After losing 2-0 at home to Chelsea yesterday, Kevin Keegan gave a very honest assessment of what he can achieve with Newcastle United next season and in the immediate future. "I thought,...
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Pele will be attending Stoke City's Britannia Stadium to unveil a statue of the great former England keeper Gordon Banks. On 12th July this year a Pele XI will take on a Gordon Banks XI in a...
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Since the Chinese started kicking a ball around some 400 years before the Common Era began, the game of football has sharply divided opinions amongst it's followers. I've been watching,...
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The battle at the bottom of the Premier League promises to be every bit as exciting as the battle at the top. Derby County have been down for a long time but their battling performance in the 1-0...
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Bolton Wanderers became the final English team to be knocked out of the UEFA Cup last night losing 1-0 at Sporting Lisbon having drawn the first leg 1-1. There are no English teams left in the last...
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In last night's round of 16 matches in the UEFA Cup both Tottenham and Everton won their games reversing the poor results achieved in the first leg. As an Englishman watching as both games went...
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When Jonathan Woodgate scored the winner for Tottenham in the Carling Cup Final the celebrations began. Disciplinarian manager Juande Ramos told the players that they could ignore his strict new...
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by daryl on September 22, 2007
About a year ago I did a roundup of my favourite football podcasts. Thirteen months later it's time to do it again. The bad news is that Steve Bunce's excellent The Rumour Mill is no longer...
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by daryl on September 11, 2007
Football mad Italian pink paper Gazzetta dello Sport has published all the Serie A salaries, and Milan's Kaka tops the list. The Brazilian genius takes home a decent €6.0 million a year, which...
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by ruth on February 24, 2007
Daryl will be leaving the Soccer Weblog shortly and we're looking for someone to pass the ball to. If soccer (football to some others) is your passion, and you've been blogging about this for...
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by daryl on February 15, 2007
Some things I missed while away from Soccer-Weblog: 1. Roman Abramovich tightening the purse strings. About time. 2. The January transfer window being incredibly dull. 3. Cristiano Ronaldo to...
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by daryl on October 25, 2006
Marco Materazzi isn't ready to shake hands with Zinedine Zidane just yet. "It could happen one day but all the conditions will have to be met," Materazzi told French radio station RTL....
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by daryl on October 13, 2006
Adriano (Inter Milan, Brazil) Michael Ballack (Chelsea, Germany), Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus, Italy), Fabio Cannavaro (Real Madrid, Italy), Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United, Portugal), Petr Cech...
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by daryl on October 02, 2006
1. Referring to Chelsea as "Chelski." It was funny the first time, but it's been a while. 2. Lookalikes. Someone looks like someone else. So what? 3. Peter Crouch's height. He's...
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by daryl on September 21, 2006
There are plans to limit the spending power of clubs like Chelsea by tying expenditure to income. Roman Abramovich (center) currently sinks endless amounts of his own pocket change into Chelsea,...
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by daryl on September 21, 2006
I saw "Once In A Lifetime" on ESPN last night, and the basic lesson (before it all went wrong) was that big names attract attention. Which explains news from Australia that Adelaide United...
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by daryl on September 19, 2006
David Beckham has admitted he will probably never play in the Permiership again. The ex-England (face it Becks) star, in London to sign copies of his new soccer skills book (mostly about crossing?)...
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by daryl on August 07, 2006
image: soccernet.com According to David Beckahm, Alex Ferguson has spoken just five words to him since his 2003 transfer to Real Madrid. "How are things over there?" (over there meaning...
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by daryl on July 25, 2006
image: zdf.de With Fiorentina and Lazio being re-instated to Serie A, Lecce and Treviso will start next season in Serie B. The two clubs thought they had escaped relegation by virtue of Fiorentina...
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by daryl on July 25, 2006
image: eur.yimg.com The appeals court have reduced the penalties handed out by the Italian match-fixing tribunal. Juventus remain relegated to Serie B, but Fiorentina and Lazio have been reinstated...
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by daryl on July 14, 2006
image: corriere.it The Italian tribunal in charge of the Moggi (pictured) matchfixing scandal has passed judgement. Juventus will be relegated to Serie B and deducted 30 points from next seasons...
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by daryl on June 06, 2006
image: britishpressphoto.org Are any Chelsea fans out there concerned by the recent shift towards big name signings? One of the things I really admired about Mourinho's efforts at Stamford Bridge...
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