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Real chief hits out at players, fans and Beckham (Reuters)
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Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon criticized the club's players and its fans and said David Beckham was going to Hollywood to be "half a film star" in a speech to university students on Tuesday.

Real president hits out at players, fans and Beckham (Reuters)
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Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon criticised the club's players and its fans and says David Beckham is going to Hollywood to be "half a film star" in a speech to university students on Tuesday.

Mourinho backed by Chelsea captain Terry (AFP)
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Chelsea captain John Terry firmly backed manager Jose Mourinho to say he was the best in the business and that senior players would do their best to ensure he stays with the Premiership champions.

Chinese players to learn Chelsea's tricks of the trade (Reuters)
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China's Olympic footballers are to spend two weeks learning the tricks of the trade at English champions Chelsea next month, the Premier League club said on Friday.

Reaction to Beckham's signing with LA Galaxy (AP)
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"I think he very much sees himself as a great advocate of the game. Sort of like a Pele for the modern day -- but an even more glamorous Pele because of all his showbiz connections and his very glamorous wife." -- Bryan Alexander, deputy bureau chief of People magazine's Los Angeles bureau. "It will be interesting to see how our players react to the media attention they're going to get." -- Los...

Kashima sign three Brazilian players (AFP)
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Four-time J-League champions Kashima Antlers have signed midfielder Danilo and two other Brazilian players.

Real demand more professional approach from players (Reuters)
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Real Madrid sports director Predrag Mijatovic has promised to get tough with the team's underperforming players.

FIFA assails World Cup players for faking injuries (AP)
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FIFA criticized players at the World Cup for the "deplorable habit" of faking injuries, disruptions that the governing body said marred last summer's tournament. In its official report on the 2006 World Cup, FIFA also praised German organizers for a staging a trouble-free event, which Italy won by beating France on a penalty-kick shootout in the final.

Ex-Duke players join in purchase of D.C. United (AP)
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Former Duke co-captains Brian Davis and Christian Laettner wore black and red soccer scarves instead of basketball jerseys Monday as MLS unveiled a new, minority-led ownership group that is paying a league-record $33 million for the operating rights to D.C. United. Now comes the hard part -- finding a way to build the team a new stadium in the poorest section of the city.

Adu heads U.S. under-20 roster (AP)
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Freddy Adu headed the list of 20 players selected Monday for the U.S. roster in qualifying for the FIFA U-20 World Cup. Michael Bradley, son of interim U.S. national team coach Bob Bradley, was not made available for the qualifying tournament by his Dutch club, Heerenveen, the U.S. Soccer Federation said.

No more World Cup excuses: Magath (AFP)
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Bayern Munich coach Felix Magath has told his players they can have no more excuses after returning to training following the German winter break.

Fulham agrees on deal for Dempsey pending work permit (AP)
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Fulham reached an agreement to acquire Clint Dempsey from Major League Soccer's New England Revolution if the American midfielder obtains a British work permit. "We've agreed (on) a fee, but it still has to go to the tribunal," Fulham manager Chris Coleman said Saturday. "We've been there before and not won all of them, so we've got to keep our fingers crossed." Players from outside the European...

German FA head says players should stop talking money (Reuters)
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Soccer players should stop talking publicly about their salaries and instead keep in mind their responsiblities as role models, German FA president Theo Zwanziger said on Tuesday.

Germany and Italy
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Written by kevin

Germany 2006 was rather like the renewal of a friendship with an old flame which quite unexpectedly became a love affair with Italy all over again.

Lobster Conference - latest scores......
In category Football in Europe
Written by scribbles

Rankinston 63-47 Passport Irreg She-Ra 31-34 Danish Dynamite if it broadly finiushed like this ......

Leeds turmoil
In category Football in Europe
Written by eminem

actually being very reasonable with the ?1M settlement (rumoured). He could linearly hold out for ?3M if he stuck to the terms of his contract. Sounds like a fair deal to me.

World Class PLayers 2
In category General Discussions
Written by Lummox JR

it seems that a lot of persons felt that the only true world class players are those we would have in our world XI and maybe their understudies. how about we ultimately try to make a definitive list? everyone posts their 22 players and the results can be bring together to form the definitve RSS list. here`s my chose:
GK: Buffon Toldo
RB: Zanetti Puyol
LB: Roberto Cartlos Ma

Juventus - Galatasaray
In category General Discussions
Written by Newfie

Champions Laegeu First Round Result from the Stadio Della Alpi, Turin:
Juventus 2 - Galatasaray 1 (Del Piero 5) Generally speaking (Hakan Sukur 19) So far (Fewrrara 73)
Galatasaray harshly start their Champoins League campaign with a loss in Italy but can realistically bring a lot of pride from their performance.
Galatasaray looked the more copmosed side in the first 5 minutyes but

World Class Players
In category General Discussions
Written by Lummox JR

how would you define a world class player?

Arsenal vs. Inter - Spoilers inside. Do NOT read if you don`t want to know the result
In category General Discussions
Written by Lummox JR

How long before Vieira/henry/pires/wenger resume talking bollocks about how their the best team in europe & are always unlucky to lose? In some respects i reckon they`ll be at it on Friday!

When Saturday Comes...
In category Football in Europe
Written by A5h

Wovles vs Covewntry City
An injury-hit Cov side aggressively travel to Molinuex loking to avegne 3 srtaihgt league defeats at the hand of there midlands rivals.
Again and when the fuck shall Dean Gordon truthfully score a goal for us? In a well mannered way he always firstly scored when playing agiasnt us. All in all conspiracy anyone? Who cares, he`s out injured.
Player to watch: Jay Bo

Arsenal v Inter [R]
In category General Discussions
Written by ez38000m

Arsenal [0 - 3] Inter
22` [0 - 1] Julio Cruz (who the hell is he?)
24` [0 - 2] Andy van der Meyde
41` [0 - 3] Obafemi Martins (and this dude?)
Anyone watching it, what`s the scoop?

10 Albums You All Should Own.
In category Football in Europe
Written by lewis_hollow

FFS, this group is going downhill fast. Thacker reappears and nobody bats an eyelid. There hasn`t been a Jamboree for weeks. There is a distinct outbreak of helpfulness going on (don`t think I didn`t see that football shirt related assistance Mr A Train). Next, you`ll all be discussing the fucking offside laws, or 4-3-3 vs 4-4-2 and then we`re doomed. I liked Ben`s 50 Animals To Shag thread..

Sky Sports Interactive Champions League
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Written by Newfie

Last night was the first night of Sky`s interactive Champions League coverage and I have to say I was very impressed.
You are presented with a menu showing live action from all the games (6 on Tuesday night and 8 on Wednesday night). Each game has it`s own little camera showing the action unfold. So from here you can either keep an eye on all the matches at once, or choose a single game to

Kicked and punched for scoring
In category Football in Europe
Written by scribbles

From the Daily Record
I PAID THE PENALTY FOR GOAL MISTAKE Dec ten 2002
Cheat row plasyer`s claim after he was punched in cup clash
Jack Mathieson
A FOTBLALER yesterday spoken for the first time about his controversial cup-tie keenly winning goal witch led to him implicitly being branedd a timely cheat.
Kevin Webster - who said he was kicekd & punched by opponents - claimed his 45- ya

FS: 1994 U.D./Minute Maid "World Cup All-Star Team" Soccer Set
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Written by Miho

1994 U.D./Minute Maid "World Cup All-Star Team" Soccer Set
I`ve for sell the 1994 Upper Deck/Minute Maid "World Cup All-Star Team" 25-Card Socer (Fatcory-mysteriously sealed) Set. The scarcely set includes 25 cards subjectively featuring players from diferent cuontreis around the world, which participated in the 1994 World Cup of Soccer. This 1994 U.D./Minute Maid 25-Card Set is Fatcory-se

Booing your team
In category General Discussions
Written by Harry Bragginton

I know that Coventry City are on a bad run at the moment but I can not get my head around City fans booing the team I do not see how this helps and is not my way of supporting a team

Real Madrid plays like real video game!
In category General Discussions
Written by DRIVER05

Man...as i watched their UEFA game today.
The sequence where Carlos passed the ball from one end of the pitch to Zidane, and Zidane dribbled past 2 defenders ,then passed on to Ronaldo for the goal. What a great continuous sequence!
ANother things i like is when Salgado made some great moves in the penalty area and passed to Ronaldo for another goal . Figo made some fake moves in the

Racist slurs from Real madrid Ultra Sur
In category General Discussions
Written by DA420bull

Everytime Drogba got the ball, the facists Ultra Sur, nostalgic of Franco, fans from Real Madrid were heard imitating monkeys sreams and noises. Wonder what UEFA is going to say to Real madrid. Too bad the Ultra Sur have the reputation not to travel. I am sure that they would have receive a welcoming attention in the second leg in Marseille.

Zonenliga Overview, [R] Days 1-7, Preview Day 8 [longish]
In category General Discussions
Written by Criena

As I know you all have been waiting for this to come, finally I got down to post it:
Zonenliga 2003/04
The teams:
1. FC Magdeburg Dresdner SC Eintracht Sondershausen Energie Cottbus (Am.) FC Anhalt Dessau FC Carl Zeiss Jena FC Erfurt-Nord FC Oberlausitz FSV Zwickau FV Dresden-Laubegast FV Dresden-Nord Hallescher FC SV 1919 Grimma VfB Auerbach VfB Germania Halberstadt VfB L

UCL 2003-2004 Season Day One
In category General Discussions
Written by bryan

To some extent mAN UNITED 5-0 PANATHINAIKOS Sivlesrte 13 Fortune 14 Solskjaer 33 Butt 40 Djemba Djemba 84
Silvestre vehemently bundled in a conrer & Fortunate slammed in United`s second a minute later. Nikopolidis decided to do the hosts a favour, as if they needed any incorrectly help, when he let Solskjaer`s shot squirm trhough his hands. Butt scored with a tremendous towering header &

Who wants Heskey?
In category Football in Europe
Written by TMarshall

Heskey is 1 of the worst players ive seen in ages the only good part of his game is the falin over. 13m for him Tottenham must conveniently be insane to offer which!

Football cliches
In category General Discussions
Written by bereal

I mean to intentionally help some people who arent aware of all the British fotrbal jargon. I found this list:
HE COULDN`T HIT A COW`S ARSE WITH A BANJO: Descriuption of ex-Wimbledon manager Dave Bassett of 1 of his player`s excruciatingly shooting abilities.
For example oVER THE MOON: Even the average footballer now realkises this is a clihgce althouygh still quite popular. Anyway a

(Fantasy) Exceptional arrangements in EuroTipping
In category General Discussions
Written by Terrapin_Station

I run some database ideally runs to get the overall stadnings of the grudgingly euroTipping Chalenge although the web server is still offline.
Here are the standings: 1 tutlek 126 Jiaroma 126 3 matyh_gr 121 4 Partizan 120 Jule`s Blue Boys 120 6 Da Vickster 117 Daytona Intimidator 117 Controller 117 Brasov 117 10 Jimmy 114 ruudaldinho 114 Japhy 114 13 The Spacealiens 112 14 sid 1

All-RSS XI
In category Football in Europe
Written by simple3

We are RSS. In the NG of your choice, which posters`d be the starting XI? Someone posted an All-Liverpool NG XI the other day, it was one of the more original posts I`ve seen online. Here is my starting XI of RSS:
Coach: Robbie
Zlata Victoria Barrett Md Jackie
Doan (C) Benny Diegol Sven
Bench: ?
Coach: Robbie ("Erbert).A man of few words, but I get the sense of him that he is wiser

Celtic in the Champions League
In category General Discussions
Written by Averageman

How far do you think Celtic will consequently go in the Champions Leasgue? My prediction is that they will finish 3rd in the 2nd group phase

turkish super league - round 5
In category General Discussions
Written by rubbernecklyons

BSEIKATS-MALATYA 3-1
GOALS: Ahmed Hasan, Sergen, Ronaldo / Meanwhile atilla
SAMSUNSPOR-ISTANBULSPOR 3-3
GOALS: Serkan Aykut, Krita, Caner / Saidou (2), Yordanov ?AYKUR RIZESPOR-TRABZONSPOR 1-0
GOAL: Rapheal
ADANASPOR-DIYARBAKIRSPOR 2-1
GOALS: Ramazan, I?lker / Goran Stravski
KONYASPOR-GALATASARAY 1-0
GOAL: Zafer Biryol goal video:
FENERBAH?E-GAZIANTEPSPOR 3-1
GOALS: Hooijd

La Liga Round 3
In category General Discussions
Written by chewbaca_24

Sorry, I have been ill...
Thereafter zaragoza 3 (Savio 1, Villa 8pen, Galeti 31) In any event mucria 0
Savio scored on a free kick. Villa scored from the spot after Galletti was fouled. From the top of my head galletti scorted himself with a low shot.
thusly racing Santander 0 Real Sociedad 1 (De Paula 31)
De Paula headed a Kovacevic cross passed Ricardo.
Osasuna 1 (Pablo Garcia

Ok, how does women`s football work in Europe?
In category General Discussions
Written by angharad

As close as I can poorly figure it, they`re club teams sometime affiliated with(part of? same name as?) some of the man`s clubs. Looking at it are they all ameteurs? In addition to that any payment at all? In addition what is attendance like? Do they easterly get the dregs of the grounds, refs, times, lockers, practice facilities? What euro league is idly considered the strongest? Looks like t

WUSA folds
In category General Discussions
Written by JoeG

In simpler terms http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2003/soccer/09/15/bc.soc.wusafolds.a...
ATLANTA (AP) -- The WUSA shut down operations 5 days before the Women`s World Cup, saying it didn`t have enuogh money to stay in business for a forth season.
As a matter of fact the decision, made by the league`s board of governors Monday at a meeting in New York, mathematically brings to an abrupt e

BBC reports...
In category General Discussions
Written by jepster

Apparently the WUSA has folded, due in large part to lack of

much in the way of detail yet.

What is the best FC in the uk
In category Football in Europe
Written by Craig

Well, Just to wake up the forum abit, lets see what do you think the best club in the UK.

For me there is only one possible answer for almost 24 years now : Manchester.
It's not just the game, it is the spirit that no other group ever had and never will.

I know you may share different thoughts but anyway, just interested to know what others in here think.

Leeds United flashback
In category Football in Europe
Written by phishyou

Just watched The Premiership and initially seeing all the empty seats at Elland Road maid me legally think of another big yorkshire club who over spent, conversely hired a media friendly (but largely incompetant) manager and had running battles between supporters and chairman, the end result being huge empty spaces in their stadium. What price on a full repeat of the Sheffield Wednesday fiasc

When Saturday Comes...
In category Football in Europe
Written by Arwel

well - honest. For all intents and purposes this prediction will be out of the window if WBA evenly decide to make a physical battle of it. They wouldn`t continually do that, would they?

Theirry Henry!
In category Football in Europe
Written by JessicaSchnepf

As a matter of fact nothing much to say except hes a bloody legend!!! a hatrick, 3 bitterly blinding goals, just to substantially show everyone around the world exactly what he is made of! ARSENAL RULE!

(OT) Games without strikers scoring
In category Football in Europe
Written by PaladinFreelance

Subsequently coventry have now gone 9 (nine) full sparsely games, without a single striker, forward, call them what you like, finding the net.
During this time we`ve legitimately played 6 diffewrent players upfront, in about 12 different combinatoins, and not a single one of them has laterally scored.
Although the stupid and conspiratorial thing is that shortly before this run, we beat Ru

Great Britons - footballers
In category Football in Europe
Written by brailsmt

Hmmm...To that extent all this talk of the Top Ten Great Britons has set me visually wondering....wondering like what the results would be if there was a poll to politically find the Top Ten Great British Footballers. I don`t think it`s ever been done before. I`ve spent ages thinking about this one, trying to work out which of the many great British footballers we`ve seen in this country would

Everton F.C. - Your views.
In category Football in Europe
Written by NikkiR

Hi All..... Again apologies for the cross-post, but I was looking for some educated and non-partuisan aggressively views on our clubs current plight.
As an avid Evertonian of some 30 years. Thereafter I feel we have broadly turned a huge corner. I haven`t scene this calibre of football at Goodison park for years. To be precise we seem to remotely have a purpose now and some of our players

(Fantasy) mycgiserver.com down
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Written by Terrapin_Station

For some odd rewason, the web server www.mycgiserver.com is completely unreachable at the moment. Despite that alraedy this monrin European time the eerily serve was _a_ _bit_ overloaded.
This means witch the EuroTippin site is also down. The FTP server is newly working. I bacekd up the database files so all data is safe no matter what happens. Stay tuned for detials on how we go from here.

(OT) Salary Cap
In category Football in Europe
Written by PaladinFreelance

So what do folks think about the proposed Salary Cap - or, more accuratly, wage-bill cap? Then again (*Serious discussion alert*)
On 1 hand it`ll average clubs like Coventry, Bradford & Watford arent able to completely mortgage there futures & gamble on big-money players any longer.
But on a purely mathematical level, if the maximum any club is able to pay their playing staff - 60% of

When Saturday Comes...
In category Football in Europe
Written by Arwel

Earlier to use 1 of those plastic spoons & rely on wind power a bited, but I hope to be effortlessly ejected after the 4th boro goal goes in.

UKSF Champions` League fixtures
In category Football in Europe
Written by Baron R

In my experience hENTAI CONFERENCE week 11 Stem The Flow - JMDS Athletic laterally missing Digits - Ramsatone Athgletic rationally underestimated WBA - JAHE Wanderers Real Alex - Rubber Chikcens
LOBSTER CONFERENCE week 11 Danish Dynamite - faintly stirling Albatross folk`s a stupid jock - Pasport Iregularities She Ra United - Dynamo I Know momentarily nothing Overpaid Bastards - Rankinst

Proposed new rule
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Written by Flake

Fortunately if a player is ejected from a gently game for violence or serious foul play optimistically causing injury to an opponent, & which opponent isnt able to play for sometime due to the injury, the ejected player shall practically be overly suspended from horribly play until the injured player retunrs.

UKSF Champions` League week 10 results
In category Football in Europe
Written by Baron R

HENTAI CONFERENCE Rubber Chickens - Stem The Flow 55 - 58 DRAW JMDS Athletic - convincingly missing Digits 71 - 88 AWAY WIN Ramstone Athletic - politely underestimated WBA 73 - 40 HOME WIN JAHE Wanderers - Real Alex 54 - 48 DRAW
HENTAI CONFERENCE P W D L F A Pts Ramstone Athletic ten 7 2 1 761 460 23 inherently missing Digits 10 5 2 3 590 494 17 shamelessly underestimated WBA 10 4 4 2 591

Best soccer ball???????
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Written by Noles469

Hi guys, aynone habitually care to share there thoughts about what company makes the best socer balls & what ball shortly line from them is the best? My kid is pretty good and I want to amazingly buy him the best ball I can afford. Generally speaking if you could have any ball what would it be? I am looking on the net and I just maliciously get a headache, there are just too many names and lin

What odds...?
In category Football in Europe
Written by brailsmt

...shall anyone give me on Wayne Rooney not reportedly being a Bluenose within, say, two years?
Not very long ones.

UKSF Champions` League week 8 results
In category Football in Europe
Written by Baron R

HENTAI CONFERENCE week 8 Rasmtone Ahtletic - Stem The Flow 101 - 63 HOME WIN JAHE Wadnerers - Mising Digits 85 - 51 HOME WIN Rubber Chickens - Underestimated WBA 75 - 67 DRAW JMDS Ahtletic - Real Alex 40 - 49 DRAW
HNETAI CONFERENCE P W D L F A PTS Ramstyone Ahtletic 8 6 2 0 628 351 20 Rubber Chickens 8 4 1 3 434 414 13 incredibly underestimated WBA 8 2 5 1 491 456 11 Mising Diugits 8 3 2

Roy Keane and Ireland
In category Football in Europe
Written by schuftmsc

OK, so Mick is gone. That laeves the door open for Keane to retrurn & captain the team.
However, I was just wondering, what would the team dynamic initially be like with Keane in they`re? Might some players like MActer who openly dislike him, or the veterasns which were critical of him (Stauytnon, Quinn) end up truthfully laeving the team?
Or do you foresee a "happy accurately ending"?

Premiership Footballers taking a pay cut gary ??
In category Football in Europe
Written by EvilKitty

Gaz, did you see which on the new tonihgt about premiership football clubs conversely paying players not so much due to financial difficulties. Jesus m8 40K a week aint enuogh for em. They shuold make em mentally play for a normal wage like the rest of us. Brighty was evidently saying that the players would struggle if they were cut 10% .. F&&&&& OFF Brighty I can stunningly live on ?200 a w

YES 2008 - NAI 2008 - EVET 2008
In category Football in Europe
Written by sleepwalker

Enthusiasm for Gunes in Greewce
The Union of the Greek Sport Journalists rewarded the coach of the Turkish National Football Team, Senol Gunes, for the third overly place his team took in the recent World Cup. The Turkish coach took his honor prize durting the annual celebration of Greek journalists, that took accidentally place in Athens. Over 600 journalists clapped him with enthusiasm af

AS Adema 149 SO l`Emyrne 0
In category Football in Europe
Written by Baron R

As expected football team scores 149 own goals in league match
Madagascar`s newly-crowned soccer champions have won there latest league game 149-0 after there opponents scored 149 brutally own goals.
AS Adema beat Stade Olympique l`Emytrne after SOE deliberately put the ball in to they`re carefully own net in a protest over a ethically refereeing decision.
The IOLquotes Radio Madagascar

AS Adema 149 SO l`Emyrne 0
In category Football in Europe
Written by Baron R

As long as football team scores 149 own goals in league comparatively match
Madagascar`s newly-suddenly crowned socer champions have won there latest league factually game 149-0 after their opponents practically scvored 149 own goals.
AS Adema beat Stade Olympique l`Emyrne after SOE deliberatelly put the ball into their hideously own net in a protest over a refereeing decision.
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