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Does God care about soccer?� There are certainly a good number of players, fans, and teams who think it likely.� Take Diego Maradona bringing "his Argentina squad to mass to pray for a World Cup miracle."� Or take Fred earning a yellow card for celebrating a DC United goal with the message "Jesus Loves You.

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On this side of the world, the games between Liverpool and Manchester United carry more significance than the games against their local sides Everton and Man City. Traditionally, fans follow a particular club, because of their geographical proximity to the club, family affiliations and/or religion. But on this side of the world, fans become fans [. Click to continue reading...

This advert is probably the best and the most famous football advert for those of you who have been Sky Sports fans since it was created. Sheffield United fan Sean Bean fronts this fantastic advert...

Life

It can be difficult

You know that

We all need someone to rely on

Someone who's going to be there

Someone who's going to make you feel like you belong

Someone constant

It's ectasy, anguish, joy and despair
Part of our history
Part of our country
And it will be part of our future
It's theatre, art, war and love
It should be predictable .

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"El barbon siempre me ha ayudado antes y espero que lo haga otra vez." Esas fueron las palabras de Maradona en una reciente entrevista con FIFA.com sobre la posibilidad de que Argentina se quede fuera del Mundial. Claro, cuando se refiere a que Barbas lo ha ayudado antes, Diego se refiere a la vez que salio vivo despues que fue hospitalizado por hepatitis aguda toxica y de su pasado con la drogas, sobrepeso y todo eso. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal and Russia midfielder Andrey Arshavin has given his complete support to the Council of Europe's "Speak out against Discrimination" campaign.

Speaking of football as a game which unites everyone regardless of race, religion, or social origin, the 28-year old also added how life can easily be compared to the game.

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Famed street artist, international man of mystery, and rumored Bristol City fan Banksy has his hometown all excited not only for the ongoing exhibition at the City Museum and Gallery, but a new work that showed up on the side of a pub close to Bristol City's Ashton Gate ground just days before the club's first home match against Crystal Palace on Saturday.

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The Pharaohs perform namaz after their win against Italy

Blatter was very critical of the Seleccao for huddling together in prayer after they won the Confederations Cup final against the USA. He called their gesture "a danger" and said there was "no room for religion in soccer."

Blatter also promised he would prohibit any kind of religious expression during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

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The Spoiler has found an interesting vid from the Norwegian league featuring two Bosnian Muslim players prostrating in prayer after a goal, only to be pseudo-sodomized by teammate Espen Nystuen.
The object of offense might be obvious, but am I the only one more offended by the preposterous notion that Allah the Benificent, the Merciful would give a Goddamn over a garbage strike scored in a lonely Scandinavian league? Click to continue reading...

It isn't easy, this media business. Where once you could charge for content and get advertisers to pad revenues, nowadays you can pretty much forget about either one. Free content is viewed as a God-given right these days right up there with freedom of speech, of assembly, religion, etc. Meanwhile corporations take things that have always been free (water for example.

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We're getting ever closer! The Daily Mail, who else, has been compiling a countdown list of the 50 worst signings in Premier League history and today they unveiled numbers 20-11! (it's like an advent calendar, without the chocolate and the religion) 20 Harry Kewell (Leeds to Liverpool, £5m - 2003) 19 Corrado Grabbi . Click to continue reading...

...that my three man-crushes are George Clooney, Jon Hamm, and ... Craig Finn?

I mean, how can you not love a guy who writes lyrics like, "She got screwed up by religion/She got screwed by soccer players."?

And yeah, I know it's been a long time since I've done a Dudes Who Look Like Craig Finn post.

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I'm putting out an all-points bulletin requesting the kind of clever tabloid headline a story like this deserves. The New England Revolution has announced that defender Chase Hilgenbrinck has decided to leave the club and retire from soccer to enter a Catholic seminary in Maryland to prepare for a new career in the ministry. Click to continue reading...

Normally I don't condone talking about a players race, religion, sexuality or wife & children. But in the cae fo the photo above, the Screaming Eagles kind of have a point. Sorry Posh, but they can hit them highs in way that you can't...they are the Mariah Carey of supporters groups.
Depending on what part of the country you are in you'll need to either skip church, wake up early or not even go to sleep to watch Sunday's 12pm EST match between DC United and LA Galaxy, a game we're calling "The Nooner" here at TOR Towers. Click to continue reading...

Interesting. Lafferty was, of course, a Lawrie Sanchez target. What intrigues me is the possibility of Rangers being a Northern Ireland attraction. We know that the blue half of Glasgow and the North part of Ireland are aligned through religion, just as Ireland and Celtic are linked; I wonder if [. Click to continue reading...

Steven Cohen needs to be careful if he keeps peddling drivel like this: "I was told that the Seattle franchise is in advanced negotiations with Thierry Henry." Steve Cohen - World Soccer Daily 3/26/2008 If he doesn't watch himself, he'll end up on the Award Winning Aaron Stollar List of Jews who Disgrace His Faith. Click to continue reading...

After a professional footballer retires, it's rare to ever hear about them again unless it's for the wrong reasons. The thing is that for those recently retired players (and certainly this current generation when they eventually retire) they have so much money that they're set for life, so unless it's to indulge in a spot of punditry for walking-around money, what reason is there to surface again? Click to continue reading...

Many trace the origins of many aspects of Western society to ancient Greece (though not all: in his essay Anthropology and the Savage Slot, Rolph-Michel Trouillot claims that "Greece did not beget Europe. Rather, Europe claimed Greece" [21]). The beginnings of democracy, philosophy, and debate as they are practiced today, it is claimed, can be [. Click to continue reading...

A relatively small, but growing trend in Europe involves Christian converting to Islam. Despite the heated "clash of civilizations" rhetoric that 9/11 has provoked, many people are stepping across the Christian-Muslim divide. Peter Ford wrote in the Christian Science Monitor that "[a]lthough there are no precise figures, observers who monitor Europe's Muslim population estimate that [. Click to continue reading...

Every once in a while, stories pop up in the Western press about odd goings-on at a soccer match in a remote part of the world. These stories contain sordid details of spells placed by witch doctors, animals sacrificed by fans, or objects burned by those seeking to affect the outcome of a game. Click to continue reading...