We continue to edge closer to United related news, but this was too difficult to pass up. When the King speaks we have to listen:

"I think that Raymond Domenech is the worst coach in French football since Louis XVI. If it was up to me, I'd put (Bordeaux coach) Laurent Blanc in charge of the France team," the former Manchester United hero continued.

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I know I should write about Thierry Henry at some point. But how do you write about your hero after he cheats to win and gets away with it.

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Bad Thierry Henry. You cheated and you are the hero of all of France for it. Somewhere Michel Platini is dancing because you did it. Somewhere Sepp Blatter and the rest of FIFA are doing an Arsene Wegner impression. In Ireland your face will end up on dart boards and was the reason that children cried themselves to sleep last night. Click to continue reading...

Uruguay have claimed the 32nd and final spot at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa by drawing 1-1 with Costa Rica in Montevideo in the second leg of their Intercontinental Playoff tie. Final full time score :- Uruguay 1-1 Costa Rica ( Sebastien Abreu 69′/ Walter Centeno 73′) Uruguay beat Costa Rica 2-1 on aggregate, and [. Click to continue reading...

Antar Yahia became the hero of Algeria as they beat Egypt. His superb volley off a Ziani cross in the first half made the difference. The Fennecs enter the World Cup for the first time since 1986.

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Costa Rica's new coach Rene Simoes has had a mixed bag of results. The Ticos beat his old team, Trinidad and Tobago handily, 4-0. The USA were able to claw back a draw against them with Jonathan Bornstein's equalizer (which made him a hero in Honduras) at RFK stadium.

However, the Ticos suffered a setback at home against Uruguay in the playoffs to decide the World Cup spot between the 4th placed CONCACAF and 5th placed CONMEBOL teams.

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This is going to be the strangest, most illogical football rule you see all day, so prepare yourself or your brain just might melt and slide out your ear...

Second division club Portimonense won their Carlsberg Cup (Portugal's league cup) first group phase by simply substituting in a 19-year-old goalkeeper (pictured above.

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Man City striker Carlos Tevez has bought a massive version of the famous Manchester poster. Tevez has paid £2000 the ‘Welcome to Manchester' poster which caused an uproar.
Tevez left Man United during the summer following a two-year loan, he then decided to turn down an offer from Old Trafford and join their City rivals Manchester City. Click to continue reading...

So it was Mask Wearing Extraordinaire, Martin Palermo's birthday yesterday (a November baby, like us. Now get running with that hint!) so Boca Juniors helped him to celebrate 36 years of his existence in this world.

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The decision of Manchester United and Liverpool not to have an embroidered red poppy on their shirts has caused quite a fuss. United have said that the poppy will not show up on their shirts and with all the work and charity they already do for the armed forces, don't feel that joining other Premiership clubs in having a poppy on their shirt will add to the contribution.

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Real Salt Lake beat defending MLS Cup champion Columbus 3-2 on Thursday night and 4-2 on aggregate to advance to the next round of Major League Soccer's playoffs. Crew midfielder Guillermo Barros Schelotto returned to the lineup after being benched for game one and looked like the hero. He scored in the 19th and 35th minutes to put the Crew ahead on aggregate. Click to continue reading...

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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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Three points, two injuries, one hero: this was a mixed night for West Ham United that ended in pure joy. When injuries to Carlton Cole and Hérita Ilunga were followed by a freakish equaliser for Aston Villa, the scene seemed set for yet another promising performance to end in another disappointing result. Click to continue reading...

Things aren't looking good in Merseyside at the moment, with Liverpool picking up yet another disappointing result in Europe last night, which puts them five points behind the team above them and six points off the top of the group, with just two matches to play.

In the league, they are currently 6th with just three points distancing them from 10th placed Burnley.

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Hace un par de dias se filtro la supuesta nueva camisa de la seleccion mexicana, voy a dejar de lado el hecho de que como siempre a la aficion ni le preguntaron ni la tomaron en cuenta en relacion a como le gustaria la camisa que a final de cuentas ellos van a comprar y usar (como siempre.

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Phew, writing something vaguely interesting (even for me) at this time of the night here� is hard enough. Where do I start? I know, I'll start� with a Lithuanian most of you have forgotten about.

I was watching (albeit very briefly) Inter at Livorno the other day. It finished 2-0 to Inter btw.

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[Photo: IK Start]IK Start defender Clarence Goodson scored his club's final goal of the 2009 Tippeligaen season to cap a 2-0 win over old MLS foe Troy Perkins and Vålerenga. Not only do we have the highlight clip, but we also have a closing day interview with the hero.- Greg Seltzer Click to continue reading...

Like Jack Spade said in I'm Gonna Get You Sucka, every good hero needs some theme music. So if Sacha is going to be a playoff hero for Chivas USA this weekend he better get used to a soundtrack following him around like a 16-bar shadow. But he doesn't get KRS-One (not even Thierry Henry gets KRS-One), he gets SoCal rapper Silentarmy; he just dropped a few SK16-inspired verses ahead of this weekend's playoff match with the help of some lo-fi production by Myself&Eye. Click to continue reading...

Dignified dialogue
8 Actors That Have Narrated Official FIFA World Cup Films
1. Patrick Allen ('The World at Their Feet' 1970)
2. Joss Ackland ('Heading For Glory' 1974)
3. Sean Connery ('G'olé!' 1982)
4. Michael Caine ('Hero' 1986)
5. Edward Woodward ('Soccer Shoot-Out' 1990)
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Tonight on 30 Rock, Liz and jack visit Kenneth's hometown. Oh my, this should be good...#1 - Via Columbus Dispatch all-star Shawn Mitchell, Crew defender Chad Marshall has been suddenly upgraded all the way to probable. Meanwhile, Real Salt Lake have picked up a few small knocks here and there.An upset course diverted? Click to continue reading...

Brad Guzan was Aston Villa's hero as he helped Martin O'Neill's side to beat Sunderland on penalties to reach the last eight of the Carling Cup.

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Two weeks ago the name Jonathan Bornstein meant nothing to the country of Honduras, but now the Chivas USA and US national team defender is a hero there. Click to continue reading...

You can never accuse Mike Ashley of� having ever understood the soul of Newcastle United. Ashley - makes Stan Laurel look a genius And the statement made yesterday by the club sounded as if Mike Ashley was the hero who was staying at Newcastle to save the club. What a joke he's the one who is [. Click to continue reading...

United youngster Danny Welbeck and former Kop hero Michael Owen scored early in the second half to put Manchester United into the quarter finals of the Carling Cup. Barnsley played well but were unable to prevent a 0-2 loss in the hands of Manchester United. Click to continue reading...

The former Italy defender wasn't the only hero for Milan at Chievo, but the other one would have been far harder to predict.
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Gazzetta dello Sport Pato of Milan The hero from Madrid: ‘I predicted it' Vieri, stop and poison:...
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There was always a fair bit of discomfort every time that Michael Owen returned to Liverpool in the past. Those calls asking what he was doing in Istanbul we're initially funny but eventually the feeling was that they gave way to some serious spite in his direction. Some clearly enjoyed his injuries and the way that his career spiralled downwards hitting the low point of relegation with Newcastle last term. Click to continue reading...

Steve Bruce's Sunderland side have been one of the surprise packages of the season so far. With 16 points from nine games they sit above Liverpool in the Premier League table and have picked up some impressive results.

On their visit to Old Trafford the Black Cats took a point from Manchester United, but were within a whisker of taking all three.

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They call him Mr. Chelsea, and Blues skipper John Terry certainly lived up to that billing when he recently decided to take control of the financial aspect of the women's football team at Stamford Bridge. The economy certainly hit the Chelsea� ladies very hard as a significant portion of their funding from previous years was slashed this season.

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With the Ballon d'Or nominations finally releasing this weekend, the headlines have mostly been devoted to the fact that world champions Italy have no representation whatsoever. But why blame the press for paying excessive attention to an irrelevant detail? After all, the award itself is destined to be heading Lionel Messi's way, which means very little is there to be talked about in terms of debating the winner, right?

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Chivas USA 1 San Jose Earthquakes

Chivas USA really should be firmly ahead by this stage of the game after a typical Maykel Galindo breakaway goal gave them an early advantage they failed to build upon. Giving up a relatively soft equalizer was not what Preki envisioned.

Chivas USA saw a Justin Braun header cleared off the line in the 36th minute and a lashing Michael Lahoud shot from the top of the penalty box arc well saved by a leaping Andrew Weber a minute earlier.

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Today you take the field against the defending State Champion, a position you held proudly for 2 years. As with any match when we face LOSC it will be a battle. A hard fought, physical and emotional war. The time is now for players to put aside their illness, their injuries, their differences and unite. Click to continue reading...

A long time ago I wrote that the name Howard Webb won't make it into this blog anymore. However, I think that the last year's emotions are already gone and that the occassion is good to draw your attention to a particular film. "Kill The Referee" is a documentary about the referees flmed during the Euro 2008.

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One of the misfortunes of living outside the United Kingdom and supporting English football is that when a legend dies, there are incredible heartwarming documentaries and news programs shown in the UK profiling that hero but they're unavailable due to rights restrictions where I, and many of you, live.

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So in these last two World Cup qualifiers, USMNT fans were raving about Conor Casey (Saturday) and Jonathan Bornstein (Wednesday)?
Yeesh. Quite the odd couple.
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