Anfield Talk 11 November @ 11:48 AM EST
Glen Johnson has pulled out of the England squad to face Brazil on Saturday in Doha after picking
up a slight injury in Liverpool's 2-2 draw against Birmingham City at Anfield on Monday night.
The 25-year-old played the full 90 minutes of the Premier League game before joining up with his
England team-mates, where he underwent a routine recovery session while the rest of the squad
trained at London Colney.
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There are several international friendlies on Saturday, November 14, 2009 while the final 2010
World Cup Final spots are determined. One of the more high profile friendlies is England v Brazil
which will be at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar. Both nations have qualified for
next summer's world cup and are two of the favorites to advance far into the tournament.
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The standard of Arsenal's goalkeepers has come into question but changes in the modern game mean
there is more to the position than shot-stopping.
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If goalkeepers are crazy then imagine having to summon the sparse vestiges of your sanity to
defend three of them.
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Off the Post 02 November @ 03:28 AM EST
1. Congratulations to Robert Green, who went fishing on Saturday afternoon and caught a Kieran
Richardson. 2. Rafa Benitez's chances of getting the Right Guard contract have gone. Now that is a
man under pressure. 3. With nine red cards this was officially the dirtiest weekend in Premier
League history.
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Arseblog 26 October @ 02:38 AM EST
After the late equaliser in the Champions League game last week the manager and a number of the
players went on record saying we couldn't afford to be that sloppy again. We would have to learn
from the mistake we made.
Sadly for us that lesson hasn't been learned yet and while a draw away from home isn't a bad
result on paper, the circumstances of yesterday's 2-2 with West Ham make the result most
frustrating.
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Arsenal threw away the chance of a fifth straight Premier League win as West Ham battled back to
earn a 2-2 draw at Upton Park on Sunday.
The Gunners had looked in complete control following first-half goals from Robin van Persie and
William Gallas.
However, Carlton Cole pulled a goal back before substitute Alessandro Diamanti netted a late
penalty.
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EPL Talk 25 October @ 02:53 PM EST
There is reason to be concerned.
If AZ Alkmaar was a foreshadowing, the Gunners did their best to not heed the warning. Anyone
who has watched this team over the past five years knew what was coming, both in the Netherlands
and at Upton Park. It's just too predictable.
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Soccerblog 25 October @ 02:39 PM EST
Coming from a long-time Arsenal fan, this article is not easy to write; but at
the same time, if any fan of football today chose to watch Arsenal vs West Ham, you would have seen
a pattern like this:
Arsenal take the lead through an attacking move with less than 6 passes (the
most common move of scoring a goal, as stated in Inverting The Pyramid) and partly due to
an error by the England first-choice goalkeeper, Robert Green.
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I officially have no voice. It is not very nice and I am resorting to writing insults down and
showing them to the intended recipient rather than just shouting it at them. Some people might say
its karma, I just call it a bloody annoyance, and a painful one at that.
So we make the short trip to Upton Park today and it has been the scene of many a hardfought
game over the past few years and on a few occasions we have come out of it with a big fat 0
points.
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Welcome to Ask The Oppo! Today we talk to Dave Hunt, an Upton Park season ticket holder from
Aylesbury, Bucks...
Eldo71: You lot finished 9th last season, played some reasonable football along
the way and the hopes for the new season were high under Gianfranco Xola and Steve Clarke.
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The formidable midfield duo
Upton Park is where our focus is today. Gianfranco Zola's West Ham faces exactly the same
turmoil as Arsenal's previous opponent, AZ Alkmaar, financially stuttering that is.They have sold
close to 10 players since last year just to offset some of the monetary difficulties but have kept
virtually the core of the team in Robert Green, Matthew Upson, Scott Parker, David Noble and
Carlton Cole.
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Jogaram pelas eliminatórias da Europa, na cidade de Dnepropetrovsk, no estádio Dnipro Arena, para
um público de 31.000 pessoas, as seleções da Ucrânia (22º no ranking da FIFA) e Inglaterra
(7º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções apenas jogaram:
31-05-2000 - Inglaterra 2x0 Ucrânia (Amistoso)
18-08-2004 - Inglaterra 3x0 Ucrânia (Amistoso)
01-04-2009 - Inglaterra 2x1 Ucrânia (Eliminatórias Copa do Mundo)
O quarteto de arbitragem foi assim definido:
Árbitro: Damir SKOMINA-SVN
Primeiro Assistente: Primoz AHAR-SVN
Segundo Assistente: Marko STANCIN-SVN
Quarto Árbitro: Darko CEFERIN-SVN
Aos 12 minutos de jogo, ocorreu a primeira expulsão no jogo, do goleiro 1, Robert GREEN, da
seleção da Inglaterra.
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goalpost.tv 16 October @ 02:41 AM EST
.The eight successive International win came to a halt with a loss away to Ukraine in Dnipro
Stadium on Oct 10. Ukraine won the match with one goal scored by Sergei Najarenko at 29 minutes.
Coach Fabio Capello was disappointed as England failed to impress with big names like Gareth Barry,
Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand, [.
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Fabio will be looking for a good performance to end a great World Cup qualifying campaign.
Watch England vs Belarus Live Online!
England manager Fabio Capello will start with Gabriel Agbonlahor and Peter Crouch for
Wednesday's World Cup qualifier against Belarus at Wembley.
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Off the Post 14 October @ 05:03 AM EST
An ulterior motive for England keeper's red card? Last time Robert Green faced Belarus it put paid
to his World Cup dream. The England goalkeeper handed the opposition a goal when he injured himself
taking a goal-kick. The injury ruled him out of the 2006 World Cup, so maybe he is better out of
harm's way [.
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Footy Factor 14 October @ 02:13 AM EST
Either it's a harbinger for the misery to come or the prologue to one of the greatest sports upsets
ever, but England will arrive in South Africa next summer brandishing new lows in their quality
of goalkeeping. Never before have the
Three Lions been represented at the
World Cup by a keeper who has just finished the season with a side that got relegated.
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Weirdly, I'm kind of excited for England vs Belarus. Neither team has anything to play for, but
with Rooney and Gerrard out injured (or as The Fiver put it yesterday: "Wayne Rooney has pulled out
of the game against Belarus at Wembley with a severe case of having his wages paid by Manchester
United.
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Anfield Talk 13 October @ 01:13 PM EST
Steven Gerrard will miss England's final World Cup qualifying match against Belarus at Wembley
tomorrow after limping out of training this morning.
Fabio Capello, the England manager, confirmed the Liverpool captain had been sent back to his club
to have his troublesome groin injury assessed.
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England wraps up its UEFA 2010 World Cup Qualifying on Wednesday, October 14, 2009. Neither team
has anything play for as Belarus is out of contention for qualification and England has already
clinched their ticket to South Africa. The match will be televised on ITV in the UK and Fox Soccer
Channel in the USA.
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Do excuse me while I momentarily don my England hat: this missive, from one of the souls
frequently to be found loitering around AANP Towers, appeared on football365.com earlier today:
Whatever the rights and wrongs of Rio's concentration lapse, the curious manner in which Green
was sent off, the withdrawal of Lennon and the fact that we lost, it strikes me as far more useful
than if we'd played with 11 and coasted to a comfy victory.
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Apologies for the predictable headline. But Mr. Ferdinand's moment of Sunday league defending
madness, which led to Robert Green's sending off and should have led to Ukraine's first goal (poor
Shevchenko put the pen wide) seems to have more or less cost us this game.
As I say seems to, because I didn't watch.
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Off the Post 12 October @ 10:11 AM EST
1. Even great defenders can forget how to defend Rio Ferdinand picked up from his shocker in the
Manchester derby last month with another somewhat dubious display of decision-making as Robert
Green became England's first dismissal of the Capello era. However, the game presented a perfect
‘can do no wrong' opportunity for the English: win [.
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Dirty Tackle 11 October @ 04:48 PM EST
In the opening minutes of Saturday's Ukraine v England match, England keeper Robert Green was
forced to scurry out of his goal as the Ukrainian fans hurled flares onto the pitch. Once the
threat of being pegged with a fireball and burning alive subsided, the unnerved goalkeeper promptly
went on to earn the first red card for England since Wayne Rooney in the last World Cup.
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BWFC 24 11 October @ 09:39 AM EST
A brief summary of each Bolton Wanderers player who has been on international duty this
weekend.
England U21 6 – 3 Macedonia U21
Fabrice Muamba came on for Peterborough United's Danny Rose with 20 minutes to
go. Unfortunately Muamba's most notable contribution seems to be that he may have injured Micah
Richards when he collided with the Manchester City defender.
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After Robert Green was sent off against Ukraine yesterday afternoon for England (mainly thanks to
Rio Ferdinand). Boss
Fabio Capello has called up Man United goalkeeper
Ben Foster to
the
England squad.
Foster wasn't named in the original squad due to a chest injury.
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The moment that England's chances of winning the 2010 World Cup ended came in the fifteenth minute
in Dnepropetrovsk yesterday.
At that time, for the second occasion this season in England internationals, Rio Ferdinand, already
well versed in defensive shenanigans at Old Trafford, did huge favours for David "Calamity" James,
Key Sports agents and bookmakers throughout the land.
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In an exciting day and evening of World Cup qualifiers across the globe, Côte d'Ivoire, Mexico,
Paraguay, Serbia, Denmark, Germany and Italy qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
In Europe, England lost their 100% record in Group 6 after goalkeeper Robert Green was dismissed
early in the first half and Nazarenko's deflected goal was enough for the hosts in a match marred
by flares thrown from the crowd.
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The ignominious sending off of Robert Green just 15 minutes into the game seemed ominous.England's
perfect record of winning all eight of their World Cup qualifiers was punctured by a defeat in
Ukraine Dnipropetrovsk. Serhiy Nazarenko 29th minute deflected goal gave Ukraine a 1-0 win over
Fabio Capello's 10-men team at the Dnipro Stadium.
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England's 100% FIFA World Cup 2010 qualifying record came to an end today when they went down 0-1
at the Ukraine. Goalkeeper Robert Green was ejected after only 13 minutes for a foul on Artem
Milevskiy. Former Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko sent substitute goalie David James the wrong
way on the ensuing penalty kick but struck the [.
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It was another full day of World Cup Qualifying including Ukraine hosting England on Saturday in
the UEFA region. England has already clinched their spot next summer while Ukraine is looking to
place 2nd to win a playoff spot. Here's a full recap of the match along with video highlights for
the match on Saturday, October 10, 2009.
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Ukraine toppled an average England side and put themselves in a great position to overhaul
Croatia and take second spot in Group 6.
Robert Green Sent off
Shevchenko Missed Penalty
Flares Thrown Onto Pitch
1-0 Nazerenko
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Ukraine toppled an average England side and put themselves in a great position to overhaul
Croatia and take second spot in Group 6.
Robert Green Sent off
Shevchenko Missed Penalty
Flares Thrown Onto Pitch
1-0 Nazerenko
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Firstly, apologies that we've missed a couple of weeks on the Premiership front due to
obligations elsewhere but as England have their last qualifying games for the 2010 World Cup coming
up and it would be missing the point of the entire blog for to ignore them, we're back for a two
part preview of the qualifiers that are taking place all over the world over the next week or
so.
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Where did all the heroes go?
Watch Ukraine Vs England Live Online!
David James is as old as Methuselah(officially), Ben Foster has hands made out of butter
(official), Paul Robinson still bears the scars of previous England and Tottenham gaffes, Robert
Green and Chris Kirkland aren't considered big enough names, so just who is England's number
one?
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EPL Talk 06 October @ 06:41 AM EST
As we enter into another International break, many Hammers fans will quietly be asking
themselves that exact same question. Inspired by Nick Frost's (Shaun of the Dead, Hot
Fuzz, Spaced) twitter feed over the weekend, I quickly realized what a passionate yet
disheartened bunch the Hammers supporters are this year.
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