As 20 year old Italian Marco Faraoni watched the ball drop onto his right boot before unleashing
an unstoppable dipping volley beyond the reaches of Antonio Mirante, it capped what was a
dominating performance for the Nerazzurri, and arguably their most complete performance since the
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Jonathan Wilson on Villas-Boas.
"Rome wasn't built in a day," Brian Clough once said. "But then I wasn't on that particular
job." It's a great line, but the truth is that the majority of managers need time.
As Camp Junior Mint (U-23) gets underway in Florida this week, Jurgen Klinsmann should be
shortly submitting his roster for who gets an Evite to the annual Camp Cupcake in Carson, CA.
This will of course be Klinsmann's first time selecting for the camp that normally sees
predominant enrollment of fringe US and Nordic domestic league players.
Winning, as successful managers are wont to say at moments of extreme hubris, is a habit. If
there is anything to this theory and whether we should be taking what managers say during times of
success at face value is, of course, a matter for conjecture in itself then we can probably assume
that losing can become a habit, and there are few clubs that have developed as much of a habit over
the course of 2011 as Lincoln City.
It would seem the lower reaches of the Argentina domestic pyramid would be the place of choice
if one is interested in a football-MMA mashup. This week's offering is no less the all-out insanity
than we've seen in recent times, and includes such don't-drop-the-soap-joke inducing moves such as
kicking a prone player in the head with a running start.
In the late nineties, Fulham supporter Ormondroyd started following his exploits around the
country by producing an illustrated match report for each game. As Fulham were at the lower reaches
of the Football League at the time, his accurate depictions of Northampton's Sixfields Stadium, and
Notts County defender Matt Redmile may have been lost on the world at large however, he was soon
spotted by the Guardian and started producing a weekly strip on the football world in
general.
In the first of a possible new series, EPL Talk offers the rash, abrasive and mostly ignorant views
of a tabloid publication from the far-flung reaches of Rupert Murdoch's empire, Talk of the World.
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Rough week for River Plate fans, as they face the distinct reality of their team being dropped
from the Argentina Primera Division into relative obscurity, the very nature of the lower reaches.
So they, as many a fan would do, protested.
And then saw insult added to injury in the form of a massive water cannon.
Shocking revelations unearthed from the bowels of the German interwebs:
Men like football more than women. (!)
Well, that's sort of a foregone conclusion which requires a definitive scientific study as much
as the lower reaches of calcio or Lance Armstrong's B sample. But it's true men like both men's
football and women's football more, as they're much more excited for the Women's World Cup than the
women.
Why Mark Hughes was wrong to leave Fulham - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
For the second season in succession, Fulham find themselves in the difficult situation of
searching for a new manager through no volition of their own. Little more than eleven months after
Roy Hodgson left the club for his ill-fated stint at the helm of Liverpool, Mark Hughes has decided
to activate a clause in his contract meaning that he will depart at the end of the month.
By Chris Wright
In which Snoop Dogg shows up on stage in North London wearing a QPR shirt a team which very much
hail from the western reaches of the nation's capital to perform 'Wet', a melodious little ditty
about humping your shorty's brains out...
I'm sure there's a crap 'Cristal Palace' pun in there somewhere.
The Premier League retakes centre stage after a weekend off and there are some crucial clashes at
both ends of the table. Sir Alex Ferguson will not be in the dugout when Manchester United host
Bolton on Saturday as the Red Devils look to put more room between themselves and Arsenal, who go
to West Brom.
