After being upset on Tuesday at Gillette Stadium by an embarrassing 4-0 score line to Joe Public F.C. -- the fifth place team in Trinidad and Tobago's Pro League -- and missing out on the Group Stage of the CONCACAF Champions League as a result, the New England Revolution have a chance to regain some respect and first place with a much needed win in Columbus Saturday.

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Here is a link to an article written in the New York Times about how the New England Revolution and Chivas USA were knocked out of the CONCACAF Champions League at the preliminary round stage and they won't make the final 16 of the competition. At the end of the article the writer Jack Bell asks questions about whether the MLS teams are playing too many games, or whether the other clubs were better then they were originally given credit for. Click to continue reading...

I barely get into the house and it's 1-1 in the Open Cup final. Luciano Emilio scores for DC, and gets hurt. Charleston responds in the 10th minute with a nice finish after some sloppy defending. We have ourselves a match, ladies and gentlemen.

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Okay, I know league and international team aren't necessarily one in the same. You can have a strong national team but a crappy league, it's possible.

But does the Joe Public-New England score mean the US national team should worry for their match against Trinidad & Tobago on Sept. 10?

I mean, come on, how many of you predicted a lopsided rout in the Joe Public-Revolution match? Click to continue reading...

As I mentioned in my last post, I'm in the middle of moving into residence at York University, which means that this preview is going to be a little shorter than I would like it to be.

Tonight marks the opening match of a home and home series with Chivas USA. Unfortunately for TFC, a home and home includes a road game.

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The UEFA Cup draw was held this morning with eighty teams still in the competition. Winners of the next round, held on September 18 and October 2, will advance to the group stage round. FC Moscow will face FC Copenhagen (København) of the Danish Superliga in the next round. I will Click to continue reading...

Good morning to ya. I'm sitting here reading my morning emails and an Outlook reminder has just popped up telling me to set the DVR to record the opening matches of CONCACAF Champions League, which begins tomorrow night. So when I get home tonight and grab the remote to set up the recording I will hear my missus say something to the effect of "another week, another tournament. Click to continue reading...

Despite knocking on wood as often as possible, I hate to admit that I called this. DC United was consistently crappy early in the year, and was consistently victorious just before the start of Superliga, but at all other times of the season, we've been horribly inconsistent. The team once again failed tonight to string together victories. Click to continue reading...

I guess the monkey wrench in the 2008 MLS schedule was this week. We all knew these four clubs would be in SuperLiga and that their summer schedule would be a little funky. Well, this is the week they try to catch up with the rest of the league in terms of games played in [...] Click to continue reading...

Who: D.C. United at New England Revolution
What: MLS Regular Season
Where: Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, MA
When: Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. (TV38, Cox3 [R.I.])

Gone is the New England Revolution's lead at the top of the table, the lead they've had most of the season vanquished thanks to the team's first losing streak of the season.

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Rafa Marquez and his mates play as many games in the US as on Mexican Soil these days/ Photo from esmas.com

Many I speak to wonder sometime quietly why the Mexican National Team seem to play all its friendlies on US soil and not in its home country. These same people wonder what affect this has on the US National Team, as their big rival often plays to bigger and more vocal crowds.

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Rafa Marquez and his mates play as many games in the US as on Mexican Soil these days/ Photo from esmas.com Many I speak to wonder sometime quietly why the Mexican National Team seem to play all its friendlies on US soil and not in its home country. These same people wonder what affect this [...] Click to continue reading...

Diego's little daughter Giannina (left) got knocked up, by longtime boyfriend and Atletico Madrid superstar forward Sergio Aguero (middle).

Fortunately for the young Argentine, the legend (right) didn't seem very upset:

According to the Argentinean press, Diego Maradona has confessed to his fellow "showbol": "Boys, I will be a grandfather.

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Who: Chicago Fire at New England Revolution
What: MLS Regular Season
Where: Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, Mass.
When: Saturday, 7:30 p.m. (TV38, Cox 3 [RI], HDNet)

It's been over a month since the first-place Revolution defeated the Los Angeles Galaxy in their last MLS regular season match.

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BS Failed me with a db error so now I have to rewrite this. Anyways, I am late on the superliga... Click to continue reading...

It was rumored for a while, but now it's official - Pat Noonan will be rejoining Major League Soccer, except he won't be playing for the same team as when he left.The New England Revolution have re-signed the 28-year-old striker from Norwegian outfit Aalesund FK and have arranged a trade with division rivals Columbus Crew for the player. Click to continue reading...

After twice losing to the Dynamo in the MLS Cup the Revolution finally got one last night in the SuperLiga final.  Another close game saw the Revolution twice come back from one goal deficits to tie the game.  Once they did it in regulation and once again in the extra time.  The game could not even be decided by the normal 5 penatly shots.

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The biggest surprise in this game might be that Lawndale's Kei Kamara actually found the net for Houston. The second biggest surprise: so did Houston's Nate Jaqua, the former goal-averse Galaxy forward.

The attendance without any Mexican teams involved in the final: just 9,232

*From the (edited) Galaxy press release:

reserve goalkeeper Charles Alamo and midfielder Michael Gavin each suffered serious injuries in Sunday night's reserve game in San Jose (a 1-0 loss) and will miss extended periods of time.

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Everybody pretty much agrees that the regular season in MLS is a little bit long. There are so many ups and downs that it's difficult to maintain maximum focus every time you step on the field. In short, there are very few (if any) critical regular season MLS matches played in August: except maybe for this past weekend at R.

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Check out our photo gallery from the Revolution's victory in the 2008 SuperLiga Final. Click to continue reading...

The Houston Dynamo lost to the New England Revolution in the SuperLiga final on Tuesday night, but that setback didn't overshadow the fact that the defending MLS Cup champions are rounding into form at just the right time in MLS play.

Houston's 2-0 win over a quality Columbus squad showed just how well the Dynamo is playing as it moves toward its rightful place atop the West standings.

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The 2008 SuperLiga Tournament came to a close in dramatic fashion on Tuesday night as New England defeated the Houston Dynamo on penalty kicks. Matt Reis played the hero, stopping a pair of shots, including the final shot by Houston's Corey Ashe to give the Revs a second trophy to go with last year's U.

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The day after their SuperLiga win over the Houston Dynamo, the New England Revolution look to resign Pat Noonan...only to then trade him to Columbus, that's all according to the Boston Herald's Kyle McCarthy. The Crew are expected to send allocation money, a first-round draft pick and the rights to swap allocation slots to the Revs [. Click to continue reading...

A couple of defensive mistakes from the New England forced them to come from behind in both regulation and extra time, but the Revs fought back both times and eventually took the match to penalty kicks. Once there the team fell behind again, but this time came back and after 8 rounds emerged victorious 6-5 to claim the SuperLiga Championship. Click to continue reading...

Well, that certainly didn't feel much like a cup final--more like a mid- to late-season MLS game with some playoff implications. There were some really nice passages of play, but also a fair amount of thuggish Neanderthal-ball , as well as some truly awful crossing that made the crosses that connected for the Revs' first and Houston's second look divine by comparison. Click to continue reading...