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Steve Claridge wants to Play for your Team
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You would think after a playing career which saw him suit up for no less than 18 different clubs, Steve Claridge would have little problem finding one more team that will take him on for one more game. The 40-year-old Claridge was released by Walsall (a team recently linked with the best striker in [...]
Category: World FootballToday’s Lesson: Always Remain Upwind from the Tear Gas
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If you have ever had the misfortune of being anywhere near tear gas, you’ll understand why Feyenoord’s Henk Timmer looks like he is the victim of a Botox injection gone bad. That is the same expression I usually make when I see a close up of Oliver Kahn. The Dutch keeper and his [...]
Scarves on, Goals in
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Everybody, please welcome Jordan to the fast paced, mismatches galore world of international women’s football. The Jordanians made their international football debut today and were promptly drubbed 13-0 by Japan at the Asian Games in Qatar. The headlines are all about the three players who played in headscarves, but that doesn’t seem nearly [...]
Category: AsiaThey’ve Succeeded in Destroying their own Stadium
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It has been a couple of years since a notorious brawl took place following a Copa Libertadores match between the Mexico’s Club America and Brazil’s Sao Caetan, but that doesn’t make this video any less interesting. Do yourself a favor and turn up the volume on your speakers. Between the melodramatic music and [...]
El Clasico de Clasicos: Club America vs. Chivas
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It is always a passionate and intense affair when America and Chivas square off. On Thursday night the two most successful clubs in Mexican football will meet again in the latest rendition of El Clasico de Clasicos – the derby of derbies. This rivalry might not be as well known to football fans [...]
Category: Mexico“I Paid 250 Pounds for this???”
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Another game, another chance for Portsmouth keeper David James to show off his £250 Bold and Beautiful look. While it might be hard to imagine, James’ hair was not the ugliest thing on the pitch. That dubious distinction belongs to the play of his team’s opponent, Liverpool, who dominated the play but only [...]
Category: English Premier LeagueA Name to Remember: Tarik Elyounoussi
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Norway is a country that has helped us all learn how to pronounce names like Morten Gamst Pedersen and Ole Gunnar Solskjær. For a country with a pretty small population it has produced a number of quality football exports over the years.
Daily Dose 11.30
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Some stories to read while you order a cold one from a 12-year-old bartender…..
Sven gives great metatarsal (Who Ate all the Pies)
David James’ hair is the gift that keeps on giving (101 Great Goals)
Fernando Gago might just be the New Fill in the Blank (All in White)
Uruguay league suspended because of a lime (Team Talk)
Your [...]
Category: World FootballThe Original Ronaldinho Overhead Bicycle Kick
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It is obvious that Ronaldinho must spend his non-training hours surfing the Web on his fancy computer and checking out video highlights on YouTube. How else can you explain the striking similarity between his stunning goal earlier this week and the one in the video below that took place in Chile a few years [...]
Cannavaro, Zidane, Ronaldinho Finalists for 2006 FIFA World Player of the Year Award
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Fresh on the heels of the somewhat divisive announcement that Fabio Cannavaro had won the 2006 Ballon d’Or, we learn today the names of the three finalists chosen from the FIFA Player of the Year award shortlist. Your three finalists, as selected by the captain and coach of all 207 FIFA teams (does American [...]
Category: World Football
Tags: 2006 FIFA Player of the Year, Fabio Cannavaro, Golden Ball, Ronaldinho, Thierry Henry, World Football, zinedine zidaneAnother Reason Landon Donovan won’t leave MLS
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Cancel your New Year’s Eve plans. Take your tux to the dry cleaners. You have a wedding to attend. Landon Donovan is abandoning the bachelor life to get hitched on December 31. No, California hasn’t legalized same sex marriage yet. Landycakes doesn’t swing that way. The lucky lady who [...]
Category: MLSSocci: Where soccer, basketball, and hackysack come together
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Maybe you are tired of traditional football and you have already mastered playing blind. If that is the case, you might be excited to find out about Socci. Part soccer, part basketball and part hackysack, Socci is great for both athletes and stoners because it will take you to another dimension, man.
Category: World FootballIt isn’t a Simple Game of Yes and No for Phil Neville
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Usually the Yes/No game is best played at 4am after a heavy night of drinking. The game is quite simple really. You are asked a series of questions and you aren’t allowed to say yes or no. In the adult version, every time you screw up you have to take a drink. [...]
Category: English Premier LeagueCarlos Tevez’s Punishment: Wear a Brazil Shirt and Stay at West Ham
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Oh the hijinks. As part of his punishment for abandoning his West Ham teammates after being yanked from their match this past weekend, the Argentine Carlos Tevez is being forced to wear a Brazil shirt for the next week of practice. An Argentine wearing a Brazil jersey, where have we seen this joke [...]
Category: English Premier LeagueDaily Dose 11.28
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Some stories to read while you pick a better time to smoke crack…..
If you’re a football grounds voyeur, here is your version of Playboy (Groundtastic)
If you’re a football jersey lover, today is your lucky day (101 Great Goals)
I’m wagering the Udinese-Reggina game on Sunday ends scoreless (Italy Offside)
It is criminal that watching sports can be [...]
Category: World Football
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