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The David Beckham debut video..

Wearing No. 32, Beckham played alongside Andrea Pirlo and Clarence Seedorf in midfield with Kaka as he made a...
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Messi gives more evidence of being better than Ronaldo..

When is the last time Ronaldo scored a match winner like this ? Here’s Lionel Messi vs Osasuna when...
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What’s a Carson clanger ?

A clanger by Carson evidently.Watch closely(because the video is poor) the clanger that gifted the game to Aston Villa....
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2008 FIFA Player of the Year nominees..

Maybe that’s why Cristiano Ronaldo crashed his Ferrari.He suddenly imagined Messi getting the award and didn’t see the wall...
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Will Ronaldo crash vs the Blues ?

This was the unfortunate title to an article about his chances of scoring a goal against Chelsea on sunday...
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Top 50 british footballers of 2008

This is from Times Online.It’s a compiliation of 50 british footballers who did very well in 2008.The big names...
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What you have always suspected- Cristiano Ronaldo is Santa Claus…!

If you saw reindeer in the sky this Christmas that were doing stepovers and diving all over the place...
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All goalkeepers are frustrated centre forwards..

With just seconds remaining, the game between Sunderland and Reading was into the fifth minute of added-time. Reading won...
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An absence of stars…..

We are at the halfway stage of the Premier League season but there seems to be a serious dearth...
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Robbie Keane gives more evidence of not being a waste of money…

Two goals out of three gave Liverpool three more points and took them back to the top of the...
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Fabregas out for 4 months,Wenger has words for Graham Poll…

You can go through your whole life not knowing that you have medial knee ligaments and then sudddenly one...
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Video: Beckham charming the Italian media…

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Rooney being Rooney….

Scoring a wonderful goal through the goalie’s legs and all – keeping the score against Aalborg at a respectable...
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Video: The return of Didier Drogba….

A post titled like that needs some menacing music to go with it to set the mood.A lethal strike...
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Video:Thierry Henry hat trick

This bit of news must have slipped through the cracks in my ceaseless vigilance while I was occupied with...
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Maradona mania – The hand of god in the City of Joy.

“It’s tough to be a God Tread where mortals have not trod Be deified when really you’re a sham...
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Video: Its getting to be a cliché

Gael Clichy, last season’s sure footed defender is now becoming a byword in blooper of the week.
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To sum up the Gallas story..

A picture thats surely worth a thousand words or more – summing up very eloquently the Arsenal – Gallas...
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Gallas stripped of captaincy

BBC is reporting that William Gallas has been relieved of his duties. He was also not present on the...
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In which Gallas shows that he is not very smart

“I replied: ‘How are you speaking to me? Who do you think you are? You are only 20 years...
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What happened to Senegal?

On 5 September 2008, Senegal met Algeria at the Mustapha Tchaker Stadium in a World Cup qualifier. In the...
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Little Zizou: Execrable movie

This movie could easily have been titled, Little Zizou: A Gratuitous Reference To or the Incredible Vanishing Zidane. Apart...
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Maradona’s demeanour impressive

I think the verdict has been quite positive. Typically El Diego sucks up all the oxygen where ever he...
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El Diego begins with a victory

So it appears that Argentina played like gangbusters for the first 20 minutes and then faded away letting Scotland...
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Carson on a hat trick

The man seems to go to pieces every time he plays for his country. Blunder # 1England vs Croatia...
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Can Barack Obama revive soccer diplomacy?

Most Americans now prefer diplomacy towards Iran rather than seek a knee jerk military solution. After virtually turning off...
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2010 World Cup qualifiers: Socceroos sneak by Bahrain

Pim Verbeek looked like he wanted to pluck every nose hair off Harry Kewell. Why Kewell remains on this...
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So what should Terry Butcher do?

Terry Butcher has to now live with the fact that Maradona will be the topic du jour of the...
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Walcott out for six weeks

Add another blow to Arsenal’s nightmarish season. Theo Walcott is out for six weeks with a shoulder dislocation and...
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The Church of Maradona

The true believers all 120,000 will be praying for their prophet today as he takes on Scotland. Jonathan Franklin...
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Maradona fires back at England

Maradona measures the miss in the 1966 final I had no idea that Argentina was playing England. A proxy...
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Bayern to set up an academy in India

The overwhelming response to Bayern’s visit in May this year when 120,000 fans came to see Oliver Kahn play...
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Mike Ashley will not be able to sell Newcastle

For the price he is asking for. Not at this time. Zabeel Investments backed out of spending money on...
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Video: Vedad Ibisevic continues his sharp shooting ways

Ibisevic scores his Bundesliga leading 14th goal as our favourite team 1899 Hoffenheim continues its dream run beating Wolfsburg,...
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Michael Bradley inflicts some misery on Bayern

Bayern was poised to take three points as they were coasting to a 2-0 victory over lowly Borussia Moenchengladbach...
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Wenger needs a reality check

Anytime you talk about Arsenal, you have to qualify it with the paeans that Arsene Wenger so richly deserves....
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Ramon Calderon sharpens his knife

Real is ruled by a cabal of madmen and amoral shysters straight out of Herzog’s Aguirre, The Wrath of...
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Terry Butcher unfiltered

Lots of Terry Butcher who would like nothing better than giving Maradona a black eye and jail Scottish blaggards...
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Maradona: The telenovela: Hoopla

Diego Maradona landed in Scotland just before Wednesday’s game and with a curt “I don’t speak English” blew by...
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Sinisa Ubiparipovic: Ubiquitous now, you be the judge

Sinisa Ubiparipovic should now be worth more than his $33,000 annual salary. One of the standouts in NY’s historic...
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Dema Kovalenko is not a happy camper

The man best known for ending Brandon Pollard’s career shows no love for his former coach, Juan Carlos Osorio....
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Arsenal is bleeding respect

Arsenal vs Villa was supposed to showcase the best and brightest talent. But only one team showed up to...
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The recession’s not for Ronaldo ( asks for a raise..)

Here he is scoring his 100th goal for Manchester United- which naturally means that he thinks he’s worth another...
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Maradona makes the news again…

He’s hitting the headlines with monotonous regularity.Alan Hansen here saying that Pele needs to move over a bit and...
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“Goal” King Cole says goodbye

Former Manchester United and England striker Andy Cole has called it a day at last.Some highlights of his 19...
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Maradona: The telenovela begins: Resignation

Now it is Oscar Ruggeri. Maradona wants the former Boca defender and 1986 team mate as his assistant. Ruggeri,...
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Obama boosts US chances of hosting World Cup

The UK is probably going to get shafted if this is true. Obama’s election as president has so boosted...
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Steve Bruce: “We’ve had our backsides kicked.”

These statements should be treated as a conspiracy against Arsenal to lull them to sleep. How many opposing managers...
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Barack Obama: Soccer’s newest non-playing hero

A flurry of articles examining Obama’s relationship with soccer. David James believes Obama’s transformational presidency will be good for...
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Alexi Lalas resurfaces: He has words for Beckham

Remember Alexi Lalas and his grandiose pronouncements on how Becks would single handed turn the MLS into a world...
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MLS playoff attendances continue to tank

New England Revs drew 5,221 fans for their first leg game against Chicago. Just woeful. The other games were...
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NY Red Bulls: Dane Richards is the one man wrecking crew

Richards puts on the burners The NY Red Bulls came through for the greatest win in their 13 year...
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Del Piero gets standing ovation …..

34 year old Del Piero just keeps on coming up with the goods.At the age by which most professional...
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Maradona might blow his latest shot at redemption..

I was under the impression that it was just the hand that had divine properties.Apparently the rest of him...
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