Villarreal will offer unemployed season-ticket holders free passes in 2009-10 to help fans feeling the effects of the global economic crisis, president Fernando Roig said on Tuesday. “Season-ticket holders who are on the dole will be allowed in free next year,” Roig told a news conference. “The idea is to think of the club’s wider social […]
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Real Madrid’s 3-0 win at home over Almería failed to ruffle Barcelona as the Catalan side hit six goals in a match for the fourth time this term during a 6-0 masterclass against Málaga that kept them six points clear in the Liga. With Madrid kicking off earlier on Sunday, Juande Ramos’s side had […]
Winners Liverpool What a 10 day period it has been for Liverpool fans. A title race with just one listed runner ten days ago has become interesting again. Manchester United remain, literally, the odds-on favorites but their having a wobble. United should still have the final word in the final chapter but the story belongs […]
Landon Donovan scored two goals in the final 10 minutes to give the Los Angeles Galaxy a 2-2 tie with D.C. United on Sunday in the MLS opener for both teams. Christian Gomez and Chris Pontius scored for D.C. United, which built a 2-0 lead after 62 minutes before Donovan brought his team all the way […]
Steven Gerrard warned Manchester United that in-form Liverpool are ‘pouncing on any mistakes’ made by the champions after scoring his first Premier League hat-trick in their 5-0 victory at home against Aston Villa. Rafael Benítez’s side displayed the aura of a team that had scored four times in comprehensive victories against both Real Madrid and […]
Zlatan Ibrahimović struck twice as Internazionale Milano re-established their seven-point lead in Serie A with a 3-0 win over Reggina while Genoa kept themselves in fourth by beating Udinese 2-0. Juventus had cut Inter’s cushion at the top to four points with Saturday’s 4-1 victory at Roma, but the Italian titleholders never looked like wobbling […]
The wait is finally over and the 2009 Major League Soccer finally kicked off this weekend. Here is a look at the games this weekend. Houston 1 Columbus 1 Guillermo Barros Schelotto scored in the 81st minute to give defending MLS champion Columbus a 1-1 season-opening tie against the Houston Dynamo. Houston’s Brian Ching broke […]
A great second-half display from Juventus proved too much for a depleted Roma to contend with at the Stadio Olimpico, with Juve winning 4-1 to cut Internazionale Milano’s Serie A lead to four points. Missing the injured Francesco Totti, Simone Perrotta, Juan and Rodrigo Taddei as well as the suspended Daniele De Rossi, Roma fell […]