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A mini-clásico

Hasta El Gol Siempre 22 November @ 06:49 PM EST
The meaningful bits of the clásico rosarino on Sunday had all taken place before the match was even half an hour old, but whilst it lasted it was an absolute cracker. Two goals in one minute put Central ahead against the hosts in El Coloso Del Parque after just twelve minutes, but Newell's, fighting [. Click to continue reading...

Torneo Apertura 2009: round 15 Saturday goals

Hasta El Gol Siempre 22 November @ 09:09 AM EST
The goals from Saturday's matches are now online, and there are some true golazos among them, not least from Darío Gandín for Independiente and two magnificent free kicks in one match: the first from Chacarita Juniors' Emanuel Centurión and the other, cancelling it out, from Sebastián Longo of Atlético Tucumán. Click to continue reading...

Apertura 2009: round 15 Friday goals

Hasta El Gol Siempre 21 November @ 08:33 PM EST
The lack of a single video featuring all the weekend's goals last week meant that the round 14 goals post was a rather fragmented one. From now on, then, I'll be posting each day's goals the following afternoon or evening, when they're online (I've been a bit slow this first time, I admit). This will: [. Click to continue reading...

Ramón Díaz crashes his car

Hasta El Gol Siempre 20 November @ 07:35 PM EST
I'll update this story a little later in the evening when there's more detail. For now, though, the headline at the top of Olé is announcing that Ramón Díaz, the former River Plate, Oxford United, San Lorenzo and Club América de México manager, has been involved in a car crash near Urdinarrain, Provincia de Entre [. Click to continue reading...

Torneo Apertura 2009: round 15 fixtures

Hasta El Gol Siempre 20 November @ 07:30 AM EST
The title race gathers pace. At the top, joint leaders Banfield visit Independiente, who will move to within three points with a win. Fellow pace-setters Newell's Old Boys are at home in the clásico rosarino, perhaps the country's most passionate. Third- and fourth-placed sides both play tonight: Colón are away to Lanús, prior to which [. Click to continue reading...

The news this week

Hasta El Gol Siempre 19 November @ 07:49 PM EST
HEGS has lost a little of its news value lately due to diminishing spare time on my part, so as of today I'm going to try and remedy that slightly. As Thursday turns into Friday at the start of each round from now on, I'll be giving a quick rundown of some of the main [...] Click to continue reading...

Angel Cappa to leave Huracán

Hasta El Gol Siempre 18 November @ 08:33 PM EST
It's been a funny old year for Ángel Cappa and Huracán. After a storming Torneo Clausura in which they were robbed of the title only on the last day by some appalling officiating, they've fallen away drastically in the second half of the year. Cappa tried to resign last week, but the players talked him [. Click to continue reading...

Argentines Abroad: 14th & 15th November 2009

Hasta El Gol Siempre 18 November @ 06:00 AM EST
Well, the national team were abroad, of course, but we're not counting them. The Brazilian and Mexican leagues were the major top flights in action in spite of the international break during the weekend just gone, and there were goals in both of them. You can read about them and watch them right here, as [. Click to continue reading...

Torneo Apertura 2009: round 14 goals

Hasta El Gol Siempre 17 November @ 06:55 PM EST
Over the course of the 2009 Torneo Apertura, the mantra of fútbol para todos has transmogrified into something meaning that one easily embeddable, easily findable goal video for the whole round has become increasingly hard to find. The closest I can find are the four videos embedded here, which viewed in order will give you [. Click to continue reading...

Who will replace Sir Alex Ferguson?

Manchester United Dugout 17 November @ 10:18 AM EST
Manchester United is one of the best football clubs in the world and Sir Alex Ferguson is the most decorated manager in England. It is very difficult to replace this man once he steps down. But that has to happen and happen soon. So who will replace Fergie? I wish Sir Alex could continue forever at Old Trafford. Click to continue reading...

The Oldest Clubs in World Football

SoccerLens 17 November @ 06:27 AM EST

Although football today is a multi-billion dollar globalised industry which has spread its commercial influence to all corners of the planet, sometimes it pays to look back into the game's annals and revisit the humble origins of what has now become the most popular sport in the world.

In this article I look at the ten oldest football clubs still in existence today and try and put the magnitude of their impact upon the game into some sort of historical perspective.

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Torneo Apertura 2009: round 14 scores and scorers

Hasta El Gol Siempre 16 November @ 09:41 PM EST
The fourteenth round of the Torneo Apertura ended on Monday. Relegation strugglers Racing claiming a hard-fought win over the champions of South America, Estudiantes de La Plata, thanks to a goal from a former Estudiantes player. Estudiantes' city rivals Gimnasia tore Huracán to shreds, running out 4-1 winners in a match which saw two superb [. Click to continue reading...

Millonarios show some character

Hasta El Gol Siempre 15 November @ 09:53 PM EST
In probably the most unexpected development of the domestic league's fourteenth round, River Plate played with spirit and intelligence to overturn a deficit and actually win a football match on Sunday afternoon. 1-0 down after only two-and-a-half minutes at home to Atlético Tucumán, it looked like the same old story for River. Click to continue reading...

Sign My Son & I Might Lend You Some Money

Twohundredpercent 15 November @ 06:25 PM EST

In the olden days, local aldermen and dignitaries would be the people that kept football clubs going. These butchers, bakers and candlestick makers were far from perfect they were often autocratic, completely insular and frequently treated the supporters of their clubs like dirt but, for the most part, they partly ran their clubs for the honour of their local communities.

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Riquelme’s Corinthian spirit

Hasta El Gol Siempre 15 November @ 03:15 PM EST
Stories in the Brazilian press at the start of the week had Corinthians, one of the country's biggest clubs and the current employers of Ronaldo, planning to sign Juan Román Riquelme from Boca Juniors in a bid to boost their Copa Libertadores campaign in 2010, their centenary year. I've written about it for Soccernet, and [. Click to continue reading...

QPR Report Snippets Sunday

QPR Report 15 November @ 02:44 AM EST
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QPR Report Saturday...Briatore re F1 "Sham" ...QPR Leads Shooting Stats...Birthday for Morgan Twins...1,000 Game Managers Honoured

QPR Report 14 November @ 02:23 AM EST
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Torneo Apertura 2009: round 14 fixtures

Hasta El Gol Siempre 13 November @ 07:00 AM EST
Due to the AFA's complete inability to comprehend that some of us are running blogs about their league in our spare time from a time zone three hours ahead and rather enjoyed having not much to do on a Monday evening, Monday afternoon and evening matches begin in earnest this week. Rodrigo Archubi, found guilty [. Click to continue reading...

Weymouth Football Club Read The Last Rites

Twohundredpercent 13 November @ 03:53 AM EST

Weymouth Football Club, one of the ongoing financial basket-cases of the last three years in non-league football, might have finally reached the end of the line. Reports on the BBC this morning confirmed that, with talks with new buyers having collapsed, the club's administrators are planning to wind the club up this morning.

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QPR Report Snippets Friday...Mahon Surgery

QPR Report 13 November @ 01:50 AM EST
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Rosario Central 3 – 0 Estudiantes: the goals

Hasta El Gol Siempre 12 November @ 05:03 PM EST
Due to December's Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates, the Torneo Apertura eighteenth round match between Central and Estudiantes de La Plata was moved forward to last night in order to avoid a fixture clash later in the year for the South American champions. Taking their eye off the ball, Estudiantes played dreadfully [. Click to continue reading...

QPR Report Thursday...Briatore's F1 Demands...Taarabt Nominated....Leigertwood Birthday...The Discoverer of Raheem Sterling...Mullery's Half Time Talk

QPR Report 12 November @ 02:22 AM EST
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QPR Must Convince Raheem Sterling to Stay

QPR Report 11 November @ 06:27 AM EST
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Torneo Apertura 2009: round 13 goals

Hasta El Gol Siempre 10 November @ 06:56 PM EST
The goals from the thirteenth round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura are online now, and you can watch them right here on HEGS. Read on for the goal video, as well as the lowdown on which teams are wearing which coloured shirts, for those unfamiliar with the kits. Running order: Argentinos (red) vs Central (blue & yellow [. Click to continue reading...

Torneo Apertura 2009: round 13 scores and scorers

Hasta El Gol Siempre 09 November @ 06:44 PM EST
The thirteenth round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura ended on Monday night with a late, late goal from Arsenal de Sarandí midfielder Diego Galván which clinched a point for El Arse after they'd trailed for practically the entire second half to Huracán. Angel Cappa's team were thus denied a third win of the campaign. Click to continue reading...

Banfield and Estudiantes keep up the pressure

Hasta El Gol Siempre 08 November @ 09:13 PM EST
Following Newell's Old Boys' victory over River Plate on Saturday, the other sides hoping to keep up in the race for the title had to win on Sunday, and two of them managed it. Banfield overcame San Lorenzo 1-0 in Boedo for their first win away to El Cuervo in 13 years, and Estudiantes brushed [...] Click to continue reading...

Newell’s go top and Atlético return to winning ways

Hasta El Gol Siempre 07 November @ 11:00 PM EST
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 [. Click to continue reading...

Torneo Apertura 2009: round 13 fixtures

Hasta El Gol Siempre 06 November @ 06:00 AM EST
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, [. Click to continue reading...

Getting to know our new chief executive

The Offside - Chelsea 05 November @ 10:45 PM EST

Via the official Web site...

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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Struggling Liverpool FC Secure Another Cash Boost

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. Click to continue reading...

QPR Interest in/Trial For Non League Goalie

QPR Report 05 November @ 08:14 AM EST
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QPR Report Thursday...Cook Talks re Recovery...Taarabt Talks....Next: Sheffield Wednesday...Flashback: Jude Joins QPR...Hating QPR

QPR Report 05 November @ 02:28 AM EST
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The Welcome Return Of The Terrors From Tooting

Twohundredpercent 04 November @ 05:21 PM EST

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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Torneo Apertura 2009: round 12 scores and scorers

Hasta El Gol Siempre 04 November @ 11:48 AM EST
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. Click to continue reading...

Two wins, two leaders

Hasta El Gol Siempre 02 November @ 09:52 PM EST
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 [. Click to continue reading...