Back in the 1950s and 60s, the Southend Odeon was THE place in south Essex to see not just nationally, but internationally famous acts and groups. Doubling up as a cinema and an auditorium, the Odeon - on Southend High Street - was consistently putting on major shows and acts to more than 2,000 people at a time. Click to continue reading...

Episode 19 of the Premiership Talk Podcast has been released. This episode was hosted by Premiership Talk writers Brian Lofrumento and Zain Alvi as photographer Faraaz Naqvi made a guest appearance on the show.

Listen to the three dissect all of the weekend's Premier League action and all of the emerging discussion points.

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We are currently looking for a Voluntary match day photographer to take photos at home and away games if possible photos will then be featured on this site after each game's will be starting at Huddersfield Town on Saturday so if you are going to the game and want to take up the role please contact me at jon@stockportinsider.

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One team I sponsor in the Online Soccer Academy family is the U-11 Aztecs Thunder near San Diego, California. One of their players, Mat Schumacher you have seen a few times on this blog. His mom, Carey Schumacher is incredible and the main reason they have such an awesome website and team blog!

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Browsing PA's football photo archive, I was struck by King Keggy's remarkable, unflinching lack of dignity. Kev, Pies salutes you -Â as does every tabloid photographer who ever snapped you. Click on the picture below to launch the photos......

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Not sure why these three are looking so moody! They are getting shed loads of cash!

The photographer must have tried to get them in character

"Come on guys look nasty, look focused that will help sell the kit, look I'm not feeling it, I need to get you all really feeling really mean.

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ASN's ace photographer Chris Hazard was front and center for the Carlsberg Cup between Toronto FC and River Plate at BMO Field earlier this week. The game itself ended in a scoreless draw that was ultimately decided by penalty kicks. (Be sure to read ASN's match report and get the TFC player ratings from this match). Click to continue reading...

Ilves have been playing again for a season and a half now, and for the most part they've been up near the top of the Kakkonen group B table. Tampere photographer Petteri Lehtonen has been following them, and has kindly agreed to allow NFN to use his photos to bring a little bit of Kakkonen to our readers.

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Before the days of MagicGrease and kicking photographer's side windows... he had Ronaldo Lima's hair / via AFP

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Talked with Jimmy after practice yesterday. He discusses the last game, what the team need to do and about his loss as the Captain of the White media team...This is the "Bad News Bears" soccer moment Jimmy talks about. Conrad, Hohlbein and Hartman collide while going for the ball...Conrad and Guillermo Barros Schelotto, think the photographer got Jimmy's good side? Click to continue reading...

Here are a a few pictures from today's training in Estadio Ricardo Saprissa.
We arrived at the stadium at about 5 p.m. to a minor crowd of people that had gathered by the locker room. They gave us a few spirited boos - all in good fun of course...
We waited while the Saprissa youth team vacated the field. Click to continue reading...

Good news...

David Lloyd and myself have won awards from the New Football Pools Fanzine Awards.

Best Premier League Print Fanzine – ‘There's Only One 'F' in Fulham' – Fulham FC
Packed with content, and very professionally put together TOOFIF combines interesting articles with an amusing & light hearted look at the goings on at Craven Cottage.

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Last night saw the West Java derby played out at Jalak Harupat Stadium in Soreang and it ended with Pelita Jaya continuing their recent fine run by defeating Persib Bandung, in no mean form themselves, 2-1.
I congratulated Fandi and this was his reply
'Good stuff. Raining bottles and stones, we had to leave by armoured car as they terroised the stadium. Click to continue reading...

So kiddo's, Mother's Day is next Sunday and Father's Day is in June. Are you ready yet to say thanks? It's not too late to share not only photos, but keepsake gifts and clothing imprinted with photos of you, by your favorite soccer photographer.

Check out my photo ordering website where you can get not only standard prints but plenty of other options as well.

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So kiddo's, Mother's Day is next Sunday and Father's Day is in June. Are you ready yet to say thanks? It's not too late to share not only photos, but keepsake gifts and clothing imprinted with photos of you, by your favorite soccer photographer.

Check out my photo ordering website where you can get not only standard prints but plenty of other options as well.

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So I wore my scarf today, and my Emerald Pitch tee, and in reading the Seattle Times blog, I notice that they adapted it a little bit. What are you doing to grow the sport in this fair city? Have you noticed people's attitudes toward soccer changing? And Larry Stone as a photographer? National Baseball [. Click to continue reading...

Stuff to read while you notice something coming through your viewfinder at a high speed......... Screw Champions League - talking midtable Slovenian football. (uefa) Viral videos are just getting plain lazy. (Unprofessional Foul) Arsene's methods forcing the Gunners to regress? (guardian) Michel Platini unopposed to a Yugoslav reunion (no hard feelings). Click to continue reading...