AFC Wimbledon supporters tuck in.
Photo credit: mattcr on Flickr, via the Pitch
Invasion Photo Pool.
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- Photo Daily July 28 AFC Wimbledon Fan Takes a Stand Photo credit: szczels on Flickr, via the
Pitch Invasion photo pool.
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The FC United of Manchester radio crew.
Photo credit: FCUM photography on Flickr, via the
Pitch Invasion Photo Pool.
Related posts:
- Photo Daily: FC United of Manchester's FA Cup Dream FCUM fans on the long road to Wembley, back
in September.
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This week the Premier League rejected a proposal by the Bolton chairman to include Celtic and
Rangers in a two-tiered Premier League with the Guardian saying that 14 clubs voted against it.
There are two ideas here that want to handle separately. First is the Celtic and Rangers problem.
Clearly, they have outgrown the SPL and its financial limitation, chiefly television rights fees.
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Word is Aston Villa manager Martin O'Neill and Nigel Reo-Coker are back on good terms. That took a
while.
A couple months ago the two had one of the biggest spats of the season, over the weekend the boss
named the player captain.
Kumbaya.
Now the links:
- Fergie escapes FA punishment (v.
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Our Manchester theme of the week continues, and United fans welcome City to their stadium with a
not-so-subtle dig.
Photo credit: theandrewstewartshowiii on Flickr, via
the Pitch Invasion Photo Pool.
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- Photo Daily: Retford United vs.
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FA Cup 1st Qualifying Round. Sheffield FC 1-3 FC United of Manchester. Coach and Horses Ground,
Dronfield, Derbyshire. September 14th, 2009. Their dreams of Wembley glory ended last month after a
3-0 loss to Northwich Victoria.
Photo credit: Matthew Wilkinson on Flickr, via the
Pitch Invasion Photo Pool.
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So Jozy Altidore was dropped for showing up to a Hull City game late. Then he was fined for
tweeting an apology for being late.
Not a good day for the youngster.
Maybe some links will cheer him up.
- Ryan Giggs wants to coach Wales. [UK Press]
- A mass brawl in the Bulgarian league.
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Flying with passion.
Photo credit: hugojcardoso via the Pitch Invasion
photo pool.
Related posts:
- Photo daily 06.13.07 A Sea of Scarves The Pitch Invasion Flickr group page is growing rapidly,
so it was hard to pick one out for today's featured.
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SoccerLens 30 October @ 07:00 AM EST
Check out Episode 26 of the world famous Soccerlens Podcast with co-hosts Adrian Clarke and Iain
Spragg.
Football's swine flu epidemic (including the dangers of spitting), the latest twist in Newcastle
United's tale and an escalating problem with hooliganism all crop up in conversation during this
week's spookily good show – as do all the usual match previews and predictions, focusing on
Arsenal v Tottenham, Everton v Aston Villa as well as Lyon v Liverpool.
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Big Story
Every time crowd trouble breaks out involving an English team as it did this week when
Manchester United fans visited Barnsley in the Carling Cup, we
get the "return to the dark ages" pieces that suggest these are nostalgic occasions akin to 70s
night at your local disco.
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Soccerblog 28 October @ 07:56 AM EST
This season is bringing back memories of some of the more undesirable aspects of the 70s and
80s.
The Barnsley and Man Utd Carling Cup fixture is now better known for its hooliganism (with more
pictures). Catering staff were trapped for almost half an hour inside a food kiosk as Man Utd fans
stole food and cash.
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The Offside 27 October @ 12:56 PM EST
When a derby, a tried and true proper derby, comes rolling around the corner, the last thing you
want as a fan is your team suffering through a dark spell. This goes doubly so if you're a more
passionate type with ties to a more 'passionate' fan group, as recent fines from uefa for
hooliganism [...]
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For such a beautiful game there are many blemishes.Â
That was the case this recent weekend for Barcelona president Joan Laporta who admitted that he
has been receiving multiple death threats in recent months in what police believe to be a series
of threats from one subject.Â
Laporta has done all the appropriate things  involving the police in the case and awaiting a
word on a possible perpetrator.
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Dirty Tackle 28 September @ 12:48 AM EST
Hooliganism continues to thrive in Russia, with this video of a prearranged fight between Zenit
St. Petersburg's firm and CSKA Moscow's firm from Saturday being the latest example of just how
massive football violence is there. The excuse for the brawl was Zenit hosting CSKA for an actual
match of football, which the home side won 2-0.
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Recent Melbourne Victory supporters' protest
Big Story
It's an absurdly hyperbolic headline from the Roar, but their
story of surveillance of fans is a little concerning, especially in the context of the long failure
of the Australian football authorities to understand that heavy-handed restrictions and
knuckle-headed security is not the way to grow the sport in a country with far more established
sporting cultures.
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Our latest contributor to COS, Mr Rant, can get a little carried away so if
there are any small children reading this, we apologise.
I'm sure they just hate English football.
They're talking about bringing in the 6-5 rule. They blame the amount of
foreigners in the English game on the national teams poor showing at recent
international competitions.
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HA NOI — V-League games last season attracted a record 1.8 million fans, an average of 10,000
fans, said the Viet Nam Football Federation yesterday.
The federation also praised the coaching of Le Huynh Duc of Da Nang and Nguyen Van Sy from Ninh
Binh.
Duc, at 37, is the youngest coach in Vietnamese football history.
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What to make of Emmanuel Adebayor? From hero to villain and back again twice, the Manchester City
striker is deceptively difficult to get any kind of handle on.
The scorer of 62 goals in 114 appearances for Arsenal, Adebayor left the Emirates Stadium for
Eastlands in the summer as one of Man City's many high-profile signings.
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QPR Report 29 August @ 06:17 AM EST
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For up-to-the-minute QPR news - and QPR Nostalgia - visit the combination blog and
messageboard, QPR Report Messageboard Throw in some eclectic football news. And post your own
views. QPR Report is Updated throughout the day-
QPR REPORT Available on TWITTER!QPR Away to Chelsea- The Draw has been made: In the Carling Cup 3rd Round, QPR will play Chelsea at Chelsea.
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QPR Report 29 August @ 03:04 AM EST
-
For up-to-the-minute QPR news - and QPR Nostalgia - visit the combination blog and
messageboard, QPR Report Messageboard Throw in some eclectic football news. And post your own
views. QPR Report is Updated throughout the day-
QPR REPORT Available on TWITTER!- Video of QPR's 1979 Massacre of Burnley
- Q&A With Jim Magilton
Football League -Carling Cup Draw Details - The Carling Cup Draw is being made
today at 12.
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In this edition of the Mad About Futbol Show...
"The Tapper" Richard Farley is introduced officially as the newest member of the MAF team. We talk
about the first round of Argentina as well as the latest goings-on with the Albiceleste as they
prepare for the titanic clash against Brazil in Rosario.
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A very exciting edition of The twofootedtackle Football Podcast, as Chris Nee and Gary Andrews
are joined in the studio by football journalist, South American football expert and all-round
lovely bloke Tim Vickery. On the agenda: Premier League, Major League Soccer, Brazil, Argentina,
South American players in Europe, Tottenham Hotspur, Barcelona and the (hopefully brief) return of
large-scale hooliganism.
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SoccerLens 28 August @ 11:52 AM EST
The football community is abuzz with last Tuesday's unexpected episode of hooliganism at Upton
Park, the Championship League draw, and some excellent football matches this weekend. There's also
the 'over-the-top' outrage at Eduardo winning a soft penalty against Celtic and for our money, the
press has in the past and always will make a mountain out of nothing for a story.
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SoccerLens 28 August @ 02:57 AM EST
On the second episode of a new season of the Soccerlens Podcast, Stephen Darwin is joined
by The Onion Bag and Some People Are On The Pitch duo Terry Duffelen and Chris Oakley to
discuss an array of eye catching fixtures coming up this weekend and to summarise the draw for the
Champions League group stages.
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by Joseph Millar "A certain element smiled when West Ham and Millwall were drawn together, while
the rest of football held its head in its hands. When those two teams meet it goes beyond
football...
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While the FA launches an investigation into the violence and hooliganism coming out of the West Ham
- Millwall Carling Cup match on Tuesday - West Ham striker Carlton Cole has also confirmed that he
received racist abuse - he was called a "monkey" by a minority of Millwall supporters in the same
match this week.
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Fans ran on to the pitch during the match.
This last week English football headlines have been marred by violence and hooliganism. I do not
know if it was coincidence but the same week that I watched Green Street Hooligans
http://www.warnervideo.com/greenstreethooligans/ for the second time (brilliant movie by the way),
there was violence in the Carling Cup match between West Ham and Millwall.
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The mere idea of a West Ham and Milwall fixture sounds violent. Both clubs, especially Milwall,
have had a reputation for supporter violence. And there are few rivalries in English football as
intense as the one between these two East London clubs. The fact that meetings are rare now that
Milwall now plays two divisions below West Ham made last night's League Cup match all the more
tense.
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Inside Left 26 August @ 03:04 PM EST
Everyone's doing it, so why not us. No, not being a footie hoolie, but writing about the scenes at
Upton Park last night. This is our attempt.
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Millwall - West Ham pitch invasion
Big Story
The big story, of course, is the serious trouble that broke out at the West
Ham-Millwall Carling Cup match last night. The disgraceful scenes have brought out all the
old chestnuts in the press about English football at home and abroad: perhaps my favourite comes
from the USA Today, who under the headline "A bloody bad show for English soccer" lead with "Even
by the low standards of English soccer, last night's violence at a soccer match in London was
epic.
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The League Cup Second Round is probably the least inspiring week of the early part of the new
season. In front of swathes of empty tip-up seats, youth and reserve team players half-heartedly
play out matches that no-one really wants to be involved in. On the pitch tonight, West Ham United
won this match.
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