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December 3, 2008

To All Readers Of The Soccer Blog

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Hello everyone This is just a short message of apology to all readers of The Soccer Blog.  As you will have noticed the site has been offline since the weekend.  I'm afraid our server crashed on Saturday evening and it has only come back online a few minutes ago, Wednesday lunchtime. Even though the site is back [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , None Soccer

November 27, 2008

Champions League Wednesday Night Action

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Well, where shall we start?  Let's head on over to Anfield shall we and get this one out of the way! Yes, Liverpool won, beating Marseille 1 - 0 and therefore secured their passage through to the last 16 of the Champions League come next February, but (and it's a big but), this was anything but [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Arsenal, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Champions League, Chelsea, Inter Milan, Liverpool, Manchester United, Real Madrid, UEFA Champions League, Werder Bremen

Champions League Round Up Tuesday Week 5

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Champions League Week 5 action on Tuesday saw some of the big clubs progress into the last 16, and knock-out stages of the competition, which is begin in February next year. Over in Spain on Tuesday evening it has to be said that Manchester United and Villarreal, even though they were two of the teams to progress, produced [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , AC Milan, Arsenal, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Champions League, Chelsea, Inter Milan, Liverpool, Manchester United, Real Madrid, UEFA Champions League

November 24, 2008

Tottenham Out Of Relegation Zone, Blackburn In It

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Tottenham Hotspur remain unbeaten at home under new boss Harry Redknapp as they beat a 10-man Blackburn Rovers 1-0 thanks to another goal by the rejuvenated Roman Pavlyuchenkol.  Tottenham as a result also moved out of the Premier League's bottom three, however Blackburn, who had defender Martin Olsson sent off on 39 minutes, are now [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Blackburn Rovers, England - Premiership, English Premier League, English Premiership, GianFranco Zola, Harry Redknapp, Roy Keane, Spurs, Sunderland, West Ham Utd, tottenham hotspur

November 23, 2008

The Big Four All Drop Points

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It was a strange day when Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester Utd all drew 0 - 0 whilst the problems for Arsene Wenger and Arsenal grew as they were beaten 3 - 0 by Manchester City at Eastlands.  That win over Man Utd is now looking a distant memory for the Gunners. So, Manchester United remain eight [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Arsenal, Bolton Wanderers, Chelsea, England - Premiership, English Premier League, English Premiership, Fulham, Hull City, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Middlesbrough, Newcastle Utd, Portsmouth, Stoke City, West Brom, aston villa

November 10, 2008

Arsenal And Wenger Silence Critics

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Arsenal and Arsene Wenger produced the best possible response to all their recent critics, including the ones calling for Wenger to leave, by beating the current Champions Manchester United in an excellent and thrilling game of football at the Emirates on Saturday.  The result of which leaves Arsenal still firmly in the title race. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Arsenal, Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wandereres, Chelsea, England - Premiership, Everton FC, Fulham, Hull City, Liverpool, Man City, Manchester United, Middlesbrough, Newcastle United, Portsmouth, Stoke City, Sunderland, West Bromwich Albion, West Ham United, Wigan Athletic, aston villa, tottenham hotspur

November 3, 2008

Liverpool Manager And Players Impersonations

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 A friend of mine has just sent me the following video.  It's some bloke doing impersonations of Benitez, the Liverpool manager and some the players, Gerrard, Carragher, Owen, Crouch.  The guy is excellent so I thought I'd share it with you. The setting is a little surreal to say the least. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Jamie Carragher, Liverpool, Michael Owen, Peter Crouch, Rafa Benitez, Soccer General, Steven Gerrard

Spurs End Liverpool’s Unbeaten Record

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Tags: , Chelsea, England - Premiership, Harry Redknapp, Liverpool, Manchester Utd, Spurs, tottenham hotspur

October 30, 2008

Spurs Shock Arsenal At The Emirates

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You've got got to love this game, haven't you?  (Unless you're a Gunner this morning I suppose!)  But this was a classic North London derby.  Not only that, this was one of the classic Premier League matches.  You think of those Liverpool v Newcastle 4 - 4 draws many years ago, this is up there [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Arsenal, Chelsea, England - Premiership, Harry Redknapp, Liverpool, Manchester United, Spurs, tottenham hotspur

Maradonna To Be Argentina Coach

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Did you know? It's Diego Maradonna's birthday today. (He's 48, years not stones!) It was probably be one of Maradonna's happier birthdays of recent years after it was announced he was to become the national coach of the Argentine team. Now is it just me, or has this got potential disaster written all [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Argentina, Diego Maradonna, Soccer General, South American Football, hand of god goal

October 27, 2008

Liverpool End Chelsea Record & Spurs First Win

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Liverpool travelled to the fortress that is Stamford Bridge on Sunday.  A stadium where Chelsea have not lost for 86 games, since 2004.  However, by the time Liverpool left Chelsea they had put down a clear statement of intent to the rest of their title challengers and the Premier League as a whole, that this [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Arsenal, Bolton, Chelsea, England - Premiership, Fulham, Liverpool, Man City, Manchester City, Portsmouth, Rafa Benitez, Spurs, Steven Gerrard, West Ham, Wigan, Xabi Alonso, aston villa, phil scolari, tottenham hotspur

October 26, 2008

Ramos Has Gone - Redknapp New Spurs Manager

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Well, I suppose you have to say this doesn't really come as a huge surprise, Ramos being sacked by Spurs, yet at the same time when I saw the news I was actually a little shocked.  Hard to explain, to put my finger on it, I just thought, even though they are in desperate straights, [...] Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , England - Premiership, Harry Redknapp, Spurs, juande ramos, tottenham hotspur

Man Utd Drop More Points

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Manchester United dropped more points in the title race at Everton in the early lunchtime kick-off, then it the afternoon it was finally derby day delight at home for Sunderland over Newcastle and Hull City's fairy tale start to the season continued a pace  with a 3 - 0 victory at West Brom. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Blackburn Rovers, England - Premiership, English Premier League, Everton FC, Hull City, Man United, Manchester United, Manchester Utd, Middlesbrough, Newcastle Utd, Sunderland, West Brom

October 22, 2008

Beckham To Sign For AC Milan

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The Designated Player Rule in Major League Soccer allows every franchise to sign one player whose ersonal terms are not affected by the league's salary cap regulations. Allowing clubs to compete for the very best talent in the international game, it is known colloquially as the Beckham Rule, and shatters the myth that Americans don't [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , AC Milan, David Beckham, Italian Serie A, Italy - Serie A, Serie A, becks

Man Utd Beat Celtic In Battle Of Britain

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Manchester Utd won their European clash with Glasgow Celtic last night in the Champions League's version of The Battle of Britain at Old Trafford. United were grateful to a brace from their new striker Dimitar Berbatov and a second-half shot from player of the moment Wayne Rooney as they comfortably conquered SPL side Celtic 3 - 0 to [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: , Celtic, Champions League, Dimitar Berbatov, Glasgow Celtic, Man United, Manchester United, Manchester Utd, UEFA Champions League, Wayne Rooney