Diving. We Stand

As you know, we at Football Friends abhor the diving culture that has seeped into out beautiful game – it is ungentlemanly, unsavoury, and it just isn’t English.

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Do you have to support your local club

Being a fan of your local side isn’t always a pleasant experience, especially when they are a club plying their trade outside of the football league. On a freezing January evening when the rain is streaming profusely from the sky, the free flowing football and sheltered seating at Old Trafford doesn’t seem so bad after all.

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Beach Soccer … A Developing Sport

Whilst I love football, I have never really paid that much notice to Beach Soccer. My knowledge of the sport was limited prior to writing this; hopefully by the end of the article you’ll start taking an interest … I know I am going to.

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Former Gunner to return to the Emirates?

Former Arsenal star Alexander Hleb is keen to reunite with old club Arsenal.

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Celtic cruise into the Scottish Cup final

Aberdeen were keen to put right the four defeats already suffered this season against Celtic which included 17 goals conceded and only 1 scored.

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Diary of a Sky Sports Reporter

Sometimes, just sometimes, things don't go to plan. This weekend was definitely one of those occasions for me. Firstly, I was given the Championship relegation clash between Preston and Sheffield United, then I was switched to another Championship game Coventry versus Millwall, and then after watching the game I was told not to do any interviews. And the reason why... there wasn't a cameraman there for me!

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Stop Ignoring the Posh

The League 1 campaign for automatic promotion has in the recent weeks been billed as a race between 2^nd placed Southampton, 3^rd placed Huddersfield and 5^th placed MK Dons.

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Ruling out new financial regulations

Never in the politics of the governance of football has there been a time when rank hypocrisy has been in evidence. Ok, apart from differing punishments for Torquay and Herford compared to West Ham (regarding Carlos Tevez) for essentially the same crime

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A Treble Treble Could Be Trouble

 In football, just like any other walk of life, certain things go in and out of fashion. Bands, clothes, artists, styles all rise and fall as trends dictate. Some are mourned when they pass, others like the mullet are so earth-shatteringly awful they remain reviled to this day.

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Everton vs Blackburn Rovers

Everton vs Blackburn Rovers Saturday 16^th April ko 3pm

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Manchester City v Manchester United

Manchester City v Manchester United FA Cup Semi Final Saturday 16^th April  ko 5:30pm

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Spurs confident Bale will stay one more season

It has been bought to my attention that North London outfit Tottenham Hotspur are confident they can convince Gareth Bale to stay for at least one more season with or without the lure of Champions League if Sam Wallace’s article in The Independent is to be believed.

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FA Cup Semi Final Weekend …

The wait is finally over for the clash that every neutral wanted but most Manchester City fans had hoped to avoid especially as they will be without their talisman Carlos Tevez.

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Scunthorpe V Crystal Palace - six pointer?

If ever there was such a thing as a six pointer, with just five games to go, Palace V Scunthorpe is exactly that.

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Chamakh heading for the exit

Despite an impressive start to his career in England, the Moroccan international has failed to secure a regular spot in the starting line up at the Emirates.

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