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2006 Goals of the Year
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Time flies when you are having fun and 2006 was certainly a lightning fast year of football fun around these parts. Thank you all for joining me for the ride. I’m going to spend the few remaining hours left in the year watching replays of the 1982 Romanian league season and avoiding my [...]
Category: World FootballGiddyup, It’s Horse Soccer!
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“He’s a great soccer player because he throws himself into it. He’s so great because he has all of the skills. He side-passes. He backs. He goes forward. He listens to the rider.” Those are the words used to describe Thunder, a 6-year-old quarter and working cow horse, who likely will be targeted [...]
Category: World FootballWeekend Watch: Champagne, Fireworks, Footie
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Most of the leagues in the world actually give their players some time off this time of year, but fortunately for those of us who use football like it is crack there are some matches scheduled during the long weekend. Here are a few worth keeping your bloodshot holiday eyes on while you light [...]
Category: World FootballNews from Romania: It’s Time to Fire the First Team
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The lessons we learn today from everyone’s favorite league is that mediocrity will not be tolerated and that patience is not a virtue. Just four months after being promoted to Romania’s first division, nine players from Universitatea Craiova have been handed their walking papers and another four have been loaned out to other clubs.
Category: RomaniaPerth Glory Teammates Fight after Match
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Perth Glory midfielder Adrian Webster and captain Jamie Harnwell took out their handbags and slugged one another following their team’s 0-0 draw against Adelaide United in A-League action on Thursday. In the perverse universe inhabited by a seventh place team in Australia, teammates engaging in a cat fight is actually viewed as a good [...]
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Tags: adelaide united, Adrian Webster, Asia, Football Brawls, Jamie Harnwell, Perth Glory, Soccer BrawlsDaily Dose 12.29
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Some stories to read while you work on your New Year’s hangover cure….
The legend of Perry Groves is a hit in the bookstores (Telegraph)
Since a gazillion people are coming to this site to see the Sunderland sex tape, here’s a safe for work link that leads you to a not safe for work link where [...]
Category: World FootballHide the Kids, It’s Landmine Soccer
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I’m all in favor of the United Nations. After all, they were my team at the World Cup. I’m also in favor of landmine awareness. I’ve worked in countries where innocent people are needlessly killed by the buggers every day. Still, I must express my displeasure with Kofi and the gang [...]
Category: World FootballClint Dempsey is off the Market
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I have no idea if New England Revolution and U.S international midfielder Clint Dempsey has signed with Fulham or some other team in Europe like he is expected to during the winter transfer window, but thanks to the eagle eyes of Du Nord we now know that he will not be bringing his fisticuffs and [...]
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Models Dig the Soccer Players
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Always a magazine to deliver fine journalism, Sports Illustrated’s Web site has done us all a great service by asking the magazine’s swimsuit models to rank the best looking athletes in the world today. On the male side of things, the list is fairly American-centric, which makes it all the more remarkable that four [...]
Category: World FootballPompey ’til and After I Die
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Watching Portsmouth play in previous seasons has probably taken a few years off the lives of their supporters, which is good news for a local funeral home offering The Pompey Package. For £1,795, loyal fans can rest in peace in an official Portsmouth coffin, while they are driven past Fratton Park to their grave [...]
Category: English Premier LeaguePierluigi Collina Still Looks Like an Alien
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Admit it. Even with the imitators out there you’ve missed this face. Retired referee turned financial adviser Pierluigi Collina is making a football comeback of sorts. He has been appointed as a consultant for the Italian football referees’ association, assisting recently appointed referees’ chief Cesare Gussoni as Serie A tries to replace [...]
Category: Serie AYouTube Video Inspires Shunsuke Nakamura’s Goal
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It turns out the YouTube is more than just softcore porn for the teenage crowd and football bloggers. It is also a teaching tool. Celtic star Shunsuke Nakamura recently discovered a nifty little move — in between watching Lonelygirl15 and the ubiquitous Best Penalty Kick Ever — that served as inspiration for his [...]
Daily Dose 12.28
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Some stories to read while you pick up a prize for promising not to see a prostitute…
The much coveted first annual Sam Awards are out for French football (France Offside)
And the mid-term reports are out for various leagues in England (200 Percent)
It hasn’t been a good week for John Terry (This is London)
Global giant Accrington [...]
Category: World FootballThere are 8 Million Reasons for Luis Figo to Play in Saudi Arabia
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The Luis Figo transfer rumors have been floating around for awhile, but today was the first day that the Saudi Arabian club Al Ittihad was included in the scuttlebutt. The Inter Milan midfielder has apparently inked a deal to play in the Desert Kingdom for the next six months and will move there next [...]
‘Tis the Season for Football Peace
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There is something about this time of year that leads people to put away their differences and to extend the olive branch of peace. That doesn’t apply to Jose Mourinho and Sir Alex Ferguson, of course, but don’t let them bah humbug you out of believing that enemies can in fact become friends.
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