Paul Scholes is hoping Sir Alex Ferguson doesn't retire any time soon as he believes having the stability of one manager can ensure silverware.

"His record speaks for itself," said Scholes. "Twenty-three years is a long time and, hopefully, he can continue to be here and win trophies for a long time to come.

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Sir Alex Ferguson is into his 23rd year as Man United manager and midfielder Paul Scholes hopes he will be at Old Trafford for many years to come. Sir Alex was sent to retire at the end of the 2001/02 Premier League season but that was called off.
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When the United States originally set up this Wednesday's friendly against Denmark, it was thought that the encounter would provide a fair assessment of where the Americans stood in comparison to another World Cup contestant. The chance to look at some fringe members of the team was also a benefit. Click to continue reading...

strong>"The wild boys are calling On their way back from the fire In august moon's surrender to A dust cloud on the rise" It's been a while since I made any musical references in a headline so I thought this was as good a time as any, and it's mainly for MT's benefit. Of course there's a slight play [. Click to continue reading...

With his contract expiring next summer, Fabio Aurelio is free to sign a pre-contract agreement with another other club in January. Rafa Benitez reportedly wants Liverpool to renew Aurelio's contract, but what has the Brazilian actually done in his time at the club to deserve this?
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Rafa Benitez has admitted that Fernando Torres is carrying a hernia injury. Given the consequences of aggravating that injury, should Torres be rested against Lyon to avoid a longer-term problem...or should Rafa take a risk and play him anyway?
Yesterday, Benitez had this to say about Torres' injury:
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When Don Garber finally assented to allowing the Chivas USA franchise to call Los Angeles its home in 2004, it was a sacrifice.� The MLS cares about geographic expansion, and was looking to grow into Canada, the Northwest, and back into Florida.� Adding a team into a well-established market, and have that team plant itself at the Home Depot Center was not part of the long-term plan.

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Michael Owen scored his third goal of the season against Barnsley this week and has enjoyed a good scoring rate for us so far.

Mike Phelan has today talked of the options we have up front, whether we play Owen in the cups, whether he's a sub, or if he's in the starting XI.

"Michael has come to Manchester United as it a fresh challenge for him," said Phelan.

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There aren't many players in MLS more versatile than Geoff Cameron, and this year, there were no defenders who were better.

When Houston's defense reached a critical moment of transition, Dynamo head coach Dom Kinnear turned to Cameron to help anchor the back-line early in the season and all Cameron did was respond with dominant form few could have expected from the 2008 Rookie of the Year candidate.

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There aren't many players in MLS more versatile than Geoff Cameron, and this year, there were no defenders who were better.

When Houston's defense reached a critical moment of transition, Dynamo head coach Dom Kinnear turned to Cameron to help anchor the back-line early in the season and all Cameron did was respond with dominant form few could have expected from the 2008 Rookie of the Year candidate.

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This week's Video Of The Week is "Heading For Glory", the official film of the 1974 World Cup Finals in West Germany. There was no English presence (although with the benefit of hindsight there was no disgrace in being knocked out by a Polish side that didn't get a million miles from reaching the final of the competition), but Scotland began their four-yearly routine of almost getting to the Second Round of the competition, the Dutch fielded possibly the best ever international team to not win a World Cup, East Germany met West Germany for the only time (and beat them) and Gerd Muller eventually won the tournament fof the host nation.

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Do excuse me while I momentarily don my England hat: this missive, from one of the souls frequently to be found loitering around AANP Towers, appeared on football365.com earlier today:

Whatever the rights and wrongs of Rio's concentration lapse, the curious manner in which Green was sent off, the withdrawal of Lennon and the fact that we lost, it strikes me as far more useful than if we'd played with 11 and coasted to a comfy victory.

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Be sure to stop by Main Gate at RFK Stadium during United's final regular season home game versus the Columbus Crew on Saturday to bid on your favorite player's game-worn and autographed jersey. Bidding will be open when gates open until the end of halftime. Proceeds from the In-Sadium Jersey Auction benefit the team's non-profit arm, United for DC.

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Hello people, hope your enjoying your weekend thus far, and are anticipating a good win� over� Blackburn� tomorrow. I think the team is performing well but we have to be consistent this season which wasn't the case last season, to the point where we had so many 0-0 draws in a row it was unbelievable.

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After losing on Wednesday 1-0 away from home, we decided to dedicate Thursday and Friday's practices to shooting and finishing...boy did that idea pay off!!!

We played away against a school who had a record of 19 wins and 1 loss against us over the last 10 years. In that time we only scored a total of 4 goals to their 80 goals!

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Time added on... and on... and on "Historically it has happened before. I was in teams here where we always had a little bit of benefit," said Manchester City boss Mark Hughes. A tantalisingly suggestive statement after he witnessed a thrilling Manchester derby defeat to a ninety-sixth minute Michael Owen winner. Click to continue reading...

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City boss Mark Hughes has demanded an explanation from the referee after United striker Michael Owen settled the Manchester derby in the 96th minute.
Substitute Owen slotted past Shay Given to seal a thrilling 4-3 win for United, despite the fourth official having indicated just four extra minutes.

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Afternoon guys, I can actually type which makes quite a change today.

It has literally just been announced that Adebayor has been hit with two FA charges, one for his stamp on van Persie, the other being his celebration.

He is fast heading for a six match ban, personally, I would add another couple of games onto the ban for City's ridiculous defence of him.

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"I am sad and disappointed by my former team-mate Emmanuel Adebayor's mindless and malicious stamp on me during today's match. "We are both professional footballers and I know that the game is physical, I too have made hard and sometimes mis-timed challenges but never with the intention of hurting an opponent.

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PSM Makassar are following the lead of Persib and applying themselves seriously to the thought of merchandising. They will patent their logo and produce a range of products that will be licensed by them.
Small traders, those beneath 5' 6'', will be encouraged to work with the club and come to some kind of profit sharing agreement. Click to continue reading...

If there was one element of our new 4-3-3 formation that nobody had predicted at the start of the season it was the use of Robin Van Persie as the central striker and Nicholas Bendtner as a right sided forward. I'm sure that for many gooners, like myself, this was unfathomable; it just literally never crossed my mind that Wenger might play like this.

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Maybe the ladies man wears contact lenses or simply has so much love to give that even post boxes get the benefit of his loving glares, hell we don't know the answers. All we know is that the Bulgarian with the Andy Garcia haircut is a man on a mission...a mission to save the humble postal service (perhaps not!

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The most glib response that one can give to the issue of football hooliganism is to say that it has simply gone away for good. Anybody that regularly goes to matches will know fully well that it is constantly there, bubbling away under the surface and waiting for an opportunity to raise its head. As clubs, the game's authorities and the police themselves are often more than eager to tell us, the success that has been had in tackling the issue in and around stadia - the area in which there is no dispute that clubs have to take responsibility for the behaviour of those claiming to support the clubs - has been largely due to more sophisticated stewarding and policing methods.

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Creepy Jose, on finally realizing we were giving Terry Cooke a tryout:

Some of you alerted me to this the last couple of days, and to be honest I just dropped the ball and never even noticed Cooke was out there until today.

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The English Premier League season is set to kick off on Saturday and this could be the most wide-open race for the title in recent memory, with as many as six or seven teams honestly believing they could win the trophy.

Who do I see winning the league? It's hard to pick against Chelsea.

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The English Premier League season is set to kick off on Saturday and this could be the most wide-open race for the title in recent memory, with as many as six or seven teams honestly believing they could win the trophy.

Who do I see winning the league? It's hard to pick against Chelsea.

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Footballers tend to turn to cliches when forced to explain something that they really don't want to talk about. So let's give Xabi Alonso the benefit of that excuse for coming up with the "a few months ago I took that decision as I thought it was the right moment to find a fresh challenge, to look for a new club. Click to continue reading...

When asked by a reporter outside the nightclub if she sent Cristiano a kiss, Nereida Gallardo responds, "Yes. A devil's kiss."

*Shudder.*

So it's not enough that Whatsherface is openly stalking her ex-boyfriend in a planned attack with a camera crew, she has now decided to move into the territory commonly known as bunny boiler.

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When asked by a reporter outside the nightclub if she sent Cristiano a kiss, Nereida Gallardo responds, "Yes. A devil's kiss."

*Shudder.*

So it's not enough that Whatsherface is openly stalking her ex-boyfriend in a planned attack with a camera crew, she has now decided to move into the territory commonly known as bunny boiler.

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BBC has confirmed that it will be streaming games from the Northern Ireland Milk Cup LIVE on its website. In what sounds like a pretty cool program called BBC Blast, young camera operators, directors and producers will be given the opportunity to hone their skills by doing a live event - in this case, Milk Cup games - much to the benefit of the rest of us who want to watch. Click to continue reading...

The news that Melbourne Victory are set to bid for a Super 15 Rugby Union licence makes so much sense to me.
AFL and Football should create two teams, one club in West Sydney, and of course the Brumbies one of the countries smartest business teams are missing a huge opportunity by not bidding for the A-League4Canberra licence. Click to continue reading...

When the FFA introduced the Youth Marquee allowance before the start of last season I thought it was a great initiative to help keep some of our youngest stars here in Australia for a year or two longer but now it has just turned into a farce and is effectively just a defacto $150,000 increase to the Salary cap. Click to continue reading...

I normally don't blog about rumour mongering from the tabloids, but there's such widespread talk now about Alan Shearer's summoning to London where he will be filled in on the future of NUFC. I respect the lads over at nufc.com, and even they have posted something about the future being made public soon, so it must be pretty nailed on.

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"I'm very happy to have signed for City - it's been close to happening for a while, and now I can just focus on football and concentrate on doing my best for the club.

"I know the kind of football Mark Hughes wants to play and the kind of character he is - he's a winner, he wants to make things happen and be successful.

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Portland Timbers fans didn't have to wait long to unleash thousands of teddy bears onto the field at PGE Park Friday night, as the Timbers defeated the Minnesota Thunder, 5-1. The Teddy Bear Toss was a benefit Doernbecher Children's Hospital.... Click to continue reading...