What you missed while spending all morning trying to figure out why Firefox decided to delete all your bookmarks…
- Your Champions League roundup (bold teams go through to the quarterfinals): Arsenal 5-0 Porto, Fiorentina 3-2 Bayern Munich.
- Premier League roundup: Sunderland 4-0 Bolton.
- CONCACAF Champions League roundup: Columbus 2-2 Toluca.
- Chester City is officially no more.
- Fabio Capello’s goal for the World Cup is to make it to the semifinals.
- Steven Gerrard’s V-sign won’t result in any FA action…but he still has to play for Liverpool, which may be punishment enough.
- After watching Wigan beat up on Liverpool on Monday, Lille are confident that they can knock them out of the Europa League.
- Bulgarian referee Angel Angelov has been suspended for the third time in three years over allegations that he favors big teams. The FA didn’t know that was a bad thing.
- The J-League are going to crack down on penalty kick shenanigans after a couple of Hiroshima Sanfrecce players came up with a clever little routine that was, sadly, against the rules.
- Stuart Pearce claims that Michael Owen’s international career isn’t over yet.
- Tottenham midfielder Wilson Palacios would love to play for Real Madrid.
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I just got an e-mail from US Soccer, and figured I’d share for anyone in the New England area. There’s a special pre-sale from 12pm to 1pm today for anyone wanting to buy tickets for the US v. Czech Republic match in East Hartford on May 25th through Ticketmaster. At 1pm the pre-sale is open to anyone with a VISA card. Anyway, the super (not so) secret passwords are as follows:
General Fan Sections: A1FANS
Czech Republic Fan Sections: C3FANS