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Watch World Cup qualifiers live here. International press conferences at the best of times tend to be mundane, by the numbers affairs filled with platitudes by the key figures within the national side. Not much changes when it comes to …

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Here comes the second ‘Blue Revolution’. Manchester City’s new found riches have seen them overtake the rest of the Premier League in terms of financial clout, with a few optimistic punters also believing they may overtake the rest on the …

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It’s been a good month for Chelsea and Luiz Felipe Scolari.  The new manager of the Blues has overseen a successful preseason campaign including a morale-boosting 19 goals in 5 matches, while off the pitch Felipao has brought in Deco as …

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There is a tendency within many different avenues of football to overplay the concept of a ‘big club’ in world football. By nature, there will always be disagreements over who are and who aren’t the ‘big clubs’ in the game …

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It’s not been a good 10 days for the Premier League, for Richard Scudamore or for their grand plan to take the league to the world. Flak has come in from all comers, from the media hacks working for the …

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All of us have had a few days to muse about the departure of Sam Allardyce from Newcastle United now, the announcement coming on Wednesday afternoon, but my opinion hasn’t changed at all in that space of time, and I’m …

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Towards the end of 2006, certain pundits and magazines were proclaiming the birth of Sir Alex Ferguson’s third (for some, fourth) great team stemming from his 20-year tenure at Manchester United.

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The story of Alhassan Bangoura has been fairly well documented in the gathered media over in Britain over the last few days.

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We’ve been here before. After the failure of the Republic of Ireland to qualify for the 2006 World Cup two years ago, the arrogant, insipid, somewhat idiotic Brian Kerr was finally jettisoned from a position which he wasn’t fit for …

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Ed’s note: In the rush to crucify Rob Styles, predict Jol’s replacement and criticise Manchester United, we tend to forget that there’s more to football than just the Premiership, and indeed, that there’s a lot more to football than just …

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Many things were said about the Community Shield prior to the kick-off earlier in the day, many more comments will be made up until the middle of the week, by which point the event will be consigned to the annals …

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If Frank Lampard leaves Stamford Bridge tomorrow morning, I would not give two lights. If a Chelsea fan had said that to you a few years ago, you would probably think they are either a) stupid, b) mad or c) …

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