Bath City defeated Weston-super-Mare 1-0 last night. It was an important victory. City are now in eighth place, but only four points behind second place Woking. A victory over Dover Athletic this coming Saturday will almost certainly launch City for the first time this season into a playoff spot. Holy change-of-fortune, Batman! Click to continue reading...

One deal that was expected to be a 'sure thing' today ended in frustrastion as McDonald Mariga slipped through our grasp and ended up signing for Inter in a co-ownership agreement with his current club Parma.
It appears as though a deal was agreed in principle, but as I anticipated a couple of days ago we ran into problems attaining a work permit for the Kenyan:

Mariga, who has 24 caps, met part of the UK criteria after playing in 75% of Kenya's games in the last two years.

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FIFA held the World Cup draw today for South Africa 2010. Everyone gave a gasp when the US first drew England who were the #1 seed in group C, because it was believed that with a European team there was a better chance of having another decent European team drawn. But as it ends up, the US looks a sure thing to advance into the round of 16 with a good performance.

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With Liverpool's fate in Europe sealed by the results of yesterday, there's nothing left to do but look forward. In doing so, it seems that there isn't a whole lot of agreement about Liverpool's priorities...

First there was Jamie Carragher, before yesterday's fixture, stating that there's no shame in ending up in the Europa League, and that Liverpool would be happy with the opportunity.

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Robbie Findley - MLS Player of the Week

Conference Semifinals Begin

Finally, after seven months of play the real contest for Major League Soccer bragging rights begins on Thursday night in Seattle. Who would have thought that Seattle, the newest team in the league, would be playing post-season?

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Now that we have officially qualified for the World Cup, it is time for the first installment of Bradley's Babes: 23 for 2010 our attempt to answer the question, "Who should we take along?"Â Â But instead of taking the standard approach doing our best to guess who Bob will take to South Africa we decided to focus on who we would like him to take.

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Now that we have officially qualified for the World Cup, it is time for the first installment of Bradley's Babes: 23 for 2010 our attempt to answer the question, "Who should we take along?"Â Â But instead of taking the standard approach doing our best to guess who Bob will take to South Africa we decided to focus on who we would like him to take.

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Last week it was rumored that there would be an announcement as to where Miami FC and the rest of the TOA would play. If it would be in the USL, MLS-2 or their own league. Today it seems the last two options seem more probable.
TSN reports that both the Vancouver Whitecaps and the Montreal Impact will be out of USL. Click to continue reading...

The 2009 version of this award could be contended between just players from Seattle. The league's newest club also boasts some (if not all) of the best newcomers MLS has seen this season. From Fredy Montero, Freddie Ljungberg, Kasey Keller, to Jhon Kennedy Hurtado, there's plenty to choose from when selecting the award.

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January move unlikely, free transfer in the summer a sure thing?

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Bordeaux have ruled out in-demand striker Marouane Chamakh leaving in January.

The French-born Morocco international was linked with Arsenal and West Ham in the summer, but a move failed to materialise.

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To paraphrase somebody or other, sports rivalries are born, not made. Or at least the good ones.
Which is why I have ahard time getting in line with the "MLS Needs Montreal NOW!.. (because of course all serious ideas from truly sincere BigSoccer posters who, you know, [i[really mean it[/i] are punctuated with lots of exclamation points and the word "NOW") ". Click to continue reading...

While Omar and his boys from Bahrain were shooting down the Saudis in the Kingdom, New Zealand were in that other Kingdom kicking it with the Hashemites. It was an experience. New Zealand won the friendly 3-1. The Hashemites ain't got game no mo'.
New Zealand fancy their chances now.

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With two weeks of Premiership action in the books, it's clear that some of the top Americans are struggling while one newcomer looks like a sure thing. Click to continue reading...

Bojan scored the final goal in Barcelona's 3-0 dismantling of Athletic Bilbao in the second leg of the Spanish Supercup to polish off a 5-1 aggregate win and horde yet another trophy.

Unlike most goals you see featured on blogs, this was not from an amazing distance or sniped with superhuman accuracy in fact, it was exactly the opposite.

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