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A word of caution. If you ever decide to visit Cairo in the near future, particularly if it involves a back-crippling, desert traversing, eight hour coach trip from the south coast in the small hours of the morning, perhaps don't choose the day when Egypt are hosting Algeria in a World Cup qualifying decider and the City is on relative lockdown; traffic has stalled, shops are abandoned and from every stationary, horn-honking mini-bus there's a national flag being hoisted from the sun-roof.

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Arsenal defender Mikael Silvestre says their looming clash with Chelsea could be decisive for their own title ambitions.
The Gunners face Chelsea at the end of the month.
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Although this is the final stage of the World Cup 2010 qualifiers and there are no weak teams in the competition, Portugal and Russia were expected to have much easier jobs. They have minimal advantage before the return leg on Wednesday, but while Russia have a reason feel aggrieved, Portugal were more than lucky against Bosnia.

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A header from Aboutreika in the 97th minute secured Egypt a decider against Algeria in dramatic fashion.

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Check this out from Freddy Ljungberg's blog people:
THE BRAWL IN HOUSTON
I'm sorry that it has taken quite some time after the game to post something, but I have actually been quit pissed off and in a bad mood after the game and wanted to think things through before I said anything. Click to continue reading...

That second trivia question was a little tougher, apparently.

Far fewer readers could name one of two goalkeepers who had dressed for both the Galaxy and Chivas USA this season than correctly answered the first question.

The answers: Miguel Benitez of Cal State Dominguez Hills and Kevin Guppy of Cal State Northridge.

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St. Pat's attacker Ryan Guy fired an early second half decider for a 2-1 win at Drogheda United.The proud new papa celebrated with his fifth goal of the season, giving the Saints a shot at avoiding the relegation playoff in next Friday's closing day visit from Shamrock Rovers.As always, we cross our fingers hoping that the St. Click to continue reading...

Overnight the peoples of Ivory Coast, Chile, Serbia, Germany, Italy, Denmark and Mexico popped the champagne. Now there are 19 on the party list, and there's mass patriotic emotion attached to the competition for the final 13 places. I'll have a look at some of the more interesting ones (to me ok).
Last night New Zealand held Bahrain to a 0:0 draw on Bahrain's turf. Click to continue reading...

With the Chuseok holidays in South Korea over, it is traditionally time for local fans to put down their overheated chopsticks and check out the race for the play-offs.
Past battles have been thrilling and this season is no different. As always, we teams that have long forgotten thoughts of merely finishing in the top six to book a place in the championship play-off series and have eyes on top spot. Click to continue reading...

Hard to argue with this Daily Mail list was probably surprisingly easy to assemble!

10. Keith Curle (3 caps, 1992)
Never an obvious candidate for international football, Curle had spent his formative years on the boggy pitches of the lower leagues.
Graham Taylor's scatter-gun approach to selection saw the Manchester City player appearing at right-back, only to be replaced by the left-midfielder Andy Sinton.

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Europeam heavyweights and 1998 World Cup champions France have a battle on their hands if they want to qualify for the tournament in South Africa next summer. They drew with Group Seven leaders Serbia on Wednesday night leaving them four points off the Serbians with just two games left. It now seems almost certain they will have to face a play-off tie to qualify for the tournament but Barcelona striker thierry Henry is confident his national side have what it takes to get them to South Africa in 2010.

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Ironically, though it's labeled as a decider, the outcome of tonight's match might end up not carrying much weight when things come to a close. Because even with a win tonight, we'd have to count on Ukraine dropping points to either Belarus tonight or England in one month's time. And if on par with points before the very last fixture, goal difference would kick in, meaning basically we'd go head to head as to who can batter their opponents more on the night (those unlucky sides being Kazahstan and Andorra respectively).

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After setting up Bobby Zamora's hind panel for a weekend winner, Fulham attacker Clint Dempsey opened his season account with the decider in Thursday's 3-1 Europa League first leg victory over Russian side Amkar Perm.To date, this is the only video look at the goal, but I'm hoping a clip not shot from the stands will surface today. Click to continue reading...

Strikes from Maxi Rodríguez, Diego Forlán and Sergio Agüero left Club Atlético de Madrid in firm command of their UEFA Champions League play-off round tie against Panathinaikos after a thrilling 3-2 win in Athens.

Maxi had given the visitors a first-half lead and although Dimitris Salpingidis equalised just after the break, the Spanish side hit back with two goals in eight minutes.

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With the Premier League about to spark into life this weekend, COS reporter Adam Hennessey casts his eye over the players he feels will have an impact this coming season, but players who readers may not know much about.

Birmingham City are about to embark on yet another Premiership adventure, this time under the stewardship of Alex McLeish, and this little Irish gem amongst their ranks, could have a big part to play, if Birmingham are to survive in the top flight this season.

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Three clean sheets in Women's Professional Soccer over the weekend, with the Washington Freedom and the Boston Breakers picking up road wins. Meanwhile, Marta scored her fifth goal of the season for LA. Washington 1 - Saint Louis 0 Rebecca Moros' 83rd minute goal was the decider, as the Freedom pick up the road win in front of 2,731 at Anheuser-Busch Soccer Park. Click to continue reading...

It has been a while since BWFC24 was updated, you may have noticed! I can only apologise for this as my passion for the game of football and therefore the blog dwindled slightly. The less I wrote about Bolton and football in general the harder it became to make regular updates and bring the whole site back up-to-date.

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It has been a while since BWFC24 was updated, you may have noticed! I can only apologise for this as my passion for the game of football and therefore the blog dwindled slightly. The less I wrote about Bolton and football in general the harder it became to make regular updates and bring the whole site back up-to-date.

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U.S. team captain Carlos Bocanegra remains a question mark for tomorrow night's match against Italy as he continues to recover from a strained hamstring suffered during the USA's 2-1 against Honduras on June 6 in Chicago. Carlos scored the game-winning goal that night, his second game decider in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifyng campaign. Click to continue reading...

Date: Saturday 25th April 2009 2.30pm Ground: Bracken Moor / Look Local Stadium Match: Stocksbridge Park Steels 1 Retford 0 HT: 0-0 ATT: 385
Comp: Unibond One South
Additional: Entrance £6.00 Tea/Coffee £1 Bracken Moor in pictures This was the last day of matches in the Unibond One South division. Click to continue reading...

Most sources are claiming that our passionate skipper is doing everything he can to be ready for sunday's champions league place decider against that green team.He might have to as Alexopoulos and Alves are in doubt.Blanco,our MVP for the year,did not train with the team on tuesday because of a knee problem but should be ok.

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Just as the football season around Europe is finishing, let's take a look at the cup winners and newly crowned league champions of some of the major European leagues which have been decided. A short recap of those leagues which are yet to be decided will also have a special mention.
England
Premier League Champions: Manchester United 90pts
Carling Cup Winners: Manchester United
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This afternoon's potential league decider at Tannadice between Dundee United and Rangers is the 164th between the two sides.

Last year's title was won at Tannadice, by Celtic, and twice during Rangers' nine in a row run did they win the league at Tannadice - in 1990 and the last in 1998 - so bizarrely the Dundee United fans are rather used to seeing the league won there, although the one title they did win themselves back in 1983, they won just down the street at Dens Park.

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A relatively quiet close to the Premier League season for Chelsea. Not Sunderland, though.

The Black Cats are in a four-way dogfight for 60 million pounds. When's the last time Chelsea were involved in a relegation decider anyway?

Hiddink will no doubt opt for a full-strength squad, the threat of first-team players losing form ahead of the May 30 FA Cup Final too real to ignore.

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Good news this morning that Jose Enrique has handed Alan Shearer a Survival Sunday fitness boost, as the Newcastle United web site puts it. Jose Enrique - back in full training  Jose has made a return to full training ahead of the relegation decider at Aston Villa, and should be up for selection for one of the most [. Click to continue reading...

Vélez Sársfield visit Gimnasia La Plata on Saturday hoping to extend their lead at the top of the Primera División table, with second-placed Lanús set to host Rosario Central the night before, in Friday's second match. Even when they're seventh in the table, every Racing match is a relegation decider, but if they beat San [. Click to continue reading...

Time to get you ready for the weekend...#1 - Philly MLS fans seem happy with Philadelphia Union as their club name.#2 - I posted a column examining just how bad the ref was in the controversial Champions League semifinal decider between Barcelona and Chelsea and why it's not something to simply dismiss over at S365 yesterday. Click to continue reading...

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by GIANFRANCO PANIZO

While this weekend's slate of games contains several Americans in action, the two most intriguing fixtures involving Americans Abroad come on Saturday when Carlos Bocanegra and Maurice Edu play in what will arguably be the biggest matches of their club careers.

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It's a bit strange when the key figure in a Champions League semifinal decider isn't allowed to suit up, but we may just have that situation tonight. After a scoreless draw in the Old Trafford leg, Arsenal would surely look and feel a better bet if Andrey Arshavin hadn't been cup-tied by his earlier participation with Zenit St. Click to continue reading...

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Is Keirrison worth all the hype?

Liverpool could be ready to make an early swoop for Palmeiras striker, Keirrison, if his side crash out of the Libertadores in the group stage.

Last night, the São Paulo club could only manage a 1-1 draw at home to fellow Brazilians Sport Recife and are in danger of missing out of the next phase of South America's most prestigious club competition.

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With ten man Bongo beating Wolves last night the picture looks bleak for automatic promotion for the Royals. Small crumbs of comfort might be on offer when we look at our record against Sheffield United in recent years, ahead of our televised Good Friday clash against the Blades. In 13 games stretching back to 2002/2003 (including one League Cup encounter) we have lost just once. Click to continue reading...

Dedicated to Sean Ingle.
It's hard to decide which was the more smorgulescent moment; the drefted booing of League Chairman Lord Mawhinney, or the snarduptacious extra time strike of thriker Claude Gnapke. All can agree the stappy-shappy Johnstone Paints Trophy decider was reminiscent of the stambrary finals of old, when all it took was one gracky hero to borf a game into the tubels of history. Click to continue reading...

Jens Lehmann knows about it. What does pressure do? Click to continue reading...

Before you get too excited, Mourinho isn't heading to Old Trafford to take over the Manchester United reins. Instead, Mourinho is returning to England to watch his first live Premier League game since he controversially left Chelsea in 2007. Manchester United is set to face off against second placed Chelsea on Sunday, in what has been marked as a potential title decider. Click to continue reading...