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August 29, 2008

Blog tip

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I wasn't aware of it until recently but you should all go out of your way to check out the 'Some People Are On The Pitch' blog (link on the left).  It's frequently updated with quality content such as their weekly "Weekend TV Preview' which is an invaluable resource for alerting you to J-league stuff [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: England, Germany, Italy, J League, Spain, Weekend TV, pitch

August 28, 2008

Team to watch: Atletico Madrid

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Last night's 4-0 destruction of a decent Schalke side (goals in the video vault on the right) confirmed what I had long suspected, that the other team in Madrid are more than worth paying attention to this season. Betfair currently have them at 26-1 to win La Liga and 2-1 to win it with a 12 [...] Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Spain, gambling, madrid

August 26, 2008

A football fan’s perspective

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Football fans are notorious in their lack of perspective.  As a Tottenham support right now I am seeing that more than ever.  We've lost our first two league games of the season and it's widely being hailed as an absolute disaster.  We're already six points behind Liverpool who we were hoping to beat to fourth [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: England, Fans, Liverpool, football fans, perspective

August 25, 2008

Video Vault - 25/08/08

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Here are videos to some of the games linked to in the post below.  I'm trying to figure out how to embed this into the sidebar so if you have any clue then please send me an e-mail. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Video, games

Monday morning headlines

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With the seven days likely to be some of the most newsworthy of the year in footballing circles due to the end of the European transfer window, and the start-up of the remaining major leagues from the continent, I thought it would be a good time to take a look at what's make the headlines [...] Click to continue reading...
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Tags: England, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Scotland, Spain

August 21, 2008

Is Ashton the answer to Rooney’s problem?

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Whilst perusing the excellent Two hundred Per Cent blog (link on the left), I noticed a recent post made regarding England's performance and suddenly felt compelled to respond.  it ended up being slightly longer than planned so I decided to cross-post it here as well.  The original post can be found here, if you're looking [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Dean Ashton, England, Wayne Rooney

The Sun today

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Following on from last night's post about the England team and my general disregard for it, here is the article from today's Sun reacting to the Czech Republic game.  It could not be any more perfect if it tried. WASTERS - Our £5m-a-year boss is useless FABIO CAPELLO lost the plot, lost an ally and almost lost [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Capello, Czech Republic, England, Fans, Managers, boss, media

August 20, 2008

What is it with England?

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After every England friendly I berate myself for wasting two hours of my life.  I can generally always justify watching football whatever the standard but internationals, supposedly the epitome of the football in this country, just leave me cold and uninspired. Tonight we are playing the Czech Republic at Wembley and I have corrected my mistake [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Czech Republic, England, Wembley, mistake

August 19, 2008

Another Bundesliga post

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I mentioned at the bottom of yesterday's entry that Bild have an English language site now and that it might be a good place to keep up with events in Germany. I completely forgot of course that Guardian Unlimited has an excellent Deutschland correspondent itself and that he writes a brilliantly concise and witty weekly column [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Germany, Guardian Unlimited, Weekly Column

August 18, 2008

Football’s back

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English league football returned in glorious fashion last weekend and was swiftly followed by the Premier League, note FA lawyers - I did not say Premiership, on Saturday just gone. It's that exciting part of August as all major European leagues are resuming after the winter break.  Pre-season tournaments such as Feynoord, Ajax and Arsenal ones [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Ajax, Arsenal, Belgium, English Premier League, European leagues, Fashion, France, Germany, Scotland, Winter Break

July 21, 2008

Re: below

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Just moments after making about people getting needlessly worked up by unubstantiated gossip, I see two stories that make me angry. The second one is from the Telegraph who have proved that their online output is nothing more than copy and paste jobs from other sites. I think even they would admit at this point [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: England, Gossip, Transfers, jobs, telegraph

MASSIVE TRANSFER NEWS £££!!!

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A mainstay of the Summer in the UK is the constant speculation over who is coming and going from various clubs and numerous headlines featuring astronomical £££ signs with accompanying pictures of players who are clearly not worth it. The comedian Frankie Boyle went on a rant on the last edition of 'Mock the week' on [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Speculation, Transfers, rant

I return~!

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It's been absolutely ages since I made a post here, which is due to a combination of factors. The lack of live football combined with a series of exams means I just haven't had the time to write anythig that I felt was worth putting down. Of course I've probably lost the reader base of [...] Click to continue reading...
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June 16, 2008

We need a Rohan Ricketts song

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My recent conversion to Toronto FC actually garnered some attention to this small corner of the internet and shockingly inspired some people to post comments which was a delightful and unexpected consequence. After a defeat at Houston (last year's MLS champions) that was widely blasted as "pathetic" and saw many fans call for the heads of [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Toronto FC, canada, usa

June 15, 2008

Sunday update

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Typical me, just as this site starts to get a decent number of visitors (a link on the Guardian website attracted over 400 hits for the Dutch article alone) I start to let things slide. I have no real excuse apart from I have been working at a real paper all week and pumping out a [...] Click to continue reading...
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Tags: excuse, guardian