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Guus Hiddink's side are favourites to make it through the play-offs to South Africa, but his selection problems give Matjaz Kek hope of masterminding an upset.
Slovenia hoping for another play-off miracle against the might of Russia. Click to continue reading...

The only goal of the game, scored by John Terry on the 76th minute denied United the almost happening miracle of at least leaving Stamford Bridge with 1 point, but the goal was scored in a somewhat controversial manner, which left the United players seeing red and fuming at the officials, while the Blues celebrated. Click to continue reading...

Rafael Benitez has held talks with his Liverpool bosses over the implications if the club fail to reach the last 16 of this season's Champions League.
Discussions were also held on if the club fail to qualify for next season's lucrative European competition.
The Liverpool manager revealed today that the club did not budget this term for anything beyond the group stages. Click to continue reading...

Even this early on into the current EPL season viewers have witnessed nearly every team have at least one or two surprise if not shock results. Often these so called ‘blips' have been accompanied by a dip in form, or at the very least results that have meant the table from top to bottom is as intriguing and open as perhaps it has ever been before.

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Bayern Munich fans are certainly not in a particularly good mood at the moment. The situation in the Bundesliga is far from hopeless but still disappointing, while Bayern will need a miracle of sorts to progress in the Champions League. Thus, some fans may be in disbelieve, some may question the coach or the players, others blame the transfer policy and a few probably just desperately hope for Ribery to return and make it all right again.

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While Wednesday's heartbreaking draw against Lyon didn't seal Liverpool's place in the Europa League it did put our chances on life support. Aside from needing to defeat Debrecen, Liverpool will also need some help from Lyon to keep the potential miracle alive. But what if Lyon and Fiorentina draw? Click to continue reading...

Rafael Benitez insists he does not fear for his job even though Liverpool now need a miracle to reach the last 16 of the Champions League.
The Liverpool boss had seen victory snatched from his team by Lyon, who equalised through Lisandro Lopez in the dying seconds of their Group E clash at the Stade Gerland on Wednesday night. Click to continue reading...

They are left needing a miracle to qualify after a late late Lyon equaliser.
OLLIVERPOOL - The funniest bloopers are right here

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Michael Orozco and San Luis disappointed against Monterrey while Edgar Castillo and Tigres pulled out a miracle point versus Estudiantes. Click to continue reading...

Chelsea must have lost their "hand"� altogether because now they might be dealt a whole other blow to their already fragile stance at the top of the Premier League.� By some miracle they are ahead of ManU by two points and I can't imagine how they've gotten this far considering all the things that have happened.

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A hobbled Liverpool squad limps home in hopes of a miracle as the struggling club faces an old, hated rival. Sir Alex Ferguson heads into this match with the smile of the Cheshire Cat plastered to his face. After years of back and forth between him and Rafa Benitez, a unique opportunity has [...] Click to continue reading...

Mexican side Toluca have comfortably qualified for the knockout stage whereas DC United will have to hope for a miracle as they need Honduran side Marathon to stumble against group whipping boys San Jan Jabloteh.

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Benjamin Franklin once said "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

If that's true, then the coach and attacking players for Columbus' MLS side are certifiably insane.

Fellas: No matter how many times you take the ball down the wing to the corner and cross it in hoping for someone to miracle it into the goal, it ain't gonna happen.

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Check the Red Bull Arena webcam right now and you'll see something wonderful, glorious and green. No, I'm talking about Dietrich Mateschitz's millions laid out like a...well actually yeah, I guess I am talking about that since he's kinda bankrolling this whole miracle along the Passaic. One of the prettiest things I have seen in a stadium since Penelope Cruz last turned out in support of Spain. Click to continue reading...

Opinion piece

Saw a cool headline today "Keep the Coach, Fire the Spineless SAFA Board" – well that is perhaps a bit over the top, but didn't the new President Kirsten Nematendani come flying out of the starting blocks, promising to take this soccer crisis in hand?

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Kansas City's loss to Chivas over the weekend basically killed the Wizards playoff hopes, but they are currently still on life support with an outside chance. But it'll take a miracle on the level of 34th Street for the Wizards to make the playoffs. And Christmas is still 2 months away. So for the Wizards to pull off a miracle and make the playoffs, there are 6 teams' results that need to fall in line. Click to continue reading...

Not much to write about today. The Charity Cup went well from what I have read. I couldn't find a television broadcast (if there was one to be found) so I'm relying on the written word to keep me informed. You can read about it here.

Congratulations to USA on defeating Honduras and securing a spot in the World Cup, but I'm worried about Stuart Holden. Click to continue reading...

There was no surprise because there couldn't have been one. This is the level of the Polish national team currently and the sooner we realize that the less frustrated we'll be. No miracle was on the cards as six of our starters were from the Ekstraklasa, a league that doesn't even have its representative in the Euro Cup group round (Moldova has, Austria has four).

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Seems like every team is clinging on to a 'miracle' to go to the World Cup these days...and Sweden's one of them. It now seems that Henrik Larsson will quit the national team whether Ibracadabra likes it or not.

To get into the World Cup playoffs now, Sweden must win and hope Portugal slips up against Malta, who've not secured a single victory in their entire campaign.

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Overnight the peoples of Ivory Coast, Chile, Serbia, Germany, Italy, Denmark and Mexico popped the champagne. Now there are 19 on the party list, and there's mass patriotic emotion attached to the competition for the final 13 places. I'll have a look at some of the more interesting ones (to me ok).
Last night New Zealand held Bahrain to a 0:0 draw on Bahrain's turf. Click to continue reading...

The fact that Sampdoria are on top of Serie A after six rounds may be surprising to many people. Some will say it is luck. Some will mention Cassano as the power engine of the team that makes others better players and some might say that Samp used the starting failures of big clubs and things will eventually fall into place.

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Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner was speaking for the first time after last week's car accident which many may have easily thought it was a minor one considering he only missed one game for the Gunners, but according to the 21-year old, he's lucky to be alive.

Bendtner said:

I believe that somebody held his hand over me.

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Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner was speaking for the first time after last week's car accident which many may have easily thought it was a minor one considering he only missed one game for the Gunners, but according to the 21-year old, he's lucky to be alive.

Bendtner said:

I believe that somebody held his hand over me.

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Danish International believes divine intervention saved him from serious injury.

"I believe that somebody held his hand over me," Bendtner told the Daily Telegraph. "I don't know what or who, but looking in a broader perspective I simply felt somebody assisting me.

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Wilf Thorne pic from Scottish Sun
"I'm settled in Houston but one thing I'll never do is forget Scotland. It's a big part of my life." -- Stuart Holden
http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/2652020/I-grew-up-dreaming-of-the-World-Cup.html
With international press run like this, I think it would be a miracle if the Goalden One is back in Orange next year. Click to continue reading...

This weekend's clash of the titans at Crew Stadium got a little duller, as it's been announced David Beckham will not be playing:

"It was injury-related," Galaxy coach Bruce Arena said. "It was a 50-50 thing coming in. We decided to use better judgement and give him this game off.

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26:13 - � I was going to watch today's match between Barcelona and Racing before I wrote a review on my position regarding Barcelona and the big time talent they have emptied their pockets to bring in. � I couldn't do it.

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Since there is a mid-week round this Wednesday, I'll get a super Weekend Round-up post up on Thursday. If you look at the Serie A table right now, you'll see that leading the top of the table is Sampdoria (tied with Juventus, but ahead of goals scored). Sampdoria have never won their first 4 games ever in their history.

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Before the season started, I knew little about this Burnley side. I like to see former top-flight stalwarts come up and Burnley one of the orginal 12 sides in the Football League haven't been up in 33 years. But apart from that, I knew no reason why they shouldn't be on track to follow Derby County and West Bromwich Albion straight back down.

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Got to show some love for my fellow Israeli Yossi Benayoun, who netted a hat-trick in Liverpool's 4-0 win over Burnley last weekend.
In other EPL news, Tim Howard and Everton stay in the drop zone, but Clint Dempsey's Fulham scored a big win thanks to a turn-back-the-clock day for Damien Duff. Click to continue reading...

Getting relegated sucks. Nobody ever goes down without a fight, but really, there's only so much you can do in that situation. I mean, it's like you can formally ask a higher power for a legitimate miracle to save your club from the clutches of demotion, right? After all, it's only football.

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Ah well, I suppose we won't have to worry about the damn Champions' League next year, will we? You know, barring a miracle run to the Supporters' Shield or MLS Cup...if we even make the playoffs. Pity that our keeper is a psycho and that our coach,... Click to continue reading...

If you are Paul Hart - by far the bookies' favorite to become the first sacked manager in the Premier League this season - you would need a miracle to save Portsmouth from relegation at this point. Four games into the new season, Pompey are yet to scrap up a single point, which is a clear indicator of how the team roster was in desperate need of major bolstering on the final day of transfers.

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If you take a peek at the standings in Allsvenskan after the twentieth round you could easily believe that the battle at the top was as close as ever. If you actually saw the games of the twentieth round you'd wonder what in the world happened to a couple of these top contenders. Elfsborg may only have a one point lead at the moment, but they are clearly growing into a heavy title favorite. Click to continue reading...