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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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Poll: Tell Us What You Think Of The Fiver

by The Gaffer on July 18, 2008 · 3 comments

<a href=”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/794591/” >How has your opinion of The Fiver changed, if at all?</a> <br /> <span style=”font-size:9px;”> (<a href=”http://www.polldaddy.com”> polls</a>)</span>
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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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You have to hand it to the Premier League at times; when it decides they really want to shoot a hole in their foot, they know how to do it with little effort.
The Guardian broke an exclusive story today on comments made by Sir David Richards, chairman of the Premier League for the last nine [...]

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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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The Daily Express newspaper is reporting that Manchester City owner Thaksin Shinawatra has sent a letter to each Man City player saying that he’s dissatisfied with the team’s performance in the second half of the year, that each player is up for sale and that he plans on having an entirely new squad before the [...]

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