ginge Talks the Footy, and the CSRN family announces the first ever Twitterverse Players League, a competition to crown a single king of the American soccer and MLS Twitter community.
Listed below are thirty-two of the Twitterverse's elite soccer players; they are Americans, MLS players, former MLS players, current stars, future stars, and emerging talents. Click to continue reading...

Under-20 World Cup: Brazil - Czech Republic on Galavision at 12:30pm. UEFA Champions League on Fox Soccer Channel: Manchester United - VfL Wolfsburg at 2:30pm (5pm - Setanta) and Real Madrid - Marseilles at 5pm (6:45pm - Setanta). Setanta has Apoel - Chelsea at 2:30pm. CONCACAF Champions League on Fox Soccer: San Juan Jabloteh - DC at 8pm and Pachuca - Houston at 10pm. Click to continue reading...

Under-20 World Cup on ESPN2: USA - Cameroon at 12:30pm. UEFA Champions League on Fox Soccer Channel: Rangers - Sevilla at 2:30pm (Setanta at 6:30pm), Fiorentina - Liverpool at 5pm (Setanta at 2:40pm), and Arsenal - Olympiacos at 10pm. Setanta also has Barcelona - Dinamo Kiev at 4:45pm. CONCACAF Champions League on Fox Soccer: Columbus - Saprissa at 8pm. Click to continue reading...

MLS on TeleFutura: San Jose - Dallas at 3pm. USL-1 quarterfinals on Fox Soccer Channel: Montreal - Charleston at 7pm. Under-20 World Cup on Galavision: Brazil - Costa Rica at 10am. EPL on On Fox Soccer: Sunderland - Wolves at 11am. Championship on Setanta: Plymouth - Forest at 8:10am. La Liga on GolTV: Almeria - Racing at 11am, Real Zaragoza - Getafe at 1pm, and Deportivo La Coruna - Villarreal at 3pm. Click to continue reading...

If anyone has the ability to get a copy of a game later this week from Setanta, drop me a line. Click to continue reading...

Andy Lyons, co-founder of leading fanzie When Saturday Comes joins host Kartik Krishnaiyer to discuss the following topics

- a detailed look at the history of the magazine
- the circumstances around its beginnings
- The impact of 1980s fan movements on football
- The impact of 1980s Thatcherite politics on football
-Â How the 1990 World Cup success for Sir Bobby Robson's England team brought new fans to the game
- The formation of the Premier League and how it affected the magazine and supporters
-Â Content and columnists in When Saturday Comes
- The football magazine industry currently, and the push for more online content.

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2:45pm, live in the US on espn360.com. Supposedly, ESPN360 is the only US outlet. My internet provider doesn't get it. Most people I know don't get it. Super.
Setanta has US rights for Carling Cup too, but they're not showing a Tuesday game. Hopefully they'll be a stream somewhere.
Last 3 matches:
Liverpool: 3-2 West Ham (a); 1-0 Debrecen (h); 4-0 Burnley (h)
Leeds: 4-1 Gillingham (h); 0-0 Southend (a); 2-0 Stockport (h)
Referee: Alan Wiley
Guess at a squad:
Cavalieri
Degen Skrtel Kyrgiakos Aurelio
Spearing Mascherano
Babel Voronin Riera
Ngog
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MLS on TeleFutura: Columbus - Chicago at 3pm. EPL on Setanta: Manchester United - Manchester City at 8:30am. On Fox Soccer: Chelsea - Spurs at 11am and Everton - Blackburn at 7pm. Russian Premier League on Setanta: Lokomotiv - FC Moscow at 4:15am and CSKA Moscow - Dinamo Moscow at 6am. Dutch League on ESPN Deportes: Feyenoord - PSV Eindhoven at 8:30am. Click to continue reading...

MLS on Fox Soccer Channel: Chivas USA - Seattle at 3pm. EPL on ESPN2: Burnley - Sunderland at 7:30am. On Setanta: Arsenal - Wigan at 9:30am and Hull - Birmingham at 6:45pm. On Fox Soccer: Aston Villa - Portsmouth at 10m, West Ham United - Liverpool at 12:30pm, and Bolton Wanderers - Stoke at 5:30pm. Championship on Setanta: Cardiff City - Queens PArk Rangers at 10:15pm. Click to continue reading...

Here are several important updates for subscribers to Fox Soccer Channel, GolTV and ESPN2:

• The ratings for last Saturday's Liverpool against Burnley match on ESPN2 (10am ET kickoff) were a 0.2, according to Nielsen. The game was watched in 196,041 households for a total viewing audience of 253,779,
• Fox Soccer Channel will offer a free preview of its network on the following cable networks in areas of the country between September 14-20: Comcast Denver, Comcast Fort Wayne, Comcast Indianapolis, Comcast Portland, Comcast Salt Lake City, Comcast Seattle, Cox Phoenix, Cox Tucson, Time Warner Columbus and Time Warner Kansas City,
• GolTV has acquired the TV rights to many of the Europa League matches.

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According to press reports this evening, the Blue Square Premier has been unable to reach agreement with the new boy in the British pay television market, ESPN. This comes as no great surprise. For one thing, lower division football doesn't exactly fit in with the profile that the nascent channel has built up over the last couple of months, a profile based upon top European football, Premier League football and American sports.

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Dude, don't get a Dell. Saturday morning was primed to be a bellwether test of trying to successfully cycle three different concurrently airing Premier League matches. Instead, it quickly morphed into an exercise in erring when my laptop wouldn't turn on. So goodbye Manchester City/Arsenal via my Setanta-I subscription. Click to continue reading...

MLS on TeleFutura: New England - Chivas USA at 3pm. EPL on Setanta: Birmingham City - Aston Villa at 7am. On Fox Soccer Channel: Fulham - Everton at 11am. Bundesliga on GolTV: Cologne - Schalke 04 at 11:30am. ESPN2 has a La Liga game scheduled for 11am, teams not available at press time. La Liga on GolTV: Xerex - Athletico Bilbao at 3pm. Click to continue reading...