Dawn Tewy. 1-0.

Damn it. He IS the white Peyley!!
Nice shot with the left foot.

Doomed to score

Terry showing some striker skilles

WOO!

There's only one JT.

Nice play by Shevchenko and Drogba there. Offside though.

Dunno how long is left but you can watch it here: http://www.searchxfree.com/shangai.htm click 6543. GD-Sports

Those commentators are so obsessed with Beckham

He's ready to come in. I can't stop my tears

Cheers pal.

*cough* Portugal vs Al-Salmiya *cough*

Chelsea are gonna get owned by Al-Qadissiya!!!

there's too much pressure on beckham and the club. they're expecting a ronaldinho out of him!

best of luck to him though!

I think if there's one player on the planet that knows pressure, it's him.

I just hope he can make fans out of some of the people over there, if the US ever catches on to the beautiful game, it would be so much bigger!

Celtic, Tottenham... ?

I thought he'd go to Manchester United or Chelsea.

How come people talk about him being so good if he's worth nothing?

Haha Real Madrid, Milan, Barca and this kid could potentially end up with Celtic and some people complain about English hype

Exactly. At least with alot of our guys, they've actually proved themself worthy in a top league and a top international competition.

Watching ManUtd 3-0 Schenzen (Chinese team) ... still on the 2nd half

Nani already scored. And Rooney looks really bad with the #10 shirt.

... When he first shot to fame, I remember seeing him on the tonight show .. He could barely speak english ... and everyone taughted him to be a real star in the making ... Kind of like Pato now .. And today, he is going to Celtic

It definitely is the hype .. I mean he is a good player, but he is no Kaka' or anything ..

Not yet official. I think he'd prefer an EPL team.

Anyway, joke of the Summer: Adu heading to Benfica. Pathetic.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19905523/

Ljungberg just signed for West Ham.

Ohh dear, now what is to come of Arsenal

I'm guessing, at best they'll finish 4th again .. They have sold their most effective and experienced players .. Next thing u know, they'll be moving the players in a school bus (18 or younger only..)

I heard Sheff Utd are going to give Kluivert a trial!

West Ham announces the friendly match vs. AS Roma.

/me dies

Dirty fecker won't play the Community Shield vs. Chelsea 5 of August.
United just got screwed.

Well, United have a chance to try out their young players for the start of the season ... The community Shield hehe yeah, it's Mourinho's cup now

In fact... Mourinho lost it to Liverpool last season.

BTW, can't wait to see Inter trash Manchester United and Aston Villa in the 2 friendlies they've in August.



Rooney, Ronaldo and Nani. Get your a**** ready for some Matrix show in Old Trafford.

I wouldn't expect any less from a Zlatan fan

I'm with Villa for this one ... But some how I have this feeling that Villa will loose by a BIG margin

But United ?! I kind of like SAF for his words after we humbled his team in Milano

I woud never hope for a merda win!!!!!

I hope merda get hammered

I never really thought about it, I just though 'Woo! I'm going to see Inter'. But now when I think of it.. I'M GOING TO SEE MATRIX AND ZLATAN!


I think you're confused, it's Birmingham that lose by a big margin every week, silly R7.

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/newstadium/

Simply stunning. Breathtaking.

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/newstadium/image...STADIUM-ex2.jpg
http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/newstadium/image...STADIUM-in1.jpg
http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/newstadium/image...STADIUM-ex1.jpg

It does look good, but you can see in from outside by the looks of it and you may know what scousers are like

I think it looks ugly.


Anyways Villa had a friendly tonight against Toronto FC. I never saw it, but was informed by few people that we played pretty well. Luke 'better than Rooney' Moore bagged a hat-trick and John Carew got the other.

FT Toronto FC 2 - 4 Villa.

FT Salzburg 1 - 0 Arsenal

FT Feyenoord Rotterdam 1 - 1 Chelsea

FT Doncaster R. 1 - 0 Wolverhampton W.

FT Port Vale 3 - 2 Manchester U.

Other results today, very poor results for the bigger sides.

http://www.mcfc.co.uk/default.sps?pageid=1...h=7&toyear=2007

City just sign Petrov and it seems that Elano can sign too in the next few days. Good team.

City are quickly becoming my fave english club with an influx of italians

Bianchi, Corradi, Blasi and Chiellini (i hope not though) possibly

Portsmouth just won the Asia Trophy in penalties vs. Liverpool. Fernando Torres and Benayoun missed.

David James was the man of the match. He was brilliant. Liverpool totally dominated Pompey, Torres got 45 min. Muntari was good too on Pompey side. Nice match. Too bad the 0-0.

Scousers thinking:
"SELL TORRES. GET FOWLER. At least he knows how to score a fecking penalty!"

At first I thought this guy looks awful but he got into it and was far better than Kuyt in the second half not like that's too hard though. He didn't even know he was playing until Harry Redknapp the Pompey boss told Benitez that he did actually have international clearance for the game!

Sissoko, I never realised how good he was!

Fernando Torres is top-quality. Not much to say... Totti missed 5 or 6 penalties and dozen of sitters this year. Same with Ibrahimovic who even missed one in the UEFA XI vs. ManUtd in Old Trafford (hit the bar ). Kaka' too. Not to talk about Baggio... It's funny usually the best players in the team miss.

All Torres need is patience. Time to get settle... it's the first time he goes to a club outside of Madrid and he's still 23. The quality is not the question.

Sissoko? He was OK but Mascherano is world-class. Way better. Although Sissoko could be in the first 11 in 80% of the European teams. The problem is that with Alonso, Leiva, Mascherano and even Gerrard (although he's going to be on the right) it's difficult to play.

PS: Benitez is worried about his goatee. Not about Torres international clearance.

Talking about penalties... Henry missed one yesterday. And Torres played better than him.

Could anyone possibly have played worse?

I need to thank Barcelona for taking this has-been off the market.

Adriano. After a night-meeting with his friend Alcohol.

Nah not doubting him at all he was one of the players I'd really have loved to see in the San Siro this summer...

Yeah although Leiva won't/shouldn't get a look in yet in all honesty, he's nothing to the others at the moment anyway, watching him earlier reminded me of the days of Igor Biscan

I think Gerrard will be in the centre now, Benitez will use Benayoun, Pennant, Kewell and Babel out wide so Gerrard has to play in the centre now, surely!

He looks so stupid with it, he reminds me of Brandon Flowers out of The Killers I mean why it just really doesn't suit them but nevermind!

Leiva is quality too. Milan and ManUtd were after him too. Too young though. [Biscan? THE LEGEND! ]

The problem in Liverpool is that they would need a 'Cristiano Ronaldo' on the right and a 'Arjen Robben' on the left to put Gerrard in the middle.

They've Mascherano and Alonso for the center. 2 world-class players. Plus Sissoko, plus Leiva in long-term.

Liverpool is, IMHO, the club with better center-midfield in Europe if you look at the number of players they've for that position and their quality.

If it was in Italy or Portugal... I've no doubt Benitez would use the 4-4-2 diamond. But in England it's difficult. Playing with no wingers...

Villa's second friendly against an MLS side kicked off about 10 minutes ago.

Columbus Crew 0-1 Villa
Ashley Young with the goal.

EDIT: 2-0. Gareth Barry '11 minute. BARRY FOR ENGLAND!

EDIT 2: 2-1. Garey on '76.

EDIT 3: '91. Luke Moore's 4th goal in 2 games. 3-1!

..Full Time. Columbus Crew 1-3 Villa. w00t!

9' Newcastle 1-0 Juventus

A BIG DIVE by Milner... penalty and Luque put it in.

Iaquinta sucks.

I'm laughing like hell right. Damn.

Juventus most pathetic players 07/08:

-Molinaro: Can't attack, can't defend... a joke.
-Zebina: Old but a good joke as well.
-Iaquinta: The worst striker in the last 10 years of Juventus. Zalayeta and Miccoli are WAY better than him.

Almiron and Tiago were good buys. Same for Grygera and Andrade.

I've never heard of him myself. Tennie/Warchant or anybody else from the States know about him?

He is 18 year old soccer player in the U.S. It's hard for anybody to know him...

I've known Freddy Adu since he was about 13, Landon Donovan was very young when he first became noticed as well.

80% of people here don't even know who the f@ck Freddy Adu is... 3 years ago when I was in high school, in our match practices (varsity team) kids wore all these jersey from Major European teams (Milan, Inter, Barca, Man U) and they didn't have the slightest idea about any of them...

During the World Cup, I was the only one who actually followed the U.S national team in our frat. And the ones that watched a couple of games were in it for the "insane tackles" (fouls)...

And the best part, when Juventus is playing, they wonder why there are bunch of referees running around in the field...

There might be a hype that soccer is becoming big here, but that's just horseshit. Cause at the end of the day, Americans don't get this sport. It's different growing up here for boys. Girls, yeah... That's their number one sport. But guys? I mean I go to the University of Minnesota, number 4 university in the country in terms of enrollment. We get major funding and attention for most of our teams, but when it comes to soccer? There is this guy who trains these people and if we can find a goalie, we might play some games...

America doesn't need to discover soccer, they already did and said: Meh...

Well I know plenty of college teams with 'soccer' teams.

I disagree there. What makes you say the US 'discovered soccer' and didn't like it?



You make it sound like people over here know these teams. If I was to ask my mom if she knows ANY Milan player, she wouldn't. Alot of the female members of my family couldn't tell you who Scholes, Giggs or Ronaldo are. They've never heard of Madrid, Milan or many Premier League teams for that matter.

But even so, even if Americans don't know who Freddy Adu is, that doesn't mean anything. You ask people over here who Ben Gordon or Osi Umenyiora are over here, they're English and earn more than John Terry. But I bet AT LEAST 90% of people here don't know them, doesn't mean they don't like NFL or the NBA.

Can I get am autograph

http://www.premierleague.com/

New EPL website. Really nice.