With the traditional full slate of Sunday afternoon fixtures upon us to close out the Barclays Premier League season, Noel Butler shares some of the subplots and the starring characters who shaped and formed BPL season 2012-13. ...more
Thursday's announcement that Sir Alex Ferguson is retiring from the Manchester United sidelines marks the end an era at Old Trafford. It also concludes more than half a century of one of football's most unique figures. ...more
Just ahead of last season's MLS Cup when David Beckham whispered into Tim Leiweke's ear that he would not return in 2013, the league has been in need of a game changer. According to some, we're just weeks away from official confirmation that the 2012 Barclays Premiership Champions, a club founded in a pub back in 1880 are committed to invest upwards of half a billion dollars to the MLS caus ...more
In Trench Town - a suburb of the Jamaican capital - crowds flock to see local talent and in Kingston, the watchful eye of a Bob Marley statue may propel the national team into the 2014 World Cup. But growing the game in Jamaica is proving more difficult as professional poachers eye the nation's top young talent. ...more
A rightful wish of MLS is for old football to take the top tier of North American soccer far more seriously. This for a league which aspires to the Frank Lampard's and Kaka's of the world. Who then, when they woke last Saturday would have thought by day's end MLS would be mentioned in the same breath as Millwall's infamous hooligan element. ...more
Player, player-coach, assistant coach, MLS assistant (limited portfolio), Interim Head Coach, back again to MLS assistant coach - only this time with highly significant responsibilities - local lad Mauro Biello has worn just about every Impact hat possible since signing for the club 20 years ago. TSN Radio 690's Noel Butler profiles Montreal's ' new bench boss.' ...more
As TSN Radio 690 Soccer Analyst Noel Butler writes, it's been a whirlwind week for Chelsea manager Rafael Benitez, who kicked things off getting the wrath of the fans and "The Roman" with his lineup decisions against Southampton and Manchester United. ...more
We all know it takes goals to win football matches. However it was team bonding that has taken centre stage for the Impact in 2013. With team bonding brimming, the rest best heed warning. In my near decade or so of covering the Montreal Impact I have not ever seen on display such an overwhelming force of team unity and club harmony. ...more
As TSN Radio 690 Soccer Analyst Noel Butler writes, anyone in the vicinity of the Montreal Impact locker room following their 2-1 victory against their arch rivals in front of a highly raucous Olympic Stadium crowd last Saturday afternoon would have observed an infectious contentment of a most quiet kind. ...more
Battle lines will be drawn in places like Texas, Los Angeles and the Pacific North West but with upwards of 5,000 red clad Toronto FC supporters descending on la belle ville, none are more eagerly anticipated as Saturday afternoon's encounter inside Olympic Stadium. TSN's Noel Butler has more. ...more
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