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Football Algebra
Unless we’re watching an International friendly, the days of a football team donning the traditional 1 to 11 numbering system is long behind us. Since the Premier League switched to assigned squad numbering at the start of the 1993/94 season, you are just as likely to see a goalkeeper wearing the number 25 shirt as…
Manchester United: Drop it like it’s hot!
Two very different things. Manchester United is a football club and “Drop it like it’s hot” is a song by Snoop Dogg. What relation could there possibly. Well, how about Rio Ferdinand and a 2009/2010 Manchester United home shirt. Judging from the shirt, it seems like an event from last year. The pictures show Snoop…
The 10 Largest Football Fan Communities Online
So, which club do you think has the biggest fan following? Some would say Manchester United, others would say Real Madrid and a few would even say Bayern Munich. There isn’t really a way to find out the exact number of fans of a specific football club… Or is there? Maybe Facebook can give us…
Relating The Debate – The Need for Technology
There has been a lot of discussion following all of the controversial decisions at the 2010 FIFA World Cup with the need for goal-line assistance to prevent any further controversies – but will it ever happen, though? FIFA was left red in the face as many refereeing decisions were incorrect and cost a few of…
Football: Best way to spend over 26,000 hours of your life
Did you know? Men spend 25% more time thinking, talking and watching football than loking after children. Men spend more time per week thinking, talking and watching football than they spend on cleaning, washing and ironing. Even in recession, 25% of unemployed Britishers who support a football team would miss a job interview in order…
Football in Italy: Crisis, Problems & Solutions – Part II
As we said in the first part of this article, Italian soccer crisis does not involve the national teams only, clubs have big problems too.
Are all foreign Manchester United fans glory hunters?
It’s one of the biggest arguments all non Manchester United fans have against United, that none of United’s fans are from Manchester and that where all glory hunting supporters that don’t truly follow the club, well here’s my retaliation in defence of myself and United’s foreign fans all around the globe. You always hear something…
The curious incident of the Frenchman in the transfer market
As Carlos Vela’s exquisite chip gave Arsenal a 4-0 win against Fulham and a third place finish on May the 9th, their supporters thoughts turned immediately to the 2010-2011 campaign. At the top of the rather lengthy agenda was the number 1, something that has plagued the club ever since the departure of David Seaman…
Manchester United v Real Madrid – which is the bigger club and why?
Soccerlens reader (and Real Madrid fan) Ramos writes in: Re: “The Football Debt League – Top 10 Most Indebted Clubs by: Ross Mackiewicz” That was a really good article and I applaud the writer for having done his research into the numbers and for having put forward an unbiased view of those numbers too. However,…
The Renaissance of German Football
Brazil, Spain, Argentina, England and Holland. These were the five nations who were most people’s favourites to win the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Only Spain and Holland are left as Germany accompany the Spaniards in the eagerly-anticipated semi-final. But it is not the guile of Spain which has left the world drooling or the classy Dutch. It…
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