Portuguese Football For Beginners

Portugese Segunda Liga , Atlético Clube de Portugal 2, 4. Belenenses, Attendance. 1,650

With the national media focusing on Monday' nights rescheduled Lisbon Derby between Sporting and Benfica, few were aware that another important derby from the capital was being played the day before. Second Division table toppers Belenenses were to play fellow city rivals Atlético Clube de Portugal.

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A Derby Too Far- MK Don 2-1 AFC Wimbledon

'With a subtle fingers up to all that was MK Dons, the team that wouldn't die had made it's point against the team that many wish would. ' 

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Eternal Damn-Nation- Part 2

' Flickering strobes flashed between pools of molten red while fireworks exploded in the clear night sky. Mesmerised by such a vision of spectacular beauty and hidden by a wall of smoke, many of the stadium occupants were unaware that the game had started. '

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Beginners Guide to Serbian Football

FK Hajduk Lion 1, 2. FK Zemun

Remember a certain famous lager commercial where the guys balcony overlooked an enormous football stadium ? Well here in Belgrade a certain elderly gentleman has a similar heavenly location.

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FA Cup Final, 140th Anniversary Match -The Oval Cricket Ground

WANDERERS FC 0, 0. ROYAL ENGINEERS

Cricket and football are generally unlikely bed fellows so it raised a few eyebrows when this FA Cup anniversary re-enactment was announced. To celebrate 140 years of this prestigious cup, the Oval cricket ground had decided to invite the two original competing teams to replay the final from 1872.

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Eternal Damn-Nation-Prelude to the Belgrade Derby and the future of Serbian Football.

' Serbian football currently in turmoil is at the crossroads. Living on past merits it attracts mass attention that far exceed it's quality. '

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Football in Hong Kong

'To add salt to the wounds the English then vandalised Chinas national drink by adding a dash of milk and made it their own. The Chinese in an act of revenge and sabotage have a policy that any request for English tea is now met by adding evaporated milk '

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A Beginners Guide to Watching Football in Belgium- Part Two

Belgian 2nd Division

Saturday 15th September 2012

ROYAL CLUB ANTWERP 1, 1. MOUSCRON

If the club that represented Belgians second largest city Antwerp were everything like it's great noble host then Royal Antwerp FC would be firstly pretty, sophisticated, inspiring and brilliant.

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A Beginners Guide to Watching Football in Belgium- Part One

Friday 14th September 2012

Belgium 2nd Division

AFC TUBIZE 3, 0. FC BRUSSELS

'Brussels itself can be likened to a once glamorous ageing Hollywood actress that after a series of unnecessary plastic surgery now smokes a lot and under lots of heavy make-up smells of wee '

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The Grecian Wars

Lifting your head carefully above the parapet you would be forgiven for thinking that there is not a war going on.

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Chocolate Puritans

Imagine the scene, Manchester United on the final day of the Premiership season require only a victory to become English champions.

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An account of a boring Olympic football match

GABON 0, 0 REPUBLIC OF KOREA, WEMBLEY STADIUM  ( London 2012 Olympics ) ' Korea you R.O.K' and ' Go, go Gabon, where are you from ? ' are two recommended chants for those that are not content to remain neutral '

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Pretty in Pink- Dulwich Hamlet F.C.

'If Patrick McGoohan suddenly appeared being chased down the street by a giant white balloon probably very few would raise an eyebrow.'

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Plastic Propoganda- The History of Subbuteo

Subbuteo, the mini football table top game phenomenon that for decades was to be on the top of every footie mad boy's Christmas list around the world. From it's humble beginnings as a simple British post war hobby game it was originally comprised of nothing but cardboard players on Woolworth buttons and an army blanket as a pitch.

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