NBC's coverage of EPL games regularly features occasions when we're transported early to the stadium, way before kickoff.

Is college soccer ever going to wake up to the reality of the outside (soccer) world? The question poses itself acutely every year when the Division I final gives us an instructive look at what is happening on the college fields.

Watching a couple of EPL games on Sunday provided a telling insight into what, for me, is the major weakness of English refereeing.

Coming up -- the MLS final between Toronto and Seattle. Well, we've had that before. That's the trouble here. We had Toronto-Seattle last year. And a pretty damn awful game it was.