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Roy Keane tells Wayne Rooney to keep out of England manager debate

Dirty Tackle 09 February @ 05:25 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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In the immediate aftermath of Fabio Capello's resignation on Wednesday night, a number of England players shared their views on the matter via Twitter. "Gutted Capello has quit. Good guy and top coach. Got to be English to replace him. Harry Redknapp for me," said Wayne Rooney. These comments were relayed to his former teammate and current ITV pundit Roy Keane, who promptly eviscerated him.

Manchester United vs Liverpool

Anfield Red 08 February @ 04:17 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Manchester United vs Liverpool
11 February 2012
12.45 GMT
Old Trafford

History:
Total: 184
Liverpool Wins: 62
Manchester United Wins: 71
Draws: 51

Last Premier League Meeting: 15 October 2011 – Liverpool 1-1 Manchester United (Gerrard)

Form:
Liverpool: While the Reds have been unstoppable in the cups, their league form has been questionable.

Robin Van Persie on pace for record-setting season

Arsenal Insider 04 February @ 03:15 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Robin van Persie's on an English Premier League record-setting pace this season as his hat trick against a woeful Blackburn team on Feb. 4 upped his league total to 22 goals in 24 games. He's already eclipsed last year's Golden Boot scoring record of 20 which was shared by Manchester City's Carlos Tevez and Dmitar Berbatov of Manchester United and his own mark of 18 EPL goals.

Midfielder raves: "Youngster's development at LFC has been STAGGERING"...

Liverpool Kop 02 February @ 06:45 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Liverpool's Raheem Sterling is building up a very positive reputation in the club's youth set-up, with Ian Rush recently describing him as 'very similar to Michael Owen'. Former Liverpool midfielder Jamie Redknapp is also a big fan of youngster, and hopes that he'll get a chance in the first team sooner rather than later.

Cole: I Loved Scoring At Anfield

Republik Of Mancunia 26 January @ 04:19 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Ahead of this weekend's FA Cup game against Liverpool, Andy Cole has reflected on his time playing for United at Anfield.

Cole scored at Anfield in our 3-1 win in the 1996-1997 season, scored two there the following season, and again in 1999.

"When I was in the team I used to love playing at Anfield," he told the official site.

Aguero: United Striker My Idol

Republik Of Mancunia 24 January @ 09:22 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Ahead of Manchester City's League Cup semi-final against Liverpool, Sergio Aguero has revealed that Michael Owen was his hero when he was younger.

"One of the players who was my idol when I was a boy was Michael Owen," he said. "He was quite small and had an eye for goal, just like me.

Aguero: United Striker My Idol

Republik Of Mancunia 24 January @ 09:22 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Ahead of Manchester City's League Cup semi-final against Liverpool, Sergio Aguero has revealed that Michael Owen was his hero when he was younger.

"One of the players who was my idol when I was a boy was Michael Owen," he said. "He was quite small and had an eye for goal, just like me.

Argentina STAR: LFC striker was my IDOL, but I 'cursed' him for what he did...

Liverpool Kop 24 January @ 06:03 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero has revealed that former Liverpool striker Michael Owen was one of his great footballing inspirations when With 14 goals and 4 assists in 21 games this season, Aguero is proving to be one of the best strikers in the league, and in a recent interview, the Argentine spoke of his admiration for Owen: "I'm not so much a fan of Liverpool, but one of the players

Luis Suarez Reflects On Bolton Defeat

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Liverpool forward Luis Suarez has insisted that, although he trusts his teammates, he can't wait to get back playing again after seeing the Reds slump to a 3-1 defeat to Bolton.
The Uruguayan, who is currently serving an eight-match ban for racially abusing Patrice Evra, watched on as Kenny Dalglish's side were well beaten at the Reebok Stadium but the 24-year-old is adamant he is still very much behind his teammates.

Dynamo, Part III: From Sceptical To Speechless

KICKETTE 17 January @ 01:07 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Wazza, Gary Neville, Michael Owen and Tom Cleverley are the latest in a long line of 'ballers befuddled by the diminutive magician's awe-inspiring sleight of hand.

No, we have no idea how he does it either.

Dynamo Magic Trick With Rooney, Owen and Cleverley

Footy/Soccer Blog 17 January @ 12:59 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Looks like the magician Dynamo has been up to his old tricks again... here he is featuring in a video at Michael Owen's stables, performing card tricks for Wayne Rooney, Michael Owen and Tom Cleverley.


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VIDEO: Dynamo visits Rooney, Owen and Cleverley‏

Republik Of Mancunia 17 January @ 09:35 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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"VIDEO: Dynamo visits Rooney, Owen and Cleverley‏" was originally published at The Republik of Mancunia.

Michel Vorm, hero of Swansea

Euro 2008 on World Cup Blog 16 January @ 05:40 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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The first months of Michel Vorm in Swansea: "I'm impressed with that new Swansea goalie time after time" ( Michael Owen), "The other lads called him the Cat, as his reflexes are so lightning fast" (Swansea coach Brendan Rogers), "He only cost 1,5 Mio pounds, he's the pick of the [read more]

Liverpool Plot Move For Highly-Rated Serbian Starlet

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Premier League duo Liverpool and Chelsea are set to go head-to-head for the signature of Partizan Belgrade starlet Lazar Markovic, according to The People.
Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish and the clubs director of football Damien Comolli are both said to be huge fans of the Markovic. Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas is also believed to be an admirer of the 17-year-old.

Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini shows off his new snot hair gel

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Green moon rising Roberto Mancini chose his pre-match interview with the BBC ahead of tonight's Carling Cup semi-final against Liverpool as the moment to demonstrate his new nostril-shaped hair gel dispenser. There you go, Michael Owen: a free supply of hair gel.

Manchester United striker Michael Owen begs for hair gel on Twitter

Off the Post 11 January @ 03:39 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Millionaire benchwarmer Michael Owen is shamelessly begging for free hair products on Twitter. The Manchester United star revealed he had been sent some freebies of the range and enjoyed them so much that he now wants to be sent more for free. Rather than splashing out some loose change on his new favourite product, Owen [.

Mancini’s card waving, Michael Owen, Jamie Redknapp’s Joe Hart love-in – things that annoy you about football!

Kop That 06 January @ 04:27 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Talksport: Mancini's card waving, Michael Owen, Jamie Redknapp's Joe Hart love-in things that annoy you about football!

Pundits always moan about imaginary card waving, so we asked what gets your goat here's a selection of answers

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Morten Gamst Pedersen Takes Blackburn’s ‘Steve Kean Out’ Protest Far Too Literally vs Stoke (Video)

Who Ate All the Pies 04 January @ 08:13 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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By Chris Wright

In which Agent 00Gamst, acting behalf of the Blackburn Supporters Club, misinterprets his 'Operation: Steve Kean Out' mission brief and decides to go down the 'literal' route during Rovers' 1-2 defeat at the hands of Stoke on Monday night...

Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but the complete lack of apology from Pedersen seems to speak volumes of the regard that Kean is held in at Blackburn.

‘Liverpool striker Andy Carroll should study Michael Owen DVDs to cover for Luis Suarez’ – former Newcastle boss Glenn Roeder

Kop That 29 December @ 03:02 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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'Liverpool striker Andy Carroll should study Michael Owen DVDs to cover for Luis Suarez' former Newcastle boss Glenn Roeder

Ex-Toon boss backs under-fire forward to succeed at Anfield ahead of former club's visit but urges their fans to be patient with £35 million club-record signing

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‘Liverpool striker Andy Carroll should study Michael Owen DVDs to cover for Luis Suarez’ – former Newcastle boss Glenn Roeder

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'Liverpool striker Andy Carroll should study Michael Owen DVDs to cover for Luis Suarez' former Newcastle boss Glenn Roeder

Ex-Toon boss backs under-fire forward to succeed at Anfield ahead of former club's visit but urges their fans to be patient with £35 million club-record signing

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Our Lads Show Their Christmas Spirit

Republik Of Mancunia 23 December @ 03:24 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Rio Ferdinand, Danny Welbeck, Nani, Phil Jones, Jonny Evans, Michael Carrick, Michael Owen, Darron Gibson and Mame Biram Diouf visited the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital.

Wayne Rooney, Park Ji-Sung, Patrice Evra and Tom Cleverley went to The Christie.

"Our Lads Show Their Christmas Spirit" was originally published at The Republik of Mancunia.

What we learned this week… Liverpool embarrass themselves with overboard Luis Suarez support

Kop That 23 December @ 02:50 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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What we learned this week... Liverpool embarrass themselves with overboard Luis Suarez support

The Reds went too far with an overzealous statement, while Blackburn fans went a bit too far with their barracking of Steve Kean, Michael Owen acted like idiot, and AVB went OTT

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‘A Symbol of Everything That’s Wrong With The Club’- Word From The Enemy

Who Framed Ruel Fox? 22 December @ 11:20 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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If everyone can stop doing racisms for just one minute! Phew. Glad we got that sorted. Rightio, ahead of tonight's big game with Chelsea, I've roped in one of the chaps behind the fabulous movie trailer review site, Trailer Trash. It's Harry Thompson and he just happens to have the grave misfortune of being a Blues fan.

Wayne Rooney buys a horse at Manchester United team-mate Michael Owen’s stables

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Horseplay Michael Owen is a brave bloke. With little or no prospect of first-team football anymore, his horse racing interests are practically his main career now. He is now letting Wayne Rooney wangle his way into his stables and ruin that for him too. Rooney is buying a horse at Owen's Manor House Stables in [.

Academy Starlet Signs Contract With LFC

Anfield Talk 14 December @ 12:45 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Liverpool youth player Raheem Sterling has signed his first professional contract with the club.
Sterling turned 17 on the 8th December, and Liverpool wasted no time in tying down the exciting prospect to a pro-contract.
"The talented winger joined from Queens Park Rangers in February 2010 with a reputation for pace and flair.

Why would you do that?

English Premier league 05 December @ 05:55 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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The rumour in the British press Monday is that Fabio Capello may leave Wayne Rooney out of his Euro' 2012 squad if his three game ban isn't reduced.

I have to think this is a poor attempt at filling column inches. Either that or Capello is suffering from temporary insanity.

England managers have taken a gamble on including injured players in their squads in the past in the hope that the player will be fit for the later stages of a competition.

Speed's sad death shocks the football world

Soccerphile World Cup Blog 29 November @ 11:31 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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"All we've done is cried. None of this makes sense. I don't know if we'll ever know." Jonathan Ford, Chief Executive, Football Association of Wales.
For once Sepp Blatter said the right thing in calling Gary Speed
, who died unexpectedly on Sunday, "a model professional and a fantastic ambassador for the game".

Bookmakers Cause And Cash In On Suicide

football is fixed 29 November @ 03:36 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Almost two years to the day since Robert Enke took his life by jumping from a bridge in front of an onrushing train, Gary Speed similarly took his own life.
Whatever the reason(s) behind Speed's decision, it will probably never become public.
Tributes have rightly come from across the footballing and political worlds including tweets from Michael Owen and Robbie Savage.

IAN RUSH: This LFC youth player could be the new Michael Owen...

Liverpool Kop 28 November @ 06:00 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Liverpool have a whole host of promising young players being developed at Anfield right now, but Kop legend Ian Rush believes one particular youngster stands out from all the rest.
Rushie was recently asked who he felt would be the 'next Ian Rush' at Liverpool. The ever-modest Welshman argued that 'you have to be looking at someone with a better pace' than he had.

Muere Gary Speed entrenador de Gales

Futblog 27 November @ 06:42 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Esta noticia esta dando la vuelta al mundo y es tan triste como sorpresiva.

El entrenador de la selección galesa de fútbol, Gary Speed, fue hallado muerto este domingo en su domicilio de Huntington, al noroeste de Inglaterra. Tanto la Asociación de Fútbol de Gales como la Policía apuntan a que Speed, de 42 años, se ahorcó.

The manager whose team bonding exercise involved killing a pig… plus the week’s daftest football quotes

Kop That 20 November @ 03:57 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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The manager whose team bonding exercise involved killing a pig... plus the week's daftest football quotes

DAFT QUOTES OF THE WEEK "England have players who can rattle anyone's feathers" – MICHAEL OWEN "Belgium's not a hotpot of international football" – ALAN BRAZIL "This strikes me very much as a friendly international" – GRAHAM TAYLOR, AT ENGLAND v SWEDEN "Nicky Shorey is the provider but Shane Long has made this all on his own" – CHRIS KAMARA "Has England's win pampered over the cracks?

The Premier League Alter Ego XI

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Not to be taken too seriously GK – Paul Robinson The Blackburn goalkeeper has retired from international duty, presumably due to the time taken commuting from 22 Ramsay Street, Australia. Add this to also owning the Erinsborough news, and it's a wonder Robbo finds time for footy at all. RB – Glen Johnson Often criticised [.

The Premier League Alter Ego XI

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Not to be taken too seriously GK – Paul Robinson The Blackburn goalkeeper has retired from international duty, presumably due to the time taken commuting from 22 Ramsay Street, Australia. Add this to also owning the Erinsborough news, and it's a wonder Robbo finds time for footy at all. RB – Glen Johnson Often criticised [.

England 1-0 Sweden: How Was It For You?

Who Ate All the Pies 16 November @ 07:22 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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By Chris Wright


Not that it really mattered, but England broke a 43-year hoodoo by beating Sweden for the first time in 13 games at a sparsely-populated Wembley last night, with the narrow victory also affording them their first defeat-less calendar year since 1994.

Will Another Injury Triggers Michael Owen’s Retirement Plan?

English Premier league 15 November @ 09:50 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Injuries never seems to take a break in disturbing Michael Owen's career as another bad news arrives for the player after Manchester United medical team confirmed that the latest injury the striker suffered will force him to rest for about six weeks.

This report rises the speculation about Owen's future as talks of his retirement rings louder especially since there's a big chance that he won't feature much again this season, despite the fact he might be able to return on Boxing day.

Tuesday Kickoff: Bradley loses in Egypt debut, Gaven signs extension and more

Soccer By Ives 15 November @ 10:51 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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By FRANCO PANIZO

Former U.S. men's national team head coach Bob Bradley made his managerial debut for Egypt on Monday, and the result was not a good one.

Brazil spoiled Bradley's first game in charge of the Pharoahs, winning 2-0 in a friendly played in Doha, Qatar.

"He's like John Aldridge". LFC LEGEND raves about Reserve striker...

Liverpool Kop 15 November @ 07:18 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Liverpool legend Gary Gillespie has hailed the talent of Liverpool reserve-team striker Adam Morgan, comparing him to goal-poacher extraordinaire John Aldridge.
Gillespie played alongside Aldridge in the 1980s, so he's well qualified to make such a lofty comparison:
"I've likened him [Morgan] to John Aldridge more than anyone else I've seen.

Umbro Speciali ’92 Collection

Football Fashion 15 November @ 07:08 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Umbro has launched a 20th Anniversary Speciali '92 collection in recognition of the firm's signature soccer boots worn by the likes of Alan Shearer, Michael Owen, Roberto Carlos, John Terry and Darren Bent through the years. It consists of several pieces including an updated version of the 1992 Speciali and more.

Five ways for Michael Owen to stay entertained

Off the Post 15 November @ 05:52 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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The hamstrings that keep on giving With the news that Michael Owen is to be out for another six weeks with injury (surprise, surprise), OTP gives him five tips on keeping busy: Witchcraft Clearly Owen is already a dab hand at the dark arts, because there is no other explanation for Fergie's renewal of his [.

Owen Out Until Christmas

Republik Of Mancunia 14 November @ 03:41 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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The club have today confirmed that Michael Owen will be out until Christmas after sustaining an injury in our 2-0 win over Otelul Galati.

Owen was setting up the opening goal when picking up the injury, although it was initially thought not to be too serious.

"Michael has a thigh muscle injury and will be out for six weeks or so.