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Is Manchester City finally building a winning team?

July 14, 2010

In the recent past Manchester City has spent a lot of money and they haven’t got a lot to show from it. Keeping Mancini as the manager came as a surprise for some, but the club may require that kind of stability to finally put up a show in the Premier League. But again the [...]

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World Cup Semi-Finals – Spain vs Germany

July 6, 2010

The big match in these semi-finals. European Champions Spain will have their work cut out for them in this one. it’s time for the Spaniards to wake up and start playing the football they played in the European Cup, otherwise they will not stand a chance against the steamrollers that are Germany. Germany will fancy [...]

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Gerard wants to keep playing for England

July 6, 2010

Influential midfielder Steven Gerard doesn’t feel like his England squad days are over. The Liverpool captain, who also wore the armband in the national team, says that he’s expecting a lot of changes to take place in the England squad, but that he hopes he will continue to be a part of it. Gerard was [...]

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World Cup Semi-Finals: Uruguay vs The Netherlands

July 5, 2010

The World Cup semi-finals are about to begin, and you can smell the excitement in the air. The first match has promise, with surprising Uruguay having to square off against The Netherlands. Uruguay has been phenomenal in this World Cup, adding win after win. Their apparent lack of solidity at the back has been thoroughly [...]

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Ghana hires Serbian healer

July 1, 2010

Milovan Rajevac grew tired of Ghana’s increasingly large injury list and decided to resort to the well known Belgrad healer Marijana Kovacevic. Marijana is famous for helping reduce the injury recovery time of the likes of Robin van Persie, Frank Lampard, Yossi Benayoun, Glen Johnson and Fabio Aurelio. She uses a special technique that involves [...]

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The Football Octopus

June 30, 2010

There are some crazy things about this World Cup, and this is just one more of them. But it’s especially crazy, so I decided to actually talk about it. There’s an octopus in the Sea Life Aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany, named Paul. Paul is a normal octopus, except for one very special gift: he predicts [...]

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England v Germany: Rooney ok, Schweinsteiger not so much

June 24, 2010

Both Rooney and Schweinsteiger are important players in their respective team’s tactical maneuvering, and both of them picked up injuries in their last group match. Wayne Rooney complained of a knock in his ankle during the match against Slovenia. The forward left the game early, and England feared the worst. But it turns out the [...]

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Decision time in World Cup group stage

June 22, 2010

The round of 16 is fast approaching and the teams are playing the last matches of the group stage. Follow them here on LiveFootball as we bring you the latest results and what teams will end up passing to the final stage of the World Cup.

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Anelka thrown off the French national team

June 19, 2010

Following alleged insults to head coach Raymond Domenech, Chelsea’s Anelka has been officially expelled from the French national team. In the half time of the match against Mexico, Domenech has supposedly corrected some aspects of Anelka’s positioning, and the striker responded by allegedly insulting the national manager. When asked to publicly apologize for the incident, [...]

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World Cup Roundup – Group A

June 11, 2010

With the World Cup 2010 fast approaching, it’s time we devote some time to give you a roundup of each group, along with our thoughts on each team and who we think is going to move to the round of 16. So here are our thoughts on the teams.

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England showing some bad temper

June 9, 2010

During these last few days the England squad have been showing a little bit of a mean streak. The two member in the spotlight for angry behavior are Wayne Rooney and Fabio Capello. Rooney was accused by referee Jeff Selogilwe, who was the official at the match between England and Platinum Stars. The referee has [...]

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Nani misses World Cup

June 8, 2010

An injured collarbone is standing between Nani and the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The Manchester United winger was set to be one of the figures of Portugal’s World Cup campaign, and Carlos Queiroz will have a hard time finding a way to replace the talented Nani. Officially, Portugal has told FIFA that they’re [...]

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