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The NYT Quotes Chairman Rummy
Those of us living in the USA generally have to look abroad for good association football coverage. This is even more true when you’re following a team or league outside of the English-speaking world. Our biggest newspapers and sports web-sites will dutifully report the scores of a big game, but usually don’t perform any deep analysis or interviewing. So it’s ...
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August 01, 2011
Discuss
Rumour Mongering: Jovanovic Agrees Terms With Anderlecht
With Liverpool's summer spending spree fading into memory, and with the club appearing largely content with its current personnel despite that the vast majority of said spree was dedicated to bolstering one of the club's strongest areas while ignoring positions most everybody agreed they were weak at, much of the attention now turns to those who could be on their ...
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August 01, 2011
Survival Of The Sartorially Wise
An AC Milan soccer fan, center left, is attacked and stripped off his jersey by Inter Milan fans before Inter Milan team's training session at Workers' Stadium in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011.
There's something to be said for leaving the clothes on the back of another, no matter how much one may disagree with its statement or fashion.
There's also ...
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August 01, 2011
Time To Do What Udinese Does Best
It was over the course of the month of July that Udinese parted ways with three of its prized assets: Cristian Zapata, Gokhan Inler and Alexis Sanchez. We perhaps all knew that they'd be leaving eventually, and you can't say they haven't gone to the right kind of clubs as is appropriate of their talent level.
For example, Barcelona are acknowledged ...
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August 01, 2011
DFB Pokal Video Highlights: Sandhausen 0-3 Dortmund
Dortmund won a relatively boring match 3-0.
Highlights:
On Friday, Dortmund officially open the new Bundesliga season against Hamburg. A more detailled preview to come tomorrow... ...
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August 01, 2011
The Supercoppa Italiana, Derby Style
For some reason, it feels way too early to be thinking about next season. Maybe it is because we have players still on vacation or that the summer market still has a month to go. I dont know. I just feel unprepared and slightly panicky about everything starting up already - sort of like when you know you only have ...
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August 01, 2011
Crying in the Rain
Another mistake-ridden loss to go with the one from last Wednesday. Atlético Paranaense made the best of a water-logged pitch to come away with a 3-2 win. Santos dominating the game for the most part, but the enormous puddles and patches of mud hampered a lot of the play in both phases. Defensively the side was still a shambles. ...
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August 01, 2011
Catania Lose Friendly Game To Athletic Club Bilbao 3-1, Catania Buy 2 New Players
Catania lose a friendly game to Athletic Club Bilbao 3-1. Well we have one win and one lose but in the end it does not matter about points its about the how are players are working together and what shape they are in.
Athletic Club is not an easy team and as hard as Catania tried it was not enough, we ...
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August 01, 2011
One Last Time
Veni, Vidi, Vuci
Thoughts on Mirko are brief, to the point and laden with emotion:
It's akin to the highs and lows of a tumultuous yet empassioned relationship: the highs make Everest seem but an anthill; the lows digging through one side of the Earth to the other. There is relief in no longer suffering through the torment, but agony in the ...
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August 01, 2011
St Mirren 1 Aberdeen 0
A brilliant advert for summer football. A cracking day, great weather, sublime pitch which would be worthy of a World Cup final and some very good football as well.
St Mirren have completely changed their image. In April Billy Reid, Hamilton manager, remarked that "everyone knows how St Mirren play, they lump the ball up to Higdon".
Fast forward to now, the ...
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August 01, 2011
Leeds United 3-2 Newcastle - Match Report
Leeds ended their 2011 pre-season campaign with a fine 3-2 victory over premiership outfit Newcastle United. Alan Pardew didn't name Alan Smith in his squad therefore Smith, who has been linked with a move back to Leeds all summer, didn't get to make his first appearance at Elland Road after leaving for Manchester United after all. Leeds boss Simon Grayson ...
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July 31, 2011
Match Day Thread: FC Bayern vs. Eintracht Braunschweig
In the first round of the 2011-2012 DFB Pokal. The match kicks off at 8:30 PM local time, 7:30 GMT, and 2:30 USA Eastern time. Several 1. Bundesliga clubs have already suffered shock losses over the weekend, including Leverkusen, Werder Bremen and Wolfsburg (who I was predicting would be a tough side in my season preview). Hopefully, this will keep ...
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July 31, 2011
Transfer happenings
Some good ol' transfer action going on at the club. Bongi here is the best of that news, but there's more after the jump.
Bongani Khumalo
Tottenham's South African defender Bongani Khumalo has helped fill our defensive frailties by joining on a season long loan. The 24 year old had some Championship experience last season with relegated Preston, and has extensive experience ...
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July 31, 2011
Peter Wisgerhof: Dive Team Legend
What's funny about this is just into the second half, Twente's Steven Berghuis was sent off for diving which, while technically ahead of impact itself, also looked like he was smartly avoiding a compound fracture and months in traction. The ref was simply taking care of things in advance, it seems, for this inevitable travesty by Peter Wisgerhof.
What's not funny ...
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July 31, 2011
Zhirkov on his way out?
Is it "so long and thanks for the goal in Moscow" to Yuri Zhirkov?
Reports in Russia are claiming that Zhirkov arrived this morning and has signed with FC Anji for 15 million Euros. Nothing is on either club's website yet, though.
Zhirkov's Chelsea career hasn't exactly been sparkling, given he has often fallen into the Alex-esque injury mire where he disappears ...
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July 31, 2011
Zaragoza face Wolves on Saturday
Molineux stages its one and only pre season friendly on Saturday against the Spanish La Liga team Real Zaragoza. It will be the first chance for Wolves fans to see inside the stadium that is now without the old North Bank but with the bottom tier of the new stand well on the way towards completion. It is expected that ...
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July 31, 2011
Legia's Turkish Delight
Hardly a classic performance by Warsaw's biggest team but a 1-0 away win in Turkey against Gaziantepspor puts Legia in a strong position as they prepare for the second leg on Thursday.
The Legion withheld a heavy assault by Gaziantepspor in the first half who finished fourth in Turkey's Super Lig last season ahead of Beşiktaş. Biding their time and defending ...
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July 31, 2011
Jussi on His Way Out?
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I will not pretend to know the complications of football contracts. There is a lot of pleasing to be done for multiple parties, and striking that balance must be difficult. That said, the whispers that Jussi's contract talks...
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July 31, 2011
A Super Derby
In a few days time Milan will take the field for the Italian Super Coppa, a pre-season trophy that pits the winner of the Scudetto versus the winner of the Coppa Italia. The last time Milan was in this match I had the pleasure to watch the action first hand against Juventus. The game was a tough one ...
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July 31, 2011
Interview with Dani Sanchez-Llibre
In the latest Don Balon, Spain´s preeminent weekly Sports Magazine, they have an interview with our outgoing President Dani Sanchez-Llibre. Here are some highlights.
Game day will be, ¨Completely different¨, he says, ¨I´ll arrive half an hour early, like all the other supporters. I will hang out with friends, and when the traffic is more fluid, I will go home with ...
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July 31, 2011
Use Your Wand Sigi
Expecto Ipsum
Seattle went out in the miserable heat of Houston, orchestrated entirely by one former Sounder Brian Ching. He single-handedly helped his team to the win, by feeding an assist for the first goal and grabbing a brace for himself. The scoreline would've been much higher had it not been for The Legend Kasey Keller, who bailed out his lazy ...
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July 31, 2011
Napoli Grosseto Highlights
Normally I wouldn't post highlights from such a meaningless friendly, but in this game Lucarelli scores a magnificent volley that's worth a round of applause. Simply a great finish regardless of the quality of the opposition or the intensity of the game. There's also a nice bit of goalkeeping by Rosati. Check it out after the jump.
Any ...
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July 31, 2011
Ciao a tutti!
Hello everyone! My name is Ivo (pronounced Evo) and I'm happy to say that I am John's first signing of the Juventus Offside writers summer mercato. Some of you may already know me from commenting to posts on this blog for the past couple years. I have cyber-met many of you on here already and am looking forward to dissecting ...
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July 31, 2011
Would Arsenal Benefit from a Separate "General Manager"?
Whenever you follow multiple different professional sports, you inevitably start to notice the unique aspects of each of them. For instance, I remember Martin writing a while back about how odd it would be for an NBA basketball fan to endure various different international breaks during the middle of the regular season. In professional baseball, the manager and ...
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July 31, 2011
Pre-season round-up #2
Aside from my trip report on Southampton and the new kit release, this blog hasn't really been active over the pre-season. Thing is there's not really been enough to put in a blog post and having the @athleticoffside twitter, it's easier to post the odd bit of news in 140 characters or less.
However, I do realise there are some readers ...
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July 31, 2011
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