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Video: Bayern Munich 2 AC Milan 2

AC Milan vs Bayern Munich HighlightsUploaded by FootballHeaven Milan was distinctly lucky to get away with a penalty called...
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Champions League: Big games today

AS Roma vs Manchester United Totti’s day in the sun. Without doubt the bigger and better game today compared...
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Blatter’s unopposed election calls for term limits

The UN has 192 member states and since its inception in 1945 has had 8 Secretary Generals, the effective...
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Champions League: Big games today

Liverpool meets PSV Eindhoven Dirk Kuyt gets back to familiar territory with a great chance of scoring his first...
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Maradona to go to Switzerland to heal himself

Diego Maradona will spend another fortnight in hospital with suspected alcoholic hepatitis. He has had numerous problems with his...
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Different ideologies: Why Mourinho and Abramovich will part company

Lets face it. The relationship between Jose Mourinho and Roman Abramovich is not working out. And it is not...
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A real headscratcher this one ………….

Peter Crouch scores the perfect hat trick as Liverpool runs rampant over Arsenal. England celebrates the best league in...
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Soccer stands to gain following India’s disgraceful exit

Right now effigies of Indian cricketers are being burned and their families threatened with dire consequences. And for those...
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Steve McLaren: Bloke on the ropes

Watching Steve McLaren at his press conference after England’s lugubrious victory over Andorra was like watching a man who...
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In India following Arsenal is way cool

Mukul Kesavan discovers that Indian schoolkids are warming up to soccer, especially Premiership league. Arsenal is their choice because...
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Good news: Kenya rejoins international soccer

The Kenyan national squad can now participate in the Africa Nations Cup qualifiers and other international games. Fifa’s Emergency...
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Wenger has a point: Arsenal are the most booked team

I may have been a bit too quick to condemn Arsene Wenger’s sense of martyrdom as there are some...
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Andrew Jennings: Sepp Blatter’s shell games continue

Sepp Blatter is upto his old tricks with his willing accomplice FIFA’s vice president Jack Warner. At stake are...
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Other leagues show less disparity

Lets look at the other leagues and find where the Premiership stands. The Serie clubs have played a couple...
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Goal differential: A tale of two Premierships

The big four Premiership clubs walk away with the lions share of the revenues filling their already swollen coffers...
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Video: Steve Nash shows soccer moxie

Why do I get this strange feeling that Steve Nash might do more to promote soccer in this country...
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Steve Nash, NBA All Star: Soccer mad and potential Spurs owner

Steve Nash, Phoenix Suns star trains with NY Red Bulls Steve Nash, the Phoenix Suns point guard, perennial All...
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Wenger’s martyr mentality is taking a toll

I am a great supporter of Arsene Wenger and I find his commitment to nurturing Arsenal’s young players a...
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Video: A closer look at OM’s Samir Nasri

Born in Marseille just like Marseille’s favourite son Zinedine Zidane as well as sharing Algerian ancestry, it is inevitable...
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Video: OM’s Samir Nasri vs Franck Ribery

Now you see why Wenger wants this duo in Arsenal. He has to fight off Milan and Real to...
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Jack Kachkar: Olympique Marseille’s new owner

Jack Kachkar, L’OMs new owner L’ OM’s fortunes have been on the wane for over a decade since Bernard...
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Cricket fades as the West Indies takes to soccer

Every four years we have cricket’s version of the World Cup and this year the West Indies is hosting...
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Who wants to bet against Liverpool now?

We called it foolhardy when Rafa Benitez sent his squad a week before the game against Barca in the...
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Drogba’s award sells African soccer short

A bow to the Premiership and its selling power as it rules the roost in global viewership. But if...
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Dimitar Berbatov: White hot in White Hart

Dimitar Berbatov is the tour de force in the Spurs attack. As Robbie Keane and Mido play now you...
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Premiership action: Shootout at the Fantasy Factory

Shootout at the Fantasy Factory was a 1973 Traffic album but it could well describe the Premiership this weekend...
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Video: Ali G interviews Posh and Becks

Oldie but goodie. Posh comes off as far more feisty than Becks.
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Eurocentric bias: Blatter and FIFA overstep in Kenya ban

Sepp Blatter is a political animal. His FIFA career has been an orchestration of lining up votes, doling out...
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West Ham left dead in the water

Alan Curbishley vs Alan Pardew in the clash of the 500 lbs gorillas and it is Curbs left with...
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Kenya’s FIFA impasse continues

With virtually no soccer being played in their country because of the FIFA suspension, Kenyan players have left to...
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Gazza to star in sci-fi horror movie

You’ll soon see Gazza in movie halls in a sci-fi horror movie called Final Run. And no, its title...
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British soccer hardmen pale in comparison

Craig Bellamy has impulse control issues, Lee Bowyer is a racist thug, Vinnie Jones enforces by squeezing sensitive body...
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Video: David Villa’s bender against Inter

C1 Inter-Valence :1-1 Villa 21/02/07Uploaded by Luca_Toni Villa’s magnificent freekick restores parity for Valencia
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Video: Bellamy to Riise, Liverpool 2 Barca 1

Riise 1 – 2 – Barcelona v LiverpoolUploaded by samgoff Bellamy assisted Riise in Liverpool’s second goal as the...
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Video: Bellamy’s goal against Barca

Bellamy 1 – 1 – Barcelona v LiverpoolUploaded by samgoff Victor Valdes backs up into his own goal inexplicably....
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Video: The fastest recorded shot

Sporting Lisbon’s Brazilian left-back Ronny Heberson, who rocketed in this free-kick against Naval in November 2006, reportedly from 16.5...
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What would your Brazilian soccer name be?

Want to know what your name would be if you played for Brazil? Go to this website >> Nick...
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Melbourne Victory’s victory: Global game, local connections

Archie Thompson and Fred, Victory’s deadly duo On Sunday, the Melbourne victory crushed Adelaide United, 6-0 at Telstra stadium...
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Video: Jefferson Farfan, PSV Eindhoven star

Arsenal will be hoping that Farfan’s injury will keep him away from today’s Champions League match. The marauding left...
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For your Champions League fix ……….

Lille v Man Utd Celtic v AC Milan PSV Eindhoven v Arsenal Real Madrid v Bayern Munich Barcelona v...
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Video: Tomas Rosicky, Arsenal’s little gunner

Tomas Rosicky guns them goals directional bias or no directional bias.
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Liverpool takes up golf under new owners

It seems under the new US owners, some players have taken up golf, except that they are not whacking...
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Tomas Rosicky and directional bias

It happened once. Then it happened again. And when it happened a half dozen times it appeared to be...
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Does soccer also have its ‘unproductive’ stars?

Marx addressed the issue of worker productivity and set into motion modern day labour laws. The ILO now records...
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Video: The Police at the Grammys

Police frontman, Sting is a staunch Newcastle supporter. He penned the lyrics to The Black and White Army (Bringing...
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Video: Obafemi Martins vs Didier Drogba

Too early to compare him to Drogba but Martins is coming on nicely. So why not? Both are physically...
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Obafemi Martins: The best transfer this season

When we look at players who have exploded on the Premiership in their first season and single handedly changed...
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A T-shirt says it all

As floods (NY Times, subscription needed) ravage Mozambique, a poignant reminder, soccer as the global game. Beckham’s role in...
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Arsenal a seriously certifiable team: Take your meds

Take a bow Arsenal. You make every other team in the Premiership look pedestrian. Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool may...
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Video: Diego primer, Werder Bremen’s kingpin

Diego Ribas has turned around Werder Bremen’s fortunes with his playmaking abilities and his goalscoring. Take a dekko at...
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Arsenal vs Bolton: Allardyce plays mindgames

Paul Jewell’s accusations of biased refereeing by Phil Dowd following Wigan’s loss to Arsenal and Henry’s pointed reminder to...
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Goalless: The Story of a Unique Footballing Nation

A great account of the history of Indian soccer. From the moment in 1877 that an Indian boy kicked...
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In today’s India, soccer finds no place

India’s overheating economy along with China’s is the topic du jour nowadays in the global economy. Overnight, the IT...
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The Serie defense is tops in goalscoring abilities

We have always known that the Serie has provided the best defenders in the world. But their defense also...
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