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Why does Germany wear green? The Ireland myth and the...

A Football Report 10 February @ 12:49 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Why does Germany wear green? The Ireland myth and the truth.

After dropping a few hints over the past few months, Adidas released the new Germany away kit that will be used throughout EURO 2012. It's green. Really, really green. Like you, we've seen a German flag before and could not find a trace of green on it.

Liverpool v. Manchester United: The Past Four Years

The Offside - Liverpool 09 February @ 01:10 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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In the past four seasons, Liverpool have played seven games under three managers against Manchester United in the league. Four have been Liverpool victories, two have been won by United, and one has been a draw. And with match number eight coming up on the weekend, it seemed like a good time to look back at some of the statistics beyond the final score from the seven previous games to see if any kind of pattern or omen for Saturday's match appears.

European Championship Stories: 1968 – A Rhapsody In Blue

Twohundredpercent 07 February @ 04:53 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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In December of 1970, the Italian playwright Dario Fo released a play entitled "Morte Accidentale Di Un Anarchico" ("The Accidental Death Of An Anarchist"). Based on the aftermath of the 1969 Piazza Fontana Bombing in Milan, which killed seventeen people, it was a play that shone a light upon the subsequent death of Giuseppe Pinelli, an anarchist activist and railway worker who fell from the fourth floor window of a Milan police station under suspicious circumstances after having already been held for longer than Italian law specified was legal without being granted by a judge.

Non-League Videos Of The Past: The FA Trophy Final

Twohundredpercent 06 February @ 03:32 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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As you are probably already aware, the weather took an axe to this weekend's non-league fixture list and only a handful of matches took place anywhere. The FA Trophy Third Round matches were completely called off and will be played at a later date, so the draw for the quarter-finals, which is to be made tomorrow, will have a somewhat odd look about it.

Top 10 January Transfer Window Signings in Arsenal Transfer News History

Arsenal Insider 03 February @ 10:43 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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This January's Arsenal transfer news was relatively quiet at the Emirates Stadium, with Thierry Henry returning to the club on loan from New York Red Bulls and German teenager Thomas Eisfeld arriving from Borussia Dortmund for a modest fee.

However, activity has not always been this sedate at Arsenal, with Arsene Wenger making some surprising and at times, blockbuster signings in January.

Top 10 January Transfer Window Signings in Arsenal Transfer News History

Arsenal Insider 03 February @ 10:43 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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This January's Arsenal transfer news was relatively quiet at the Emirates Stadium, with Thierry Henry returning to the club on loan from New York Red Bulls and German teenager Thomas Eisfeld arriving from Borussia Dortmund for a modest fee.

However, activity has not always been this sedate at Arsenal, with Arsene Wenger making some surprising and at times, blockbuster signings in January.

Liverpool’s Five Top Transfers During the January Window

Anfield Red 02 February @ 07:15 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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It was a quite transfer window for Liverpool by last season's standards, with Wrexham's teenage goalkeeper Danny Ward the only notable arrival. However, since the window was introduced 10 seasons ago, the Reds have made some excellent signings in what is usually a frenzied period littered with hit-or-miss transfers.

Liverpool’s Five Top Transfers During the January Window

Anfield Red 02 February @ 07:15 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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It was a quite transfer window for Liverpool by last season's standards, with Wrexham's teenage goalkeeper Danny Ward the only notable arrival. However, since the window was introduced 10 seasons ago, the Reds have made some excellent signings in what is usually a frenzied period littered with hit-or-miss transfers.

The New Town Effect: Brutalism & Abrasive Personalities At Crawley And Stevenage

Twohundredpercent 31 January @ 06:26 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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If the draw for the Fifth Round of this year's FA Cup was notable for anything in particular, what really stood out was the presence of two clubs for whom an appearance at this stage of the competition would been inconceivable just a couple of decades ago. Last weekend, both Crawley Town and Stevenage chalked up notable wins in the Fourth Round of the competition both by a single goal, with Crawley's coming at Hull City and Stevenage's against Notts County - and the reward for each is a home match against Premier League in the next round, in the form of Stoke City and Tottenham Hotspur respectively.

European Championship Stories: 1964 – A Battle Of Ideologies

Twohundredpercent 31 January @ 03:36 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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If the early history of the European Championships can be seen as explicitly wrapped up in the politics of the time, then Spain's victory on home ground in 1964 European Nations Cup could be regarded as one of international football's ultimate flashes in the pan.
This was a victory that was simultaneously the last gasp of one of the greatest club sides that European football has ever seen and the beginning of a lull that would last for more than twenty years, a brief victory for the ultra-nationalism that blighted Spanish political life for the most of the four decades that followed the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939.

"Beating Liverpool is a MASSIVE part of my life. You never forget it..."

Liverpool Kop 26 January @ 11:17 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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It's the 60th minute at Wembley. Glorious sunshine stream down on the immaculate playing surface. Kenny Dalglish watches on from the sidelines as the ever-reliable John Aldridge steps up take a penalty...I don't even need to finish the sentence because all Liverpool fans know exactly what game I'm talking about.

"I punched the wall because I was so FRUSTRATED..."

Liverpool Kop 24 January @ 05:35 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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During his four years in charge at Anfield, Roy Evans produced one of the most exciting and entertaining Liverpool teams of the last thirty years. With the likes of Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman playing alongside club legends John Barnes and Ian Rush, it was pure joy being a fan in the mid-1990s.

Main Listening Report: The English Football League Cup

languagecaster.com 13 January @ 08:07 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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This week's languagecaster main listening report spotlights the Football League Cup in England - it's format, history, some statistics, and cracking matches.

Marcos, goalkeeper of 2002, retires

World Cup Brazil 2014 07 January @ 11:17 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Marcos, goalkeeper of the Brazilian team who won the World Cup 2002, announced his retirement, at age 38. He retires after a career of 20 years, playing only for one team: Palmeiras; the team informed that no other player will wear jacket #12, the one Marcos used to wear; also, there plans of building an statue of Marcos to be planted at the stadium of Palmeiras.

The Rebirth of South Melbourne FC

Pitch Invasion 30 December @ 01:31 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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A little over a decade ago, South Melbourne FC took part in the FIFA Club World Championship as champions of Oceania, trying their luck in a group containing England's Manchester United, Brazil's Vasco da Gama and Mexico's Nexaca. South Melbourne could then claim to be Australia's most successful club, winners of four National Soccer League titles.

Soccer by Searchlight: looking for the future in the past

From a Left Wing 25 December @ 02:23 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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A Year on the Liverpool Offside: The Upward Spiral

The Offside - Liverpool 24 December @ 11:31 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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The mood surrounding Liverpool may have improved with the return of Kenny Dalglish, but with a pair each of losses and draws to go along with four wins as he and the club entered March, that renewed optimism hadn't always led to results. At least, though, there was a widespread feeling that it had become a squad capable of turning the proverbial corner and going on a run if they could only manage to make all the pieces fit together.

A Year on the Liverpool Offside: Bigger Than Any One Player

The Offside - Liverpool 23 December @ 01:13 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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There was hope. Hope in Dalglish's return. Hope in Suarez' arrival. Hope in the introduction of a more pleasing brand of football. And then, in a moment, it seemed to have all been ripped away.

People talked about the club being bigger than any one player, and they rationalised that things would be alright given that that particular player hadn't really made much of a contribution to any kind of success over the previous eighteen months.

Prehistoric Women’s Soccer In Photos

Pitch Invasion 21 December @ 02:36 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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What do we mean by "prehistoric"? We mean before FIFA adopted co-opted, some might say women's soccer a couple of decades ago, with its history seemingly dated to the 1990s. Though there has been some coverage of the pre-war era (especially the interesting focus put on Dick, Kerr Ladies), the period between the end of the Second World War and the fall of the Berlin Wall is patchily covered, at least to our knowledge (feel free to leave links to any good books, essays, papers etc in the comments).

The Late Great Socrates

Cult Football 19 December @ 01:46 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Belatedly, a roundup of links regarding the passing of Brazilian great Socrates a couple weeks ago: Remembering Brazil's Soccer Philosopher King, penned by Gabriele Marcotti, appeared in the WSJ the day after his death:

Sunday [December 4] morning marked the passing of Socrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira, better known simply as Socrates.

One extraordinary fact about the Man City game

Untold Arsenal 19 December @ 03:47 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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By Tony Attwood

I have the view that having started this blog a few years ago, and now having a fair old number of readers each day, I have a duty to try and keep the thing running, while living up to the original notions behind the blog: that it should be pro-Arsenal at all [...]

RIP Bob Jordan

Springfield MO Soccer 15 December @ 10:47 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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I lost a friend and a mentor on Monday when Bob Jordan passed away due to a heart attack. Bob, and his efforts on behalf of first the Pershing Generals and later the Glendale Falcons, was the impetus for my efforts here. Without his support and assistance, I would not have been able to pull it off.

Why the statues at the Ems mean so much to Untold and to every Arsenal supporter

Untold Arsenal 14 December @ 09:10 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Note: Because of the origins of the Arsenal Statues and because of their obvious historical context, the launch of the statues has already been covered in depth on our companion site the Arsenal History blog.

But, I know that many readers of Untold don't always pop along to the History site.

AVB: "LFC can win the title". Yes, if Dalglish can summon the spirit of '89...

Liverpool Kop 14 December @ 06:37 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Prior to Liverpool's league victory at Stamford Bridge a couple of weeke ago, Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas argued that Liverpool were 'challenging for the title' this season. The increasingly outspoken manager has now reiterated that view, but is the idea of Liverpool as title challengers just wishful thinking?

The Despicable Kelvin McKenzie

Twohundredpercent 10 December @ 11:15 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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The road to redemption from Hillsborough has been a lengthy and painful for many, many people. Hundreds of people lost family members or friends on that day in April 1989, and the feeling that the establishment was closing ranks in order to cover up the truth behind what exactly happened to result in the deaths of ninety-six innocent people has been a bitter pill for those that survived or have otherwise had to live with their loss to have to swallow.

Arsenal v Everton Preview : Legends Afoot

Arsenal View From a Gooner 09 December @ 02:20 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Would you believe it!!!

Sometimes in life, you realise there are things you only realise you can't live without once it's gone. For me today, the realisation is one to do with computer. My laptop died on me today and suddenly there's a huge void in my life. Luckily, I've managed to borrow one but I'm sure that's not what you want to read.

Struggling Towards Orbit: The International Soccer League, Part Four

Pitch Invasion 09 December @ 01:01 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Following the International Soccer League's solid beginnings in a New York relatively starved of sporting competition in the summer of 1960, the nascent league consisting of the New York Americans and a variety of high-profile visiting international clubs had begun 1961 with expanded horizons. This including growing the league from 12 to 15 teams, and moving beyond its home at the Polo Grounds in Manhattan by setting up a second location in Montreal, Canada.

LFC STAR: "It was our best chance for the title, but we threw it away..."

Liverpool Kop 09 December @ 12:31 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Apart from Kenny Dalglish's first spell in charge at Anfield, the Roy Evans era is the happiest I've ever been as a Liverpool fan. From 1994 to 1998, Liverpool played fantastic, entertaining football, and were arguably the most exciting team in the country. Indeed, if it wasn't for a suspect defence, Evans' team could've (and should've) won the league title in 1996 or 1997.

Book reviews: Nottingham Forest: On This Day, Nottingham Forest Miscellany and The Day I Met Brian Clough

LTLF 06 December @ 09:55 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Records must have broken this year as a plethora of Forest books hit the shelves – the postman serving the LTLF offices is currently taking three months off with a crippled spine from carrying all the review copies that have dropped through our letterbox in the last few months. But aside from giving postal workers back problems, what purpose are all these books serving?

Arsenal’s three statues at the Ems: exclusive revelation of who is on show

Untold Arsenal 05 December @ 02:49 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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By Tony Attwood

In early August 2010, I was privileged to get a meeting with Ivan Gazidis the chief executive of Arsenal FC. I was there as part of a delegation of fans putting forward ideas about Arsenal and the wider world. And because (as you may know) I am interested in Arsenal's history, I [.

End Of An Era

Tottenham On My Mind 25 November @ 09:29 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Earlier this week I received formal notification that Tottenham Hotspur PLC is proposing to de-list its shares and become a private company again. As a shareholder, I've been kept fully informed even though the postage on the thick wad of legalese cost twice as much as the value of my holding. I have one share, literally a share holder, so that's very sweet of them, although as a responsible shareholder I feel disappointed and concerned that the board have wasted this expense on schmucks like me for whom it makes no difference.

Great Football League Teams 27: Bolton Wanderers, 1996-7

thetwounfortunates 25 November @ 07:39 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Booker Prize winner: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy John Peel Festive 50 Number 1: Cornership: Brimful of Asha Poet Laureate: Ted Hughes President of Libya: Muammar al-Gaddafi In recent years, parachute payments have helped ease the agony of relegation even if their bounteousness can lull a club into thinking the cash flow is never ending.

Springfield Catholic Capture First State Title

Springfield MO Soccer 24 November @ 11:14 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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First year coach Tom Guinn didn't know what to expect when he took the job as head coach of the boys soccer team at Springfield Catholic. He had never even seen them play. Guinn knew about the team's recent success but he was told the Irish had lost quite a few seniors and he would have his work cut out for him.

A Brief History Of England False Dawns: Part 2

Twohundredpercent 22 November @ 08:51 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Last week, in the wake of England's heroic (cough) win against Spain at Wembley in what can only be described as the friendly international to end all friendly internationals, we took a look at a few matches from their past in which the national team had managed to pluck a result from somewhere against a decent team, but failed to capitalise upon it.

Tea and Crumpets with We Ain’t Got No History

The Offside - Liverpool 18 November @ 11:59 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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After a few weeks off due to international breaks and facing sides nobody really cares about—or ones we simply find too distasteful to bother talking to—Tea and Crumpets decided it was about time to shake off the rust, so we headed out for a bite and a chat with Graham MacAree of We Ain't Got No History, one of the more approachable Chelsea sorts out there and also our boss.

Suarez Injury Update, Questioning the King, and Other Tuesday Notes

The Offside - Liverpool 15 November @ 01:54 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Two weeks without club football? Check. The potential for the club's most important players to pick up injuries? Check. All the time in the world to stew over a bad performance leading into the break? Check. A fully functioning liver? That might depend on how many Liverpool players go to sleep Tuesday night without having picked up an injury between now and then.

A Brief History Of England False Dawns: Part One

Twohundredpercent 14 November @ 05:31 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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For those amongst you that hadn't noticed, England beat Spain, the current World and European champions, by a single goal in an international friendly match at Wembley over the weekend. The celebrations were tempered Spain haven't given the impression of taking friendly matches very seriously of late and played poorly but there will always be a small corner of England that will be forever triumphalist, and some may be tempted to start believing that England are now capable of winning next summer's European Championships.

Expanded Dreams: The International Soccer League, Part Three

Pitch Invasion 14 November @ 10:24 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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The International Soccer League's modest but successful start in 1960 had made waves in the American soccer community. Its twelve team league eleven of them imported from overseas, alongside the New York Americans (who weren't really American at all) saw Brazil's Bangu beat Scotland's Kilmarnock in a final of impressive quality, 25,440 fans attending the game at the Polo Grounds in Harlem, New York City, broadcast on network television.

The Referee Is Not A True Artist: Jack Taylor, World Soccer Referee

Pitch Invasion 10 November @ 04:05 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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For Jack Taylor, the referee for the 1974 World Cup final, handling players was much like handling the clientele at the Wolverhampton butcher shop he worked at throughout his career.

"I think my experience behind the counter at the butcher's shop helped because it made me fairly good at chatting people up," he wrote in his 1976 autobiography, Jack Taylor: World Soccer Referee.