Thierry Henry like many afore him says "it's up to the referee!"
But what about decency from himself and the French team. Not once but twice did the ball "hit@ more
like he quided the ball with his hand...and what gaul, what cheek to celebrate and blame the
referee!
Imagine a French side that wins the World Cup, Henry as captain would receive the trophy.
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Earlier on this afternoon,
Coleen Rooney gave birth to
Wayne Rooney's first child.
The baby boy has been named
Kai Wayne Rooney and both parents are said to be
‘overjoyed'.
The bookmakers have done up some special odds for baby Kai already, the poor kid is only hours old.
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From the BBC comes news that Pay-TV provider BSkyB is set to show live Premier League matches on
Apple's iPhone. Users can watch live sports on Sky Sports and ESPN as well as Sky News over a wi-fi
connection for £6 a month. Besides the Premier League, users can also watch Scottish football,
cricket and golf via Sky's new application.
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From the BBC comes news that Pay-TV provider BSkyB is set to show live Premier League matches on
Apple's iPhone. Users can watch live sports on Sky Sports and ESPN as well as Sky News over a wi-fi
connection for £6 a month. Besides the Premier League, users can also watch Scottish football,
cricket and golf via Sky's new application.
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The latest Wikio sprots rankings are shortly to be published and guys over at Wikio have been kind
enough to send on an advance preview at the new top twenty:
1Arseblog (=)
2Gunnerblog (=)
3BBC Sport - Football blog (=)
4Off The Post (+1)
5West Ham Till I Die (-1)
6Line and Length - Times Online WBLG (+7)
7SoccerLens (+2)
8BBC Sport - Phil McNulty blog (-2)
9Bitter and Blue (+5)
10BlogF1 (-2)
11F1 Minute (=)
12F1 Fanatic (-5)
13Goodplaya (-3)
14King Cricket (+10)
15The Corridor (a cricket blog) (+19)
16East Lower (+2)
17Football Banter (-5)
18Formula One Blog - Times Online WBLG (-3)
19Lord of the Wing (+10)
20Twohundredpercent (-4)
Ranking by Wikio
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Sorry Vishwa. You're the man but still worth a try.
Some say he thinks Alex Ferguson is a swear word. Some say he has a bicycle kick that not even
Iker Casillas would have dared to stop. All we know is, he's called THE AQUAMAN.
- No Sir, not Carlton Parlmer
Sendros is quality I tell you.
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There are certains events in life that when it comes down to it, it makes you sit up and say
"What's bigger than this?" For example an India vs Pakistan encounter, or the Aussie vs South
Africa one. You know it coming when someone says it just a match and nothing more. Personally the
latter has been a bigger one for me, but now I have given up on cricket and prefer to sit out of
the NSW vs T&T kind of matches, which is exactly the opposite of what I am talking about.
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This will be the biggest thing in a couple of years. Just like UEFA have done with their
Champions League, we will do with this. This will be to cricket what the... er... Champions League
is to football.
-Lalit Modi, Chairman, Champions League T20
To all ye doubters who mocked at my observation of some other tournament being the clear
inspiration for this tournament.
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No, it's not about the other teams in the Champions League like Uriea Urigniceni and Rubin
Kazan. Though from what I've seen of Rubin Kazan, they could go some distance in Europe, at least
through the Europa League (hard luck for them to be in a group with Barca and Inter. If they'd been
with Arsenal, they would've fancied their chances).
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After the World Cup qualifiers have finished and the dust has settled, languagecaster.com
returns to it's World Cup Stars series. We've already talked about Pele and Maradona, this week
it's the turn of a goalkeeper. Come along to the site at languagecaster.com to find out who we
feauture and for lots more.
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Match Officials announced for tonight's match at Tranmere Rovers.
Mr. Booth, will be the man in charge at Prenton Park Tonight.
Russell Started refereeing in 1984 in Mansfield and progressed to the National List of assistant
Referees in 1998. After only one season promoted to the SG of assistant referees until he reached
the National List of referees in 2004.
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You may be forgiven for thinking Independent School's Sport is centred around Rugby and Cricket,
therefore not realising that Football is in fact bigger than the two in most cases. Independent
Schools, such as the one I attend (Shrewsbury School), are renowned for their big playing grounds,
excellent facilities and top-class coaching, thus giving pupils [.
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Balance is crucial for sportsmen.  By balance I don't mean staying upright, but a sort of
internal synergy that gets everything working as it ought to.
I recently read a good book about running, "Born to Run" by Christopher Macdougall.  Among
other things Macdougall talks to and about ultra-runners, people who do 50 mile runs, and sometimes
more than double that.
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This post is about my two boys, however there is a bit of a problem. Due to new British legislation
I am not actually allowed to reveal the names of my children to anyone who has not had a Criminal
Records Bureau check. Okay, that's not actually true (although it might soon be). Still, it seems
prudent not to give their real names, not so much for security reasons, but to give them the option
of denying anything I write as they grow older.
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This entire post follows on from the comments on my last piece.
When I first read your comment, Ed, I had to go back and re-read my article. I didn't realise how
much it came across as so dark on the A-League. When I sat down to write I had in mind a bit of a
comparison of the two soccer experiences of the day, highlighting the simple joys of junior and
amateur league soccer.
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EPL Talk 07 September @ 04:06 PM EST
Brian Clough's managerial career has been well documented, but it often completely overshadows
the success Clough had as a player. Whilst he was often accused of nepotism towards his son Nigel
whilst he was the manager of Nottingham Forest, it wasn't hard to see where the younger player got
his footballing talent from.
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There's no football.Time to take stock and indulge the missis, make of that whatever you like but
it usually involves Morrison's these days. I was going to follow the cricket or the tennis but it
seems we are being thrashed by the Australians in the first and there is not one English player in
the top 100 in the second so perhaps I won't bother.
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British Empire
Big Story
In the wake of England's rather lackluster display against Slovenia, Simon
Barnes explores why we English still expect to win: "Football is the Last Empire." Barnes writes
that in all other sports, the English have given up any expectancy of dominance.
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They Think It's All Over... is annoyed that his enjoyment of England's Ashes victory has been
spoiled by an Everton loss.
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So the football season is well and truly underway, thank god, but there is the small matter of
The Ashes series which is perfectly poised at 1-1 going into the final test at the Oval, and
believe it or not, there are still good price tickets available!
CLICK HERE for details.
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Our friends at Studs Up have surpassed themselves with this sketch about the dangers of the
transfer window!
CLICK HERE to read the comic!
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- Link Loving July 28th: Top Ten Football WAGS; Chelsea Captain Speaks to MC Hammer; Latest on
£27m Alonso to Real Madrid News; Cheryl Cole Looking Incredibly Hot; England Beat Germany; 2009's
Most Annoying Transfer Rumours Is Now Dead; Time for Dimitar Berbatov to Shine; 10 Reasons Why
Football Is Better than Cricket; Streaker Gets Nutmegged (Video)!
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BWFC 24 31 July @ 12:00 PM EST
"It wasn't the hand of God.
It was the hand of a rascal."
Former England manager, Sir Bobby Robson, sadly died after a 15 year fight against cancer. The
quote above is about Diego Maradona's infamous goal in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. What better
way to remember Sir Bobby than a few words from the man himself.
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Maybe not goodbye, but farewell...
15 Quotes From Sir Bobby Robson
Sir Bobby Robson, former manager of Ipswich Town, Newcastle United and England, died today aged 76
after a long battle with cancer. Before a more formal tribute on our part, here are some of Sir
Bobby's many utterances that made us laugh over the years and endeared him to football fans the
world over.
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The Offside 28 July @ 07:30 PM EST
Something to read while you watch Diego score on his Juventus debut with a double roll-over...
Comparing two Lopez long bombs (KC Wizards Offside) Both of which have this beat (The Spoiler)
Football vs cricket (SoccerLens) Pies emerges from legal limbo (WaatP?) ESPN building it's UK
content (AP) Putting BeckhamGate in perspective (Soccer Training Info) Why you can't trust transfer
rumours.
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More Links than you can shake a stick at!
Top Ten Football WAGS
(Football Talent Spotter)
Chelsea Captain speaks to MC Hammer!
(Dirty Tackle)
Latest on £27m Alonso to Real Madrid News
(The Spoiler)
Cheryl Cole Looking Incredibly Hot!
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Is there anyone else apart from me who has wondered if Adebayor will continue his ridiculously
high number of off-sides now he has joined City?
I think we are about to get a true view of who was really to blame for what seemed like repeated
school boy errors.
The number was so high that I thought the finger of blame has to be pointed at the coaching
staff and as the buck stops with Wenger, he surely must shoulder the lion share of the blame.
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She's away again. So it's me. The old bear. It's been quite a week. Slowly, surreptitiously, I've
been introducing GB to the C word ! Not an immediate fan, I'll grant you.......but !
She said to me last night.......archly........" Bear, I've a question for you" I answered in a cool
manner-underneath thinking "oh-er"
" I want you Bear, to tell me the nick names of the following People"
My heart sunk !
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Lulled into a false sense of completion, I felt as if the summer was truly over (in a
non-footballing sense) after all the commotion of Saturday. I wasn't counting on Sunday.
All Sunday consisted of was gloating by Arsenal fans that Adebayor had gone, and gloating by
City fans that he had arrived.
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Stephen Fry making a speech about cricket :
Thank you ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much indeed. It is an honour to stand
before so many cricketing heroes from England and from Australia and at this, my favourite time of
year. The time when that magical summer sound comes to our ears and gladdens our old hearts, the
welcome sound of leather on Graham Swann.
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Some time ago I posted a ramble on the problems adapting football to the demands of television,
mentioning in passing the way that some other sports are presented on the small screen, including
cricket. Last night, watching the first session of the Ashes series on SBS, I was impressed by a
recent innovation in the coverage of that particular sport.
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So where do I write in my net income?
Good Lord.
Rob Smyth's Ashes MBM: "What an over from Mitchell Johnson! Four balls in a row were superb and
culminated in the big wicket of the captain: the first was a leg-stump yorker to Strauss that
should have been given LBW; the second was a bouncer that hit Bopara; the third was a slower ball
that Bopara, duped completely, drove just over mid-off; and the fourth was a vicious bouncer that
followed Strauss, took the glove and looped gently to Clarke in the slips.
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Wally Hardinge Wally played cricket for Kent and won one England cap, against the touring
Australians in 1921. He also played football for Newcastle United, Sheffield United and Woolwich
Arsenal (just before they dropped the Woolwich from their name)....
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Had a conversation about Twitter with a Spurs mate tonight, in particular the possibility of the
'Wilson Palacios' that we were both 'following' being actually legitimate or not. Twitter does seem
to be the 'in' form of social media for celebrities and sportsmen these days and there's every
chance that the person behind this account is actually Sgt.
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The United States of America beat the European Champions Spain 2-0 and then nearly kncked the
Brazilians off in the Confederation Cup Final in South Africa.
Okay it's not the World Cup but it must give Australia some hope of achieving something next
year.
If the USA can get to the final, beat Spain on the way then surely the Aussies can get out of the
group.
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