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    <title>Soccer Blogs Posts Tagged Off The Record</title>
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    <entry>
        <title>Top 20 Weird &amp; Wonderful Football Injuries</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/221664/"/>
        <published>2008-12-04T09:40:03+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-12-04T09:40:03+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/221664/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Ah, so it has come to this. A list of the most ridiculous, hilarious, and downright odd football injuries ever known to man. From salad cream to wedding rings, dog piss to power drills, get ready. It might get a little freaky. 1. Dave Beasant & Santiago Canizares Ok so I am starting out by cheating. Not [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Football Porn?</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/221232/"/>
        <published>2008-12-03T09:40:53+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-12-03T09:40:53+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/221232/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Homosexuality is a touchy subject; gay footballers even more so (and you know how we love talking about touchy subjects). When you consider that footballers are invariably looked upon as role models for children (for better or worse), many otherwise liberal and politically-correct parents would throw a fit if they found out their precious offspring [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Knock! Knock! You Can’t Come Out!</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/220959/"/>
        <published>2008-12-02T09:40:17+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-12-02T09:40:17+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/220959/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[One Summer night in Miami I got traumatized. I'm pretty much open to all things, I like to think, unless you mess with my religion. I got my head turned forever, though. You don't know who you are until you're tested. My wife and I were on vacation in Miami. My daughter and her boyfriend [...]]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Arsenal’s captaincy gaffe, free Manchester United tickets, the next Real Madrid striker and more</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/219777/"/>
        <published>2008-11-28T09:08:49+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-28T09:08:49+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/219777/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Today's report is brought to you by Alessandra Ambrosio and Cristiano Ronaldo and because we've been away for a while, by the lovely Adriana Karembeu. Before we kick off with the roundup (of news old and new), here's how you can win free tickets to the Manchester United v Aalborg game, courtesy of our second favourite [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Injury, The Curse Of The Modern Footballer</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/219656/"/>
        <published>2008-11-27T15:45:07+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-27T15:45:07+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/219656/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[It's the bane of a footballer's life. Not a salary cap, not kiss-and-tell scandals or even the dreaded, and eternally-blamed Credit Crunch (always a capital C for Credit Crunch). No, for any footballer- amateur or professional- the fear of injury is the biggest of all. Over the past few years football fans have edged towards the [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>The Metatarsal</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/219657/"/>
        <published>2008-11-27T15:33:30+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-27T15:33:30+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/219657/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[A few words didn't exist in April 2002. Bouncebackability. Celubatante. Crunk. Hoody. Metatarsal is slightly different from these words in the respect that it did exist, but it was just never uttered. That was, at least, until a man called Aldo Duscher collided with a more famous man called David Beckham, and suddenly metatarsals were [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>The Hamstring</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/219658/"/>
        <published>2008-11-27T15:32:46+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-27T15:32:46+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/219658/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Ahh the hamstring. The bane of the pacy player. Nothing turns a manager's stomach more than their &#163;20m striker running at a defence at full pace, before pulling up sharper than Steve Claridge outside a bookies'. As shown opposite, the hamstring muscle group contains three muscles - biceps femoris, semitendonosus and semimembranosus.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>The Cruciate Ligament</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/219659/"/>
        <published>2008-11-27T15:31:47+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-27T15:31:47+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/219659/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Perhaps the most feared of all football injuries is the cruciate ligament injury. A broken leg may hurt more, and cause more people to grimace or turn away from the screen, but a serious knee injury can have far more serious repercussions, both short and long term. The Anterior Cruciate Ligament is the most important [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>The Leg Break</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/219660/"/>
        <published>2008-11-27T15:31:25+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-27T15:31:25+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/219660/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Ok, a little obvious, but the broken leg in football is arguably becoming more and more common. Fortunately the days where a broken leg would mean the end of a player's career are over. Nowadays, with increased television coverage, slow-motion replays and YouTube, the most famous instances of broken limbs are there for every sadist [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Ten Good Reasons To Hate Football Players</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/218661/"/>
        <published>2008-11-24T09:40:29+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-24T09:40:29+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/218661/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Football rivalries are intense - football fans (normal, loving people in day-to-day life) take perverse pride in hating rival clubs, rival fans and rival players. Sometimes it's just that simple - Liverpool fans hate Gary Neville for his Manchester United colours - but in recent years football culture has evolved and so has player hating.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>How To Break Up</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/215813/"/>
        <published>2008-11-14T17:21:02+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-14T17:21:02+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/215813/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The right way to break up a relationship, courtesy of Adidas: var sid=137;var vid=17505; &quot;How To Break Up&quot; was originally published at Soccerlens.com - Football News.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Wigan striker headbutts Hull City senior citizen</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/215492/"/>
        <published>2008-11-13T14:46:06+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-13T14:46:06+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/215492/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Hull City strikers Marlon King and Dean Windass reportedly brawled in a casino last night when around 3am, a drunk Windass made fun of an even more drunk Marlon King, which ticked the younger (well, 39 beats 28) striker off to the extent that he (King) headbutted Windass in the face. Apparently King had the sense [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Why Chelsea should sue Burnley, FA and the London Police</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/215493/"/>
        <published>2008-11-13T14:30:48+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-13T14:30:48+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/215493/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Last night's Carling Cup matches proved a number of things: Rafael Benitez will give up anything, even momentum earned through wins in the league, to keep his match-winners rested. He has more faith in a few players than he does in the rest of his squad. Harry Redknapp is for real. I doubted him, but 2 wins [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Nike Pro Ultimate Commercial: Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo and Albert Morgan</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/215132/"/>
        <published>2008-11-12T11:18:09+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-12T11:18:09+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/215132/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Manchester United's kit-man, Albert Morgan, stars in Nike's latest Pro Ultimate ad. Guest appearances by Rio Ferdinand and Cristiano Ronaldo: &quot;Nike Pro Ultimate Commercial: Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo and Albert Morgan&quot; was originally published at Soccerlens.com - Football News.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Do Manchester United Have The Biggest…?</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/214896/"/>
        <published>2008-11-11T19:07:01+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-11T19:07:01+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/214896/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Have a look at this squad photo below: It's twice as funny when you look at where each player is looking... [Hat tip: Kickette] &quot;Do Manchester United Have The Biggest...?&quot; was originally published at Soccerlens.com - Football News.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Arsenal are unworthy pretenders to the throne</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/211497/"/>
        <published>2008-11-01T07:56:55+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-01T07:56:55+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/211497/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Arsenal play the most beautiful football in Europe. Arsenal play a beautiful game. Arsenal play the best football in the world. Where have we heard this bullshit passed around as the 'absolute truth'? Arsenal fans can be excused - they have invested emotionally in the club and deserve their own version of the truth.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Celebrating like a true Tottenham fan…</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/211499/"/>
        <published>2008-11-01T07:27:19+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-11-01T07:27:19+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/211499/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Studs Up - Chris Toy &quot;Celebrating like a true Tottenham fan...&quot; was originally published at Soccerlens.com - Football News.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Barry Glendenning:  Modern Football’s Loving Sceptic</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/211348/"/>
        <published>2008-10-31T14:40:42+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-10-31T14:40:42+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/211348/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[&quot;In most ways I am content not to know such information, and to think of sportswriting not as a real profession but more as an agreeable frame of mind, a way of going about things rather than things you exactly do or know. A reasonable guess is a source of pleasure, since it makes me [...]]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>F**K Football!</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/211208/"/>
        <published>2008-10-31T07:45:15+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-10-31T07:45:15+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/211208/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Whether you're a Gooner, a Geordie, or a Kop, the most obsessed of us lot all have one thing in common   at one point or another, we've all been hurt and betrayed by our beloved football club before. It's the kind of unparalleled hurt that you'll only wish upon the worst of your enemies [...]]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Arsenal need practice games with the Ladies’ team</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/210801/"/>
        <published>2008-10-30T07:47:45+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-10-30T07:47:45+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/210801/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[In the build-up to last night's Arsenal v Tottenham game, Cesc Fabregas made a cheeky comment (and quite funny at the time) saying that if the Arsenal Ladies team played Tottenham's first team, &quot;they would do really well. I'm sure they would get a point!&quot; Despite Tottenham's late comeback, I wouldn't disagree with Fabregas - [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>The Big Time</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/210802/"/>
        <published>2008-10-30T05:10:04+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-10-30T05:10:04+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/210802/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Just imagine this for a moment: you're standing in the tunnel, seconds before the kick-off of your professional debut. You can smell the turf. You can taste the crisp night air of an early autumn evening. You can hear the aaahhhs of an anxious crowd; they're ready for some futbol. You can see the pitch corner [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Every Game Needs a Hero</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/210990/"/>
        <published>2008-10-30T05:03:46+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-10-30T05:03:46+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/210990/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[As the clock approached the ninetieth minute, there was only one thing on the goalkeeper's mind: save any and every shot that comes near his net his home. After all, his team was had the lead, but a very slim lead at that. Possession had been theirs for the majority of the game, but now the [...]]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>What I Learned from Michael Ballack</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/210805/"/>
        <published>2008-10-30T04:48:43+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-10-30T04:48:43+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/210805/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The year had to have been 1998. I remember dragging an old, decrepit, yellow blanket down the stairs from the upper level of the house I lived in. Out of habit, I checked the calendar: the date read October 1. For whatever reason, I had neglected to go to school that day... and I was [...]]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Moroccan jailed for loving Barcelona more than his King</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/210259/"/>
        <published>2008-10-28T15:54:11+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-10-28T15:54:11+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/210259/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[A Moroccan schoolboy, aged 18, has been jailed for 'insulting the king', after replacing the monarch's name with that of his favourite football club. He altered the phrase &quot;God, The Nation, The King&quot; on the school blackboard to read &quot;God, The Nation, Barcelona&quot;. Barcelona are looking to milk the PR angle, saying that they have appointed a [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>A Kieron Dying Breed?</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/209786/"/>
        <published>2008-10-27T04:28:37+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-10-27T04:28:37+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/209786/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Not long ago, perhaps just over 5 years, this title of this piece could have been much the same as it is now. The same, except that the main noun of the sentence will be replaced, so it will read, 'Are the days of the technical wizard over?' It seems we have gone half circle [...]]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Rethinking Goals</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/209756/"/>
        <published>2008-10-27T04:08:59+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-10-27T04:08:59+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/209756/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Goals are the focus of football. Goals mold the plot and determine results. Goals win trophies, titles and plaudits. The goal, undoubtedly, is the most pivotal event during a football match. However, how useful are goals for evaluating individual players? Leo Messi receives the ball at the halfway line, skips through five [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>The Life and Times of a Modern Footballer</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/209352/"/>
        <published>2008-10-25T18:08:25+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-10-25T18:08:25+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/209352/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[* Please note that some of the names in this story are fictitious, as is the story itself. The small, skinny boy passes the ball slickly to the neighbour's kid with whom he was playing football in the street. He runs forward and the neighbour slides the ball back to him before he shoots. GOAL! He [..]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>William Gallas, cigarettes, Arsenal and some perspective</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/209137/"/>
        <published>2008-10-24T20:07:08+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-10-24T20:07:08+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/209137/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[God knows I've blogged my fair share of criticism on Billy G's behavior - his move away from Chelsea, his time at Arsenal, especially post-Henry, his comments to the press, it's all made for ripe pickings for the baying mob and we've loved it. This time though, it has nothing to do with football, it's not [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Paul Robinson Crusoe</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/208911/"/>
        <published>2008-10-24T09:33:22+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-10-24T09:33:22+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/208911/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[My tired arms rested limply on the driftwood as I floated aimlessly in the ocean. How long was I drifting? Hours? Days? 90 minutes? I can't tell you. My concentration isn't what it used to be. How did I end up there? Well, it all started after my transfer to Blackburn. Daniel Levy and Juande [...]]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Sepp Blatter in ‘hit and abandon’ car accident?</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/208544/"/>
        <published>2008-10-23T10:12:46+00:00</published>
        <updated>2008-10-23T10:12:46+00:00</updated>
        <id>http://soccerblogs.net/go/blogpost/208544/</id>
        <author>
            <name>SoccerLens</name>
        </author>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Last Saturday Sepp Blatter was reportedly involved in a car accident coming out of a mountain tunnel in the Swiss Alps, where his Mercedes hit a slower-moving car he was trying to overtake, lost control and hit an oncoming VW Golf. The Golf is said to have overturned several times before stopping with the driver escaping [.]]></summary>
    </entry>
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