Monthly Archives: August 2008

As the English Premier League kicks off on Saturday, there’s more money, more hype, and more expensive imported players than ever before. Yet even before a ball’s been kicked, everyone knows there are only four teams that can realistically hope to lift the title. Most bets will be on Chelsea or Manchester United, with Arsenal […]

Scores from the first leg games of Thursday’s UEFA Cup second qualifying round.

Italian World Cup winner Daniele De Rossi’s father-in-law was killed Thursday in a suspected Mafia hit.

Edu’s national team colleague Benny Feilhaber has firmed up his move from Derby County to Danish first division club AGF Aarhus.

U.S. national team and Toronto FC midfielder Maurice Edu could be on his way to Glasgow Rangers for $5 million, reports Steven Goff.

The 46th Bundesliga season kicks off this weekend amid an as yet unsettled row about TV rights, reports Raphael Honigstein. The German Competition Commission looked into the league’s six-year, $4 billion deal running from 2009-2015 and found it “unacceptable,” concluding that centralized marketing was a de facto cartel, and that a free-to-air highlights program must […]

The news that Europe’s top leagues feature many foreign players is hardly going to stop the front page presses, but no doubt FIFA President Sepp Blatter will find the statistics useful in his ongoing crusade to try and contravene European Union employment laws. A study published Thursday by the Professional Football Players Observatory states that […]

How we sniggered last year when former RB New York Managing Director Marc de Grandpre said upon dismissing coach Bruce Arena that the expectation at owner Red Bull's HQ was nothing less than the MLS Cup. Now, says Pat Walsh, it may not be beyond the team to achieve that goal as early as this […]

Clint Mathis is to try a second spell at Real Salt Lake, paperwork pending, the team's GM Garth Lagerwey has confirmed. Just as England coach Fabio Capello hopes that marriage will settle Wayne Rooney down, Lagerwey reckons that the birth of Mathis' first child on Monday will help steady the wayward career of the forward […]

The South African government announced Wednesday that the cost of staging the World Cup will rise by a further 2 billion rand ($258 million). The overall projected costs will rise from 9.6 billion rand (just below $1.25 billion) to 11.6 billion (around $1.5 billion). Deputy Finance Minister Jabu Moleketi said the figure covered “all infrastructure” […]

L.A. Galaxy right-sided midfielder David Beckham is to appear on a London double-decker bus at the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.

Watch the video footage of a Dutch TV interview with new FC Twente manager Steve McClaren, the man with the personality of a wet winter Sunday in Detroit. Strangely, McClaren has adopted the accent of a foreigner speaking English. No Steve, this doesn’t mean you are now speaking Dutch.

Here’s the draw for round two of the English League Cup, the competition that no one wants to admit is 20 years past its sell-by date.