FUNK SAYS SORRY FOR CUP STUFFING.SCARBOROUGH Athletic manager Rudy Funk apologised to the fans after last night's dismal 5-1 North Riding Cup defeat at the hands of Guisborough Town.Funk's heavily altered side were comfortably second best on the night, but the Borop chief did manage to grab a positive or two.

Boss Rudy Funk decided to give some fringe players a run out in this game, and although it is a fairly minor competition, I could not believe the 5-1 scoreline.
Boro were 4-1 down at half time, and fell even further behind on the hour as Town's David Onion's added his team's 5th goal.

It is the 2nd round of the North Riding Senior Cup tomorrow night (Tuesday) and Boro are home to Guisborough Town in the competition.
This is a minor competition and I personally feel that the £7 admission fee will deter many fans from attending.
Plus the fact that Rudy is unlikely to field a full strength side and the late 8.

Sadly I missed seeing the first goal from Dean Windass in a Boro league game, but no doubt now that he has broke his duck many more goals will follow from the ex Hull City star.
I was in London for the weekend seeing the fantastic stage play "Warhorse", and I want to say if you get the chance then go and see this show at the New London Theatre, it is fantastic.

RUDY'S ARTICLE FROM TONIGHT'S LOCAL PAPER.SCARBOROUGH Athletic chief Rudy Funk has promised to ring the changes after hIs side's disappointing defeat last night.Funk was less than happy with a number of his team's displays during the 2-1 home loss against title-rivals Staveley.He said: " I'm not happy with it because we just seemed to go through the motions.

A strange game last night at a bitterly cold Queensgate, Boro didn't really show until the 2nd half, they missed the midfield bite of Gary Hepples who was on the bench, when he did eventually join the game with just 20 minutes left then his presence told immeditely but it was too late in the game to have the desired effect.

16.11.2011 - Con gol de Oswaldo Vizcarrondo (´25), Venezuela venció (1-0) a Bolivia en el estadio Pueblo Nuevo (San Cristóbal) por la 4º jornada de Eliminatorias Sudamericanas (2014) y llega a la punta de la tabla (junto a Uruguay y Argentina).
La Vinotinto no pudo extender su predominio durante los 90 minutos y pasó alguna zozobra sobre el final para lograr los 3 puntos en casa y seguir haciendo historia, pasando su mejor momento y rompiendo sus propios récords.

Nice article from the local paper giving boss Rudy Funk's opinions on the Retford v Boro match.
SCARBOROUGH Athletic boss Rudy Funk was delighted with his side's last-gasp point on the road at NCEL Premier title challengers Retford United.He said: " I'm delighted, but it is nothing more than we deserved .

MANY BORO FANS ARE TALKING OF BOYCOTTING THE MUCH TALKED ABOUT PARKGATE GAME TOMORROW EVENING FOLLOWING THE ANTICS OF THE CLUB IN PREVIOUS GAMES AND THE UNFAIR FINE PLACED ON OUR CLUB FOLLOWING THE FANS REACTIONS TO THE DIABOLICAL WAY THE GAME WAS REFEREED.
THE CLUB WAS HIT WITH AN UNFAIR FINE OF £160, MOST OF THIS AMOUNT HAS ALREADY BEEN RAISED BY FANS AT THE AWAY MATCH AT THACKLEY ON SATURDAY AND WILL BE GIVEN TO THE CLUB TO PAY THE FINE.

Boro were a completely different class to their West Yorkshire based opponents today, no disrespect to Thackley who are a decent side, but today they could not live with the brilliance of Boro.
After today's performance I cannot imagine Rudy leaving Gary Hepples out of his future starting line-up's, once again Gary was my man of the match, he rightly regained his place today at the expense of Dean Windass, who was on the subs bench.

AT A VERY WINDY QUEENSGATE SCARBOROUGH ATHLETIC STUTTERED TO A 2-1 VICTORY AGAINST A FAIRLY CAPABLE LOOKING HALL ROAD RANGERS OUTFIT.
BORO STARTED THE GAME IN A CONVINCING MANNER BUT THIS ROBUST START WAS TO BE SHORTLIVED AS IT WAS RANGERS WHO WOULD HAVE THE LIONS SHARE OF POSSESSION THROUGHOUT THE OPENING FORTY FIVE MINUTES.

Following the diabolical refereeing from Mr D Hunt, which cost us dearly at Parkgate last Saturday, Boro boss Rudy Funk gave his opinions on the day in the local paper, here is the article which I think just sums up the true feelings held by everyone connected to the club, I honestly think that we are been targeted as a club, unfairly so, and I speak as an ex referee when I say that the officials in this league are mainly very poor, and generally just not up to the standards required.

Like many Boro fans I was looking forward to seeing Dean Windass in a Boro shirt today, and as I arrived at the ground I was told that Dean was in fact included in today's Boro' squad.
The Boro starting line up was Martin, Winters, Miller, Kemp, Hackworth, Naylor, Law, Hepples, Blott, Bernard, Ghaichem.

By Alan Duffy

While the Europeans were getting close to the end of their Euro 2012 qualifying adventures, across the Atlantic, the South Americans were only just kicking off their World Cup qualifying campaign.

In a six-goal thriller in a rainy Montevideo, buck-toothed assassin Luis Suarez got foxy in the box(y) to open the scoring in the fourth minute.

AP photoBy Charlie Corr
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Some Chicago sports fans need a refresher course that the 1980s were not completely centered on Mike Ditka's 1985 Super Bowl champion Chicago Bears and the phenomenon of Michael Jordan.
The Chicago Sting was the toast of this city at the start of the decade, winning North American Soccer League crowns in 1981 and 1984.

This time of year, we're used to watching NBA preseason action. However, with the NBA lockout putting things on hold, we'll have to settle for exhibition games of another sort. But there's an interesting one being put together that will take place on the campus of Florida International University on October 8th.

Ignore Rudy and the Barca v. Madrid love-in. Check out that little nugget in the bottom left corner of the cover. That's what we need to be concerned with.

Juan on Juan

While today's front of Marca focused on this small matter of a Spanish Super Cup, rightfully so, there was some information on a potential bid from Chelsea for Valencia winger Juan Mata.

Seeing Kenny Miller pounce with alacrity on Rudy Gestede's cut back at Upton Park yesterday, despite the fact that the pass was a little behind him, reminded me of the dangers of writing off seasoned strikers. A couple of weeks ago, I was told to don my tin hat by esteemed Oval Log blogger Stefan Bienkowski after suggesting that Miller was "a poor man's Craig Bellamy" and if it's unlikely that

Argentina no lució en el inicio de la Copa América, los Bolivianos sorprendieron poniéndose arriba en el marcador y controlando bien a la albiceleste. En youtube la cobertura del juego fue muy buena y en las redes sociales fluyó mucha información del juego, luce bien la Copa que apenas inicia.
ARGENTINA 1 - 1 BOLIVIA

Local: Estádio Único Ciudad de la Plata, Ciudad de la Plata, Argentina
Fecha/Hora: 01/07/2011 - 21h45
Arbitro: Roberto Silveira - Uruguay
Asistentes: Miguel Nievas - Uruguay / Luis Alvarado - Ecuador

GOLES: Edivaldo Rojas -BOL 47' / Sergio Aguero-ARG 75'

ARGENTINA: 23-Sergio Romero, 8-Javier Zanetti, 4-Nicolás Burdisso, 6-Gabriel Milito, 17-Marcos Rojo, 14-Javier Mascherano, 5-Esteban Cambiasso (7-Ángel Di María, 46'), 19-Ever Banega, 11-Carlos Tevez,21-Ezequiel Lavezzi (16-Sergio Aguero, 70') y 10-Lionel Messi.

ARQUEROSCarlos Arias (Maccabi Nentanya, Israel)Sergio Galarza (Blooming) Daniel Vaca (The Strongest)
DEFENSORESMiguel Hoyos (Oriente Petrolero)Christian Vargas (San José)Ronald Raldes (Colón, Argentina)Lorgio Alvarez (Bolívar)Ronald Rivero (Bolívar)Luis Gutiérrez (Oriente Petrolero)Santos Amador (Nacional Potosí)
VOLANTESJoselito Vaca (Oriente Petrolero)Jhasmany Campos (Oriente Petrolero)Rudy Cardozo (Bolívar)Ronald García (Bolívar)Walter Flores (Bolívar)José Luis Chávez (Blooming) Jaime Robles (Aurora)
DELANTEROSEdivaldo Rojas (Naval 1 de Maio, Portugal)Marcelo Martins (Shaktar, Ucrania)Ricardo Pedriel (Sivasspor, Turquía)Alcides Peña (Oriente Petrolero)Mauricio Saucedo (Oriente Petrolero)Juan Carlos Arce (Oriente Petrolero).

Another look back at the Sting's 1981 season from FireStingDoug:

On May 10, 1981 the Sting won their third game in a row after sweeping a home and home series with Dallas. A 5-0 win at Wrigley Field saw Rudy Glenn score twice while Karl-Heinz Granitz, Pato Margetic, and Greg Ryan provided the other tallies.

Back when the Boston Celtics traded Kendrick Perkins to the Oklahoma City Thunder, we said it was a horrible trade. So far, it looks like we were right. Bill Simmons, in a recent podcast for ESPN, seems to have come to the same conclusion. He blames the Celtics recent struggles on the trade. Losing Kendrick Perkins, he says, has ruined team chemistry and has made the Celtics a lot softer.

Netherlands U-21s 1-3 Germany U-21s
Zeefuik (45')
Lasogga (27'), Rudy (46'), Holtby (65')

The youth teams are setting the stage nicely for their older (or, in some cases, just better...) brothers with some lovely victories. I managed to catch some of the U-21 match against the Netherlands yesterday, and I'm glad I did.