Manchester City and Liverpool need a solution for striking flaws | Richard
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Edin Dzeko's ponderous play blunted the creativity of Sergio Agüero and David Silva, while Andy
Carroll needs more support Emerging from an unexpected post-Christmas hangover, Manchester City had
something to prove on Tuesday night.
An ocean of luck, that's what Lyon have been bathing in for the last month or so. Even last
saturday, OL have won their last home game of the year, for the first time in ten years: another
sign of the success of Lyonnais in December. A miracle in the Champions League, followed by other
very favorable news (Nicosia, for C1, the neighbor La Duchère for La Coupe de France, a string of
referee decisions that got us to win) four straight wins in the Championship .
foto por toksuede
El diablo frances Franck Ribéry, casi siempre da de que hablar, ha chocado autobuses, estuvo
involucrado en lios legales con prostitutas antes del mundial 2010 (recordar la nota) y ahora
resulta que no da una en la Bundesliga alemana con el Bayer Munich.
El otrora mejor jugador del Bayer, hace poco no pudo ni dar un centro y para rematar en el partido
contra el Colonia resulto expulsado en un santiamen por doble amarilla, después de fingir una
falta dentro del area chica, así no se puede.
foto por toksuede
El diablo frances Franck Ribéry, casi siempre da de que hablar, ha chocado autobuses, estuvo
involucrado en lios legales con prostitutas antes del mundial 2010 (recordar la nota) y ahora
resulta que no da una en la Bundesliga alemana con el Bayer Munich.
El otrora mejor jugador del Bayer, hace poco no pudo ni dar un centro y para rematar en el partido
contra el Colonia resulto expulsado en un santiamen por doble amarilla, después de fingir una
falta dentro del area chica, así no se puede.
Images: wps.com, AFP PHOTO / JOHANNES EISELE.
The future of the Women's Professional Soccer league (WPS) has been thrown into doubt yet again
after the termination of the majicJacks franchise. The WPS, which comprised six teams prior to the
'Jacks expulsion, was already operating under a one year waiver of the US Soccer rule that a league
must have a minimum of eight teams to be recognised.
La Casa del Dolor Ajeno y la mejor ofensiva del torneo esta noche tuvo que guardar silencio,
bastaron 8 minutos para que Tigres abriera el marcador, con gol anotado por el Argentino
Damián
Alvarez, un tiro cruzado despues de haber burlado un defensa y Osvaldo Sánchez poco pudo
hacer.
Le sumamos que desde el minuto 23 por
expulsion de Juan Pablo Rodríguez, el Santos jugó
con 10 hombres, pero eso no se notó en la cancha, luchó fuertemente por conseguir el empate y
evitar que les anotaran mas goles.
FC Sion is a small club from a small Swiss town, one which only harbors under 30,000
inhabitants. And yet, they seem to be single-handedly taking on and defeating UEFA in perhaps the
fall's most intriguin football sideshow outside of Who Wants A Beckham? (PSG is, yes, the
perfect fit.)
After being booted from Europe by UEFA for fielding ineligible playesr, they've gone to court to
take them on, and in the process, beat them.
The game is underway, the action has reached a point of let's be honest, boredom. The Emirates
crowd is hushed awaiting some excitement, it doesn't come, a player makes a mistake, groans cascade
down towards the pitch, a young man stands up and with arms aloft sings "Arsenal, Arsenal Arsenal"
at the top of his voice.
Plus ça change. As ever, it impossible to even attempt to frame the start of the new season in
the Blue Square Premier without talking, in more detail than even we might particularly want to,
about the financial condition football's de facto fifth division. This summer saw the expulsion and
subsequent folding of Rushden & Diamonds, which was followed by the bizarre and in some respects
unedifying sight of Imraan Ladak hastily moving their former rivals Kettering Town into their
ground, a chaotic couple of months at Wrexham which led to a desperate race against time in order
to keep the club alive, and the lingering suspicion that there are a number of clubs playing at
this level that are still struggling to come to terms with the new, tougher financial regulations
that have been introduced in this league by the Football Conference.
Mohamed bin Hammam wants answers.
Bin Hammam, a recent challenger to president Sepp Blatter's throne who was given a lifetime ban
from FIFA after being found guilty of bribery by the organization's ethics committee, has yet to
receive documentation outlining the reasons for his expulsion.
KYW's Greg Orlandini and the PSP's Dan Walsh are talking Union, the Gold Cup and about the
controversial expulsion of New England supporters in this week's edition of the Philly Soccer
Show.
In part one, Greg and Dan look at the loss in Vancouver and preview the games against Kansas
City and Chivas USA.
Below, I tried to translate into English an interesting editorial from the Italian daily IL TEMPO.
I tried my best, hope you understand something. The federal prosecutor, with a speed of elephant
(the facts date back to March 13), has charged Stefan Radu for the rude gestures aimed at Roma
following his expulsion in [.
Make no mistake about it: AC Milan put in the kind of performance that usually wins Scudetti. In
the Derby Della Madonnina against Inter Milan, the top side in the league notched three goals to
extend their lead to five points over Leonardo's side. Pato was exceptional throughout as he scored
a brace; his first goal was in the very first minute and put the Nerazzurri under enormous pressure
right from the beginning.
By NESTOR F. SEBASTIAN
It's only been four weeks of group-stage competition of the Copa Libertadores, but the
tournament has already provided some epic matches and surprising results, as Colombia's Atletico
Junior remains perfect after three matches in its group, while Mexico's Jaguares and Venezuela's
Caracas are the shock leaders in their respective tables.
Come on boys, the nap is over! Now that we've made sure to get out of every possible disturbance
like the Coupe de la Ligue and the Coupe de France, could we please move the bottom part of our
back, and fight for the championship title? I'd better tell you : I'm angry.
OK, Nice had their best game of the season last saturday.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland Ukrainian referee Oleh Orekhov has lost his appeal against a life ban from
football for helping fix matches. The Court of Arbitration for Sport on Tuesday dismissed Orekhov's
appeal against his expulsion by UEFA last March. UEFA found he breached "principles of loyalty and
integrity," but did not say which matches were [.
