South America's big two, Argentina and Brazil, will face off in the Olympic soccer tournament semi-finals after pushing aside The Netherlands and Cameroon respectively in their quarter final games. Read more...

Big money signings and managers with legendary reputations guarantee nothing in football or so LA Galaxy have been finding out recently. As if things weren't bad enough with having to endure a seven game losing streak the California club then saw former Dutch legend Ruud Gullit resign as team manager and general manager Alexei Lalas sacked for not stopping the rot. Read more...

One of the summer's most tedious transfer sagas could be coming to a conclusion as the transfer deadline approaches with the news that Russian club Zenit St. Petersburg are willing to lower their asking price for Russia captain Andrei Arshavin. Read more...

We've less than a week until the English Premier League explodes back into life for the 2008/2009 season and we've been hard at work digging through the transfers, news and happenings at each of the twenty Premier League clubs to get you well informed for the big kick off.

We've put together a run down of each Premier League club's Player To Watch for the 2008/2009 season as well as our pre-kickoff predictions of who we think will compete for the title, fight for European places and struggle to avoid the big drop through the relegation trap door.

Whatever happens, About.com will be covering all the major stories and incidents from the English Premier League kick off next Saturday 15th August.