West Ham United travels to Hull City this Saturday and will be looking to put the miserable Everton
match behind them. We have to start winning and stay in control of our Premiership destiny. We need
to set off on a winning run. At the moment, West Ham cannot put together a win streak that our play
at times deserves.
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Great news, all Liverpool fans! Injury treatment in Serbia has reaped handsome rewards and the
injured are now fighting fit!
Albert Riera, Yossi Benayoun, Fabio Aurelio, Steven Gerrard, David Ngog and Glen Johnson are all
declared fit and ready to take on draw specialists, Manchester City.
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Michael Ballack has been a top-class performer for Chelsea in this season's Barclays Premier
League. He has been a key reason for the Blues success in the league this term, contributing three
goals and 2 assists in 9 games with an impressive passing efficiency of 84%.
Malaysian Today published this article recently chronicling the career of Ballack, his injury
struggles while at the Premiership and finally coming good this season.
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After some dramatic final round and playoff matches, the footballing nations which will grace the
stadiums in South Africa are now complete. France, though should be feeling very sheepish as they
cheated their way into South Africa.
No one would've expected Thierry Henry to do a "mini-Maradona" but unfortunately, footballers will
always try to gain an advantage whether legally or illegally.
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After almost three injury-ravaged years, Dean Ashton, as the back pages suggest, will finally hang
up his boots and retire. The player who was once seen as a unique cross between the playing styles
of Alan Shearer and Teddy Sheringham, will never fully fulfill his potential as a top-class
footballer.
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Bryan Robson's first taste of Asian football came last Saturday when Thailand traveled to
Singapore. He came through that test with flying colours as the Thais comprehensively beat the
Kallang Roar-deficient Singapore 3-1. That win boosted his credentials as a legitimate national
team coach. What was even better that Saturday was that Noh Alam Shah, Singapore's best player
would be suspended on Wednesday (today) when Thailand hosts Singapore at the Rajamangala Stadium.
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Last weekend and midweek action involved another round of international games. Some matches were
important like the playoffs for the right to feature in the 2010 South Africa World Cup Finals but
all too many were unimportant games that counted for absolutely nothing. The question that pops to
mind was should the top players be excluded from playing in them to avoid injury?
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On the recommendation of Stephen Coutts, lead writer for Man On Platform 13, I took a look at the
Inter Milan's 20-year Austrian, Marko Arnautovic. This was after Arnautovic finally scored for
Inter against Vaduz in a friendly match recently.
Thus far, Marko Arnautovic has been warming the bench at the Nerazurri, trying hard to convince
Jose Mourinho that his talent is worthy of the Serie A stage.
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This is one of the best things to have been published on the internet when it comes to player
analysis and team performances. For the latest in stats and soccer analysis, go to Castrol
Rankings. The rankings are a little dated (next update expected on 15/12) but still valuable
information.
The top 20 best performing players in the world are currently:
Nine Barcelona players are listed in the top 10, the best club side in world football at the
moment.
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Caught Offside has the following breaking transfer rumours,
Liverpool Linked with Move for £8m Dazzling Brazilian Playmaker Hernanes
Liverpool to Make Shock £12m January Raid for Cole: Intelligent Bit of Business
Liverpool Could Sign £13m Playmaker Rafael Van der Vaart
I had expressed my wish list previously during the August 31 transfer deadline and Liverpool are
reportedly willing to splash the cash to get Brazilian midfield schemer, Hernanes.
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Who would have thought selling shinpads can sound so suggestive....???
I found this while browsing the excellent blog, The Spoiler. The video itself was from The Offside
which is also another premier footy blog.
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These guys are recently been listed as most influential journalists and bloggers for football
news. Tweet-ing has its benefits! I share the following article from puntersrealm.
Since Twitter recently released a list function, we thought it was time to share our
list of who we follow as the most influential (mostly European) sports journalists and bloggers in
world sport.
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The biggest match of the weekend ended up being a tense but boring affair. It was so bad that in
the end, the most eyecatching incident turned out to be off the field as shown by the picture on
the left.
Just what this man was thinking is beyond comprehension but perhaps he DOES know what he was up to.
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