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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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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 8 comments
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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Written by Neil Jones. 11 comments
Let’s...
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Written by Victor Li. 7 comments
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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Written by Victor Li. 15 comments
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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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 4 comments
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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Written by Graham Fisher. 7 comments
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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Written by Graham Fisher. One comment
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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Written by Oliver Fowler. 10 comments
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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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 17 comments
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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Written by Scott the Red. 23 comments
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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Written by Andy Greeves. 15 comments
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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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 19 comments
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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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 80 comments
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:
Written by Soccerlens. 2 comments
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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Written by Hugo Steckelmacher. 17 comments
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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Written by Hugo Steckelmacher. 3 comments
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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Written by Ahmed Bilal. One comment
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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Written by Hugo Steckelmacher. 13 comments
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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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 7 comments
“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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Written by Hugo Steckelmacher. 7 comments
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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Written by Hugo Steckelmacher. 6 comments
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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Written by Guest Authors. 5 comments
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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Written by Hugo Steckelmacher. 6 comments
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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Written by Steve Amoia. 15 comments
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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Written by Marco Pantanella. 10 comments
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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Written by laurie. 13 comments
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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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 59 comments
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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Written by Andrew. 53 comments
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.
Written by Ed Harrison. 3 comments
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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Written by Tony. 14 comments
