The ball rebounded to Thierry Henry's hand, first once and then again. He scooped it gently, and let it fall to his feet. He made a controlled pass to his teammate William Gallas, who scored a much-needed goal against Ireland. The referee didn't call the handballs (clearly visible in recordings of the match). Click to continue reading...

The agent of Andrea Dossena has released a statement denying that the player is in talks with Napoli ahead of a potential return to Serie A in the January transfer window.

The Italian international has struggled to settle in the Premier League following his £7m transfer from Udinese in the summer of 2008 and has failed to hold down a regular starting place in a Liverpool shirt.

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Join former Arsenal player Adrian Clarke and celebrated sports journalist Iain Spragg for Episode 27 of the world famous Soccerlens Podcast.Â

This week's bouncy banter focuses on Barcelona and Inter Milan's Champions League concerns, big money transfers that defy logic, and Stan Kroenke's bid to take control of Arsenal.

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I once read about a British sports journalist's amazement at the access that American sportswriters had. The British writer was visiting Chicago and asked to tag along with the Sun Times reporter who covered the Bulls. First, he went to a Bulls practice, and after the practice was over, the Chicago reporter ambled up to Scottie Pipen and Phil Jackson and asked a few questions.

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Take a listen to Episode 24 of the world famous Soccerlens Podcast with ex-footballer Adrian Clarke and sports journalist Iain Spragg for half an hour of fascinating football discussion.

This week's chipper chat centres around Sir Alex Ferguson's ongoing run-in with the powers-that-be, the pro's and cons of Emile Heskey (more cons), and the possibility of a breakaway Atlantic League.

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Hello and welcome to episode 23 of the world famous Soccerlens Podcast. Join ex-footballer Adrian Clarke and celebrated sports journalist Iain Spragg for half an hour of proper football chat.

This week's entertaining show covers Internet-only football, a good old fashioned seedings stitch-up, Fergie v Referees, World Cup previews (including Russia v Germany and Republic of Ireland v Italy)  – and to round things off the dynamic duo share a lively discussion on the weird and wacky world of football club ownership!

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Colin Smith's (author of keepie-uppie.blogspot.com) email about the opportunity Toronto FC gave him as an aspiring sports journalist speaks mostly for itself, so I've included it in full below. I would only add that, while I'm proud of what I've done here on AMSL, I was struck reading Mark Bowden's piece in the most recent Atlantic in which he describes newspaper columnists who sit at their desk writing columns about whatever news lands on it instead of going out and finding the story, "thumbsuckers. Click to continue reading...

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Hello and welcome to episode 22 of the world famous Soccerlens Podcast. Join ex-footballer Adrian Clarke and celebrated sports journalist Iain Spragg as they chew over all things football.

This week's top draw show sees co-hosts Clarke and Spragg analysing the Wenger Years, yet another Rafa rant, asking where the Premier League's best defenders have disappeared to, as well as making a frank assessment of Pompey's already remote looking survival chances.

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Hello and welcome to episode 21 of the world famous Soccerlens Podcast. Join ex-footballer Adrian Clarke and esteemed sports journalist Iain Spragg as they chew over all things football.

This week Clarkey and Spraggy produce a lively verbal kickabout that includes European football debate, a case for the FA's defence, a peek inside the mind of Sol Campbell, a frank assessment of Platini's latest brainchild, previews of the biggest games across Europe, answers to YOUR questions and a special bonus feature on what it's really like inside Sepp Blatter's FIFA HQ.

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Hello and welcome to episode 20 of the world famous ‘new look' Soccerlens Podcast. Join ex-footballer Adrian Clarke and esteemed sports journalist Iain Spragg as they chew over all things football.

What a week it's been! We've seen UEFA give the green light for players to dive, Emmanuel Adebayor do his best to cause a riot, Chelsea supremo Peter Kenyon finally doing the honourable thing, all 4 English clubs producing narrow Champions League victories and radical new Premier League and UEFA rulebooks have been revealed.

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ESPN presenter Georgie Bingham will be a future guest on the EPL Talk Podcast, and we'd like to hear your suggested questions. The best questions will be asked on-air to Georgie and if we use your question, your name will be mentioned on-air.

Georgie Bingham, born in London in 1977, is a news and sports journalist and English television presenter. Click to continue reading...

In the first Milan derby of the season Inter Milan sent out a clear warning not only to AC Milan but also to any potential title challengers that they don't plan to give up their title without a fight.

Inter Milan run out 4-0 winners at the San Siro as the new look Inter Milan side showed that they have not lost any goal threat after the sale of Ibrahimovic.

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Spurs have been the surprise team so far this season with some great performances. I don't say surprise in that they are not expected to play well but they have already beaten Liverpool, admittedly at the moment they aren't playing the way they did last season, and look extremely strong in all areas.

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by Usman Azad, Football Perth Editor
IS the weather starting to reflect the feeling among the Perth Glory faithful? It's only two games into the season and the general fan is starting to feel like this has happened all before.
Some of the fans are already sharpening their axes and pitchforks and the fan pressure is slowly building on the Football Hooligan - Dave Mitchell - to get a win. Click to continue reading...

AC Milan have been linked with quite a few strikers this summer but one link that seemed to intensify, after his impressive form in the Confederations Cup, was Luis Fabiano . However there seems to be reports coming out that the deal is dead as an agreement can not be reached over the players valuation.

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ESPN has released its first video to begin its promotion of the 2010 World Cup which it'll be broadcasting in the United States.

The video is targeted at the average American mainstream sports fan and explains how global the game is and destroys some of the typical criticisms about soccer such as the low scoring games, why the United States isn't a soccer giantpower, and other stereotypes.

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World Cup fever grabs another Aussie Sports Journalist.
Stathi Paxinos, chief rugby league correspondent, The Age, wrote this...ha ha he really did

There are valid reasons for withdrawing Harry Kewell from Australia's game against Japan tonight at the MCG.

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Dimitar Berbatov has come in for a huge amount of criticism since his arrival. Some of it has been unfair but a lot has been justified.

Is there a future for Berbatov at Man Utd? Berbatov had a fantastic season at Spurs last season and he looked like a player who could add something new to the team, but instead at times he seems to have taken something away.

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Manchester United have again been linked with a move for Lyon striker Karim Benzema, after they were reportedly priced out of the market for the talented Frenchman last year. If the rumors are true it does put question marks over the future of some of United's strikers.

Carlos Tevez, who is one of United's most consistent players, looks to be heading for the exit door as his opportunities in the team have been limited since the arrival of Dimitar Berbatov.

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Due to employment, I am no longer able to maintain this blog in the same way I was as a student journalist.
I'm now employed as a Sports Journalist and would be interested to hear from anyone who wishes to contribute to this blog to keep it running, or take over this blog on a full-time basis. Click to continue reading...