Wednesday Football Crossbars - October 6, 2010

North America

Courtesy of the 24th minute comes a look at how Toronto FC can replicate the success of the New York Red Bulls
http://www.24thminute.com/2010/10/new-york-lessons.html

The Seattle Sounders repeated as U.S. Open Cup winners after their victory at home against the Columbus Crew

http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/news/_/id/5653842/seattle-sounders-fc-repeat-us-open-cup-champions

Fox Sports chairman David Hill has joined the executive team for the US' bid to bring the World Cup in 2022
http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/news/_/id/5652006/fox-sports-chairman-david-hill-joins-board-us-cup-bid

Nigel Reed, Toronto FC's lead announcer, offers his take on soccer and Canada, well the lack of soccer
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/blogs/nigelreed/2010/10/making-canada-matter.html

Europe

It appears as if John Henry, owner of the Boston Red Sox, has made an offer to purchase Liverpool
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/soccer/liverpool-agrees-to-takeover-by-boston-red-sox-owners/article1744677/

Here is a live blog of the sale of Liverpool FC to John Henry
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/oct/06/liverpool-sale-american-owners

Manchester City are furious that Holland have dropped midfielder Nigel de Jong after his horror tackle in the EPL this past weekend
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1318074/Manchester-City-fume-Bert-van-Marwijks-use-Nigel-Jong-scapegoat.html?ITO=1490

Speaking of Manchester City, it looks like Mario Balotelli is in line to make his debut for the club in domestic competition some time in the coming weeks, hmmm it took the lad a while, didn't it
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1318125/Mario-Balotelli-set-Manchester-City-debut-Arsenal.html?ITO=1490

Real Madrid have supposedly made Kaka available on a transfer, and Inter are ready to pounce
http://football-italia.net/oct06h.html

Can you imagine Steve McClaren taking over England again, well it could happen
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/9066019.stm

Videos Of The Week

Forget Zlatan's flick, check out this immaculate volley from the Irish leagues, yes we watch all football



Steve Nash is back and doing well promoting FIFA 11



A fantastic letter to Mr. Hicks, current owner of the Liverpool FC



Alex's fantastic freekick against Arsenal . . . I love Malouda's role in the goal


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Nicolas Fauvergue for Sedan with a stunner



These guys aren't as good as our boys from Iceland, but the Fins bring their own flavor to the goal celebrating game