I don't ever like to tell Dominic Kinnear what to do, but what the heck. There's a first or 50th time for everything. Dear Dom, don't sweat the CONCACAF Champions League match tomorrow night against Olimpia. It's just not worth it. Fortunately for Dom, arguably the greatest coach-general manager in Major League Soccer history, he Read More
D.C. United are on the verge of a new era in ownership.
Philadelphia 76ers minority owners Erick Thohir and Jason Levien have reached an agreement to
become co-owners of United, according to sources cited by ESPN NBA writer Marc Stein. As part of
the deal, current United owner Will Chang will retain a stake in the club.
Another successful week last time out, with the punt on Robin Van Persie to score two or more goals
easily vindicated (and actually frustrating given that we should have predicted a hat-trick).
Forest and Sheffield United also came in as a double, meaning that our £30 stake returned over
£73. It's easy, I tells ya.
Chelsea captain John Terry has been found not guilty of racially abusing QPR's Anton Ferdinand
today. Chief Magistrate Howard Riddle delivered the verdict to a packed courtroom at the end of the
week-long trial at Westminster Magistrates' Court.
Terry was accused of calling the QPR centre-half a "fucking black cunt" during a Premier League
match on October 23 last year.
Liverpool have agreed a £12million fee to make Fabio Borini the first signing of new boss
Brendan Rodgers' Anfield revolution.
The Italian striker arrived on Merseyside on Friday morning and is expected to have a medical at
noon, after the deal was sealed when the English club offered Roma a swift profit on their
investment in the young striker.
Chelsea captain John Terry has been found not guilty of racially abusing QPR's Anton Ferdinand
today. Chief Magistrate Howard Riddle delivered the verdict to a packed courtroom at the end of the
week-long trial at Westminster Magistrates' Court.
Terry was accused of calling the QPR centre-half a "fucking black cunt" during a Premier League
match on October 23 last year.
It's the 88-89 Season, and I've been to every home game. One game left, away at Anfield, and our
first title in eighteen years is at stake. It's the most mustest of "must go to" games since ‘71.
One problem. I have also attended almost every home game for many seasons with three very good
mates.
It's the 88-89 Season, and I've been to every home game. One game left, away at Anfield, and our
first title in eighteen years is at stake. It's the most mustest of "must go to" games since ‘71.
One problem. I have also attended almost every home game for many seasons with three very good
mates.
bet365 has a fantastic free bet offer to add to the excitement as defending champions Spain get
their Euro 2012 campaign underway with a tough test against Italy.
Place a pre-match bet on this Group C game on Sunday 10th June and you will receive a free In-Play
bet to the same stake on the big match.
Ah, the final day of the Premier League season. Chelsea in recent years have become used to
having a massive say at the last, but not this term. A season that has produced little inspiration
from a league perspective will end with little well, nothing to play for.
Dead rubber this match with relegated Blackburn is.
West Ham's comfortable 5-0 aggregate play-off victory over Cardiff City ought to have been cause
for celebration in East London last night. But not for 'Chris'. 'Chris' was busy trying to draft in
a second-choice best man at short notice. OTP can deduce that 'Chris' is due to tie the knot on May
19, the [.
The U.S. Open Cup may still not draw the type of attention that is warranted of a tournament
that has been around for nearly a century. But that does not matter for the two teams competing in
this year's championship game, because they know all they need to about what is at stake.
With little turnaround time after their scheduled league clashes this weekend, the Puerto Rico
Islanders FC (NASL) and Antigua Barracuda FC will both head to Trinidad to compete in the final
round of this year's Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club Championship. At stake are three CONCACAF
Champions League berths.
The Herald in Scotland is reporting that Newcastle owner Mike Ashley is in advanced talks with
Rangers CEO Charles Green, Â to buy a 10% stake in the famous Scottish club, and to form a joint
venture to sell their replica shirts through the Sports Direct stores. Mike Ashley 10% stake in
Rangers plus a [.
Joe Lewis & Daniel LevyDuring the football investment boom of the mid to late 1990s ENIC began to
acquire shares in football clubs around Europe and bought stakes in Rangers, Slavia Prague, AEK
Athens, Vicenza Calcio and FC Basel.Â
They first bought a controlling stake in Tottenham in 2001 and over the next few years slowly
increased their shares in the club.
Elli Reed buried a 22nd minute goal to lift the Breakers to their first regular season title
since 2003 with a 1-0 win over the Western New York Flash on Sunday.
With the win, the Breakers punched their ticket to a semi-final match against the fourth place
Chicago Red Stars at 5pm on Jul. 25 at Sahlen's Stadium in Rochester, the site of this year's WPSL
Playoffs.
Katie Schoepfer's 13th minute goal gave the Breakers a lead it would not relinquish in
Saturday's 2-0 win over the Philadelphia Fever before a seventh straight sellout at Dilboy
Stadium.
Schoepfer's seventh goal of the season lifted the Breakers early while Courtney Jones added an
insurance goal in the 42nd minute to give the hosts a convincing win in their home finale.
While braving summer temperatures and humidity at Red Bull Arena, the New York Red Bulls and
Chicago Fire will take to the field on short rest with much at stake.
if the teams do not play to a draw, then the winner will move ahead of D.C. United into second
place in the East behind Sporting Kansas City while having played one more game than D.
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JR from HookNLadders joins me once again to take alook at the upcoming match between the Chicago
Fire and the New England Revs. Alot more is at stake in this match than just a victory. You have
two teams coming off incredibly poor performances and historical rivalry.
If you thought that yesterday the dust might settle a bit in the wake of Robin van Persie's
statement you couldn't have been more wrong.
There were whispers of a forthcoming statement from Red and White (Alisher Usmanov and that
other bloke nobody really cares about) and when it emerged it was really quite extraordinary.
Usmanov goes on the attack over van Persie by BA Alisher Usmanov was blocked in hia attempt to take
over Arsenal in 2009. The board manoeuvered a lock down to stop Usmanov's group (Red and White
holdings) from increasing their stake to the 30 percent that would have instigated a takeover bid.
In 2011 Stan [.
Nicklas Bendtner's agent Tom Brooks has revealed that several European clubs
are interested in signing his client.
The Arsenal striker, who is rumoured to be a summer transfer target for rich Spanish club
Malaga, spent the 2011/12 season on loan at Sunderland but failed to find any real form and managed
to score just eight league goals all season.
Puerto Rico Islanders Clinch Final Champions League Berth In a match that featured the second ever
clash between NASL and USLPRO franchises in an official competition, the Puerto Rico Islanders
managed to outlast a very game but exhausted Antigua Barracuda FC 2-0 in Marabella, Trinidad. At
stake, was much more than just "bragging rights" and [.
Rather than write a detailed match report, I wanted to do this instead. It was quite simply the
best footballing 12 hours of my life on Saturday and I am still buzzing over the fact that we are
Champions League winners!.
What I will say about the game is that Chelsea's determination and resolve shone through yet again.
Remember Il Pulpo Paul? The mystic octopus who was denounced by Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and then secretly assassinated by the CIA after 'predicting' a stack
of results at the 2010 World Cup? Remember? Paul? Okay? Well now forget him, because there's a new
psychic animal in town a llama from Ashdown Forest Llama Park in east Sussex (of course he's going
to be a Chelsea fan).
Wayne Rooney returns to the England side on Tuesday against co-hosts Ukraine, with quarter final
qualification at stake.
The Manchester United star missed the first two group games at Euro 2012 as he served a ban for
being red-carded in the qualifier in Montenegro for a needless kick.
He is likely to return to Roy Hodgson's starting XI alongside United team mate Danny Welbeck,
who scored Friday's winner over Sweden to put the Three Lions second in Group D, behind France on
goal difference.
A ruddy balls up, I tell you. Just as I was getting into the spirit of making money each week, I got bitten by Lazio's inability to hold on to a half-time lead and Morocco's inability to score against Angola. Still Watford's 4-0 win (I could have been a great deal greedier on that one [...]
Don't be surprised if the Manchester United Supporters Trust (MUST) won't be too happy about the
latest move regarding the famous Red Devils club. American businessman George Soros has bought a
7.85% stake in Manchester United. The Hungarian-born...
Italian football club Inter Milan says that a grouping of Chinese investors will go its second
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Brendan Rodgers is close to making Roma forward Fabio Borini his first signing as Liverpool manager
following lengthy negotiations in Italy.
Rodgers worked with Borini as a coach in Chelsea's academy and again at Swansea when the
21-year-old came on loan from the Blues in March 2011, scoring six goals in just nine appearances
in south Wales.
In the end, Kettering Town's wretched season ended with a whimper rather than a bang. They
finished the season with just thirty points, rooted to the bottom of the Blue Square Bet Premier,
and under the same ownership with which they began the season albeit under the apparent control of
a new "acting chairman" and with the future of the club hanging in the balance to the same extent
as it has been for much of the last nine months.
