Footy Factor 06 November @ 05:35 AM EST
The Fédération Française de Football (FFF), France's governing football
body, this week made the peculiar decision to include Gael Kakuta in their U19 squad for
next week's Limoges Tournament. You'll recall the FFF were instrumental in
getting Kakuta banned for four months by FIFA as part of the Chelsea
transfer ban.
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Here is this week's episode on Kenn's page. Here it is on iTunes.
Flick thisWho says you should never play soccer on fake turf? Kenn and I - mostly Kenn - interview Zach
Adams, defending national champion of Subbuteo. I have a set at home, courtesy of a garage sale.
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Rain didn't stop play...
10 Football Games You Can Play In Your Own Home
1. Subbuteo
2. Striker (or for the really posh, World Cup Super Striker with subs and floodlights)
3. Wembley
4. League Championship
5.
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From the Telegraph's "Pictures of the Day": bespoke Subbuteo figurines. From left to
right: Fabrizio Ravanelli, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Steven Gerrard, Alan Shearer, and Obafemi Martins.
Hovering in the background like the smiling, bespectacled god of a race of men who are curiously
affixed to brightly colored disks: creator Tom Taylor.
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From the Telegraph's "Pictures of the Day": bespoke Subbuteo figurines. From left to
right: Fabrizio Ravanelli, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Steven Gerrard, Alan Shearer, and Obafemi Martins.
Hovering in the background like the smiling, bespectacled god of a race of men who are curiously
affixed to brightly colored disks: creator Tom Taylor.
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I believe that supporting your local football team is hugely important, and have nothing but
respect for those people who week in week out traipse to the shack they call a grandstand and watch
a non-glamorous club. These, in truth, are the country's true football fans, the ones who don't
expect trophies, just to enjoy the game in its purest form.
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EPL Talk 17 June @ 09:24 PM EST
Over the next few days, expect to read a multitude of odes written by bloggers from the UK
regarding the demise of Shoot Magazine, the popular British football publication which owner IPC
announced it would be shutting it down at the end of this month. Shoot! was a hugely popular weekly
football magazine aimed at children.
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It's our absolute delight to bring you another article written by one of you, our wonderful
audience. It comes from TheGreatDandini who recently left us a comment on our 'Obscure Kits From
British Football History #5' post where he made reference to the great and much overlooked pastime
of Subbuteo.
Well, we appear to have sparked off a train of thought within TheGreatDandini, the result of which
is a wonderful look back at the more memorable aspects of that fabulous finger-flicking game of
days gone by.
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With a matter of minutes to go before England play Germany at the new Wembley Stadium, it's hardly
surprising to see the BBC frothing at the mouth at the prospect of another blood-boiling encounter
with the old enemy. With all that history between the two sides, they'll be at each other's throats
tonight, won't they?
Er, I doubt it. It's a friendly, and about as meaningless as they come.
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