All 20 Premier League sides learned their first opponents for this coming season’s English Football League Cup competition Sunday morning, which is currently ongoing for lower league clubs. Thirteen Premier League sides — the ones not taking part in European competition — enter the competition in the second round, following first-round play this weekend. They […]
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Premier League announces new slate of fixtures: Liverpool opens title defense with Leeds
The top two sides from last season’s Premier League and Championship will meet in the first weekend of the new season when it kicks off in just three weeks’ time. English top flight champions Liverpool will begin its title defense against Leeds United on September 12, which had captured the second division crown and earned […]
Decision Day 2020: United, Chelsea to the Champions League, Watford and Bournemouth relegated
Everything you need to know about Decision Day in the Premier League Sunday in quickie form, complete with Bay State Soccer Sentinel analysis and insight: THE SKINNY Champions Liverpool finish season on 99 points: After 38 games and 30 years of waiting, Liverpool — already crowned champions of the English top flight — finished the […]
Soccer Weekend: Lots happening as Revs, Revs II compete within hours, plus Decision Day in England
It doesn’t look too good, does it? Bruce Arena confirmed it during his media availability Thursday, and we’ll write it here: he doesn’t expect Carles Gil to play when the Revolution take on Philadelphia in the Round of 16 Saturday night (10:30 p.m., ESPN2). And sure, given the way New England played without him in […]
Soccer Weekend: Don’t be too complacent with DC the opposition
If there is any word of warning that I can give to the Revolution faithful as they go through their day in preparation for tonight’s MLS IS BACK Tournament Group C tilt with DC United, it’s this: don’t be complacent. In other words, don’t be like Toronto FC was on Monday morning. While New England […]
BSSS Recap: Chelsea 2, Manchester City 1 — Liverpool captures first title since 1990 through Pulisic, Willian goals
All you need to know about Chelsea’s 2-1 win over 10-man Manchester City — which clinched the title for Liverpool — in the Premier League Thursday in quickie form, complete with Bay State Soccer Sentinel insight and analysis: THE SKINNY Liverpool are the champions thanks to Chelsea downing City: For the first time in 30 […]
Sweeney: Three thoughts from the weekend that was in England
All right, folks. Let’s crack our knuckles and get a few thoughts on the screen about the weekend that was in England: Everton looked like it wanted Sunday’s Merseyside Derby more than Liverpool I was locked in heavy conversation with Armchair Sports Guys’ gaffer — and Liverpool supporter — George Mitchell Sunday afternoon, and he […]
Premier League recap: Sheffield robbed as goal-line tech fails, Manchester City rampant against 10-man Arsenal
All you need to know about Wednesday’s “in-hand” matches in the Premier League all in quickie form, complete with Bay State Soccer Sentinel insight and analysis: THE SKINNY City dominate 10-man Arsenal, postpones Liverpool’s crowning: Book-ended goals by Raheem Sterling and Kevin de Bruyne before and after the halftime interval put Manchester City well on […]
Mid-Week Kick: Setting up the return of the Premier League, with the Champions/Europa League decision to come Wednesday
After nearly 14 weeks of forced hibernation, the Premier League returns to our lives on Wednesday with the two in-hand games slated to kickoff the resumption of play in the English top flight. By the time play concludes before the dinner hour here in the Bay State, all teams in the Premier League will be […]
Notebook: Getting up to date as soccer in the U.S. returns
The Revolution and the rest of Major League Soccer are expected to get back to work this week after the league’s investor/operators and the Player’s Association came to an agreement on a modified Collective Bargaining Agreement last week. That, plus the league lifting its moratorium on full squad training on Thursday, has the American first […]