No sooner have we waved goodbye to the Euro 2008 finals, then World Cup qualifiers are on our doorstep once again.
Last weekend saw the second round of matches in England, Germany and France, while the Spanish, Italian and Dutch leagues are finally set to return to action this weekend.
Manchester United pocketed the first win of their Premier League title defense and only the second in the last six visits to Fratton Park with a 1-0 victory at Portsmouth.
Portuguese international Deco gave Chelsea a 1-0 Premier League victory at Wigan when he curled in a superb fourth minute free kick at the JJB Stadium on Sunday.
Team Limey, along with everyone else over in Blightly, has been riding the rare wave of British sporting success that the Olympics have brought. We were brought crashing back to reality watching the drab 2-2 draw between England and the Czech Republic, and contemplated turning your favorite net-based soccer column into a fortnightly update on the happenings of the U.K. cycling, swimming and rowing scenes.
Is a fullback primarily an attacker or a defender? It's not an easy question, and there's no right or wrong answer. The word "back" might point strongly to the latter option, but soccer is a dynamic sport, and one of the reasons for its global popularity is that it's open to so many different interpretations.
Chelsea striker Didier Drogba could be back in action on Wednesday, when Ivory Coast face Guinea in a friendly international at Chantilly. near Paris.
Chelsea began Premier League life under Luiz Felipe Scolari by thoroughly outclassing visiting Portsmouth 4-0 on Sunday, while Aston Villa suggested it can improve upon last season with a 4-2 win over Manchester City.
England manager Fabio Capello recalled Wigan striker Emile Heskey on Saturday for the friendly match against the Czech Republic.
Samir Nasri marked his Premiership debut for Arsenal with a fourth minute matchwinner in a 1-0 victory against West Bromwich at the Emirates.
No sooner have we waved goodbye to the Euro 2008 finals, then World Cup qualifiers are on our doorstep once again.
Last weekend saw the second round of matches in England, Germany and France, while the Spanish, Italian and Dutch leagues are finally set to return to action this weekend.
Manchester United pocketed the first win of their Premier League title defense and only the second in the last six visits to Fratton Park with a 1-0 victory at Portsmouth.
Portuguese international Deco gave Chelsea a 1-0 Premier League victory at Wigan when he curled in a superb fourth minute free kick at the JJB Stadium on Sunday.
Team Limey, along with everyone else over in Blightly, has been riding the rare wave of British sporting success that the Olympics have brought. We were brought crashing back to reality watching the drab 2-2 draw between England and the Czech Republic, and contemplated turning your favorite net-based soccer column into a fortnightly update on the happenings of the U.K. cycling, swimming and rowing scenes.
Is a fullback primarily an attacker or a defender? It's not an easy question, and there's no right or wrong answer. The word "back" might point strongly to the latter option, but soccer is a dynamic sport, and one of the reasons for its global popularity is that it's open to so many different interpretations.
Chelsea striker Didier Drogba could be back in action on Wednesday, when Ivory Coast face Guinea in a friendly international at Chantilly. near Paris.
Chelsea began Premier League life under Luiz Felipe Scolari by thoroughly outclassing visiting Portsmouth 4-0 on Sunday, while Aston Villa suggested it can improve upon last season with a 4-2 win over Manchester City.
England manager Fabio Capello recalled Wigan striker Emile Heskey on Saturday for the friendly match against the Czech Republic.
Samir Nasri marked his Premiership debut for Arsenal with a fourth minute matchwinner in a 1-0 victory against West Bromwich at the Emirates.
With the English Premier League kicking off on Saturday, Team Limey took some time out to discuss the 2008-09 season with Arsenal and England legend Martin Keown.
Wayne Rooney has shrugged off a nasty stomach virus and will be fit to take his place for Manchester United as they open their defense of the Premier League title against Newcastle on Sunday.
Peruvian international striker Claudio Pizarro is returning to Bundesliga Werder Bremen on a season-long loan from Chelsea.
Portsmouth have completed the signing of French defender Younes Kaboul from Tottenham on a four-year deal for an undisclosed fee.
Premier League champions Manchester United beat FA Cup winners Portsmouth in a penalty shootout to win the Community Shield at Wembley on Sunday.
England international striker Wayne Rooney is struggling to make the start of Manchester United's Premier League title defense after picking up a stomach virus on his club's preseason tour of Nigeria.
Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari has admitted that star striker Didier Drogba is unlikely to feature for his side until the very end of August.
Italian champions Inter Milan completed the signing of Ghana midfielder Sulley Muntari from English club Portsmouth on a four-year contract on Monday, and then revealed no more players would be moving to the San Siro this summer.
Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari is targeting success on all fronts in his first season in charge of the English Premier League club.
Inter Milan have stepped up their bid to reunite England international Frank Lampard with former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho -- at the right price.
New Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari will launch his Premier League career with a home game against FA Cup winners Portsmouth on the weekend of August 16.
Gareth Barry scored his first England goal and striker Jermaine Defoe added two others as England strolled to a 3-0 win over Trinidad and Tobago in a friendly international.
Seven players involved in last week's Champions League final have been excused from England's trip to Trinidad and Tobago for their friendly international on Sunday.
FA Cup winners Portsmouth are planning a game against English league champions Manchester United in Nigeria during preparations for next season
Premier League Portsmouth beat second-flight underdogs Cardiff City 1-0 to win the FA Cup for the first time since 1939 and claim a place in next season's UEFA Cup competition.
Portsmouth and second division underdogs Cardiff provide the most unlikely FA Cup final pairing in years when they meet to decide the winner of the 127th edition of football's oldest competition at Wembley on Saturday.
Danny Murphy's 74th minute header saw Fulham escape relegation as a 1-0 win at Portsmouth completed a remarkable run of four wins in the last five games of the season.
David Beckham was named in England's squad for friendly games against the United States and Trinidad and Tobago as coach Fabio Capello keeps faith with the veteran Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder.
Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo has completed a notable awards double after being named Player of the Year by the English Football Writers' Association for the second year in a row.
Portugal international Cristiano Ronaldo has been named as England's top player by his peers for the second year in a row.
John Carew and Ashley Young grabbed two goals apiece to keep Aston Villa in the hunt for a European place and leave local rivals Birmingham deep in relegation trouble.
Everton's bid for a Champions League place suffered a setback as relegation-threatened Birmingham salvaged a late point at St Andrews through Mauro Zarate's 83rd minute equalizer.
Croatian striker Niko Kranjcar gave FA Cup finalists Portsmouth a 1-0 Premier League victory at West Ham on Tuesday
Premier League Portsmouth reached their first FA Cup final since 1939 with a 1-0 victory over second-flight West Bromwich Albion at Wembley on Saturday.
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson and his assistant Carlos Queiroz have been charged with improper conduct by the English Football Association (FA).
Ten-man Arsenal staged a stunning comeback to recover from two goals down at half-time to beat Bolton Wanderers 3-2 at the Reebok Stadium on Saturday.
Tottenham goalkeeper Paul Robinson has been recalled to the England squad following an injury to Scott Carson -- just a month after he could not get into the Tottenham team.
It's been nearly two weeks since English soccer was rocked by a set of extraordinary results in the FA Cup quarterfinals. But the scenes were so unusual, so unexpected and so refreshing that even now, they still warrant reflection and discussion.
David Beckham has been recalled to the England squad and is set to win his 100th cap in the prestige friendly international against France next Wednesday.
"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won." -- Winston Churchill
Cristiano Ronaldo finally converted after a string of chances to lift Manchester United back to the top of the English Premier League with a 1-0 win at rock-bottom Derby County on Saturday.
England goalkeeper Ben Foster will make his debut for Manchester United in Saturday's Premier League game against Derby County, only a week after making his comeback from a 10-month layoff with a cruciate ligament injury.
Frank Lampard hit four goals as doomed Derby felt the backlash from Chelsea's shock FA Cup exit with a 6-1 thrashing at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday.
England international goalkeeper David James has extended his current deal with Portsmouth until the end of the 2009/10 season.
Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has been ordered to explain his outspoken comments about referee Martin Atkinson after their shock FA Cup quarterfinal exit to Portsmouth on Saturday.
Barnsley, who eliminated FA Cup holders Chelsea and recent European champions Liverpool, to reach the semifinals of this season's competition, will meet fellow Championship side Cardiff City at Wembley next month, for a place in the final at the same ground on May 17.
Holders Chelsea followed fellow English giants Manchester United in crashing out of the FA Cup at the quarterfinal stage on a day of stunning upsets.
Ayegbeni Yakubu scored twice as Everton re-opened a three-point lead over Merseyside rivals Liverpool in the race for the crucial fourth spot in the English Premier League with a 3-1 home win over Portsmouth.
Barnsley have been rewarded for their shock upset of Liverpool with a home tie against holders Chelsea in the quarterfinals of the FA Cup.
Portsmouth's England goalkeeper David James saved a second-half penalty and the Premiership side moved into the last eight of the FA Cup when Preston defender Darren Carter conceded an own goal in the third minute of stoppage time at Deepdale.
Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp has rubbished suggestions that striker Kanu is set to join Australian A-league side Gold Coast Galaxy later this year.
Welcome to the Fabio Capello era. England's players got their first taste of the new headmaster's regime leading up to Wednesday's friendly with Switzerland in a situation reminiscent of the opening half of Full Metal Jacket.
The Premier League's plans to play some fixtures overseas has received a generally favorable reception from managers and owners, but Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson said he was angry that he had not been properly consulted.
Benjani Mwaruwari has finally completed his transfer from Portsmouth to Manchester City for an initial fee of $7.5 million.
Robert Huth dashed Kevin Keegan's hopes of celebrating the first win of his new spell as manager of Newcastle United, when he scored an 87th minute equalizer for Middlesbrough at St James's Park.
Young Aston Villa striker Gabriel Agbonlahor, the only new cap in England coach Fabio Capello's revised 23-man squad for Wednesday's friendly against Switzerland, is likely to miss the game.
Emmanuel Adebayor maintained his prodigious recent scoring rate with two more goals as Arsenal went to the top of the Premier League with a 3-1 win at Manchester City in the early kick-off on Saturday.
Jermain Defoe moved to Portsmouth from Tottenham on the final day of the transfer window but Benjani Mwaruwari's switch to Manchester City fell through.
Jermain Defoe was poised for a deadline-beating move from Tottenham to Portsmouth after the clubs agreed a fee for the striker who earlier on Thursday was omitted from Fabio Capello's first England squad.
New England coach Fabio Capello has omitted David Beckham from his first squad in charge for next Wednesday's friendly international against Switzerland at Wembley.
Cristiano Ronaldo increased his goal tally this season to 27 in all competitions as his double against Portsmouth saw Manchester United return to the top of the Premier League on goal difference from Arsenal with a 2-0 victory.
Arsenal returned to the top of the English Premier League with a 3-0 home victory on Tuesday night which left Kevin Keegan still seeking his first win since returning to Newcastle as manager for the second time.
Derby County became the fourth Premier League club to fall under the control of Amercan owners on Monday when a Detroit consortium took charge.
Premier League pair Michael Essien and Sulley Muntari scored as Ghana progressed to the quarterfinals of the African Nations Cup as group winners following a 2-0 victory over Morocco.
Manchester United have been drawn at home to Arsenal in Monday's draw for the fifth round of the FA Cup.
Czech Republic striker Milan Baros has returned to England's Premier League after completing a loan move to Portsmouth.
Nicolas Anelka scored his first goal for Chelsea and laid on another for Shaun Wright-Phillips as the FA Cup holders won 2-1 at Wigan to reach the fifth round.
Portsmouth have completed the signing of France midfielder Lassana Diarra from Arsenal for an undisclosed fee.
While these pages prefer to celebrate talent and success, sometimes incompetence and mismanagement equally deserve their place in the spotlight.
Just 24 hours after turning down the Newcastle job, Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp saw his charges slip to a 2-0 defeat at struggling Sunderland.
Manchester United returned to the top of the English Premier League after thrashing crisis club Newcastle 6-0 at Old Trafford on Saturday.
Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp has opted to stay with the club after rejecting advances from Newcastle to become their new manager in succession to Sam Allardyce.
Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp missed his club's scheduled pre-match media conference on Friday as speculation increased that he would be soon be appointed as successor to Sam Allardyce at Newcastle United.
Portsmouth, about to lose four key players to the African Cup tournament, have signed 18-year-old Swiss striker Danijel Subotic on a three-and-a-half-year contract from Basel.
Reading have agreed to sign Czech Republic midfielder Marek Matejovsky from Mlada Boleslav for a reported $2.8 million fee on a three-and-a-half year contract.
Manchester United strolled to a 4-0 away win over struggling Sunderland to return to the top of the English Premier League on Boxing Day.
Substitute Nicklas Bendtner headed home the winner with his first touch as Arsenal beat north London rivals Tottenham 2-1 to move four points clear at the top of the English Premier League.
Xavier Alonso is preparing to return to Premier League action hoping to help reverse Liverpool's fortunes after three successive defeats in league and cup.
Earlier this month, many Englishmen believe a savior arrived. And the savior was shepherded into a $1.5 billion stadium in the land of Wembley by three kingmakers from the Football Association. And later the kingmakers announced that a star had come to us from the south and swaddled only in his trademark multi-colored ZeroRH+ glasses and an expensive designer suit. Then we were told that Fabio Capello would be the next England manager.
Ryan Giggs scored his 100th Premier League goal as Manchester United beat Derby County 4-1 at Old Trafford and moved to within a point of leaders Arsenal.
Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp was upset by foul language directed at him from the terraces at Villa Park on Saturday.
Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp has protested his innocence -- one day after being arrested with four other men in connection with football corruption charges.
Premier League side Portsmouth have confirmed that manager Harry Redknapp is one of five men arrested on Wednesday by detectives investigating corruption in football.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice in as many minutes as Manchester United made light of Wayne Rooney's absence to beat Blackburn 2-0 to return to the top of the English Premier League.
Chelsea moved to within three points of the top two sides in the English Premier League by winning 2-0 at Wigan.
Manchester United scored four goals for the fourth successive game in a 4-1 victory over Middlesbrough at Old Trafford, while fellow title challengers Chelsea routed Manchester City 6-0 as the Premier League went goal crazy on Saturday.
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