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May 31, 2006

The Obligatory Occassional Football Post

[myAsylum] 89% of you voted for the Samba boys, while the remaining 11% say it will be hosts Germany. Disagree?

Hiddink may use Kewell off the bench in World Cup opener

[Soccer Fairy] Hiddink may use Kewell off the bench in World Cup opener @ 2:07 pm Coach Guus Hiddink is tinkering with using injured star Harry Kewell off the substitutes’ bench for Australia’s crucial World Cup opener against Japan in Germany next month. The Liverpool midfielder tore a groin muscle during the Reds’ FA Cup final victory over West Ham United earlier this month, ruling him out of Australia’s friendly against European champions Greece here on Thursday.

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May 31, 2006

The Obligatory Occassional Football Post

[myAsylum] 89% of you voted for the Samba boys, while the remaining 11% say it will be hosts Germany. Disagree?

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Hiddink may use Kewell off the bench in World Cup opener

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May 28, 2006

Athens to have final say in 2007

[uefa.com] An eventful UEFA Champions League season came to a conclusion on Wednesday in Paris, and the honour of hosting next season's final falls on another European football hotbed in Athens.

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Venables turns down Middlesbrough job

[Soccer Fairy] Venables turns down Middlesbrough job @ 1:51 am Former England manager Terry Venables has turned down the chance to join Middlesbrough when press reports had claimed the UEFA Cup finalists were about to name him as the new boss. Former Boro manager Steve McClaren is thought keen to use the 63-year-old as a senior advisor when he becomes England head coach after the World Cup, and it is known Boro have kept their options open by talking with more than one prospective manager.

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May 25, 2006

Note to Arsenal - Please stop crying

[ Football news | Transfer rumors » SoccerLens] 36 hours on from the Champions League Final, and all that the English-language media can talk about is how Henry blasted everyone on the Barcelona team except Larsson and especially took out his frustrations on the ref.

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Thierry Henry is not Gunner leave

[ » Online Football News - Free International and European Soccer Betting Tips, Picks and Odds] Many expected that match in the Stade de France in Paris to be Henry’s Arsenal swansong but on the flight home he dropped a huge hint when, addressing passengers in the plane over the intercom, he said: "We must pick ourselves up and make sure we come back stronger next year."

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May 22, 2006

What to eat in the World Cup cities

[Slashfood] Those lucky enough to be in Germany for the World Cup next month will no doubt want to sample that country's traditional food and drink. With that, ahem, goal in mind The Guardian published a guide to the 12 cities that will play host to the tournament.

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May 19, 2006

Eto'o appetite for glory fired by long fight to win respect

[Dibussi Tande: Scribbles from the Den] Barcelona's predator is prepared for a battle against Arsenal in Wednesday's European Cup final in Paris. But, as he tells Andy Mitten, he has never had it easy - ever since a teenage snub at Real Madrid

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SUZUKI SHUTS DOWN FAVORITE, LIVERPOOL ARE CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE

[Soccer Betting Tips and Odds - UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup, FA Cup and World Cup] It was a dramatic comeback for Liverpool, to say the least, as Liverpool fans saw their team down 0-3. And, in perhaps one of the greatest comebacks in football history, Liverpool never gave up and rallied to send the game to a sudden-death shootout.

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May 16, 2006

Photo of the weekend - Crazy Wayne?

[ World Cup 2006 News- World Cup 2006 Germany Soccer Blog] I couldn´t believe my eyes just seeing this photo over at the BBC makes we wonder what´s going on with Wayne Rooney. He seems to be in pretty good shape, but guys is this really the way to go after two weeks only?

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Au revoir Ruud?

[Netherlands World Cup Team Blog Football - FIFA World Cup Football - Germany 2006] While the league itself may be a step down for Ruud, it does fit his style of play quite well, lots of up and down the field, not so tactical like the english league. Mind you at the same time I would love to see him back on PSV, but Lyon isn’t that bad of a stop that some make it out to be

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May 13, 2006

Tried and tested for Croatia challenge

[uefa.com - FIFA World Cup] Midfielders: Niko KovaÄ (Hertha BSC Berlin), Darijo Srna (FC Shakhtar Donetsk), Marko BabiÄ‡ (Bayer 04 Leverkusen), Igor Tudor (AC Siena), Ivan Leko (Club Brugge KV), Jerko Leko (FC Dynamo Kyiv), Jurica VranjeÅ¡ (Werder Bremen), Luka ModriÄ‡ (NK Dinamo Zagreb), Anthony Å eriÄ‡ (Panathinaikos FC), Niko KranjÄar (HNK Hajduk Split).

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May 10, 2006

Chelsea 1 - 2 Liverpool: Mourinho outwits himself as his wingless wonders fall to earth

[Chelsea Football Club Blog] But Roman wouldn’t have even been here if we hadn’t beaten Liverpool to the third Champions League slot in 2003, which wouldn’t have happened if Ruud Gullit hadn’t put Chelsea on the map and helped make us one of the more successful sides of the era, which wouldn’t have happened if Glenn Hoddle hadn’t brought Ruud Gullit to Chelsea, which wouldn’t have happened if Ken Bates hadn’t bought the club for a quid when nobody would touch us, which wouldn’t have happened if we hadn’t run out of money after trying to take on the world in the 70s, which wouldn’t have happened if Gus Mears’s dog hadn’t bitten Fred Parker in 1905.

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Permanent Link to Battle at Stamford Bridge

[University of Lagos Student's Blog] Chelsea, famously called the Blues step out today at Stamford Bridge to face Manchester United (Red devils) in search of the one point they need to clinch back- to- back Premiership titles. It would be the icing on the cake if Chelsea can win the title at the ‘bridge’.

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May 07, 2006

Football Commercials #6: The Monster does a Ronaldinho

[Sportolysis - The World Sports Blog] Dhoomk2 pointed me out to an advertisement in which kids copied a Ronaldinho ad where he keeps kicking the ball on a football pole. This one was another funny revelation to how Ronaldinho did it I thought.

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May 04, 2006

Beauty and the Beasts

[Chelsea Football Club Blog] But a week after surviving Fergie’s ferocious fire, José Mourinho flew straight into the frying pan of our overnight football experts whose feast of uppity giggles soundly outed him as a clown moonlighting as football manager. Reading the football pages after Chelsea lost to Liverpool in the FA Cup semi-final at Old Trafford, one got the unmistakable impression that the nation had unearthed such abundant pearls of coaching and managerial talents hitherto wasting away at the sports desks of our newspaper houses, TV and radio stations.

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Nations bidding for first eleven

[uefa.com] Liverpool FC's triumph against AC Milan a year ago - their fifth overall - meant England joined Italy and Spain on ten victories apiece in Europe's premier club competition, with Germany and the Netherlands trailing on six. Spain were given a significant head start when Real Madrid CF won the first five finals, subsequently increasing their total to nine.

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