So Arsenal will be playing Hulkalicious Porto tonight and while Denilson will finally shed his Carnaval outfit for boots, Porto do not wished to be undermined! Benfica are not sending owls to the Emirates stadium either but who needs them right?

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I'm not normally one to hide behind excuses when the lads get beat. To be honest I find them all incredibly boring. Every year we hear the same things such as our injuries hampered us, we've got no money, the media are against us and the referees are anti arsenal. After so long I lose interest in debating with these people because that's what footballs about.

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This morning, between snoozes on my alarm, I had a dream I was about to play a game of football for Spanish side Xerez. I have no idea against who. Perhaps Real Madrid. Then somebody stole three footballs I had been put in charge of and the coach was really upset with me. It wasn't my fault though but still they tried to delete my profile from their official iPhone app.

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Good news in Thailand yesterday. The Football Association there has announced that footballs will receive their own special coaching from the experienced Steve Darby.
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John Terry has always been one of footballs bad boys. No matter how hard he tries to be good, he always seems to screw up. In the past year, he came under fire for allegedly selling Chelsea tours to support his charity. Now, the papers are saying how he knocked up Wayne Bridge's ex-girlfriend. Should this man be England's leader? Click to continue reading...

Kickette RCA winner Mario Gomez shares a sofa with Jon Bon Jovi and Heidi Klum at the taping of Wetten Dass.

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Cute Germans and Nutella? Who's been peeking into our diary of footy food fantasies?
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WAG Clio Zenden says her seven-year relationship with Sunderland's Bolo Zenden is dunzo.

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Kickette RCA winner Mario Gomez shares a sofa with Jon Bon Jovi and Heidi Klum at the taping of WETTEN DASS? Mario seems underwhelmed by the serenade.

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Cute Germans and Nutella? Who's been peeking into our diary of footy food fantasies?
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WAG Clio Zenden reveals that her seven-year relationship with Sunderland's Bolo Zenden is officially dunzo.

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Maradona visits main South Africa World Cup stadium

By Nkemeleng Nkosi, Associated Press Writer

JOHANNESBURG — Argentina coach Diego Maradona toured the main stadium in Johannesburg for the World Cup on Thursday on his last day in South Africa.

Maradona also handed out gifts to children and football players at a school in Soweto's Orlando East area.

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We get a fair few emails at The Offside, with various people asking us to give their product or organization a mention. Often it's inappropriate. Like a book about the NFL, and we received the mass email because someone got their footballs confused. But occasionally we'll get an email pointing us towards something genuinely brilliant, [. Click to continue reading...

I've been watching a couple of matches of the 1970 World Cup in Mexico recently. It's one of the things you do as a Bundesliga fan in January. It was also one of the things I always wanted to do, given the reputation of the tournament, the players involved and the fact that it took place long before my time.

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AAAAHHHHHHHH I AM ARTUR BORUC AND THIS IS A LIST OF THINGS THAT MADE ME ANGRY THIS WEEK:

1. THE EXCITABLE INTER COMMENTATOR I UNDERSTAND THAT HE WAS EXCITED BUT WHAT WAS WITH ALL THE YELLING?!??!?!! WHAT KIND OF IDIOT YELLS LIKE THAT?!?!?!?! AHHHHHHHHH I THINK ONE OF MY VOCAL CHORDS JUST SNAPPED!

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We are looking to get ourselves as many nominations as possible in the Soccerlens Awards, its the first time we've had this opportunity and we are excited. You can do so by clicking here, its not one of those click to vote jobbies so you might want to read on.

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I didn't say it unfortunately, those where the words of Patrick MBoma yesterday on RMC'c After Foot show. Patrick Mboma should know, he was one of Cameroon's stars at the end of 1990s and beginning of 2000, participating in the 1998 and 2002 World Cups, winning the Africa Cup of Nations in 2000 and 2002 as well as getting the gold medal in the 2000 Olympics.

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This is an interesting video I caught on the blog of my favourite radio program dedicated to football, RMC's After Foot. I will write another post about this French talk show which I find really excellent.

Anyway, it is incredible to see all the steps needed to make a football which seems to be such a simple object.

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QPR Official Site - R'S SPREAD CHRISTMAS CHEER
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So it's official now, Manchester City's owners have shown there true colours with yesterdays sacking of Mark Hughes and replacing him with Roberto Mancini. Rumours had been circling Hughes since Saturday morning, with several British papers stating that the game against Sunderland was to be his last.

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As you will see, this is a special post that is also related to Arsenal but not in the normal way that I've usually go about. The good people at SoccerPro asked if I wanted to write a review of one of their products, to which I happily obliged. Bear in mind, although I've done numerous reviews of Arsenal matches and performances, this is my virgin try at product review.

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The official matchball of World Cup 2010 was officially unveiled today. Officially. So now it's all official.

The adidas Jabulani (above) will be the ball used in all World Cup 2010 games in South Africa. There are plenty of technical details, some of which are after the jump.

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Chris Nee and Gary Andrews are joined by ITV Footballs Mark Segal to talk about the Premier League, FA Cup, Chester City, Major League Soccer, North American Soccer League, Liverpool and Everton groundsharing and a few other odds and sods. http://www.csrnusa.com

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Adidas has announced that the roundest ball ever, the Jubulani, will be used during next summer's World Cup finals in South Africa. It continues the trend to improving balls which have evolved since the leather cannonball was first used.Â

The key piece of equipment, footballs have been iconic.

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It's round Since every World Cup produces an accompanying matchball which is supposedly "rounder" than its predecessor, you could be forgiven for thinking that footballs are now about as round as they are likely to get. Not so, according to Adidas. They will officially unveil their Adidas Jabulani ball at Friday's World Cup draw and are sticking [. Click to continue reading...

And God said let there be light. Immediately he realized it is not possible because there were no power plants back then. He then said let there be power plants. He then realized that there was no one to build, own and operate them. So he said let there be cunts. But then these cunts needed someone to fuck around with, to get petty photocopying duties done, to write note for approvals, to get their sons or daughters admitted in Engineering colleges, to just have some plain old irritating-helpless-creatures fun, to assist in their house shifting, to just about do anything other than building, owning and operating power plants.

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Forget Everton v Liverpool or Arsenal v Chelsea, there is one fixture that is the must watch this weekend, Spanish footballs uncivil war, FC Barcelona v Real Madrid CF. A derby where the two teams are not even from the same city or region and where pigs' heads are showered to welcome former players. Click to continue reading...

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Today's breakdown will be on the famous and very popular 3-5-2. 3 defenders, 5 midfielders, 2 attackers. It is a formation i run into with increasing regularity at the club and high school level.I confess i am a 4-4-2 guy. Footballs most balanced formation is easy to teach from in short amounts of training time. Click to continue reading...

Continental's New ContiFan Competition Gives Fans Chance to Win Tickets to 2010 FIFA World Cupâ„¢
Continental Tyres, Official Sponsor of the 2010 FIFA World Cupâ„¢, is offering fans the chance to win a fantastic trip to South Africa complete with World Cup tickets in their new ContiFanContest
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Seven stories you may have missed this week on The Offside and World Cup Blog... Celebrating the South African grannies team Adidas XI vs Nike XI in battle of the brands Nothing can stop Ivan Klasnić, not even Lucas Neill Alacorn upset the Galacticos Guitar hero. With footballs. Some pretty rank rankings Halloween special zombie football game Thanks to everyone who had read [. Click to continue reading...

Getting a telecom company on board could improve your team's flame resistance Saudi club Al-Hilal celebrated their new sponsorship deal with telecom company Mobily by holding a reality TV-meets-James Bond training camp atop a volcano. The team plays kickabout with some very hot footballs while dodging the various life-threatening hazards introduced by coach Eric Gerets (he is [. Click to continue reading...

This is one of the most hilarious goals of recent times, unless you're a Liverpool fan.
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It is probably the most famous wasp in the world, the wasp that almost cost Fabio Cannavaro his career. The Italian defender was stung last week and later treated by Juve medics however following this Cannavaro failed a drugs test.

Over the last few days Cannavaro has been cleared of any wrong doing and he has revealed more information about that sting and where it was.

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Well hello there.

I see you've caught me with my hair erect. This happens sometimes when I am heading the ball or when I am in the presence of a divine beauty like yourself or when I eat a bucket of oysters while watching DVDs about naked people. Ha-HA! I have quite a few DVDs about the adventures of naked people, including some where they go bowling and then solve algebra problems together.

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It isn't yet...

Reading some of this shit just makes my brain explode. How on Earth is Ken Bates Leeds' Chairman? He doesn't own the club? He doesn't know anyone who owns the club? It wouldn't suprise me if Leeds were actually owned by Harry Potter, or those fucking dogs playing cards in that picture.

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Stuff to read while you enjoy a casual own-half goal from Ron Vlaar..... Getting bilignual simultaneously with the Spanglish. (Futfanatico) Who loves a good tattoo? Footballs, that's who. (Three Match Ban) The 5 ref rule should migrate to the MLS. (SoccerLens) Gary Neville tells it how it is. (Football365) JT & Deco get doppelgangers. Click to continue reading...

Not since the days when footballs were made of head-me-if-you-dare heavy leather has something in the game caused so many defenders migraines. But even Superman has kryptonite. Fernando Torres can be neutralised — how to do so is the surprise.
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Fashion shows already have a lot going for them: beautiful designs, glamour, front-row side-eyes, etc.

Throw a footballer in the mix and it goes to an entirely new (and hotter) level.

New York fashionistas just happened to get a great combo of footy and fashion this weekend, during the Y-3 show.

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Fashion shows already have a lot going for them: beautiful designs, glamour, front-row side-eyes, etc.

Throw a footballer in the mix and it goes to an entirely new (and hotter) level.

New York fashionistas just happened to get a great combo of footy and fashion this weekend, during the Y-3 show.

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Euro 2009 for the ladies, a mouthwatering clash in the World Cup qualifiers to look forward to, and controversial decisions from footballs governing bodies all feature on this week's Good, bad and Ugly.

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Fifa ruling against Chelski today could have far reaching economic ramifications on the football world in the coming years.
Chelski are banned from signing any new players until 2011 after they were found guilty of illegally inducing a French youth international to sign in 2007. The ruling from Fifa's Dispute Resolution Chamber also banned the 18-year-old attacking midfielder Gaël Kakuta (pictured above), considered the cream of the club's academy talent, for four months and fined him €780,000 (£681,000). Click to continue reading...

"It's not about money."
Sol Campbell insists his move to Notts County was all about the challenge.

"An English player would be nice, because I think we have enough foreigners. Someone like Andy Reid?"
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What's good for the Goose isn't always the same for the gander in Arsenals case.

Ever since the Paul Davis incident back in 1988, which I believe was the first instance of cameras being used retrospectively in a football match, we have been treated unfairly by the footballs powers that be.

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With plenty of talk about players Liverpool wanted and couldn't afford to sign this summer, it seems strange to me that our squad wasn't bolstered with some proven, experienced players on free transfers. As I will outline, there were quite a few players available who could've provided much needed competition in the squad. Click to continue reading...