By Chris Wright

While making their way home from an away match against Kardemir Karabükspor a couple of nights ago, Turkish top flight side Samsunspor flirted with disaster when their team coach was side-swiped by a train on a level crossing.

The incident was captured on CCTV.

By Chris Wright

In 1993, April 27th to be precise, the Zambian national team suffered a terrible tragedy (the country's worst sporting disaster) when a flight taking the entire Zambian squad and their management to a World Cup qualifying match in Senegal crashed into the Atlantic Ocean 500 metres off the coast of Libreville, Gabon.

The Arsenal midfielder Emmanuel Frimpong spent the whole of last season on the sidelines after damaging his cruciate ligament in pre-season, but he has come back strongly this year and was sent on loan to Wolves to give him some extended first-team action. But disaster struck yesterday when he was stretchered off halfway theough the [.

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Daniele (from Red Rants) has a written a moving piece on the Munich disaster here's an extract:

Sam couldn't have been more focused if he had been watching a movie, so I moved on: "Harry Gregg, United's keeper, had been thrown out the cabin after the impact along with Bobby Charlton.

AVB hasn't exactly had it easy since he has come to Chelsea has he?. He came into the club as a breath of fresh air speaking of motivation, fine tuning the team and with his technical staff getting the best out of everyone.
Chelsea sit fourth just ahead of the likes of Newcastle, Liverpool and Arsenal and a whopping 12 points behind United and Man City and more importantly seven points and four goals behind Spurs.

Viteslea Lavicka is leaving!
Well is he leaving or was he dumped? Guess it doesn't matter.
Has a manager in Australia, in Sydney, ever been given such an easy ride.
The media in Australia all write and tweet about the guy being a lovely bloke but what about his coaching, how will he remembered?

Newcastle did very well to come back so well from the Brighton disaster that took place last weekend. Danny Simpson in action at Ewood Park That 1-0 defeat at the Amex Stadium, after the Newcastle squad spent four days in Tenerife in the Canary Islands, was not the result we wanted to see, and put in doubt the whole mid-season break in Tenerife.

Newcastle did very well to come back so well from the Brighton disaster that took place last weekend. Danny Simpson in action at Ewood Park That 1-0 defeat at the Amex Stadium, after the Newcastle squad spent four days in Tenerife in the Canary Islands, was not the result we wanted to see, and put in doubt the whole mid-season break in Tenerife.

Just days after selling Tim Ream to Bolton, the New York Red Bulls have secured the services of his replacement, signing Colombian centerback Wilman Conde after making a trade with the Chicago Fire.

The Red Bulls dealt allocation money (which one source put at $150,000) to the Fire for the chance to sign Conde, who returns to MLS after spending 2011 in Mexico with Atlas.

It must be hard being a manager when you have said the lads will put up a good performance after the Fulham disaster, and then we lose to a lower league side in the FA Cup. Alan Pardew it was a bit galling And it's not gone unnoticed that's for the second year in a row Newcastle have been eliminated [.

On October 11 last year in the provincial city of Pescara, Italy ended their qualifying campaign with a 3-0 win over Northern Ireland. It was the perfect ending as Italy finished top of their group. It was also just reward for coach Cesare Prandelli who managed to rebuild a strong Azzurri from the wreckage of the 2010 World Cup disaster.

TFC training camp opens this week and it would be great to feel that anticipation for a new season rising in one's heart. New season, new faces would be a great motto for TFC to adopt. Toronto certainly seems to have roster spots available.
In the month of January we have spent more time waving goodbye than waving hello.

Dateline 22 January 2012, this date will go down in history, it is the date the fans at the Emirates turned on Arsene Wenger.

The fans booed the team off at half-time and were rewarded when youngster Nico Yennaris replaced the hapless and hopeless Djourou who becomes a bigger liability every time he puts on an Arsenal shirt.

Earlier in the week Chairman Peter Hill-Wood said that while he'd obviously like Arsenal to finish in the top four, it wouldn't be a 'disaster' if that didn't happen.

Obviously he was talking about it from a financial point of view. The implications of playing Europa League instead of Champions League are obvious.

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger believes that the club's 8-2 defeat away to Manchester United five months ago will have no impact on their preparation for this Sunday's rematch at the Emirates while skipper Robin van Persie strongly feels otherwise.

Speaking to the club's website ahead of United's trip to North London, Wenger explained that no matter what, his side cannot reverse the disaster that occurred in Manchester last August and hence, they must look at Sunday's match as a new opportunity altogether.

Thailand lost to a South Korea team yesterday in the King's Cup. I have no idea which South Korea, it certainly weren't the first team and they didn't even include the Arsenal striker Park, but anyone the Thais played them and got beat 3-1.
Coach Winnie Schaefer after the game said the Thai team weren't very fit.

The result last night has really put the cat amongst the pigeons with Chelsea now sitting eight points behind Tottenham in the Premier League. The remit for Saturday's game now is simple, we have to win and get the three points and the performance doesn't matter. We have to get on a run of results and keep picking up three points week in, week out and anything else will be a disaster!

Disaster for Malaga's goalie as Karim Benzema's speculative shot results in the ball squeezing past his arms and legs and trickles into goal. A case of the willies? It was actually the only blemish in an otherwise fine performance by Willy Caballero to keep Real at bay.

The 1-0 victory in the second leg gave Real a winning aggregate of 4-2 advancing them to the Copa Del Rey quarterfinals where they are almost sure to meet Barca, 4-0 winners against Osasuna in their first leg.

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What was supposed to be a winter during which Omar Gonzalez was going to take the next step in his career has turned into disaster.

The Los Angeles Galaxy centerback tore his left ACL on his first day on loan with FC Nurnberg, and he has returned to Los Angeles to undergo surgery, according to Nurnberg's official website.

Eddie Johnson's quest to revive his playing career appears to have hit a major snag after he was reportedly dumped by Mexican club Puebla because he was out of shape.

According to Medio Tiempo, Johnson showed up for Puebla training camp before the New Year, but he failed to meet the team's expectations of fitness and sharpness and was let go.

It's a game we simply have to win to keep on the tail of Spurs and anything else will be a disaster as far as I am concerned. We have drawn our last three Premier League games and we need to turn things round starting on Saturday.
So with this in mind, the fact that we are at home and the fact that we need to put a side out on that pitch at 1500 to get three points I am asking you all the question:

Who starts the game for Chelsea?

Newcastle's display last night was a lot better than the result which was a disaster. Demba Ba in terrific form last night For the second game in a row, Newcastle were unable to get a win at home against a side lower down in the league, and in fact we have only one point to show from [...

SPANISH FOOTBALL night with more SPANISH CUP 2º leg results & with lots of surprises. Here are all the results, scorers & briefs. Diego for Atletico ATLETICO DE MADRID lost 0 - 1 to ALBACETE ( 1 - 2 agg ) & gets knocked out of the Spanish Cup. The winning goal came in the 1st min via VICTOR CURTO, & from here Atletico did little.

For the tournament I'm doing Outside Pack Reffing. There's a minor problem with roller derby - it's not that outside pack reffing isn't important; it's just that it could be said that the other positions are just "more equal" than OPR - honestly, it's much like Assistant Referees in soccer; when you have good OPRs things can go absolutely awesome, and the inside refs appreciate the heck out of them and it can turn a well-reffed bout into an awesomely reffed-bout.

I'm going to take a small break from writing about Arsenal today to vent on a subject that has infuriated me since listening to the European Championship draw on Friday evening, and that is the supreme arrogance of English pundits with regard to the national team. We all know that England are forever overhyped before major tournaments, but it is the dismissive contempt for many of the other countries (those not called Spain, Germany or Italy) that winds me up the most.

André Villas-Boas warns Chelsea that Liverpool are a title threat

• Chelsea and Liverpool can make up ground, says manager • Fernando Torres set to return for visitors at Stamford Bridge The Chelsea manager André Villas-Boas has refused to rule Liverpool out of the Premier League title race, despite Sunday's visitors to Stamford Bridge having slipped 12 points behind the leaders Manchester City.

Takover rumour;Well rumours have to start somewhere and with our history this is more likely than an Arab sheik What a disaster and divisive distraction the Olympic Stadium land grab has been. Now with the accusations about surveillance of the Olympic Committee and the revelations about Karen Brady's phone calls the stinking pit gets deeper and smellier.

You might not have been reading CCN in 2007, but if you were, you may recall this:

Cruel, cruel, cruel.

A beautiful, freezing December evening. A sleepy first half, an engaging second, and then disaster. Injury time: some bother as Newcastle attack, by the penalty spot, Omozusi – otherwise excellent – late on a tackle, over tumbles the forward.

Actor and Liverpool supporter Ricky Tomlinson calls for release of Hillsborough disaster government files

The former Royle Family star and lifelong Liverpool resident has urged the Government to release all files relating to the tragedy to ease the burden on grieving families

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Get Used to It: They're StayingIt was bound to happen. It might even have happened if the Red Bulls had found a way to progress beyond the Los Angeles Galaxy on Thursday and make it all the way to MLS Cup. What am I talking about? The boatload of scathing editorials asking for Hans Backe and Erik Solér's heads on a plate as a result of the Red Bulls' failures this season.

OK, moving on after the nightmare of last week and the disaster in Genk, Chelsea take a trip to Ewood Park to take on Blackburn this Saturday and I am wondering who AVB will pick to start the game.
We have all seen and discussed the situation with our defending lately and AVB has take time again today to confirm that it is something we are working on in addition to creating and taking our chances to win games rather than miss them and it costs us.

Why Steven Gerrard's time as Liverpool's talisman could soon come to an end

As disappointing as Steven Gerrard's latest absence with his ankle infection undoubtedly is for Kopites, it is not the disaster it used to be. A couple of years ago, news that Gerrard would be out for any length of time would set the alarm bells ringing at Anfield.

Disaster for Keys and Gray as theatre tour cancelled

Dave Whelan's ill-advised comments on Premier League racism, in which he advised black players to "just get on with it" if abused, weren't his only bizarre utterance of the weekend. How did the former JJB Sports boss and Conservative Party backer respond to his side's eighth consecutive defeat, which leaves them bottom of the Premier League?

1. What we wanted to see today was a reaction to last weekend's disaster. A 1-0 win at Goodison Park, a ground we haven't won at since 2007, is a good result. Of course we all wanted to see United come out and rip Everton apart, the way we did Bolton and Arsenal earlier this season, but that isn't necessarily a realistic expectation.

What's the best way to put a terrible defeat behind you? One word: winning. After Sunday's Manchester derby disaster, Manchester United took a step in the right direction with a comfortable 3-0 win at Aldershot in the fourth round of the Carling Cup on Tuesday. However, as nice as that win was, a win against [.

The Axe Factor: Odds cut on Sir Alex Ferguson to leave Manchester United by next season in the wake of derby disaster

Old Trafford supremo may just be departing sooner than you think, while Blackburn are certainly not 'Kean' on their current boss according to the bookmakers

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The Axe Factor: Odds cut on Sir Alex Ferguson to leave Manchester United by next season in the wake of derby disaster

Old Trafford supremo may just be departing sooner than you think, while Blackburn are certainly not 'Kean' on their current boss according to the bookmakers

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The Axe Factor: Odds cut on Sir Alex Ferguson to leave Manchester United by next season in the wake of derby disaster

Old Trafford supremo may just be departing sooner than you think, while Blackburn are certainly not 'Kean' on their current boss according to the bookmakers

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The Axe Factor: Odds cut on Sir Alex Ferguson to leave Manchester United by next season in the wake of derby disaster

Old Trafford supremo may just be departing sooner than you think, while Blackburn are certainly not 'Kean' on their current boss according to the bookmakers

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The Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish has criticised a retired judge who suggested the families of Hillsborough victims should move on and drop their "conspiracy theories".
Sir Oliver Popplewell, who chaired the public inquiry into the 1985 fire at the Valley Parade stadium, which killed 56 people, called on the Liverpool families to look at the "quiet dignity and great courage" that relatives of the Bradford victims have shown in the years following the tragedy.