EPL Talk 18 November @ 01:34 PM EST
Later this week, it'll be our distinct pleasure to interview Robbie Earle for an upcoming
episode of the EPL Talk Podcast, the number one Premier League interview and analysis show.
Earle is a familiar voice to English football supporters worldwide with his wonderful
co-commentating of most of the major Premier League matches.
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AFC Wimbledon supporters tuck in.
Photo credit: mattcr on Flickr, via the Pitch
Invasion Photo Pool.
Related posts:
- Photo Daily July 28 AFC Wimbledon Fan Takes a Stand Photo credit: szczels on Flickr, via the
Pitch Invasion photo pool.
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Avenell Road 13 November @ 06:19 AM EST
Ian Edward Wright, known now by many a name but during in footballing career he was fondly known
as ‘Wrighty'.
Born in the fine year of 1963, he went on to be a half decent striker at Crystal Palace and then
Arsenal and boy, did he love to score!
He had a bit of a strange start to his career in football, he had trials at both Southend and
Brighton while in his teenage years but neither club thought he was good enough and let him go on
his merry way.
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EPL Talk 12 November @ 10:37 AM EST
Like leaves fall from the trees in Autumn, it seems every year some chairman in the Premier
League wants to try and get the Old Firm into it. This time Phil Gartside, the Bolton Chairman once
again tried to get the League to agree to invite Rangers and Celtic in to the fold. Thankfully, the
request has been voted down.
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They wait and watch. That's what they do. About three hundred or so of them on either side of
you. The older ones seem to be to the right of you, with the younger ones on the left. Watching
football in the away end at Millwall is a strange, surreal experience. It starts at South
Bermondsey railway station, where you're funneled away from the home supporters and down a long
walkway with metal fencing on each side.
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Millwall eased past lower league AFC Wimbledon but the scoreline is perhaps a little flattering
as Kenny Jackett's side scored two very late goals.
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There's a light schedule on Monday, November 9, 2009 in the European leagues. In the English
Championship, Barnsley faces Sheffield United while Millwall plays AFC Wimbledon in the English FA
Cup. In the Portugese Liga, Benfica plays Naval. All these matches can be seen at our other site,
Free Live Sports TV, where they will be covered live.
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We'll be back a little later on today with a report on the match between Paulton Rovers and
Norwich City. In the meantime, however, The First Round of The FA Cup started yesterday evening
with three matches. The remainder, of course, are to be played over the next three days. One of the
traditions of The FA Cup is the press sending one of their hacks who is probably none too happy at
not being to assigned to a Premier League match to write a few words about the smaller clubs that
are taking their spot in the limelight.
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Before David Beckham popularised this art, goals from the halfway line were spectacular but rare.
Since then, there have been more and more outrageous goals scored by really talented
footballers.
Just recently, a college university freshman from SMU scored a 95-yard goal which bounced over the
opposition goalkeeper and into net.
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So, there, Cummins is gone. Duane Rollins thinks his leaving won't account for much, following his
convincing argument the other day for Trader Mo's dismissal as sporting director.
Fine Cummins out, so can we stop the ex-lower level Luton/Newcastle parade now? These are the last
of clubs in a long line of Graham Taylor-Watford-Wimbledon eighties style Charles Reep football,
and follows a "we need this part to fit in this cog" line of thinking to work properly—you have
to have two centerbacks and they both have to be big, you need a poacher near goal with a runner in
behind him, and you need a classic lined up midfield to grease that 4-4-2.
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This year's annual Supporters Direct conference found the organisation at something of a
crossroads. The high profile failure of Supporters Trusts at Notts County and Stockport County have
caused a deal of unwanted attention to be cast upon SD (even though they are obviously not for
responsible for the goings on at specific trusts) and, with continuing concerns about the
credentials of some of the owners coming into the game, this year's conference was always going to
carry an underlying theme about two subjects: foreign ownership and the question of whether
supporter ownership of clubs is always a good thing.
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I think I have told you before that my local team is called Forest Green Rovers.
Anyway yesterday they were playing AFC Wimbledon (who beat them resoundingly).
When I heard, I was a bit confused.
I thought Wimbledon became MK Dons?
Turns out they did but following outrage amongst the fans they left behind when they moved over 50
miles north, AFC Wimbledon rose from the ashes.
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According to press reports this evening, the Blue Square Premier has been unable to reach
agreement with the new boy in the British pay television market, ESPN. This comes as no great
surprise. For one thing, lower division football doesn't exactly fit in with the profile that the
nascent channel has built up over the last couple of months, a profile based upon top European
football, Premier League football and American sports.
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Southampton police have contacted the FA regarding the Matt Le Tissier betting scandal.
The former Southampton captain and England international admitted gambling on a Premier League game
in which he was playing.
Le Tissier admitted in his autobiography, Taking Le Tiss, that he gambled on the time of the first
throw in the Saints' 2-0 win at Wimbledon in April 1995.
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Given he's got an autobiography to sell, I'm not sure if it's a good or bad thing for former
England and Southampton star Matthew Le Tissier that the revelation he placed a spread bet on a
game he played in hit the press today, well-buried under the Chelsea news. Le Tissier explained
what he says was the only time he ever did this, betting on the time the first throw-in would
come:
We were safe from the threat of relegation when we went to Wimbledon on April 17 and, as it was
a televised match, there was a wide range of bets available.
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As the new season sleepwalks into life, the FA Cup is, before August is even finished, at its
second round already. The names in the Preliminary Round of the competition start to have a
familiar feel to them. They're the little clubs up the road that most of us don't visit that often.
Worthing Football Club are in Division One South of the Ryman League.
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The goal: to eat a pie at all 92 grounds in English league football. The results: in some cases,
surprising.
The pie and football go together like strawberries and cream at Wimbledon, like popcorn at the
cinema or like ten lagers and a kebab on a Friday night. It is a match made in heaven.
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Ground: Rockingham Road
Date: Saturday 15th August 2009
Comp: Conference
Match: Kettering 1 AFC Wimbledon 2 HT: 0-1 Att: 1,746
Thomas 74: Kedwell 9, 66(pen)
Additional: Entrance £18 (stand) £14 (terrace), Programme £3, Hamburger £2.80, Hot drinks
£1.00
Rockingham Road in pictures
Despite my decision to follow Leek Town this season, this game was booked in advance as a birthday
present from my Dad, an AFC Wimbledon fan.
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LONG SHOOOOOOOOOT! Holy sushi, that is one brilliant finish, just as impressive as David Beckham's
famous lob against Wimbledon, or Xabi Alonso's effort against Newcastle Utd. If you're interested,
Uesato plays for Consadole Sapporoin the J-League's second tier. His goal...
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The deluded pre-season optimism of Spurs fans is a quintessential part of the British summer, up
there alongside heroic failure at Wimbledon and an English batting collapse. Like moths to a flame
we just can't seem to help ourselves banging on each summer about making the top four.
Typically the wafer-thin bases for this argument are a fairly unnecessary spending spree;
rampant (but entirely irrelevant) pre-season form; and the rather unscientific assumption, more
commonly found in six year-olds, that if you repeat a lie often enough you can start to believe
that it's actually true!
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Blue Square Premier League 2009-10 Predictions
1. Luton Town
2. Oxford
3. Wrexham
4. Stevenage
5. Mansfield
6. Cambridge
7. Rushden & Diamonds
8. Kidderminster
9. York City
10. AFC Wimbledon
11. Kettering
12. Crawley
13.
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LONG SHOOOOOOOOOT! Holy sushi, that is one brilliant finish, just as impressive as David Beckham's
famous lob against Wimbledon, or Xabi Alonso's effort against Newcastle Utd. If you're interested,
Uesato plays for Consadole Sapporoin the J-League's second tier. His goal...
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SoccerLens 04 August @ 02:31 AM EST
All this week Soccerlens will be preparing for the big kick-off on August 8th with a full
preview of the English leagues from Championship downwards. We start off with the Blue Square
Premier, better known as the Conference. Can Luton Town bounce back? Will AFC Wimbledon take a
third successive promotion?
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SoccerLens 04 August @ 02:31 AM EST
All this week Soccerlens will be preparing for the big kick-off on August 8th with a full
preview of the English leagues from Championship downwards. We start off with the Blue Square
Premier, better known as the Conference. Can Luton Town bounce back? Will AFC Wimbledon take a
third successive promotion?
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As we walk into the bar at Kingsmeadow, something silver and shiny catches my attention in the
corner of my eye. "It's the FA Trophy!", I squeal, "The real FA Trophy". It takes a sharp prod to
the rib cage to remind me that, sitting next to it, is the squatter but considerably shinier FA
Cup. It's carnival day in south-west London, the day of the Co-Operative Supporters Direct Cup
match, an annual invitation match for supporters trust owned clubs, and this year - as it was two
years ago this weekend - it's Wimbledon and FC United doing the honours.
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E-$ sent me this from Bill Simmons' Summer Mailbag. A few reasons he thinks soccer
(international at least...) will take off in thee states:
Q: I am a die-hard soccer fan living abroad and agree with your theory that international soccer
could take off in the States. But not everyone listens to your podcasts, so could you please make
the same case in one of your columns so everyone can see it?
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Have you checked out Rio Ferdinand's online magazine Number 5? If not, you should. It's got style,
music, celebrity interviews, movie stuff and of course a bit of footie. Get stuck in here.
Also, check out his day-after-Wimbledon interview with Roger Federer. Talk about striking while the
iron is hot.
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East Lower 13 July @ 05:11 PM EST
Slow old summer, isn't it? Other than the Confederations Cup, the U21 finals, Wimbledon, the
Lions tour and the Ashes, there's been almost no sport on the telly at all.
We're now just six days short of the pre-season curtain-raiser at Barnet though. That came round
fast.
What kind of a state are Arsenal in?
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The Offside asks us a very tough question.
Does anyone remember Ronaldinho and how awesome he was?
It certainly has been a while Mr. Gaucho...
Let's do the links:
- Freddy Adu has a lot riding on the Gold Cup. [SI]
- The Czech Republic has a new coach. [ESPN]
- Iraq has a game with Palestine soon.
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July has arrived, Wimbledon has ended and the rain is pouring down outside it must be time to
return to the football. Of course if I was only to talk about what was actually happening
then this might be a somewhat short blog, instead I find myself compelled to encourage you to
never, ever, under any circumstances, buy the Sun again.
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Here's Herr Ballack enjoying yesterday's epic Federer v Roddick snooze at Wimbledon (16-14 in the
final set? It should have been exciting, but it wasn't). Can you spot the Chelsea midfielder? Clue:
he's the one wearing the eye-burningly horrific...
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KICKETTE 06 July @ 08:07 AM EST
Happy Monday!
We're dying, you? We have a headache that can only be cured by a week's holiday on Fendi
island.
Wait, there's no such thing? Must have been a dream. One thing is for sure - Michael Ballack's
choice in shirt and pattern is not helping the pounding in our brains.
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