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Ashley and Cheryl Cole: Another Wag Bites The Dust

by Sarah Harris on 11 March, 2010

Cheryl ColeLove stories are meant to be cherished and shared, so that young couples can see that true love conquers all. This love story begins with two young sweethearts, albeit from different backgrounds, but with a mutual and bubbling passion for each other. He’s a sweet-hearted ace footballer, she’s a beautiful Geordie singer. They met, fell in love, and for three bless-ed years they have been betrothed. And they shall be together forev…hang on a minute. Someone’s mixed up Ashley and Cheryl Cole’s story with a fairy tale. Sorry kids, this love story is just another in a series of failed footballer/celeb relationships. No fairy tale ending here, unless fairy tales end in divorce court.

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Real Madrid 1-1 Lyon Highlights

by Joao on 9 March, 2010

Real Madrid were put to shame against the French team, failing to reach the quarter-finals of a competition whose final will be played in their home turf. Talks that coach Pellegrini is to be booted out rise as Real’s fans are disappointed by the manner of the loss.

It started out nicely for Real with a good goal by Ronaldo. Real would go on to miss quite a few scoring chances in the first half, and they would miss those goals dearly.

Come the second half, Lyon pulled together and tightened up – and piled some pressure on Real’s defensive line. It was no surprise that they got a goal 75 minutes into the match by Miralem Pjanic. This put the French 2-1 up and with an away goal in the bag, and Real didn’t manage to break their strong defense. Lyon move on to the next round, while Real will have to focus on domestic competitions from now on.

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Fiorentina 3-2 Bayern Munich Highlights

March 9, 2010

Fiorentina got the win, but lost on aggregate. It was an excellent, fast-paced game of football that delighted fans of the sport everywhere.
Fiorentina started the game on a high note, and Vargas’ and Jovetic’s first-half goals turned the aggregate score in their favor. It looked like a relatively easy night for Fiorentina, and the Viola [...]

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Rangers 3-1 St Mirren Highlights

March 5, 2010

Rangers deservedly got a home win over St Mirren by an expressive margin.
St Mirren started well with a goal by Graham Carey in the 30th minute. Up until then Rangers looked a little tired, but that spurred them into a good performance. Lee McCulloch was the face of that comeback, by scoring less than 2 [...]

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Strange football clips

March 4, 2010

We’re having a slow week in football, international friendly matches aside, so I’ve been busying myself looking at funny football videos.
I wish I could take credit for finding these videos, but they were found by the guys at the SempreCool blog. It’s a general funny videos/curiosities blog, but these two videos they found are just [...]

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Motivational Speaker for England Team

March 3, 2010

Motivation and morale are a key aspect to modern football(but not that important, Mr Scolari), and the England team where somewhat lacking in that in recent times.
Luckily, sometimes the answer to these problems comes from an unexpected source, as you can see in this video:

Many thanks to Smithy and the Sport Relief team for [...]

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Wales 0-1 Sweden Highlights

March 3, 2010

Sweden takes the win home after this match, and it could have been by a bigger margin.
Wales couldn’t get anything out of this, and John Toshack talked about having a difficult life without Ramsey. But one player cannot justify the lack of pace and of cunning that the Welsh showed in this match.
Bolton’s striker Johan [...]

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Scotland 1-0 Czech Republic Highlights

March 3, 2010

A great win for Scotland against a Czech side that’s yet to find their way into playing good football.
Scott Brown scored the winning goal for Scotland in a match where the boys in blue showed all their strength. A spirited performance left the Czechs waiting for more feeble opponents to get their act together. [...]

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Portugal 2-0 China PR Highlights

March 3, 2010

A good win for Portugal with a relatively easy opponent. A lot of players rotated and two different formations used reduced the quality of the match in the second half.
Cristiano Ronaldo returned in great style to the team, playing a good match and getting an assist to the first goal. The Real Madrid winger powered [...]

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Netherlands 2-1 USA Highlights

March 3, 2010

Netherlands had a good test ahead of the World Cup, beating the USA in a good football match.
Kuyt gave Holland the lead with a spot kick 40 minutes into the match, crowning a first half where The Netherlands kept the ball and moved it around in style, but the Americans showed that they’re no longer [...]

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Italy 0-0 Cameroon Highlights

March 3, 2010

An absolute drab of a match saw the two sides come out of this with a goalless draw.
Both teams tried out some new things and players ahead of the World Cup, and nobody really took initiative in the match. The draw ends up being almost too good for the two sides, were it a competitive [...]

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Germany 0-1 Argentina Highlights

March 3, 2010

Argentina beat Germany in a nervous match marked by Ballack’s accidental breaking of Martin Demichelis’ cheekbone.
The moment of the match came when Gonzalo Higuain picked up and excellent pass by Di Maria and eased past goalkeeper Rene Adler to pass the ball into an open goal. Argentina were in control of the match and were [...]

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