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Chelsea Suffer Arsenal Disease In 1-2 Killer Blow

by The Gaffer on November 30, 2008 · 12 comments

For the first 60 minutes at Stamford Bridge on Sunday, the game looked remarkably familiar. Chelsea were passing the ball beautifully around the pitch. Wonderful movement off the ball. Using incredible amounts of imagination and creativity. Yet they couldn’t seem to score that crucial second goal.
Sound familiar?
Chelsea were Arsenal. Luiz Felipe Scolari’s side were a [...]

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The biggest news of the past 24 hours is that Manchester United has reportedly tabled an official £20 million bid for Tottenham striker Dimitar Berbatov. Problem is there’s no evidence of an actual bid being made and all we have to go on is a quote from his agent in The Sun newspaper. What is [...]

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If BBC Sport could be as creative and slick with their live football coverage as they are with their promotional trailers, the Beeb would rule the TV roost once again and kick Sky Sports to the gutter.
Such is the artistry and fine detail that’s included in BBC Sport’s trailer for Euro 2008 (see below). The [...]

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BBC Launches Euro 2008 Blog

by The Gaffer on May 28, 2008 · 1 comment

There are only 11 days (or 264 hours) between now and the beginning of Euro 2008, and it all seems a lot like World Cup 2006 all over again.To me, World Cup 2006 was the zenith of soccer coverage on the Internet. I watched all of the matches on a daily basis from my desktop [...]

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