FC Barcelona is still basking in the afterglow of its five-goal masterpiece against Real Madrid, but the Spanish champions will have to get back to work today.
Barcelona will be taking on Osasuna today and will be looking to avoid a letdown that could let Real Madrid close the gap atop the Spanish First Division.
AC Milan is also in action today and can regain sole possession of first place in Serie A with a win after Lazio registered a victory against Inter Milan on Friday to pull into a tie with AC Milan.
If you will be watching today's soccer action, including this morning's matches, please feel free to share your thoughts, opinions and some play-by-play in the comments section below.
Enjoy the action (Today's TV Schedule is after the jump):
TODAY'S SOCCER ON TV
10am- Fox Soccer Channel- Arsenal vs. Fulham
10am- ESPN2- Chelsea vs. Everton
10am- Fox Soccer Plus- Manchester City vs. Bolton
Noon- GolTV- Levante vs. Atletico Madrid
Noon- Fox Soccer Plus- Chievo Verona vs. AS Roma
12:30pm- ESPN3.com- Schalke 04 vs. Bayern Munich
1:45pm- ESPN3.com- PSV Eindhoven vs. Heracles
2pm- ESPN3.com- Osasuna vs. Barcelona
2pm- Fox Soccer Plus- Blackburn vs. Wolverhampton (Delayed)
2:45pm- Fox Soccer Channel- AC Milan vs. Brescia
4pm- GolTV- Real Madrid vs. Valencia
5pm- Fox Soccer Channel- Birmingham vs. Tottenham (Delayed)
6:15pm- GolTV- Atletico Huila vs. Santa Fe
8pm- Fox Soccer Plus- Milwall vs. Scunthorpe United
11pm- Fox Soccer Channel- Wellington Phoenix vs. Adelaide United
One more factor with Dempsey-unless it’s a ManU or someone like that, would you rather live in a nice part of London (fulham) or in the north of England? If he is playing and all else is fairly even , I bet he stays at Fulham unless they go down….
cant say i know anyone with a dempsey fulham jersey
Real Madrid could use him immediately.
The thing that gets me is that it isn’t the sun reporting this, it is two legit newspapers out of the UK. It will be tough to decide which way is the truth.
We can take Blazer at his word, or you can believe the two newspaper reports. I am sure this will never be able to be proven either way.
Guys if you want to know about chuck blazer he has a blog… Just google search him….
He has an article with many shots of him and Putin in what seems like trips all over Russia
I can’t cut and paste for some reason, on this site with my IPad….. Just go to ESPN and they have the article under US Soccer
Who is Chuck Blazer anyway, how did he get on the Executive Committee and how do we get him off?
Link please?
Here’s how it went down.
Blazer: “Seppy, who do you want for 2022?”
Seppy: “Qatar.”
Blazer: “Ok, my vote is for Qatar then.”
Seppy. “Thanks.” (Hands Blazer a fat envelope)
Guys, Blazer is Sepp’s lapdog. He will do whatever Sepp wants, because Sepp put Blazer there and keeps him there. Screw the US bid, Blazer’s allegiance is to Sepp above anything else.
Sad, sad, sad story but true. Rotten to the core.
Technical skill – Serie A may have the EPL. But in terms of atmosphere and pace it’s tough to beat the EPL. To me it’s like watching college basketball compared to NBA basketball. Personally I’ll take slightly inferior skill with loads of passion and delirious fans.
Meaning the Guardian is saying he voted for Qatar
Update Chuck Blazer has written a letter to ESPN claiming he voted for the US in every round, however the Guardian is now reporting the opposite is true.
No, I don’t think most people would agree with you actually.
At 30K Pounds a week his wife…
1. Can afford a full time nanny.
2. Doesn’t have to work ever again for life.
3. Speak the international language. Money.
Lol! jk, but not really.
Just did. If true, this is absolutely incredible. Every soccer fan in America needs to raise their voice to create change. These scumbags cost us a World Cup. It’s unforgivable.
I just flooded Facebook with it. It’s spreading like wildfire.
Screencapped for lolz
Hopefully, just spread the word. Hope Ives does an article about this (using the independent as a source). Every US soccer fan needs to know this.
We didn’t vote for ourselves?
I think it is about time the FBI get involved. We spent millions and millions of dollars on that bid, and Chuck Blazer and the rest of CONCACAF was bought off and didn’t even vote for us?
This could be the end of FIFA!
Mark Schwarzer was Fulham’s best player today, Pantsil was decent as well
Murphy was terrible he gets worse every week. Too many giveaways from the midfield and backline
And yea Dempsey is on fire, unfortunately no one else can score or create anything
EJ is just as useless as Kamara, probably even worse
Word up.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=558528451
Everyone send this guy a message ask him why he voted for qatar
Ives do you know if these rumors about Chuck Blazer voting for Qatar are true? Could you write an article about it if is?
People should know about this!
I don’t even know what to say right now. I’m flabbergasted.
I’ve been sayin this for like a year
Then stop tripping.
There’s one way and one way only to fix all this crap. The US, England, Germany, Spain, and the other major European nations leave FIFA and form their own governing body until FIFA makes changes in transparency and roots our corruption. If that means those nations skip the world cup, then so be it. FIFA will come back begging if the major European nations pull out of the cup and don’t show the program on television.
Anything less and Bladder and his cronies will continue to operate this way. It’s time the big boys started playing hardball.
Everton and AV quality top half teams?
Have you looked at the table this season?? They are two points above Fulham and the idiots on this board would rather see Dempsey go somewhere where he’ll be coming off the bench
Good find Rob…if true it really is unbelievable. I called my best soccer bud b/c I had to talk about this with someone.
And the last (i think) bullit point that suggested the US and England are contemplating a rebellion…This I would support.
5 or 6 million pounds is not big money LOL
Anyone who thinks Dempsey is leaving in January is dreaming he’s the only player scoring goals and they’re in a relegation battle.
And if they stay up chances are he stays. Reason: His age, his family
f***in hate wolves Mick McCarthy is the biggest c*** in the Premier League
whoa whoa hold on a second…..3 votes swing would have turned that 14-8 loss to a 11-11 tie if our 3 guys did indeed vote the other way. I am tripping right now
I was dumbfounded when I read this… If Concacaf voted for the US it would have been a tie… 11-11
this is some serious stuff you have just dropped on us Rob! Im am appalled that (if the report is correct) that our own guys DIDNT EVEN VOTE FOR US!!! Down with Warner and Blazer!! Down with CONCACAF! Down with FIFA!!
No worries…. Maybe Ives can look into this…. Unreal
thanks