Friday 18 July 2008, 15:09
There are very few of us blessed with the natural talent to fulfil our boyhood dreams and grace the pro ranks. Even fewer manage to graduate from the dog poo littered fields of park football to the professional game. But, in an act of lunacy, Swindon...
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Monday 30 June 2008, 11:51
By FourFourTwo's guest columnist, Tim Stannard of La Liga Loca When La Liga Loca was woken on Sunday by the sound of car horns and honking hooters (not those kind), it thought for one horrified moment that it had overslept by a good 12 hours. After...
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Friday 27 June 2008, 12:57
By FourFourTwo's guest columnist, Tim Stannard of La Liga Loca In an event that stunned string-theory scientists and had soothsayers gloomily picking through entrails with warnings of an imminent End of Days, Spain went through to the final of a major...
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Monday 23 June 2008, 11:46
By FourFourTwo's guest columnist, Tim Stannard of La Liga Loca If Cesc Fabregas wasn’t the Spaniard with the biggest pair of cojones you’ve ever seen on Sunday night, then it was the nut job your correspondent witnessed weaving his way through the...
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Monday 23 June 2008, 09:33
By FourFourTwo guest columnist Riccardo Rossi of Serie Aaaaargh! Not since Rudi Voeller and Frank Rijkaard had their little spat (or spit) at Italia 90 have we seen such a dodgy moustache in a major tournament. Not content with failing to score in four...
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Friday 20 June 2008, 13:49
By FourFourTwo's guest columnist, Tim Stannard of La Liga Loca Spain manager, Luis Aragonés has been accused of being almost everything imaginable during his four year spell in charge of La Furia Roja - incompetent, racist, out of touch, rude, bewildered...
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Wednesday 18 June 2008, 11:34
By FourFourTwo guest columnist Riccardo Rossi of Serie Aaaaargh! From utter despair and grumblings of a fix, to joy unabated: Italy in a nutshell. Wednesday dawned bright and warm right across the peninsula and the local cafes were handing out free croissants...
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Monday 16 June 2008, 16:00
By FourFourTwo's guest columnist, Tim Stannard of La Liga Loca Two years ago in the hot hot heat of Spain's doomed World Cup campaign, Marca ran a headline ahead of their second round clash with France warning Zinedine Zidane that Aragones'...
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Monday 16 June 2008, 00:03
NOW it’s a tournament. The true measure of quality of these biennial gatherings lies not in the major games or high-profile clashes, but in the surprisingly good offerings on the undercard. Presumably Turkey versus the Czech Republic wasn’t a source of...
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Thursday 12 June 2008, 11:55
By FourFourTwo guest columnist Riccardo Rossi of Serie Aaaaargh! The writing may not yet be on the wall, but it certainly has been in the text messages reportedly coming out of the Italy camp on the back of the defeat to Holland . According to La Gazzetta...
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Wednesday 11 June 2008, 12:53
By FourFourTwo's guest columnist, Tim Stannard of La Liga Loca When Valencia's sulky striker David Villa popped in his third effort in Spain's roasting of Russia, La Liga Loca got a cheeky SMS from a lucky punter at the game suggesting that...
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Wednesday 28 May 2008, 12:49
Emotionally drained. Physically battered. Frankly, finding it hard to care less after a tiring season giving everything for their clubs. And that's just the fans. The end of the domestic season has been marked with the usual commiserations, celebrations...
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Friday 02 May 2008, 12:01
"Who is best foreigner to have played in England other than myself? No, sorry, I can’t think of anyone better than me. Only joking. There are so many. I couldn’t pick one." Gianfranco Zola may not want to put his neck on the line, but here at...
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Tuesday 25 March 2008, 15:54
Part of a 'captaincy rotation' policy or not, Fabio Capello's decision to give Rio Ferdinand the armband against France in Paris is a key moment in the career of the player allegedly dubbed 'Merkington Bear' by his Manchester United...
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Monday 10 March 2008, 17:58
Football hostilities – on and off the pitch - in the Colombian city of Cali reached a new low on Saturday night as a mass riot during the heated derby match between America de Cali and Deportivo Cali forced the game’s abandonment. Around 60 people were...
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