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Charlie Melman is a Featured Columnist and official member of B/R's team of football writers who got into the sport too late to pursue what would surely have been a successful professional playing career.

An emotionally exhausted Arsenal fan, he strives to grow the sport by delivering quality analysis to a global audience.

Follow him on Twitter: @charliemelman

Short List

  • Favorite Athletes

    Landon Donovan, Clint Dempsey, Jack Wilshere, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Mikel Arteta, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Carl Jenkinson

  • Favorite Sports Teams

    Arsenal, New York Yankees, Miami Dolphins

  • Favorite Coaches

    Arsene Wenger, Joe Torre

  • All-Time Sports Moment

    Landon Donovan's winning goal against Algeria in the 2010 World Cup

  • Most Unbreakable Sports Record

    Cy Young's 511 wins

  • Ruth or Mays?

    Ruth

  • Unitas or Montana?

    Manning

  • Jordan or Russell?

    Jordan

  • Gretzky or Orr?

    Gretzky

  • Pele or Maradona?

    Pele

  • Federer or Sampras?

    Federer

  • Tiger or Nicklaus?

    Nicklaus

  • ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12 or SEC?

    B1G

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  • Vinny B posted 16 days ago

    Vinny B

    Has anyone ever told you that you look like Ozil with glasses?

  • Archit Gautam posted 74 days ago

    Archit Gautam

    Why didnt you do the live blog this time..missed it alot.

  • Gordon Lam posted 76 days ago

    Gordon Lam

    Alright charlie I really love your work I was wondering whether you consider writing for my Arsenal site? http://www.arsenalsupremo.com/

  • shah khan posted 123 days ago

    shah khan

    Bradford and now Blackburn #WengerOut #WengerOut #WengerOut #WengerOut #WengerOut #WengerOut #WengerOut #WengerOut #WengerOut #WengerOut #WengerOut #WengerOut #WengerOut

  • shah khan posted 123 days ago

    shah khan

    #WengerOut #WengerOut #WengerOut #WengerOut #WengerOut #WengerOut #WengerOut #WengerOut #WengerOut #WengerOut #WengerOut #WengerOut #WengerOut #WengerOut

  • Sudhir Ramakrishnan posted 131 days ago

    Sudhir Ramakrishnan

    great job playing the Devil's Advocate!! :)

  • C9 posted 157 days ago

    C9

    I was just wondering if u BR writer guys have the authority to delete the comments made by readers..even if the reader is just making a normal comment with no swear words in it...how pathetic is it?? Are u going to delete this one too(obviously if u have the authority)??

  • Zak Kulin posted 182 days ago

    Zak Kulin

    Sounds good, Charlie. Keep up the solid work.

  • Ben Rosenthal posted 221 days ago

    Ben Rosenthal

    Thanks for the clarification, Charlie. I'll be sure to keep that in mind for soccer live blogs in the future.

  • Meredith Day posted 255 days ago

    Meredith Day

    Hey Charlie, sorry about that. The text mysteriously disappeared on me when I saved that slide. I flagged it and reported the glitch, figuring it would get fixed quickly, but I should have let you know too. Thanks, and sorry for the inconvenience!

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