With more sub-plots than an Agatha Christie murder mystery we survived a hectic game at Portsmouth
to emerge with all three points. Harry despite press rumours escaped the ordeal intact and only two
of the six players with Tottenham connections were sent off. Man.City failing to win at Wigan means
that we maintain our third place for another week, the first time we have been in such a position
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Three games, three wins. Its taken us nearly fifty years to repeat that opening sequence. The last
time we did that we won the Double. Now I have to be careful here because last time I mentioned
these facts in a thoughtful and sensitive piece entitled provocatively 'Can we win the league this
year? I stirred up a mini hornets' nest of people accusing me of selling the club down the river
and of
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The first name eliminated in Chicago WPS' Name the Team Sweepstakes is "
Chicago
Progress". The name was in honor of Chicago's Century of Progress World's Fair in 1933.
That World's Fair is represented on the City of Chicago's muncipal flag with a six-pointed red
star. Progress' 109 points (2.
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WVHooligan 22 January @ 07:43 AM EST
Sometimes MLS Commissioner Don Garber is a sneaky guy with his words. Last week at the MLS
SuperDraft the ol' Commish threw out a nugget of information that will greatly impact a number of
hopeful expansion cities. "Both Philadelphia and St. Louis are making progress in their plans, and
one of them will be our [.
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I read an article in November 2005 in the Buffalo News about how 2007 would be the year that
signified where Buffalo was going. Forward? Or the same as it has always been? And now that 2007
has come and gone there are mixed signals all around. Clearly this was not the make or break year
[...]
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Buffalo, NY - In 1987, President Ronald Reagan gave a speech in the shadow of the Berlin Wall and
the Brandenburg Gate, imploring the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to
"tear down this wall". [...]
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