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August 29, 2008

What Arsene really said, and why Chelsea, Liverpool and United have nothing to worry about

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Wenger is frequently misquoted (once or twice by yours truly as well) but this is a royal cockup. Arsene was asked about UEFA's plan to propose to the EU that football clubs that run on an operating deficit or those who are unable to pay wages based on their current revenues and have to finance [... Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Arsenal, Chelsea, English Premier League, Europe, Football clubs, Football: Beyond Help, Liverpool, Manchester United, UEFA Champions League, arsene, wages

August 28, 2008

Transfer Window: Good or Bad?

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I've heard several people say that the transfer window is 'bad' for football in England, after reading Paul Fletcher's article on it this morning I thought it's worth commenting on the matter. For the record, as a football fan I'm all for the transfer window - it keeps the transfer madness locked up to a few [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: English Championship, English Premier League, Europe, Features, Football Transfer Rumours, Football: Beyond Help, madness

August 26, 2008

Is Football Bad For Your Health?

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Football has a pretty big role in terms of UK culture, and never more so since the birth of Sky Sports and the Premier League, enhanced even further by Euro '96. We're now at a point where around 29 million people attend live games and that's not even taking into account the millions more who [...] Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Arsenal, Celtic, Chelsea, English Premier League, Europe, Features, Football: Beyond Help, Fulham, Rangers, Scottish Premier League, sky sports

August 22, 2008

4 things to remember about the 2008 Olympics

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The 2008 Olympics will end on Sunday 24th August (with the 08 Olympic football final on Saturday) and there's been lots to talk about this time around, from the politics to the environment to the questions about age to the outstanding performances and the odd funny moments. What will you remember most about Beijing 2008? Click to continue reading...
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Tags: 2008 Olympics, Beijing 2008, Europe, Features, Football: Beyond Help, Off The Record, Olympic football, Olympics

August 19, 2008

Glory Fans - Not So Bad After All?

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As a child, the summer holidays brought about a family trip to a campsite in Europe. We'd get in the car to travel down to Dover and I would always be wearing my United shirt. After hours and hours of driving, we'd pull in at our designated tin can and the holiday had begun. It wouldn't [...] Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Arsenal, Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers, Chelsea, Derby County, Europe, Everton FC, Features, Football: Beyond Help, Fulham, Hull City, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Middlesbrough, Newcastle United, Portsmouth, Rangers, Reading, Sheffield United, Stoke City, Sunderland, Watford, West Brom, West Ham, Wigan, aston villa, tottenham hotspur

August 15, 2008

50 “Guaranteed” Predictions for the 08-09 season

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The predictions are divided into 5 categories - the press, the players, the game, the teams and everyone else (fans, agents, management). You're welcome to add your own predictions in the comments, discuss the predictions I've made or come back later on in the season and check how many I got right (I'm going for [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: AC Milan, Arsenal, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Bundesliga, Chelsea, England, English Championship, English Premier League, Europe, Features, Football Transfer Rumours, Football: Beyond Help, Inter Milan, Juventus, Ligue 1, Liverpool, Lyon, Major League Soccer, Managers, Manchester United, Newcastle United, Players, Real Madrid, Roma, Serie A, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup, World Cup 2010, la liga, tottenham hotspur

August 14, 2008

Fifa order Mutu to pay Chelsea £13.68m in compensation

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Modern football guarantees that silly season is always on, 12 months out of 12. Former Chelsea striker Adrian Mutu was sacked in 2004 after failing a drug test for cocaine. After a four delay (in claims, counter-claims, appeals, etc), Fifa's Dispute Resolution Chamber (DRC) awarded Chelsea a hefty compensation. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Adrian Mutu, Chelsea, English Premier League, Europe, Football: Beyond Help, cocaine, silly season

August 13, 2008

Manchester City: Frantically weaving a larger basket case

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Even Thaksin Shinawatra's ego wouldn't go so much as to proclaim himself the Messiah, yet for a brief period he was held in such regard at Eastlands. His takeover of the club last summer, coupled with a supposedly huge cash injection and the installation of Sven-Goran Eriksson as coach led many City fans to start [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: English Premier League, Europe, Features, Football: Beyond Help, Manchester City, Mark Hughes, Sven Goran Eriksson, Thaksin Shinawatra, coach, takeover

August 12, 2008

English Double Standards: Clattenburg v Shinawatra

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The English Premier League has never been known for a lack of discipline, even when Robbie Savage was in it. While discussions rage about the ability of officials to control matters on the field, fans should never doubt the impossibility of the situation facing them. You only have to look away for an instant and [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: English Premier League, Europe, Features, Football: Beyond Help, discipline, robbie savage

August 11, 2008

The FA Introduce New ‘Respect’ Initiative On Opening Weekend

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The ‘Big Kick-Off' has brought with it a big kick-off for the FA's new respect for referees campaign. Branded ‘Respect', the campaign has been prominent during the opening weekend of the Football League season, and equally so at the Premier League's curtain-raiser, the Community Shield. The new initiative has been promoted heavily; Manchester United and [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: English Premier League, Europe, Features, Football League, Football: Beyond Help, Manchester United, community shield, referees, the FA

August 7, 2008

Soccerlens: Fans More Fickle Than Ronaldo

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Soccerlens has launched a scathing attack on football fans around the world, branding them irrational and childish. Soccerlens owner and Ahmed Bilal went so far as to call them a "senseless, directionless mob who enjoy being manipulated by the media.". Speaking exclusively to Soccerlens (go figure) on the Ronaldo saga, Bilal questioned the loyalty of so-called Manchester [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Cristiano Ronaldo, English Premier League, Europe, Features, Football: Beyond Help, Manchester United, Ronaldo, football fans, mob, saga

August 5, 2008

Team England or Team GB - The London 2012 Debate

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Politics and sports seldom mix, especially when sport is seen as a tool to gain political leverage (either by those using it or those protesting against it). And when the sport is as widespread and as passionate as football, with the politics as acrimonious and divisive as those of Great Britain, mixing the two is a [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: England, Europe, Features, Football: Beyond Help, Great Britain, Olympic football, sports

August 2, 2008

Saving Private Barton: why the FA should help Joey and Newcastle

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Joey Barton's story is tragic - a promising and talented footballer who has made bad decisions, decisions that have now brought him to a crossroads in his life. Where he goes on from here and what he does with his career will depend a lot on how he views the past (whether he perceives himself [...] Click to continue reading...
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Tags: English Premier League, Europe, Features, Football: Beyond Help, Joey Barton, Liverpool, Manchester City, Newcastle United, Players, footballer

July 30, 2008

Modern footballers hold clubs and fans hostage

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When your hot, your hot... and doesn't the modern day footballer know it. A few months ago Robbie Keane pledged his future to Tottenham Hotspur saying "I'm having a summer off without people ringing saying 'Are you going here, are you going there?'... I am more than happy here (at Tottenham) and I want to stay [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Arsenal, Barcelona, English Premier League, Europe, Features, Football Transfer Rumours, Football: Beyond Help, Hotspur, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle United, Players, Robbie Keane, Serie A, la liga, tottenham hotspur

Modern footballers hold clubs and fans hostage

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When you're hot, you're hot... and doesn't the modern day footballer know it. A few months ago Robbie Keane pledged his future to Tottenham Hotspur saying "I'm having a summer off without people ringing saying 'Are you going here, are you going there?'... I am more than happy here (at Tottenham) and I want to stay [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Arsenal, Barcelona, English Premier League, Europe, Features, Football Transfer Rumours, Football: Beyond Help, Hotspur, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle United, Players, Robbie Keane, Serie A, la liga, tottenham hotspur

July 29, 2008

Is the BBC killing Nigerian Football?

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Take a honest account of the sad state of affairs in Nigerian football - corruption, lack of money, the lack of love from the locals, etc etc. Bring in a 'journalist' working under a deadline to produce an catchy, quotable punchline to the story to make it instantly promotable. Add a healthy helping of the [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: English Premier League, Europe, Features, Football: Beyond Help, Nigeria, Off The Record, corruption, love, money

July 26, 2008

The Arsenal Way - sponsors convince Gunners to train Indian kids

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Arsenal staff recently held a 2-week coaching program in Calcutta and selected 16 schoolboys for a training program at the Emirates dubbed 'The Arsenal Way'. The boys, aged between 10 and 15, are flying out to begin their training at the club's stadium, The Emirates, from next month. How did Arsenal, a club notorious for NOT [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Arsenal, Emirates, English Premier League, Europe, Football: Beyond Help

July 25, 2008

Manchester United, India and the English Premier League

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When David Gill was asked whether Manchester United planned to go to India for a pre-season tour in the future, he told us what we already knew: That the market in India was huge, that they'd had offers to come play there, that Manchester United needed to conquer that final frontier before any other [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: David Gill, English Premier League, Europe, Features, Football: Beyond Help, India, Manchester United

July 23, 2008

Among the Hugs: Is Cuddly MLS Really Turning Violent?

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West Hammered: MLS Learns from the Pros While English cynicism used to be a cherished import in the all-too-earnest hinterland of soccer-loving North America, the bile has lost its caché in the past few years. No more, Guardian. Cease and desist, 'When Saturday Comes'. Your glib asides on the American game, which may have [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Asides, Columbus Crew, English Premier League, Europe, Features, Football: Beyond Help, Major League Soccer, North America, Soccer, West Ham, guardian

July 22, 2008

League Two Points In The Wrong Direction

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For that rare breed of person who is a fan of both football along with finance law and practice, the current goings-on with the League Two crisis clubs makes for interesting reading. For the rest of us, it looks to lead towards the strange spectacle of three clubs - Luton, Bournemouth and Rotherham - all [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Bournemouth, Europe, Features, Finance, Football: Beyond Help

July 19, 2008

Is Sepp Blatter a Marxist?

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For all those enraged by the hundreds of millions of pounds in inflated transfer fees flying between the stadia of Europe this summer: there was once a bearded man from a long time ago who proposed that the use-value of a commodity or service should determine its price, not market forces. No, I'm not [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Bayern Munich, Cristiano Ronaldo, English Premier League, Europe, Features, Football Transfer Rumours, Football: Beyond Help, Manchester United, Owen Hargreaves, Real Madrid, Stadia, Transfer fees, aston villa

July 17, 2008

Pre-Season Football - Profits from Practice?

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Increasingly we're seeing pre-season preparations forced to accommodate "brand-expansion" trips with Chelsea having traveled to the US and Liverpool to Asia in recent years (and United having traveled to both continents in the last 3 years). This summer sees Chelsea spend time in China and Malaysia as part of their push for global domination of [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Asia, Chelsea, English Premier League, Europe, Features, Football: Beyond Help, Liverpool

July 11, 2008

Promoting Soccer in the USA

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Last week, Ahmed wrote a tongue-in-cheek piece on why Americans suck at soccer. I believe he enlisted seven points to back his claim some based on truth whilst others said in jest. Of course, a lot of people thought he actually believed most of what he wrote and hence received a less than complimentary [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Europe, Features, Football: Beyond Help, Major League Soccer, Soccer, truth, usa

Slavery in Soccer? I Don’t Think So

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It's amusing how the term "slavery" gets thrown around these days. In November of 2003, Rasheed Wallace compared the NBA's Zero-Tolerance policy concerning arguing with referees to slavery. "That's retarded," the eloquent Wallace opined. "In my mind, it's kind of like a slave and master or father and son. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Cristiano Ronaldo, English Premier League, Europe, Football: Beyond Help, Manchester United, NBA, Real Madrid, referees, slavery

July 10, 2008

The Real Deal With FIFA, Club Football and ‘Slaves’

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He's not worth it. As a public-attention whore and someone whose main concern is to make FIFA look good in the eyes of press and the national associations as well as to help make FIFA more money, Blatter doesn't represent the true opinions of a 'guardian of football' (as FIFA claims itself to be [.. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: English Premier League, Europe, Features, Football: Beyond Help, guardian, money
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