This weekend has a number of potentially great games. You can add your predictions, thoughts and comments over the weekend. For viewers of Fox Sports World Canada it will be wall-to-wall FA Cup action.
Saturday Middlesbrough vs. Manchester United (12:30 EST)
Sunday Chelsea vs. Tottenham (8:30 EST) Blackburn vs. Manchester City (12:00 EST) Plymouth vs. Watford (2:00 EST)
I normally try to keep predictions to a minimum - for the obvious reason that I am not very good at them (Jeremy claims I think too much) - but seeing that it looks like being a rather special weekend are some predictions for this weekend.
Chelsea - Spurs 3-2 Boro - Man. Utd.1-1 Blackburn - Man. City 2-0 Plymouth - Wattford 2-1
Celtic - Rangers 1-2 Bayern M.- Werder B. 1-1 Barca - Real Madrid 2-0 Inter - Milan 1-2
Finally Barcelona are in the team spotlight this week.
The FA Cup First Round goes this weekend and we now have teams from League One and Two entering the competition. We started off six rounds ago with a game between Jarrow Roofing Boldon Community Association and Billingham Synthonia. Jarrow stuck around for two rounds before making way for Fleetwood Town of the Unibond Premier League. Fleetwood has prospered over the four rounds (all at home) and now face Salisbury City.
Salisbury has beaten VTFC 3-0 and Eastleigh and Fisher Athletic by a score of 1-0. All three games were away from home for Salisbury City. Salisbury City currently leads the Nationwide Conference South and have been made 8/13 favourites to move on to the Second Round and if successful they will also pocket around $30,000 - from the FA not the bookies.
Fox Soccer Channel and Fox Sports World Canada coverage of the 2006/07 FA Cup gets underway. Canadian viewers can also catch the FA Cup preview on Saturday at 9:00 p.m. (EST).
Featured Games to date. Extra Preliminary Round Jarrow Roofing Boldon C.A. 5-2 Billingham Synthonia. Preliminary Round Jarrow Roofing Boldon C.A 5-4 Thackley F.C First Qualifying Round Fleetwood Town 3-0 Jarrow Roofing Boldon C.A. Second Qualifying Round Fleetwood Town 4-2 Goole AFC Third Qualifying Round Fleetwood Town 2-0 Warrington Town Fourth Qualifying Round Fleetwood Town 2-0 Wisbech Town
I just received the FSWC listings for next week and there are some new additions to the regular schedule and the return of Sky Sports News. Times listed are Eastern.
Saturday, August 26th, 200612:00 - 12:30 ET– Milan Magazine ***NEW SHOW*** Fox Sports World Canada is proud to present Milan Magazine, a weekly half-hour show featuring exclusive interviews, breaking team news, transfer gossip, player profiles and highlights.
Monday, August 28th, 200619:00 - 20:00 ET– Sky Sports News ***NEW SHOW***Returning to Fox Sports World Canada, Sky Sports News covers the day's sports news from a British perspective. Running, Monday to Friday, this hour-long program has extensive coverage of English lower division football, rugby, rugby league and cricket as well has the major soccer competitions from across Europe.
Friday, September 1st, 200619:30 - 20:00 ET– FC Fox ***NEW SHOW***FC Fox combines pop culture and soccer in a program targeting youth. The weekly show features two profiles that expose the psyche of America's youth culture including what is cool in the world of movies, music and blogging, and the latest information on soccer.
23:00 - 00:00 ET– Dream Team ***NEW SHOW***England's sexiest and hottest drama brings audiences all the behind-the-scenes action of the professional sports world. The award-winning series follows the lives of professional soccer players on a fictional team, Harchester United, who are all chasing the dream of making it in the English Premier League and with each other’s wives and girlfriends!
I am the soccer analyst for the Fox Soccer Report and appear twice a week - every Monday and Friday at 10:00 EST. I have also been a regular contributor to the Fox Soccer Channel website since the summer of 2004. Over the last twenty years I have contributed to various radio and television programs throughout North America as well writing about the game for newspapers, magazines and websites.
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