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Morning News: Viera getting Man City medical, Glen Johnson out until March, Gary Neville set to retire, US U-20 on loan in Portugal

Former Arsenal and current Inter player Patrick Viera is set to seal an 18 month contract with Manchester City after he passes a medical. Inter manager Jose Mourinho had confirmed yesterday that Viera would be leaving the Serie A leaders

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Morning News: Adu to Aris is Official, Birmingham bids for Babel, Veron rejects Manchester City Bid, and Keller and Donovan talk about MLS CBA

There is some more transfer news as Adu completed a deal for an 18-month loan at Aris. This ends the speculation that he would be heading to Hull City. Liverpool attacker Ryan Babel has been the subject of a bid

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News Of The Day: Transfers Rumors and Setanta USA

The transfer window is open and the rumors are beginning to fly. I’ll start with some Liverpool rumors where Andrea Dossena is on his way to Napioli. With Dossena on his way out, it seems Maxi Rodriguez is on his

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My Thoughts On The Manchester United-Wigan Game

This game is a bit old as it happened last Wednesday but I did not get to see it due to technical difficulties with Setanta until today. This was a nice match to watch after the debacle that was the

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My Thoughts On The Manchester United-Leeds United Game

This was an outstanding result for Leeds and another disappointing performance by Manchester United. The game was fairly open but Leeds took the lead in the 19th minute when Jermaine Beckford got behind Wes Brown. Beckford was able to slot

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2009, The Year In Soccer: Best Goals

This is my second end of the year list of the best goals. Similar to the matches list, these are goals that I saw not games I saw in highlights. I decided to do this because it was often the

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2009, The Year In Soccer: Best Games

The year is coming to a close and of course that means it is time for those end of the year lists. The first list I’ll have will be of the best games I saw this year. The requirements for

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My Thoughts On The Aston Villa-Liverpool Game

This game might be the result that turns it around for Liverpool. Fernando Torres scored a late goal in the 93rd minute to give Liverpool the 1-0 game after being outplayed by Aston Villa. It was not resounding domination by

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Premier League Midseason Recap and Predictions

This past weekend completed the halfway point for most teams in the Premier League. I figured it was time to put up a recap of the season so far. I would focus on the surprising/disappointing teams as well as my

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My Thoughts On The Liverpool-Wolverhampton Game

The recap of this game was in my running commentary from the weekend. Wolverhampton tried but really did not create much danger. Liverpool were pretty slow but eventually got the job done against 10-man Wolverhampton. As a note for Liverpool,

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