Champions League Draw

Group A: Bayern Munich, Juventus, Bordeaux, Maccabi Haifa
Group B: MANCHESTER UNITED, CSKA Moscow, Besiktas, Wolfsburg
Group C: AC Milan, Real Madrid, Marseille, FC Zurich
Group D: CHELSEA, FC Porto, Atletico Madrid, APOEL
Group E: LIVERPOOL, Lyon, Fiorentina, Debrecen
Group F: FC Barcelona, Inter Milan, Dinamo Kiev, FC Rubin Kazan
Group G: Sevilla, RANGERS, Stuttgart, Unirea
Group H: ARSENAL, AZ Alkmaar, Olympiakos, Standard

Is it Tottenham’s Year?

We’ve already examined Arsenal’s title credentials (see below). Next up are their North London rivals Tottenham. After their excellent start, with three wins from three including victory over Liverpool, is it finally Tottenham’s year?

The Game – Times Podcast

We are constantly luading the Guardian Football Weekly podcast – and rightly so – but don’t forget about the Times’ one, either. Although Phil Jupitus is an insipid host the excellent Patrick Barclay provides consistently insightful contributions, and although a bit of a nob Gabriel Marcotti also makes the occasional good point. Certainly worth a listen.

Diamond Geezer

In the wake of Liverpool’s surprise home defeat to Villa, Chelsea have been installed at 6/4 favourites for the Premier League. If they do it, they will do it with Ancelloti’s ‘diamond’ formation – Andrew Walker examines it…

King Kev joins the ESPN Dream Team

As seen on Sunday and reported here, Kevin Keegan will be ESPN’s lead analyst on their Premier League coverage this season. He joins Ray Stubbs and Guus Hiddink for the American network’s virginal attempt at English football coverage.

I would love it if he is good.

Weekend Abstract

United back on form, Arsenal continue their form, Burnley win again, more misery for Portsmouth, some dodgy decisions and some great refereeing, and Lescott finally moves… read on for a sideways look at a big weekend’s action in the Premier League.

White v Black

Considering the picture at the top and the copy within (e.g. ‘Ones like Nani) we’re pretty sure this is tongue in cheek…

http://whitevblack.wordpress.com

Football Weekly

Football Weekly is the Guardian’s superb Football podcast. It is released every Monday, in an edition that reviews the weekend’s fixtures, plus a bonus edition every Thursday (Football Weekly Extra) which previews them. Read on to find out why you should get it – and how…

Where’s the Match? (On TV)

This week there are a raft of Champions League, Premier League, and Football League game on TV. A great site to keep track of where they are all being shown is Where’s the Match – not only for football either, you can track live games in all sports, and never miss one again. Although your girlfriend will probably be pretty pissed off.

Arrrr… Oh, not those sort of Pirates….

Good news for football fans everywhere – the more ‘pirates’ there are on illegal streams, the more legitimate customers will have to pay…

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-08/14/the-surprising-failure-of-the-football-pirates.aspx