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10 ways to make football a better game....

Soccerblog 15 September @ 08:02 AM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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By Bill Edgar .. in the Times
1 Scrap the away goals rule and penalty shoot-outs in two-legged games.
2 Use goal difference before head-to-head records.
3 Introduce "celebration time" and remove punishments.
4 Book players for ANY dissent.
5 Scrap the rule that forces injured players to leave the pitch after receiving treatment before re-entering the field.

Roy Keane responds to Jack Warner

Pro Soccer Weekly 12 September @ 07:18 AM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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Don't mess with Keano! I thought this whole story was pretty funny so I figured that I would include a link for it so that hopefully everyone gets a chance to see some of the nonsense that goes on with the World Cup qualifiers. Basically, Jack Warner the FIFA Vice-President and CONCACAF President who is from the Trinidad and Tobago complained because Sunderland (managed by Roy Keane) didn't release Dwight Yorke for the match against the United States on Wednesday.

Brian Glanville

Pro Soccer Weekly 07 September @ 10:49 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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If you've heard of that name already then you don't really need to read this column. If you haven't heard of that name and you are a soccer then you do need to read this column. Brian Glanville is the greatest sports journalist in the English-Speaking world. I have never read a better writer on any sport then Brian's writing on soccer.

2010 World Cup mascot unveiled....

Soccerblog 23 September @ 01:01 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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No its not an inflatable model of Sepp Blatter but a green haired leopard called " Zakumi".The organisers correctly figured that Blatter was inflated enough already and hence went for the leopard.
Zakumi - the ZA stands for South Africa while kumi means ten in assorted African languages.