When I look for a hoodie, I look for two main things, comfort and style. They may seem rather
straight-forward, but it is hard to find a hoodie that fits both categories for you. The Inter
Milan graphic hoodie fits both categories spot on with a fabulous design, while letting you support
Italy's current champions, Inter Milan.
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This week's QOTW is random and has nothing to do with current football events, but it helps
understand football, and what is needed to succeed.
"I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it"
-Alan Ball
Just a small quote to entertain you during this week of International action, expect a full wrap up
on the qualifyers soon.
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A sad piece of news in the footballing world, Robert Enke, Hannover 96's goalkeeper and Germany's
1st choice candidate committed suicide on November 10th 2009. The 32 year old goalkeeper left a
note for his family and then committed suicide by stepping in front of a train. His two year old
daughter had died in 2006 because of a heart defect, and this seems to be what started his
depression.
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In this weekend of European action France really cranked it up a notch, a 5-5 draw between Lyon and
Marseille showed not only great attacking talent, but also defensive organisation.
In England, Hull City get an important win over Stoke City with a late winner by Vennegoor of
Hesselink, this win eases the pressure on Phil Brown, who was leading the sack race recently.
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Chelsea's transfer ban has been lifted while FIFA get ready for final decision, Chelsea were banned
because of signing Lens' ex-player Gael Kakuta by convincing Kakuta to terminate his contract. The
Court of Arbitration for Sport has granted Chelsea's request for their Fifa transfer ban to be
suspended pending a final decision by FIFA.
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This matchday of Champions League and Europa League has provided us with action and entertainment.
Anyone who said the group stages are boring is proved wrong big time, with big teams slipping, and
small teams fighting, the group stages will be fought to the death.
In the Champions League, Liverpool boss Benitez is risking big with a 1-1 draw against Olympique
Lyon, although the reds aren't out of the competition mathematically, they will need many results
to go their way so that they can go through to the knockout stages.
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This week's QOTW is Fabio Capello talking about his first training session with the England Squad,
the Italian manager has guided England to qualification, and he will most probably guide them
through South Africa 2010.
"I remember the first training session and I was surprised because the players were
really good,"
- Fabio Capello
A bit of humor for this week's QOTW, Capello was very surprised because he thought that because
England didn't make it the the 2008 Euro's, the players would not be of high quality.
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Beckham returns to AC MilanAC Milan have confirmed that David Beckham, currently playing for LA Galaxy in the MLS, will go
back to the Rossoneri in January. David said this about his return to AC Milan.
"I had to give myself the best chance to play in the World Cup, playing on loan with
Milan will help me do that.
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This week included two gigantic matches in world football, the North London Derby, Arsenal against
Tottenham, and Ajax against Feyenoord. Pellegrini is a bit safer at Madrid, and Benitez is moving
up the spots in the sack race. While Inter escape to the top of Serie A, seven points above second
place Juventus, Portsmouth start getting the three points needed to start moving up the Premiership
table.
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The Italian Serie A kicked off with a round of midweek games, many spectacular not only results
wise, but also the repurcussions that the results will have. Here is a wrap up of the biggest games
of this matchday.
Inter Milan faced off against Palermo, providing an eight goal thriller with the final score being
5-3 to the neroazzurri.
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This week's QOTW is a very controversial quote by Sir Alex Ferguson, head honcho at Manchester
United. After a 2-2 draw Sir Alex Ferguson commented on the fitness levels of the referee Alan
Wiley, here is his quote so you can see what the scottish boss said about Alan Wiley.
"He just wasn't fit enough for a game of that standard," Ferguson said.
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This weekend was full of action, not only were there big games between top tier teams, but some
matches were just as important for the other teams.
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In England, the weakened Liverpool side that was ready to crack overcomes Manchester United winning
2-0, this win lets Chelsea stay top of the table, and will hopefully revive the Reds.
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My latest Serie A talk article is out, it is about the difficulties that Genoa have been having
with consistency.
Check it out at www.serieatalk.com
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