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    <entry>
        <title>Keane For A Holiday</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/222087/"/>
        <published>2008-12-04T22:59:28+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-12-04T22:59:28+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/222087/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Roy Keane's departure from Sunderland raises many interesting questions about the nature of both Keane himself and the nature of modern football managership. Although the official line so far has been that they have parted &quot;by mutual consent&quot; (and we've covered what an unctuous and meaningless phrase that is on here before), the initial rumours [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Robinho</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/221885/"/>
        <published>2008-12-04T02:17:18+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-12-04T02:17:18+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/221885/</id>
        <author>
            <name>English Premier league</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Robinho shocked everyone when he signed for Manchester City rather than Chelsea and the player has made a decent start to his career in England. Here's a profile.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Individual Honours In A Team Game</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/221548/"/>
        <published>2008-12-03T22:48:46+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-12-03T22:48:46+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/221548/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[In one of the less surprising announcements of the last few weeks, this year's Ballon D'Or (which they used to just call &quot;The European Footballer Of The Year&quot;, but such is the power of modern marketing) has been won by Cristiano Ronaldo. It seems peculiar that a player whose year will most likely be defined [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Football In The Regions: London</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/221037/"/>
        <published>2008-12-02T14:57:01+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-12-02T14:57:01+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/221037/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Watching him a couple of years ago on &quot;Sunday Supplement&quot;, it was difficult to think of Jimmy Hill as a revolutionary. Yet there, before our very eyes, was the man that kick-started the television revolution in British football. The spiritual great-grandfather of Setanta's cameras in the dressing rooms and the ongoing debate over goalmouth technology, [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Football Blogging And An Undignified Race For Popularity</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/220570/"/>
        <published>2008-12-01T19:59:33+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-12-01T19:59:33+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/220570/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[It's that time of year again. The end of year polls are here, and it's time for me to call upon you all to vote for me in the annual Soccerlens Awards. Such awards leave me with mixed emotions. On the one hand, I am always flattered beyond all reason to receive any attention of [...]]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Reality Bites Revisited</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/220471/"/>
        <published>2008-12-01T14:30:20+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-12-01T14:30:20+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/220471/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[We did the travails of Weymouth FC on here before, in January 2007. Things seem now to be going from bad to worse down in Dorset, with the latest rumours involving a merger with their nearest and bitterest rivals, Dorchester Town of the Blue Square South. Since January 2007, times have been tough for Weymouth Football [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Match Of The Week:  FA Cup Second Round - Histon 1-0 Leeds United</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/220193/"/>
        <published>2008-11-30T14:38:37+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-30T14:38:37+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/220193/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Three times they have been the champions of England. FA Cup winners thirty-six years ago. Leeds United's mere presence in the early rounds of the FA Cup is a powerful symbol of how far from grace they have fallen in recent times. In contrast, ten years ago Histon were a village club playing in the [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Tax Returns</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/219951/"/>
        <published>2008-11-28T23:44:15+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-28T23:44:15+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/219951/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[It's probably safe to assume that Donal Macintyre isn't that much of a football fan. Not because he gives the impression of being someone that hates football, even though his previous dalliance with the game was an expose of the &quot;Chelsea Headhunters&quot; for the BBC. I say this because, if he was familiar with the [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>France, England &amp; The Future Of European Football</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/219562/"/>
        <published>2008-11-27T09:48:44+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-27T09:48:44+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/219562/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[France and England have a complex relationship. Both are considerably more like each other than either would like to admit and, even after thirty-five years of European integration, any attempts by the French to dictate European political policy are likely to be greeted with honks of derision in the British press.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Review: 1966 Uncovered by Peter Robinson et al</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/219510/"/>
        <published>2008-11-26T23:15:22+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-26T23:15:22+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/219510/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Some events in human history, a sage once noted, are so great that even those that weren't  born at the time can remember what they were doing at the time. A large number of these events come, perhaps unsurprisingly, from the 1960s, when satellite technology first tentatively fired live television images around the world.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Scenes From Football History - 1982/83: How Fulham Blew It</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/219198/"/>
        <published>2008-11-26T00:03:06+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-26T00:03:06+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/219198/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[From the mid-1960s on, football grew massively as a passive spectator sport. The realisation that football could evolve as a spectator sport for people that weren't even at the match was a revolution in terms of the perception of the game. By 1983, moves were in place for live televising of league football for the [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Holidays In The Sun</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/218868/"/>
        <published>2008-11-24T22:18:44+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-24T22:18:44+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/218868/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Sepp Blatter is worried. The global downturn in the economy has left him fretting about the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. A couple of years ago, a World Cup in South Africa was the dream ticket for him. A first for the continent of Africa, which would guarantee that he would be remembered as [...]]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>(Almost) Forty Years Of The FA Trophy</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/218524/"/>
        <published>2008-11-23T18:05:29+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-23T18:05:29+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/218524/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[If one competition brought the curtain down on the era of the distinction between the amateur and the professional within English football, it was the FA Trophy. Since the nineteenth century, the amateurs had been playing in their own competition, the FA Amateur Cup. Everyone, of course, took part in the FA Cup, and the [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Rare Praise For The Premier League</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/218343/"/>
        <published>2008-11-22T20:41:51+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-22T20:41:51+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/218343/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Before I start this evening, please accept my apologies for problems with the loading speed of the site at the moment. It seems to be taking thirty seconds to load rather than the one or two that it should take. I'm not completely certain what is causing it - I am having a serious problem [...]]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>A Marriage Of Inconvenience</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/217784/"/>
        <published>2008-11-21T01:19:25+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-21T01:19:25+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/217784/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[After the forced decampment of Wimbledon to Milton Keynes, we thought, perhaps, &quot;never again&quot;. That was six years ago, but the ugly face of football franchising is raising its ugly face again. This time, however, the rumour mill is coming from the Conference North, with the distinct possibility starting to appear of one club trying [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>All They Want Is Gold &amp; Silver</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/217403/"/>
        <published>2008-11-20T00:42:24+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-20T00:42:24+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/217403/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[&#163;450 isn't an exceptionally large amount of money these days, and it's mere change down the back of the sofa to an organistation the size of Liverpool Football Club. Small surprise, then, that they took the decision to invest this trifling sum of money with the UK Intellectual Property Office to get [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Match Of The (Mid)Week: Lincoln City 1-2 Kettering Town</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/217050/"/>
        <published>2008-11-19T01:31:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-19T01:31:00+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/217050/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The FA Cup manages strange and unusual ways to mete out justice. Just ask Tommy Hutchison, who scored both goals in the 1981 final - one at each end, for Spurs and Manchester City. A week ago on Saturday, Kettering Town of the Blue Square Premier must have felt as if they had done enough [...]]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>In Praise Of… Brian Clough</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/216779/"/>
        <published>2008-11-18T10:31:35+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-18T10:31:35+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/216779/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The unveiling of a new statue of Brian Clough in Nottingham last week seems like as good a time as any to to take a quick look back at the career of arguably English football's greatest manager. It's probably fair to say that the managerial achievements of Brian Clough will never be repeated again. He [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Uncomfortable Truths</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/216436/"/>
        <published>2008-11-17T09:50:35+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-17T09:50:35+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/216436/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[So, is Brian Mawhinney, the chairman of the Football League, after a job working for the Premier League? I ask the question because it would appear to be the most obvious explanation for Mawhinney's stinging attack on Trevor Brooking in an interview with The Times towards the end of last week. Brooking had previously gone [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Match Of The Week - Leeds United 1-2 Huddersfield Town</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/216263/"/>
        <published>2008-11-16T14:23:26+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-16T14:23:26+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/216263/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[It's difficult to say whether this proves anything or whether it's just a coincidence, but a high number of the most objectionable people that I have met in the course of my adult life have been Leeds United supporters. The guy that played football for the same team as me and said to me, just [...]]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>The Wenger Bus Is Coming?</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/216087/"/>
        <published>2008-11-15T19:17:13+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-15T19:17:13+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/216087/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Arsenal's season has thus far been characterised by what would appear be a split personality that would leave even Henry Jekyll nodding his head in silent admiration. There have been times this season when they have purred with the same quiet efficiency of his vintage teams of days gone by, but these performances have been [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Taking The Piss Out Of The FA Cup</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/215612/"/>
        <published>2008-11-13T22:08:49+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-13T22:08:49+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/215612/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The slow burning feeling that football is set to turn into little than a reality TV show has been growing over the last few years. Whether through Setanta invading the dressing rooms before, during and after matches or Ebbsfleet United and the ongoing row over whether their supporters should pick the team (not to mention [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Bordering On The Ridiculous</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/215310/"/>
        <published>2008-11-12T21:29:17+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-12T21:29:17+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/215310/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[In the olden days, managers either resigned, or they were sacked. There was something noble about the resignation of a football manager. The admission that they weren't quite up to the job. The falling on the sword in order to spare the greater dignity of The Club. The flipside to this was the sacking which, [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Find Out What It Means To Me</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/214993/"/>
        <published>2008-11-11T22:24:59+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-11T22:24:59+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/214993/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Joe Kinnear, one suspects, has been out of football for too long. If he hadn't been, he wouldn't have been as completely unaware of the FA's much publicised &quot;Respect&quot; campaign, and could have save himself a journey from Newcastle down to Soho Square to answer some questions that the FA might have to ask him [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Match Of The Week - AFC Wimbledon 1-4 Wycombe Wanderers</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/214821/"/>
        <published>2008-11-11T14:36:22+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-11T14:36:22+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/214821/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[In the end, it was all a step too far. AFC Wimbledon were outdone last night by a Wycombe side that was that little bit fitter, taller and better organised than they were. No-one can have any complaints about the result. To say that this was the only thing that mattered last night, however, would [..]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Living Vicariously Through The FA Cup</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/213956/"/>
        <published>2008-11-08T14:04:47+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-08T14:04:47+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/213956/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[As I hurtle unstoppably towards my late thirties, I tend to find that there is less and less to look forward to. Birthdays long ago became a cause for reflection and with an ever increasing desire to be able to say, &quot;Whoaah! No more of these! Can't we just stop right where we are?&quot;. Without [...]]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Up The Avenue</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/213439/"/>
        <published>2008-11-06T23:00:50+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-06T23:00:50+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/213439/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Of the smaller clubs that have had runs in the FA Cup over the years, some have had unhappy endings. Enfield, who became a national name in the 1970s and 1980s, have been the subject of a piece on here before, whilst Farnborough Town, who briefly scared the living daylights out of Arsenal as recently [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>When Sutton Met Coventry</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/213122/"/>
        <published>2008-11-05T22:54:19+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-05T22:54:19+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/213122/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[As the trains wend their way out of central London towards Surrey, one could be forgiven for missing Sutton in amongst the ever-expanding suburbia. These days, it's quite difficult to make out where London stops and Surrey starts, and it's even more difficult to make out Gander Green Lane it amongst it all.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>A Brave New World</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/212809/"/>
        <published>2008-11-04T22:14:49+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-04T22:14:49+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/212809/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Whilst noble in principle, the Abercrombie Report could hardly now be described as having been an unqualified success. The report, which advocated the mass decampment of a million and a half people from the overcrowded East End of London, led to the creation of such wonders of post-war architecture as Stevenage, Welwyn Garden City, Hatfield [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Blyth Spirit</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/212482/"/>
        <published>2008-11-03T21:37:40+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-03T21:37:40+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/212482/</id>
        <author>
            <name>Twohundredpercent</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Even though the FA Cup has regained some of its sheen over the last couple of years, the new financial realism of the modern game tends to take its toll on any pretensions of &quot;the romance of the cup&quot;. There is a tendency to look at everything through the eyes of an accountant these days [...]]]></summary>
    </entry>
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