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Avram Grant was the technical director at Portsmouth when he was hired by Roman Abramovich in 2007 as Chelsea's director of football. A few months later, Jose Mourinho was sacked and Grant was named Chelsea's manager.
In his return, he was appointed by Portsmouth as director of ...
Premiership
Portsmouth
Avram Grant
Paul Scholes
Chelsea
Roman Abramovich
A shockingly early CL exit. Today, Liverpool won against Debrecen, a victory that became moot because Fiorentina beat Lyon, 1-0.
They now enter the Europa Cup.
Except this is Liverpool. Four years ago, they were on top of the world. Rafa was invincible.
It has all gone horribly wrong. ...
Premiership
Liverpool
Champions League
Steven Gerrard
Rafael Benitez
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Arsenal won against Standard Liege, 2-0 but at tremendous cost. Kieran Gibbs is out with a fracture of the first metatarsal which means he is out for the next three months. His injury came in the dying minutes of the match, a ...
Premiership
Arsenal
Champions League
Andrei Arshavin
William Gallas
AS Roma captain Francesco Totti celebrated his return to football with a hat trick against Bari.
It was his first game after six weeks of sitting out following a knee operation.Marcello Lippi was guarded in his praise..
Euro Leagues
AS Roma
Francesco Totti
Sepp Blatter removing his iPod and looking around at the boardroom.
" We had a flare up in the Middle East. And something that Roy Keane got very excited about. Yes, yes, I know that thing about ..... pocket money too."
Gets a call on his cell phone.
"Hello. Yes, Michel. What! ...
World Cup
Roy Keane
Thierry Henry
Wenger introduces his club vs country interjection in this World Cup season.
For those dreaming of saving themselves for the world's biggest stage, forget it, the club comes first. They are the one who pay the salaries and like every other employer, they demand performance. Fair enough.
...
Premiership
Arsène Wenger
Arsenal
Patrick Vieira
Petit
Chelsea
Egypt's hissy fit continues.
Hosni Mubarak: "I want to say in clear words that the dignity of Egyptians is part of the dignity of Egypt. . . . Egypt does not tolerate those who hurt the dignity of its sons."
Well, Mr Mubarak who has gamed so many elections, he is a virtual dictator by ...
World Cup
Egypt
Union fans will be waiting in anticipation for Wednesday, 25th November. On that day, the newest member of the MLS family gets to choose its team in the expansion draft.
So who do they pick? There are a number of big name players available for the draft.
Amongst goalkeepers Pat ...
MLS
Pat Onstad
Josh Saunders
Kevin Hartman
Chris Klein
Todd Dunivant
We now know that David Beckham suffers from a mild form of asthma since childhood according to his spokesman which accounts for his use of an inhaler during extra time.
He was also shrugging of a cold and on top of this needed pain killing injections for his ankle bruise. What you had was a ...
MLS
David Beckham
Bruce Arena
Los Angeles Galaxy
Real Salt Lake
The president of Fimalac, Marc Ladreit de Lacharriere calls for a replay . Fimalac is better known through its influential subsidiary, Fitch Ratings which assesses financial risk management by assigning company ratings.
" In accepting a win by cheating, France is permanently compromising its ...
World Cup
France
Giuseppe Postiglione , the president of FC Potenza, a third division club (Lega Pro Prima Divisione) has been arrested along with eight others on suspicion of manipulating the outcomes of matches through bribery, threats, and links to organized crime. The arrests were carried out by ...
World Cup
Italy
Lecce
In another historical initiative Wigan's players have pledged to refund the ticket price for any of the club's fans who attended their side's 9-1 debacle against Tottenham.While it has been firmly established now that Jermain Defoe did not create history by scoring those five goals there are ...
Premiership
Wigan Athletic
Jermain Defoe
Roy Keane has not exactly covered himself with glory either, injecting his bile against the FAI's demand of a replay.
Its time to give up Saipan, paisan.
Time to "move on" as John Delaney, FAI chief so succinctly put.
Those Tractor Boys are not doing well under Keane too. They have ...
Other
Roy Keane
Thierry Henry's actions after his "Hand of Frog" assist on goal. He regrets celebrating the goal. But not actually the goal itself. What has he done so far to absolve himself?
He consoled Richard Dunne.
Then in his press interview, he said he had handled the ball but he consulted the ...
World Cup
Thierry Henry
France
Richard Dunne
South Africa is introducing special courts that will mete out instant justice for crimes perpetrated during the World Cup.
The murder rates have climbed down steadily from 50 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2000 to about 37 per 100,000 in 2008. SA has also improved its 2nd position in the violent ...
World Cup
South Africa
The first time in the MLS, an 8th seed beat the top team.
You can see Ricketts react to Movsisyan's shot which was blocked by diving to the left and then struggling to recover to his right when Findley had the ball. That hand must have hurt and one really wonders whether Arena should ...
MLS
Los Angeles Galaxy
Bruce Arena
Josh Saunders
David Beckham
Real Salt Lake
The better team won even if it went to penalty kicks. Qwest Field was jam packed with 46,000 soccer fans and they saw an entertaining final even though the quality was missing at times.
The goalkeepers were central to the game just as they were in the Fire vs RSL and Dynamo vs Galaxy ...
MLS
Real Salt Lake
Los Angeles Galaxy
MLS CUP 2009
LOS ANGELES GALAXY vs REAL SALT LAKE
QWEST FIELD, Seattle, Wash.
November 22, 2009, 5:30 p.m PT/ 8:30 p.m EST (ESPN; Galavision) / KICKOFF 5:55 p.m.PT/8:55 p.m EST.
Can Real Salt Lake continue to lift above its weight against the likes of Landon Donovan, David ...
MLS
Los Angeles Galaxy
Real Salt Lake
David Beckham
9 goals was a flattering tally of goals. Not to take anything away from Jermain Defoe and Aaron Lennon, who was on fire. 3 assists and one goal is a very nice number indeed and Capello would be touched in the head not to include him in the starting XI. Niko Kranjcar also provided some moments ...
