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Try subscribing to it within iTunes store in the podcast bit. Have you gotten it to work that way? I can't even get it to show up on a search...

Damn Not available outside the UK. Any other suggestions? I've got a 45 minute bus ride each way every day and looking for a good podcast....

Signing guys before the tournament sure worked well in the case of Guivarc'h...

IIRC there were a couple of pictures from that game in the old "Black and White" magazine.... I might still have a copy somewhere. I'll take a look but no guarantees, and it won't be until the weekend at the earliest.

Bradley is quality. Not sure he's suited to the English game, however. Altidore would be a good signing, but can't see him coming here.

Did you not watch the match? He didn't play...

Seeing as it's 2:30 PM here, I'm going to watch this when I get home, so I'll be signing off now. Any more questions about US players I'll try to answer if appropriate tomorrow.

Retired after the World Cup. Still don't have an adequate replacement for him either. Altidore will get there, but he's still 18.

Donovan, Altidore, and Bornstein spring to mind immediately. I'd have to think a bit more to come up with specific players to replace the ones in the squad, but guys like Hejduk, Wolff, and Lewis are over-the-hill space-fillers. Jacqua is a warm-body who couldn't cut it in MLS as anything above average, ditto with Califf who's playing in Denmark or some-such. Maurice Edu is a quite good young player who was called in after an injury, so hasn't had much time with the squad, but would probably be in the starting lineup if he'd been with the squad the whole time. A lot of fans would be screaming for Jay DeMerit as well. Edit: The MLS season is still going on, so some of the better performers there would have been spared just so as to keep their clubs happy (just like not calling in all the European based players for domestic friendlies.) Bob Bradley is also balancing these friendlies against Olympic games which are coming up this summer, so he doesn't want to pull the younger players away too much. Probably would see guys like Sacha Kljestian, Danny Szetela and such in the squad if not for those considerations.

Should be good to see a strong England team against about a half-to-two-thirds strength USA squad. England should cruise to a 2 or 3-0 win on paper. Should be good to see how the US copes without Donovan to run the middle. I'd have liked to see a forward who might actually hit the broadside of a barn (not Johnson) or who might actually have a role to play in World Cup Qualifying (not Wolff) but we'll see how it goes. Should be good experience for Bradley, Clark and the other young guys.

This would be why there's a fat problem in this country http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/breakfast_of_champions

Cantona is always the one they bang on about winning the title for Manu, and i'm not saying he did nowt! But Scmiechel saved them so many points on numerous occasions and when we played them off the park at St. James he was the sole reason we didnt give them the hammering we should have. Best keeper i've ever seen by a good distance. As for signings we should have made, when keegan bought Asprilla he should have got Zola (and i think he'd have been cheaper) or Bergkamp, those two players scored and made shitloads of goals and delivered week in week out, Asprilla was entertaining to watch sometimes, but outside of europe delivered little in the prem. agree, but I'm thinking more along the lines of we had them signed up but lost the 2 of them for different reasons. Nowt against Pav or Shaka but in comparison to those 2, one of them would have gained us those extra points to win the title IMO Completely agree about getting Zola instead of Arsprilla, complete no brainer that one. TBF, not getting Friedel was no fault of ours; he was unable to get a work permit. Unlike the pass we took on Schiechal, this one was not a lapse in judgment.

It doesn't seem real that anyone could earn that much for playing a sport where there is little or no chance or gratuitous bodily harm, £25 million a year! I'm pretty sure that doesn't include his sponsorship deals and any other sidelines hea has going. Plus the skeleton in his closet will make him a bob or two with her royalties. Actually, I'm pretty sure it *does* involve everything else. His actual salary paid by MLS is $5M/year. The rest is all endorsements/licensing stuff.

P.S. no apology necessary for complaining about the commentary; that's been a US fan pastime for decades now. HOWEVER, I don't think you can be too centered on the difference in idiom usage such as "O" for zero (no one uses 'nil' over here--no one was educated with a Latin background --at least not THAT kind of Latin) "Tie" is perfectly acceptable parlance. But yeah, there's a reason that US Soccer fans get their news from Blogs a lot more than 'real' media outlets. The good soccer journalists in this country have (semi-official) blogs where they can write how they should be able to write in the papers.

You think it's tough to read that once and a while? Try fucking living with it as your main source of information! The commentators over here are unbearable because instead of keeping the few actual students of the game, ESPN wants to "draw in a wider audience" by using guys like Dave O'Brien and Roger Twibell who are fine for their own sports (NCAA Basketball and Golf respectively) but haven't a clue what's going on on a soccer field, and in O'Brien's case couldn't even call players' names correctly (Daniel Beckham, hence the constant calling him by 'wrong' names by US fans.) There are plenty of people over here, even a large number in the media who know and love the game and would be infinitely better, but ESPN doesn't think that knowledge of the game is the important factor. Instead they want a "Cultured voice" and a "seasoned broadcaster" who's going to play it safe and not confuse their viewers. It's a bunch of hogwash.

My biggest reaction is to be grateful that we didn't sign Campbell on that money!

Timber Jim! I didn't know about this article. I will definitely be picking up a copy of 442 now. Legend amongst fans of the old NASL and most of us USL fans too.

Good to finally be able to see a game for the first time in a while. Liked the look of the side, for the most part contained Fulham to long range shots. Some of them looked dangerous, mind, and I think that final chance at the end of the first half could have been a lot worse for us if someone other than Eddie Johnson was on the end of it. What the fuck is with Geremi continuing to get playing time? He looked awful to me today and I wasn't necessarily going to buy into the vitriol people were spewing his way on here until I actually saw it, but his passing seemed poor and his crossing was woeful. I'm hoping that there was something more to his defense that I wasn't able to see on the broadcast... But it sure feels nice to have a win, even if it was against a team I desperately hope stays up as well.

2001, 2010, 2061, 3001 all great, as well as a quote which *still* describes the internet as far as I'm concerned: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." RIP

Some deaf people do believe in this "deaf community" thingee though. There's even a town set up for this aspect. They see it as a "deaf culture" a part of which they want their children to be. Are we really in a place to determine what someone else's 'culture' is? I tend to think that they're point of view is ridiculous, but I don't know if I, or even a majority of people, should be able to determine what a "culture" really is.

Nah, I dont think so. Friedel was crap at Liverpool for years. Didnt come good over here until his move to Blackburn, Looking back at the highlights though you can see that the majority of the goals in that season were Pavs fault. However, the highlights didnt show the world class saves before the howlers. While I definitely agree that Friedel wasn't as good then as now, (Although, come to think of it, he had a spectacular Copa America in 1995.) I feel the need to point out how consistently crap Liverpool GKs were at that point before going elsewhere and being good (or vice-versa) examples include: David James, Brad Friedel, Jerzy Dudek. I seem to recall James stating on several occasions that Liverpool's GK training was very sub-par. Having seen games from that year (as well as more from the following season,) I tend to believe that he would have been an improvement on Pav/Hislop, but not enough of one to change the course off the season by himself. The one thing that might have done it would be to give a clear number one with whom the defense could try to gel. I admit that I don't know how much the two were swapped during the season.

Played all of 45 minutes and was exposed worse than he was with us. Absolutely shocking, and further proof that the front office over in L.A. doesn't actually scout the players that they sign.

Wasn't until the following season that games started to be shown over here and I was able to follow the team. Glad I missed out on that heartbreak. Question: Does anyone think things might have been different if we'd gotten a visa for Brad Friedel? He wasn't then what he is now, but still would likely have been an improvement on Hislop/Pav. I've heard it said by several people (not on this side of the pond either) that if we'd had a GK that year, we'd have won the title.