2009 VIVA World Cup Preview: Can Padania repeat?
If you haven’t heard of the VIVA World Cup, don’t worry, you’re in the majority. Started in 2006, the event was first planned...
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If you haven’t heard of the VIVA World Cup, don’t worry, you’re in the majority. Started in 2006, the event was first planned...
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Nike Five is a national five-a-side tournament held by Nike in England – we previewed it here before (with a clip of Rooney getting nutmegged) and now the Nike...
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Donna Powell – turnstile operator at Fisher Athletic – is set to make footballing history when she leads the club out for today’s Blue Square South match against Eastleigh.
She raised £500 for the club and was rewarded...
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Surrounded by thick morning mists, the train arriving in Donetsk slows down as it snakes through the slag-heaps. A century and a half of wrenching coal from the depths of the Donbass has left the ground fragile. This is the land of Stakhanov and his...
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Luiz Felipe Scolari shed some insight into his situation at Chelsea right before he was given the pink slip by Roman Abramovich on Monday. He admitted that...
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So that big cup draw has been made, your team has got the tie that they were praying for. A home tie as well. “All you can ask for is a home tie” apparently. It is going to be the game of the season, make no mistake. You simply have to...
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Oxford United fans will be praying this season ends quickly. A season that started out with hopes of a playoff place has disintegrated as the club have suffered major financial...
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For the first time in history of the Torneo Apertura or Opening (there are two seasons in Argentina) championship in Argentina, three teams ended up level on points (39).
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Non-league clubs have never been the most stable of businesses, even in more financially stable times. Out of the 24 teams currently in the Blue Square Premier, no fewer than 15 have gone through some form of financial upheaval in the past ten years.
They...
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Given the long history of the torpedo as the purveyor of silent death, it could be considered a cruel irony of fate that the recent demise of Torpedo Moscow, once one of Russia’s greatest clubs, has received so little comment.
Condemned...
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