Sheffield Football Club vs. Queen's Park, Centenary Celebration
This match, the world's first ever club centenary celebration, marked 100 years from the day of
the founding of Sheffield Football Club, generally recognised as the world's oldest club who still
play today.
Programme cover courtesy of the excellent Footysphere.
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Chelsea forward Salomon Kalou and Abdoulaye Meite were both in the Ivory Coast squad to face
Germany in Wednesday's international friendly (2-2 draw). Neither was available for Saturday's
World Cup qualifiying win over Guinea after the two went all hyphy on each other in training. The
two have since made up (awww).
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Wolves' infamous game with Honved of Hungary was one of the classics of the twentieth century,
and one of the first intra-European games played under floodlights. See inside the full programme
at Footysphere, with an awesome interactive feature.
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Our Thursday programme series last week went back 56 years, to the first ever floodlight
match at Tottenham Hotspur's White Hart lane. Today, we hop across North London to Highbury, and
Arsenal's first major floodlit fixture against Hapoel Tel Aviv.
Programme cover courtesy of the highly-recommended Footysphere.
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EPL Talk 05 November @ 12:48 AM EST
Burton Albion manager and former Canadian international Paul Peschisolido is the latest guest on
the EPL Talk Podcast, North America's only daily football show.
Peschisolido has a proud history as a journeyman footballer in the United Kingdom who has played
at several clubs including Fulham, Birmingham City, Stoke City, West Bromwich Albion and other
clubs.
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GK: John Mucha (Legia Warsaw), Ľuboš Kamenár (FC Nantes), Dušan Kuciak (FC Vaslui), Lubos
Stonemason (Nantes) DEF: Marek Cech (West Bromwich Albion), Ján Ďurica (Lokomotiv Moscow), Peter
Pekárik (VfL Wolfsburg), Martin Petras (AC Cesena), Kornel Saláta (Slovan Bratislava), Martin
Skrtel (Liverpool), Radoslav ZabavnÃk (Terek Grozny) MID: Marek Hamsik (Napoli), Miroslav Karhan
(Mainz), Kamil Kopúnek (Spartak Trnava), Jan Kozak (Slovan Bratislava), George Kucka (Sparta
Prague), Marek Sapara (Rosenborg), Miroslav Stoch (FC Twente Enschede), Zdeno Å trba (Å koda.
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It's the FA Cup First Round this weekend so, in the first of five pieces about the Oldest
Cup Competition In The World (and there's a phrase that is probably copyrighted by The FA), we take
a look back at Wycombe Wanderers' run to the semi-finals of the competition in 2001.
The FA Cup is a competition that throws up surprise results every season, but some records
remain and one that may never be broken is that no-one from the bottom two divisions of the
Football League has made The FA Cup final.
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Newcastle United regained the top spot in the Coca Cola League Championship after edging
Sheffield United 1-0 away from home. The Magpies went into Monday evening a point behind West
Bromwich Albion but an own goal from Blades skipper Chris Morgan stunned Bramall Lane.
Fortunately for Newcastle, there was no coming back from the hosts.
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The English Championship, League One, and League Two divisions are all taking shape as they are
well into their 2009-10 season. Here's a recap of all three divisions along with video
highlights.
English Championship Video Recap
Its still very crowded at the top as Newcastle, West Bromwich Albion, Cardiff City, and
Leicester City are all within one point of each other.
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by FRANCO PANIZO
If there was any doubt about Michael Bradley having returned to his top form, he surely killed
off that uncertainty this weekend.
Bradley capped off his impressive October on Saturday, starting and going the distance in
Borussia Moenchengladbach's 3-2 victory over Hamburg SV.
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by FRANCO PANIZO
If there was any doubt about Michael Bradley having returned to his top form, he surely killed
off that uncertainty this weekend.
Bradley capped off his impressive October on Saturday, starting and going the distance in
Borussia Moenchengladbach's 3-2 victory over Hamburg SV.
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U-17 World Cup on ESPNU and Galavision: USA - UAE at 10am. MLS playoffs: Chicago - New England on
Fox Soccer Channel at 2pm and Chivas USA - Los Angeles on ESPN2 at 5pm. EPL on Fox Soccer:
Birmingham Ciry - Manchester City at 11am. Championship on Setanta: Cardiff - Forest at noon and
West Bromwich Albion - Watford at 5pm.
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From tweets to fines to rumored firings, Hull City's Phil Brown and Jozy Altidore have had quite
an interesting week, and it gets even more intriguing this weekend.
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From tweets to fines to rumored firings, Hull City's Phil Brown and Jozy Altidore have had quite
an interesting week, and it gets even more intriguing this weekend.
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Our new Thursday series looks at classic football programmes, that perfect accompaniment for
a trip down memory lane. This week: we go back 56 years, to the first ever floodlight match at
Tottenham Hotspur's White Hart lane, with the programme's cover promising Spurs were in for "very
attractive visitors" and "very sporting opponents" with the visit of Racing Club de Paris.
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Seems like there should be a bit of a grace period after Sunday's 2-0 victory over United, but I
suppose that's the beautiful, and sometimes maddening, part of football. Fernando Torres admitted
what we already knew about his fitness, Glen Johnson was likely less than 100%, and the side in
general could use time to soak in the most important victory of the young season.
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Newcastle United are remain on top of the English Football League Championship table after 14
rounds of matches and are currently in fine form. Championship powerhouse West Bromwich Albion and
a revitalized Cardiff remain in hot pursuit for the top spot. On the other end of the spectrum, Roy
Keane's Ipswich Town continues to struggle and [.
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Carling Cup holders
Man United travel down to Oakwell to take on
Barnsley in
the fourth round of the cup.
Barnsley striker Daniel Bogdanovic is ready to start after coming on as a substitute against
Bristol City at the weekend. Bogdanovic was Barnsley's doubt, he should be fit so they have a full
squad to choose from.
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The English Championship is almost a third into the 2009-10 season. It remains very close at the
top of the table and only four point separating the top nine teams. Newcastle United remains on top
and looks the favorite to win an automatic promotion spot. West Bromwich Albion is also in the top
four and another club that has to be a favorite to be promoted.
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Recently, Lanterne Rouge discussed the poor position away fans are often given at Championship
grounds.To that, I add: what about the poor position home fans are often given?If this sounds
bizarre, it is prompted by yesterday's visit to the Ricoh Arena for a turgid 0-0 between Coventry
City and West Bromwich Albion.
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The second in our Thursday series looking at classic football programmes, that perfect
accompaniment for a trip down memory lane. Today, England's West Bromwich Albion take on a
mysterious "China Eleven" in a 1970s international friendly.
West Bromwich Albion vs.
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Opinion is polarised in football about Birmingham's new frontman Carson Yeung (not ‘owner,'
you'll notice; takeovers just cannot be that simple). Some would agree with the man who sneered:
"He's not going to put a penny in...I don't think that's likely to change." Others would back the
man who declared: "We believe his people can take this football club to the next level".
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The South African Football Association have parted company with manager Joel Santana after a string
of poor results. Santana, who took over from Carlos Alberto Parreira in April 2008 as Bafana coach,
was fired after the national team lost eight of their last nine internationals. South Africa's 1-0
loss to Iceland was the last straw [.
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EPL Talk 20 October @ 04:30 AM EST
Paul Peschisolido will be a guest on an upcoming episode of the EPL Talk Podcast. Peschisolido
is a familiar name in English football from the Premier League to the Football League. During his
playing career, he played at Fulham, Birmingham City, Stoke City, West Bromwich Albion, Sheffield
United, Derby County, Luton Town, Norwich City, Queens Park Rangers and several other clubs.
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Anfield Talk 13 October @ 03:41 AM EST
An early penalty and late spot-kick miss condemned Liverpool under-18s to their fifth defeat of the
season in the FA Premier Academy League at they lost 1-0 to Bolton Wanderers at the Kirkby
Academy.
Liverpool had hoped they had turned a corner with the previous week's 4-1 victory over West
Bromwich Albion.
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After sitting out on the sidelines for a long time, because of a suspect ankle injury, which he
suffered in the opening clash of this years CONCACAF Gold Cup, young Arsenal hotshot Carlos Vela is
preparing himself with his national teammates for the World Cup Qualifier against El Salvador
tonight at the Estadio Azteca.
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Relegated Newcastle United are remain on top of the English Football League Championship table
after 11 rounds of matches. Championship powerhouse West Bromwich Albion and Middlesbrough remain
in hot pursuit for the top spot. On the other end of the spectrum, Roy Keane's Ipswich Town
continue to struggle and prop up the table.
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With the first quarter of football almost over in most leagues around Europe, now is a good time
to measure the current progress of some of the giant clubs on the continent. Actually, analyzing
the success or failure of clubs in general won't be nearly as exciting as identifying a more
specific object of analysis.
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The downward route from the Premier League is littered with the names of clubs that thought they
could bounce straight back. They thought it would be easy, assuming the clubs below the Premier
League to be stuffed full of wheezing pseudo-athletes and watched by philistines who don't
understand the sophisticated ways of the newly-relegated.
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HacÃa mucho tiempo que no contábamos con la posibilidad de charlar con algún blogger sobre
fútbol, ya sabéis nuestro pequeño test en el que el invitado nos explica algunas de sus
anécdotas y repasa algunos tema de la actualidad más rabiosa.
En esta ocasión tenemos el honor de presentaros a Alex Santalo, el genio detrás de la web Gol
Sud, en la que a través de sus viñetas nos cuenta a modo de humor la actualidad culé.
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News breaking today that Abdoulaye Meite is close to joining either Newcastle or Hull City on a
year-long loan from West Bromwich Albion. Abdoulaye Meite - loan move pending? The 28 year-old
center-back is keen to play first-team football again, before the World Cup, otherwise he has
little chance of regaining his place in the Ivory Coast [.
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Arsenal will face Liverpool in the Fourth Round of the Carling Cup.
Arsène Wenger's young Gunners were handed a mouthwatering challenge on Saturday afternoon and
will welcome Rafa Benitez's team to Emirates Stadium on October 27 or 28.
Arsenal eased into the Fourth Round with a 2-0 victory over West Bromwich Albion on Tuesday
night.
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