Last season Sporting Club de Braga’s manager Jorge Jesus stated that the only way they would ever win the league would be on a Playstation. They had just been beaten by Benfica in Estadio da Luz 1-0 to an offside goal and had been denied two...
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Written by Karl Donnelly. 21 comments
Ever since the arrival of the Roman Abramovich era at Chelsea, the world of football seems to exist in two separate yet parallel universes.
There are clubs who teeter on the brink of bankruptcy despite brief flirts with glory (a la Leeds United...
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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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Written by Greg Keane. Comments Off
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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Written by Michael Turner. Comments Off
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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Written by Gary Andrews. 8 comments
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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Written by Neil Jones. 16 comments
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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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 5 comments
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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Written by UnifySport.com. 5 comments
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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Written by Nick Smith. One comment
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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Written by Gary Andrews. 7 comments
