The Subs Bench Daily Blog and Weekly Podcast

It’s episode #33 of the podcast, and we give our fair and balanced opinions of Liverpool’s total embarrassment and Landon Donovan’s inability to give LA Galaxy the MLS Cup.   We go over the rest of Europe as well.  Johnny Heitinga and the Toffees is back to give a tribute to Thierry Henry.  Enjoy!

With World Cup qualifying concluding, so has the battle for a birth at the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations. We are now left with 16 of Africa’s best to fight it out to be crowned the continents champions. The tournament takes place in January, and whilst it is probably best known for disrupting European club [...]

If you have ever been frustrated at your teams defending then be glad you aren’t a supporter of Chapadinha. Or, have you ever wondered what a fixed football match looked like? Well here is an example from the Brazilian Second Division. We must stress that nothing has been proven as yet, but I think you [...]

What a crazy day of WCQ’s we had.  Is Henry the villain that everyone says he is.  Damn Bosnia, but at least we don’t have Begovic at South Africa.  Slovenia wow, who saw that coming!  We also go over the upcoming MLS Cup Final and we talk about Canada’s semi-failures away at Macedonia and Poland.  [...]

It was in the NCAA (I believe).  But between the following teams… Stoney Brook and Hartford OWNED

Let me start by congratulating New Zealandon their first qualification since 1982. Making this World Cup will do wonders for the game in that country, much like it did for Australia four years ago. A thought must be spared for a very underrated Bahrain, who for the second time in a row lose out in [...]

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From Goal.com http://www.goal.com/en/news/468/internationals/2009/11/14/1624288/fyr-macedonia-3-0-canada-goran-pandevs-brace-makes-it-easy Goals from Goce Sedloski and Goran Pandev secured Macedonia a comfortable 3-0 victory over Canada in a friendly international on Saturday afternoon. The first genuine attack of the game came after 10 minutes when Velice Sumulikoski tried his luck from a free-kick but failed to hit the target. Six minutes later Ilco [...]

It’s an extra clean edition of the podcast as Matt brings his toothbrush to the podcast.  We go over Canada and the rest of the almost-as-big games this weekend.  We also continue discussing the Asmir Begovic scenario and we give our top-5 “What we hope to see in a week” choices. And of course, Johnny [...]