In part three of our pictorial roundup of 2009, we focus on the senior men's national team.
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Baxter had an eventful 2009. Finland's qualification efforts ran aground, and the introduction
of younger players went more slowly than many Finland fans would have liked.
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SoccerLens 22 October @ 07:25 AM EST
- How come nobody ever heard of you? I mean, how come you ain't got a reputation?
(Support Your Local Sheriff!, 1969)
With the visibly terrified Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder Jadson looking like he'd just been told
that one of the small plastic spheres in his hand contained a hilarious paper snake on a spring –
and a grinning Uwe Seeler looking like the man who'd put it there – August's draw for the group
stages of this season's UEFA Europa League had the potential to be highly entertaining.
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SoccerLens 22 October @ 07:25 AM EST
- How come nobody ever heard of you? I mean, how come you ain't got a reputation?
(Support Your Local Sheriff!, 1969)
With the visibly terrified Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder Jadson looking like he'd just been told
that one of the small plastic spheres in his hand contained a hilarious paper snake on a spring –
and a grinning Uwe Seeler looking like the man who'd put it there – August's draw for the group
stages of this season's UEFA Europa League had the potential to be highly entertaining.
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FootieDB 01 October @ 08:36 AM EST
The Uefa Europa League Sheriff Tiraspol vs Fenerbahce : Live Stream here Sheriff Tiraspol -
Fenerbahce : Highlights here Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today
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Dirty Tackle 18 September @ 05:40 AM EST
That's not an optical illusion. FC Sheriff Tiraspol's Benjamin Balima actually has a football
for a head.
[Photo: AP]
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by CARL ELDRIDGE Evidence, if any were needed, that God is indeed a
Gooner came tonight in Monaco when Arsene Wenger's sidde were handed a dream Champions League
draw.
The Gunners will face AZ Alkmaar, Olympiakos and Standard Liege in
Group H of the Champions League and must be very confident of proceeding.
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Remember when the Champions League wasn't called the Champions League, but it was actually for
champions and not a bunch of runners-up from Europe's biggest leagues? Well, we'll surely never
return to the halycon days of the European Cup, but Ian Plenderleith at When Saturday Comes has a
very good piece on the change to the qualification structure this season by Platini & co.
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So today is the day.
The day UEFA Champions League coverage begins on Fox Soccer Channel. It starts with a live match at
2:30 p.m. (eastern) featuring Sheriff Tiraspol vs. Olympiakos (kickoff is 2:45) and then a
tape-delayed airing of Celtic vs. Arsenal. I don't know how the rights breakdown in such a way that
the Celtic-Arsenal game is on tape delay here in the States on FSC, but that's the deal.
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