It's awards time again. Leading up to a Euro 2012-induced hiatus for The Two Unfortunates, we'll be proclaiming our gongs for 2011-12 based on the opinions of our writers; watchers of football in all three divisions of the Football League. It's fitting to note then, that our Best Manager of a year ago was Paul Lambert, now poised to take the next possibly upward step in his coaching career, while Brighton and Hove Albion nabbed our Best Team award and Adel Taarabt won the Best Player Accolade.

1. God is great. And presumably a City fan. 2. Everton enjoyed their game of headers and volleys at Old Trafford. Steven Pienaar didn't quite understand the rules, but since God didn't strike him down, OTP can only conclude that he's allowed to do that. 3. OTP didn't think Terry Goner could get any closer [.

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1. If OTP didn't know better we'd say that sounded very much like the sound of a squeaky bum emanating from Manchester United's direction. 2. Carlos Tevez is back with a bang. 3. Fergie has tried Nemanja Vidic, Rio Ferdinand, Jonny Evans, Phil Jones and Chris Smalling, but it turns out the best protection he [.

szólj hozzá: Manchester 1-0 QPR

This has been a bad weekend for the men in charge of match proccedings. Today's edition of bumbling officials featured Lee Mason and Ceri Richards conspiring to send QPR's Shaun Derry off for a love tap on Ashley Young who fell on the pitch like he had been poleaxed.

All the stuff being covered outside the unfriendly confines of the award-winning Dirty Tackle...

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Here's the own goal that's sparked yet another match fixing investigation in Italy.

It would appear Arsenal striker Marouane Chamakh has even more reason to stay away from fellow Moroccan Adel Taarabt.

For gloating Taarabt has taken to Twitter to throw a jibe at Gooners after the defeat to QPR and revel in his previous associaton with Tottenham.

Chamakh tested his relationship with Arsene Wenger at the weekend when he, along with Taarabt, was photographed holding a shisha pipe following the 2-1 loss to Rangers.

Arsenal forward Marouane Chamakh has stirred up some controversy after being photographed smoking, or rather holding, a shisha pipe with QPR's Adel Taarabt after the Gunners 2-1 defeat at Loftus Road on Saturday. Chamakh and Taarabt, both of Morocco, were shown with pipes in the published photo which has supposedly infuriated Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger.

By Chris Wright

Scandal! Round up the children! Release the honey badgers! Alert the President!

No, we're not talking about Chamakh's increasingly disgusting placenta-slathered hair, but the fact that he and his Moroccan chum Adel Taarabt have been photographed huffing on (perfectly legal) sisha pipes in a London bar MERE HOURS after QPR's 2-1 win over Arsenal at the weekend.

QPR's 2-1 victory over Arsenal on Saturday has given them an excellent chance of retaining their Premier League status. With Blackburn due to host Manchester United on Monday evening, four teams are currently within one point of each other above the doomed Wolverhampton Wanderers.

It was Rangers' finest performance of the season and finally gave supporters a taste of what Mark Hughes and his expensively assembled squad might bring to the club.

1. Manchester City appear to have mastered the squeaky bum crack. There are not holding up well to the run-in pressure. 2. The Black Cats haven't been very lucky for City this season. A defeat at the Stadium of Light and then a light salvage job to get a draw at the Etihad. 3. Pepe [...]

Finally, tidings of genuine optimism and joy. Of our eight remaining games the highest-placed opponent is Sunderland, while l'Arse still have to face Man City, Chelski and Stoke (on top of their bonus defeat to Adel Taraabt and chums yesterday).

Our remaining games won't win themselves, and in recent weeks the absence of Lennon coupled with central deployment of Bale has hardly helped matters.

No, I'm never gonna do it without the Fez on. Oh, no! Adel Taraabt's first Premiership goal was beautiful but his goal celebrations included a Fez mysteriously materializing on Taraab's noggin.

Anyways, here is Steely Dan with The Fez, in case any heathens got any close to an explanation.

szólj hozzá: Q2-1A

Whew! Just when we had run out of bad things to say about Arsenal. Seven successive wins is a lifetime of antibodies against a virus when you are Arsenal. But it had to end. The Arsenal we saw today reminded one of the team that emerged tattered and unhinged in January.

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger slammed his side's performance in the 2-1 loss to QPR yesterday and suggested that displays such as that prove that the value of momentum is overrated in modern football.

The Gunners had won seven straight Premier League fixtures arriving into Loftus Road to face the relegation-threatened Rangers and from the very early stages, it was clear that the visitors were not in their best form.

Arsene Wenger confesses that there was something missing in his side's performance during today's 2-1 derby defeat to QPR and does not dismiss that complacency could be the cause.

Having won seven consecutive Premier League matches preceding their visit to Loftus Road, the Gunners were outplayed as goals from Adel Taarabt and Samba Diakite deemed Theo Walcott's equalizer a mere consolation.

By Chris Wright

Just a covering note up top: while it says 'Top 10 Prima Donnas' on the tin, we've gone with less stellar (mostly Premier League) players that arguably have no right to act like such preening, precious mimsies given their relatively 'meat and taters' standings.

The most iconic moment of the first decade of the 21st century now has a permanent home. Alright, that's a bit hyperbolic, but its true for us soccer fans, eh? Zizou's flesh and blood takedown/ dissection of Marco Materazzi in the 2006 World Cup finals is embodied in a resin remake by Algerian sculptor Adel Abdessemed in an exhibition that recently concluded at the David Zwirner art gallery in New York.

szólj hozzá: QPR vs Liverpool 3:2 MOTD

Sebastian Coates's incredible strike, Luis Suarez's usual hijinks leading to a Dirk Kuyt goal. Uruguayan your way, I'll go mine.

What else could one expect other than a Liverpool win? But the magical script writer in the sky had seen this before and said, wait a minute, it's time to write differently.

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El crack frances retirado Zinedine Zidane tendrá un recordatorio mas de una acción que él preferiría olvidar, pues fue la última que estuvo en un terreno de juego en un partido oficial.

Adel Abdessemed realizó una escultura en la que inmortaliza el cabezazo que Zidane le propino al italiano Marco Materazzi en la final del Mundial de Alemania 2006, misma que se exhibe en la galería David Zwirner de Nueva York.

Anti-Americanism is on the rise in Egypt these days. A highly publicized trial is under way in Cairo against U.S.-funded pro-democracy groups, and Egyptians are making it clear they reject any American involvement in their country's affairs.
There's one exception, however: an American living in Cairo whom Egyptians are counting on to shake things up.

Well, this was sort of inevitable, no? (Alright maybe not.)

As part of an exhibit in New York, Algerian sculptor Adel Abdessemed made a statue of the most infamous moment in football of the last decade, perhaps longer: the love dance between Zinedine Zidane and Marco Materazzi.

By Chris Wright

"Bosh!"

The moment that, during the 2006 World Cup Final, Zinedine Zidane sensed a final, glorious swansong and bowed out of the game with a celestially graceful headbutt to Marco Materazzi's sternum has been immortalised in bronze as part of an exhibition entitled 'Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf' by Algerian artist Adel Abdessemed which is due to go on show in the David Zwirner Gallery in New York shortly.

To take a perhaps unexpected angle on this, poor Samba Diakité. Making his QPR debut on loan from Nancy in France, the Mali international found himself showing remarkable promise in his first half an hour of Premier League football, marred only by a slight tendency to commit fouls. After what may have been his seventh, a late lunge on a flying Bryan Ruiz, Diakité was shown a red card and the match was effectively settled.

Mais um jogo das eliminatórias da Copa Africana de Nações de 2012, foi realizada no dia 09/10/2011, na cidade de Marrakech-MAR, onde jogaram as seleções de Marrocos (59º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção da Tanzânia (127º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
Dar Es Salaam 09/10/2010 TAN0:1 (0:1)MAR Group matches
O árbitro desse jogo, não foi encontrado.

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There is a big laundry list of things new manager Mark Hughes needs to get QPR off and running. The London side have scored just 19 goals, one more than Wigan's output, the worst in the Premiership. Apart from the scoring woes, one of Hughes's biggest priorities will be to get Barton to act like the senior citizen he should be at 29 years of age.

Mark Hughes, the favourite for the QPR vacancy since Neil Warnock's sacking, has expectedly been appointed as their new manager today. I think Hughes is a very good manager, he gets teams well organised and disciplined, but I'm not convinced he'll be able to get the best out of players like Joey Barton and Adel Taraabt.

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With Lucas out for the rest of the season and Jay Spearing suspended for the next three games, it is time now for £20 million Jordan Henderson to step up to the plate at Liverpool.
We face Neil Warnock's QPR at Anfield and its a game we simply must win to stay abreast of the top six in the Premiership.

Liverpool v QPR: Adel Taarabt to face fitness test as long term casualties return to training

QPR playmaker Adel Taarabt will undergo a fitness test before Saturday's Barclays Premier League clash with Liverpool.

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The Confederation of African Football has released its short list for 2011 CAF African Player of the year. The list includes usual suspects Didier Drogba of Ivory Coast, Samuel Eto'o of Cameroon and Seydou Keita of Mali.

Other players short listed for the prestigious award include: Asamoah Gyan, Yaya Toure, Kevin Prince-Boateng, Moussa Sow, Gervinho, Adel Taarabt and Andre Ayew.

By Alan Duffy

Gervinho and Yaya Touré celebrate

Four Premier League stars have made the shortlist for the 2011 CAF African Player Of The Year awards, with the Ivorian trio of powerhouse Yaya Touré, fleet-footed wideman Gervinho and veteran hitman Didier Drogba all getting the nod along with QPR's Moroccan schemer Adel Taarabt

However, they'll be up against four-time winner Samuel Eto'o (FC New Russian Money & Cameroon), Kevin-Prince Boateng (Milan & Ghana), Seydou Keita (Barcelona & Mali), Asamoah Gyan (FC New Dubai Money & Ghana), Andre Ayew (Marseille & Ghana) and Moussa Sow (Lille & Senegal).

There's a certain retro feel about the Premiership this year, what with Norwich and QPR knocking about on the shop floor. It's like the mid-nineties again; a more innocent time when Trevor Sinclair, Darren Eadie, Les Ferdinand and Ruel Fox could justifiably call themselves king. (Well, perhaps not the last one.

Venturing into the QPR forums, I find, as I always do in these opposition fan previews, a mix of optimism and realism. The optimists are pointing out that nobody expected they would beat Chelsea last week, the realists pointing out that nobody really expected Fulham to batter them 6-0 at the start of October either.

By Chris Wright

Adel Taarabt showed up to QPR training t'other day in a red romper suit which gave him the unfortunate air of a certain someone...

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Didier Drogba was shown a deserved red card for this two footed tackle on Adel Taarbt as 9 man Chelsea who had Jose Boswinga sent off earlier in the first half lost 1-0 to London rivals QPR.

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