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Hull City Football Club – Tigers Eye Fox

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It is no secret there has been a lack of goals at Hull City Football Club this season and the priority addition to the squad must surely be in the guise of a striker. Well, no sooner have news agencies received word that a takeover of the club is all but signed, sealed and delivered, it appears manager Nigel Pearson is wasting absolutely no time trying to find the man to fill the goal scoring void at the Tigers… As ever, many web based fanzines like to keep you ahead …

Help You Know More About Chelsea Football Club

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Chelsea Football Club is an English professional football club, located in West London. Chelsea F C was founded in March 10, 1905. They spent most of their history in the top tier of English football, and now play in the Premier League. Chelsea have won four Premier League titles, 6 FA Cups, 4 League Cups and 2 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cups. In 1955, Chelsea F C won the league championship, that was their first major success. They won no major title until 1997 after won some cup competitions between1960s to …

Champions League Football

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The Champions League is a competition of football among the various seasonal clubs. UEFA also known as Union of European Football Associations which is the managing body of European football organizes the Champions League. The Football club that wins the Champions League is awarded the most coveted trophy called the European Champion Club’s Cup. The foundation of the Champions League The tournament which was formerly called the ‘European Cup’ was initiated by a French sports journalist L’Equipe in the year 1955. The tournament was rechristened as the UEFA Champions League …

Manchester United Football Club

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There is no way of talking about English football without a mention of Manchester United. This is the most decorated and successful professional football club based in Greater Manchester to the North-West of England. The club was formed way back in 1878 under the name Newton Heath LYR Football Club and acquired its current name in 1902. Nicknamed the Red Devils, the club moved to their current Old Trafford home in 1910. The club’s first real taste of glory was when they won the Division One title in 1908, then …

Why Liverpool Must Finish 4th

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This season has been one of the most interesting in English football as we’ve seen Aston Villa, Tottenham Hotspurs, Manchester City and Liverpool FC are all fighting it out for the highly coveted fourth place spot in the English Premier League. As the season comes to a close we ask ourselves (as Liverpool fans) “can we finish in the top 4?” Finishing outside of the top 4 means that you don’t qualify for the UEFA Champions League (and you don’t get the £20 million in revenue that it brings). This …

Portuguese Soccer

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The Portuguese soccer national team (FPF), the Selec??o (selection), is one of the strongest national teams in European football. Unfortunately, neither the Portuguese Soccer national team or any of the club teams have so far managed a Euro or World Cup win, even with their line-up of world quality players such as Lu?s Carlos Almeida da Cunha also known as Nani and Cristiano Ronaldo. Maybe this will change in Euro 2008. The home games of the Selec??o are mainly played in the following stadiums: FC Porto play in theEst?dio do …

Review of Players Short Listed for the FIFA 2007 Player of the Year Award

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It is time of the year where the FIFA world player of the year is decided by the votes of coaches and captains of national team worldwide. But before we go into the discussion of the list of players drawn for 2007, an introduction of the mechanism of the system would be discussed first. The award was started in 1991 for the male player and in 2001 for the female player categories respectively. Basically, the coaches and national team captains would vote for players drawn by the technical committees of …