Landon Donovan‘s Everton plays at Birmingham City Saturday (TV: Fox Soccer Channel, live, 10 am ET) in what will probably be his last game on loan to theToffees. But Everton manager David Moyes hasn’t given up hope of reaching a deal with the Los Angeles Galaxy to keep him longer. “I don’t know yetwhether this […]
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Rooney reveals scoring secret
Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney revealed the secrets to his incredible season: positioning, timing — and going bald. The Englishman has scored 30 goals this season. Ten of themhave been headers, including seven successive headers until he finished off Nani‘s cross for United’s second goal in its 4-0 win over AC Milan. “I’m stillworking on my […]
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Beckham to be asked to invest in Man. United buyout?
David Beckham, who made a very visible expression of support of the bid to take over Manchester United when he donned a green and gold scarf that has becomesymbolic of the effort after AC Milan’s 4-0 loss to United at Old Trafford on Wednesday night, might be asked to invest in the takeover bid. After […]
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Real Madrid covets Benitez to replace Pellegrini
Following Real Madrid’s exit from the UEFA Champions League, the Spanish club plans on firing Coach Manuel Pellegrini at the end of the 2010 season, and thefront-runner to replace the Chilean is Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez. “Rafa is the preferred choice,” says a Real source. “He is a Madrid manand his agent, Manuel Garcia Quillon, […]
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Liverpool falls to French club Lille
[EUROPA LEAGUE] A late goal by Belgian teen sensation Eden Hazard gave French club Lille a 1-0 win over Liverpool in thefirst leg of their Europa League round-of-16 series on Thursday. The only team to win away was Standard Liege, a 3-1 victor over Panathinaikos. For all the results … Lille 1 Liverpool 0 Scorer: […]
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Dempsey is back in action for Fulham
[AMERICANS ABROAD] You can scratch Clint Dempsey from the U.S. injury list. Only seven and weeks after beind sidelinedwith a knee injury, Dempsey returned to action for Fulham Thursday. He played the last hour hour of Fulham’s 3-1 loss to Juventus in the first leg of their Europa League round of 16 series. Dempey injured […]
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Rooney challenged to match Ronaldo
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Even with a bad knee, Wayne Rooney was once again too much for AC Milan. The England strikerscored once in each half to give him four goals in two games against Milan — and 30 on the season — and lead Manchester United to a 4-0 win on Tuesday at Old Trafford […]
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English refs too lenient? Stats say so
By Paul Gardner So no sooner do I tell you that coaches never say anything nasty about their own players — just 10 days ago — then up pops Bert van Marwijk, the coach ofthe Dutch national team, to seriously berate one of his players. The tackle that Nigel de Jong put on the American […]
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Wee men lead Arsenal past Porto
[UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Arsenal might once again finish the season without a trophy, but on nights like Tuesday at the Emirates Stadium the Gunners are sure funto watch. Arsenal got a hat trick from Dane Nicklas Bendtner, a brilliant individual goal by young Frenchman Samir Nasriand a goal by Emmanuel Eboue (set up by Andrey […]
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Baffling rule-makers stuck in past
Tom Dunmore continues his look at the International Football Association Board (IFAB) in the wake off its rejecting looking into goal-line technology. Theeight-member IFAB includes one representative each from the soccer federations of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It takes six votes for a rule to be changed. Effectively, that givesthe United Kingdom (a […]