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Manchester - Vidic might not be happy, but we love it!

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Nemanja Vidic was quoted as saying some not very nice things about Manchester this week, which he has since denied, although some have doubted how sincere his denial of the comments were. "I will never stay to live in England, that's for sure," Vidic is quoted as saying. "You only get a brief glimpse of sunlight [. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: England, English Premier League, Europe, Manchester United, Off The Record, Vidic

If Style Won You Silverware…

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Who would win the Premier League? The Champions League? The FA Cup? Would Manchester United and Chelsea still fight for the title? Will Arsenal and Liverpool be dumped out of Europe by Villa, Everton and Tottenham? Which is the best kit in England? in Europe? Oliver Fowler finds out... Scotland Champions & FA Cup - Partick Thistle The two colours [. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool appoint Mrs Redknapp as assistant manager

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‘Onest ‘Arry Redknapp appears to be feeling the pinch of the credit crunch. Obviously Lord Stevens' enquiry into bung-taking in football found no evidence he was anything other than an upstanding member of the football community, but in a summer in which Portsmouth's transfers have been limited, possibly he has struggled with an income below [. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Bung, English Premier League, Europe, Features, Liverpool, Managers, Off The Record, Portsmouth, Rafael Benitez, Redknapp

Football Rivals You Love To Hate

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I hate Liverpool and I hate Liverpool fans. This isn't to say that I don't have a mate or two who is afflicted with Liverpool support and this isn't to say that as a rule I believe all individual Liverpool fans are scum of the earth, but I can guarantee the image of thousands of [...] Click to continue reading...

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

Floating Football Pitch - Singapore points to the future of sports entertainment

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Singapore's ‘Marina Bay Floating Stadium' is a fascinating idea - to quote Times Online: "...an intriguing feature in an area which is set to become a waterfront city following its current redevelopment. The floating stadium is currently carrying the title of ‘the world's largest' and, although the 30′000 capacity seating area is housed on land, the [. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Europe, General Football News, Off The Record, Singapore

So Mr. Blatter - are Real Madrid slavers too?

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Sepp Blatter was happy to call Ronaldo a 'modern-day slave' when asked about Manchester United's refusal to let the player follow his 'dream' to play for Real Madrid. Now that Real have done the same for Robinho and 'killed' his 'dream' to move to Chelsea (to Ronaldo's credit he took it like a man and best [. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Chelsea, English Premier League, Europe, Features, Football Transfer Rumours, Manchester United, Off The Record, Real Madrid, Robinho, Ronaldo, blatter, la liga

Why do Arsenal players criticise their teammates?

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This isn't a slight against Arsenal, any Arsenal player or the Arsenal manager - more a question about Wenger's management methods. At times in the last two seasons it's almost as if William Gallas never stopped talking to the press. He'd talk about the players, the team, himself, the manager - anything that was put to [. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, English Premier League, Europe, Off The Record, William Gallas, wenger

How the Dutch sabotaged England’s Euro dreams

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An astonishing leaked interview with former England boss Steve "Umbrella" McClaren has made it clear to British football authorities that the man they entrusted with England's dismal Euro 2008 qualifying campaign was in fact a Dutch spy, sent in to sabotage English football. The interview (shown below) is thought to have been taken when McClaren was [. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: England, English Premier League, English football, Eredivisie, Euro 2008, Europe, Features, Football Videos, Managers, Manchester United, McClaren, Middlesbrough, Off The Record, Steve McClaren, boss, british football

Barton’s Cigar Did WHAT?

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You keep hearing about how Joey Barton stubbed a lit cigar in the face of a team-mate (way back in 2004 - someone should have caught a hint then), right? Well, the player who got 'poked', Jamie Tandy, is now suing Barton for causing "major psychiatric deterioration" which ultimately forced him out of the game [. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: English Premier League, Europe, Joey Barton, Manchester City, Newcastle United, Off The Record, deterioration

49% fans blame Ronaldo, 28% blame the Press

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Last week Soccerlens asked readers who they blamed for the torturous summer-long United-Ronaldo-Madrid saga. The results are detailed below: Out of a poll of 636 readers, 49% (309 readers) laid the responsibility at Cristiano Ronaldo's feet, with his refusal to 'clarify his position' (or rather, his desire to move and initial refusal to accept United's position) [. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Cristiano Ronaldo, Europe, Manchester United, Off The Record, Real Madrid, Ronaldo, desire, madrid, poll, saga

10 Tricks Clubs Use To Keep Players

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This summer (much like every summer before it) football sees a mad dash for the good and not-so-good footballers around the world which is reported on/fueled by the can-do-no-wrong-with-free-speech press and their always-telling-the-truth journalists. It can turn ugly, especially with players' heads being turned by the thoughts of more money, greater glory and managers doing their [. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Arsenal, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Bundesliga, Chelsea, English Premier League, Europe, Features, Football Transfer Rumours, Ligue 1, Liverpool, Lyon, Manchester United, Off The Record, Real Madrid, aston villa, footballers, journalists, la liga, money, sevilla, tottenham hotspur

We can’t all be Arsenal…

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I love watching football, I love playing football (although it hurts too much now) and I love coaching football. When I watch football I can see all the good ideas and all the mistakes. When I play football I know exactly what I should do and where I should be but my body won't do [...] Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Europe, Features, Football, General Football News, Messi, Off The Record, Ronaldo, Wilton Town

Chelsea and Spurs sign Arshavin, Arsenal and United get Huntelaar, Liverpool get Barry and Villa as Chelsea sell everyone

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A run down of the summer silly season can leave newspaper readers in no doubt: there have been a lot of big-money transfers already. Depending who you believe, both Chelsea and Spurs have signed Andrei Sergeyevich Arshavin at least four times, for fees ranging from about £20 million to about £50 million. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Arsenal, Chelsea, Europe, Football Transfer Rumours, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle United, Off The Record, Real Madrid, Spurs, aston villa, money, silly season, tottenham hotspur

Andy Hunter has no shame

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It's not enough to be embarrassed on an international scale by predicting complete bollocks in an effort to bait readers and then have the exact opposite happen 24 hours later. No, we must persist. Must. Write. More. Bollocks. There's no new contract, and there are 2 years before talk of a new contract even becomes [. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Europe, Manchester United, Off The Record

Studs-Up - Football Comic Strip

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Disclaimer: If you don't have a sense of humor, this isn't for you. Everyone else, read on! As football fans, we can get extremely frustrated or annoyed with some of the news that we have to read everyday, not just when it comes to the clubs that we support, but with stories that just won't [...] Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Europe, Features, Off The Record, Reviews, SL Partners, Studs Up, football fans

Arsenal’s top-secret strategy for raising transfer funds

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Studs Up is a football comic strip by Chris Toy - you can find it (and subscribe to it) here. Manchester United and Tottenham find common ground in Arsenal...and money: Studs Up is a football comic strip by Chris Toy - you can find it (and subscribe to it) here."Arsenal's top-secret strategy for raising transfer funds" was [. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Alex Ferguson, Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, English Premier League, Europe, Manchester United, Off The Record, juande ramos, money, studs, tottenham hotspur

Is Football A Simple Game?

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It is often said that football is a simple game. The fact is that most teams fail to make it look simple. The reason for that is because the team has to have a group of very talented individuals who are fit, strong, well organised and working together as a team, covering for each other [...] Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Coaching, Europe, Features, Football, Off The Record

Pavlyuchenko a boyhood Spurs fan and how Fabregas never played for Barcelona

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After a week in which Robbie Keane declared his undying love for Liverpool, David Bentley announced Tottenham Hotspur had ‘always had a piece of his heart' (presumably a piece he managed to ignore while he was playing at Arsenal), it was only inevitable that Spurs target Roman Pavlyuchenko revealed he has had the club's emblem [. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Arsenal, Bentley, David Bentley, English Premier League, Europe, Fabregas, Features, Football, Football Transfer Rumours, Hotspur, Kewell, Liverpool, Manchester Untied, Off The Record, Robbie Keane, Ronaldo, Spurs, Sunderland, Transfers, Wigan, heart, keane, satire, tottenham hotspur

Lawro to manage Premier League All-Star Team?

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Lawro makes a disastrous move into management... If you've ever wanted to see John Terry being ripped to death by Chihuahuas this is your chance. Having grown bored of punditry Lawro's finally making a move into management with the fantasy football. But with a paralysed Michael Owen, an Arsenal team who won't shoot, and a Sean Wright [. Click to continue reading...

Lawro to manage Premier League All-Star Team?

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Lawro makes a disastrous move into management.... If you've ever wanted to see John Terry being ripped to death by Chihuahuas this is your chance. Having grown bored of punditry, Lawro's finally making a move into management with the fantasy football. But with a paralysed Michael Owen, an Arsenal team who won't shoot, and a Sean Wright [. Click to continue reading...

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

3 dumb things Guardian has done this week

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Let me preface this by saying that I have a love-hate relationship with the Guardian. I love the community, I love the quality of writing and it's in my top two alongside the BBC. However, they tend to exaggerate and paint extreme scenarios and in the process get things completely wrong. And it's not just [. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Alex Ferguson, BBC, Chelsea, Cristiano Ronaldo, English Premier League, Europe, Manchester United, Off The Record, carlos tevez, guardian, love, relationship, scenarios

Twenty20 Football?

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With the success of Twenty20 cricket in raising the profile and popularity of the most benign of sports, radical FA plans to create a rival Twenty20 have been leaked to reputable papers (like The Sun). Cricket boffins realised that to get anyone interested who wasn't an MP, a Lord or Nasser Hussain, they had to [. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Europe, Features, Football, Humour, Off The Record, cricket, jokes, satire, sports

8 Questions You Can’t Ask At The Beijing Olympics

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If you're traveling to the Olympics next month, rest assured that the Chinese government is doing everything in its power to protect your right to privacy. Their latest measure to protect your rights is a list of '8 Don't Asks' - presented as a guide for locals about how to show proper hospitality (one [. Click to continue reading...

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Tags: Europe, Off The Record, Olympic football, Olympics

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