The biggest live music competition in Essex returns to Southend seafront this Saturday (24th), as local bands battle it out to be crowned Battle of the Band champions 2009.
It's the second set of semi-finals this weekend with The Peppermint Apes, Vanity Clause, The Summer Regret and Lazarus Rose performing live on the Southend Radio SoundStage from 6-8pm. Click to continue reading...

In a daring heist last night, the boots of five Inter players including Marco Materazzi's were stolen from the club's Pinetina training facility, says tuttomercatoweb. The only reason they didn't get more is that most Inter players are away on International duty and, obviously, took their boots with them.

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Football's transfer tombola threatens to make Liverpool its grand loser as the game's richest clubs tempt away Rafa Benitez's most important players and outbid the Spanish manager for his own targets.
Benitez is close to conceding defeat in his attempts to keep Javier Mascherano after Real Madrid moved for the combative midfielder. Click to continue reading...

If I help, I get fifty thousand dollars. If I don't, I get whatever was at the tail end of the mean little ellipsis Dancer looked at me when I left the Black Duke. They don't care if I blog about the heist, because, "The occasional butterfly-chaperoning Italian police constable aside, it's not as if anyone reads your posts, sunshine, now, is it?

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With the season all but wrapped up, preparations are well under way for the AANP End of Season Awards. ‘Twas good of ‘Arry then, to produce a late contender for the Worst Half-Time Team-Talk of the Season gong, because whatever he said between 3.45 and 4.00pm yesterday, brought about a pretty stunning regression.

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Most people think it's Kasey Keller, which makes sense. World class player, local connections, can groom a young goalkeeping prodigy.
I think pray it's Cristiano Ronaldo in the heist of a lifetime.
Thursday, 2 p.m., at Qwest!

You won't want to miss this historic event as the Sounders FC adds another to their 2009 roster.

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It is one of the joys of world football that six-hundred Croatian-Canadians could find a reason to drunkenly sing the praises of a Mozambique-born Portuguese superstar in a cultural centre on an industrial street in Toronto. Eusebio, high on champagne and the recent memory of a massive footballing heist, had only two days earlier scored the first of three Toronto goals to upset the Minnesota Click to continue reading...

While we have seen a heist of a trade go down this morning between San Jose and Toronto, other clubs are either watching the MLS in Philly announcement or are trying desperately to finalize deals to get salary cap compliant by Monday's deadline. Monday is the MLS deadline for teams to be compliant with the salary [. Click to continue reading...