Chelsea forward Salomon Kalou and Abdoulaye Meite were both in the Ivory Coast squad to face Germany in Wednesday's international friendly (2-2 draw). Neither was available for Saturday's World Cup qualifiying win over Guinea after the two went all hyphy on each other in training. The two have since made up (awww).

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strong>A couple of apologies first. One for introducing Marcus Bentley's dulcet Big Brother tone into your head and secondly for perhaps once again putting the cat amongst the pigeons on a sensitive and potentially divisive topic. The topic? Well it's the topic of whether or not you're doing your duty by Newcastle United in attending [. Click to continue reading...

The Beauty: Melina Pitra like many of the WAGs we have profiled here @ STO is from Argentina. While she is not actually one of the top Argentine WAGs (or even one of the hottest), she is on this list for one simple reason. The player she shagged has the most appropriate name ever at least judging by the picture at left.

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These days we're finding it hard to be totally thighjective, Kickettes.

So, to keep your life thighly entertaining, we've switched up the format a tad. Gawking and salivating� are still welcomed and definitely encouraged. However, please� let's do our best to keep all� of the "Um, like OMG, he totally ran train through all of ITV/C4's reality stars"� comments� to ourselves.

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These days we're finding it hard to be totally thighjective, Kickettes.

So, to keep your life thighly entertaining, we've switched up the format a tad. Gawking and salivating� are still welcomed and definitely encouraged. However, please� let's do our best to keep all� of the "Um, like OMG, he totally ran train through all of ITV/C4's reality stars"� comments� to ourselves.

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When Ahmed Hassan wheeled away to celebrate scoring a 92nd minute equalizer against Trinidad and Tobago, Bahrain believed they were on their way to the 2006 World Cup. Colombian ref Oscar Julian Ruiz Acost had other ideas. The goal was of the Best Banks variety. The sort of goal no one wants to see disallowed, especially when the forward's cheekiness is executed with such fine precision.

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Over the last 8 weeks we've all watched the gorgeous Sophie Reade light up our screens on Big Brother 10. With the program coming to a conclusion tonight our lovely Soph is red hot favourite to win.

Good luck Soph and come back for another shoot very soon.

Name

Sophie Reade

Age

19

Location

Chesire

Occupation

Glamour model, Daily Star page 3 girl

Supports

Liverpool

Fav player

Fernando Torres of course

Fav film

Fight Club

You've just gotta love Tyler Duden

Fav band

Anthing I can shake my ass to

Finest hour

Appearing in the Daily Star and winning a show jumping competition

Ambition

To appear in Playboy and be crowned Miss UK Football 2009!

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Duric - 人在江湖,身不由己? (whose existence in the team beyond his control?)
A colleague of me (whom I call him "阿兄"- "Big Brother" in Teochew dialect) offered a different perspective on the current state of the national team a few days ago.
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A home game against IFK Göteborg represents one of the most anticipated and prestigious matches of the year. Even on a bad year this game is at the very least a good old-fashioned hate match. This year, both teams are involved in the very top contention of Allsvenskan and 2009 must be considered an extremely good year for AIK to beat the Geat. Click to continue reading...

Ontem assistimos ao esplendor da vida e do espectáculo com a apresentação de Cristiano Ronaldo. Neste preciso momento assistimos � despedida de Michael Jackson. Menos de vinte e quatro horas separaram os dois acontecimentos � escala mundial. O mundo, os acontecimentos, a nossa vida, diz cada vez menos a cada um de nós, ao nosso país, aos nossos amigos, para se tornar em algo que nos ultrapassa e que é cada vez mais colectivo e usado globalmente através da comunicação. Click to continue reading...

English Premier League club Manchester City has signed a long-term partnership with Endemol Sport, a division of the TV production company Endemol - famous for producing the globe-spanning Big Brother programme.
Endemol Sport will be tasked with developing schemes to use television to build City's brand throughout the world, as well as relaunching the club website, which will be available in English and Arabic.

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The second round of the Norwegian cup was so staggeringly uneventful and dull that we here at NFN elected to ignore it altogether. However, with an epic shootout in the South, a local derby in the Southwest and rampant minnows up North, the third round was an entirely different kettle of fish...

We start up North with the upset that wasn't really an upset.

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For some people, the end of the football season in years that end with odd numbers means a return to the real world. For two and a half months they become normal people, spending time with family and friends, allowing their sofas and their wallets to recover from the arduous few months that have just passed and giving every impression of being normal, well-rounded human beings.

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Well Saturday couldn't have gone any better, could it! A four goal win away from home, six wins out of six, our nearest rivals drawing and a seven point lead going into a home game against the bottom team in the group.

Not the time to get complacent though, even though the facts are overwhelming: Andorra have only ever picked up a point away from home in the World Cup qualifiers (against Macedonia in 2005) and have never won an away game.

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In life there are only a handful of things that are certain. You will watch Big Brother. It will irritate you. MPs will lie through their back teeth (and their front ones). Summer does make girls more attractive. And makes you feel less so. People who ring in radio stations with traffic updates are idiots.

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Guus Hiddink seems to be making a bit of a meal leaving Chelsea. He says he will be back and forth to support the club.

"Unofficially, I will keep my connection with the club," he said as he prepared for tomorrow's game at home to Blackburn Rovers. "By supporting them, by coming to visit every now and then.

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Poor Dani Alves. He arrived one minute late for training yesterday - and faces a fine by the club. Other guilty offenders included Gudjohnsen, Xavi, Eto'o, Messi and Toure. Oh come on, they wanted to watch reruns of Big Brother to celebrate Copa del Ray!

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Slap on a facemask, stock up on tamiflu and come this way for an all coughing, all sniffling preview of the 6th round of the Tippeliga..

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Saturday

Aalesund (5th) - Molde (2nd)

One of the fiercest rivalries in the league, this encounter has been given some extra gloss because of the fact that both teams are riding uncharacteristically high in the table.

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Kickettes, if you're in a man-shopping sort of mood, we are please to bring you two new additions on the singles market:

Tottenham's Carlo Cudicini and Athletic de Bilbao's Aitor Ocio. Both are now available for your stalking/harassing/dating pleasure.

Carlo Cudicini and Alessia Marcuzzi in 2003

Carlo's long-term relationship with model/Italian Big Brother presenter, Alessia Marcuzzi is dunzo.

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Kickettes, if you're in a man-shopping sort of mood, we are please to bring you two new additions on the singles market:

Tottenham's Carlo Cudicini and Athletic de Bilbao's Aitor Ocio. Both are now available for your stalking/harassing/dating pleasure.

Carlo Cudicini and Alessia Marcuzzi in 2003

Carlo's long-term relationship with model/Italian Big Brother presenter, Alessia Marcuzzi is dunzo.

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In 1949 when George Orwell wrote his epic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, he painted a forboding picture of a world where Big Brother monitored all of our activity and doublespeak (or as Orwell coined it, newspeak) disguised the true meaning of our language. When Orwell wrote that classic book, I'm sure he didn't have football on his [. Click to continue reading...

It's eviction night in the Newcastle United Big Brother House.
Up for eviction are Kevin Keegan, Dennis Wise and Mike Ashley.
Here is what each of them have to say about why one of the others should go:
Kevin Keegan: Wise has to go. Once described as a man who could start a fight in an empty house, he played dirty when he was a footballer and he plays dirty now. Click to continue reading...

Anyone that knows me knows that I really aspire to be part of the ‘cool' crowd that goes to Faces and Movida more than I actually care about being a footballer, and this story underlines just exactly why. Not only do loads of Big Brother wasters frequent the clubs in the vain hope that someone of slight ethnicity might accidently trip and knock them up, page 3 models genuinely fight over you, even if you're a pint-sized loser like Jermain Defoe. Click to continue reading...

Vladimir Romanov's "other club" gave him his most famous victory over either half of the Old Firm tonight and, contrary to the last, he refused to bask in the glory. Questioned by Dennis the Menace's ginger, less articulate big brother (or Jim Spence as he's called on the radio) Vladimir claimed that FBK Kaunas had achieved more by beating Andorran side Santa Coloma in the previous round. Click to continue reading...

Everyone knows Ben Olsen. One of the most popular players on the team since his rookie year in 1998, the tenacious midfielder has already cemented himself in United history as one of the best. You may not, however, know his older brother Jeremy.

Best by injuries in recent weeks, United's coaching staff has called upon the elder Olsen - who has been in D.

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The COS Big Up brings you a daily batch of our favourite stories. Avast ye mateys! The Joey Barton comic strip on Studs Up reads like a psychotic transcript of everyone's favourite reality show, Big Brother. Day 1: Joey Knifes King Kev. Day Two: Joey Eats Baby. If you're man enough ... Click to continue reading...

Parents are great bastions of worldly knowledge. If it wasn't for the sage advice of mine I would certainly not be the suave and sophisticated young man I am now. Footballers also have parents, and occasionally they too like to chip with pieces of advice, instead however using that fantastically personal medium of the press. Click to continue reading...

There's no stopping Sepp Blatter when it comes to opening his flabby mouth to produce stupid and poorly thought out comments. He almost stupid enough to challenge for a slot on Big Brother, here are his latest efforts talking about Ronaldo's potential movement: "The important thing is, we should also protect the player. Click to continue reading...

Back on the street. Let's track the matches and upsets today.
Vancouver takes down its MLS big brother.
Coach John Carver, as might be guessed, is not pleased.
Charleston has a one goal lead on Houston, which is playing mostly reserves. Click to continue reading...

There's bad Big Brother - like when MLS tries to control individual teams from making deals with players.
Then there's other types of soccer bros.

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Zzzzzzzzzzzzz. 
Worst. Game. Ever.
This game was so dull that it really isn't worthy of a proper match report, in fact if it hadn't been for the fact that I'm blogging this tournament I would've turned this snoozefest off and watched "Big Brother" or some other vacuous Channel 4 crap.
Italy were extremely defensive and without Pirlo, who was suspended, to pull the strings in midfield, they resorted to pumping the ball forward for Luca Toni to head, scuff, mis-control and occasionally shoot everywhere but towards the direction of Casillas's goal. Click to continue reading...

Whoever scheduled Austria vs Germany as the final Group B game has a flair for the dramatic. Not just because both teams need a result to go through - Austria need a win (and to hope Poland don't beat Croatia by more) while Germany need a draw - but also because of the long running rivalry between the two.

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Austria v Germany, Ernst-Happel Stadion (Prater), Vienna 2045 local time.
The time has come. When the match which has been described as 'The Game of Games' or 'The First Final' ends, expect an ocean of Teutonic emotio to have been used up.
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Since last season ended we have been linked with about seven hundred and thirty eight players. The latest is a German called Frings.

He is seen as a direct replacement for Flamini and while I think he is a good defensive midfielder there is one draw-back. He is 31.

To the average person like myself and possibly yourself, 31 is not that old, not even in the career of a professional footballer. Click to continue reading...

Agencias - El seleccionado mexicano Nery Castillo se fue de fiesta con la modelo británica Imogen Thomas la noche previa al amistoso contra Ghana del pasado 26 de marzo en Inglaterra, reveló hoy la prensa deportiva mexicana. "A pesar de... Click to continue reading...