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Cheating disgrace to World football, 18th November
France 1 - 1 Ireland (Agg. 2-1) 'It was ridiculous really and unfortunately it's what we thought was going to happen. The World Cup is run by people who want to decide who gets there. Big teams get big decisions. The referee says he was 100% certain that Henry didn't handball it but Henry said that he did.' Richard Dunne Ireland were [...]
Do the likes of Beşiktaş stand a chance in the Champions League?
The red peril are in town tonight to play my favourite Turkish team Beşiktaş. Tickets are a not unreasonably priced 75 lira (30 quid / 50 dollars) Will I be going? Will I buggery: here’s why. United's comical elimination in the 2006 group stage remains the only instance in the previous four seasons that any of the eight clubs drawn from pot [...]
International World Cup qualifier roundup
Scotland 2 – 0 Macedonia What I love most about the Scots is how consistently close they get to achieving something before failing spectacularly at the last hurdle. So it is then that their obviously doomed qualification campaign trundles on. After a justifiably nervy opening half in which the Tartan Army were clearly second best, Celtic [...]
More Champions League qualifiers
Celtic midfielder Massimo Donati has rightly called for cheating bastard Eduardo da Silva to receive a European ban after accusing him of diving to win the penalty that enabled Arsenal's safe passage into the Champions League group phase last night. There were also other games, but they were all crap. Arsenal 3 - 1 Celtic 1 (Agg. [...]
European roundup
Celtic 5 – 2 St. Johnstone Marc-Antoine Fortune and Shaun Maloney put Celtic into a 2-0 lead at home to St Johnstone, with Collin Samuel pulling one back before Celtic went goal crazy in the second half. Celtic vs. Saint Johnstone- Watch more Videos at Vodpod. Barcelona 3 - 0 Athletic Bilbao (Agg. 5-1) After a goalless first half [...]
RIP Sir Bobby
The legendary Sir Bobby Robson has died after losing a long battle with cancer. The former England, Barcelona and Newcastle manager passed away this morning at the age of 76. 'It is a sad day. When somebody is ill like that you realise what is happening but when it comes it is really shocking to your system.' Don Howe 'He's the closest [...]
Spot the ball competitions
I remember way back when I were a lad, well the ’80s feels like a long time ago now. Me and my school mates used to play the spot the ball competitions, a traditional newspaper competition where the player had to guess the location of a ball which had been removed from a photograph of a football match. The position of the ball had to be deduced [...]
Get on your bike
Not only is bicycling a highly efficient mode of transportation, most favorable for short to moderate distances compared to motor vehicles, bikes also have numerous benefits including the issue of using renewable energy, generating no air pollution, reducing traffic congestion, minimizing noise pollution, being able to provide exercise, providing [...]
Online gambling review
If you’re searching for the buzz of a casino, although you can’t get to places like Vegas, why not try online gambling? From its early days in the 1990s, the online gambling population has evolved into a major wedge of the gambling pie. Millions of fun seekers turn to online casinos as a safe and fun way to spend a bit of money, and a chance [...]
Why I’m going to Russia
Apologies to the female among you for this blatant attempt to bring in the geezers.
