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Nov
24
2008

Ten Good Reasons To Hate Football Players

Football rivalries are intense - football fans (normal, loving people in day-to-day life) take perverse pride in hating rival clubs, rival fans and rival players.

Sometimes...

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Nov
8
2008

Footballitis - It Happens to the Best of Us

I’m not alone. I know I’m not. A twenty-something (twenty four if you wanna get picky about it) lad from the suburbs, who for as long as he can remember has been hooked on one thing. Not girls, not cars, not cricket. Football. The Beautiful Game,...

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Oct
17
2008

Best FREE Ways To Watch Live Football Online


Let’s...

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Oct
13
2008

Best Ways To Watch Live Football Online

Following your favorite football team or league can be as complicated as heart surgery. Between all the rules governing what matches can be watched live and what TV subscriptions and equipment you need, trying to watch football live can be both difficult...

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Oct
10
2008

The Money Wars

The English Premier League raked in roughly £1.8 billion in revenues in the 2007-2008 season. In comparison, UEFA earned €1.3 billion (£1 billion) in revenues from Euro 2008, and FIFA earned €2.6 billion (£2 billion) in revenues from World...

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Sep
30
2008

Premier League club for sale. Applications from overseas multi-billionaires will be particularly welcome.

What is the lot of a football club owner in the English Premier League in this day and age?

Well, if you are Abu Dhabi United or Roman Abramovich, then you are in it for the fun and kudos of owning a football club.

Neither of these...

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Sep
23
2008

Coaching Young Players

In these heady days of multi-billionaire takeovers of clubs in the English Premiership and Championship, the subject of developing young players has again risen to the fore.

With the best overseas...

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Sep
11
2008

20 Billionaires you want buying your football club

Come on down! These days everyone wants to be taken over by a billionaire and then immediately get linked with players worth more than the entire debt of Africa. But how?

Ker-Ching! It’s easy! The Premier League title awaits, all you have...

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Aug
31
2008

Summer 2008 Transfer Lists

In addition to our daily transfer news and rumours column, we also cover all the transfers happening in the Premier League. This summer we’re taking our coverage to the next level, and you can now track confirmed transfers for the following...

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Aug
19
2008

Glory Fans - Not So Bad After All?

As a child, the summer holidays brought about a family trip to a campsite in Europe. We’d get in the car to travel down to Dover and I would always be wearing my United shirt. After hours and hours of driving, we’d pull in at our designated...

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Jul
30
2008

Modern footballers hold clubs and fans hostage

When you’re hot, you’re hot… and doesn’t the modern day footballer know it.

A few months ago Robbie Keane pledged his future to Tottenham Hotspur saying “I’m having a summer off without...

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Jul
9
2008

10 Highlights From Manchester United’s Double-Winning 07/08 Season

Watched Manchester United’s 07/08 Season Review over the weekend (grab the torrent here) and it was quite an entertaining 2 and...

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Jul
4
2008

7 Reasons Why Americans Suck At Soccer

The world’s greatest nation is surprisingly mediocre when it comes to playing the world’s most popular sport. It’s not that they keep losing - far from it. Americans have a winning mentality that automatically ensures...

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Jul
1
2008

Euro 2008 Review

The show’s over folks, we can all get back to work. If you’ve missed anything, here’s a quick recap of our Euro 2008 coverage:

...

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Apr
18
2008

Football Nicknames - Pelé, Pibe de Oro, Gazza, Becks, Zizou: A Century of Diminutives

Don’t call me Hugo any more. I’m English, don’t you know? So you have to change my name. At school, P.E. teachers insisted on branding me “Steckel”, although I suppose I should just be grateful I escaped that awful nom de plume...

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Mar
27
2008

Football Fanzines - the perfect way to get your voice heard

First off, as a sort of disclaimer I would like to start off by conceding that I am by no means an expert on the topic of football fanzines. I have read a few in my time, but have not...

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Mar
20
2008

How to improve Grassroots Football in England

The English FA’s initiative to increase investment in grassroots football as well as formal recognition for the need to concentrate on helping referees,...

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Mar
19
2008

Keeping the Bench Warm – The Trials & Tribulations of Back-Up Goalkeepers

For one reason or another, this season has seen a number of long-suffering back-up goalkeepers finally venturing into the first eleven on a regular basis.

Almunia at Arsenal has at long last cast off the albatross of Mad Jens Lehmann from around...

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Mar
13
2008

A Tale Of Two Men…

It is the best of times, it is the worst of times…

Football is at war. This war is being fought in boardrooms and courtrooms, in the media and in secret conversations and meetings between top officials and powerful businessmen...

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Feb
27
2008

Professional Footballers’ Association - How The PFA Helps Players

“You give your life to football and then it often forgets you. Football clubs have a bad habit of taking players in, making the most of them, and then vomiting them up once they’re too old or injured […] That’s where the Professional...

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Feb
24
2008

Slavery in Football

The subject of slavery is one that rouses reactions verging from the understandably passionate to the frankly irrational. I can recall with a pang of melancholy the furore issuing from José Mourinho’s assertion that the French Football Federation’s...

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Feb
17
2008

A Blueprint For Youth Football Training

Soccerlens is proud to welcome Mark Carter, Director of Ministry of Football, as a guest columnist.

How can we help create players who can invent the future of the game?...

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Feb
9
2008

“Under the Radar”: The Top 5 Up-and-Coming English Managers in the Football League

In numerous other articles published on this site, I have sought to debunk the myth that English football is not producing enough young talent.

Previously, I have primarily...

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Dec
29
2007

Football Quotes of the Year - 2007

Here are some notable quotes made during the past year. Each was stated by the named individual; however, my responses were created, and are not meant to represent the views of the individuals. Nor libel them in any way. This is both a factual and...

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Dec
7
2007

‘Share Your Football Experiences’ Contest

Due to the enormous success of our previous writing contest, Soccerlens will be launching a new contest for the month of December, for which the theme will be:

Share...

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Oct
22
2007

When Posh Met Diana. The True Story.

In case you weren’t paying attention recently, Victoria “Posh Spice” Beckham took some heat for “accidentally” exiting the Paris Ritz in the middle of the Princess Diana inquest where there just happened...

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Oct
1
2007

Football Writing Competition

Soccerlens is hosting a football writing competition - if you think you’re better than the journalist / blogger hacks you force yourself to read everyday (in some...

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Mar
13
2007

Lucky Liverpool?

After Liverpool’s amazing victory over AC Milan in the 2005 champions league final, may disgruntled fans of Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal accused Liverpool of being lucky and undeserving winners.

After all, how could England’s...

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Mar
6
2007

Funny Quotes by Football Managers

There have been some really comical quotes made by football managers over the years - in the heat of the moment - and since we tend to become too serious at times about our football it may be good just to browse through some of these and have a chuckle.

Sir...

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Sep
11
2006

The Unbearable Lightness of Being…A Spurs Fan

A few hours after the referee had blown the final whistle, I find myself sitting in a restaurant, opposite a beautiful woman, picking at a calamari entrée and throwing a glass of (rather cheeky) Chardonnay down my throat.

“You okay tonight?�?...

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