See The Cup 18 November @ 09:06 PM EST
No more. Done. Finito. Acabou. The fight for the 32 golden spots to play the most
exciting football (and sports) tournament on the planet has ended. Some big ones almost did not
manage. And some return after 24 years.
Today was the day for the last 6 squads to qualify. The brave (or lucky?
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Goal video highlights from the Slovenia vs Russia Second Leg World Cup Playoff Tie at Stadion
Ljudski vrtin Maribor. The first leg in Moscow ended 2-1 in favour of the Russians. Final full time
score :- Slovenia 1-0 Russia ( Zlatko Dedic 44′) The game ends 2-2 on aggregate, but Slovenia
qualify for the 2010 World Cup [.
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The Desert Foxes (not making this up either) beat Egypt 1-0
with a first half goal from Anthar Yahia of Germany's VfL Bochum. Last appeared in
the finals in Mexico 86, where they drew with Northern Ireland but lost to
Spain and Brazil.
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On Saturday night, Russia defeated Slovenia 2-1 in the first leg of their World Cup Playoff, in
Russia. Russia had gone 2-0 up, thanks to a double from Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, however Slovenia
scored in the 88th minute with a goal from Nejc Pecnik, that has kept the Slovenians alive in the
tie, especially with a crucial away goal.
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The UEFA 2011 U-21 European Championships are less than a few years away as the qualification
process is underway. On Tuesday, November 17, 2009 there are several matches including France,
England, Northern Ireland, and Italy all in action. Some of the matches will be covered live on our
other site, Free Live Sports TV, at the links below.
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Monday 16th November
19:45 Coleraine v Glenavon, IFA Premiership, Sky Sports 1 & HD1
Not much to talk about this week. The last knockings of World Cup qualifying is underway with
precious little local interest. So instead, Sky have wheeled out this rare gem from Northern
Ireland.
Tuesday 17th November
19:45 Northern Ireland v Czech Republic, U21 International , Sky Sports 1& HD1
This is a European Championship Qualifier.
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Bad day for England, Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland who all lost today.The Republic who
lost 1-0 at home to France in their World Cup play-off 1st leg at Croke Park to leave them with an
uphill task to qualify for South Africa next summer, away leg on Wednesday.England played the
mighty Brazil without alot of injured players in Quatar and lost to a Nilmar goal on 47 mins.
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Video goal highlights from the Republic of Ireland vs France first leg World Cup 2010 playoff game
on November 14, 2009- Saturday. Game kicks off at Croke Park, Dublin- 20.00 GMT. Big, big game for
the Irish- they need a good result here ahead of the second leg in Paris. Ireland vs France
highlights and team [.
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Video Goal highlights from the first leg Russia vs Slovenia European FIFA 2010 World Cup Playoff
game on Saturday, November 14, 2009. Game kicks off at the Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow at 16.00 UK
time. Half time score :- Russia 1-0 Slovenia ( Diniyar Bilyaletdinov 40′) Russia 1-0 Slovenia (
Diniyar Bilyaletdinov 40′ goal) Fantastic strike from Bilyaletdinov.
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Saturday 14 November
07.00 New Zealand v Bahrain, World Cup Qualifying Play-off 2nd Leg (0-0), British Eurosport
A treat for early risers to decide the 24th qualifier for next summer's World Cup. A goalless first
leg sees the All Whites as narrow favourites to progress. Bahrain haven't relied on Brazialian
ringers for their success (unlike their neighbours) and fully deserve their shot at getting to the
finals.
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The UEFA region has several qualifying matches in the next few days for the 2011 U-21 European
Championships. This tournament is a chance for the future stars of each country to get experience
on an international stage. On Friday, November 13, 2009, there are several matches including
Hungary v Italy, Belgium v Ukraine, Â Spain v Finland, Northern Ireland v Germany, and Netherlands
v Liechtenstein.
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It's a busy weekend of international matches on Saturday, November 14, 2009 in the world of
soccer. In UEFA there are playoff matches in 2010 World Cup Qualifying while other regions such as
CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, and AFC also have qualification matches taking place. Many matches will be
televised and here's a full set of TV listings for the United States and United Kingdom.
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Major League Soccer's decision to conduct its semifinal playoff rounds at the same time as this
international break has severally hamstrung Bob Bradley's selection. With two very interesting
friendlies against European sides that have already qualified for next summer's World Cup, these
matchups would have provided an opportunity to test some of the best we have to offer.
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Today, our tifo series swings to Asia for the first time.
We check out Japanese fans at the Nabisco Cup (also known as the J-League Cup) final between
Kawasaki Frontale and FC Tokyo, held earlier this week.
This video is a little slow to get going, but there's some gorgeous colour, some impressive
banners, and generally well choreographed displays from supporters of both teams.
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Anfield Talk 03 November @ 04:43 PM EST
Representatives from Manchester United and Liverpool lead a list of twelve Premier League clubs who
are expected to watch QPR wonderkid Raheem Sterling in action this week.
Sterling has been picked for the England Under-16 side to play Northern Ireland in the Victory
Shield on Thursday.
Scouts from United and Liverpool were in attendance at a QPR Under-18 match over the weekend to
have another look at the striker.
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QPR Report 01 November @ 03:02 PM EST
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QPR Official Site - RAHIM CALLED UPSun 01 Nov 2009
- QPR starlet Rahim Sterling has been named in England's Under-16 squad for this week's
international fixture with Northern Ireland.
- Despite being just 14, Sterling has already featured - and scored - for QPR's Under-18s this
season, and is widely tipped to achieve great success within the game.
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Our tifo video series rolls across from Belgium to Switzerland, and we find ourselves in
Lausanne, a small French-speaking city perhaps best known as the headquarters of the International
Olympic Committee.
Swiss club FC Lausanne-Sport, founded in 1896 and successful for their first half-century,
haven't won the league championship for other forty years.
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This week, our new tifo video series has shown displays from supporters in Australia, Northern
Ireland and Sweden.
Now we make a short hop to Belgium to take a look at supporters of KV Mechelen, a team who have
historically been close to becoming a dominant force in the Belgian league, but who have somehow
often fallen short.
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Our series on supporter tifo displays on Pitch Invasion jumps from Northern Ireland to
Sweden.
Below is a compilation of displays by supporters of AIK (Allmänna Idrottsklubben). AIK were
founded in 1891, and after being one of the dominant forces in the early decades of the Swedish
league, have only had sporadic success in recent years.
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Our new series on Pitch Invasion moves all the way from Australia to Northern Ireland, as we
look at the growing ultras culture in the IFA Premiership.
Glentoran are the current champions of the league, and their supporters' group Legion 1882
(which references the year the club was founded) was formed just two years ago.
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In anticipation of World Cup 2010, from time to time Premiership Talk will review some of the
interesting topics in international football. This week we'll start with the list of the ten best
players who have never appeared in the World Cup, courtesy of World Cup Odds. You can vote for your
choice at their website.
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The FIFA World Rankings were released today with little change in the top ten. The one exception
is Russia dropping several spots, and Portugal moving into the top 10. The top 2 remain unchanged
with Brazil on top and Spain close behind. The rest of the top ten is the Netherlands, Italy,
Germany, Argentina, England, Croatia, France, and Portugal.
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The Czech Republic's fate rested in the hands of San Marino who were unable to prevent Slovenia
from winning and rendered this game meaningless.
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Off the Post 14 October @ 05:44 AM EST
Tabloid offers pretty low reward for pretty impossible task The Czech Republic recognises that its
chances of qualifying for the World Cup are pretty bleak. They need to beat Northern Ireland
tonight and hope that minnows San Marino can beat Slovenia to allow them to sneak into a play-off
spot. Czech newspaper Blesk is offering San [.
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Hello again, it's a brief one this evening but we'll have another couple of posts before the
weekend with more news from the final round of qualifiers and a Premiership preview.
Our unbeaten run went out of the window at the weekend, but we're not reading too much into it:
if Rio Ferdinand is having a 'blip' we'd rather he had it now than next June and
imagine how disappointing it would have been if we'd been unbeaten until the first game of the
tournament proper.
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FOOTBALLSUP 12 October @ 04:48 AM EST
England had already qualified before their defeat to the Ukraine - several other teams joined
them on Saturday, including Italy after their last gasp equaliser against Ireland. Read on for a
full round up of what is left to be decided (when time is short and articles are factual we tend to
reproduce the best of the rest - that's the case here, lawyers, we are reprinting an article from
the ever-excellent Football365.
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Monday 12th October
19:45 Tranmere Rovers v Stockport County, League One, Sky Sports 1/HD1Rovers are now John Barnes-free after a pretty awful start to the campaign. County are only a few
places above them. Needless to say both teams are skint and don't have much to work with, squad
wise.
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By the end of the weekend, we'll probably have a much better idea of who will joining the
countries who have already qualified for South Africa, who will be in the play offs and which (if
any) of the major footballing powers will be watching England on TV. Here's a quick guide to the
various scenarios that will be played out around the world today:
EUROPE
Group 1: wide open.
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Quick look at the most meaningful World Cup qualifiers Saturday. Home teams first, all times
Eastern, all predictions wrong.
ASIA/OCEANIABahrain-New Zealand (11:30 a.m., FSC). First leg of a playoff to send a team to the World Cup that
will excite no one.
EUROPE (second-to-last group games unless noted -- group winners advance, eight
runners-up advance to playoff)
Group 1: Portugal-Hungary (3:40 p.
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In Europe, three teams have already won their World Cup qualifying groups, earning passage to South
Africa. After Saturday's action we will have a good idea who will win five of the other groups,
with only Group 2 likely to remain in the balance. By the time Wednesday's final round of
qualifying kicks off, Denmark, Italy, Serbia and Slovakia could be booking plane tickets to South
Africa, along with the winner of Russia and Germany.
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Off the Post 30 September @ 04:36 AM EST
Man Yoo marriage gaffe Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson left defender Jonny Evans red-faced
when he suggested it was time for the Northern Ireland international to get married. Fergie wasn't
aware that Evans' girlfriend, Kate Wathall, was sat among the assembled journalists. Evans said: "I
don't really want to talk about that here.
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Zakumi awaitsWe have a month before world cup qualifying concludes its final group stages, so I thought it would
be fun for the next few weeks to look at each continental zone that is still in play.
November will have playoffs in Europe for their four remaining spots, the CONCACAF/CONMEBOL
showdown (which can be either a dullard like Costa Rica- Venezuela, or a blockbuster like
Argentina-USA – stay tuned), and the world-stopping Bahrain-New Zealand tilt.
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10am, live in the US on espn2
Last 4 head-to-head:0-1 Burnley (a; FA Cup) 01.18.05
1-0 Liverpool (h; FA Cup) 01.04.97
1-0 Liverpool (h; League Cup) 02.07.95
0-0 (a; League Cup) 01.28.95
Last three matches:Liverpool: 3-2 Bolton (a); 1-3 Villa (h); 4-0 Stoke (h)
Burnley: 0-3 Chelsea (a); 2-1 aet Hartlepool (a); 1-0 Everton (h)
Goalscorers (league):Liverpool: Torres 3; Gerrard, Johnson 2; Kuyt, Ngog 1
Burnley: Blake, Elliott 1
Referee: Lee Mason
Guess at a squad:Reina
Johnson Carragher Skrtel Insua
Benayoun Gerrard Lucas Riera
Kuyt Torres
I'd love to write ‘Same as against Stoke please,' because there's a good chance the game could
play out similarly, but I doubt the international break will allow it.
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There very nearly wasn't a blog again today. I don't know what's been wrong with me lately but
I've found posting daily hard work. There's been a lot going on, but none of it Arsenal related and
I suppose during the interlull it's easy to get out of the way of things. I don't know how this
blog will turn out, they aren't usually very good when I'm forcing myself, but hey-ho.
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