According to the website Young Guns, a site about Arsenal reserves and youths, Arsenal have signed Fluminense striker Wellington Silva. The source of this news is from Rio-based journalist Gilmar Ferreira, who stated that the club spent 5 million dollars for him.

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Following Wednesday's now infamous Hand of Henry incident that saw France qualify for World Cup 2010 at the expense of Ireland, Irish newspaper Sunday World has sent journalist babe Geraldine Comiskey to Barcelona with a specially commissioned poster seeking Thierry Henry's apology for his actions. Here's a look at Geraldine outside the FC Barcelona (who Henry [. Click to continue reading...

You know that baby wanted a photo with Martin Palermo... but his family stopped Veron's sleek black ride instead as it drove up to Estudiantes' training ground last week. The baby's got the "Papa, you lied. We were supposed to go to Boca's training ground, dammmit!

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Iker Casillas

Ok. ... Getting sleepy in the press conference. This isn't good. ... Maybe if I just cross my arms and tilt my head back, no one will know I'm slowly losing consciousness. ... Yeah. I think this is working. I look perfectly normal like this. ... Oh no.

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I wrote the following before I got the news that "Van Persie has torn his anterior inferior tibiofibular ligament, and his anterior talofibular ligament has unfortunately snapped- hes out for the rest of the season." No club confirmation yet, so let's hope this is just some little journalist jumping the gun. Click to continue reading...

Brazilian journalist Fernando Duarte (a future guest on the Soccerlens Podcast, once we can track him down) interviewed Brazil and Real Madrid star Kaka in Doha this week, ahead of Brazil's friendly against England.

The full interview can be read on the Guardian here are a few excerpts:

Kaka on.

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It seems like being a journalist to the soccer masses can be a little hectic. News is breaking at every moment, and all you want to do is turnaround a good story-fast! Working at break-neck speed can cause a few "administrative" details to fall through the cracks.
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Asking players or club officials during times of crisis about the reasons for their misery may be part of a journalist's due diligence, but nobody ever expects to get an answer, that wasn't taken straight out of the club's prescribed dictionary: try harder, work harder, need a bit of luck, the team fully backs the [. Click to continue reading...

Well, no-one saw this coming: Ebbsfleet United, the "world's first web community owned club", has lost most of its community in its second year of operation and the club is spiralling towards disaster on and off the field.

It's hard to say just how unsurprising this is.

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Tune in for Episode 25 of the world famous Soccerlens Podcast with ex-footballer Adrian Clarke and football journalist Iain Spragg.

This week's humdinger of a show features a fascinating interview on all things Manchester United and Barcelona with respected football writer and author of new book "Glory, Glory!

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Considered the pinnacle of personal awards in Football, the Ballon d'Or has had a rich history through out the last quarter of a century, indeed no other award can lay claim to the influence the Ballon d'Or has had. Be it the transformation of great players into legendary players or influencing the transfer policies of some of the world's biggest club.

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This from football's best journalist Mike Cockerill:

'There are some suggestions that Moore could be looking for a way out following the coaching change - possibly considering a return to Europe sooner rather than later.

Moore, 33, is one of only two A-League players in the Socceroos squad, and has been told by coach Pim Verbeek he needs to keep playing until May to remain in his World Cup plans.

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For many reading this you will be used to my writing, and the site name. For those what is new about the site is the structure and relationship with SBNation.com and Daily Soccer Fix and more sites to come. Sounder at Heart is now part of a network. More than just the one site you are used to you will find news about the beautiful game, American soccer and many teams to come.

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Journalist Cosme Rimolli reports in his blog that before going to South Africa, the team headed by Dunga will do its preparation in Lubango, city 676 km from Luanda (in the picture).

The information was disclosed in an interview with Tsambo Makaba, owner of the company who is bridging CBF and Angola's government in the negotiations.

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Episode 141 of the EPL Talk Podcast features an interview with Nick Szczepanik, writer for The Times newspaper and a regular co-host on TheGame Podcast. Szczepanik offers an intriguing insight to English football by having lived in the United States and being a follower of American sports.

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It's been a rough week for Silvio Berlusconi. He again tried to joke about the Obamas being "tanned," he told a journalist he thought was a Milan fan that the club are "a disaster," and then they proved him right by losing to Zurich in the Champions League. And now, Sky Sports Italia's Gnok Calcio Show has video of Jose Mourinho looking like he wants to gargle drain cleaner after having a pleasant backroom chat with the Milan owner the day of last month's derby (which Jose's side won 4-0).

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The Beauty: In a previous post written many moons ago, I ranked Alex Curran the #1 English WAG. While not as famous as Victoria Beckham, or as hot as Melanie Slade, Ms. Curran deserved her #1 ranking because she is the perfect WAG package. Her husband (not her boyfriend or fling), Mr.

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At the start of today's match, Vito Mannone was Arsenal's third-choice goalkeeper, and speculation was rife that he might soon be relegated to fourth choice. His man-of-the-match performance against Fulham might have changed that.
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Sir Alex Ferguson laughed off comments made by one 'journalist' ahead of our Premiership victory over Tottenham Hotspur, which claimed this was our worst team in years.

Mark YSB Lawrenson claimed that the story of our season would be other teams bringing the game to us in his article for The Mirror.

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Manchester United were more or less written off when we sold Cristiano Ronaldo, given the great contribution he made to our team over the past few years. Similar things were said after Ruud van Nistelrooy was sold, when David Beckham joined Real Madrid, when Eric Cantona hung up his boots etc. It seems as though the media and rival fans just don't learn.

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Hello people hope you all are having good days without any Arsenal news because it has been very boring for a few days on the Arsenal front, due to the international breaks no doubt. But before I go into that there is some positive news regarding Walcott:

The official website has said he is due to back after this weeks international break versus Croatia but in my opinion I doubt he will figure against Man City, seeming the importance of the game and risking him would not be worth it.

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Cantona The Rebel Who Would be King, by Philippe Auclair

This definitive account by Phillipe Auclair on one of football's great characters, a legend of the modern game, Eric Cantona, is a must read for any football fans.

A fascinating biography by one of football's top journalist, Phillipe Auclair, who interviewed more than 200 central figures in Cantona's life.

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I thought I would leave todays post a little later. There have been two main responses to our lack of action in the transfer market yesterday, the 'OH MY GOD WE ARE SCREWED' reaction, and the 'oh well there is nothing we can do about it now' reaction.

Mine is of the latter, the only player I think we needed was cover for Alex Song for if he got injured and when he is on ACN duty with Cameroon.

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Journalist and Arsenal fan Laura Oliver joins Chris Nee and Gary Andrews to talk about Eduardo, Arsenal, the Premier League, Champions League, Major League Soccer and women's football. Avaialable at http://www.csrnusa.com/csrnplayer.html

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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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by Usman Azad, Football Perth Editor
RIGHTO, so we are only about eight hours away from kickoff in tonight's match between Perth Glory and Melbourne Victory.
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The new season has started, perhaps unsurprisingly, with a crisis for Heart of Clackmanannshire. The Scottish club have lost first league match, during which time chairman and magnet magnate Sir Roddy Bulbs managed to fire two managers, Glen Roeder and Bryan Gunn. In this week's episode of "Shit Shot Mungo", Sir Roddy has to justify himself to the self-styled "voice of the people", local journalist Fleetwood MacAlbatross.

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Greek International holding the scarf and wearing the kit, all the proof needed that he now belongs to the club!

Journalist: Your transfer to Liverpool happened quite fast. When did you first find out about Liverpool's interest?

I don't want to say too much about it, other than that I found about the interest on Monday.

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I don't buy the Mirror often. I kind of had my fill of the modern day Mirror when researching an essay on the decline of what was once a decent, campaigning paper and was by then a paper run by Piers Morgan.And their coverage of Scottish football has been squeezed to non existent in the last decade. In their favour they do have Oliver Holt. Click to continue reading...

The fiscal ambiguity surrounding title-chasing Liverpool continues to dominate contemporary sports news, and Rafael Benitez's refusal to either confirm or deny the press reports released this morning that indicated the club have £2 million to play with in the summer market will do little to quell the speculation. Click to continue reading...

Cantona The Rebel Who Would Be King is the new biography of Eric Cantona by the French football journalist Philippe Auclair. Auclair has interviewed every key player in Cantona's life to produce a biography that reveals, for the first time, the heart and inner thoughts of the King.

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