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The Day In Soccer: Rafa’s Replacements

Despite all claims that Rafa Benitez is going to finish out the season at Liverpool, Soccernet decided to do a list of possible contenders to replace him. That is certainly not a good sign if you are the manager and

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Live Blog Commentary Of The Premier League

I’ve been wanting to play around with this stuff for a while and I’ll give it a try tomorrow. I’ll be starting early in the morning at 7:30 and cover Stoke City-Liverpool, Manchester United-Burnley, and Everton-Manchester City games. Feel free

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Money Struggles In the Premier League and Gameweek 22 I Know The Score

This week has been filled with gloom and doom for the two biggest clubs in English football Manchester United and Liverpool. The week started with reports of Manchester United’s money issues. The Glazers announced a plan to raise 500m pounds

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The Day In Soccer: More Liverpool Embarrassment and MLS Draft Preview

The biggest news of the day has to be Liverpool’s elimination from the FA Cup by Reading. The loss pretty much was the worst possible outcome for a team that has both underperformed and been unlucky. They were hit with

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My Thoughts On The Birmingham-Manchester United Game

United will be disappointed that they could not defeat Birmingham as they dominated the game in terms of possession. United started off the game absolutely dominating possession but were not creating chances to trouble Joe Hart. Despite that Birmingham took

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My Thoughts On The Arsenal-Everton Game

The big news in this game at least from an American’s point of view was that this game marked the debut for Landon Donovan, who I paid particularly close attention to during this game. Everton started off very well putting

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Morning News: Premier League Fixtures Postponed, Viera completes Man city move, Dossean leaves Anfield, Thiago joins Atletico and Vidic out for 10 days

The weather is wreaking havoc in Britain as this weekend’s fixtures have been postponed due to weather making travel conditions to the stadium to hazardous. Fulham-Portsmouth, Burnley-Stoke, and Bolton-Sunderland have all been postponed and Liverpool are requesting that their fixture

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Premier League Offensive/Defensive Efficiencies and Gameweek 21 I Know The Score

In soccer there is always a challenge to somehow use statistics to figure out how things are going. I decided to give it a try by looking at the possession numbers as well as the offense and defense efficiencies. I

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Morning News: Adu to Aris is Official, Birmingham bids for Babel, Veron rejects Manchester City Bid, and Keller and Donovan talk about MLS CBA

There is some more transfer news as Adu completed a deal for an 18-month loan at Aris. This ends the speculation that he would be heading to Hull City. Liverpool attacker Ryan Babel has been the subject of a bid

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My Thoughts On The Manchester United-Wigan Game

This game is a bit old as it happened last Wednesday but I did not get to see it due to technical difficulties with Setanta until today. This was a nice match to watch after the debacle that was the

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