Posted on 25 August 2010.
England Tottenham In Diarra Talks As reported here, Tottenham have been in talks over a move to land former Chelsea, Arsenal, and Portsmouth midfielder Lassana Diarra , who could be surplus to requirements at Real Madrid.
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Posted on 17 August 2010.
Aston Villa midfielder James Milner is finally on the verge of completing his big-money move to Manchester City . The 24-year-old England international has undergone a medical at Eastlands, and it’s only a matter of time before the deal is officially completed. After extensive negotiations and many bumps in the road, Villa and City agreed a fee of £16m, and the deal will also include City midfielder Stephen Ireland , who’s rated at £8m
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Posted on 15 August 2010.
1. Manchester United are only six points short of earning 1500 in the Premier League. With an average of 2.15 points per game, Alex Ferguson’s side are unsurprisingly the most successful team in the league’s 17-year history
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Posted on 08 August 2010.
With Aston Villa looking for 30 million pounds for James Milner, Manchester city paying 20+ million for Joleon Lescott and Manchester City paying 25 million pounds for Adebayor in recent few years, it shows that the days of paying 3.6 million pounds for players the quality of Roy Keane and 1.2 million pounds for Eric Cantona are long gone.
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Posted on 08 August 2010.
With the Emirates Cup now taken care of, and only a trip to Poland between now and the start of the Premier League season, the Arsenal squad is starting to take shape. Of course you’ve got the likes of Cesc Fabregas, Robin Van Persie and Thomas Vermaelen, three players who will need to be at the peak of their powers if the Gunners are to mount a serious assault on the major honors this season, but I want to focus on those who will be trying to establish themselves in the squad for that opening trip to Anfield. The obvious place to start is with the two marquee summer signings.
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Posted on 06 August 2010.
Chelsea vs Manchester United 2010 FA Community Shield Wembley Stadium, London Sunday, 8th August 2010 14:00 GMT Last season, there was very little separating Chelsea and Manchester United, both in the Premier League standings and when they met on the pitch.
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2010 FA Community Shield Preview
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Posted on 06 August 2010.
West Ham United have announced the signing of New Zealand international defender Winston Reid. Reid, 22, has been signed from Danish Superliga club FC Midtjylland for an undisclosed fee.
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Posted on 03 August 2010.
Brazilian midfielder Ramires is close to completing a £17 million move to Chelsea, according to the BBC . The 23 year-old was featured in Brazil’s World Cup side in South Africa earlier this summer, during which he pulled off some rather impressive appearances.
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Posted on 29 July 2010.
Arsenal vs AC Milan Emirates Cup Emirates Stadium, London Saturday 31st July, 2010 17:20 (BST) Arsenal kickoff their 2010 Emirates Cup against the Italian giants AC Milan in the second of the tournament.
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Posted on 23 July 2010.
Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson has revealed today that he is, in so many words, considering ‘ditching’ next season’s Europa League campaign in order to help stabilise his squad ahead of a potentially gruelling domestic season. Liverpool still have to qualify for the European competition via a two-legged preliminary fixture with Macedonian side FK Rabotnicki, and after that may face a further 17 games on the road to the final in Ireland next May. Hodgson has been warned against deploying the players that were on World Cup duty, given that many only returned to pre-season training last week and those which featured in the final ( Fernando Torres , Pepe Reina and Dirk Kuyt ) are yet to return from their extended hiatus at all.
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Posted on 22 July 2010.
The curtain came down on the 2010 Fifa World Cup in spectacular fashion at Johannesburg’s Soccer City Stadium on Sunday, with a stunning closing ceremony and an eye-catching display of fireworks after the completion of the final, a tense affair which went into extra-time before Spain were crowned football champions of the world.
It was a tense affair, a contest more for the purists than the casual football fan. Neither Spain nor the Netherlands was prepared to give their opponents time on the ball and referee Howard Webb had his hands full as the tackles flew in and he dispensed cards.
Both teams are known for their ability to play beautiful, flowing football but, opposing one another, they made it awfully difficult to achieve that. So, while the final lacked somewhat in terms of aesthetic appeal, it certainly did not lack suspense.
Nasty edge
There was a nasty edge to some of the tackling and the clash threatened to boil over at times. Referee Webb, in hindsight, did well to keep matters under control. Still, it took 14 yellow cards and the dismissal of Dutch defender Johnny Heitinga in extra time to keep matters under control.
Netherlands’ midfielder Nigel de Jong could easily have been dismissed earlier in the game when he caught Xabi Alonso flush in the chest with his studs, nowhere near the ball. It was a horrible tackle.
The truth be told, it was the Spanish trying to play the game more than the Dutch and it showed as the Netherlands picked up the majority of the cards.
All the pressure finally told in extra time when Andres Iniesta, the man of the match, finally settled the contest four minutes from the final whistle, beating Maarten Stekelenburg in the Dutch goal after being played in by substitute Cesc Fabregas.
‘It’s simply incredible’
“I can’t quite believe it yet,” said Iniesta. “I had the chance to score such an important goal for my team. It’s simply incredible.”
What the game showed is that Spain is able to impose its game on any opponent. They dominated possession in every match they played and even though they struggled to score throughout the tournament, they were clearly the side that dictated play. They also conceded only two goals, equalling the record for the fewest given up by a World Cup winner.
That was the thing when facing Spain: the opposition might get, at most, three goal-scoring opportunities in a match and if they didn’t take any of those, well, Spain would have more goal-scoring opportunities and find the back of the net.
In fact, quite remarkably, they won all four of their matches in the knockout stages of the World Cup by a margin of 1-0: over Portugal, Paraguay, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Golden Glove
Those four straight clean sheets helped Spanish captain Iker Casillas win the Golden Glove, awarded to the tournament’s top goalkeeper. Along the way, he needed a penalty save against the Paraguayans to keep his record perfect in the playoffs.
With Xavi and Andres Iniesta pulling the strings, and the advantage of more than half the starting eleven playing for Barcelona, Spain were superb in midfield.
Their ability to hold onto the ball never came close to being matched. It was best displayed in the semi-finals against Germany who had delighted with their free-flowing football and thrice scored four goals in a game on their way to the semi-finals. Against the Euro 2008 winners, their attacking edge was blunted.
After receiving the World Cup from South African President Jacob Zuma and Fifa President Sepp Blatter, an astonishing fireworks display accompanied Spain as they made their way onto the field to celebrate. Despite the eye-catching display going on above their heads, they had eyes only for the precious World Cup which Spain had finally won for a first time.
‘Delighted, ecstatic’
Spain’s coach Vicente del Bosque commented later: “The dressing room is delighted, ecstatic. But Spain, the country, deserves this triumph, this World Cup.
“This goes beyond sport. We have to celebrate. All the people have been behind us in Spain, and we’re delighted to reward them with this victory.”
By winning the World Cup, Spain joined Germany’s 1974 World Cup winners (then known as West Germany) as the only reigning European champion to also win the World Cup.
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Posted on 20 July 2010.
Three Premier League clubs have all independently announced the banning of vuvuzelas from their stadiums next season, with Tottenham, Arsenal and Birmingham City all declaring that they intend to stem the moronic drone of the plastic trumpet that featured so prevalently at this summer’s World Cup.
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Posted on 20 July 2010.
Rangers manager Walter Smith has admitted youth will get its chance next season at Ibrox as the SPL Champions face tough times with debt problems. The exact figure of the debt has been disguised in recent months after reports suggested Rangers could face a huge tax bill from HMRC which could double, maybe even triple, Rangers’ debts which were around £25m about 6 months ago. With the Rangers supporters growing increasingly frustrated and angry at the current major shareholder Sir David Murray, a small ray of positive light could shine on Edmiston Drive next season with the promise of some new talent emerging on the Ibrox pitch
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Posted on 11 July 2010.
The Netherlands will try to win the World Cup final on their third attempt.
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David Villa: “We aren’t going to leave a drop of sweat.”
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Posted on 09 July 2010.
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Posted on 07 July 2010.
Spanish giants Barcelona have been forced into seeking a huge €150 million (£125 million) bank loan, in order to pay outstanding wages owed to their players and members of their coaching staff. The newly-installed president of the Catalan giants, Sandro Rosell , has revealed that the ‘cash-flow tensions’ he has inherited from former chief Joan Laporta mean that the club cannot afford to fulfill many of it’s obligations without a cash-injection from an outside party
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Barcelona Seeking €150m Loan To Cover Unpaid Player’s Wages
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Posted on 07 July 2010.
Ah! There’s that word again.
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Has European Flair Triumphed Over South American Pragmatism?
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Posted on 06 July 2010.
Historically, there’s no comparison between Germany and Spain. Except for 1930, 1938, 1950 and 1978 Germany has been right up there in the final stages of the World Cup. Three quarterfinals, four semifinals, four runners up and of course three times champions out of their 17 appearances
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Posted on 05 July 2010.
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Posted on 28 June 2010.
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Posted on 28 June 2010.
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World Cup News: England Lost, But At Least Gabriel Heinze Got Clocked!
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Posted on 28 June 2010.
The world’s media were left with their jaws on the floor yesterday, when England’s press briefing (before their systematic dismantling at the hands of Germany) lasted barely five minutes – and featured a meagre amount of questions fielded only from hand-picked British journalists. More than 250 journalists and around 30 television crews from around the world had assembled in the media tent at the Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein, in anticipation of the pre-match briefing with England coach Fabio Capello and captain Steven Gerrard . However, most of the reporters (many of whom had travelled considerable distances in search of their ‘quote’) were left to file out of the tent in anger after the FA’s head of Media Adrian Bevington took only eight questions from carefully selected reporters
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Posted on 26 June 2010.
In a game that featured six yellow cards, the story of the night was Ella Masar, who netted her first two WPS goals to pull her Red Stars closer to a playoff spot midway through the 2010 season.
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