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“I gave you access in South Africa and I shouldn’t have given you access. It won’t happen again. From now on, no matter how many miles you travel to get an interview, you won’t get one.” Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson claims he’s never speaking to the press again, ever. So there.

“In those moments of tension, when your pulse is going 180 a minute, we were happy because we had scored a goal and we only intended to celebrate it with the fans, because in this section we also had friends and family.” Barcelona defender Carles Puyol defends his team’s rejoicing after a late penalty-kick winner […]

“Relationships suffer, parents, your family, birthdays, weddings, vacations … that’s what makes what I do so special, because I sacrifice a lot to do it, and I wouldn’t change it for the world. Eight more years. That’s my goal, to get to 2016 — if my body allows me to.” Abby Wambach sets out her […]

The story that broke Monday in the Sports Business Journal about the Las Vegas Sports and Entertainment Group buying an undisclosed stake in the Columbus Crew was an exaggeration, according to both the team and Paul Caligiuri, the former U.S. national team player who is spokesman for the investor group. Shawn Mitchell reports both sides […]

It’s not just the injuries and the tight schedule that are killing D.C. United. It’s also the lackluster play, the poor discipline, the missing confidence and the inability to score. As Steven Goff observes following Sunday’s 3-0 defeat at FC Dallas, the regular season, like the team’s Concacaf Champions Cup campaign, looks like it has […]

Houston Dynamo’s Canadian midfielder Dwayne De Rosario was back home at weekend as his side traveled to play Toronto FC. He took the opportunity to let the Canadian Soccer Association know about player discontent on the national team. “There’s just so much to be said,” said De Rosario. “The players really have no say. And […]

It seems like only last week that Toronto FC coach John Carver was saying that if his team failed to make the playoffs, he would entirely understand if he was given the sack. After failing to beat the Houston Dynamo at home on Saturday — a result that effectively, if not mathematically, ended TFC’s season […]

Some would argue that with the prevalence of reality TV and the past decade’s obsession with celebrity culture, the dumb revolution has already happened. But then they didn’t watch New England lose 1-0 at Columbus Saturday, foolishly trying to play what its coach Steve Nicol condemned as “pretty passes.” “In the first half, if not […]

Another unhappy MLS coach was New York’s Juan Carlos Osorio, who was incredulous that his team could concede five goals at home, including four in the first half alone. Not that he’s going to go on about it. “I have been beaten before,” Osorio admitted. “But never in my life allowed four goals in the […]

“The issue is whether his flaws are really fixable.” Jen Chang addresses the problem of Eddie Johnson, the U.S. national team striker currently struggling at Cardiff City in the English league’s second tier.

“I think we tried to be a bit too gung-ho. We’ve got to try and have more of an English mentality. You wouldn’t have seven-eight-nine guys pushing up in the box trying to score a goal. You’d have six-seven-eight men back defending. Maybe we got to start doing that a bit more.” Two-goal Darren Huckerby […]

As part of an increasingly predictable trend, Everton is to appeal the straight red card shown to Tim Cahill for a late and clumsy tackle against Liverpool on Saturday.

“I would say the electric level in our heads was not high enough.” Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger offers a novel theory to explain why his team lost at home to Hull City at the weekend.

“It’s been a great season, especially compared to last, which was such a learning experience for me.” U.S. national team player Charlie Davies of Swedish club Hammarby talks to Ravi Ubha about coming to terms with being a professional.