Sorry for not posting this on Saturday, but it's been a busy weekend preparing for my trip to Las Vegas this week to attend a search marketing conference. Nevertheless, drumroll please, here are the winners of the copies of FIFA 10 and The Manager book by Barney Ronay:

• FIFA 10 winner: Bernard Cahill
• FIFA 10 winner: Peter Edmiston
• FIFA 10 winner: Marc Shepherd
• The Manager winner: Dave Griffiths

Congratulations to each one of you.

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I'm leaving on Monday for a trip to Las Vegas for a search marketing conference, so I want to wrap up the EPL Talk contests before I leave in order to mail the packages and to make some football fans very happy. So today, if you're lucky enough to be reading this, you have the opportunity to win one of three copies of FIFA 10 we're giving away and a copy of the book by Barney Ronay named The Manager.

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For the past week, we've been giving away a copy of FIFA 10 the new video game from EA as well as soccer books. I just took a look inside the treasure box and I still have several copies of FIFA 10 that I need to give away as well as Barney Ronay's book, The Manager. So even if you don't win today, be sure to keep on checking back each day for your chance to enter and win the contest.

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For the past three days, we've been giving away a copy of FIFA 10 the new video game from EA. In the next few days to next couple of weeks, we'll be giving away a copy of the game on random days as well as football books.

Yesterday's winner of FIFA 10 was JD Thomas.

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For the past two days, we've been giving away a copy of FIFA 10 the new video game from EA. In the next few days to next couple of weeks, we'll be giving away a copy of the game on random days as well as football books.

Yesterday's winner of FIFA 10 was Patrick Keating.

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Yesterday we debuted our new FIFA 10 contest where we'll be giving away a copy of the game on random days within the next two weeks as well as football books.

Yesterday's winner of FIFA 10 was TJ Brustowicz. But if you want to try and win a copy of FIFA 10 for yourself, go ahead and enter today's contest.

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During the next two weeks, we'll be giving away copies of FIFA 10 the new game from EA as well as three different football books as prizes, so be sure to keep on coming back each day to see when the next contest is announced.

Today, for the first time, we'll be giving away a copy of FIFA 10 to one lucky person who correctly answers the following trivia question and sends his or her answer in by the deadline of 5pm ET/9pm UK time on Monday, October 26, 2009.

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It isn't often that I interview personalities for the EPL Talk Podcast. In the past six months, I've interviewed two people. The first was Barney Ronay, the scholarly and humorous writer for The Guardian and author of a new book entitled The Manager. And the second is Peter Lupson, today's guest on the EPL Talk Podcast.

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Barney Ronay nails the epidemic of moral outrage that's sweeping through English football, leaving broken syringes scattered over the pillaged Red Cross stations in its wake:

Perhaps it might be more useful to wonder why we're so angry. My theory is that the Premier League has become a bit like one of those Pandora's Box-themed disaster/horror movies where the avaricious and hubristic white-coated scientists unwittingly release the rapacious virus into the atmosphere.

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Rebecca Lowe of ESPN UK will be one of the next guests on the EPL Talk Podcast, the only Premier League interview show on the Internet. And you have a chance to have your questions asked on-air to her. Please post them in the comments section below and the best questions will be asked.

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Stuff to read while you watch an entirely casual own-half goal for the Russian U21's..... The biggest and bestest football clubs in history. (SoccerLens) Out with the old, in with the new on Spanish sidelines. (ESPN) Barney Ronay interviewed on his new book. (EPL Talk) Richard Dunne's wife wears the pants, brings home his bacon. Click to continue reading...

Barney Ronay of The Guardian is the latest guest on the EPL Talk Podcast to discuss his newest book, The Manager: The Absurd Ascent Of The Most Important Man In Football.

Ronay is best known for his appearances on the The Guardian's Football Weekly Podcast as well as the top writers at the newspaper.

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Barney Ronay will be a future guest on the EPL Talk Podcast.

Best known to readers as a writer for The Guardian as well as a regular guest on The Guardian's Football Weekly Podcast, Ronay has written a new book entitled "The Manager." The book takes the reader beyond the well-worn anecdotes, deeper into the stories of football's top men and the world they inhabit.

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Alright all,

we host Pompey today for the first home game of the season in our new Arsenalised stadium. There is a chance the team could remain the same for the first three games of the season, I'm expecting an unchanged side of:

Almunia, Sagna, Gallas, Vermaelen, Clichy, Song, Denilson, Fabregas, Arshavin, Bendtner, van Persie.

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Football Weekly is the Guardian's superb Football podcast. It is released every Monday, in an edition that reviews the weekend's fixtures, plus a bonus edition every Thursday (Football Weekly Extra) which previews them.

The anchor is James Richardson, of Football Italia and recently deceased Setanta fame, and he is joined by various combinations of Guardian football correspondents, most often Barry Glendenning, Sean Ingle, Sid Lowe, and other peripatetic guests.

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Ronaldo is 'Barney' in this viral for a Brazilian soft drink. This is a "behind-the-scenes" video for the actual television commercial.Spotted on: Dirty Tackle Click to continue reading...