For a 120 minutes the Irish National Team played their hearts out and with one hand Henry took
their dreams of a World Cup away. Here is how the Irish newspapers covered the events yesterday in
Paris.
Irish Times
Irish Independent
Irish Examiner
Irish Daily Star
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Around Germany today, people were still in shocked over the death of former National Team
goalkeeper Robert Enke. According to reports in Europe, Enke committed suicide after battling
depression for many years. The story was front page all over Germany this morning
Here is how some of the German newspapers cover Enke's death
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The Bucs and Browns are a combined 1-14 this season, while across the pond Manchester United stands
second and Aston Villa stands eight in the Premier League standings. I know what some people are
thinking, what is the connections between the four teams. The connections is simple The Browns and
Aston Villa are owned by Randy Lerner, while the Bucs and Manchester United are owned by Malcolm
Glazer (pictured right).
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With Rangers getting closer and closer to almost becoming Leeds United, maybe its time for both
Celtic and Rangers to run away from the Scottish Premier League and head for greener pastures.
Rangers 's club's bankers Lloyds are owed £30million by the end of the campaign. With a TV
contract that is nothing to celebrate the only way that they maybe be able to meet the payment is
to sell half of the first team.
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The NFL has their iconic logo, the NBA has Jerry West, but its easy to see why the top soccer
league in Belgium has the best logo in the world. The Jupiler League logo (above) features a beer
can playing the trumpet, can it get any better than that. Can you imagine the NFL logo featuring a
Budweiser can playing an electric guitar, now that would be priceless.
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The Bulls and Jazz met in a preseason game in London last night and the BBC was there to capture
the action. Just take one listen to it and hear how terrible they were, hey they did not even know
the rules to the. Just when you think American announcers are terrible with soccer just remember
this video.
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This has been a big year for soccer in the United States. First the US Men's National team beats
Spain at the Confed Cup, then ESPN starts to show La Liga and the Premier League and finally Dicks
Sporting Good decides to dedicate a section of their stores to soccer gear and not just balls and
shin guards but jerseys and jackets to.
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On Wednesday the home office of OTWT received a shocking call from Endy in Outfield. At first I
could not believe what I was hearing, it sounded like something tragic had happened. After talking
to him, I try to figure out what was going on.
Endy called me to let me know that my father, who is 60 and home recovering after being sick for
two months, watched the first half of the Barcelona/Racing Santander match on ESPN.
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The field for the World Cup is slowly coming together and the Three Lions booked their place in the
event with a 5-1 win over the Croatia yesterday, while in South American the unthinkable could
really happy the World Cup could be without mess. Argentina could be on the outside looking next
summer.
Here is how some papers covered it
The Times (England)
La Nacion (Argentina)
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Fifa ruling against Chelski today could have far reaching economic ramifications on the football
world in the coming years.
Chelski are banned from signing any new players until 2011 after they were found guilty of
illegally inducing a French youth international to sign in 2007. The ruling from Fifa's Dispute
Resolution Chamber also banned the 18-year-old attacking midfielder Gaël Kakuta (pictured above),
considered the cream of the club's academy talent, for four months and fined him €780,000
(£681,000).
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Start the jokes now Spurs are leading the Premier League, I know some people think that its too
good to be true but maybe its not and their win over Birmingham City earlier today showed that. In
the past Spurs would have packed up and settled for the point, but not this versions of the whites,
they kept pressing and finally got the winner after former Spur Stephen Carr fell and allowed Aaron
Lennon to break in and score.
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Sometimes getting rid of your best player makes you better and other times it does not. But for
Lyon getting rid of striker Karim Benzema might have been the best thing that they could have done.
During the summer the super talented striker traded Lyon for Real Mardrid. The transfer fee was
priced at €35 million with the fee rising to as much as €41 million based on incentives.
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Citing the on going attacks from Liverpool fans, World Soccer Daily is no more. Steven Cohen made
the announcement at the start of the show today that Friday would be the last show. Saw them in
Philly last year and had a great time. Thanks for doing a great show and this is a sad day for
American Soccer.
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So Endy went with a shocker and picked Chelski over his beloved Liverpool. Now its my time to give
my picks. So here goes.
1. Chelski: The only thing that scares me is that there is really no cover if any thing happens to
Drogba.
2. Liverpool: Might have the best starting 11 in the league last year.
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