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Transfer Talk: Tevez Won’t Make a Decision Until Joorabchian Tells Him To
By: Daryl |
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All sorts of transfer rumours to sink our teeth into today. Now the Henry thing is finally put to bed, the second longest running saga involves Carlos Tevez. Carlitos’ future is still in the balance, and he’s refusing to make his mind up until after the Copa America. He rejected a move to Inter Milan [...]
Category: World Football
Tags: Carlos Tevez, Christian Chivu, Diego Forlan, Fernando Torres, Gabriel Heinze, Jermain Defoe, Transfer Talk, World Football, World SoccerNakamura Gets Some Big Help With Free Kicks
By: Daryl | No Comments
Celtic’s Japanese playmaker Shunsuke Nakamura has taken an interesting approach to practicing free kicks. He’s got the Japanese rugby team to help him out. This isn’t one of those Beckhamy cross-sport promotional thingies, this is actual practice designed to help the lad take actual free kicks.
The logic goes: footballers are smallish, rugby players are huge. [...]
Category: World FootballThe World’s Glitziest Pub Team
By: Daryl | 4 Comments
You may think that Los Angeles Galaxy are the starriest team in LA, what with Beckham and Landycakes and er, Abel Xavier. But there’s another team in the region with twice the star wattage. They even have a better name: Hollywood United. Described by The Daily Telegraph as “the world’s glitziest pub team,” Hollywood United [...]
Daily Dose 06.30.07
By: Daryl | 1 Comment
Read these, unless your bank declares you dead…
Feeling the Henry effect at the bookies (Footblog)
At least it’s not a red sports car (Losing the Dressing Room)
The beautiful game in Canada, permanently this time (Pitch Invasion)
What happens on the field, stays on the field (Culture of Soccer)
The worst contract in MLS (FC Dallas Offside)
How not to [...]
Category: World FootballThe Offside Rewind: Get stuck in
By: Bob | 1 Comment
Some, but not all of the year’s best free kicks
The mother of all riots
Sing together now, on to victory
Sometimes life isn’t supposed to be fair
That Reggie Bush would be a great futballer
She did it for the kids
That is all from my end this week. Thanks to everyone for their patience and understanding while we [...]
Category: World FootballChampions League Draw: The Little Guys get their Chance
By: Bob | 3 Comments
It doesn’t seem very long ago that we were watching AC Milan defeat Liverpool in the Champions League final. After an interminably long month off the gang at UEFA are ready to get the party started for the 2007/2008 Champions League competition. The draw for the first two rounds was made on Friday.
Category: Champions LeagueWeekend Watch: What are you going to wear?
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They say April is the cruelest month but they never looked at a football calendar at the end of June. While most of the world’s players have their feet up on lounge chairs and their bellies full of liquid pleasure, there are still some games being played but they are few and far between. [...]
Category: World FootballOnline Football Manager
By: Bob | 5 Comments
What to do during the down time of the football year? You could drink yourself into a stupor until the next season kicks off or you could start a new hobby like taking part in an addictive online football manager league. Actually, you could do both at the same time, but that might [...]
Category: World FootballWhat’s in the purse, Olli?
By: Bob | 5 Comments
The summer holiday is over and training camps for many clubs in Europe are starting. Hope you enjoyed your two days off, guys. The return of players means the return of photos of players looking utterly ridiculous as they show up at the training ground, tan, rested and out of shape. Or [...]
Daily Dose 06.29.07
By: Bob | 3 Comments
Some stories to read while you sprinkle some marijuana on your dinner….
The Spurs get Bent (Tottenham Offside)
It is a great time to be a Sven lookalike (MySpace)
Imagine the score if they hadn’t dominated (Left Back)
Those nanobots are going to be something to watch… (Nanowerk)
…as are some of the youngsters kicking it in Canada the next [...]
Category: World FootballMLS Thursday Night: DC United v Colorado Rapids
By: Bob | 9 Comments
It evidently is a new rule that the United States national team must play every Thursday night and steal the thunder from the grand MLS game of the week experiment. Well, we’ve got the thunder under lock and key and they ain’t stealing it even if they are playing an Argentina team that is [...]
Jean-Claude Darcheville Prefers to Carry Cash
By: Bob | 1 Comment
When you get on an airplane these days there is a good chance that you are going to get hit up for money. If you want headphones to listen to the Will Farrell movie they are showing (it’s always one of his movies when I fly) you have to pay $5. If you [...]
Coaching is a Great Gig for a Pensioner
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You know who has it too easy in this world? Children and old people. All they do is lounge around all day draining our resources and talking about how things were better in the olden days. Instead of leisure time they need to made useful. Put them to work, I say. [...]
Heroes Derailed by Diarrhea
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Nothing was going to stop the Mbale Heroes in their relegation battle with the mighty Uganda Super League champions URA earlier this week. They were fired up, ready to go, but in the end they simply failed to show up.
Category: World FootballAnother Year, Another Real Madrid Manager Sacked
By: Bob | 6 Comments
Job security. It is a wonderful thing. You punch in at work, go through the motions all day, and go home knowing that no matter what you are going to still have a job tomorrow. Our tech guys know nothing about that (I kid because I love) and neither do managers who [...]
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