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Sep
4
2009

Gray clouds hide happenings at Athletic

With Grays Athletics’ Chief Executive Mick Woodward standing down from his role at the club after a 10 year stint, which has seen Woodward taking over as manger twice and splitting fan opinion of his general running of the club. A new regime has...

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Aug
27
2009

AFC Champions League 09/10 Quarterfinal Preview

On the other side of the world to the eupohoria filled European Champions League, there is another ‘Champions League’. The AFC Champions League. For those of you unaware of this league, 35 teams participate, either though direct...

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Aug
26
2009

West Ham and Millwall remind us that hooliganism is still alive and well

The only surprising thing about the violence at Upton Park in the Carling Cup tie between West Ham and Millwall was that anybody was surprised by it.

From the moment the draw was made, all the signs of trouble were there. Two clubs with supporters...

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Aug
6
2009

Five Reasons why Football is better than Formula One

Where I come from, there tends to be two kinds of boys. Car boys and football boys. You can like both of course, but essentially you know at some point you are going to have to choose. Are you a Top Gear guy or a Match of the Day man? It may be a sociological...

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Aug
4
2009

Footbo Blogging Contest

Our friends over at Footbo have teamed up with Sony Ericsson (South Africa 2010 sponsors) to bring you a very lucrative offer:

Write an article on any topic in football, and if your article judged as the best by the panel of judges, you will...

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Aug
3
2009

The Golden Decade of Sport in the UK

With the recent news of England’s successful Rugby World Cup bid, it would appear that another part of what is fast becoming known as ‘The Golden Decade of Sport’ has fallen into place. The thought of an Olympic Games and RWC may be enough to...

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Aug
3
2009

Arsenal, the Oligarch and the UPL

He’s obviously finished the brandy. When club president Vadym Rabynovych handed over Ukrainian Premier League side Arsenal Kyiv to the city’s mayor, Leonid Chernovetskyi, in January 2009, rumour had it that a bottle of the good stuff came his way...

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Jul
31
2009

Bobby Robson 1933 – 2009

Former England manager Sir Bobby Robson has died of cancer aged 76. He had been battling the disease in various forms since 1992.

Robson will be best remembered for taking England to within a penalty-shoot out at the 1990 World Cup, but he...

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Jul
20
2009

What Can and Cannot be Gained From Pre-Season Friendlies

After a summer of discussion, controversy and the dominance of Manchester City and Real Madrid in the transfer market, club football has finally returned to our lives albeit in a non-competitive format.

Obviously after the seemingly endless...

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Jul
15
2009

Where’s Willer? A Brazilian in the East

Summer in the east. After a short break in June which felt almost as long as the frozen abyss of winter, football across eastern Europe is underway once more on green fields and under blue skies, half a continent and a whole world away from the frenzied...

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