Quizas fue Scolari quien le hizo brujeria a Cristiano...
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After only four months in charge of Uzbekistan side FC Bunyodkor, Luis Felipe Scolari is once again facing the sack. Despite earning an astonishing £230,000 a week as head coach of the ambitious side; Scolari has become unstuck once again.
There are parallels to be drawn with his infamous tenure at Chelsea which ended in Feburary 2009.

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Ever since the arrival of the Roman Abramovich era at Chelsea, the world of football seems to exist in two separate yet parallel universes.

There are clubs who teeter on the brink of bankruptcy despite brief flirts with glory (a la Leeds United and recently at Portsmouth). Then there are other clubs whose history has been blanketed by anonymity and mediocrity but now whose names, with the financial aid of the multi-billionaire, are dared uttered in the same sentence with title aspirations.

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Wolves fans are gutted. Prior to this weekend's fixtures, Portsmouth had lost their first seven matches. While losing runs can't go on forever, every club in the country was licking it's lips at the prospect of playing the South Coast side. But on a glorious Saturday afternoon, in front of a packed Molineux, Wolves fans witnessed utter horror as their team became the first club to give up points to Europe's worst team.

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Anyone who watched World Cup 2002 will remember this inexcusable piece of play-acting from Brazilian maestro Rivaldo.
Turkey defender Hakan Unsal was sent-off as a result of the incident, which makes Rivaldo's histrionics even worse.
Luis Felipe Scolari, who was managing Brazil at the time, offered this lame interpretation of the incident:
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Billionaire oligarch Roman Abramovich will have seen a few diamonds in his time. Thanks to his latest managerial appointment at Chelsea, he is observing a new one, and on initial inspection, it may be to his liking.

In the spirit of pre-season hype, much has been written about Carlo Ancelotti's favoured diamond system.

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Taking the Chelsea job was never going to be easy for Carlo Ancelotti. He still doesn't speak much English and he is going to have to adapt to the pace on the Premier League pretty quickly.

Ancelotti arrives at Chelsea with a pretty decent pedigree having led Milan to two Champions League successes as well as finishing runner up once.

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Brazilian coach, who is currently employed in Uzbekistan, found some time to give his thoughts on the burning issues in football. Big Phil believes that main reasons behind Ronaldinho's downfall are the fact that he is overweight and that he's lost the passion for the beautiful game.

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In the first half of a month which has seen Real Madrid twice break the football record for player transfer fees paid, the news that World cup winning Brazilian coach Filipe Scolari had recently signed an 18 month contract with the Uzbek champions Bunyodkor barely registered as a murmur on the global game's seismograph.

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Despite being also-rans for a large part of the season, one cannot help but thinking that the Premier League is beginning to open up for Chelsea for the 2009-10 season. While Guus Hiddink may now have left the club, the Blues will certainly fancy their chances under new man Carlo Ancelotti of regaining their title which has alluded them since the departure of Jose Mourinho.

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With the recent appointment of Carlo Ancelotti as the new Chelsea manager and the recent announcement that Andriy Shevchenko will be coming back to the Bridge now that his one-year loan deal with AC Milan has expired, there are questions being asked of what Ancelotti / Chelsea will do with the 32-year-old striker.

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The Premier League has been decided and the Champions League is off to Spain, but there is still one major trophy left to fight over this season in England – The FA Cup.
Blue certainly will be the colour at Wembley on Saturday as Chelsea take on Everton. The bookies are favouring a Chelsea win, after all the club finished the season in third place and only narrowly missed out on a spot in the Champions League final. Click to continue reading...

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With that defeat, Arsenal's 21 game unbeaten league run came to an emphatic halt.

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Luis Felipe Scolari has been approached by the Angolan FA to manage the Angolan national squad. His contract, if he accepts it, runs to the end of the Africa Cup of Nations which is to be hosted by Angola in January 2010.

Angola has been overshadowed by its West African counterparts and Egypt until recently when they qualified for the 2006 World Cup and entered the quarterfinals of the 2008 Africa Cup.

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It all started so promising for Deco. He moved away from Barcelona for eight million euros, ready to revive his career and chase a third Champions League trophy with his new club, Chelsea.

August 16, 2008. Deco takes to the field against Portsmouth, and in Chelsea's 4-0 rampage over the Pompey, he scores in the 90th minute with a forty-yard shot.

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When the Guus Hiddink genius rolled into town two months ago to replace Luis Felipe Scolari, few could be forgiven for feeling a bit of worry that Hiddink, yes Hiddink, was rocking up to take over Chelsea. Robin van Persie was part of what must have been a very large crew cursing their luck about the new Chelsea gaffer.

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Luiz Felipe Scolari shed some insight into his situation at Chelsea right before he was given the pink slip by Roman Abramovich on Monday. He admitted that he had no relationship with his players off the pitch, and took several players (their initials are D.D. and F.M.) to task for not playing well. Click to continue reading...

Ladies and gentlemen, it gives us great pleasure to welcome a new member to the SPAOTP writing team. He's Seb Gevers from the wonderful football blog 'Inside Left' and from here on in we know you're going to enjoy the excellent footballing articles he'll be writing just for you. He begins by looking at the aftermath of this week's two high-profile managerial departures. Click to continue reading...

Didn't see this coming... oh wait, we did.
Cartman laughing at the Midget in South Park from Dylan on Vimeo. Click to continue reading...

Didn't see this coming... oh wait, we did.
Cartman laughing at the Midget in South Park from Dylan on Vimeo.
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Just for the record, here's what I wrote (I'm just giddy at the moment that I actually predicted something right - however vague I was): One last point, Scolari has been managing Portugal for five seasons. Click to continue reading...

Wow! It turns out Luis Felipe Scolari only lasted seven months at Chelsea.
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Where were you when the news of Scolari's sacking broke this afternoon? I saw it on facebook, followed by a text message from a friend who works at ESPN. I can honestly say that the decision by Roman Abramovich and the Chelsea board has stunned me, after only 7 months in charge at Stamford Bridge. [. Click to continue reading...

Where were you when the news of Scolari's sacking broke this afternoon? I saw it on facebook, followed by a text message from a friend who works at ESPN. I can honestly say that the decision by Roman Abramovich and the Chelsea board has stunned me, after only 7 months in charge at Stamford Bridge. [. Click to continue reading...

Football fans can be fickle, the media even more so but the Chelsea board has taken knee-jerk reactions and impossible expectations to Real Madrid-like proportions. While the white-clad prima donnas have a rich history to point to as an excuse, Chelsea have...let's see...two back-to-back league titles (sandwiched between two 2nd-place finishes), a handful of domestic [. Click to continue reading...

And yay, in years henceforth, they will arrive upon this day and know their fate may fall into the lap of the gods. It shall be known as The Day of the Damned and those who believeth they are immune will be punished verily.
Or something.
Yes, no sooner had we consigned Tony Adams to a future selling hamburgers of dubious meat content from a van outside the Emirates Stadium than another Premier League manager was shown the door this afternoon. Click to continue reading...

I'll be at the game on Sunday. There's no German football at the moment so I'm afraid this one will have to do right now. Seriously now, I really can't wait. Both sides have been nowhere near their best in recent months but at least United have been getting results whereas Chelsea find it impossible to [. Click to continue reading...

So Andrei Arshavin is starting to make loud noises about his future, and it doesn't look like playing in Russia is a part of it.  He's telling Zenit St. Petersburg that if he has to, he'll buy out his contract (this is the only link that is currently available, the Telegraph also reported the same [. Click to continue reading...

The esteemed Mr. Scolari has encouraged his players to "find their creative spark". A 2-nil win over a dismal West Brom and a somewhat unfortunate 2-2 draw with Fulham may have resulted from Big Phil's slight alteration in formation, but certainly it is time for LFS to be bold himself. It is time for Chelsea to [. Click to continue reading...

Chelsea boss wishes you job When Match of the Day asked Big Phil Scolari is he had any New Year's resolutions they probably expected some management speak to the effect of taking every game as it comes in the title race. Instead the Chelsea boss batted the question to one side and launched into his own [. Click to continue reading...

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Premier League giants Chelsea seem to have made Middlesbrough striker Tuncay Sanli their top target for January as manager Luiz Felipe Scolari seems to be eager to sign a striker next month. According to The Daily Mail, Chelsea are ready to spend as much as £8 million to sign the French striker who arrived at Middlesbrough [. Click to continue reading...

What would fans prefer to see and pay to watch: entertaining, attacking football which might result in their team losing the odd game, or a defensive, effective game that brings trophies and titles? Chelsea seem to be struggling with this dilemma this season. Jose Mourinho was delivering titles and trophies to Stamford Bridge but Roman Abramovich [. Click to continue reading...

Prior to Saturday's 2-1 defeat against title rivals Arsenal, ‘Big' Phil Scolari had avoided controversy during the opening six months of his reign as Chelsea manager. Scolari let his Chelsea team do their talking on the pitch, and with some fabulous football along with some good results, the Brazilian had adapted to life in England [. Click to continue reading...