Manchester United have had to fight their way to the top to be the best soccer team in England. They have had their share of hurdles in the past like the bombing on Old Trafford during the Second World War and the Munich air disaster which claimed the lives of eight players of United when the British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on take-off at Munich, Germany. Manchester United were recently defeated in the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League on the 2nd of May 2007 by AC Milan where Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite A.K.A Kaka scored the opening goal of the match only to defeat United by 3-0 at San Siro. But one should not forget that Manchester United is the first and only team to win the Treble. They did this in the year of 1998-99, when the Red Devils won the Premier league on the final day by defeating Tottenham Hotspurs 2-1, which was enough to put them ahead of Arsenal who defeated Aston Villa 1-0. United won 2-0 against Newcastle United in the finals of the FA Cup. United also went on to win the UEFA Champions League by defeating Bayern Munich in the final 2-1 during injury time. This was considered to be one of the greatest comebacks ever witnessed in the history of football. The Red Devils have won the English Premier league 16 times, the FA Cup 11 times (a record), the League Cup and the UEFA Champions League Cup twice and the Intercontinental Cup and the European Super Cup once.

Sir Alex Ferguson tried to sign Ronaldinho in the year of 2003, but the deal fell through. This was because the Manchester United and PSG could not agree upon the fee and lost the bid to FC Barcelona who signed Ronaldinho for £50million. Manchester United’s current first team line up consists of goalkeeper Edwin van der sar; defenders Gary Neville (captain), Patrice Evra, Gabriel Heinz, Rio Ferdinand; midfielders Michael Carrick, Cristiano Ronaldo, Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs (vice captain) and forwards like Wayne Rooney and Luis Saha. Their current starting line up has skilled substitutes on the bench comprising of players from all over the world. They are the Premier League Champions of 2007 with only one match to go in this season and Chelsea six points behind them at second place. Manchester United is to face Chelsea in the finals of the FA Cup on the 19th May 2007 at the new Wembley Stadium.

Considering The Red Devils achievements in the past and the way they have grown as a soccer club and the way they have handled the difficult situations, they can be considered as the greatest soccer club of all time.

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Football, of late, has taken the shape of a battle with intense competition going on at different club as well as country levels. Hard-fought professional football leagues such as English Premier League (EPL), Bundes Liga of Germany, Serie A of Italy and La Liga of Spain have attracted skilled and gifted players from several continents and brought them under one roof. There are massive sponsorship deals, equally huge inter-club transfers of players and above all, unbelievably gigantic fan support. Fans of clubs like Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea, Barcelona, Ajax and Juventus and countries like England, Italy and Brazil are quite passionate about their team performances and follow them madly wherever they go. The ecstasy and agony of favorite teams are reflected on their lives as well.

Popular clubs and football teams of different countries are leaving no stone unturned in recognizing the priceless support of their followers and releasing official team shirts, gears and lots of other items like leather wallet, bottle opener, key ring etc. with official team logo to the public. Die-hard followers derive a sense of pride in boasting these precious items and egg their teams on with double enthusiasm and vigor.

With huge popularity by its side, football gifts and souvenirs are fast catching up with masses around the world. People can resort to a number of online retail stores like Football Souvenir Store that display wide collection of football souvenirs and gifts from some of the greatest teams. You can select your desired gifts from items such as team mugs, rugs, clocks and eye-catching toys and games depicting the team logo and theme. The advantage of buying football gifts online is their affordability. These fabulous gifts come within your means. So there is no obstacle before you in possessing them.

Football gifts and souvenirs are wonderful medium to bind teams and their fans together. You can’t present any better item to a football lover. He or she will be the happiest human being of the world by receiving gifts that include framed photographs of favorite players, official bootbags, backpacks and stationary sets. Age is not a barrier as you can present them to anyone ranging from kids to grown-up persons.

If you’re on the look-out for delightful football gifts and souvenirs, you can purchase them online at http://www.footballsouvenirstore.com/, the No. 1 online retailer for these marvelous gifts. Go through variety of items related to so many popular clubs and countries around the world and buy them at reasonable prices.

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A major part of the betting takes place in the English premier league and a minor part in major league soccer (M.L.S). Odds are placed against the teams that are playing and the bookies name one of the teams as favorites and give the people who place their bets on the underdogs better returns. A very good example is the Liverpool football club vs. Stoke city football club match this year, which ended in a goalless draw and which resulted in people losing a major chunk of the money or in some cases all their money.

Winning football bets is easier when the team you are supporting is in a rich vein of form. They end up inflating your wallet or purse by a sizeable amount. A lot of analysts have cropped up around the globes, who know the inside stuff and thus help the person betting in winning football bets. The bookie is the person that handles all your bets and gives you odds and thus when results go your way, he is obliged to give you a part of the winnings. The bookie himself might bet all the money he gets on a team and thus earn a considerable profit.

A lot of factors are to be considered while betting and the method by which the odds are arrived at should be known to be successful in winning football bets. A lot of people just make blind bets and thus end u losing their life savings. A recent incident took place in Scotland. The famous footballer Diego Maradona, who is the manager of Argentina, was threatened by a man who blamed him for all his troubles. The man alleged that he had lost his entire life savings due to Diego as Maradona’s infamous hand of god goal had condemned England to defeat and in the process, made the man lose his bet. So by not winning football bets, people can become heart-broken.

Match fixing can also make winning football bets possible. When large bets are placed, sometimes the bookies tend to bribe some of the players and convince them to lose or throw away the matches on purpose. This is nowadays on the decline due to intense monitoring by the football’s governing body. But lower league matches are still being fixed and the money being snarled by the bookies. Thus winning football bets is all the more difficult. Some of the recent incidents involving high-profile people was in Italy where Juventus football club, which boasts of a fan base of around a million people was demoted to the second division due to match fixing and some more teams were let off in spite of match fixing allegations.

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As we known David Beckham played in Spain for Real Madrid and Manchester United in England. Myself being are soccer lover and not living in England and love watching the English Premier League it can at times be hard to follow your team unless you can watch them live on your television or computer. There are software programs that let you watch live sports on your computer such as soccer; baseball, basketball, American football, golf, hockey and so many other sports live for a one off lifetime fee. It does not matter if the game is played in America or whichever countries you can get to see the game live if you have the correct software.

I follow Liverpool so when it came to David Beckhams Manchester United I loved nothing more then beating them along with Arsenal. Chelsea are beginning to create a great rivalry and off course beating our hometown rival Everton is a great feeling. So being able to watch them live on my computer is great entertainment.

Be it the English Premier League, FA Cup, Championship League, Spanish Primera Liga, Italian Serie A I love watching the world game. Watching my favorite player Steven Gerrard in full flight playing for Liverpool is and amazing experience. I hope he stays at Liverpool until he decides to retire many years from now. Liverpool winning the FA Cup last year was sensational with Gerrard showing the way and what about the Championship League Final being 3 nil down at half time and end up winning. That was one of the most remarkable comebacks of all time. There is one thing missing for the past decade when it comes to Liverpool and that is winning the English Premier League title.

Following soccer is a game of extremes you can be so dominate and still lose all it takes is that one mistake or that one chance and the result can be totally different then you expect. It’s a game where you have your heart in your mouth so to speak and I would not have it another way. I am grateful I can watch it live on my computer with family and friends.

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During the match the Spaniard midfielder Cesc Fabregas failed to catch, in the 14th minute, Kevin Davis’ shot and Bolton took the leading but within two minutes Arsenal’s Emmanuele Eboure and Niclas Bendtner scored. Right after that, the Londoner squad took control of the rhythm of the game and managed to win with a final goal by Denilson at the 87th minute. 

 

On the other hand, we need to say it was not such a good day for Liverpool coached by Spaniard Rafael Benítez who thought that would be an easy game against one of the teams at the bottom of the classification, Stoke City, but the team had a major objective, which was to obtain a local triumph. Right from the start, Liverpool had a major disappointment as their first goal was annulled. Also, Liverpool’s player Fernando Torres was not able to overcome the rival’s resistance laid upon him.

 

Liverpool’s head coach, Rafael Benítez was very upset that the referee annulled the Gerrard’s free shot goal. The linesman had advised a fault by Dirk Kuyt who headed the shot. The decision to cancel the goal was the referee’s and that was a turning point for the team as they were not able to play a more open game.

 

The remaining action was shared in the games that brought the West Ham’s triumph over Newcastle by 3 goals to 1. This was Gianfranco Zola’s debut in the Premier League as head coach, a very good experience for the rookie coach. The Italian Zola is the current West Ham’s leading man since Alan Curbishley was removed from his position. The West Ham’s player David Di Michele scored the third goal for the team while Michael Owen scored for Newcastle. Zola was very pleased with the victory and he feels his players have provided all the support he needed to feel in command to make the right choices.

 

Additionally, Suderland and Blackburn achieved home wins against Middlesbrough (2-0) and Fulham (1-0). These two games were very interested and brought plenty of action especially Michael Chopra Middlesbrough’s player performance. Lastly, Blackburn won over Fulham with a powerful goal by Matt Derbyshire at the 84th minute of the game. Nevertheless, there is a new leader in the standings but the question remains for how long this team will continue in the premium position…we will have our answer in the coming days of football action in the English League.

 

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Tottenham FC is the first club in the 20th century to achieve the League and FA Cup Doubles, winning both in the 1960-61 seasons. In 1963, Tottenham FC became the first British football club to win the European Winners Cup. Recently, the club has beaten Chelsea to attain the Football League Cup.

West Ham Football Club:

West Ham FC is an English football club located in Upton Park, London Borough of New Ham, and East London. The home stadium of West Ham FC, Boleyn Ground Stadium has 35,303 seating capacity.

At first, the name of the club was Thames Ironworks FC in 1895. Before joining the Football League, West Ham FC played against the Southern League and Western League in 1919. The club has been victorious for the top two divisions and has won the FA Cup three times: in 1964, 1975, and 1980.

West Ham FC has also won the first War Cup in the year 1940.

New Castle Football Club:

Newcastle FC is also an English professional football club based in Newcastle. The origination of the club dates back to 1892 after the union of two local clubs, Newcastle West End and Newcastle East End. The home ground of Newcastle FC is St. James’ Park.

Newcastle FC is a four-time First Division Championship winner and a six-time FA Cup winner. The club has an old furious rivalry with the local team Sunderland. Sunderland and Newcastle FC has been playing The Tyne- Wear Derby since 1898.

The customary kit colors of the club are white and black striped jerseys with black socks and shorts. Spectators of New Castle refer to themselves as the Toon Army.

Newcastle has a huge fan following and had the third highest attendance counting to (50,686) in the English Premier League in 2006-07 season. The club’s most outstanding fan following comes from Yorkshire.