Given the talk of how we have cooled off in recent weeks after such a torrid start to the season, I
thought it worth taking a look at just how our start this season - still considered to be exceeding
pre-season expectation - compared with those in previous years.
With assistance from mcfcstats.
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1. Great fumble save!
2. Awful, awful kit
3. Charlie Davies tribute
4. Red Bull Stadium update
5. Obligatory Sven/North Korea
6. England on the 'net gallery
7. Lippi does somersaults
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The Offside 14 October @ 07:00 PM EST
Something to read while reminiscing about the Danish team of the mid-80s. Here's a quick vid of
them in action, overturning a two goal deficit to beat Belgium at Euro '84... TV is the spiritual
home of football, says Jim Lovetoy (Football Ramble) Collected footballers tweets (FootballFilter)
Sven in turning down payday shock!
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Soccer Pie 27 September @ 03:01 AM EST
Saga of the transfer of an excellent, experienced English defender to the ambitious
fourth-league club was over even before it started. Sol Campbell broke the five-year
contract with Notts County after only one match and this move might cost him a break from
professional football till next midterm, that is to say January.
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Ooohh I do love a good football story.
One of the latest story lines in the soap opera that is the Football League revolves around Sol
Campbell.
I have to confess I was surprised when he went to Notts County. It seemed a really odd move from
where I was sitting but I just thought I was probably missing something.
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I felt the pressure as soon as I arrived for training. Hey Big Man, what was it like scoring in a
Champions League final? Did you get laid that night even though you lost? What does Thierry Henry
look like naked?
Fine enough, but you know that song by the Band, The Weight? It was running through my head while I
was drilling with the fullbacks—can you call people who can't run fullbacks?
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Costa Rica have just fired their coach Rodrigo "La Bomba" Kenton Johnson.
Costa Rica were themselves bombing, failing to score in their last three World Cup qualifying
games. "He was fired today. It still hasn't been determined who will be named," said Costa Rica FA,
spokeswoman Gina Escobar.
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Anfield Talk 10 September @ 11:49 AM EST
Steven Gerrard today reflected on one of his most satisfying nights in an England shirt – after
revealing he took inspiration for his heroics from Michael Shields.
Liverpool skipper Gerrard scored twice last night as England thrashed Croatia 5-1 at Wembley to
book their place at next summer's World Cup finals in style.
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The Offside 30 August @ 12:12 PM EST
A fair bit of activity flying around as deadline day appoaches for the big European Clubs. There's
usually a couple of big surprising moves on the last day, and while I wouldn't expect anything
quite like last season's deadline day, I suspect a few people will be changing clubs at the last
minute. One man [.
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What's the difference between Notts County and Newcastle United?
Lots of things of course - like one being on an upward trajectory, and one, at least until
recently, downwards. Oh and one has a new owner and one doesn't. And then of course there are Sven
and Sol.
But apart from that, I would struggle to tell them apart.
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With Norwich throwing in seven goals at home and Sven managing five on his League Two debut,
they can't say that had a paucity of stories to choose from. The BBC launched their Football League
coverage in a bold and brash style, with a live match and a highlights package that will now become
part of the landscape of Saturday evenings.
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goalpost.tv 29 July @ 04:37 PM EST
Image via Wikipedia According to a recent survey, Nottingham has a ratio of one man per four women.
After reading that I realised why wily old silver-fox Sven Goran Eriksson took his new post of
director of football at Notts County. The famous lover of women clearly also heard that statistic
and couldn't resist the [.
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goalpost.tv 23 July @ 03:22 PM EST
The news that Sven Goran Eriksson is to take up the inexplicit ‘Director of Football' role at
League Two side Notts County is possibly the shock of the summer transfer window. We all knew
Ronaldo would leave it at some point and that City would be spending big but if you went down to
your [...]
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Soccerblog 23 July @ 08:31 AM EST
Suleiman Al Fahim wants Maradona to become a 'global ambassador' to the club.
"What I think is that he should be president of a club and have the right to buy and choose
players."
It appears that Maradona is interested according to his lawyer.
Moyano said: "He has got top players ready and he is even ready to leave the Argentine
national team.
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This is post number 800!
What am I doing to celebrate?
Well I'm stuck in a London hotel at a 2 day planning event, wishing I was tucked up next to my
lover instead.
Even if he has been surreptitiously posting on my blog.
He proved to be right about Sven, although I am much more sceptical about his Beckham story.
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If you haven't been following the new Twitter feed, you probably have no idea that we've been on
vacation and just chain-gunning rich quotients of abbreviated insight via every thumb-tappable
keyboard in sight. Don't miss another week of out-of-context movie quotes and incomprehensible
replies to other people.
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The jury is still out on Brazilian midfielder Elano. From a fantasy footballing perspective, the
Manchester City playmaker had a superb season statistically in 2007-2008 (under Sven) but dropped
off a bit under Mark Hughes this past season. And with The Confederations Cup kicking off this
weekend, I've been checking out Brazil's recent results and noticed that Elano is a fixture in
Brazil's starting eleven week in and week out in World Cup Qualifying alongside Kaka.
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For the last two years Irish boardcaster Setanta has been making the world laugh with the puppet
series Special1 TV. The series includes puppets that depict The Special One, Wayne Rooney, and
Sven. The series is classic and has drawn critical acclaim. Now they have company in the puppet
sports world.
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It's the final original episode of the season and there's a lot of business to be taken care of -
but not before a heartfelt plea by The Boy for a certain bubba-sucking Argentinian's future. A plea
for the GDP of a small country, but one which still pales to most church telethons. Roll call takes
[..
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Wenger has lost his mind and thinks that hey might be in the Champions League Final despite being
knocked out by Manchester United.
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Welcome to the latest installment of You Write the Caption, where we provide readers with a
comedy-inducing photo and see what sort of genius SBI readers can come up with.
Congratulations go out to Kevin Anderson, a University of Michigan student, for submitting the
winning entry to the Sven-Nery edition of YWTC.
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Welcome to the latest installment of You Write the Caption, where we provide readers with a
comedy-inducing photo and see what sort of genius SBI readers can come up with.
Congratulations go out to Kevin Anderson, a University of Michigan student, for submitting the
winning entry to the Sven-Nery edition of YWTC.
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The Offside 20 April @ 07:00 PM EST
This is Sven from Luxembourg, who has become something of a YouTube sensation recently for his
freestyling. The kid has incredibly quick legs that have you thinking he might even be able to
out-stepover a certain Portuguese winger who loves all things Real Madrid Manchester United Real
Madrid. But it's not all easy, as the [.
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It isn't a weekend without the latest episode of Special1TV and this week's installment has its
share of laughs, and a lapdance you won't soon forget.
Enjoy:
If you're a little lost on the Sven lapdance, it's a spoof of this lapdance Fabio Capello
received on Italian TV.
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It isn't a weekend without the latest episode of Special1TV and this week's installment has its
share of laughs, and a lapdance you won't soon forget.
Enjoy:
If you're a little lost on the Sven lapdance, it's a spoof of this lapdance Fabio Capello
received on Italian TV.
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Sven weirds everyone out and Wayne always makes sure that he keeps the right amount of injury time.
The muppets, as my friends at Sox and Phils, call them return to celebrate Easter.
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The Mexican media started to turn on Eriksson after Mexico could only scrape through the
penultimate World Cup qualifying round on goal difference ahead of Jamaica.
They were further inflamed when the Swede selected four naturalised "foreign players" - the
Argentines Matias Vuoso and Lucas Ayala and the Brazilian duo Leandro Augusto and Antonio Nelson -
for the friendly against Sweden in January.
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