Many are now familiar with the West Ham United Umbro 2009/10 home kit. However, at last night's MTV European Music Awards, rocker host Katy Perry donned a new incarnation of the Hammers kit to pay tribute to boyfriend Russel Brand's favourite soccer team. Katy's West Ham kit consisted of a corset and tight-fitting shorts. Click to continue reading...

Tonight's Big Match-Up is Florida State University vs. University of North Carolina

This great tribute video was emailed over to me this morning by Gloria Averbuch. It's a nice touch to remind us all that the impact of women's soccer is far greater than Wins and Losses. Check it out: http://all-access.

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Tonight, October 22nd, Chris Armas (a Chicago Fire legend) will be inducted into the Fire's Hall of Fame called the "Ring of Fire".� The presentation will take place tonight when the Fire play Chivas USA at 7pm central time.� If you live in the Chicago area do your best to make it out to Bridgeview but if you can't the game will be live on ESPN2.

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Could you imagine Marvel Wynne or O'Brien White getting racially abused in the BMO parking lot by a Toronto FC supporter? Not that I'm of the whole "there's no racism here, we live under Pierre Trudeau's beautiful multicultural rainbow where nothing ever goes wrong" school of Canadian self back-slappery, but let's just say if it happened, I suspect you would get headlines in every single national daily, weeks of op-eds about how racism persists in Canada, and anti-racist tifos in the south end that would make Dichio's tribute look like a bit of tissue paper. Click to continue reading...

Manchester United fans travelling to Anfield to watch their team play Liverpool at the weekend will be searched as normal as stewards look for beach balls.
Red Liverpool beach balls have sold out from the Anfield club shop, with staff suspecting United fans are snapping them up as they plan a 'tribute' to the goal Darren Bent scored for Sunderland against the Reds at the weekend. Click to continue reading...

This weekend Man United travel to Anfield to take on Liverpool. After Sunderland's controversial winning goal against Liverpool last weekend, Man United fans will be searched for beach balls. A Liverpool spokesperson has said that it will be a normal search policy.
Liverpool have totally sold out of their beach balls on their official site, they believe Man United fans have bought most of them. Click to continue reading...

The team just announced that Saturday will be a Salute to Fans. Here's there words. This is NOT the limit of their activities, but merely an introduction. Sounders FC to Salute Fans as Record-Breaking Inaugural Season Ends Owners to reveal permanent tribute to season ticket holders at Qwest Field RENTON, Wash. Click to continue reading...

Thanks to an email from a fan up north.� This video of the Red Patch Boys creating a large banner for Danny Dichio may be a bit long but its still pretty cool to see the tribute that they put on for their favorite bald striker. Man Dichio will always be a legend in Toronto.

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This is a loooong video so you may want to clear some time in your Outlook calendar if you intend to watch it. But since it's a clip of the Red Patch Boys creating thier outsized Danny Dichio tribute banner it's somewaht fitting that the video is super-sized; any banner that has to be carried by forklift desereves the director's cut. Click to continue reading...

Former Liverpool defender Glenn Hysen has paid tribute to Jamie Carragher as the Reds stalwart hones in on his 600th appearance for the club.
The vice-captain featured for the 589th time at Sunderland on Saturday and the Swede reckons the impending landmark is proof that he will go down as one of the club's finest defenders ever. Click to continue reading...

One of the misfortunes of living outside the United Kingdom and supporting English football is that when a legend dies, there are incredible heartwarming documentaries and news programs shown in the UK profiling that hero but they're unavailable due to rights restrictions where I, and many of you, live.

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From Dan:

The nature of sports being what it is, the greater outpouring of sympathy was for the one who survived ... but fan tributes aren't really equipped for innocent victims. A simple jersey number was enough for a very moving tribute for a recovering player, but a soccer game is an impossible context to show adequate respect for Ashley Roberta and her family's loss.

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U.S. fans play tribute in the ninth minute of their World Cup qualifier against Costa Rica to #9 Charlie Davies, critically injured earlier in the week.

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I'm a few days late with this, but here's Springsteen's tribute to Giants Stadium, from the opening night of the final stand there. Love the line about the Giants. And the mosquitoes. It's got a feel similar to Blood Brothers, but he also sounds a little bit like Dave Bielanko from Marah on it, which is a cool way of bringing the influence full circle.

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As defined by NSC reader Mike, for our purposes, a "dark horse" is basically anyone outside the 23 guys that USMNT coach Bob Bradley would choose if the roster deadline was tomorrow.At this late stage, he my well be right about that. However, it wasn't that long ago that a youngster came seemingly from almost nowhere to win a World Cup place. Click to continue reading...

Read the column here.

(Sadly the wit and wisdom of Brian Clough - or at least my attempted tribute to it in the last line of that column is apparently lost on the copy editors here; it should read "the top one," singular, not plural).

Check out the trailer.

I had the pleasure of speaking recently with actor Michael Sheen about the film and his role as Brian Clough.

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When one looks at the structure of small football clubs, it is impossible to conclude anything other than that these clubs would not be able to exist without people that selflessly give up their time for them. So it was with Pauline England, who was a reader of this site and sadly died earlier this week.

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Arsenal's greatest ever manager celebrated 13 years in charge of the club yesterday. The Gunners have since evolved from a team built on the traditional English attributes of hard graft, defensive craft and a team spirit forged in snooker halls and bars into a club synonymous with sophistication and breathtaking attacking flair. Click to continue reading...

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Firstly of course, this game will be remembered as a time when Ipswich paid tribute to the great Sir Bobby Robson and renamed the north stand of Portman Road in his honour. Lady Elsie Robson and her sons, Andrew and Paul were in attendance for the ceremony. Also, both teams wore special, commemorative kits for [. Click to continue reading...

If you thought Becks was sweet enough... I don't know whether Tutankhamun ever experimented with designer stubble, but if he did he might have looked a bit like this chocolate sculpture of David Beckham. A Manchester chocolatier had the bright idea of creating a tasty tribute to the ex-England skipper. Click to continue reading...

"Video: Ferguson pays tribute to Sir Bobby Robson" was originally published at Red Rants - Manchester United Blog. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool star Fernando Torres hopes to go on a goalscoring spree after his double strike in the win over West Ham.
Torres, who admitted earlier this week he was not at his best so far this season, scored the winner for Liverpool against West Ham late on to earn his side all three points. Click to continue reading...

Sir Alex Ferguson will lead the tributes to the great Sir Bobby Robson, in what is sure to be an emotional service of thanksgiving at Durham Cathedral today. John Carver with Bobby at Newcastle Sir Alex Ferguson and Gary Lineker will pay tribute at Sir Bobby Robson's memorial service. Some of the leading figures from world [. Click to continue reading...

Alan Shearer today paid tribute to the master, Sir Bobby Robson, calling him an incredible man. Bobby Robson next to his statue at St. James' Park Anybody reading this site regularly will know only too well, we are huge Bobby Robson fans, and Bobby could well be our number one � favorite in all of football. Click to continue reading...

July 4, Kamara scored for Houston at CAB and pulled out a white glove as a tribute to the late Michael Jackson.
Today, we acquired striker Kei Kamara from the Houston Dynamo for striker Abe Thompson and allocation money. Kamara comes to the Wizards with 14 career goals and three career assists in 80 MLS games (50 starts) over four seasons. Click to continue reading...

After a mid week international break, we resume the La Liga with some pretty descent matches and almost as much controversy as a Michael Jackson tribute tour! Our friend Juan over at Heads or Tails tells us to keep an eye out for a "demonstration" by Atlético Madrid fans after ... Click to continue reading...

MARKHAM - This story probably should've ran two weeks ago, but on the heels of his pending departure and absence over the next two games (yes he'll miss the semi's and the finals), it is only fitting that the club pay tribute to the new King at Pistolas FC: Steve Ward.
Almost as if in a coup d'etat fashion, Steve Ward took advantage of a crippled leader, Charles, and surpassed him for the All-Time Goalscoring Title, notching his 11th career goal in the final game of the season versus Inter Selects. Click to continue reading...

I've joined my fellow members of the Liverpool Supporter's Club of Chicago in getting our blog up and running. In addition to cheering on the Reds at The Globe, many of us get kitted up on Sundays and play in a co-ed rec league. The summer season ended in familiar style for LFC with a second-place finish. Click to continue reading...

"It's not about money."
Sol Campbell insists his move to Notts County was all about the challenge.

"An English player would be nice, because I think we have enough foreigners. Someone like Andy Reid?"
Stoke fan on the radio, speaking about Sunderland's Dublin-born midfielder. Click to continue reading...

Kaká: He belongs to Football!
Originally uploaded by tsevis Otra ilustracion que me ha gustado, el clasico Sudamericano se acerca y mi apuesta es por Brasil como podran darse cuenta.
Experimental illustration of Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite aka Kaká, paying tribute to the Theory of Space in Gestalt Psychology (Teoria dello Spazio Gestaltico). Click to continue reading...

It may not have been the victory they wanted but the Bordeaux FC took their 0-0 draw against Marseille as a victory. Bordeaux are the winners of last season's Ligue 1 cup after winning against Marseille. Understandably Marseille wanted to prove that they should have won the title but were unable to score.

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If� Newcastle� can draw or win tonight's game against Leicester City, the Tyneside club will go top of the Championship League, before August is out. And that has to be a tribute to Chris Hughton the gentleman coach who has done wonders since July 1st on Tyneside. And it may be fitting for those [. Click to continue reading...

Huddersfield manager and Toon old boy, Lee Clark, a figure still held in much esteem on Tyneside, has paid tribute to the managerial dynamic duo of Chris Hughton and Colin Calderwood. Speaking after his side's nailbiting encounter with the Magpies, he said of the pair: "Chris and Colin have done a magnificent job to focus on [. Click to continue reading...

How many times have you been on the BBC Sport or ITV Football website and you've been intrigued by a video that the publisher is promoting only to find out that a rights restriction message pops up when you try to play it? It's frustrating especially given that BBC Sport began preventing international visitors from even watching post-match football manager videos.

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