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Oct
13
2008

Best Ways To Watch Live Football Online

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Following your favorite football team or league can be as complicated as heart surgery....

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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)...

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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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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...

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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...

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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

Footballer 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...

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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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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...

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