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Friday, September 30, 2011
Predators-Jets Sum
Nashville 1 0 1 0-3Winnipeg 0 1 1 0-2First Period-1, Nashville, O'Reilly 2 (Tootoo), 7:51.Second Period-2, Winnipeg, Ladd 2 (Little, Wheeler), 5:57.Third Period-3, Nashville, Legwand 2 (Ekholm), 7:28 (pp). 4, Winnipeg, Scheifele 4 (Cormier, Oduya)...
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We have a winner today and Wigan on Saturday
First to Wigan. They currently sit fifteenth in the table and haven't won away from home this season. This match is ours and we are going to win - losing this is something I just can not see happening.
The manager has had long enough. All summer and enough games equals three points against a Wigan side that will be struggling by the end of the season. We saw last weekend that he can get them up for it when he needs and on Saturday, he needs them up for it for ninety minutes.
Balotelli back in Mancini's bad books for showboat gaffe
Balotelli back in Mancini's bad books for showboat gaffe
CARSON, California, July 25 (Reuters) - Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli paid the price for attempting to score with an audacious trick shot against the LA Galaxy when he was immediately withdrawn from Sunday's friendly by manager Roberto Mancini after just 30 minutes.
The controversial Italian, who scored the first goal of the match from the penalty spot, attempted an outrageous pirouette and backheel that dribbled harmlessly wide after he was put clean through with only the goalkeeper to beat.
A furious Mancini immediately signalled for substitute James Milner to replace Balotelli, who confronted the coach before taking his seat on the bench.
"I think that we need to always be professional, always serious and for me in that case, Mario wasn't and for this I changed him," Mancini told reporters.
"To take him off the pitch after 30 minutes is punishment enough for him. In football, you should be serious always. If you have a chance to score, you score.
"For me, it's finished now. I hope that he learns an important lesson.
"I don't think its easy to leave the pitch after 30 minutes, but if one player has good behavior, plays for the team, plays strong, plays serious... they can stay on the pitch for 90 minutes. If not, they can come with me on the bench."
The volatile Balotelli has made the headlines for all the wrong reasons including multiple red cards and incidents off the field during his first season with Manchester City.
His latest misdemeanour is reminiscent of UAE player Theyab Awana, whose backheeled spot kick against Lebanon last week was watched by millions on YouTube but attracted negative headlines after accusations he had displayed a lack of respect.
Awana, who was sent on as a replacement, was also withdrawn immediately after he cheekily scored from the spot late on in the 7-2 friendly win.
"Everybody's seen it, it wasn't a great action and the coach took a decision to take him off. That's a decision that's been made and that's a statement that the group is behind him," City midfielder Nigel de Jong said.
"If you get in front of the goal you have to score. He knows that as well. I hope he learns from this moment and that we continue to be stronger as a group."
City went on to win on penalties after the match ended 1-1 in normal time.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Sports News: Lampard on target as Blues held
Andre Villas-Boas' recall of Frank Lampard was totally vindicated but the Chelsea manager's decision to substitute him backfired spectacularly as Valencia snatched a 1-1 draw in Wednesday night's Champions League clash at the Mestalla.
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Bafetimbi Gomis / Lyon striker Bafetimbi Gomis gets France call-up
PARIS (AP) -- France coach Laurent Blanc called up Bafetimbi Gomis to the squad that will play the last two European Championship qualifiers against Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina next month.
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Ex-Barcelona defender Marquez explains slating New York Red Bulls teammates
Barcelona
Rafa Marquez has moved to clarify the controversial comments about his New York Red Bulls teammates.
The Mexico international and former Barcelona star went back on Univision to put his side of the story.
He explained: "The problem began with the game where we were down 3-0 and the crowd started to get on me every time I touched the ball.
"The question in the locker room was regarding my thoughts when the crowd was booing me. To that question I responded with frustration that I did not understand why the crowd was getting on me when I had not made any mistakes and that on the contrary, I thought I was trying to perform at my best level. I was trying my best effort to help the team. And that unfortunately because of individual mistakes of others in the team the crowd was taking it personal with me and that I was perhaps at a different level then the one from some of the other players.
"These comments went in the wrong direction and it was not my intention.
"I have spoken to my teammates and apologized because these comments were not my intention.
"Sadly, the comments were taken by some (media) to fuel other attacks to me as an individual. I?m not like this. I?m not a person that hides or points fingers at others for the low performance of the team. We are a team and we all win and lose together."
Man City players gave Tevez both barrels after Mancini clash
Carlos Tevez
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Manchester City players told Carlos Tevez just what they thought of him after his bust-up with manager Roberto Mancini in Munich.
The Daily Mail says Mancini?s players were not required to be in training on Wednesday but it is understood that while not all of his team-mates reacted adversely towards him, some told him exactly what they thought of him while in the away team dressing room.
Many of the same players, it is now understood, asked Mancini to take the captaincy away from Tevez halfway through last season when he announced his desire to leave the club.
It might be surprising, given his behaviour, but some players sent him text messages of support, with former City team-mates among them.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Man City to trawl small print of Tevez?s contract
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Carlos Tevez
Manchester City
Before deciding on how to deal with controversial Argentinean Carlos Tevez, Manchester City?s legal team will have an in depth look at the striker?s contract.
As condemnation of the 27-year-old's apparent refusal to play against Bayern Munich on Wednesday night has mounted City have taken advantage of a planned day off for their first-team squad to take stock of the situation.
The club are determined to ensure any action will not be the subject of appeals by Tevez, although chairman Khaldoon al-Mubarak will have the final say.
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Forgotten Scotland Players: Eddie Colquhoun
Hot on the heels of Eddie Connachan, our Forgotten Scotland Player number 6, comes another delve into the archives for number 7.
Another who strutted his stuff against Czechoslovakia at a neutral venue.
Another called Eddie.
Even more than that - another from Prestonpans.
If you haven't sampled its delights, Prestonpans is an East Lothain seaside/rural/post-industrial idyll and home to my alma mater, the august institution what learned me to write rubbish an' that.
Those of you that have been to the 'Pans will appreciate that I'm drunk as I write this. It's a coping mechanism to survive the memories of that long, hard slog of an education.
Anyway, Prestonpans - and, seriously, check out the annual arts festival or local club Preston Athletic - gave Scottish football both Eddie Connachan and Forgotten Scotland Player number 7, Eddie Colquhoun.
Edmund Peter Skirving Colquhoun for the nomenclature completists. Not, I think, many Edmunds in Prestonpans. Not then, not now.
A young chap on the make called Edmund would always be looking for an escape to a greener, more pleasant land.
Eddie's chance came when he way just 17. In 1962 he signed for Bury, possibly blinded by the bright lights of the big city, and his professional career was underway.
His time at Bury was spent languishing in the lower reaches of the English Second Division. But the young centre back impressed.
Bury were relegated in the 1966/67 season but Colquhoun was already headed in the opposite direction, to West Bromwich Albion and the First Division.
A couple of years later came the move that would define his club career.
Sheffield United had just been relegated from the top flight. New manager Arthur Rowley - 434 goals in 619 league games - was rebuilding for a promotion push.
Eddie was the defensive rock he needed. And he was prepared to pay the best part of �28,000 to get him.
Promotion wouldn't actually come for three seasons - Rowley was succeeded by his predecessor John Harris - but Eddie's impact was instantaneous enough for him to be made captain for his home debut.
The fans took to him as well. Soon the terrace choir had a new song:
A centre half of the old school it appears. Richard Savage of Def Leppard - once a United hopeful -remembers a training game:
"The ball was played up to me, I dummied, turned, beat Eddie Colquhoun as if I was Kenny Dalglish and shot at goal. Next goal kick, Eddie Colquhoun walked up behind me and gave me the biggest kick on the back of my ankles and said, ?Do that to me again and I?ll f**king kill you.?
"This was the club captain and I really looked up to him. Being shy, I wasn?t the sort who would say ?F**k you? and do it again." (Four Four Two)
Promotion, if not a natural rapport with youth team players, followed in 1970/71 and it was in 1971 that Scotland came calling.
October of that year and a European Championship qualifier against Portugal at Hampden. Colquhoun makes his debut in a 2-1 win.
For the next 18 months or so he's never far from the Scotland squad, winning nine caps in total.
Those nine games included a 0-0 draw with Czechoslovakia in July 1972. The match, part of the four team Brazilian Independence Cup, was played in front of 5,000 fans in Porto Alegre.
In Eddie's first eight caps Scotland were beaten only twice: by their hosts in that 1972 tournament and by the Dutch in Amsterdam in the winter of 1971.
Then, on Valentine's Day 1973, came a massacre. England romped to a 5-0 win at Hampden. Allan Clarke (twice), Mick Channon, Martin Chivers and a Peter Lorimer own goal broke stout Scottish hearts.
It was the game that gave Bobby Moore a 100th cap. And the game that ended Eddie Colquhoun's international career.
Although sent homeward victorious England didn't qualify for the 1974 World Cup. Scotland did. But Eddie would play no part.
It was back to Yorkshire. In 1975 Sheffield United finished sixth in Division One, the highest finish Eddie enjoyed in his career. But the following season they were relegated.
By 1978 Colquhoun was ready to leave Second Division United and extend his career, as was then the way, in the brave new world of the North American Soccer League.
Good times: Eddie's Detroit Express colleagues included players like Trevor France, Alan Brazil, Jim Holton and Ted MacDougall.
By 1980 he was calling it a day. A testimonial was held at Brammall Lane. In one half of Sheffield, Eddie and his 1970/71 promotion winning team are celebrated still.
Playing at a time when richly talented Scots seemed to have the run of England, Colquhoun did more than enough to hold his own.
Nine caps in a competitive era are testament to that.
Forgotten Scotland Players number 7: Eddie Colquhoun, Sheffield United. 9 caps.
> A Twitter correspondent tells me that Eddie used to be seen stubbing out his cigarette as he made his way on to the pitch at Brammall Lane. Magnificent. (Thanks to @schillaci19)
Another who strutted his stuff against Czechoslovakia at a neutral venue.
Another called Eddie.
Even more than that - another from Prestonpans.
If you haven't sampled its delights, Prestonpans is an East Lothain seaside/rural/post-industrial idyll and home to my alma mater, the august institution what learned me to write rubbish an' that.
Those of you that have been to the 'Pans will appreciate that I'm drunk as I write this. It's a coping mechanism to survive the memories of that long, hard slog of an education.
Anyway, Prestonpans - and, seriously, check out the annual arts festival or local club Preston Athletic - gave Scottish football both Eddie Connachan and Forgotten Scotland Player number 7, Eddie Colquhoun.
Edmund Peter Skirving Colquhoun for the nomenclature completists. Not, I think, many Edmunds in Prestonpans. Not then, not now.
A young chap on the make called Edmund would always be looking for an escape to a greener, more pleasant land.
Eddie's chance came when he way just 17. In 1962 he signed for Bury, possibly blinded by the bright lights of the big city, and his professional career was underway.
His time at Bury was spent languishing in the lower reaches of the English Second Division. But the young centre back impressed.
Bury were relegated in the 1966/67 season but Colquhoun was already headed in the opposite direction, to West Bromwich Albion and the First Division.
A couple of years later came the move that would define his club career.
Sheffield United had just been relegated from the top flight. New manager Arthur Rowley - 434 goals in 619 league games - was rebuilding for a promotion push.
Eddie was the defensive rock he needed. And he was prepared to pay the best part of �28,000 to get him.
Promotion wouldn't actually come for three seasons - Rowley was succeeded by his predecessor John Harris - but Eddie's impact was instantaneous enough for him to be made captain for his home debut.
The fans took to him as well. Soon the terrace choir had a new song:
We ain't got a barrel of money, We ain't got Woodward or Currie,
But with Eddie Colquhoun, Promotion soon, United!
A centre half of the old school it appears. Richard Savage of Def Leppard - once a United hopeful -remembers a training game:
"The ball was played up to me, I dummied, turned, beat Eddie Colquhoun as if I was Kenny Dalglish and shot at goal. Next goal kick, Eddie Colquhoun walked up behind me and gave me the biggest kick on the back of my ankles and said, ?Do that to me again and I?ll f**king kill you.?
"This was the club captain and I really looked up to him. Being shy, I wasn?t the sort who would say ?F**k you? and do it again." (Four Four Two)
Promotion, if not a natural rapport with youth team players, followed in 1970/71 and it was in 1971 that Scotland came calling.
October of that year and a European Championship qualifier against Portugal at Hampden. Colquhoun makes his debut in a 2-1 win.
For the next 18 months or so he's never far from the Scotland squad, winning nine caps in total.
Those nine games included a 0-0 draw with Czechoslovakia in July 1972. The match, part of the four team Brazilian Independence Cup, was played in front of 5,000 fans in Porto Alegre.
In Eddie's first eight caps Scotland were beaten only twice: by their hosts in that 1972 tournament and by the Dutch in Amsterdam in the winter of 1971.
Then, on Valentine's Day 1973, came a massacre. England romped to a 5-0 win at Hampden. Allan Clarke (twice), Mick Channon, Martin Chivers and a Peter Lorimer own goal broke stout Scottish hearts.
It was the game that gave Bobby Moore a 100th cap. And the game that ended Eddie Colquhoun's international career.
Although sent homeward victorious England didn't qualify for the 1974 World Cup. Scotland did. But Eddie would play no part.
It was back to Yorkshire. In 1975 Sheffield United finished sixth in Division One, the highest finish Eddie enjoyed in his career. But the following season they were relegated.
By 1978 Colquhoun was ready to leave Second Division United and extend his career, as was then the way, in the brave new world of the North American Soccer League.
Good times: Eddie's Detroit Express colleagues included players like Trevor France, Alan Brazil, Jim Holton and Ted MacDougall.
By 1980 he was calling it a day. A testimonial was held at Brammall Lane. In one half of Sheffield, Eddie and his 1970/71 promotion winning team are celebrated still.
Playing at a time when richly talented Scots seemed to have the run of England, Colquhoun did more than enough to hold his own.
Nine caps in a competitive era are testament to that.
Forgotten Scotland Players number 7: Eddie Colquhoun, Sheffield United. 9 caps.
> A Twitter correspondent tells me that Eddie used to be seen stubbing out his cigarette as he made his way on to the pitch at Brammall Lane. Magnificent. (Thanks to @schillaci19)
Forgotten Scotland Players: Eddie Colquhoun
Hot on the heels of Eddie Connachan, our Forgotten Scotland Player number 6, comes another delve into the archives for number 7.
Another who strutted his stuff against Czechoslovakia at a neutral venue.
Another called Eddie.
Even more than that - another from Prestonpans.
If you haven't sampled its delights, Prestonpans is an East Lothain seaside/rural/post-industrial idyll and home to my alma mater, the august institution what learned me to write rubbish an' that.
Those of you that have been to the 'Pans will appreciate that I'm drunk as I write this. It's a coping mechanism to survive the memories of that long, hard slog of an education.
Anyway, Prestonpans - and, seriously, check out the annual arts festival or local club Preston Athletic - gave Scottish football both Eddie Connachan and Forgotten Scotland Player number 7, Eddie Colquhoun.
Edmund Peter Skirving Colquhoun for the nomenclature completists. Not, I think, many Edmunds in Prestonpans. Not then, not now.
A young chap on the make called Edmund would always be looking for an escape to a greener, more pleasant land.
Eddie's chance came when he way just 17. In 1962 he signed for Bury, possibly blinded by the bright lights of the big city, and his professional career was underway.
His time at Bury was spent languishing in the lower reaches of the English Second Division. But the young centre back impressed.
Bury were relegated in the 1966/67 season but Colquhoun was already headed in the opposite direction, to West Bromwich Albion and the First Division.
A couple of years later came the move that would define his club career.
Sheffield United had just been relegated from the top flight. New manager Arthur Rowley - 434 goals in 619 league games - was rebuilding for a promotion push.
Eddie was the defensive rock he needed. And he was prepared to pay the best part of �28,000 to get him.
Promotion wouldn't actually come for three seasons - Rowley was succeeded by his predecessor John Harris - but Eddie's impact was instantaneous enough for him to be made captain for his home debut.
The fans took to him as well. Soon the terrace choir had a new song:
A centre half of the old school it appears. Richard Savage of Def Leppard - once a United hopeful -remembers a training game:
"The ball was played up to me, I dummied, turned, beat Eddie Colquhoun as if I was Kenny Dalglish and shot at goal. Next goal kick, Eddie Colquhoun walked up behind me and gave me the biggest kick on the back of my ankles and said, ?Do that to me again and I?ll f**king kill you.?
"This was the club captain and I really looked up to him. Being shy, I wasn?t the sort who would say ?F**k you? and do it again." (Four Four Two)
Promotion, if not a natural rapport with youth team players, followed in 1970/71 and it was in 1971 that Scotland came calling.
October of that year and a European Championship qualifier against Portugal at Hampden. Colquhoun makes his debut in a 2-1 win.
For the next 18 months or so he's never far from the Scotland squad, winning nine caps in total.
Those nine games included a 0-0 draw with Czechoslovakia in July 1972. The match, part of the four team Brazilian Independence Cup, was played in front of 5,000 fans in Porto Alegre.
In Eddie's first eight caps Scotland were beaten only twice: by their hosts in that 1972 tournament and by the Dutch in Amsterdam in the winter of 1971.
Then, on Valentine's Day 1973, came a massacre. England romped to a 5-0 win at Hampden. Allan Clarke (twice), Mick Channon, Martin Chivers and a Peter Lorimer own goal broke stout Scottish hearts.
It was the game that gave Bobby Moore a 100th cap. And the game that ended Eddie Colquhoun's international career.
Although sent homeward victorious England didn't qualify for the 1974 World Cup. Scotland did. But Eddie would play no part.
It was back to Yorkshire. In 1975 Sheffield United finished sixth in Division One, the highest finish Eddie enjoyed in his career. But the following season they were relegated.
By 1978 Colquhoun was ready to leave Second Division United and extend his career, as was then the way, in the brave new world of the North American Soccer League.
Good times: Eddie's Detroit Express colleagues included players like Trevor France, Alan Brazil, Jim Holton and Ted MacDougall.
By 1980 he was calling it a day. A testimonial was held at Brammall Lane. In one half of Sheffield, Eddie and his 1970/71 promotion winning team are celebrated still.
Playing at a time when richly talented Scots seemed to have the run of England, Colquhoun did more than enough to hold his own.
Nine caps in a competitive era are testament to that.
Forgotten Scotland Players number 7: Eddie Colquhoun, Sheffield United. 9 caps.
> A Twitter correspondent tells me that Eddie used to be seen stubbing out his cigarette as he made his way on to the pitch at Brammall Lane. Magnificent. (Thanks to @schillaci19)
Another who strutted his stuff against Czechoslovakia at a neutral venue.
Another called Eddie.
Even more than that - another from Prestonpans.
If you haven't sampled its delights, Prestonpans is an East Lothain seaside/rural/post-industrial idyll and home to my alma mater, the august institution what learned me to write rubbish an' that.
Those of you that have been to the 'Pans will appreciate that I'm drunk as I write this. It's a coping mechanism to survive the memories of that long, hard slog of an education.
Anyway, Prestonpans - and, seriously, check out the annual arts festival or local club Preston Athletic - gave Scottish football both Eddie Connachan and Forgotten Scotland Player number 7, Eddie Colquhoun.
Edmund Peter Skirving Colquhoun for the nomenclature completists. Not, I think, many Edmunds in Prestonpans. Not then, not now.
A young chap on the make called Edmund would always be looking for an escape to a greener, more pleasant land.
Eddie's chance came when he way just 17. In 1962 he signed for Bury, possibly blinded by the bright lights of the big city, and his professional career was underway.
His time at Bury was spent languishing in the lower reaches of the English Second Division. But the young centre back impressed.
Bury were relegated in the 1966/67 season but Colquhoun was already headed in the opposite direction, to West Bromwich Albion and the First Division.
A couple of years later came the move that would define his club career.
Sheffield United had just been relegated from the top flight. New manager Arthur Rowley - 434 goals in 619 league games - was rebuilding for a promotion push.
Eddie was the defensive rock he needed. And he was prepared to pay the best part of �28,000 to get him.
Promotion wouldn't actually come for three seasons - Rowley was succeeded by his predecessor John Harris - but Eddie's impact was instantaneous enough for him to be made captain for his home debut.
The fans took to him as well. Soon the terrace choir had a new song:
We ain't got a barrel of money, We ain't got Woodward or Currie,
But with Eddie Colquhoun, Promotion soon, United!
A centre half of the old school it appears. Richard Savage of Def Leppard - once a United hopeful -remembers a training game:
"The ball was played up to me, I dummied, turned, beat Eddie Colquhoun as if I was Kenny Dalglish and shot at goal. Next goal kick, Eddie Colquhoun walked up behind me and gave me the biggest kick on the back of my ankles and said, ?Do that to me again and I?ll f**king kill you.?
"This was the club captain and I really looked up to him. Being shy, I wasn?t the sort who would say ?F**k you? and do it again." (Four Four Two)
Promotion, if not a natural rapport with youth team players, followed in 1970/71 and it was in 1971 that Scotland came calling.
October of that year and a European Championship qualifier against Portugal at Hampden. Colquhoun makes his debut in a 2-1 win.
For the next 18 months or so he's never far from the Scotland squad, winning nine caps in total.
Those nine games included a 0-0 draw with Czechoslovakia in July 1972. The match, part of the four team Brazilian Independence Cup, was played in front of 5,000 fans in Porto Alegre.
In Eddie's first eight caps Scotland were beaten only twice: by their hosts in that 1972 tournament and by the Dutch in Amsterdam in the winter of 1971.
Then, on Valentine's Day 1973, came a massacre. England romped to a 5-0 win at Hampden. Allan Clarke (twice), Mick Channon, Martin Chivers and a Peter Lorimer own goal broke stout Scottish hearts.
It was the game that gave Bobby Moore a 100th cap. And the game that ended Eddie Colquhoun's international career.
Although sent homeward victorious England didn't qualify for the 1974 World Cup. Scotland did. But Eddie would play no part.
It was back to Yorkshire. In 1975 Sheffield United finished sixth in Division One, the highest finish Eddie enjoyed in his career. But the following season they were relegated.
By 1978 Colquhoun was ready to leave Second Division United and extend his career, as was then the way, in the brave new world of the North American Soccer League.
Good times: Eddie's Detroit Express colleagues included players like Trevor France, Alan Brazil, Jim Holton and Ted MacDougall.
By 1980 he was calling it a day. A testimonial was held at Brammall Lane. In one half of Sheffield, Eddie and his 1970/71 promotion winning team are celebrated still.
Playing at a time when richly talented Scots seemed to have the run of England, Colquhoun did more than enough to hold his own.
Nine caps in a competitive era are testament to that.
Forgotten Scotland Players number 7: Eddie Colquhoun, Sheffield United. 9 caps.
> A Twitter correspondent tells me that Eddie used to be seen stubbing out his cigarette as he made his way on to the pitch at Brammall Lane. Magnificent. (Thanks to @schillaci19)
Sports News: Love of racing drives Button on
Jenson Button is adamant his motivation remains high for the rest of the Formula One season despite the world championship race being one point away from being over.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Sports News: Cech thankful after injury scare
Petr Cech believes his trademark helmet might have spared him a second serious head injury almost five years after suffering the skull fracture that convinced him to wear it.
Manchester United Transfers: Was Letting Owen Hargreaves Go a Mistake?
Owen Hargreaves returned to competitive action on a football pitch for pretty much for the first time in three years the other night, following a torrid time with chronic knee problems that many thought would end his career.
Hargreaves thought otherwise though and his never-say-die attitude finally paid off as he took to the field for his new club Manchester City in a Carling Cup tie with holders Birmingham City.
He promptly scored, just 17 minutes into his debut, before being taken off so as not to tempt fate and ruin what had been a dream comeback for the Canada-born England international.
Those at the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday night were delighted to see a player of his calibre appear in a City shirt, while the events cannot have gone unnoticed across town at Old Trafford where Manchester United staff must have been asking themselves: did we make a huge mistake in letting Hargreaves go?
Four years ago Hargreaves was one of the best players in England. He won the Premier League and the Champions League in his first season with United and was a mainstay in the national side. He had proved himself to be a gem, worthy of the effort United expended into luring him from Bayern Munich.
But his extensive injury problems changed everything and, having played just six first-team minutes in over a three-year period, United felt they could do no more for him and had no choice but to release him.
It must have been a difficult decision to say goodbye to Hargreaves, not only because of his talent when fit, but also because of the £17 million that was outlaid on him. That's not even to mention the time, effort and money spent on his continued treatment—all wasted once he filed through the exit door.
For those reasons, United will have done everything possible to nurse him back to fitness and the final decision on him would not have been taken lightly.
All of which makes his "miraculous" comeback—for United's cross-town rivals, no less - a rather bitter pill to swallow for United.
Hargreaves has claimed that, while there is no suggestion of malpractice on United's behalf, the treatment he received at Old Trafford may have made his condition worse. He said, according to ESPN: "Probably the injections I had, I should probably not have had."
Now at City, Hargreaves is clearly getting the right treatment and he has been given a new lease of life. At least for the time being.
If Hargreaves succeeds in getting his career back on track, serious questions will have to be asked at Old Trafford as to why they did not get the formula right themselves.
While United managed to get over Hargreaves' absence pretty quickly on the pitch, with Darren Fletcher in particular coming to the fore, there may be some unease as to what he will now go on and do elsewhere.
If Hargreaves had moved abroad to resurrect his career, or dropped down a division, United would have no reason to be concerned. But, largely thanks to the player's determination and self-belief, the fact that he is taking his first steps towards a full recovery in a City shirt must surely rankle at Old Trafford. Credit to City for taking a punt on him.
The Blues will push United for honours, if not this season, then certainly next. If Hargreaves plays a part in that, allowing him to leave United as he did could prove to be a monumental mistake.
Of course, given his history, he could break down at any time, at which point United and their medical staff will be vindicated. A 58-minute goalscoring cameo, after all, does not a full recovery make and judgement can only really be made after a period of time.
But if he can continue to make progress at City, United will soon have to face up to the fact that they may well have shot themselves in the foot over Owen Hargreaves.
Read more Manchester United news on BleacherReport.com
AC Milan legend Baresi defends underfire Nesta
AC Milan
AC Milan legend Franco Baresi has jumped to the defence of Alessandro Nesta over recent performances.
The veteran centre-half has been slated as Milan have dropped points in recent games.
But Baresi insists: "Nesta is not the problem.
"No one can doubt his value, do not worry, I know he can still do very well."
Meanwhile, there's a push from local Milan government for Silvio Berlusconi to build a new stadium as his final legacy to the Rossoneri.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Atalanta winger Schelotto hopes to play his way into Italy fold
Atalanta
Atalanta star Ezequiel Schelotto hopes to play his way into the Italy squad.
Schelotto has been outstanding for the start of the Serie A season.
?I hope to receive a call from Prandelli soon, but I won?t kid myself either. For the moment I am focused solely on Atalanta,? the 22-year-old told the Gazzetta dello Sport.
?We got off to a great start, but there?s a long road ahead of us and we can only look at the Serie A table once we are safe from the threat of relegation.?
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Homeless World Cup: Scotland Celebrate
In the words of the late Donald Dewar: "I like that."
In Paris yesterday Scotland's Homeless World Cup men's team beat Mexico to life the trophy.
A tight game finished 4-3, with a goal from Sean Lawrence and a William McLean hat-trick for Scotland.
A second Homeless World Cup trophy for Scotland following the win in Copenhagen four years ago.
Someone on twitter asked if us Scots shouldn't feel queasy about celebrating such a win.
We should feel queasy about the problems with homelessness that still pockmark modern Scotland.
But we should be happy to celebrate Scotland's win.
The Homeless World Cup lasts for only one week every year.
Yet the work it inspires lasts throughout the year in the 48 countries that took part.
Thousands of people are helped each year, lives given structure, confidence rebuilt.
The annual Homeless World Cup tournament provides focus and inspiration for that work.
It's maybe time we stopped looking for ever darker linings in every cloud.
A whopping majority of the players involved in projects across the world change their lives for the better.
Why shouldn't we celebrate that?
But this group of Scots went to Paris with very little. They come home as world champions.
The boost in their own lives and the inspiration they'll provide for others like them is almost immeasurable.
Why shouldn't we celebrate that?
The fight against homelessness goes on. The Homeless World Cup will continue as long as it is needed.
And yesterday in Paris the work it does, the change it inspires, was celebrated.
Scotland played a full part in that. It might not be recognised in the mainstream media here, it might still come up against cynnicism and lazy stereotypes.
But the Scotland team did something worth celebrating.
Something that's worth more than simply raising a trophy at the end of a football game.
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> In their debut Women's Homeless World Cup, Scotland beat Malawi 4-2 to claim fifth place.
The tournament was won by Kenya, Mexico were once again the runners-up.
Rivals.com Week 4 Conference Call
Cameron Marshall and Arizona State were among Week 4's biggest surprises. Get inside for a conference-by-conference look at the best and worst of the weekend.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Prandelli?s Progress Report
This isn?t a final grade for Prandelli going into Euros, but rather a progress report of sorts. Now that we are qualified next summer, I want to know how everyone thinks he?s done so far.
PSG : Javier Pastore refuse de s?enflammer
Auteur de deux nouveaux buts samedi soir sur le terrain de Montpellier, Javier Pastore prouve semaine apr�s semaine qu'il est bien l'atout num�ro un du Paris Saint-Germain en cette saison. Et d'ailleurs, nombreux sont les commentateurs � lui dresser le tapis rouge. Mais qu'� cela ne tienne, en conf�rence de presse, le milieu de terrain pr�f�re relativiser : � Je ne sais pas si j'ai jou� aussi bien que �a. Mais j'ai eu la chance de marquer deux buts. Je peux encore am�liorer beaucoup de choses, �a (...) Lire la suite.
Aston Villa fullback Hutton angry over treatment by Spurs boss Redknapp
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Aston Villa fullback Alan Hutton has hit out at former club Tottenham.
He claims he was �ignored by boss Harry Redknapp and forced to train with the youth team.
Hutton told the Sunday Mirror: ?I thought loads of times about just going back to Scotland.
?The last straw was when I was made to train with the kids for whatever reason ? I don?t know what that was about, you?d have to ask Mr Redknapp.
?It probably was an �attempt to get rid of me but by that time I didn?t care.
?I just don?t think anyone should be treated like that. I?m not going to say who but there were so many people in that squad that felt unwanted, and I?ve never experienced that before in anything I?ve ever been in.
?For me it was an �unhappy place. I knew my time was up long ago. It was just about getting my head down and dealing with it until something came up. When I heard the manager here was �interested, it was all go.
?I would go in and see him (Redknapp) and my questions were not getting answered, and then came that last straw.
?It?s why Villa fans haven?t yet seen all I can do as an attacking full-back. I?ve had to concentrate on being fit enough to last 90 minutes before I can add bits going forward.?
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Saturday, September 24, 2011
Adrian Mutu Is Banned From Something. Shock. Awe.
Outside of doing lines off a hooker’s tender parts – presumably – is Adrian Mutu really a bad boy, or just an idiot? Both are probably on the scale, but the weight seems to shift towards the latter. His latest “drug ban” was for weight-loss supplements, after all.
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It’s not like he rock-star smashed up his [...]
Craig Noone typifies remarkable rise of Brighton & Hove Albion | Paul Hayward
Craig Noone is hoping to face Steven Gerrard of Liverpool on Wednesday night but this time as his opposition not his roofer
High on Steven Gerrard's roof, where he was hammering in tiles, Craig Noone would watch Liverpool's most illustrious player leave for training and think: "I hope I get the chance to do that one day." It was a bird's eye view of a life Noone now shares as his Brighton & Hove Albion face Gerrard's side at their new Amex Stadium in the Carling Cup third round.
"He was getting a conversion done on the back of his house ? a games room and gym ? and I was working on it. Now I'm playing against him. Working there, I'd never have dreamed of it. Now it's happening it's a bit surreal," says Noone, a fizzy winger who has played a major part in Brighton's promising start to their Championship campaign.
"I was at Southport, in pre-season, at the time. He was quite private, understandably, but I'd be there from eight o'clock in the morning and would see him go off to training. I have friends who are friends of his and when I turned professional it made a bit of news that I'd worked on his house, so I think he'll know about it."
Gerrard's role in Brighton's second Carling Cup tie with Premier League opposition (they kayoed Sunderland last time) has yet to be decided after his long absence though injury but Noone is hoping they both receive the call. Gus Poyet's upwardly mobile team face Leeds United on Friday in their second Sky-televised game in three days and then Crystal Palace on Tuesday, so rotation is obligatory. "I just want to be in the team ? but if not, there's the Leeds game and a lot to look forward to," Noone says. "This is a big game for me personally but it's the league that's more important."
His ascent is a microcosm of Brighton's rise from homeless to well-appointed, from skint to emotionally sky-high. Poyet's 100th game in charge brings the first of two sellouts in 72 hours and revives memories of the club's fifth-round FA Cup win at Anfield in 1983, the year they reached the final.
Noone describes his own hard path from Gerrard's roof to the lush new turf of Premier League promotion candidates: "I was at Liverpool but got released by them at 11 and then played junior and amateur football. I went to Wrexham for a year at 15, but they let me go, so I played a bit of non-league, went to Myerscough football college for six months, then to Skelmersdale, from them to Burscough, to Southport, to Plymouth and now Brighton.
"Steve Heighway [the former Liverpool academy director] is the one who released me that night. It was a horrible time for me. I know Steve quite well and every time I've bumped into him he's said well done and keep going. Games like this show how far I've come. I'm playing Liverpool and in the Championship in front of 22,000 people."
On reconnaissance, but also as fans, Noone and three fellow Liverpool?supporting Brighton players sat in the away end for Tottenham Hotspur's 4-0 win over Kenny Dalglish's men on Sunday.
"Alan Navarro is a scouser. He's been saying he wants Gerrard's shirt. And Gary Dicker and Tommy Elphick are Liverpool fans I went to the game with. I was thinking ? I hope the crowd don't recognise me because I've got to play against them and they might be booing me on Wednesday. I've got 20 coming down, a mixture of friends and family, and my old boss, who I used to roof for."
"Nooney was jumping up and down when the draw was made," says Craig Mackail-Smith, one of the club's big summer signings, from Peterborough, and an instant hit in Albion colours. "To play against a team like Liverpool is a great test of what you would come up against in the Premier League. I can get there and hopefully it will be with Brighton. I'll have to watch Luis Su�rez from the other end of the pitch but I'll get to find out what it's like to play against a top defence and see what I need to work on."
A run of seven wins in eight games was broken by Saturday's 1-0 defeat at Leicester City. The new community stadium, though, remains impregnable. How, why? "It's just the excitement ? playing in front of 22,000 people," Mackail-Smith says. "No disrespect to the Withdean Stadium but it wasn't the most amazing place to play every week. Here we're in a great stadium on a great pitch and if it becomes a fortress people don't want to come down here and play."
Poyet says: "When the draw was made it was like a celebration, like we'd won the league again. I'm not going to change that because I want them to feel they've got a great chance against a top-class team. The problem is Thursday morning, Friday morning, when we have to get ready for Leeds. But I'm not going to bring it down. There is no better feeling for a player who, three months ago, was playing in League One and now has the chance to play here with 22,000 people against Liverpool."
Mackail-Smith was the club's biggest catch until Tony Bloom, the Albion chairman, intervened to persuade Vicente Rodr�guez to join from Valencia, where he won league and European titles. Vicente, who is striving for match fitness, is a threat to Noone, who competes for wide places also with Will Buckley and Kazenga LuaLua.
"I've seen bits of Vicente in training that make me go ? wow," Noone says. "I've been learning a bit of Spanish so I can ask him about stuff. I've asked him about [Rafael] Ben�tez when he was manager at Valencia. I feel I'm a better player under Gus and he's brought me on such a lot. I've never been at a club where they play so much football and where you're showing for the ball and getting on the ball so much."
Poyet was told of Brighton's good record against Liverpool in their 1980s harvest years. Are the players aware of that history? Poyet said: "No, I don't think so. I don't know if it's in the PlayStation. Maybe, if it's in PlayStation."
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Short on weapons, 49ers need Crabtree to step up
The 49ers signed Braylon Edwards in large part because they were uncertain what Michael Crabtree could give them this year. Edwards didn’t give the 49ers much in the first two weeks of the season before knee surgery; he has four catches for 48 yards. Crabtree gave Edwards even less (1 catch) because he has been…
Friday, September 23, 2011
Alex / Owen Hargreaves: a doctor's view of the England midfielder's knee injury
Former Chelsea first-team doctor Ralph Rogers backs Sir Alex Ferguson in injury row.
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Sports News: Swann calls for more T20 games
Graeme Swann has called for more international Twenty20 after claiming the current schedule "defies belief".
Bar�a : Afellay bless� six mois
L'infirmerie du Bar�a se remplit un peu plus de jour en jour. Apr�s Andr�s Iniesta, Gerard Piqu� et Alexis Sanchez, c'est Ibrahim Afellay qui vient faire connaissance avec le staff m�dical des Catalans. Le N�erlandais a contract� une rupture du ligament ant�rieur gauche hier � l'entrainent, r�v�le As. Il devrait subir une op�ration et se voir indisponible pour une dur�e de 6 mois environ. Enorme coup dur pour le Batave, � l'heure o� Cesc Fabregas brille de mille (...) Lire la suite.
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Sports News: Fulham pay the penalty
Chelsea's penalty shoot-out curse ended in the most dramatic fashion as they survived the sending-off of Alex to beat Fulham and reach the Carling Cup fourth round.
Hearts boss Sergio fuming after League Cup defeat to Ayr
Heart of Midlothian manager Paulo Sergio was angry after seeing his side lose to First Division club Ayr United in the third round of the League Cup at Somerset Park last night.
Hearts scored first through Scott Robinson just after half-time before Gareth Wardlaw leveled for Ayr in the 63rd minute but the home side should have been two goals up when Eggert Jonsson bundled the ball home on the hour mark..
However, referee Ian Brines disallowed it because the Icelandic defender appeared to have punched the ball into the net.
Ayr went on to win 4-1 on penalties, eliminating Hearts from the competition and upsetting Sergio, who indicated it should have been called a goal.
?We scored a second goal, a clean goal and that doesn't count," said Sergio. "The linesman runs to the midfield when the ball goes into the net though.
"I don't understand that, why do you run to the midfield if it's not a goal? The referee told me at full-time that his assistant had said it was handball."
Sports News: Gasperini rues Inter axe
Gian Piero Gasperini has expressed his disappointment after being sacked as Inter Milan coach just three matches into the new Serie A season.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Sports News: Gunners through after Shrews scare
Arsenal lifted the gloom around Emirates Stadium after coming from behind to beat Shrewsbury 3-1 in Tuesday night's Carling Cup third round tie.
Forty-one thousand women and children attend Fenerbahce fixture in absence of banned male fans
The Turkish champions were handed down a sanction prohibiting men from attending their next two games after violence in a pre-season friendly, but there was still a great turnout
Sports News: Pulis delight with shoot-out reward
Stoke boss Tony Pulis was delighted to see his players rewarded at the end of a long evening after they beat Tottenham on penalties to advance to the Carling Cup fourth round.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Lorient : les ambitions de l?ex-Gunner Gilles Sunu
Gilles Sunu (20 ans) ne regrette pas d'avoir sign� un contrat de quatre ans avec le FC Lorient � la fin du mercato estival, comme il l'a expliqu� dans les colonnes de Ouest-France. � Je ne pense pas que revenir en France soit un retour en arri�re. En Angleterre, j'ai v�cu des choses que je n'aurais jamais eu l'occasion de conna�tre en restant au pays, comme la Ligue des champions. (...) Tant que je joue, je suis content. J'esp�re avoir ma chance �, a-t-il confi�. Christian Gourcuff est (...) Lire la suite.
Naples : Cavani flatt� par la rumeur Bar�a
Annonc� dans le viseur du Bar�a, Edison Cavani a r�gi � cette rumeur. Troisi�me du classement de Serie A � �galit� de points avec le leader turinois, Naples confirme son retour au sommet du football italien. Et �a, le club transalpin le doit en partie � sa star uruguayenne Edison Cavani. �g� de 24 ans, le Sud-Am�ricain s'est r�v�l� aux yeux du grand public europ�en gr�ce � ses 26 buts inscrits en 35 matches de championnat la saison pass�e. Et cette ann�e, l'ancien pensionnaire de Palerme repart sur des bases (...) Lire la suite.
MLS could have record average attendance in 2011
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Major League Soccer experienced a very healthy weekend in terms of attendances, meaning a record could be broken in 2011.
It Appears Spain Is Just Better Than Everyone Else
So we know Spain as a nation is running through an extraordinary period of domination, and we also know that there appears to be little let-up for the rest of the poor world, as their youth teams are simply excellent. How excellent? Well they just won the u19 Euros today, defeating the Czech Republic. That [...]
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Monday, September 19, 2011
Sports News: Mancini frustrated after draw
Roberto Mancini accused his star-studded Manchester City attack of shirking their defensive duties as well as wastefulness in front of goal after watching them surrender their 100% start to the Barclays Premier League season.
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G�rard Houllier tout proche de la retraite
Le travail c'est la sant� a-t-on coutume de dire. Demandez un peu � G�rard Houllier ce qu'il en pense. Victime d'un probl�me cardiaque il y a de cela pr�s de cinq mois, alors qu'il �tait aux commandes d'Aston Villa, le manager a d�cid� de mettre un terme � sa carri�re d'entra�neur. C'est en tout cas une id�e qui trotte dans sa t�te, comme il le confie � Talksport : � Je dois admettre le fait que, probablement, je ne redeviendrai pas entra�neur. Je suis remis � 85%. J'ai encore besoin d'environ deux mois. Mais, (...) Lire la suite.
Splits in La Liga over distribution of broadcasting revenues
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Sevilla vice-president Jose Maria Cruz has criticised the club?s La Liga rivals after a major split emerged in the quest for greater equality in broadcast revenue distribution, reports Sport Business.
AC Milan, Napoli players had to separate Nesta, Aronica in locker room
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Bologna coach Bisoli rejects Liverpool rumours for Gaston Ramirez
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Bologna coach Pierpaolo Bisoli has dismissed rumours linking winger Gaston Ramirez to Liverpool.
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More On Fixing The Playoffs
Grant Wahl had this idea about changing the MLS playoff structure. Okay, well he borrowed it from Brian Stratus and elaborated on it but overall not a bad plan.�Just like the World Cup, each team will play a game against the other teams in its group. But (unlike the current system) there will be a?[continue reading]
Manchester United: Predicting the Starting XI vs. Chelsea
Manchester United recorded their fourth win of the 2011-12 season with a comprehensive 5-0 victory over Bolton Wanderers last weekend.
This weekend, they will meet their sternest test to date in the English Premier League when they face the might of Chelsea.
Now under new management and with new players signed, the current Chelsea side is not the Chelsea team of old. There is a younger nucleus binding the team, there is a fresher midfield controlling things and the threat the team poses hasn't diminished in the slightest.
Manchester United's young talents will again be blooded in this match, but I expect a much more familiar side this weekend. Here are my predictions for United's starting 11 against Chelsea.
Middlesbrough continue unbeaten run at Palace
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Middlesbrough went to the summit of the Championship following a 1-0 triumph at Crystal Palace despite the sending off of Joe Bennett.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Football News: Stoke star Etherington says Potters respect feels "really weird"
MATTHEW ETHERINGTON has an admission to make – Stoke are struggling to come to terms with being respected.
Manchester United News: Fans Shouldn't Overreact to David De Gea's Rough Start
It's easy to throw a player under the bus, especially when that player is a struggling goalkeeper.
Being the goalkeeper is, without a doubt, the most difficult position on the pitch. If a goal goes in it's your fault nearly every time and, in games your team wins, you're rarely applauded barring a dominant performance.
David De Gea is under a ton of pressure to be successful at Old Trafford, and he has not lived up to the hype thus far.
That's not saying he doesn't have the talent to be successful, because he does.
Perhaps Manchester United legend Gary Pallister said it best when he compared De Gea to Peter Schmeichel,
Schmeichel was the same when he first started out at Manchester United and he went on to be the best goalkeeper in the world.
We played Wimbledon and Leeds in the first couple of games when Schmeichel first joined. They are both very direct and physical; big John Fashanu and Nick Chapman at either clubs.
I let him know that what he should expect. He didn’t expect the challenges and he didn’t have the best of starts, it was a bit of a culture shock for him but he went on to become the best goalkeeper in the world.
He [Sir Alex Ferguson] wants to give Lindegaard a game but I’m sure Sir Alex still sees De Gea as his No. 1.
Yes, he has made some high profile mistakes but the confidence in him is still there as he gets used to the physicality of the Premier League.
He wants to give Ben Amos a game as well, according to Goal.com.
As a fan, you cannot leave a goalkeeper out to dry after only a few matches. He has had his problems, that goes without saying, but he has the talent to become one of the best goalkeepers in the world.
It is absurd to believe that Anders Lindegaard has earned the No. 1 spot after just one match in the Champions League.
Either way, a goalie controversy may be brewing as Lindegaard has told Sky Sports that he has no intention of being a backup at Old Trafford.
The situation is certain to work itself out over the course of the season, but the job should remain De Gea's to lose at this point.
Read more Manchester United news on BleacherReport.com
The first evidence of Per Mertesacker and Andre Santos shoring up the Arsenal defence
Shades of Winterburn and Adams sz�lj hozz�: Bl0-1Ar[Matchhighlight.com] Arsenal’s new defensive duo Per Mertesacker and Andre Santos made an inauspicious start to their time at the club. The pair allowed Yakubu to grab an equalising goal for Blackburn with some pretty slack defending. Looks like they’ll fit in well! Video via 101GG
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Sports News: Bolt stunned by blistering Blake
Yohan Blake listened to Usain Bolt's advice on how to run the 200 metres - and then gave him an almighty shock by running the second fastest time in history at the Memorial van Damme in Brussels on Friday night.
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Friday, September 16, 2011
Ruben / Blackburn Rovers v Arsenal: Barcelona reject Ruben Rochina relishing battle for every point
Blackburn forward Ruben Rochina insists he has no regrets about leaving European champions behind.
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Everton chairman Bill Kenwright to refund fans who bought 'Arteta' and 'Beckford' shirts before deadline day
After several complaints from disgruntled fans who had bought the shirts before the transfers, the chairman has offered a gesture of good will by repaying the money
Conclusive proof that Fernando Torres is both right and wrong about Chelsea being slow
Stat attack Fernando Torres is absolutely spot on and also talking absolute gibberish about his sluggish Chelsea team-mates, according to stats from the EA SPORTS Player Performance Index. The Spaniard had been quoted as saying: “Chelsea is, between the English teams, maybe the least English. That’s because of the kind of player Chelsea has ? [...]
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
Wednesday Preview: Fire Host TFC | WVHooligan - Soccer Blog [Digg]
To say tonight's contest is a must-win for both parties involved is indeed and understatement. Both Toronto FC and the Chicago Fire sit outside of the
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Manchester United: 10 Best Foreign Players to Arrive at Old Trafford
Manchester United have attracted the crème de la crème of the football world ever since international transfers came into being.
Along with the best local talent, Old Trafford has been graced by top players with their origins spread across the globe—from Trinidad and Tobago to Timbuktu!
Here's a list of the best foreign players to have plied their trade at Manchester United in the Premier League era:
Well Played Portland, Well Played | WVHooligan - Soccer Blog [Digg]
I'm sure you've seen this photo by now as it was all over the web last night and on the telecast of the Seattle-RSL game on ESPN2. This just adds to the
Chelsea players yet to confront Torres over critical interview
Chelsea Fernando Torres Chelsea teammates have not confronted Fernando Torres about his critical interview last week.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
SPL: Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Apparently Alex Salmond?s Scottish Government have rushed through emergency legislation declaring that every football article written must include reference to Scottish football?s darkest hour.
So be it.
Scotland manager Craig Levein assured us yesterday that the Scottish game would bounce back from the trials of Thursday night.
Sadly the squad he?s picked for the upcoming ?crucial double header? (Copyright: The world and his dug) includes only four SPL players.
None of them from outside the Old Firm. The revolution might be televised. But it won?t be instant.
A return though for Darren Fletcher. Still very short of game time but proof of how integral to his plans Levein considers his captain.
Not universally loved though. I was surprised at the vitriol that greeted the squad announcement on Twitter.
One seemed to suggest that the inclusion of Fletcher sums up what?s wrong with Scottish football in this week of woe.
Aye, right. A footballer that lacks the talent of some of his more celebrated Manchester United colleagues - although he?s no slouch - who has shown how modesty combined with application, dedication, hard work can allow you to go head to head with some of the best of the world. And often come out on top.
That?s whats wrong with Scottish football? I?d suggest anyone who thinks that should look a bit closer to home to identify our failings.
Lithuania and Czech Republic await. Crucially. Still a round of domestic games to get through first though. Briefly
How will Motherwell rebound from that defeat to Rangers. They brushed past Clyde in the League Cup but today?s a sterner test.
Draw.
Away win.
Apologies for the unusual brevity. I'm off to shout abuse at Tam Cowan.
So be it.
Scotland manager Craig Levein assured us yesterday that the Scottish game would bounce back from the trials of Thursday night.
Sadly the squad he?s picked for the upcoming ?crucial double header? (Copyright: The world and his dug) includes only four SPL players.
None of them from outside the Old Firm. The revolution might be televised. But it won?t be instant.
A return though for Darren Fletcher. Still very short of game time but proof of how integral to his plans Levein considers his captain.
Not universally loved though. I was surprised at the vitriol that greeted the squad announcement on Twitter.
One seemed to suggest that the inclusion of Fletcher sums up what?s wrong with Scottish football in this week of woe.
Aye, right. A footballer that lacks the talent of some of his more celebrated Manchester United colleagues - although he?s no slouch - who has shown how modesty combined with application, dedication, hard work can allow you to go head to head with some of the best of the world. And often come out on top.
That?s whats wrong with Scottish football? I?d suggest anyone who thinks that should look a bit closer to home to identify our failings.
Lithuania and Czech Republic await. Crucially. Still a round of domestic games to get through first though. Briefly
Dunfermline v Motherwell
The high fliers lost a bit of height against Rangers last week while Dunfermline?s start to the season has suggested that confidence in Fife has not been entirely misplaced. Two away wins on the bounce - we?ll gloss over the midweek defeat to East Fife - and still undefeated. That?ll do nicely thanks.How will Motherwell rebound from that defeat to Rangers. They brushed past Clyde in the League Cup but today?s a sterner test.
Draw.
Inverness CT v Kilmarnock
The struggle continues for Inverness while Kilmarnock must be pleased with their progress under Kenny Shiels considering the big rebuilding job he has had to contend with.Away win.
St Johnstone v Dundee United
A draw. And maybe even a goalless one at that.Apologies for the unusual brevity. I'm off to shout abuse at Tam Cowan.
Liverpool youngster Nathan Eccleston investigated over 9/11 conspiracy tweets
Nathan and the New World Order Young Liverpool striker Nathan Eccleston is being investigated by the club for suggesting on his Twitter account that the events of September 11, 2001, were not a terrorist atrocity. The 20-year-old tweeted his conspiracy theory that 9/11 was actually carried out by an elite group of ‘Illuminati’ on the [...]
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