Monthly Archives: August 2010

Transfer Window Closes With A Couple Big Moves

It was an active final day of the transfer window but most of the moves were small. The big moves of the day were Robinho moving from Manchester City to AC Milan and Sunderland getting Ghanian Asamoah Gyan from Rennes

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Bob Bradley Agrees To Coach The US Until 2014

Bob Bradley agreed to an extension with the US Soccer to coach the national team for the next World Cup cycle. The announcement ends any real chance that Bob Bradley will be making a move to coach overseas. It is

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Atletico Madrid 4, Sporting Gijon 0: Atleti Start Season Impressively

Atletico were coming off an impressive 2-0 victory over Inter Milan in the UEFA Super Cup and they could have taken Sporting Gijon too lightly. However, they started the season impressively as they defeated the northern Spanish side 4-0 behind

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A Very Early Season Look At Manchester City

It is still early in the season, but Manchester City have been somewhat of a conundrum as they have had two underwhelming performances against Tottenham and Sunderland on the road mixed in with an impressive home win against a somewhat

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Premier League Week 3: Things We Learned

The top teams got displayed their class today as Chelsea, Arsenal, and Manchester United got victories. Chelsea defeated Stoke City 2-0, while Arsenal got a good 2-1 victory over Blackburn. Manchester United finished the day off with a 3-0 win

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Major League Soccer: Gameweek 23 Preview

The race for the Supporter’s Shield is heating up as Los Angeles have dropped another game which has allowed Columbus to get within striking distance of the Galaxy. The playoff race is heating up as well as Toronto FC have

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Atletico Madrid Outclasses Internazionale To Take UEFA Super Cup

Before the Europa and UEFA Champions Leagues start in the couple weeks, there was the UEFA Super Cup which pitted last year’s winners Internazionale and Atletico Madrid. Both teams remain mostly unchanged form last season although Internazionale have changed managers

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Premier League: Gameweek 3 I Know The Score

I have gotten off to a terrible start so far this season in predictions with Chelsea being the only reliable team so far that I have stuck with so far. Nonetheless here are my picks for the weekend’s games.

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A Brief Look At The Europa League Draw

Yesterday, the Champions League groups were decided and today the Europa League draw was decided. Here is a list of the groups. Group A: Juventus, Manchester City, Red Bull Salzburg, Lech Poznan Group B: Atletico Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen, Rosenborg, Aris

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Weekend Watch List: Italian And Spanish Leagues Begin

All of the top five leagues will have started by this weekend with Italy and Spain finally getting started up this weekend. The other big game this weekend is the UEFA Supercup on Friday which pits Inter Milan against Atletcio

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