Y'all know I love Alarazboy but......."Shake Yo Tailfeather"? Really? You gonna try and bring that back? Puffy and Murphy Lee? C'mon now. That's not even old enough to be old school yet, it's just that awkward in-between phase. Whatevs though. At least the cuts (in the editing & on the field) are tight. Click to continue reading...

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So he's not exactly the world's favourite man right now, but Titipo Henry has officially joined The Dona's recreational volleyball club after his handball against Ireland. Ok, instead of calling him a hypocrite like everyone, let's sit down and have a drink.

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Sniffin' Somtam (And Other Thai Football Habits) is a one off old school fanzine dedicated to promoting the local game.
With contributions by fans of various Thai clubs it offers an introduction to football in the kingdom and some in depth articles about related subjects.
The fanzine, which has 26 A4 pages, costs B50 and will be on sale outside Rajamangala Stadium before tomorrow nights Thailand v Singapore match. Click to continue reading...

Portugal is a country that has always produced wingers of the highest class, from old school stars like Luis Figo to the current legends in the making like Cristiano Ronaldo. Everybody in Portugal always said that Quaresma had an extraordinary amount of talent; a player with speed, toughness, and the ability to create something out of nothing.

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Everyone I have spoken to or who has texted me says the same thing. That Indonesia were crap and that the Uruguay adventure has been a waste of time and money. So there you have it. Everyone says it so it must be true.
But before I jump on that particular bandwagon...
The opening 15 or 20 minutes were as good as anything I've seen from any Indonesian football team since I took up my computer to begin these rambles. Click to continue reading...

Duders. I think it's been obvious over the past couple of months that my productivity levels with regard to this blog have fallen. New commitments have forced me to stretch myself a tad too thin. Of course, my quality of writing is still pristine you know it to be true but I really want to start bombarding the people with a plethora of intelligent, insightful, satirical, comedic, humorous, pompous, demented, borderline insane material.

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A rather blustery morning to you all.

After three old-school Saturday 3pm league kick-offs, we're back at the whim of the televisual gods with a 1.30pm Sunday start. Our game will doubtless be the lesser written about and hyped of the two Sunday games, but that's fine with me. If we can keep chipping away at the fixtures we need to chisel off the slate, that suits me fine.

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The past two nights at my different team sessions and group trainings I coached we have been working on shooting. Ankle locked, toe down, knee over the ball, and land on your kicking foot!

It's an old school video but this is what happens when you get your technique right!

JM

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There was something pleasingly "old school" about Port Vale manager Micky Adams' decision to place his entire first team squad twenty-six players on the transfer list last weekend. Vale have had a disappointing start to the season and have slid down the League Two table to just above the relegation places and after last Saturday's defeat at Notts County, Adams made his pronouncement to the press.

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That's right everyone, the team formerly known as the Wiz is having retro night. The folks of Hillcrest Syndicate and the other supporters' section that make up the Cauldron are putting on an official retro/throw-back night on Saturday, October 24 as D.C. United comes to town. Wear your old-school Wiz/Wizards gear for the match if you will sit in the section or if you just want to support the old rainbow logos. Click to continue reading...

Big Story
The Football Association likes to boast of all its work in grassroots football and developing under-privileged sides of the game, but as we've seen in its continually disappointing treatment of women's football, there's an awful lot more talk than action.

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I believe the Brits refer to the upcoming matches as "squeaky bum time."

(Oh, please. Don't blame me. I didn't create the expression.)

To get our minds off of how much these upcoming qualifiers really, truly matter, here are a couple of videos you might enjoy.

First, best video game video ever: Patrice Evra's career, as seen through old school video games.

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by CARL ELDRIDGE Clear your throats ahead of tonight's rendition of that old school Arsenal classic: "Phillippe Senderos, la, la, la, la. la (repeat to fade)." Because, yes folks, he's back! Just when you thought it was safe to pass your Senderos shirt (I still have my Igor Stepanovs top BTW) to the charity shop, the big Swiss defender returns for the Gunners in tonight's Carling Cup clash with West Brom at the home of football.

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One is "old school", having been a part of Major League Soccer since the early days of 1996. The other is the new kid on the block, and while backed up by a legacy that goes back three decades, is...

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Gaming blogger Brendan Cole from RTE Entertainment Ireland has posted a great gaming review comparing Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 and FIFA 10. Based on Mr. Cole's first look at both game's, it looks like the FIFA franchise may reign supreme again this year for even us Old School PES fans. Here's a particularly disheartening part of [. Click to continue reading...

Now I am never one to blow my own trumpet but I wrote the following blog BEFORE Roy Hodgson was touted as the Great Britain manager at the Olympics and was seen as a future England manager.
As ever PMP is on the pulse of the footballing world.
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This comes to us courtesy of David Falk, the Seattle soccer Examiner:

There is something about the 1970's wavy word logo and turquoise blue that just won't let go of people. Joel DuChesne, for example. He took the time recently to design a very workable third 'kit' option for Sounders FC that would honor the club's NASL brothers of the past.

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Lyon have won their last two matches by an aggregate of 8-1. They beat Belgian club Anderlecht 5-1 in mid-week, Champions League qualifying and followed it today with a 3-0 win at Auxerre. In some ways, they look a club that is only one year removed from seven straight Ligue 1 titles.
In one very distinct way, however, they look like a team that should be docked that seven goal difference. Click to continue reading...

Going old school with this one. A little to much science talk for me but this is an unbelievable goal!

Believe in it!

JM

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photo courtesy mirror.co.uk
Sunderland v Chelsea
Wigan Athletic v Wolverhampton Wanderers
After our grand experiments at the weekend - by the way, please let us know what you thought of the Cover It Live application - we're back to an old-school matchday open thread for today's midweek matches. Click to continue reading...

It looks like all our defensive responsibilities are being pinned on Ledley King for the big kick off against Liverpool at the Lane in two Sundays time. Considering last week Harry was saying our hero was yet to kick a ball this pre season, I'm a little concerned.

What concerns me more is the fact Levy has authorised an £8m deal for a centre back.

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I had a long conversation with Mani Honigstein, who is the brains behind the football social networking site Footbo. An avid Bayern Munich fan, I talked to him about the summer transfers and his views on the season ahead for the Bavarian giants.

Tell us a little about Footbo, and what you are trying to accomplish with it.

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Awaydays is out now (in Europe at least) and The Firm is coming. So can we all just agree to collectively forget Green Street Hooligans now? I would also appreciate it if we could all start wearing old-school Fila tracksuits at all times...so fly. Click to continue reading...

The first Saturday of August in England and it's raining; football weather. Normally this would be time to look forward to the new season but when the news broke yesterday that Sir Bobby Robson had passed away it was time to stop and reflect on what an outstanding career he had as a player, coach and manager not only in and for England but also abroad with some of the heavyweights of European club football; he always came across as being a good bloke and one of the last 'old school' football personalities too, something that came across yesterday in the many tributes that were paid to him.

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Alarazboy does it again! Just when you think it can't get any nastier, dude takes it to the gutter then brings it back to his place for a evening of anchovies, Wild Irish Rose and Marvin Sease's "Candy Licker" (the ultimate old-school "Jody" anthem) on repeat. Seriously, this sh*t is so potent that if you're not careful somebody might get pregnant. Click to continue reading...

This Beckham thing just got a whole lot more interesting. I mean, Beckham and his Galaxy teammates trading little verbal pokies like 12-year-old school girls ... that's not so  interesting to me.  (I mean, yes, I have to write about it. But that's just biz, ya know? It's tough on the streets for a workin' man. Click to continue reading...

I'm ashamed of myself for not even mentioning this at all in my two prior posts, but the event at RFK today is a doubleheader. As I'm writing this now, I'm wearing an old school, WUSA-era Abby Wambach tee, back from when she was Mia Hamm's understudy.
Freedom takes on St. Louis Athletica at 5pm, in just over an hour. Click to continue reading...

So it's official. The new Tottenham kits have been unveiled, the home shirt being white with urine-like streaks of yellow across the chest. The away shirts are relatively inoffensive, but if the home kit were a player it would be David Bentley – trying too hard to look flash, when keeping it simple would do the trick.

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So it's official. The new Tottenham kits have been unveiled, the home shirt being white with urine-like streaks of yellow across the chest. The away shirts are relatively inoffensive, but if the home kit were a player it would be David Bentley – trying too hard to look flash, when keeping it simple would do the trick.

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So it's official. The new Tottenham kits have been unveiled, the home shirt being white with urine-like streaks of yellow across the chest. The away shirts are relatively inoffensive, but if the home kit were a player it would be David Bentley – trying too hard to look flash, when keeping it simple would do the trick.

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I may be pretty young but I definitely still remember the Atari Lynx and this game. One thing I did forget though was how freaking big the Atari Lynx was. It was like playing video games on a boulder.......portable, but not really. Click to continue reading...

I may be pretty young but I definitely still remember the Atari Lynx and this game. One thing I did forget though was how freaking big the Atari Lynx was. It was like playing video games on a boulder.......portable, but not really. Click to continue reading...

I only had a few of his songs before moving here (Bloodshot's Turning 5, the hysterical Fountains Of Wayne Hotline, and a cover of Johnny Cash's Cry, Cry, Cry). But a few weeks ago, Matt mentioned him in a Twitter post and I realized that I should get more of his stuff. So I picked up a few of his albums last week and have been loving his old-school country music served up with a wicked sense of humor.

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I am a huge fan of the "FA Archives" show on Fox Soccer Channel. They show matches from 20 to 30 years ago, and it's worth it just from a cultural wayback machine point of view. Seeing the stadium signage for 3M Diskettes and Sperry Computers, for example.

And the haircuts oh my word the haircuts.

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