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Tottenham missed out on Champions League qualification in 2011, despite finishing fourth in the Premier League, due to sixth-placed Chelsea winning the tournament. However, this will be a thing of the past from the 2014-15 season, as Uefa is set …

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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has called on FIFA to introduce blood tests to prevent drug cheats from corrupting the beautiful game. Till now, football players are only tested for banned substances through urine samples at the training ground or after …

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MLS lacks a certain flair when compared to the top European leagues, if the factors responsible for that are understood and addressed, MLS can reach the level of its European counterparts.

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Football’s governing bodies are considering giving foreign players cultural English lessons to help eradicate racism from football. It’s difficult to see how such measures would have any such effect. Despite global efforts to eradicate racism from football it is still …

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UEFA have revealed that they want to put an end to third party ownership of professional football players. Third party ownership is where an outside party, not a club but an individual or agency, controls or partially controls the transfer …

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Mark Clattenburg has been cleared by the police and the Football Association of making inappropriate comments to Chelsea players during the Premier League match against Manchester United. Chelsea claimed that the referee had racially abused two of their players through …

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The Laws themselves are often vague or ambiguous, and allow a lot of room for interpretation

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For more years than most of us would care to remember, soccer has been trumpeted as America’s “sport of the future.” The belief was that one day (perhaps because there was once a World Cup here, or perhaps because so …

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There are so many variables that can play their part in deciding whether an individual or team are a success or failure in modern day sport, and football is no exception. With advanced training techniques, sports science and nutrition, performance …

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I would like to tell you a little story about a sport I discovered very recently.  It just goes to show that all sport regardless of time and place is beset with problems. “BribeaBlatter” or “Go Lime” was a sport …

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News broke yesterday of Lee Dixon’s departure from the BBC football punditry team. Now Dixon is by no means a great pundit. He wasn’t enormously informative, didn’t have great vocal delivery. He wasn’t as good as Gary Neville or even …

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When Ukraine coach Oleg Blokhin was asked about racism in Ukraine during the Sweden v Ukraine pre-match news conference, he put down his headphones and stopped listening to the translation of the question, preferring to deliver a seemingly prepared statement: …

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