In case you missed the goal of the World Cup playoffs. Here it is. Antar Yahia's screamer in Sudan.
Relive the goal. Relive the celebrations. Be in no doubt: This is for 1982. This is for the players with the peppery hair and tears in their eyes. This is for the players who were robbed.

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2010 is on the horizon and it's safe to say that it's been a wonderful decade for football. We here at Footy Factor have taken the opportunity to celebrate the greatest teams, players, and matches of the past 10 years. � Next up...

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Here we find ourselves slap bang in the middle of another damn international break, only this one is even more torrid than others as there are barely any meaningful internationals to hold our attention.

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(18-1-4)� Simley Spartans� 2 – 1� Austin Packers (14-6-0)

With 11:29 left to play in the first half and after dominating most of the game, the Simley Spartans were fouled in the Austin penalty box and a spot kick ensued. Senior forward Ben Royce stepped up and hit a solid shot into the upper right corner of the net and past Packer goalkeeper Ryan Rasell.

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(18-1-4)� Simley Spartans� 2 – 1� Austin Packers (14-6-0)

With 11:29 left to play in the first half and after dominating most of the game, the Simley Spartans were fouled in the Austin penalty box and a spot kick ensued. Senior forward Ben Royce stepped up and hit a solid shot into the upper right corner of the net and past Packer goalkeeper Ryan Rasell.

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What a shocking couple of weeks it had been for the Catalans.

They have torn through all and sundry in La Liga up until their hosting of Almeria at the Camp Nou on October 4th.� They may have come away with the result but it's a sign of the times that ONLY a 1-0 win for Barcelona is considered a bad performance.

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Today, October 25th, is the fifteenth anniversary of the second and most famous of the three appearances of Brian Potter's senior football career, and this site has very kindly indulged me by allowing me to write a tribute to the great man. You've almost certainly never heard of him, and mention of his name usually makes people think of Peter Kay, but no, it's not that one.

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1. Black Dog
Writing this crap can have an effect on the soul. It's a sorry state of affairs when the highlight of the season thus far has been a riot.
There has been precious little to cheer. Any cause célèbre (Cole's screamer against tottenham) has swiftly been negated (Cole's mesmeric through-ball to Defoe), and the only home win, albeit against Millwall, was a defeat until the 87th minute. Click to continue reading...

These bad boys may have a silly name, a mediocre design and a synthetic leather that mimics kangaroo leather, but if they can assist in 4 goals and even score a screamer on debut, then surely Nike have done something right again! Dammit, those guys are never wrong!... psst. Puma ... Click to continue reading...

The goals from the seventh round of the 2009 Torneo Apertura are online now, and they include some crackers. Watch out in particular for Pablo Toranzo's screamer for Huracán against Racing, and Juan Román Riquelme's equaliser for Boca against Vélez which was a far better goal than the improbable 40-yard header Martín Palermo scored [. Click to continue reading...

Beşiktaş would travel up to the cold confines of Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium. Looking to rebound from a disappointing loss to Manchester United in match day 1 of the UEFA Champions League, the Black Eagles needed some sort of spark to rejuvenate their Champions League campaign. The question was which Beşiktaş would show up, the league version, or the team that gave Manchester United a run for their money before losing?

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Some nice goals this week. We're still very early into the season, but two possible goal of the year candidates were scored this weekend. Samuel Eto'o's strike vs. Parma and Giandomenico Mesto's screamer vs. Napoli are joys to behold. Goals of the week after the jump.

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Hamburg SV maintain their great start to the season with a convincing 3-1 win over Stuttgart, New signing Eljero Elia, fresh from his first goal international goal in the week, put in a man of the match performance,� providing the pass for Petric's screamer, before scoring a scorcher himself.

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Like a lot of reds, I was fairly aprehensive about our trip to White Hart Lane yesterday, given that they were yet to lose a game and Jermaine Defoe is in great form. Whilst Spurs' opposition teams before this weekend haven't been world beaters necessarily, they have seen off Liverpool, and every one knows that this is the year they are going to win the league again.

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Hola Geri, what's the joke? We don't know what it is that's making Gerard Pique laugh like that during training, but we'd be laughing too if we had just scored a goal like his last night. And he's not the only Barca boy who scored for his NT...
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Diego Maradona's term as Argenita's coach ran into deep trouble after his side lost a vital home encounter against arch-rivals Brazil. Brazil defeated Maradona's boy by a score of 3-1 in Rosario. Argentina lies in fourth place at this moment, but Columbia and Ecuador lies just two points behind. Click to continue reading...

A fixture at Old Trafford so early in the season was a good opportunity to show that we had learned the lessons of last season. It was regarded as our first real test of the season and judging by the fixtures we've had so far I would have to agree.

The focus of our new style of play is our work rate and what we do without the ball.

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We're having mixed feelings about this match. On one hand, Barca were victorious, and we've won the UEFA Supercup: after also securing the Spanish Supercup, this marks the best cap-off to the splendorous yesterseason, as well as a great way to kick off the coming one; and just an all-around spirit-lifter for the team and fans. Click to continue reading...

Newcastle United continued their impressive start to the season and went top of the Championship with a well earned victory over Crystal Palace.

Regardless of the uncertainty surrounding the future of the club, the Toon players are showing they are more than up for the fight with goals from Kevin Nolan and a cracker from Ryan Taylor.

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The Minnesota Thunder, who have struggled all season to find goals, now have scored 6 in their last 3 games on the road. The Thunder never gave up and battled hard as they drew the game with the Rochester Rhino's, coming from behind in the 90th minute with a goal by Jeremiah Bass. The game ended as a 3-3 draw.

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The Minnesota Thunder, who have struggled all season to find goals, now have scored 6 in their last 3 games on the road. The Thunder never gave up and battled hard as they drew the game with the Rochester Rhinos, coming from behind in the 90th minute with a goal by Jeremiah Bass. The game ended as a 3-3 draw.

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Doh!

Burnley owner Brendan Flood has revealed the club failed to sign up a young Michael Essien as club policy prevented them paying his £60-a-week wages.

Chelsea midfielder Essien, 26, is currently rated as one of the best midfielders in the game and cost the club around £26m when he joined from Lyon four years ago.

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FC Barcelona looks like they will be al set to add their first silverware of this season at Camp Nou next week after securing a 2-1 away victory at Sam Mames. With two away goals and a goal lead, it looks pretty unlikely that Barca will falter in winning the title. Athletic Bilbao went ahead towards the end of the first half but second half strikes from Xavi and Pedro secured Barca a deserving victory. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool lost their opening game of the new season to Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane today.Playing without Xabi Alonso for the first time since his move to Madrid, the Reds looked lethargic in the first half, with only one shot towards goal by Captain Steve Gerrard.Spurs took the lead close to the break when defender Assou-Ekotto scored a screamer from outside the box. Click to continue reading...

Goals from Bastian Schweinsteiger and Miroslav Klose were enough to keep Germany on top of their World Cup qualifying group. Azerbaijan had an early opportunity to go in front but could not finish after beating an offside trap. FC Bayern winger Bastian Schweinsteiger took command of the game in the 12th minute by launching a screamer [. Click to continue reading...

I've described the derbies against our true antagonists Djurgården and Hammarby as the Battle Ryales of Swedish soccer. A derby against Brommapojkarna never truly reaches the same levels of anticipation and hysteria. This is a instead a game that I've dubbed the Novelty Derby. It's a novelty because it's a rather new derby as Brommapojkarna is only playing their second season ever in Allsvenskan. Click to continue reading...

How huge did this match turn out to be? The Rose Bowl was nearly completely filled, with over 93,000 filling the stands – the largest attendance ever in the United States since the World Cup final in the same stadium back in 1994. FC Barcelona: are we epic, or are we epic?
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FC Barcelona eased past the challenge post by Al Ahly in their second match of the Wembley cup. The 4-1 victory but wasn't enough for them to grab the inaugral Wembley Cup. Celtic later defeated Totenham 2-0 to claim the first edition of this friendly cup. Like the last match Guardiola put in another young but talented side ofr this encounter. Click to continue reading...

I always struggle with the late games. 815 on a Sunday night is really no time to be playing football. I'm still digesting dinner, I'm winding down from a busy weekend of standing in the rain coaching 13 year old girls, I'm really just about ready for bed if I'm honest. So whether I liked it or not, I still had to drive way the hell out to Heritage Green and get to work. Click to continue reading...

The second coming of Florentino Perez should not be judged on what big name stars he brings to the Santiago Bernabeu. His ability to attract the world's best has never been an issue of debate. Neither has his ability to generate capital for the club. Rather, any lessons the man claims to have learnt since departing the Bernabeu in disgrace back in 2006 should be judged on how he treats the less famous, yet equally important, members of the squad.

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By Gareth Freeman

According to reports Manchester United are locked in a transfer battle with Real Madrid and Chelsea for Lyon's in-demand forward Karim Benzema, after Carlos Tevez is set to leave Old Trafford after rejecting a new five year contract. From what I've seen of him in the Champions League and in the French league he could certainly cause plenty of problems in the Premier League.

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Where would we all be without the UK Press? An even better question is what am I doing adding even more print to the already exhausted saga of the world record transfer of the greatest narcissist in the history of football?

Ronaldo must be positively unbearable, flouncing around in LA with the world media spotlight on him.

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6/9/09 - Thunder Advance to Second Round of Lamar Hunt US Open Cup by Topping 402 3-2

BLAINE, Minn. (Tuesday, June 9, 2009) - Thunder move forward to the second round of the US Open Cup with a 3-2 win over 402.
402 took an early lead on the Thunder in the 12th minute of play.

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6/9/09 - Thunder Advance to Second Round of Lamar Hunt US Open Cup by Topping 402 3-2

BLAINE, Minn. (Tuesday, June 9, 2009) - Thunder move forward to the second round of the US Open Cup with a 3-2 win over 402.
402 took an early lead on the Thunder in the 12th minute of play.

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Danny Welbeck has made a good start to his Manchester United career, from the screamer he scored in front of the Stretford End on his league debut to the further twelve games and two goals he finished the season with.

Sir Alex Ferguson has predicted that Fabio Capello will be taking Welbeck with his England squad to the World Cup next summer, which certainly indicates our manager expects to give Welbeck a lot more time in the team this season.

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