Premier League's greatest ever player: Giggs, Ronaldo, Shearer, Zola, Henry or Gerrard? You decide!

talkSPORT followers on Twitter discuss who the greatest ever Premier League footballer is

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Premier League's greatest ever player: Giggs, Ronaldo, Henry, Shearer, Zola, Henry or Gerrard? You decide!

talkSPORT followers on Twitter discuss who the greatest ever Premier League footballer is

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Hold on, calm down, deep breaths.... hear me out, then shout/speak/swear !!

Before I start my reasoning, if you can call it that, I want to say how much I love Robin to bits, he is just the kind of Captain the club needed after being diddled somewhat by the last few. His goals this year, in particular this season, have potentially saved us from a major crisis.

• Kop That: Police quiz race-row Terry under caution http://t.co/1W8A23Gw 23:09:50, 2011-11-28
• Kop That: Andre Villas-Boas is up for the Cup http://t.co/x5cdfVqg 22:55:18, 2011-11-28
• Kop That: Liverpool are the League Cup kings http://t.co/q7cfwHDs 22:55:14, 2011-11-28
• Kop That: Shearer: Gary was coming to stay at mine next week http://t.

Shearer: Gary was coming to stay at mine next week

Newcastle legend "numb and shocked" after pal is found hanged

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Newcastle United Managing Director Derek Llambias serves up an expletive-ridden speech against Keegan, Shearer, Hughton and Carroll. Amidst all the furore of stadium renaming, you'd think one of the things our Managing Director would try to do is talk around the fans and sweeten them up to the whole fiasco.

Martinez to Villa, Shearer to Man United, Neill to Liverpool and more 'what were you thinking moments'

Moments in football that left us all wondering, "what were you thinking?"

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Wayne Rooney is often considered one of England's brightest talents, however, there is one thing that stands in his way of following in the footsteps of fellow legends Allan Shearer and Paul Gascoigne - his temper.

After last month's horror lash out on Miodrag Dzudovic during the 2-2 draw with Montenegro in a Euro 2012 qualifier, it became apparent that Rooney has a problem handling his anger.

By Alan Duffy

Graeme Souness didn't pull any punches when discussing Carlos Tevez on Sky last night. In a refreshing antidote to the usual boring, clichéd responses of UK TV pundits, the former Liverpool man labelled the Argentinian "a disgrace to football".

Viewers of RTE television in Ireland will be used to this kind of no-holds-barred pundity.

Dimitar Berbatov, Forlan, Crouch, Shearer and 10 of the worst football goal droughts

The footballers who just couldn't hit the target, including players from Man United, Liverpool, Spurs and Arsenal

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Swindon Town: un fantastico tris per Paolo Di Canio Di Renato Cignoni CRAWLEY TOWN 0SWINDON TOWN 3 (Connell '28 – Kerrouche 82' e 85') Crawley Town:Michel Kuipers; David Hunt, Charlie Wassmer, Tom Eastman, Scott Griffiths; Hope Akpan, Josh Simpson (Cap), Dannie Bulman, Michael Doughty; Tyrone Barnett, Matt Tubbs Sostituti: Scott Shearer, Ben Smith, Glenn Wilson, John Akinde, Jon-Paul

• Kop That: King Kenny will get Carroll singing Shearer http://t.co/AEAGvFU 22:49:46, 2011-09-13
• Kop That: Tweet my Goal! The funniest comments from Chelsea 2-0 Leverkusen and Dortmund 1-1 Arsenal http://t.co/xRpjpUA 22:49:42, 2011-09-13
• Kop That: Why Warnock's a big loser even when he wins http://t.

• Kop That: Football's cocaine bombshell revealed http://t.co/wNDQ4CR 22:41:49, 2011-09-12
• Kop That: FA deny covering up dozens of positive drug tests http://t.co/AvzVaXq 22:41:47, 2011-09-12
• Kop That: Glen Johnson faces five more weeks out injured for Liverpool http://t.co/cCCHRza 21:40:06, 2011-09-12
• Kop That: Comolli denies Meireles claims http://t.

Adebayor, Bent, Greaves, Fowler, Shearer and Rooney: Ten memorable debuts

The players who made a very good first impression

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Players with the most Premier League hat-tricks: Rooney, Fowler, Shearer and more treble kings

Click on the arrows to see which players have scored the most Premier League hat-tricks

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As Steve Kean looks to hold on to his best players, he has today added young Scottish striker David Goodwillie to his squad for the new campaign.

Goodwillie signs from Dundee United having played five seasons in their tangerine colours. The youngster netted 29 goals in his time their and bolsters the attacking options for Blackburn this season.

Mata! Fabregas! Shearer's all-time XI! Enrique the Twit! Your 20 most-read stories this week

Relive the week's biggest and best stories on MirrorFootball.co.uk

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Welcome to the fifth episode of the Red Dead Podcast, the juggernaut keeps on rolling. As always, this weeks episode is brought to you by Tom "Darren Fletcher" Addison and Liam "Wrestlemania"...
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And really, you could replace "football pundritry" with "soccer blogging," replace all the pundits listed with your favorite writers, and the piece still works:

The best way to comprehend football is to sit in a stand with the whole pitch laid before you and immerse yourself for 90 minutes.

Politics and Personality in Sport: In the Commercial Era, Does Tradition Matter? is a post from: Just Football

by Chris Woolfrey

In the last piece I wrote for Just Football I retold the story of Matthias Sindelar, the Austrian footballer who symbolised, in part, a nation's defiance of their Nazi occupiers; an archetype of Austria's considered and poetic passing game.

Way, way back, many years ago, not long before the Premier League began, yes kids we did have football in the 1980s, Gillingham played two home games. First up was Southend United who they beat 8-1. Next came Chesterfield, who James The Gill tells me, hadn't conceded a goal all season. Didn't matter to a rampant Gills who put 10 past them without reply.

The stories that broke just before midday on January 31st 2011 turned out to be the ones concluded last as Liverpool and Chelsea spent big trying to revive their ailing fortunes. For Liverpool, the consternation at having lost proven goalscorer may be assuaged by the promise of Andy Carroll and Luis Suarez, two players with an opportunity to prove their potential on the big stage – and after the Hodgson saga and some stagnation under Benitez, Anfield could once again become the big stage.