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by Stephen Lunn on November 28, 2009
This week features some major matches in European football, with games as important as Serie A leaders Inter Milan vs Fiorentina and Aston Villa vs Tottenham, a crucial Premier League match between tw...
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by Graham Fisher on October 13, 2008
At an Under-19 tournament in Slovenia at the moment, Uefa are running the first of three trials where two extra assistants help the referee. They stand behind each goalline and give the referee four...
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by Graham Fisher on October 2, 2008
Everton are a fine side with a great manager. Why is it then that everything seems to be going wrong?
They were dumped out of the UEFA Cup tonight as they lost 4-3 on aggregate to Standard Liege.
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by Graham Fisher on October 1, 2008
It is reported that Police are going to investigate racial and homophobic abuse directed at Portsmouth and former England defender Sol Campbell at Fratton Park during the side's 2-0 win over his...
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by Graham Fisher on September 24, 2008
What a remarkable show the Arsenal youngsters put on against Sheffield United in the Carling Cup last night.
A team with an average age of nineteen saw off the pretty decent Championship outfit 6-0...
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by Graham Fisher on September 11, 2008
The international break ended with some satisfaction for the under-fire British teams. England produced one of their best results and one of their best performances for many years in the 4-1 thrashi...
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by Graham Fisher on August 27, 2008
Former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has fired a shot at his old striker Andriy Shevchenko by saying that he failed at Chelsea because he was too used to being treated like a prince at AC Milan.
Mour...
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by Graham Fisher on August 27, 2008
Bolton boss Gary Megson doen't always treat the Carling Cup with much respect. He is not unlike many other managers when he rests much of his first team from playing in the early rounds of the c...
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by Graham Fisher on August 7, 2008
referee Mark Clattenburg has been suspended by the FA and the referee's body, pending enquiries into reports regarding the alleged debts of his company.
Clattenburg was due to referee this wee...
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by Graham Fisher on July 21, 2008
Sebastian Coe has said he has spoken to Sir Alex Ferguson about him managing a Great Britain football team at the London Olympics in 2012. The issue of Great Britain team entering the tournament is ...
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by Graham Fisher on July 17, 2008
As the first of a regular feature on a Thursday/Friday on this site I am going to set you a really difficult football trivia question. You'll have the weekend to work out the answer and I will r...
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by Graham Fisher on July 15, 2008
Luton Town's appeal to the FA to have their ten point penalty removed has failed. This means that the club still faces a thirty point deficit before a ball is kicked in anger in the forthcoming ...
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by Graham Fisher on June 26, 2008
You have to begin to question the ambition Liverpool are displaying so far during this close season. Their main target seems to be Gareth Barry, an excellent player, but one to improve them sufficie...
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by Graham Fisher on June 17, 2008
The fixtures for next season in England have been announced. The three promoted clubs to the Premier League now know that they are likely to know their fate fairly early in the season.
Hull City ha...
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by Graham Fisher on May 21, 2008
Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton starts a six month prison sentence this morning after being sentenced for what the judge called "a violent and cowardly act".
On 27th December last year B...
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by Graham Fisher on May 18, 2008
I sat and watched The FA Cup Final on Saturday and I was hugely disappointed. I was totally neutral and didn't mind who won, I just wanted to see a good game of football.
I had been looking for...
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by Graham Fisher on May 15, 2008
Portsmouth Chief Executive Peter Storrie has reacted angrily to suggestions that Harry Redknapp is to leave the club at the end of this season. The story 'doing the rounds' is that Redknapp ...
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by Graham Fisher on May 13, 2008
With Manchester United and Chelsea finishing as the top two in the Premier League for the third season in a row and the two teams preparing to face each other in the Champions League final in Moscow...
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by Graham Fisher on May 6, 2008
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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by Graham Fisher on April 4, 2008
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 ch...
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by Graham Fisher on March 26, 2008
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, play...
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by Graham Fisher on March 17, 2008
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 de...
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by Graham Fisher on March 14, 2008
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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by Graham Fisher on March 13, 2008
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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by Graham Fisher on March 3, 2008
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 ru...
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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 wi...
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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 is ...
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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 fo...
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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 Barcelo...
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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. &...
