Since its founding in 1907, Al Ahly S.C. has been known as ‘the people's club,' representing resistance against the many forms of colonialism that have long plagued the African continent. Initially the first sporting club to allow Egyptians to join, Al Ahly remains the most popular of Egyptian teams, wearing to this day the red kits that honour the pre-colonial Egyptian flag.

That Tiger Woods killer instinct from his prime? That seems to be lost forever. During the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, Tiger collapsed during the final round to finish a disappointing third. Robert Rock ended up winning, while Rory McIlroy finished second.

In the first three rounds, Woods got better and better posting a 70, 69 and a 66.

Liverpool are now concentrating their efforts on financing a new stadium in Stanley Park, where they have planning permission, rather than redevelop Anfield.
American owners Fenway Sports Group had been keen to renovate the current ground like they did at their baseball franchise, the Boston Red Sox.

The Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) chief executive Gordon Taylor has rejected Luis Suarez's claim of innocence that the term he used against Patrice Evra is not racist in Uruguay as the fallout following the Liverpool striker's ban continues.
Suarez is alleged to have called Evra 'negrito', claiming it is not offensive in his native country, but Taylor believes the forward is still in the wrong.

What are the odds Asamoah Gyan plays for Sunderland this season? Derek McGovern's Bets of the Day

After conducting his first training session at Sunderland this week, Martin O'Neill said he was impressed with the squad. He then spent three days trying to bring Asamoah Gyan back from his loan deal in the United Arab Emirates.

Lebanon achieve the impossible Lebanon Daily Star.

As a sidebar to all of the hype surrounding the Euro2012 play off qualifiers this past week, I noticed a great story emerging out of the Middle East which deserves more than a mention. Asian power South Korea were beaten 2-1 in Beirut by Lebanon who rank 112 places below them in the FIFA rankings which in any region is a huge accomplishment.

It's Futbolita's 3-year birthday today and it has grown so much all thanks to YOU! Looking back on the past year, we're extremely blessed to have support from fantastic people all over the world who enjoyed our work in football. This year, we were especially thrilled to meet Futbolitas & Futbolitos in Spain and from other parts of Europe, America, The Middle East and Asia.

Revealed: What Liverpool MD Ian Ayre's name means in Lebanon, plus Roy Hodgson's book club

Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre's suggestion that Premier League clubs should be allowed to sell their own overseas TV rights – thus benefitting established clubs while leaving the little guys to twist in the wind – will go down well in the Middle East.

A week rich of wonderful goals with European and World Cup qualifications games, however, most of videos I am posting today are from small leagues or clubs
Malaga - Getafe 3-2 victory witnessed two wonderful goals. First is the opening goal by by Getafe
Malaga 0-1 Getafe by simaotvgolo12
Then, at the closing minute, when it was 2-2, the Brazilian Julio Baptista scored a great bicycle kick winner
Malaga 3-2 Getafe by simaotvgolo12
Then to UAE, and a great goal for Dubai vs.

By Alan Duffy

Sunderland 1-2 Chelsea Premier League September 10 2011

With Ghana star Asamoah Gyan upping sticks for oil money in the Middle East, Sunderland boss Steve Bruce looked to new loan signing Nicklas Bendtner to lead the line against a powerful Chelsea side.

Three South East Asian teams will be listening carefully to this Saturday's World Cup draw. Their fate will be decided along with the other 17 remaining countries on the road to Brazil.
Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore will not be drawn against each other, that's for sure. Instead they will face one from each of the following 'pots'.

By Chris Wright

...Wayne Rooney (his seventh consecutive year) and l'il Jacky Wilshere which, so far as we know, marks the Arsenal diddyman's cover art debut...

According to the blurb, Rooney and Wilshere will appear on the FIFA 12 cover in the UK, Ireland, Scandinavia and Middle East when the game is released on September 30th.

Liverpool flop Milan Jovanovic could leave for Middle East

Liverpool forward Milan Jovanovic has been handed the chance to maintain his current £60,000-a-week earnings after receiving an offer from Al-Shabab Riyadh.

View the full story here: The Mail

A news article on 2011-07-22 22:04:16 from: The Mail

This news item has been reproduced from today's media.

Bernie Mandic has played us all, the whole country.
Perhaps he only had the QPR offer and every Agent needs some leverage. Run to Australia and put in some hard yards.
Then spruik it across the Aussie media and bingo.
Only shit!
They might pony up the money and now we're in the poo Harry - and besides we've had offers from Europe or the Middle East.

2022 Qatar Sold The middle east for FIFA world cup 2022, how patriotic. - http://twitter.com/theprot... 1 hour ago from 2022 - Twitter Search - Comment - Like

If we ran a daily ridiculous rumor across the headlines, this would easily be it.

Can we all agree that if he were to retire right now, Pep would be considered among the all-time greats? Not because he's there yet, but rather his body of work, even with the players at his disposal, is so staggeringly glittering, we'd have no choice but to assume he'd be somewhere up there at the end.

Abril v Tampines Rovers 1-0Muang Thong United v Al Ahed 4-0 (Datsakorn Thonglao, Teerasil Dangda, Christian Kouakou, Naruphol) 9,500Song Lam Nghe An v Persipura 1-3 (Hyguen Hon Viet; Boas Solossa, Ortizan Solossa, Titus Bonai) 5,000Chonburi v Sriwijaya 3-0 (Fabiano Ney, Therdsak Chaiman, Nattaphong) 6,954
A mixed night for teams from the region.

And he has an Arabic language pack installed. Dubai Sports Channel broadcast the Bundesliga in the Middle East and North Africa and produced this ad to promote the new season. I have no clue what is being said, but it should be something along the lines of: "I am Optimus Prime, and I send this message to any surviving Autobots taking refuge among the stars: We are here.

One is from Tunisia, when Mohammad Nasri scored a very funny goal, with a creative bicycle kick in the Tunisian league
The second is from a Saudi fan from Al-Wihda club (that is a very old team, very modest now from Makkah), reached the Saudi cup final but lost 0-5 in the final.

Liverpool shirt sponsors Standard Chartered are hoping the club signs up an Asian star to boost commercial opportunities in the Far East.
Gavin Laws, head of corporate affairs at Standard Chartered, hailed the impact of Manchester United's South Korean international Park Ji-sung in the region and believes signing a similar talent would be an ideal way for the Reds to connect with the Asian market.

Could we add Moroccan temptresses to the list of people bringing down autocrats? This time it is not in the Middle East.

Karima El Mahroug, aka Ruby - the scarlet woman behind Silvio Berlusconi's woes claims that she also had a tete a tete with Ronaldo the lesser. The Real Madrid striker is an easy touch as the NOTW discovered.

Newcastle United's Jonas Gutierrez says that he's happy at the club and targets 42 points as the primary aim for this season. I had a bad day yesterday with my articles, first thinking it was still January and then placing Tunisia in the Middle East. It was pretty bad away from the blog too. We've [.

He might not have been a popular signing, but William Gallas looks to have won over a lot of his critics and is set for a new contract. Gallas signed in the summer on a one year deal, with an option for an extension once he had played a certain amount of games.

With Spurs' injury problems at the back, Gallas has featured more than anyone probably expected and he has turned in some solid performances, most notably in our 3-2 away win at Arsenal.

Photo: Nicolea Stoian

The Philadelphia Inquirer is reporting that Haverford School and FC Delco product Jeremiah White has not been invited to travel with the Union for preseason training in Orlando.

"They basically called me 2 days before we were supposed to leave and said they don't have any more roster spots," White told the Inquirer.

There were several interesting reports this week about the fact that some of the best organized and most effective groups involved in the protests in Egypt came from what some saw as a surprising place: football fan groups. As a report on Gawker noted: "When asked about the role of political groups in organizing protests, prominent Egyptian blogger Alaa abd El-Fatah told Al Jazeera .

Middle East adventure for shamed Sky presenters? If further evidence was needed of Richard Keys and Andy Gray's fall from grace was required, it looks like they are going to share a broadcasting medium with Osama Bin Laden. Arabic network Al Jazeera is keen to secure the pair's services to front its coverage of English [.

So it's a two-nation race to host the 2015 Women's World Cup between Canada and Zimbabwe. And, frankly, there is no choice here. It has to be Zimbabwe.
What did Sepp Blatter say when Russia and Qatar won?
Quote: Originally Posted by Sepp Blatter We go to new lands.

Without changing a thing, the face of the World Cup has already changed greatly for the near future. The award of Brazil is about as traditional as it can get, but Qatar in 2022 will see the first World Cup in the Middle East, in an Arab nation. So that's a large change.

The rumblings of a potential winter World Cup would give it an odd feel.

Bayern are going to Qatar, Hamburg are going to Dubai and St. Pauli are going ... erm ... nowhere. The winter training camp is a ritual in German football, but it's also becoming a promotional free-for-all.