Saturday's matches saw Newell's Old Boys return to the top of the table with a 2-1 home win over
River Plate in which, not for the first time, Diego Buonanotte gave the visitors their only joy of
the match. A little later, Atlético Tucumán ended a run of eight matches without a win, thrashing
Tigre [.
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The thirteenth round of the Torneo Apertura sees the first weekend round to hang over to Monday
night (not counting the twelfth round which lasted through til Tuesday due to the previous round
only having finished on the Thursday before). Joint leaders Newell's and Banfield are at home River
and away to San Lorenzo respectively, [.
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Tell us your background as a player in Scotland.
My footballing background
goes back many years. I was a player in my younger days and I had a number of trials around some of
the local teams, but never really made it onto the big stage. I was a big fan of football as
well.
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Anfield Talk 05 November @ 02:17 PM EST
English Premier League club Liverpool may have had a difficult week on the pitch, but has had a
great time off it, adding its second new sponsor in three days.
Halliwell Jones BMW will become the club's official supplier of motor vehicles this season, a
position which entitles it to 'prominent exposure at Anfield, engagement with Liverpool Football
Club's fan base and the opportunity to provide fans with unique football and motoring experiences.
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Surprise results aren't merely restricted to the latter rounds of the FA Cup. In a Fourth
Qualifying Round replay at Priory Lane last week, Eastbourne Borough of the Blue Square Premier
were beaten 4-3 by Tooting & Mitcham United of the Ryman League Premier Division. The win for the
South London club was a welcome return to the competition proper for the club.
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Banfield and Newell's lead the table with Argentine champions Vélez, South American champions
Estudiantes, Colón and Diego Simeone's San Lorenzo in the chasing pack. River Plate and Boca
Juniors both lost again, whilst Racing won in style. All the heroes and villains are here as ever.
Read on... Primera División Torneo Apertura 2009, twelfth round: Vélez Sársfield (F.
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Monday evening's matches saw Banfield claim a 2-1 victory at home to Estudiantes, and Newell's grab
a late win by the same scoreline away to Tigre. With these results, both teams go joint top with 26
points, two ahead of champions Vélez and three ahead of Estudiantes and San Lorenzo. Colón could
go joint third [.
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The Offside 02 November @ 12:50 PM EST
Is it just me, or are football clubs digging deep deep holes for themselves every time they sign a
manager to a big money multi-year contract? News broke over the weekend that former Inter coach
Roberto Mancini had finally reached a settlement with his old club. A settlement that apparently
made him €8m richer.
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Early on Sunday morning, violence once again reared its head in the world of Argentine football,
when Fernando Cáceres Independiente's reserve team coach and a former Argentina international was
shot by robbers, taking a bullet in his right eye. At the time of writing, he continues in the
Carrillo Hospital in Ciudadela [.
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The twelfth round of the Torneo Apertura 2009 got underway on Saturday, and I'm afraid to say,
following the midweek round of matches and the fact I was out on Friday night, that it caught me
out. On Saturday, champions Vélez hosted and brushed aside Godoy Cruz, before Racing Racing! gave
Atlético Tucumán [.
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The goals from the eleventh round of the Torneo Apertura 2009 are online now, and you can watch all
29 of them right here on HEGS, along with a running order of matches for those who aren't sure
which clubs play in which colours. Step this way... Running order for Show de Goles: Newell's (red
& black [.
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Boca Juniors beat Chacarita Juniors by three golazos to nil (losing Juan Román Riquelme to a foot
injury until 2010 in the process), and Lanús dismembered Tigre in El Sur, but the big story of
Thursday was River Plate's 2-1 victory over Argentinos Juniors the Núñez giants' first away win
in 17 attempts, with [.
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I've written that Garber keeps his ideological cards close to his chest, but in fining DCU Prez
Kevin Payne $5000 today for calling a spade a spade—that the onfield product in MLS is not good
enough and won't draw in more fans until it is—means that the guy isn't hearing what needs to be
heard.
This is really not good, especially in light of the fact Payne didn't even mention bringing better
players with more money, everyone's favourite MLS bugbear.
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Tuesday and Wednesday have seen some decent games in the midweek round of the Torneo Apertura, with
Estudiantes regaining top spot with a 2-1 away win over Godoy Cruz on Tuesday, hours after
champions Vélez moved into sixth (two points off the top) with a 2-1 win over Atlético Tucumán
that came thanks to a [.
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Anfield Talk 28 October @ 01:02 PM EST
Contrary to what Sir Red Nose said, the ref was right in not sending off Carragher when he brought
down Owen outside the box. In an article in Tuesday's Guardian a senior, un-named, ref agreed with
Marriner's handling of the matter.
He said: "Ferguson clearly doesn't understand the law about the denial of an obvious goal-scoring
opportunity.
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On the back of the news that Portsmouth has a transfer ban, comes news that Hull's accountants
have raised concerns over the club's "ability to continue as a going concern" should they be
relegated from the Premier League.
The latest Hull report covers the year ending 31 July 2008, when Hull made a loss of nearly
£10million as they won promotion to the Premier League via the play-offs.
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On the back of the news that Portsmouth has a transfer ban, comes news that Hull's accountants
have raised concerns over the club's "ability to continue as a going concern" should they be
relegated from the Premier League.
The latest Hull report covers the year ending 31 July 2008, when Hull made a loss of nearly
£10million as they won promotion to the Premier League via the play-offs.
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As you may know, three
Blackburn players and two members of their staff have come down with
Swine Flu. Last night Blackburn's Carling Cup game went ahead and this weekend they play
Man
United in the Premier League.
The Blackburn manager is now showing signs of having swine flu, which is why he stayed away during
last nights Carling Cup game.
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EAT SOCCER! 27 October @ 12:35 PM EST
FIFA and Desso Sports Systems will be collaborating to promote artificial grass for football, and
to establish one international quality standard for artificial grass. The contract with Desso
Sports Systems fits in with FIFA's long-term vision to further improve and promote artificial grass
for football, both on a professional and a community level.
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Barely has the dust settled from the tenth round, so full of action that the superclásico was all
but forgotten about by anyone reasonable, than the next round of matches is starting. It's a big
round for both Avellaneda clubs: Newell's host Racing on Tuesday afternoon for some reason Racing's
new manager, Lothar Matthäus [.
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The goals from the tenth round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura are online now, but the people at the TN
Sportblog are obviously Colón fans still hungover from seeing their team go top on Sunday evening,
because they've not updated their site since before the superclásico. You can watch the goals
right here though, embedded [.
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The game of musical chairs atop the Primera División gathers apace. Estudiantes, Banfield and
Newell's have all led the table at various points since Friday afternoon, but at the end of the
weekend it's Colón who are left looking down on the rest of Argentina, after a 2-1 win at home to
San Lorenzo courtesy [.
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The scores and scorers of the weekend will be up in a few hours' time after the super, Tigre and
Argentinos drew 1-1 in Victoria and Colón then took over the leadership of the table in the
weekend's final match with a 2-1 win over fellow contenders San Lorenzo in El Cementerio. For now
[...]
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I'm a bit late due to a computer issue the match is already 8 minutes old but is still at 0-0
presently. Open this post, and refresh periodically for sort-of-live-ish text updates on a
thoroughly middle-of-the-table superclásico. River Plate 0 0 Boca Juniors (8 mins) 8 mins: Shortly
after Nico Domingo drags a shot just [.
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There's a vital grudge match in England this afternoon as Liverpool host Manchester United in the
Premier League, and also today Indian football hosts a less globally famous but no less passionate
derby with Mohun Bagan taking on East Bengal. For a change, I'm not going to bill the superclásico
as the world's biggest derby [.
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Three teams are tied on twenty points at the top of the Torneo Apertura after Saturday's matches,
and San Lorenzo could join them on Sunday. As well as Central's 2-0 win over Independiente,
Estudiantes had already won on Friday night, 1-0 over Atlético Tucumán, and on Saturday Banfield
(3-0 at home to Godoy Cruz) and [.
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One fixture will dominate the weekend in Argentina in terms of the international attention, but
although it probably pushes Liverpool vs Manchester United into second place on the list of Really
Big Rivalries in the football world this weekend, River Plate vs Boca Juniors won't mean anything
at either end of the table this time.
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We are occasionally reminded that, although the amount of money in football has increased
dramatically over the last two decades or so, football isn't quite the "big" business that we might
occasionally believe it to be. Real Madrid's annual turnover is reported to be over £300m, which
sounds like a lot until you start comparing it with other businesses.
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EPL Talk 22 October @ 04:05 PM EST
There is history, here. England's two greatest football clubs lining up on the hallowed turf of
Anfield, some of the World's greatest players are there; two of the World's greatest managers are
there; but this is worth more than simply names and people: this is about bragging rights, this is
to prove which is actually England's Greatest Club.
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Diego Simeone's San Lorenzo travelled across the RÃo De La Plata on Wednesday night for the first
leg of their Copa Sudamericana quarter final against Uruguayan opposition Just like the national
team a week earlier, they came away with a narrow win, 1-0 over River Plate of Montevideo thanks to
a 71st minute header from [.
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Big Story
The Guardian, and particularly Football Supporters' Federation writer of the year David Conn, have
provided Britain's best newspaper coverage of the ugly underbelly of the finances at British
football clubs across England for quite some time.
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There were only twenty goals scored in the Argentine Primera División during the weekend just
gone, but you can see all of them on the TN Sportblog by clicking this link. As usual, if you want
to see the order in which the goals appear and which teams are wearing which shirts, just read
[...]
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When a conference on supporter involvement in English football includes speakers from Barcelona,
UEFA, the F.A. and non-league football clubs, you know something unusual is going on.
This isn't the Leaders in Football conference of a couple of weeks ago, but it might have been
just as important: Supporters Direct's annual conference concluded last week in Birmingham, and it
seems to have cut to the heart of the question of how and why supporters should be involved in the
governance of their clubs.
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