As I mentioned on Monday with the release of our latest podcast, we are making some exciting changes at MLS Talk. One of these changes will be our new "Legends of MLS" series on both our podcast and website. Often times, MLS History is unknown or hardly written for the new fan. We seek to bridge a gap in understanding and recognition of certain players, coaches and clubs.

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After a very long and hard work, we are proud to announce that the new version of SL Predictor is up and running, offering a new experience for our members.

For the past couple of football season we tried to make all necessary adjustments to make SL Predictor a fun Virtual Betting Site combining the fun elements of football betting with the competitive elements of not only beating the bookie – but also proving your wits and superiority over the rest of SL Predictor members.

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Gooner Talk will be offline for a couple of days, starting from tomorrow, as we move to a new, improved server which can handle our traffic. This change means that the site will be more accessible and hopefully faster! Apologies for the inconvenience. Click to continue reading...

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Joe Cole's wife Carly is simply fascinated, nay, riveted by the latest Kickette site news, perhaps you'll be too? Click through to get an update on what's happening in the 'hood.

Community area: for those having trouble accessing the community area of the site, first we apologize.

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I was contacted by the folks at Killing Cancer. A charity to help promote the use and development of a little known cancer treatment PDT.

The club has also been involved in this and will send out brochures to season ticket holders. But either case, it's always better to reach out to a wider, more global audience as well.

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Pardon the overly extreme headline and this will be a short one, I promise but it's things like these that rub bloggers or independent reporters the wrong way. You would expect the mainstream media to follow basic journalistic etiquette; if it's a quote you attribute the source, or give credit where it's due.

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In a season which has already produced its fair share of talking points, the Premier League once more exploded into life after the two week recess, with a flurry of goals and a controversy set to dominate the back pages long after the match reports have faded.

On the up:

Manchester City

Let us forget for a moment the behaviour of Emmanuel Adebayor (more on which to follow) and focus upon an otherwise scintillating display of counter attacking football from Mark Hughes' team.

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How does one go about measuring greatness in football? I mean real, obvious, blatant greatness; that rarest of qualities. Today "greatness" is such a woolly, over-used term that sometimes we lose its meaning and start labeling all sorts of mundane, workaday things as "great". The evolution of language has distilled its meaning, reduced its potency, but we still know greatness when we see it.

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Will be a very short preview this. I think a lot has already been said post-Burnley that all we can hope for is a response from the side. We travel to Wigan who under Roberto Martinez are committed towards playing a positive, attacking brand of football. On the plus side, it means we should find more space when we have possession.

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So, the season is almost upon us! Tomorrow evening Arsenal will take to the Goodison Park pitch and begin their Premier League campaign with a tough-looking clash against Everton. It's not going to be an easy task especially with 6 players ruled out but Arsene Wenger's side certainly have the ability to get past a [. Click to continue reading...

The 09/10 Premier League season starts in 2 weeks and the inaugural Football Media Fantasy Football league is now open for business.

There are a host of prizes to win, it's free to join and it's based on the popular and very easy to use premier league fantasy football game.

How To Play

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The referee for tomorrow's U.S. Mexico qualifier is Roberto Moreno (after Joel Aquilar was apparently deemed to lack the appearance of impartiality he ejected Mexican coach Javier Aquirre during that Mexico Panama Gold Cup match). Roberto Moreno has officiated four U.S. matches in the past and has never issued an American a yellow card.

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The folks at the Guardian got in touch with us to inform our readers about their package titled, The Season. This is a preview package for the upcoming season and it includes comprehensive information and preview for all sides and for our purposes, lots of Manchester United as well.

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The 09/10 Premier League season starts in 2 weeks and the inaugural Football Media Fantasy Football league is now open for business.

There are a host of prizes to win, it's free to join and it's based on the popular and very easy to use premier league fantasy football game.

How To Play

1.

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It has been easy to laugh at Newcastle United in recent months, not that it makes it right of course. From Kevin Keegan's typically sudden departure, the frankly ridiculous resurrection of Joe Kinnear's top flight career, to the second coming of Alan Shearer, via Mike Ashley downing pints in a replica shirt, Dennis Wise somehow qualifying to be a Football Director, Chris Hughton taking charge of the team on an almost fortnightly basis, and finally, horror upon horror, relegation from the Premier League after a sixteen year stay at English football's top table.

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To one and to all,I'd just like to alert your attention to a couple of miscellaneous bits of site news and other stuff whilst we all take a short repose during the quiet summer months.First off,... Click to continue reading...

CONCACAF stands for (take a deep breath) the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football and is the body that governs the national and club football of North America, Central America, the Caribbean islands and also includes 3 South American nations; Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana.

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Modern football is a relentless beast - it's literally on 365 days an year, there's no break even during the summer (thank you transfer window, pre-season tournaments and weird international football schedules) and there's always the sideshow attractions - the obligatory footballer orgy or someone finding new ways to stick it to the Premier League.

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"Manchester United is my home. Even when I say my heart is here people still make things up. But this is where I want to play." - May 24, 2009

Question asked yesterday: "When did you know you would be going to Real Madrid?"

"After we won the European Cup I thought there is no more I can achieve here.

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A quick reminder to all readers: If you're a keen Twitterer or an avid Gooner Talk reader than don't forget to follow us @GoonerTalk! We'll be tweeting throughout the summer posting all the news that hits our ears. Our Twitter followers will even gain access to previews of our articles before they're even published! Click to continue reading...

If you haven't noticed already, Gooner Talk has undertaken a brand-new face-lift! The modernised, user-friendly theme was designed exclusively for Gooner Talk by Anthony over at Fantasy Creative. After consulting with some of our readers, we opted to stick with the 'blogger-look' and kept several features which were used on the old theme. Click to continue reading...

Aye aye - it's been a while, but we've decided to give Inside Left another go.

Ok, so to some it may seem about as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit, as pointless as fitting wheels to a tomato and as needed as a hole in the head, but look: it's summer, we've got a lot of spare time to fill and quite frankly, Scottish football and, in particular Scottish football web sites could do with a site that continues to wave the flag, fights the cause and brings Scottish football to the unwashed masses.

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We have been waiting for some announcements from the Newcastle United club, before we decided whether to continue with the Newcastle United Blog. This blog has become bigger than we ever imagined, and it now takes at least 6 hours of my time every day - now what was that about me retiring? We were going to [. Click to continue reading...

Beginning today with my visit to the US National Team training camp here in Miami until the end of the Confederations Cup my focus of this website will be almost entirely on the US National Team. With a minimum of five matches over the next three and a half weeks, all of the critical nature, my coverage of emphasis on MLS, WPS and USL will be put on hold.

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English Premier League - Final Day Live Blog
Date: 24 May 2009
Kickoff: 15:00 GMT, 11:00 EST

It's the last day of the English Premier League season and there's still plenty of suspense! Who will join West Brom in the Championship? Can Tottenham do the double over Liverpool?

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We have been informed today from the EPLTALK web-site, that our Newcastle blog has been nominated for best Best EPL Club Blog. This is what we have been told by Christopher Harris, the editor of EPLTALK this morning: I'm writing to congratulate you on being nominated for the following category in the inaugural EPL Awards: * Best EPL Club Blog The [. Click to continue reading...

Watch Chelsea v Barcelona Live!

Chelsea (Essien 9′) 1-1 Barcelona (Iniesta 90′ + 3) (Barcelona win 1-1 on Aggregate on Away Goals Rule)
Stadium: Stamford Bridge, England
Competition: UEFA Champions League, Semifinals, Leg #2
Date: 6 May 2009
Kickoff: 18:45 GMT, 14:45 EST

Barcelona pulled off a great escape and eliminated Chelsea to advance to the Champions League Final!

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Didn't have the soundest of sleep. So I'm in no position to write a preview. But please, do feel free to continue match discussion here so that the previous thread doesn't go slow.

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Ok we did one of these a few weeks ago and it lifted the mood a little, here we have a few search terms used to find this site in the search engines. Some of them are downright strange.

donkey gook lee
I had to chuckle a little at this one, quite an apt name for a player who looked shockingly out of his depth with Middlesbrough.

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Unless you have been hiding under a rock or completely disinterested in any sort of social media you will all know there is a new scoial media website on the block. Move over MySpace, Facebook and Digg here comes Twitter.

We thought it was hightime BoroMania got in on the act and allowed all of you Boro fans currently "tweeting" (I think thats right, you'll have to bear with me i'm new to this Twitter thing!

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We'll have more analysis of the US current World Cup Qualifying campaign and a look at the daunting stretch facing the US this summer later today. The CONCACAFÂ Gold Cup Draw is today. I will be on a conference call with FSC later today to officially unveil the Champions League coverage plans. The AP reports than FSC [. Click to continue reading...

At Soccerlens Shirts you'll find some of the best football tshirts around, starting with our first offering, the Evolution tshirt. The Soccerlens Evolution t-shirt is a remake of the popular 'evolution' shirt and is (hopefully) the first of many cool football shirts that we'll be releasing over the coming months. Click to continue reading...

While you still try to comprehend what Bayern Munich's historic annihilation of Sporting, catch up on what else you may have missed on Tuesday. Liverpool Crush Real Madrid to Advance to Champions League Quarters Business as usual and then some for Liverpool, as they advance to the Champions League quarters once again, with a resounding [. Click to continue reading...

The start of a new week usually means our attentions are turned away from the frivolous and back to the serious, and if you were occupied with work (or pretending to work) on Monday, allow me to catch you up on what you may have missed around the vast interweb. Could the 6+5 Rule [...] Click to continue reading...

The FIFA President has never been a big fan of English football, but his latest comments should cause a bit of debate.  Blatter has said he is concerned about the Premier League being the strongest in the world because other leagues can't compete in terms of finance and the English game has too many foreigners. Click to continue reading...