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United legends divided Manchester United's Champions League exit has created a bit of a rift
between Sir Alex Ferguson and Roy Keane. Fergie is obviously not overly pleased to see his former
fledglings now giving honest appraisals of United performances as TV pundits. He turned on Keane
after being asked about his former skipper's views [.
No stats? Good luck.
For those not aware, the Hermann Trophy is soccer's equivalent to the Heismann.
So I'm scanning the blogs out there, and I came across the following comments on this post
concerning the 15 semifinalists for the award.
Mark said:
12 forwards and 2 mids in that list.
Former Leicester and Blackburn midfielder Robbie Savage is the latest in a long line of footballers
and managers to name Liverpool star Steven Gerrard as one of the best players ever to grace the
modern game.Speaking to The Mirror, Savage had nothing but good things to say about Liverpool's
captain:"The best player I've ever played against is Steven Gerrard.
With no official word from the club it seems that reports of a permanent deal for AZ 67's
Swedish midfielder Rasmus Elm are a little quick off the mark.
If the claims are to be believed, Spurs have struck a deal worth around £7m for the player, but
he won't be joining up with the squad until the end of the season.
I thought I'd go the easy route today with a post that allows you, the reader to give an
opinion. Many times as fans we argue about the "Best Player" or the "Best Team" but rarely do we
get a chance to to vote on who is "The Most Overrated Player". With the vast amounts of money
available in the Premier League, there's no doubt there are is a plethora of talent on display
every week, but amongst all that, there are several players who, in my opinion, have not lived up
to expectations, and who may, or may not, still be regarded by fans and media as star
performers.
It was billed as a match in which the losing manager would get fired, and if that is the case
then it will be a much happier Christmas in the Coyle household this season than the Kean one as
Bolton beat Blackburn Rovers 2-1 in a relegation six pointer.
The result means Blackburn replace Bolton at the foot of the Premier League, and Rovers will be
bottom at Christmas with only one team avoiding relegation from that position.
It was billed as a match in which the losing manager would get fired, and if that is the case
then it will be a much happier Christmas in the Coyle household this season than the Kean one as
Bolton beat Blackburn Rovers 2-1 in a relegation six pointer.
The result means Blackburn replace Bolton at the foot of the Premier League, and Rovers will be
bottom at Christmas with only one team avoiding relegation from that position.
Liverpool fans are understandably miserable over the prospect of losing Luis Suarez for 8 games in
the new year, but I actually think the Uruguayan's ban could be positive for the club, and could
conceivably transform Liverpool's season.Hear me out! I know it sounds like madness to suggest that
losing the club's best player could be a good thing, but you only have to look at how the team
Liverpool fear Lucas Leiva will miss the rest of the season with a knee injury. The Brazilian
midfielder, one of his club's best performers this year, was carried off on a stretcher during the
2-0 Carling Cup win at Chelsea on Tuesday night.
Lucas underwent a scan yesterday at 1pm, and although the results will not be known until today,
Liverpool fear the worst.
Bom dia amigos! And what do we have here today? Escândalo from
the mouth of Brazil's most-loved grandpa, Pele, of course! The legend, the "best
player in the last century", and the only man capable of talking about himself for a total of
2 hours and 40 minutes, has done it again!
Carragher: Losing Lucas is going to hurt us
Liverpool crock 'has been our best player for 18 months' says defender
View the full story here: The Mirror
A news article on 2011-12-01 22:31:07 from: The Mirror
This news item has been reproduced from today's media.
Carragher: Lucas' injury is a right pain
'He has been our best player for 18 months' says defender
View the full story here: The Mirror
A news article on 2011-12-01 22:31:07 from: The Mirror
This news item has been reproduced from today's media.
Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher believes the Reds have lost their 'best player' after midfielder
Lucas was ruled out for the season.
The Brazilian suffered cruciate ligament damage during Tuesday night's Carling Cup success over
Chelsea at Stamford Bridge and is now facing a long spell on the sidelines.
We bought Bryan Ruiz from FC Twente for 10 million, or whatever it was. There's an element of
food-chaining here, isn't there? We bought their best player; they didn't buy ours. Which ought to
imply that we're a better team, particularly as Ruiz promising though he may be is not yet in
Fulham's best XI.
Carra rues Lucas blow
Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher believes the Reds have lost their 'best player' after
midfielder Lucas was ruled out for the season.
View the full story here: Sky Sports
A news article on 2011-12-02 09:07:14 from: Sky Sports
This news item has been reproduced from today's media.
The 2011 FIFA/Fifpro World XI list has been revealed with six British players, including Gareth
Bale amongst the 55 chosen names in the list. The list is chosen from some 50,000 professional
football players across the globe who have voted for the best player in every position. Spanish and
European champions Barcelona have 11 players [.
Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher believes that injured midfielder Lucas Leiva is the 'equal' of
Luis Suarez when it comes to impact on the team, but who is the more important player overall?
Carra, who has just come back from injury himself, argued:
"For the last 18 months, in my opinion, he has been our best player.
Let us know who you think Newcastle's best player was today against Chelsea in our 3-0 defeat to
the London side.
At the beginning of the season it was fair to say that Arsenal were playing shit.
We seemed a bigger shambles than a pissed up David Hasselhoff trying to eat a hamburger.
At the time there many people jumping on an RIP Arsenal Football Club bandwagon. A bandwagon that
was gaining more speed than Keanu Reeves on a bus.
Christmas Gifts for the FC Barcelona Fan
The holiday season is upon us and if you are or have a FC Barcelona fan in your life then we
have put together a list of gifts that any culé would love.
Relive the magic of Barcelona's 2010-2011 Champions League winning season with this Lionel Messi
Signed Framed Barcelona Champions League Final Jersey 2010-11.
Watching the 1982 World Cup in my parent's basement, my brother and I pranced around our basement
trying to imitate the beauty of Socrates. No-look passes, flicks and back heels were introduced to
a growing soccer nation, and I was clearly swept up in it.
With the passing of the Brazilian midfielder this past weekend at the age of 57, Gabriele Marcotti
writes of the great playmaker and leader of the Brazilian football revolution.
Liverpool Manager Kenny Dalglish surprisingly opened a can of worms at his press-conference on
Thursday when he questioned the reduction of Man Utd's Wayne Rooney getting a three-game ban
reduced to two games for next year's Euro Finals.
Kenny Dalglish was quizzed about his views on the FA's successful appeal that means Wayne Rooney's
England ban has been reduced two-matches.
El Clasico Video Preview: Lionel Messi, Crisitano Ronaldo, Audi and ESPN - originally posted on
Soccerlens.com
While Neymar and everybody else thinks Lionel Messi is the best player in the world, you have
Cristiano Ronaldo voting for himself, Messi-haters voting for Xavi and Xavi himself voting for Paul
Scholes (which, in a nutshell, tells you all there is to say about 'votes').
125 years! Hell of a long time, so long ago that Spurs title win was in the future and even
Kelsey hadn't been born .
And what a tradition our wonderful club has, what history, and always (apart from Mr. Norris)
a club with honour and class. To those lucky enough to be going today the opportunity to share in
the celebrations is one not to be missed.
125 years! Hell of a long time, so long ago that Spurs title win was in the future and even
Kelsey hadn't been born .
And what a tradition our wonderful club has, what history, and always (apart from Mr. Norris)
a club with honour and class. To those lucky enough to be going today the opportunity to share in
the celebrations is one not to be missed.
Here! Have some points!
It's easy to sit here and criticise, of course.
So here goes.
Why on earth did we sit back and (seemingly) play for a 0-0 draw against a fragile team who
let's face it we match up very well against?
When Swansea scored (a fluke, but a fluke that was absolutelydeserved) Fulham woke up and
attacked, and for half an hour gave Swansea a relative pasting.
Liverpool midfielder Charlie Adam says Andy Carroll will come good for the club following an
indifferent start to life as Britain's most expensive ever player.
Carroll was signed from Newcastle last January for £35 million and has so far failed to reproduce
the form he showed on Tyneside, though Adam says it is important to remember he is just 22 years
old.
Manager Neil Warnock was left wishing Luis Suarez played for QPR after suffering a 1-0 defeat at
Liverpool.
The Uruguayan, who has been in the headlines for the wrong reasons after two Football Association
charges, scored his first goal since October to seal the points at Anfield.
Heroics from QPR goalkeeper Radek Cerny had for a time looked as if they might have condemned
Liverpool to a sixth Premier League draw at Anfield this season.
QPR's Neil Warnock calls on FA to protect Liverpool's Luis Suárez
• QPR manager makes a stand against fans' abuse • Liverpool striker scores first league goal
since 1 October Ability and antics have polarised opinion on Luis Suárez but also shifted focus
from the aspect of his game that was indisputable against Queens Park Rangers.
- Not pictured: Him tapping the tips of his fingers together and/or petting a white cat.
Don't sweat yet another defeat in the biggest game on Earth, Mr. Mourinho. We've got ten ideas for
how to win the return leg that will appeal to your evil genius side.1. Get Carvalho back and once
again play Pepe as a rearmost midfield destroyer, hoping his physicality can throw off the Barca
rhythm just as Real's pressing did in the opening minutes.
Former Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez recently revealed that Steven Gerrard is the best player he's
ever managed, but who does Benitez himself look up to? Who is his greatest footballing inspiration?
The answer will definitely come as no surprise.Speaking on Spanish Radio, Benitez stated:"I knew
about Pele; I watched Maradona and Johann Cryuff, but my favourite was always Franz Beckenbauer".
Seattle Sounders players vote to recognize their vision of the MVP and Defender of the Year.
This differs slightly from recognition given by Sounder at Heart in that here there are awards for
Offensive, Defensive and Young Players of a given season. Still there is a certain overlap.
Osvaldo Alonso's performance in 2011 earned him recognition from both his teammates and readers
here.
In the first part of this series, we ran the rule over the current United roster. In this second
part, we'll compile a list of wants by position, setting us up for the grand finale, where we put
those wants in order...
Would you trust this man with your roster?
GOALKEEPER
Needs: Hamid and Willis are solid in the first two spots on the depth chart, so there
shouldn't be much work to do here.
By Alan Duffy
Newcastle United 0-0 Swansea City Premier League 17th December 2011
Newcastle have now gone five league games without a victory after failing to break down a
stubborn Swansea side on Saturday afternoon.
Vote: Star man v Villa
Who was our best player against Aston Villa? Cast your vote now.
View the full story here: Liverpool FC
A news article on 2011-12-18 16:09:06 from: Liverpool FC
This news item has been reproduced from today's media.
It's almost impossible to have escaped the saga of the Chris Paul trade(s) in the NBA but just
in case you have, here are a couple of need-to-know facts.
- Ownership of the New Orleans Hornets (Chris Paul's now former team) was sold to the NBA back in
December 2010
- Every owner in the NBA owns 1/29th of the Hornets but does not have any direct say in
day-to-day operations
- NBA commissioner David Stern had given full authority to Hornets General Manager Dell Demps to
make whatever player moves he felt were in the team's best interest
- The Hornets best player and NBA superstar Chris Paul was under contract for only one more
season
- Chris Paul recently told the Hornets he didn't want to sign with them after this season and
would like to be traded
- Rather than see the Hornets get nothing when Paul walks this summer, GM Demps worked out a
three-way trade less than two weeks ago that would have shipped Paul to the Los Angeles Lakers and
had a couple of players from the Lakers and the Houston Rockets come to the Hornets.
Yesterday's 4-0 thrashing of Santos was a result not many people were expecting, especially
after their amazing semi final victory over Kashiwa Reysol. Many including myself were expecting
Santos to put up a stiff fight if not go all the way.
However, once again Lionel Messi was the hero for the Catalans as he scored a brace to see the
European champions add yet another trophy to their cabinet.
Belatedly, a roundup of links regarding the passing of Brazilian great Socrates a couple weeks ago:
Remembering Brazil's Soccer Philosopher King, penned by Gabriele Marcotti,
appeared in the WSJ the day after his death:
Sunday [December 4] morning marked the passing of Socrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de
Oliveira, better known simply as Socrates.
So with the crux of the holiday season around the corner here are the top 5 noise makers for the
blues this merry season:
#5 - Romeu
Highly understated. His performances have been amazing, most notably the assurance with he
passes the ball around in his position. Very glad to hear that Barca only have a first option to
buy him ONLY IF Chelsea decide to release him and not a buy back clause as initially reported!
The blog that follows UVA sports, Streaking the Lawn, is reporting that Virginia sophomore
winger Brian "Cobi" Span signed a contract today with Djurgarden IF of Sweden's
top flight, Allsvenkan.
Streaking the Lawn | UVA Soccer Standout Brian "Cobi" Span Signs With Djurgarden IF of Sweden
According to Ives Galarcap of Fox Soccer, Span is ranked as the 7th best player on
the 2012 MLS Draft Big Board.
