20 years ago the Berlin Wall fell. Depending on who you ask it was either because of David Hasselhof, an accident or a peaceful revolution of the East German people.

One football fan was particularly looking forward to this event, after cheering on the "wrong" football teams for over two decades.

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This week's Video Of The Week takes us back to the race for the Second Division title from the 1978/79 season and features three matches from an episode of London Weekend Television's "The Big Match", presented as ever by Brian Moore. The first match is between from Selhurst Park and is between Crystal Palace and Notts County, the second match is from The Goldstone Ground and is between Brighton & Hove Albion and Blackburn Rovers (about whom Moore says, "they've already been relegated to the Third Division, so at least they'll be relaxed) and the final match is from Roker Park, and is between Sunderland and Cardiff City.

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What could one possibly say about the 2004-2005 season in a few paragraphs that would really serve its true value? I'll give it a go. First, it must be said that we COMPLETELY overachieved in the Champions League, yet managed to COMPLETELY underachieve in the Premiership. Next, it must be said that Rafael Benitez is [. Click to continue reading...

With Miroslav Klose and Luca Toni locked at 0 Bundesliga goals this season, some Bayern fans will probably welcome this opportunity to escape into nostalgia for a short while.

In 1974 Gerd Müller succeeded where Michael Ballack had failed in 2002 and won the Bundesliga, Champions Cup (Champions League) and the World Cup.

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Just as the Second World War had started at the beginning of the football season, it ended in Britain, at least at what would have been the end of it. It took, however, many years for the country to recover from the end of the fighting, so perhaps it is unsurprising that the Football League was unable to resume fixtures for the start of the 1945/46 season.

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Gary Roe's granddad took him to his first Forest games when he was a nipper. Now he's hooked and learning more about the game by the day, which could stand him to make a profit... It was the following season when I got to go down to the City Ground again and by now I was [...] Click to continue reading...

Our Thursday programme series last week went back 56 years, to the first ever floodlight match at Tottenham Hotspur's White Hart lane. Today, we hop across North London to Highbury, and Arsenal's first major floodlit fixture against Hapoel Tel Aviv.

Programme cover courtesy of the highly-recommended Footysphere.

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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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It's the FA Cup First Round this weekend so, in the first of five pieces about the Oldest Cup Competition In The World (and there's a phrase that is probably copyrighted by The FA), we take a look back at Wycombe Wanderers' run to the semi-finals of the competition in 2001.

The FA Cup is a competition that throws up surprise results every season, but some records remain and one that may never be broken is that no-one from the bottom two divisions of the Football League has made The FA Cup final.

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A word of warning. In this article I will not be hiding my bushel under a 40 watt bulb. I'm over the parrot. (Sorry if English is not your first language, that's a really stupid play on words. In simple talk I am happy and I am going to boast). Let me put it another way. YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE The Arsenal [. Click to continue reading...

More than a decade before "The Full Monty", the decline of the city of Sheffield and the effect of the collapse of the city's steel industry was already well documented. This week's Video Of The Week goes back to 1984. "Steel City Blues" traces the decline of the city and ties it together with Sheffield Wednesday's attempts to get back into the First Division for the first time since 1970.

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The eight-year-old Gary Roe has just watched his first Forest match and now he's hooked. His granddad is taking him to the City Ground once again with the promise of seeing the greatest player of the era in action... The journey home seemed a long one, we had to catch two buses; how did Granddad [.. Click to continue reading...

Tuesday and Wednesday have seen some decent games in the midweek round of the Torneo Apertura, with Estudiantes regaining top spot with a 2-1 away win over Godoy Cruz on Tuesday, hours after champions Vélez moved into sixth (two points off the top) with a 2-1 win over Atlético Tucumán that came thanks to a [. Click to continue reading...

Rolla Bulldogs 3
Joplin Eagles 0
RHS is now 11-6-2 overall 6-2 OC, Joplin falls to 7-2 OC. If Rolla wins at Kickapoo on Wednesday they'll claim 2nd in the Conference by virtue of the tie-breaker. A win by Kickapoo would give Joplin 2nd by tie-breaker.

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St. Louis junior colleges to cut 7 of 22 sports programs in 2010-11
By Kathleen Nelson of the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

Seven of the 22 intercollegiate athletic programs offered this year in the St. Louis Community College district will be cut beginning next fall.

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St. Louis junior colleges to cut 7 of 22 sports programs in 2010-11
By Kathleen Nelson of the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

Seven of the 22 intercollegiate athletic programs offered this year in the St. Louis Community College district will be cut beginning next fall.

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The first steps I took to being a Forest fan came in a strange surrounding, Meadow Lane the home of Notts County FC. I was about 7 or 8 years old and getting interested in football, I must have been influenced by my granddad for a start, and he was football mad. He used to [...] Click to continue reading...

Fifty years after it first went on air, Tyne Tees Television is now a mere relic. A name from the past. Along with almost all of the other ITV regions, the company name all but vanished from our screens in October 2002 when ITV did away with its regional network and finally merged together as one lumpen mass.

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Vintage, in this context, means 1970s and brilliant. Borussia Mönchengladbach were the league's most dominant club during that decade and won a then record five Bundesliga titles. Moreover they were also the ambassadors of style, with inspirational midfield and attacking talent in players like Jupp Heynckes, Günter Netzer (Ballon d'Or runner up 1972) or Allan SImonsen (Ballon d'Or 1977).

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Today's Sunderland defeat is clearly a devastating blow to Liverpool's title chances, after all, no team can win the league after losing 4 of their first 9 league games...right? WRONG. During the 1963-64 season, Bill Shankly's Liverpool team did just that!
I personally don't believe Liverpool can win the title this season, but as history proves, it IS theoretically possible, and it HAS been done before. Click to continue reading...

Just in case you have missed my endless ramblings over the past nine months I have written a book about Arsenal in 1910, called Making the Arsenal. Today the cover and an extract of the book has gone on line, and orders are now being accepted for delivery as soon as copies are printed. In [...] Click to continue reading...

Nottingham is being swamped by Geordies this weekend and while many are looking forward to a lively atmosphere, some Forest fans still hold a grudge against Newcastle. If you've ever wondered why such bitterness exists between the two clubs, this video from 1974 might explain a few things. Forest were looking set to go into the [. Click to continue reading...

Played 11 - Lost 4. It doesn't make for pleasant reading, does it? This is not the first time Liverpool have had such a poor start to the season, and while it is definitely too early to write off the club's title chances, history proves that when the team starts this badly, the season is usually a washout. Click to continue reading...

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From US Soccer: With a berth to the 2010 FIFA World Cup already secured, the U.S. Men's National Team took care of one last piece of business during its 10th and final game of CONCACAF Qualifying, mounting a furious comeback that finished with just 10 players on the field while earning a 2-2 draw with Costa Rica on a rainy night at RFK Stadium.

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This evening Uruguay and Argentina are facing each other in Montevideo, Uruguay for the final qualifying match of the South American World Cup qualifying group. Uruguay is currently on fifth place, one point behind Argentina on the fourth place, which qualifies directly to South Africa. Therefore, Uruguay needs a victory, while Argentina is not necessarily sure of keeping its fourth place with a Click to continue reading...

Now then, I see victory over Peru keeps Argentina's World Cup hopes alive. They just need a result against Uruguay on Wednesday. The newspaper said that 'Anything less than Palermo's ninety third minute winner would probably have seen an end to Maradona's pioneering style of International management'. Click to continue reading...

The 1954 World Cup in Switzerland is still the one where most goals have been scored per match. This was not only an expression of poor defenses, but also for the fact that there were some extraordinarily offensive teams participating in the tournament.Two of these strong attacking teams were to face one another in the semifinal: Hungary and the defending world champions of Uruguay. Click to continue reading...

In November 2008, Jamie Carragher made history by breaking a Liverpool FC record set by Ron Yeats in 1969. Normally, this would be a reason to celebrate, but not in Carra's case - breaking the record has now made him the club's unluckiest player ever.
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In 1963, Liverpool signed two-footed wing-wizard winger Peter Thompson, a player who Bill Shankly believed was on the same level as the likes of Tom Finney and George Best. Depsite Thompson giving Liverpool 8 wonderful years of service, the relationship him and Shankly was often quite complicated...
Thompson admits their relationship didn't have the best of starts when he signed for Liverpool on 14th August 1963: "I had a friend whose father was a coach at Preston and he told me to ask for signing-on fee. Click to continue reading...

Since there are only Johnstone's Paint Trophy matches and FA Trophy Second Qualifying Round replays this week, we thought it would be about the right time to have another "Video Of The Week" and this, I have to say, is something rather special a complete episode of London Weekend Television's "The Big Match" from April 1979.

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Saturday's Bundesliga action coincided with the 19th anniversary of Germany's reunification, which conveniently is also the country's national holiday albeit without lethal fireworks or military parades. To celebrate the event Berlin went all out artsy with some megalomaniac puppeteering, while the Bundesliga chose a more pragmatic approach, by retelling the the events through football over 90 minutes.

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SEASON SUMMARY The 2003-2004 season was one of some absolutely sizzling goals, but more than that it was one of some horrific results and absolutely dreadful football. The highs of 2001-2002 had faded in 2002-2003, and many of us hoped it was just a fluke season rather than a new trend... but this was all just [. Click to continue reading...

SEASON SUMMARY After an extremely promising 2001-2002, 2002-2003 turned out to be the "beginning of the end" of Gerard Houllier. Realistically, that occured earlier during a period of 2001-2002, but the signs weren't evident until a streak of 11 matches without a victory in the league during a season known for being a "three-parter. Click to continue reading...

The condition of professional soccer in the United States is such that the when presented with a choice between playing the game on its highest level here or hanging up the boots and focusing on a...

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