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The referee's word is final!

Michael — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:19:57 GMT

?Thanks very much Sepp Blatter? was the cry of BBC commentator Mark Lawrenson as soon as Frank Lampard's shot came crashing down across the line, even in the BBC studio the feeling was that?the disall
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Cheaters never prosper

Michael — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:49:40 GMT

?The purpose of sport is to find out who is best at that particular sport playing within the rules using their own power, people who don't do this are known as cheats, but the question really is what
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Everybody loves Barca!

Michael — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:42:48 GMT

Barcelona as a football club get a massive amount of praise for their football (rightly), but also for their youth academy, which has always?lead me to want to find out if the fact their academy was/i
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I'm Arsenal 'til I die, I'm Arsenal 'til I die, I know I am, I'm sure I am, I'm Arsenal 'til I die!

Michael — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:40:14 GMT

? About a month ago I asked esteemed football journalist Gabriele Marcotti his opinion on ticket prices, and this was his answer: ? ?I think clubs make their own decisions about ticket prices, b
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World (s most popular, marketable, talked about, most televised) player of the year

Michael — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:54:24 GMT

? Football is a team game, yet the nature of the modern world is such that we need heroes so that the marketing men can do what they do best, so the 2009 champions league final was billed as Ronaldo
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Financial fair play: We are the walking billboards

Michael — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:40:44 GMT

? Football in many ways is an haphazard mess, lots of different sized leagues in different sized countries, with different financial rules and different rules with regards to ownership, it is only n
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OG

Michael — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:15:13 GMT

One thing I really hate about football is strikers who claim deflected goals and celebrate as if they had scored them and then when they are interviewed on telly, they assert that it is their goal
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Won?t somebody please think about the children!

Michael — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:17:07 GMT

Youth football has been in the spotlight recently and it got me thinking about how we do it and what realistically is the best way. It?s clear that even at face value there are two sides to youth d
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The goose that laid the golden eggs part 2: Supply and Demand

Michael — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:43:13 GMT

The essence of any sport should be the experience of watching it live as apposed to watching it on television, the problem comes in how to use the technological mediums available to sell the experi
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Do not trust UEFA baring gifts, footballs Trojan horse!

Michael — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:54:18 GMT

Platini is amazing 7 champions league debutants, ?his? plan worked perfectly football can rejoice again. Now if you believe that I have some ocean front property in Surrey I want to sell you? Fo
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Some teams are equal, but some teams are more "equal" than others

Michael — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:09:24 GMT

On the 26th of May 1989 I was a newly self aware 3 year old, but unfortunately my memory doesn?t recall that balmy evening when the Arsenal snatched the league title. Going into the rearranged fina
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The goose that laid the golden eggs

Michael — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:34:53 GMT

If I ask you about what the worst invention of all time is, I would hope that your answer would be a gun, because for all the debatable ?good? it may have done it has done far more damage. Focusing
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Size matters

Michael — Thu, 21 May 2009 22:33:44 GMT

Imagine waking up tomorrow to the news that the North West of England was declaring independence to form a new sovereign nation with its own army, leader, currency and football league. Yes it may so
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the UEFA cup is dead, long live the Europa league... my thoughts on the final

Michael — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:24:37 GMT

Why do people keep likening last nights UEFA cup final to the last cup winners cup? I had a night of this could be the last cross field pass or the last time someone kisses the trophy from ITVs poin
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6+5 helping everyone or just the big 5?

Michael — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:16:21 GMT

I was once a massive proponent of this rule, and to an extent I still am, but I just dont think the rule goes far enough in doing what it proclaims and will only serve as to make the elite slightly
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Hypocritical or not hypocritical that is the question?

Michael — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:48:51 GMT

So the sheikhs are at Man City upsetting the applecart turning a middling club into the richest over night. The blue half of Manchester could about to be over taking their disneyfied rivals or the w
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Save the UEFA cup

Michael — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:20:12 GMT

As the world is getting smaller it isonly inevitable that its cultural heartbeat which is realistically only the size of the USA would become closer. It wasnt that long ago that Europe outside of yo
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Can David beat Goliath again?

Michael — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:31:33 GMT

Competition is one of the most important things in sport, without it there would be no point in it, as before a ball is even kicked or a race is even run we would know whod win. To create competitio
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Love is blind

Michael — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:05:51 GMT

Football is great isnt it? Such a simple sport, made more complex by the minds of brilliant people. However is the desire to retain its simplicity stopping the game from progressing with the times? Th
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Does the League table lie?

Michael — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:50:47 GMT

I can just imagine this title has you already bemused; after all I have just flipped and challenged the authority of one of footballs most over used clichs. As you might already know, I am die h
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6+5 rule, the first step to reviving the game?

Michael — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:36:04 GMT

Let me just nail my colours to the mast, Im an Arsenal fan who is for the 6+5 rule, a paradox I hear you cackle. It is simple really and is because I am a football purist and I believe that the esse
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