Friday 6th November
19:30 Leverkusen v Frankfurt, Bundesliga, ESPN
Leverkusen find themselves one point ahead at the top of the Bundesliga, but they've only beaten
Frankfurt once in their last six meetings. Normally stingy in defence, they conceded two goals late
on last week against Schalke, so the potential for a further wobble here is considerable.
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Vowel please, Carol...
The 15 Clubs Of The Premier League And Football League With The Highest Vowel-To-Consonant Ratios
In Their Name
1. Torquay United (46.2%)
2. Leeds United (45.5%)
3. Bournemouth (45.5%)
4. Liverpool (44.4%)
5. Peterborough United (44.4%)
6.
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It's about time we shone our Jeu du Jour spotlight on Auxerre as we look back on Week 11. The only
team never to be relegated from France's top flight started off this season as though that might
all change, but after a defeat in each of their first three games, they now find themselves
unbeaten in eight and up to fifth in the table.
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The regular season is over and the playoffs are the order of the day in Major League Soccer.
Surprise qualifiers Real Salt Lake made themselves known in the first leg of their tie with
Supporters Shield winners Columbus Crew, while all four conference semi-finals were even matches
with little to separate the sides.
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Every league experiences them, sometimes more than once. That's a weekend where the championship
contenders all contrive to lose the initiative.
We'll begin with a shock defeat to Hamburg who were at home to
'Gladbach. A fixture, rare in
the Bundesliga as one in which you should have been able to put the house on a home win.
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Welcome aboard for another edition of the Sound Of Football Podcast. This week your master of
ceremonies Chris Oakley, ably assisted by is ushers Graham Sibley and Terry Duffelen discuss the
comings and goings (with the emphasis on the latter) in the world of football.
First up is beleaguered Hull City boss Phil Brown but unlike others the chaps aren't too quick to
poke him with sharp sticks until he falls over the precipice.
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And now, a moment of self-regarding nonsense on our part, if you don't mind.
What you are reading now may seem fairly ordinary by our standards (and indeed it is), but this is
in fact a very special post. Put simply, this is Some People Are On The Pitch's 1,000th post.
We appreciate the sentiment and sense of achievement might be lost on most of you but when this
humble little football blogsite started out in 2006, it was difficult to believe that one day we
might end up with 1,000 articles to our name.
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Monday 2 November
19.45 Sheffield Utd v Newcastle Utd, Championship, Sky Sports 1/HD1
The Blades are in an awful slump that could see them in big trouble if they don't snap out of it
quick. A last minute winner from Kevin Nolan ended Newcastle's own winless run last time out but
they can go back top with a win here.
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Major League Soccer's playoff hopefuls went into the season finale with a whole host of
possibilities ahead of them. And without wishing to put too fine a point on it, they all crapped
the bed. Here's what happened in a spectacular, surprising and decisive Week 32, the final week of
the MLS regular season for 2009.
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For some reason, it feels like Denmark has been one of the world's best footballing teams since the
dawn of time. The truth of the matter is they've only ever reached three World Cups (two of them
being as recent as 1998 and 2002) while their first (in 1986) was where they finally achieved any
real prominence on the global stage.
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Friday 30th October
19:30 Dortmund v Hertha Berlin, Bundesliga, ESPNNot a great offering from the Bundesliga this weekend. Hertha are awful and Dortmund got knocked
out of the Cup in midweek. If you must get involved then have a butchers atBVB's Lucas Barrios who
has scored four goals in four games.
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Dignified dialogue
8 Actors That Have Narrated Official FIFA World Cup Films
1. Patrick Allen ('The World at Their Feet' 1970)
2. Joss Ackland ('Heading For Glory' 1974)
3. Sean Connery ('G'olé!' 1982)
4. Michael Caine ('Hero' 1986)
5. Edward Woodward ('Soccer Shoot-Out' 1990)
6.
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It is very likely that
Stuttgart coach
Markus Babbel may be out of the job after the
forthcoming weekend. He received the
dreaded vote of confidence after their 1-0 defeat to
improving
Hannover 96 last Saturday but the club's Sporting Director
Horst Heldt made
it clear that he was looking for a response against the 2 Bundesliga side
Greuther Furth in
the German Cup (DFB Pokal) on Tuesday.
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All of a sudden, it seems no-one wants to win Ligue 1 this season. Every time a team rises to the
top of the pile, they quickly lose their next game and fall from grace again.
Such is the case for Lyon who recently replaced long-standing leaders Bordeaux at the top end of
Ligue 1. Their trip to Nice seemed barely troublesome after beating Liverpool in the Champions
League last week, but they hadn't accounted for the home side's desperate need for points.
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After last week's World Cup packed podcast, let us return to our own affairs and look back on an
eventful weekend in the Premier League.
Chris and Graham reflect on their respective team's performance in the London derby twixt West Ham
and Arsenal. Manchester City's credentials are examined further after an unconvincing 2-2 draw with
Fulham and we celebrate the Liverpool v Manchester United Super Classico or at least the last half
an hour or so.
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