Two teams left, one cup to play for. The long and difficult MLS season has been successfully navigated by Real Salt Lake and Los Angeles Galaxy. On Sunday, the season comes to an end and MLS will crown a champion.

In the city where MLS has been a runaway success this season, a one club will emerge victorious.

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Two teams left, one cup to play for. The long and difficult MLS season has been successfully navigated by Real Salt Lake and Los Angeles Galaxy. On Sunday, the season comes to an end and MLS will crown a champion.

In the city where MLS has been a runaway success this season, a one club will emerge victorious.

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After coming off the first leg with a comfortable 2-0 lead, Barca should have no trouble cementing their qualification to the last sixteen of the Copa with tonight's match. We've got the added advantage of playing at home, plus the boys are looking to be in better form after the 4-2 triumph over Mallorca. Click to continue reading...

Video highlights of Newcastle United's 3-1 triumph over Peterborough at St James's Park yesterday, including free bedsheet protester! Includes goals by Gutierrez, Carroll and Simpson, and a consolation from Peterborough's Dean Keates. For Bowburn Mag's full match review, click here. Share this on del. Click to continue reading...

! Article Start >Speaking in his post match interview after after Newcastle United's 3-1 triumph over Peterborough, Posh manager, Darren Ferguson, gave fulsome praise to Newcastle United, and unpopular London manager, Chris Hughton. He even went as far as saying that his Peterborough United team played the club who WILL win the Championship on Saturday. Click to continue reading...

Lizzy Hildebrandt scored in the 15th minute Friday as Memphis blanked the Colorado College women's soccer team 1-0 in the semifinals of the Conference USA tournament in Dallas.

Memphis advances to Sunday's title match against regular-season champion Central Florida, which claimed a 1-0 triumph over Alabama-Birmingham in Friday's other semifinal.

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Rushed this week as I prepare to host a dinner party. Middle class excess and all that. Still I hold on to the fact that I'll always be more Morrison's Value than Bullingdon Bertie. Such small moral victories keep us on the side of the righteous.On football matters I have been a bit detached this week. Click to continue reading...

For those of us that follow a major European team, there is a weekly pattern that develops over the season. After the weekend game, many fans like myself spend a couple of days absorbing commentary about the game. Youtube is scoured for clips and the blogs are mined for insights.

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For the second time this season WBA won 5-0 this afternoon, and with the 3 points go one point clear of Newcastle at the top of the Championship on 28 points. Nigel Pearson - has done wonders at Leicester City Their other 5-0 league triumph was at Middlesbrough on 19th September, and that may well have been the [. Click to continue reading...

Javier Mascherano has warned Liverpool that Sunday's victory over Manchester United will count for nothing if it is not the start of a winning run.
Fernando Torres and David Ngog scored the goals to earn a 2-0 success at a deafening Anfield, but Mascherano played an equally influential role. Click to continue reading...

The team kicks off their group stage matches today against Spain. The game is at 1pm Central time and can be seen on ESPNU, Galavision and ESPN360.com.
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Paul Kennedy of Soccer America tells us about some of the top players on this USA team.
FIFA.com with a preview of the USA team. Click to continue reading...

Chelsea continued to hammer their opponents. After a 4-0 triumph over Athletico Madrid, the Blues annihilated Blackburn Rovers 5-0 at Stamford Bridge. Things started on the wrong foot for the Rovers, as the home side went into the lead with an own goal from Gael Givet in the 19th minute. Ever since that, the game took [. Click to continue reading...

Is the Bernabeu triumph a sign of what we can expect from now on this season? Tomorrow nights clash against the Chievo will answer this question to some degree. What we do know however is that Milan will enter this clash with a new found confidence and unity that was missing in the earlier stages [.. Click to continue reading...

These are exciting time for Newcastle Jonas Gutierrez but he has come crashing back to earth after Newcastle's two defeats since he returned from Argentina's triumph in qualifying for next summer's World Cup Finals in South Africa. Jonas Gutierrez - helped Argentina qualify for World Cup finals Jonas talked about Argentina's dramatic qualification today: "We needed to [. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal will be without Theo Walcott for their Champions League group game with AZ Alkmaar tomorrow evening, after the Englishman was ruled out for 3-4 weeks with a knee injury. The 21-year-old sustained his injury during the 3-1 triumph over Birmingham City at the weekend, while fellow midfielder Tomas Rosicky is also missing from the squad [. Click to continue reading...

Don't you love it when futbolitos do that to the camera? We do! And Nicolas Gaitan has every reason to celebrate after scoring a brace in Boca's 2-1 triumph over Tigre yesterday. Alfio Basile's men have been fighting hard this season so we should stop calling him Ursula.

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So FourFourTwo have released their list for the top 100 players in the world today. We all know who the top two will be but in which order? And how many spanish players will make the top 20 following their Euro 2008 triumph and 100% World Cup qualification record?

I cant be bothered to put the full list on here because personally I couldn't give a toss if Darijno Srna is the 66th best player in the world.

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The fact that Sampdoria are on top of Serie A after six rounds may be surprising to many people. Some will say it is luck. Some will mention Cassano as the power engine of the team that makes others better players and some might say that Samp used the starting failures of big clubs and things will eventually fall into place.

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With six games left in the regular season, the San Jose Earthquakes notched their first away win, a 2-1 triumph over DC United. The victory broke a 20-game winless streak on the road going back to June 7, 2008. "It was a long time coming," Quakes coach Frank Yallop said. "We have been very close recently to getting a win on the road. Click to continue reading...

So im casually perusing around ebay and i come across a.....World Cup for sale!! It is an exact replica issued by the Argentinian FA after their 1986 triumph in Mexico The description says : ONE OF A KIND A RARE MEMORABILIA ITEM issued by Argentina Football Association (AFA) given to Argentina National Team champions players for the World [. Click to continue reading...

The Boys are Back in Town!

It was good to see us triumph over Burnley on Saturday and I believe there were a number of good reasons for the renewed vigour displayed by the players on the pitch at Anfield on the weekend, and here they are.

Early Goal

It seems obvious but we always perform at our best when we get a relatively early goal.

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Brian Howard won our September survey of the best deadline day deals, cantering to victory with 19 votes, with surprise Wigan cast off Ben Watson finishing with 8 and the rest nowhere. The Wykehamist returns to southern climes after a picaresque spell in South Yorkshire and his triumph might just have something to with a link to this site posted on the esteemed message boards of hobnobanyone? Click to continue reading...

MARKHAM - As Pistolas FC try to concentrate on their tough task at Inter Selects in this Sunday's 5:00 pm semi-final, a whirlwind of events have unravelled in the league leaving the other semi-final in shock.
This past Sunday at 7:00 pm, following the Pistolas FC game, the Wildcats took on Practice FC and went on to win by a score of 2-1. Click to continue reading...

Steven Gerrard believes Liverpool's dramatic 3-2 victory at Bolton will kick-start their title challenge.
The skipper grabbed a stunning late winner at the Reebok Stadium to ensure the Reds bounced back from their defeat to Aston Villa.
The international break means Liverpool are without a game for a fortnight but Gerrard is confident they will build on Saturday's triumph. Click to continue reading...

"The fibers of this team are so close and so that that nothing was going to break us." Sky Blue FC's Heather O'Reilly (left, with Natasha Kai) on her team's triumph in the inaugural Women's Professional Soccer championship game. O'Reilly scored the game's only goal in the 16th minute and the New York/New Jersey franchise held on to defeat th heavily-favored Los Angeles Sol.

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Before I had a chance to read The Beckham Experiment by Sports Illustrated soccer writer Grant Wahl, I surmised that it could end up being the most important piece of American soccer journalism (while certainly there are a number of incredible pieces of soccer literature, never has the story taken place nearly exclusively in the good ol' U. Click to continue reading...

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Liverpool are ready to make an offer for Rafael van der Vaart, the Real Madrid midfield player. However, given that the Holland playmaker would cost about £10 million and Benítez has nearly exhausted his budget, there is little chance of a deal.

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What a weekend. A sporting achievement that mesmerised all who saw it. The combination of power and speed, the complete triumph of athleticism over what was considered possible. Fantastic.Sadly Usain Bolt doesn't play in the SPL. While Bolt was stopping the world for a little under 10 seconds the SPL was slowly chugging back to life looking for all the world like an obese, chain smoker trying to Click to continue reading...

What a weekend. A sporting achievement that mesmerised all who saw it. The combination of power and speed, the complete triumph of athleticism over what was considered possible. Fantastic.Sadly Usain Bolt doesn't play in the SPL. While Bolt was stopping the world for a little under 10 seconds the SPL was slowly chugging back to life looking for all the world like an obese, chain smoker trying to Click to continue reading...

Die Cottbuser Jungprofis Miatke und Bittroff sind pures Balsam für die geschundene Lausitzer Elternseele. Denn bisher war die regionale Jugend einzig dafür bekannt, sich bei bumm-bumm Musik die Hucke vollzubechern und dann mit Papas Schlitten um den nächsten Baum zu wickeln.

Was haben Waltraud und ich bei unserer Tochter nicht alles mitgemacht!

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Following the billboard that Man City paid for in Manchester City Centre last week. Sir Alex Ferguson has clearly been rattled by City's antics and has decided to go out on the offensive by launching some blistering attacks on the Eastlands club.
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Fulham have been offered the chance to sign Christian Poulsen, the Denmark midfield player, from Juventus. Poulsen, who has also played for Seville, rejected a £6 million move to Fenerbahçe.

So says the Times window watch (confirmed stories.

Ever since the 1986 World Cup I've been excited by Danish footballers.

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The Argentinian Clausura championship finished at the weekend with a remarkable battle between the top two sides. Read how Vélez Sarsfield beat Huracán to win the title in the post below and use the vocabulary list at the bottom of the page to help you with your comprehension.

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Manchester United have agreed a fee to sign Charlton Athletic and Ireland u17 international youngster Sean McGinty.
The Premier League giants have reportedly reached an agreement for a compensation package for the youngster, and now McGinty looks set to join the youth ranks at Old Trafford. Click to continue reading...

They Think It's All Over... draws four conclusions from Brazil's Confederations Cup semi-final triumph over South Africa. Click to continue reading...