Football News
Football is one of the most popular spectator sports in the United States. It is played on interscholastic, intercollegiate, and professional levels and watched in stadiums and on television by millions of Americans every year. The best high school football teams go on to play in state championships, while the top college teams square off in such games as the Rose Bowl and the Cotton Bowl. The professional teams who win the American and National conference play-offs battle in the Super Bowl game for the title of National Football League (NFL) champion. This section focuses on football news and publications.
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| Soccer Positions and What They Do Soccer in USA, or Football, as it is called all across Europe and a few other countries is a craze amongst people globally.... |
Dave Cameron's Etonian Cabal – My Hot Tip for the 2010 at Westminster Will Buckley: The Tories might as well choose their sport of choice now. It should be horse racing, but more likely it will... |
| Geraldo Wendel to Spurs | Antoine Griezmann to Liverpool | Sol Campbell to Hull Observed every morning through the Mill's emerald prism of rumor, half-truth, lies and things that appear in the Daily Star... |
Leeds United's Owners Refuse to Come Forward Ken Bates' retraction of his statement that he jointly owned the club raises questions the Football League must answer |
| Jonathan Wilson: Edin Dzeko and Zvjezdan Misimovic Came From Different Sides of the Bosnian Divide But Will Join Forces Against United Edin Dzeko is tall and physically imposing, a target man who from an early age has been described as "an English-style... |
Greg Howson: Fifa 10 Takes the Trophy As the Soccer Sim to Beat Man City and Spurs are adding some variety to the tediously predictable Premiership and the same thing is happening in the... |
| Toni to West Ham | Pato to Chelsea | Hutton to Sunderland | Vokes to Cardiff | Jewell to Darlington So ... 28 September, eh? On this day in ... ... 48 BC, Pompey the Great was ordered at the behest of King Ptolemy of... |
Fans' Racist Abuse on Night of Violence Puts West Ham and Millwall in the Dock West Ham and Millwall have been charged by the Football Association over allegations of racist abuse at their Carling Cup tie |
| David Weir Believes Rangers Can Beat Sevilla in Their Champions League Game Even Though They Have Not Scored for 4½ Hours Realism does not douse Glaswegian expectancy, it would seem. Rangers have now gone 4½ hours of Premier League football... |
FA Confirm That Women's Super League Will Start in England in 2011 Women's football has received a welcome but overdue boost with the news that the proposed Super League will start in 2011 |
| The Craig Bellamy Enigma The Manchester City forward is often regarded as being one of football's bad boys, but off the pitch there is a very... |
This Much I Know: John Motson John Motson, football commentator, 64, in his own words |
| Blackpool Moved Into the Top Six With a 2-0 Win Over Peterborough They are all there, like some roll call of the great and the good of English and Welsh football from a bygone era. West... |
The Fa Has Charged Millwall and West Ham Over Crowd Violence During Their Carling Cup Clash in April West Ham and Millwall have been charged by the Football Association over the trouble in and around Upton Park when the... |
| Forty Champions League and Uefa Cup Games Are Under Investigation for Suspected Match Fixing Forty Champions League and Uefa Cup games are under investigation for suspected match-fixing, European football's governing... |
The Structure of the Two Contracts May Have Had Implications for the League's Rules and Must Be Investigated The Football League is duty bound by its own rules to investigate claims that Sol Campbell was promised a contract by a... |
| Salomon Kalou Scored the Winner As Chelsea Beat Queens Park Rangers in the Carling Cup Third Round Joe Cole had dreamed of this moment for eight long months. From time to time during the arduous rehabilitation from his... |
There Was Controversy Both on and Off the Pitch in the Carling Cup With Authorities Likely to Investigate Two Incidents Javier Mascherano could face a violent conduct charge from the Football Association after appearing to swing an arm and... |
| Gary Neville May Also Receive a Suspension for Goading Manchester City Supporters After Michael Owen's Goal Craig Bellamy is facing a possible three‑match ban for striking a pitch invader towards the end of a rancorous... |
Even Sunderland Fans Forget Their Allegiance As Sir Bobby Robson is Remembered Football grounds are usually noisy, irreverent and, sometimes, anarchic arenas. Very rarely do they house fans who, bar the... |
| Sir Alex Ferguson, Sir Bobby Charlton and Fabio Capello Join 1,000 Guests to Honour Universally Popular Statesman Sir Bobby Robson's memorial service swelled unstoppably into a national event, like a mini version of one of his World Cup... |
El-Hadji Diouf and Craig Bellamy Could Be in Hot Water With the Fa After an Altercation With a Ball Boy and a Fan Respectively Craig Bellamy and El-Hadji Diouf may argue that their reputation as troublemakers unfairly precedes them but both players... |
| Stamping is a Sorry Sight and an Apology Wouldn't Go Amiss DavidLacey: Misbehaving footballers could learn about conduct from the most unlikely role model |
Manchester City Have 'reluctantly Accepted' They Would Not Be Able to Convince the Fa the Strike Had Not Meant to Harm Robin Van Persie Emmanuel Adebayor's punishment for raking his studs down Robin van Persie's face will be a three-match ban from the... |
| England's Helsinki Heroics Put Super League Back on Track for 2011 The Football Association declared its intention to launch a women's Super League next year |
English Defence League: Chaotic Alliance Stirs Up Trouble on Streets Football fans are being recruited to join protests against Muslims. How worried should the authorities be? |
| FA Close to Sponsorship Deal With Mars As It Cashes in on Feelgood Factor The Football Association is believed to be close to unveiling Mars as a major new England sponsor |
Could Hope Powell Be the Best Hope to Succeed Fabio Capello? The England women's head coach is showing so-called football geniuses the benefit of hard work and preparation |
| Chelsea Transfer Ban May Stop the Rich Robbing the Poor, Says Dario Gradi Crewe's director of football hopes the Gaël Kakuta case sets a lasting precedent in deterring big clubs from poaching players |
Steven Gerrard Aims to Take Care of Unfinished Business With Croatia Steven Gerrard wants to exorcise the memory of the defeat to Croatia in 2007, calling it his lowest moment in international... |
| Are England Under Fabio Capello Really That Grown-up? Barney Ronay: We won't be satisfied until the Italian maestro has finally grabbed English football by the hair with one of... |
Fifa Cracks Down on Child Transfers The governing body of world football is trying to stop what Sepp Blatter has called the 'slavery of young players' |
| Perils of Panic Window-shopping As Chimbonda Gets Thrown in the Bin Harry Pearson: Football has no equivalent of Gok Wan to guide impulsive managers through the perils of the transfer window |
FA Still Drawing a Blank on Panorama Tapping Up Case Digger: The Football Association is yet to ask Frank Arsensen any questions about an apparent tapping up of Middlesbrough's... |
| Frank Arnesen's Poaching Instinct Led Chelsea Into Trouble Chelsea's director of football could carry the can for his role in the tapping up of Gaël Kakuta |
BT Boss Battles Bskyb Over Charges for Sports Channels and Blockbuster Films BT chief calls in Ofcom in battle with BSkyB to cut cost of football and film rights |
| FA to Focus West Ham Inquiry on Racist Chants Directed at Players The FA will press for any fan found guilty of racism at the Boleyn Ground to be banned from football for life |
FA Launches Investigation Into West Ham-millwall Violence The Football Association is speaking to West Ham, Millwall, the Football League and the police about last night's violence |