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Countdown to the World Cup #4
With four days to go we look at the unsung hero of the 1970 Brazil National team. #4 Carlos Alberto Brazil 1970 Carlos Alberto Torres, to give him his full name, was the captain of the Brazil side that...
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Countdown to the World Cup #3
It’s now just three days until the World Cup Finals kick off in Brazil, and here we take a look at the man who wore the number 3 shirt at four different World Cup tournaments. #3 Paolo Maldini Italy...
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Countdown to the World Cup #2
With just two days to go until the start of the World Cup, we look back at perhaps the saddest story in World Cup Football. #2 Andres Escobar Colombia 1990, 1994 Colombia were well fancied going into...
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Countdown to the World Cup #1
With just one day to go until the World Cup, we take a look at a goalkeeper who more than made his mark on the tournament. #1 Iker Casillas Spain 2002, 2006, 2010 He may have been just 19 years old...
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England centre-backs: What should we do?
So, England have lost to Uruguay and now rely on the ‘if this happens and this happens and we do this’ method to qualify from the group. The post-mortems are everywhere and almost everyone is being...
View ArticleIn Defence Of Wasted Potential
In Defence of Wasted Potential A career path that reads Barcelona B – Barcelona – Roma – AC Milan (loan) – Barcelona – Ajax (loan) – Stoke City(!) is not only a tad perplexing but it hints strongly...
View ArticleLove and Hate, A Premier League Preview
As sure as day follows night the dawning of a new football season is preceded by a slew of prediction pieces, who will win what and why. This is one of those, but where there should be analysis, there...
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Bets of Mates Season Predictions: Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal and Southend
The season. The football season. It is quite literally a season during football will be played, depending upon how you define “season”, “football”, “played”, “be” and “will”, but to be honest if you...
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Weekend Predictions
Manchester City vs Arsenal Manchester City will comfortably beat Arsenal in the early Saturday kick-off. This is due to a complicated factor of Manchester City having much, much better players than...
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It’s the weekend, which means that apart from all drinking ourselves close to oblivion, we also get to sedate ourselves with light entertainment, and enrage ourselves with the simple injustice of the...
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