Off the Post 20 November @ 08:39 AM EST
Should Georgia get a replay? Roy Keane reckons the Republic of Ireland could not have expected
their game against France to be replayed on the grounds of Thierry Henry's handball. The Ipswich
manager launched a scathing attack against the Football Association of Ireland for their protests
following the match, and accused them of hypocrisy on the [.
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SoccerLens 16 November @ 07:34 AM EST
A cheat. An embarrassment. A disgrace.
All words used to describe Liverpool's David N'Gog in the aftermath of last Monday's game
against Birmingham. Other media outlets demanded a 5 game ban. In a matter of seconds an
unremarkable squad player catapulted to being the poster boy for all that's wrong with the modern
game.
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EPL Talk 13 September @ 07:03 PM EST
Emmanuel Adebayor has committed the ultimate sin. Leaving a big four club for a side with
ambition to join the elite clubs in England. For this, and his actions on the pitch in Saturday's
4-2 City win at Eastlands, he must be banned for life from English football. Â Arsenal fans deserve
justice.
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Wrighty7 07 September @ 12:10 PM EST
I always thought that David Beckham was a class act and my opinion of him has risen even higher
after his comments about Eduardo.
'There has been far too much talk about diving,''No-one wants to see it and it is disappointing when it happens. But it happens every week and
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It is not debatable that MLS' signature team has taken hits to its aura in the last two years.
An ongoing stadium crisis which sees DC United caught in a political football and in the crossfire
of a local newspaper whose hypocrisy seems to be never ending. Add to that the Red and Black's poor
performances in continental competition (where DCU previously distinguished itself in a way other
MLS teams had not) and continued struggles in MLS.
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Eduardo is NOT a diver...OK? So TGIF is raring to go and despite being rather predictable,
boring and antiArsenal the aftermath of the Eduardo ban refuses to go away... There was the
bewildering lack of transfer activity and of course there was some decent football played this
week, by our Reserves.
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EPL Talk 03 September @ 03:11 AM EST
The inexplicable is often the standard in football. The £14 million pounds Man City paid for
Wayne Bridge is inexplicable. Florent Malouda's protean hairstyles are inexplicable. Arsene
Wenger's ability to see zero penalties against Arsenal is inexplicable. Yet even bearing this in
mind, I could not help but rubbing my eyes to make sure I had read the headline correctly:
Abramovich keen to stop big-spending City
The gist of the article is that Abramovich feels that Manchester City have spent too much and
need to be reigned in.
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"Adebayor, Adebayor, your dad washes elephants, your mum is a whore!" the Spurs fans chanted,
racially abusing the former Arsenal player when he was still playing for their rivals.
Sections of our crowd seemed to like this chant, maybe because they're simple folk and enjoy
things that rhyme, leading to it being sung inside Old Trafford - never in great numbers or at a
great volume, but I've heard it.
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Eduardo's dive against Celtic has ignited an inferno, with simulation being singled out by the
referees providing you are not Man United. Rooney has been shown to have started falling before
making contact with Almunia by Sky's football camera's, and Celtic received a dose of their own
medicine as they claimed Aiden McGeady as the next patron saint as he tripped over his boot laces
adjacent to a Hibernian player who had to jump into the air himself so as to prove the absence of
contact.
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CE: United haven't been totally convincing so far this season. What are your thoughts at
such an early stage?
SL: It was always going to be a difficult season, and a transitional one. With the ins and outs
of the summer it always looked like a total re-shuffle of the pack and of course that's going to
take time to get the team playing to their potential.
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Wrighty7 29 August @ 03:51 AM EST
I'm really worried about Eduardo today. It's not the booing and jeering that he will undoubtedly
face. Its the referee.
Of course you can say that Eduardo has brought it upon himself to be viewed with suspicion when he
is challenged in the area but I hope that Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen are too.
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East Lower 28 August @ 03:00 AM EST
Champions League draw Olympiakos, Standard Liege, AZ Alkmaar
I was going to header this morning's post with a suitably daft play on words such as Eduardo
the Confessor or Much Edu About Nothing, but seeing as we've yet to hear a peep from
our number nine and the issue of diving is not really trivial, I didn't.
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Exposing Bath's drug shame - Times Online
While Bath City's new campaign has started off with a delightful six points out of a possible nine,
the bigger sports club in town is facing up to a real catastrophe. Bath Rugby is in the midst of a
drug taking scandal of the likes of which have never been seen before in British rugby.
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With all the uninformed diatribes about the FFA's new 4-3-3 mandate beginning to resemble the onset
of tinnitus, it's good to see a mainstream football scribe with a sense of perspective wading into
the debate.
As Les correctly asserts, the original 4-3-3 idea started with Brazil, not the Netherlands, and it
involved two central strikers, not one.
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A few days ago, I conducted a poll on this site asking whether Steven Gerrard should retain the
captaincy if he was found guilty of affray. Now that Gerrard has been cleared, the disappointing
results of the poll can be revealed
1500 site visitors voted in the poll over a 2 day period. Rather worryingly, 70% of voters said
Gerrard should keep the captaincy even if he was convicted.
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In what is perhaps the true definition of hypocrisy, American author Grant Wahl is looking to cash
in on David Beckham's celebrity persona by writing a book about.... that very same David Beckham
circus that moved across the Atlantic three years ago.
Some notable quotes taken from the book were from Beckham's Galaxy team-mate Landon Donovan, who is
quoted as saying Becks ‘wasn't committed,' sees his spell at Galaxy ‘as a joke' and is a
‘tightwad'.
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The start of the Premier League's silly season seems like a good time for your humble Brit blogger
to get back into the Soccer Source saddle (or at least, harness). And what sillier than Carlos
Tevez, the man who loved Manchester United, portraying himself as the victim before jumping over to
their nearest rivals, Manchester City?
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Just a few news stories that caught my interest over the last couple of days. Enjoy!
- Karim Benzema admits turning down Manchester United and Barcelona
- Jonathan Wilson's article on the ties that existed between Romanian secret police and Dinamo
Bucharest
- Ever think your video game managerial skills would make you a good boss of a real team?
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When your rival club goes out in the summer transfer window and begins spending money like English
footballers buying Cristal at a club, it's only natural that you start making snide comments in the
press.
Enter Barcelona president John Laporta who told Spanish state TV the following,
"We make Ballon d'Or winners and others have to buy them.
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Today would have been my mother's 84th birthday a milestone that would be unimaginable to you,
had you known her. It certainly is to me. Ann Evans Murphy born July 2, 1925 ... Ann Murphy
Cornog died January 19, 1975. For anyone Googling that name ... she was not what she appeared. I
learned to hate hypocrisy from her both because she hated it and because she was one of its more
adept and crazy-making practitioners.
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As clubs across the board sack players and cut wages, we here at NFN plow on heroically..Â
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After Mad Martin Andresen realized he was about to lose his job a couple of weeks back, he
shelved ambitions of playing expansive football and went into "let's just not get fired"-mode.
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I learned a lot this week from the show, at which you may point your ears here.
Most obviously, it was informational listening to Andrew Bell of the Charleston Battery talk USL. I
don't see MLS ever expanding there, so I think the Bats' future is pretty bright. Even if MLS
expands to 36 teams or something, the USL can make hay off markets 37 and down.
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Admit it, you hate Giuseppe Rossi.
If you are a U.S. national team fan this morning you are cursing Rossi and have included him in
the group along with Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Oswaldo Sanchez and Jared Borghetti in the pantheon of most
hated U.
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Admit it, you hate Giuseppe Rossi.
If you are a U.S. national team fan this morning you are cursing Rossi and have included him in
the group along with Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Oswaldo Sanchez and Jared Borghetti in the pantheon of most
hated U.
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Soccerblog 07 June @ 06:47 PM EST
Eric Cantona channels Republican financial wisdom. Ronald Reagan would have approved.
Hypocrisy much, Eric? Why don't you coach Bath City for free? I am sure they will appreciate a
big name. Oh, that's right. You also want to come back to coach Man Utd after Sir Alex retires as
your plan A.
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Ok , this is probably not a good thing to do, me a relatively inexperienced blogger intent on
delivering entertainment and information to his readers, having a go at a seasoned hack. I have
long disliked the flavour of Myles Palmer's conversion from self appointed autobiographer of Arsene
Wenger, and I am likely to find him a more than worthy adversary who will rip this article to
shreds if he wants.
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Soccer Pie 22 May @ 02:57 AM EST
I can't figure out the point of Wenger's public displays. The pressure on the club to enable him
to compete with Manchester United's budget or asking fans for the unconditional
support in his production of players that eventually leave the club in search for more money?
Are we going to be cruel with the French revolutionary in England?
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Barcelona's technical superiority and ball manipulation meant Chelsea had to revert to lower
Premier League tactics against the Catalan Giants.
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Never mind whether Swiss referee Tom Henning Ovrebo had the cojones to make the big
decisions, the Spanish press saw the away goal win as a victory for beauty against the beast.
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The Breakers' home opener is this Saturday (4/11-7PM) against the Athletica at Harvard
Stadiuim. Both teams have an opening day loss to rectify. It'll be fun to see Hope Solo and
Lori Chalupny in town ... and just awesome to get the season rolling. A big plus of April soccer
in Boston is that we get to wear all of our winter Breakers gear, too.
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