Manchester United are visiting Swansea City today, with the match being shown live on Fox Soccer.

Much of the pre-match talk was relating to Swansea being in Wales, but nobody mentioned this little geographical fact to whoever was in charge of the graphics. Or that person just refuses to recognize any level of Welsh sovereignty. ENNNGALAAND!…

Fabrice Muamba has fantastic aim, provided that he was intending to do that to poor Jason Steele during training with England's U-21 team for the European Championships. Keep in mind that this isn't some fan or member of the media who posted a slow-motion video replay of an English player getting nailed in the face with the ball on YouTube; it's an official video from the FA, who have decided to…

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Manchester United ambassador Gary Neville visited Chicago on Thursday to promote Man U's upcoming tour of the United States. Neville threw out the first pitch at U.S. Cellular Field prior to the game between the White Sox and A's. And throw it he did, with such gusto that would send Rick Ankiel into a fetal position, shivering. While Neville did nearly injure several women standing near the backstop, he did at least…

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Beleaguered FIFA President Sepp Blatter knows he has an image problem. So who better to call on to help him out than Placido Domingo and Henry Kissinger? The details of Sepp Blatter's announcement, from The Guardian: "These gentlemen are more or less advisers, they are not the experts but advisers and what they should be also is the kind of council of…

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Sure, one hundred kids taking on a team of Japanese professional soccer players seems a bit crazy, but is it any worse than Bob Bradley's strategy of zero defenders taking on a team of Spanish professional soccer players? Japanese Soccer Team Versus 100 Kids [reddit]…

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