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    “That’s what money does to some people. What a shame it was wasted on someone like King” - Alan Smith
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    According to Rob Stewart, "Sol Campbell’s hopes of securing a move to Championship leaders Newcastle United have been scuppered by the former England international’s wage demands." In the transfer gossip, the Daily Mail announce “Sunderland will press ahead with a £5m move for Wigan left back Maynor Figueroa, who hopes to have recovered from a knee ligament injury by Christmas,” before the Sun’s Steven Howard is at his sentastionalist best by farting “Cristiano Ronaldo wants Wayne Rooney to follow him to Real Madrid. Full Article at 101 Great Goals
    Sol Campbell’s hopes of securing a move to Championship leaders Newcastle United have been scuppered by the former England international’s wage demands.
    SOURCE: 101 Great Goals 1 month ago
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“That’s what money does to some people. What a shame it was wasted on someone like King” - Alan Smith
  1. the computers have won. They are better at simulating football than the footballers themselves. And what do we have to do now? We have to go backwards. We have to make the computers more stupid. We have to program them to leap like salmon from the slightest touch, bellyflopping on to the grass, there to...
    SOURCE: 101 Great Goals 1 month ago
  2. The knackered old cliché goes that in a derby game the formbook goes out the proverbial window. Well, not in the north London derby. In north London, the formbook says that Arsenal do not lose to Spurs and that has rung true for the last 10 years, since Spurs last beat Arsenal in the league in November ...
    SOURCE: 101 Great Goals 1 month ago
  3. Ferdinand will be asked to scale back his off-field commitments, which include an online magazine, #5, and a partnership in an Italian restaurant in Manchester. Ferguson could also order Ferdinand to cancel next month’s filming of a special edition of Hell’s Kitchen, in which the defender is due to appe...
    SOURCE: 101 Great Goals 1 month ago
  4. If Tottenham have a fair way to go before earning bragging rights, Redknapp’s pursuit of Wenger in their head-to-head duels would appear an impossible chase. Redknapp has won only once in 23 meetings.
    SOURCE: 101 Great Goals 1 month ago
  5. Sunderland will press ahead with a £5m move for Wigan left back Maynor Figueroa, who hopes to have recovered from a knee ligament injury by Christmas
    SOURCE: 101 Great Goals 1 month ago
  6. Overspending certainly appears to be at the root of Hull’s problems, not least in the form of signings like Jimmy Bullard from Fulham… The odds of Pearson turning to Paul Jewell again would, however, appear to be remote after their time together at Derby. Alan Curbishley and Graeme Souness have also bee...
    SOURCE: 101 Great Goals 1 month ago
  7. the BBC has admitted it posted pictures of actors from the film The Firm on the Crimewatch website and wrongly claimed they were football hooligans earlier this week… The Met put the mix-up down to it having been supplied with footage screened on the night of the game, which included shots of actual rio...
    SOURCE: 101 Great Goals 1 month ago
  8. I read the stuff in the newspapers and I hear [Rio Ferdinand] is going to be dropped and all this but I don’t think any of you have access to my mind. Any of you. You can try and pick my teams but you will never pick my teams, you can try as much as you like.
    SOURCE: 101 Great Goals 1 month ago
  9. nobody is indispensable, especially football managers. And if I was Wenger, I would keep half an eye on the remarkable job Redknapp is doing at the other end of the Seven Sisters Road… would [Arsenal fans] be prepared to accept their bitter rivals finishing above them in the Premier League’s top four?
    SOURCE: 101 Great Goals 1 month ago

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