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“Robert Lewandowski to Join Manchester United” Says Poland Coach

It has been widely reported today that Borussia Dortmund’s Polish striker Robert Lewandowski will join Manchester United in coming weeks, after Poland Coach Franciszek Smuda reported so in a press conference ahead of Euro 2012. He claimed “Lewy is going to Manchester United, Kuba also somewhere in England, Piszczek to Real,”. ”They have a goal and [...]

Euro 2012 Group Stage Fixtures You Don’t Want to Miss

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Euro 2012 is almost upon us, people! Even though there is a huge cloud of controversy looming over the competition amidst racism fears, government boycotts and security concerns, but one can’t help but start to get a tingle of excitement on the eve of a major international tournament getting underway. This time round at the [...]

Euro 2012: Probable England Line Up

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So we all know the England squad for Euro 2012 by now, especially if you live in the UK! The squad has been, as always, much talked about, and has been unfortunately depleted by injury. We all have our own opinions as to who should start for England in the tournament, but ultimately it’s the [...]

Shinji Kagawa Set to Shine at Manchester United

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Manchester United have agreed a deal to sign Borrusia Dortmund’s Japanese attacking midfielder Shinji Kagawa, an exciting young prospect who looks set to light up the Premier League and become a real favourite at Old Trafford. The young Asian midfield dynamo started his career at Cerezo Osaka in his native Japan and impressed in 125 appearances [...]

Ledley King Set to Retire

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It looks like Tottenham Hotspur’s longest serving player and former Captain Ledley King is set to retire from Professional football, it has emerged today, after a virtually career-spanning injury problem. Ledley signed for Spurs as a schoolboy back in 1996 and has been a loyal servant to the club ever since. Rumours of his retirement [...]

Ryan Giggs puts himself forward for Team GB

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Ryan Giggs, who played for Wales until 2007, has expressed his eagerness to play as part of Team GB at the London Olympics. However if he does so, it will raise concerns for the nations of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, who all feel that it would diminish the necessity for them to have their [...]

Players Available on a Free Transfer 2012

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As is often the case in modern football, there are loads of players available on a free transfer this summer, and plenty more who are due to be out of contract soon, and it doesn’t look like many of these are going to get deals. There’s enough freebie talent to make a decent team out [...]

Chelsea Win The Champions League: The Facts

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Chelsea went into this year’s Champions League final very much as underdogs. They had players suspended and injured, and a much weaker team than Bayern Munich, not to mention that the match (purely by coincidence) was played on Munich’s home turf, the Allianz Arena. The most fruitful period of matches for strikers in this years [...]

England’s Euro 2012 Squad Announced: The Fallout

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Roy Hodgson today named his first England squad today, one of the most important and controversial England squads for many years. Undoubtedly, England are in a transitional period, and balancing a mix of youth and experience was key to this squad. The controversies in the squad include the exclusion of Rio Ferdinand, who is out [...]

Chelsea bid for Battersea

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Chelsea have made a bid to buy the decommissioned power centre at Battersea, with plans to turn the centre into a 60,000 seater stadium to replace their current home Stamford Bridge. Chelsea had recently announced that expanding their current stadium made no economic sense, while replacing the stadium on the same site would have been all but [...]