Singapore v Thailand 1-3 (Mustafic Fahruddin; Sutee Suksomkit 2, Therdsak Chaiman) 22,183
First 20 minutes the Thais showed why they are best side in ASEAN as their slick passing and intelligent moving tore the Singapore rearguard to shreds.
Prompted by the impressive Datsakorn Thonglao at the heart of the midfield the Thais spread the play and often had the Singaporeans chasing shadows. Click to continue reading...

Thanks to our friends at Dirty Tackle for bringing this to our attenion. Imagine you have two teams who quite literally hate each other to the core, two local rivals who can't stand the sight of each other. Then you take an away team who takes the spoils and you add a player who wishes to create mayhem.

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A few nice goals this week, but nothing extraordinary. Giuseppe Mascara scored one of his trademark wonder-goals, and Marco Borriello got back on the scoresheet with 2 goals (the second a nice scissor kick) after almost a year. Diego Milito got back to his scoring ways as well after being absent through injury, and Mirko Vucinic finally scored his first goal of the season.

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This was just before we visited Reading.  They had six points on Bolton and eight on us.  Birmingham had six points on us and two on Bolton for that matter.    That day we had a bit of fun.   Hade was driving so Toby and Matt headed over to ours, and stopped off at the Tooting branch of Woolworth's (now history) for some inflatables.

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The above picture depicts what Reuters describes as a "sit-down protest" from Hamburg after stewards at Celtic Park would not let them celebrate their 1-0 win over the Scottish side with their traveling fans after the game. Tempers flared among the visiting team when stewards also wouldn't let them leave the pitch, causing some angry players to sit down near the corner flag as police moved in.

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The Great Serie A Game posts continue with Roma-Juve 2003/2004. The 2003/2004 season was an interesting one. Milan, fresh from a Champions League victory and with some new young Brazilian player named Kaka, were dominating Serie A. While Marcello Lippi's Juve looked to be favorites to combat the Rossoneri to the Scudetto, it was not the case.

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D.C. United 1: 0 Columbus Crew
Six Word Novel Recap A decent team, with terrible supporters.
Let me just start by saying that Steve Cronin impressed the hell out of me last night. He played confidently, and he did not hesitate to come off of his line or even out of the box. At one point last night, he ran almost to the corner flag to shield a Crew player off the ball until it ran out for a goal kick. Click to continue reading...

Is there any reason Heskey would find first team football at Anfield, if he can't get it at Villa Park? The answer, in case you were wondering, is no!

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Emile Heskey's World Cup dreams have been the focus of yards of newsprint this week, despite not involving anything Freud would give a second glance to.

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Roger Milla burst onto the big stage at the grand old age of 38 when he scored four never-to-be-forgotten goals for Cameroon at the 1990 FIFA World Cup Finals in Italy. Capturing headlines all over the globe for his impressive displays en route to a memorable quarter-final defeat to Sir Bobby Robson's England, Milla captured the hearts of the public with his spontaneous corner flag dancing routine in celebration of each of his goals.

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Meet me at the corner flag!

Okay, let's be clear, Craig Bellamy is wild. He is rash, unpredictable, and probably would be a career criminal if he wasn't a footballer. He's got more tattoos than John Mayer's right arm, more baggage than an Airbus landing at Heathrow, more teeth than Mr.

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Imagine the array of emotions for Ryan Johnson on Friday night. The San Jose Earthquakes striker scored his team's only goal in the eighth minute of a 1-1 tie against the Colorado Rapids. Then the 24-year-old committed the foul deep into extra time that produced a penalty kick for Colorado and the Rapids' only goal.

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The recent Emmanuel Adebayor controversy had me thinking about goal celebrations, which led me to this excellent YouTube video featuring 20 of the best. Plenty of classics in there, including Roger Milla dancing with the corner flag at Italia '90, Gazza's legendary dentist chair celebration at Euro '96, and the insane backflippery of Julius Agahowa. Click to continue reading...

Jamison Olave played his heart out on a beautiful Saturday night in Sandy Utah and although a win would have been better, at least Real walked away with a tie and a point. A win and full points would have placed RSL into a three-way tie with Chivas and Colorado for fourth place in the West, but it is what it is.

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Australia's 5 time FIWC champion, Stephen Coorey, was lucky enough to play the latest Fifa 10 build at EA headquarters today. Here are his impressions of the new game...

Today was the day I have been waiting for since the FIWC final in Barcelona in May my first look at Fifa 10.

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Obviously in the wake of UEFA's ridiculous decision to suddenly clamp down on diving, ironically the season after the greatest prima donna of them all has upped and moved to Spain, it would be an easy option to write an article on it. However, I have a slightly different complaint, and it doesn't regard Eduardo's penalty against Celtic, but rather Rooney's in the United-Arsenal tie.

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Stuff to read while you get jealous of a corner flag..... The high price of an excessive foul - pay attention, Axel. (ESPN) Germany's simple yet stylish WC 2010 kit. (Football Fashion) Marco Materazzi getting way too used to suing people. (Dirty Tackle) The opening roundup of La Liga's opening weekend. Click to continue reading...

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There is no love lost between these two but one has to question the wisdom shown by Forest striker Nathan Tyson, who picked up a corner flag and waved it in front of the Derby fans who must have been puzzled at first by the bizarre gestures. Also amazingly no one was sent off in the bad tempered encounter, which must have caused a few punters to lose their seemingly obvious bets (yes that includes me!

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Nottingham Forest beat rivals Derby County for the first time since March 2003 on Saturday and Forest striker Nathan Tyson, who scored what would be the decisive goal in the 3-2 win, decided to celebrate by taking the corner flag and waving it in front of the visiting fans. Derby players took immediate exception and charged him, which, in turn, caused Tyson's teammates to rush to his defense and mild brawling ensued.

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I'm giddy as a school girl! I leave for the match in about 3 hours. Since I live in podunk Virginia, it will be a bit of a drive to get to DC. I've even made a sign that may or may not be like the title of this post. If they let me bring it in, it will be across the field from the camera on the left-ish side, near the corner flag.

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A different Wizards team came out to play on Sunday afternoon against a Chicago Fire team that was missing 4 of its starters. Although Peter Vermes' hand/work is starting to show, it wasn't enough to get the Wizards out of the winless streak and scoring drought that has plagued them for months already.

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As if the poor old corner flag doesn't already take enough punishment (from the likes of Tim Cahill), now some Dutch player comes along and uproots it. Ja, screw de cornervlag! Good to see that Schteve McClaren saw the funny...

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The FIFA series has been around for years now and the latest release "FIFA 10″ is getting a lot of attention after last season's highly acclaimed FIFA 09. Last season's version was reviewed very highly and EA Sports is set to improve with FIFA 10. I was able to ask FIFA 10 producer David Rutter some questions about the game.

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Flag foul Corinthians' Boquita was hoping to take a quick corner, but he had not counted on a cynical trip by the corner flag to stop him in his tracks. Spotted on 101GG

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The most fun we had at the corner flag last year was poking fun at Chelsea's Jose Bosingwa for losing his composure and going all Karate Kid into Yossi Benayoun's back.
But forget that unibrowed very expensive, dirty cheater and let's focus on the Dutch Eredivisie's opening weekend for our corner flag fun today. Click to continue reading...

What do you do when a defender has backed you all the way up to the corner flag, and you have no where to go?
In this game between Sparta Rotterdam and FC Twente at the weekend, in the first round of Eredivisie matches, rather than the Sparta forward just kicking it against the defender and out for a throw or corner, he gets his team mate to remove the offending corner flag so that he can cross the ball in. Click to continue reading...

[101 Great Goals] The corner flag is the underappreciated woodwork of the modern game. While the goalposts get all the glory - and the occasional kiss - corner flags just sit around idly and only joining the action on rare occasion. But Sparta Rotterdam appreciate the corner flag's work. With the ball on the line (yes, [. Click to continue reading...