16:45 CET (10:45 a.m. Eastern) Friends, I'll throw the starting line-ups on here when they're
available, and any last-minute talking points. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments. If
nothing else, I'll pop in with my expressions of joy or despair at halftime.
Come on you Blues.
The first thing making the rounds is that Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will start for England.
Paul the Octopus is, at this point, nothing short of immortal. The octopus that will not die
could not die, even if he chose to do so, as there's simply too much money to be made on an
endearing mollusk medium.
The latest in a long line of postmortem reminders that Paul is everything that Vegas fears, just
perhaps slightly less slimy: he's getting a permanent memorial at the aquarium which has hit the
jackpot several times over already, hoping to inspire throngs of adoring Spaniards and fried
octopus lovers into pilgrimages.
When the game against Costa Rica in Lens was called to a close I had a mixture of emotions and
thoughts. I feel like France did better then the scoreboard showed. Costa Rica quickly showed me
that they're an underrated force. Let me outline what I feel were the good and the bad aspects of
the match
The Good:
Costa Rica Gonzalez's squad did very well against one of the best teams in the world
tonight.
The headline is not a typo. It indeed occurred: Marco Borriello scored the only goal as Juventus
defeated Cesena at the Stadio Dino Manuzzi on Wednesday to remain three points clear at the top of
Serie A. Days after their demolition of Roma in which Arturo Vidal, Andrea Pirlo and Claudio
Marchisio were superb and found all found the target, they as well as their teammates – looked
flat in.
Brazilian club Santos on Friday turned down an €8 million bid from Portuguese club FC Porto
for their midfield wizard Paulo Henrique Ganso. However, what seems to be rubbing people the wrong
way is club president Luis Alvaro Ribeiro's comments where he labelled Porto's bid as comical and
that it should have at least contained an extra zero for Santos to consider it.
it's the day when pre-season starts in earnest as those involved in European competition and
internationals over the summer are due back.
Scheduled to return today are Robin van Persie, William Gallas and Emmanuel Adebayor. I don't
know for sure but I suspect that due to Spain's run all the way to the final of Euro 2008, Cesc
might be given a bit more time off.
Futbolitinos, the transfer deadline window is now shut! Seedy
agents all became instant millionaires when "under the table" deals were finalized yesterday,
including Coutinho's loan move from Inter Milan to Espanyol
(above).
The agent of Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola has rubbished rumours that his
client is being courted by most of European football's biggest fish, claiming that no contact has
been made with any club be it Inter Milan, Chelsea or Manchester United.
Is it just me or are all the best sitcoms off to subpar starts this season? Hmm...Let's kick it off
with the best of four Jonathan Reis strikes from a 10-0 PSV rout of 10-man F-word. No, that is not
a typo.We don't often feature headers here, but check out this optical illusion job by Manchester
United's Mexico ace Javier Hernandez.
The hordes of internet mongs who populate most web forums read this headline as a massive typo,
when of course it's a purposeful and witty appreciation of a result that is somewhat better for the
States than England. Good work, NY Post eds.
Message to the aforementioned hordes of internet mongs (you don't know who you are): drop by
dictionary corner and check out the definition of irony.
Spurs beat Wigan 9-1 (not a typo) this weekend with England's own Jermain Defoe backing five of
the goals. A hat-trick and two thirds of way to another hat-trick.
My favourite thing about those five is the range it demonstrates in Defoe's finishing: From
movement in the box to close range acrobatics to sniper like accuracy from a wide angle.
That's not a typo - but I'm morose as well, after Rebecca Moros scored for the Freedom against
the Breakers, and all the blue team could come up with was a tie in yesterday's match. I am sure
that they wanted to pull off the win against the Abby-less Freedom ... and with Maren Meinert
there, no less.
Just when you thought you'd seen it all, today's transfer roundup will show you that you haven't.
England According to multiple reports, Chelsea may be set to make a €150m offer to AC Milan
for Kaka. No, that's not a typo. They've already reportedly made a €100m offer that Milan
paid no [...
For the record the very last website on the planet I would ever expect to see a story paralleling
the alleged Harkes-Wynalda affair to the current John Terry-Wayne Bridge scandal is FoxNews.com.
That's not a typo; the story is not on FoxSoccer.com but FoxNews.com?! It's just too bizarre..
In case you read Eric Wynalda's comments on Claudio Reyna in today's notebook and wondering what
the former U.S. forward and ESPN commentator is doing these days, the answer is he's in business
with Joe-Max Moore. See the clip.
Wynalda says he doesn't miss TV at all, and he's watching more games than ever while spending
time with his kids and occasionally playing with the PDL's Bakersfield Brigade.
Yes that is not a typo. The Seattle Sounders have announced that less than 1,000 season tickets
remain for the 2010 season. The 18-match season-ticket package includes 15 regular season matches
and three international friendlies to be played on the Xbox Pitch at Qwest Field.
"Our fans demonstrated their passion and commitment to the team by creating one of the best home
field advantages in all the MLS," said Sounders FC owner Joe Roth.
Hopefully a typo and not a sign of a whole new transfer tactic.
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Sotiros Kyrgiakos is a veteran who has enjoyed spells in his native Greece as well as in Germany
and one double winning season in Scotland with Rangers, however luckily for us Liverpool fans he
has only just turned 30 and not over a century old.
ESPN's football coverage is, shall we say, sub-par at best - which is fine, they do the others well
enough. The economic recession forced them to, presumably, fire all of their Soccernet copy
editors, resulting in strange typo after strange typo. And now they've got more faith in Frazier
Campbell than we do, putting Hull [.
Wow, Giuseppe Rossi is the way to keep the comments line burning.
So, let's talk about something else before the Brazil game.
Ordinarily, for me it would be WPS - I hope you enjoyed the goal on FSC Sunday, because that was
the only one all weekend. Ouch. It might be time for me to admit the St.
Conor Casey had 3 bright moments in 90 minutes of bad soccer from both teams as the Rapids defeated
the Galaxy 3-2 in LA on Saturday. The game started with the field tilted towards the LA goal as
Ihemelu, Cummings, and Casey hooked up for the second fastest goal in MLS history as Casey slotted
the ball home only 17 seconds into the match.
(P.S: If you access this site via "come.to/matchpix", please click the "Facebook" icon after you
click "HERE" when you want to view the album as that will redirect you to the album, thank
you)
S.League - Geylang Utd 0-2 Harimau Muda 03/05/12
Yazid Yasin - the pillar of the Eagles in difficult timesFirst "LIVE" TV shot of the season and
glad to meet up with the "guru" before he thought I disappeared.
Most of the Americans playing this week were kind enough to not score and make me miss a post.
However, Stabæk's Mikkel Diskerud bagged a brace in their 12-1 (not a typo) NM Cup victory at
Norwegian mites Høland on Thursday. You can see all the dozen damage done here.- Greg Seltzer
Tomorrow, the USA Bid Committee will present our bid book to FIFA, and to help spread the word and
support the bid, the soccer-loving nation will be exploding a "Tweet Bomb" at 1 p.m. CT to let the
entire USA know that we're bidding for the chance to host the World Cup and that we're pumped about
it!
Bank holiday *boilk*. Oh Germans and your delicious beer, why must you tempt me so? I am
eternally grateful to UEFA for rigging the Champions League draw so Arsenal played Barcelona and I
had a good excuse to go stock up at the Spanish pharmacies for their delicious, horse tablet sized
pain killers.
Please don't split on me, but I was moonlighting during the World Cup draw. I had been invited to
supply running commentary (read: incoherent ramblings made bearable only by the odd hilarious typo)
for another website alongside roughly a dozen other writers from all over the world, including
Englishmen exiled in Bangkok and Berlin.
There could be some good news (yes - that is not another typo) being reported in the Evening
Chronicle today as Newcastle owner Mike Ashley is in talks with the Singapore-based company. Alan
Shearer (with Dowie) - he could be smiling again soon - like the fans The Chronicle can reveal that
the far east strategic global [.
