This weekend I've been busier than a Somali pirate demanding ransom, so I'm trying something a little new [to this site]. If you think it works post your comments below and I'll continue doing it... piece of piss really! Gameweek score: 6 out of 10 NOTE: West Ham v Aston Villa still remains Results: Pompey . Click to continue reading...

This weekend I've been busier than a Somali pirate demanding ransom, so I'm trying something a little new [to this site]. If you think it works post your comments below and I'll continue doing it... piece of piss really! Gameweek score: 6 out of 10 NOTE: West Ham v Aston Villa still remains Results: Pompey . Click to continue reading...

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It's been a bad week for football with racism by fan(s) prominently rearing its head again. Supporters continue to take a stand against racism in the game, but sometimes even their own clubs don't support their efforts in a shocking and petty move, Bristol Rovers management have refused to run an anti-racism ad in the club's matchday magazine by the club's own supporters trust, the Gas Independent Fans' Trust (GIFT).

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I didn't watch the US Men on Saturday.
I know that makes me less of a fan, less of an American and less of a man than you. Fine. I'm good with that.
Here in the far reaches of the wilderness known as rural Pennsylvania, the nearest viewing location I could find was almost 3 hours away, and I simply didn't feel like chasing the pirate feeds as they got shut down one by one as more and more people chased fewer and fewer feeds consisting of grainy, virtually unviewable herky-jerky video with narration I can't understand and a sound quality that would have made Marconi slit his wrists in despair. Click to continue reading...

Typical boring CONCACAF. Mexico and US qualify with room to spare, Central American teams fight for the other spots, and some baseball country along to make it a Hex instead of a Pent. We all saw this coming last year. Ho hum.
So, yeah, that happened.
What more is there to say about Landon Donovan? Click to continue reading...

Honduras 2 U.S. 3

Game story.

Former Galaxy striker Carlos Pavon proved once again why he failed so abysmally in MLS, missing a crucial penalty in the 87th minute for Honduras that sealed the U.S. win. And then he missed another sitter two minutes later.

Still, it looked to me a legitimate Honduras goal was called offside.

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Ah it's that time of the week again, and once again I'm rather late with my match report. Is anyone surprised? I thought not. As always here's the BBC's statistical preview, complete with a rather corny sword/pirate(?) analogy. For some reason this week they actually wrote quite a bit about the game (probably because people in the media actually care about Tottenham), they mention the "iron fist inside Tottenham's velvet glove".

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This is another WPS post, but I wanted to hit some other stuff first.
Chapka may be on to something, even though I couldn't naviagate the Buff site to save my life, and I couldn't figure out from the diagram how to make the pirate headband.
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Ronaldo scored his first goal for Real Madrid as they beat the Ecuadorean side Liga de Quito in the Peace Cup.Ronaldo did the first small bit towards earning the 94million euro transfer fee when he won and then converted a penalty in the 48th minute.
Real Madrid won the game 4 -2 and it was one of Real's less high profile signings of the close season Esteban Granero otherwise known as El Pirata or The Pirate, bought from Getafe, who stole the show with a goal and created another for German international defender Christoph Metzelder.

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If the current rumours appear to be true, Gareth Southgate is trying to do the impossible by luring a legend of the Premier League winners Manchester United, to join a relegated Middlesbrough side that is looking to come right back into the Premiership.

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