Scouting, statistics and rice: the rise and fall of Arsène Wenger - FT.com: I don't think any of the themes about Arsene Wenger that Simon Kuper covers in this article will surprise any of the readers of this blog. I'm mostly posting this link (free sign-up required) because one of the most (the most?

So, how do you write an article following up on that then? Clearly those were a three points that we should've been taking home, especially after a generally excellent first half performance. I'm not going to dissect the game as frankly, you can read that on any Arsenal blog and having been at the game, [.

Sometimes we, and by we I mean the blog, pay the price for this not being a full time job. There are times when the job that pays the bills takes precedence over the enjoyment of bringing you blog posts so long that your bosses, significant others, non-fantasy-playing friends, and children complain about the time spent on them on occasion.

La Liga blog: Kaka and Pique back in style but Betis steal the headlines

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Here's a link from a good blog post that was on World Class Coaching by Dan Coughlin, the author of 'Find a Way to Win' -
If you ever really want to understand yourself better or to understand what motivates people, I encourage you to coach a youth sports team. You will learn in real-time situations how and when to intervene in situations that can be enormously frustrating.

Football League blog: Grass isn't always greener, says Blades boss

For the new season, MirrorFootball is teaming up with some of the blogosphere's best new writers to bring you even more great football reads every single day. Friday is Football League day, so please be upstanding for theseventytwo.

I think those who saw the match just now on TV would agree that bad decisions against us had cost us dearly at Kunming.
Already handicapped by the climate that bogged both sides, the controversial call by the referee in the second half on several decisions must had fumed a lot of folks back here with two dubious penalty decisions that eventually paved the way to an unglamorous win for the hosts.

'Oh the Deadwood stage is a'comin on over the hill' (Now with videos. See end of blog). That stagecoach sure looks pretty dang full up on top pardner. One or two have return tickets but may get drygulched up in them there Northern hills. Yee Ha! So the window closes and it gets better the more I think about it.

The Alliance Council met prior to the match against the Columbus Crew. An update is now posted over at the SoundersFC.com Alliance Council Blog (which will be getting frontpage attention soon). The main issues resolved around voting changes, work on the Constitution/ByLaws/Charter (which will be public for voting in Sept) and the End of Year Meeting.

Today CONCACAF World Cup qualifying starts for 19 more national associations in the confederation, with matches going on from Toronto to Georgetown. (Or is Paramaribo further south?) This post will be updated throughout the day with results and events as they come in, but I'll be working so it will be more of a semi-live blog.

Transfer Window Review (Part 2) | Midfield

AnfieldIndex Liverpool FC Stats | Liverpool FC Blog | Liverpool FC Forum This is Part II of my Transfer Window review, and a follow up to my original articles for "What our Team Needs" which I wrote back in April. Part I (Defenders) can be found here.

It's gonna be a short one today, I can guarantee you that. There's so little going on it could well be one of those where you might do something to fill the gap. Like, take an extract from the blog on this day in a year gone by. Like this from 2008:

So here we are Arsechums.

When two new players were officially signed by Newcastle United on August 30th, most of the attention was pointed in the direction of a certain ex Internazionale defender called Davide Santon, who has been compared in the past to no lesser figure than Paulo Maldini by legendary manager, Arrigo Sacchi.

The full roster of players has now arrived in Belgium. All 20 players trained this morning but not before a late dash to the field by Kyle Beckerman! Kyle arrived on the overnight flight and went straight from the airport to the training pitch. A set of gear was waiting for him, and once he dug his boots out of his suitcase he was good to go.

I apologize for the delay in getting past the first team transfer summary. We are using the international break for a nice rustic vacation in Maine. I've been trying to generally stay away from the internet, email, and the other things that I tend to use for both my day job as well as staying up with current events in the Premier League and posting to the blog.

Serie A blog: The strike is off but are the Azzurri still suffering its effects?

For the new season, MirrorFootball is teaming up with some of the blogosphere's best new writers to bring you even more great football reads every single day. Today it's our new Serie A blogger, footballitaliano.

La Liga blog: Cesc and Mata shine but there's more Torres gloom in international week

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Here is a good video posted on Youtube that gives an insight into our three games in August. It refers to our new signings but be aware this was posted a day before transfer deadline day.
This video covers Stoke away, West Brom at home and Norwich at home along with the signings of Romeu, Lukaku, and Mata.

I've finally bitten the bullet and bought a domain name for this blog.

All articles will now appear at http://spiritofmirko.com

I didn't really want to keep using the "Mirko Bolesan" title as it's a bit odd having a blog named simply after a footballer, however good they once were.

I'm currently in the process of moving over all of the old articles that I think are worth keeping, and at some point I'll shut this site down.

Football League blog on Juventus and Notts County's remarkable moment of football history

For the new season, MirrorFootball is teaming up with some of the blogosphere's best new writers to bring you even more great football reads every single day. Friday is Football League day, so please be upstanding for theseventytwo.

The Man: stripped for action Video: see end of blog. So once more our season begins. The statistical apologists will argue that the first two games don't count as we didn't win them last year and we didn't win them this year either Nothing to see here move on. If we beat Wolves we will in fact be better off than last year by two points, poised in their logical minds, no doubt, to challenge

Liverpool travel to Stoke tomorrow for their first match after the annoying international break. Before the internationals got in the way Liverpool were playing some good football and will be...

LFC News have teamed up with "www.greatestliverpoolplayer.com" to decide the Greatest Ever Liverpool Player! The website lists every player that has ever played for Liverpool and it uses its unique Play-Off...

The Independent has an interview with David de Gea.

The Mirror reports on Sir Alex Ferguson's claim that Young owes Evra for helping him start well for United.

The Chelsea Blog compares the NHS to football.

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Chicago Fire Fanzine presented by Jeff Harbert of Chicago Fire Blog

Jeff Harbert does a great job over at Chicago Fire Blog and this time he has gone above and beyond with the creation of Chicago Fire Fanzine. It's 31 pages of photos, stories, and analysis that every Chicago Fire fan will want to take a look at.

Kick off the discussion of today's Premier League action with a live blog, which will be open from 9:30am to Noon ET. It's pretty rare that you'll have Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City, Spurs and Liverpool all playing at the same ...
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Made my first trip to see a match at the Emirates today to watch Arsenal play Swansea. Luckily I saw Arsenal win 1-0. But it was far from an impressive performance by the Gunners.

Yes they won via an Arshavin goal, but Swansea really should have equalized late in aded time when Danny Graham shot over from the edge of the six yard box.

Stoke City Vs Liverpool FC | Defence v Attack

AnfieldIndex Liverpool FC Stats | Liverpool FC Blog | Liverpool FC Forum It was not a good day for Liverpool FC on Saturday, 10th September. A loss to Stoke at the Britannia Stadium for the second consecutive season does not make for good reading.

I swore to myself I wouldn't get involved and would stay away from this fight as Ashley has got the fans at each other throats with the current state of affairs at SJP but after reading a recent 'blog by my colleague on here, and the fairly large response to it, I couldn't hold my [...]

Our latest discussion piece features Ben Mayhew, head honcho of one of the best club blogs around, Greenwich Gull - 'a League 2 blog with an overwhelmingly pro-Torquay United bias'. Since commencing his scrawlings, Ben has actually hopped on the London Overground to live in Highgate, but retains a site name that evokes maritime leanings.

Serie A blog: What Mancini must do to stop Napoli's fairy tale becoming a Man City horror show

For the new season, MirrorFootball is teaming up with some of the blogosphere's best new writers to bring you even more great football reads every single day. Today it's our new Serie A blogger, footballitaliano.

If you're reading this, congratulations—it means you can access the blog while many people, including Ed, are instead being redirected to the Offside front page. This is an unintended side effect of the our ongoing move to SBN's software and network as we take baby steps towards becoming the first blog to have their platform dropped on top of the current site instead of the more usual method of migrating to a new home.

NextGen Series blog: Manchester City set for Barcelona start

The next matches of the exciting NextGen Series are here. In his latest blog, tournament co-founder Mark Warburton gives Sportsmail an update...

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La Liga blog: Barca falter, Real win again and it all gets rather hot in Seville

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Today is a travel day for the U.S. WNT as the players will fly from all parts of the USA - where they have been enjoying a brief break since the end of the WPS season - to Kansas City to prepare for their first match since the end of the WWC. That will take place at the sparkling new LIVESTRONG Sporting Park, home to Sporting Kansas City of MLS, on Sept.

The word "stability" is probably never exist in the dictionary of the league authority with the latest news that broke out this morning (screen-grab below) that suggested the possibility of 2009's League Cup winners DPMM of Brunei of rejoining the league.
I guess we shouldn't be too surprise of this latest development.

About a week or so ago, I started trying to plan what to write about for the next international break. I got to thinking it would be cool to write about some of the young players coming up through the Arsenal system. However, I wasn't sure where to start. I remembered that Martin wrote a few blogs about certain players back in the day.

A bit of news as we head into another weekend of Premier League action... Carlos Tevez, unfortunately, doesn't read our blog. It's been confirmed that he doesn't read, well, at all. Tevez failed to reply to a speeding ticket sent ... Continue reading →

Y ya casi estamos llegando a la mitad del torneo y la pelea se torna cada vez más interesante con la lucha muy cerrada en la parte de arriba y con ningún equipo que se haya visto arrollador como para darle más posibilidades.

La moneda está en el aire y son varios los equipos que están en la pelea y cualquiera podría ser el campeón de este torneo y que se adjudique el medio boleto para la primera división.