Remembering Davor Suker (Video)

World Cup 1998 is one of my favourite football memories.

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5 Ligue 1 players targeted by Premier League clubs

France - The home of the Eifel Tower, fine wine and football. French players have been a huge part of English football for a number of years now, from the Arsene Wenger days when almost his entire squad wore a berret and cycled to training with a ring of garlic around their necks, to Alain Pardeux assembling his squad with the biggest, meanest Frenchmen that there is.

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The defensive midfielder(Video)

The holding midfield position is one that is often overlooked. Although it may not be the most glamorous of jobs on the pitch, it is essential to a successful team. A defence often needs a helping hand, that's where a holding midfielder comes in, picks up the pieces, breaks up play. As I said not the most glamorous of jobs, but one that is vital. 

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Newcastle get their man at last (Video)

After trying to recruit him in the summer, Newcastle have finally secured the signing of France international right back Mathieu Debuchy.

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The curious case of Yann M'Vila

Throughout the summer Rennes midfielder Yann M'Vila was very much hot property. A young versatile and ferocious defensive midfielder he was on many Premier League clubs wish lists.

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Life's a beach (Video)

I didn't know that beach football was played competitively until I stumbled across this video. Then the penny dropped: I didn't know anything about it because a) I live in England. Beach football is an alien concept as a result of b) there being no sunshine or anything resembling summer.

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Paul Pogba can be the next big thing (Video)

Having just been dropped by Juventus for twice turning up late for training, Paul Pogba needs to ensure his attitude does not override his potential.

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Late Giroud equaliser bodes well for Arsenal (Video)

It may seem like stating the obvious but Olivier Giroud’s dramatic late equaliser to give France a deserved point against an all-conquering Spain side may just be looked upon as one of Arsenal’s most important moments of the season.

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Abou Vieira?

If I had a pound for every time a commentator or pundit compared Abou Diaby to Patrick Vieira I would be a substantially richer man.  You can hardly blame people for making the comparison, both played a similar role at Arsenal, both have a similar mountainous build and both are French internationals.  But until recently, I have always sneered at the comparison.  After all Patrick Vieira is one of the greatest Arsenal players of all time and Abou Diaby plays so irregularly it can be easy to forget that he is an Arsenal player.

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FIFA rankings not as ludicrous as they seem

The FIFA world rankings system has come in for an awful lot of stick lately and rightly so for reasons about as numerous as the number of times a Premier League football drops a c-bomb on the pitch.

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France’s tournament isn’t a complete disaster

Over the past two days, the media has had a field day criticising the French squad for not having made any progress in terms of attitude and team spirit. While it can be argued that the French camp was a bit tense over the past 3 weeks, the media is becoming more and more british for going overboard and comparing this situation with the sorry strike event that happened in Knysna.

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The last leg ...

The fun and games all started on the 8th June, since then there's been a lot of football played, it hasn't all been pretty ... but it's got us hooked.

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What is the biggest rivalry in international football?

The limited number of teams in the European Championships (for now) not only guarantees some quality but it also means that teams with a lot of history, and ergo rivalry, meet up quite often.

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Yet more attacking Euro 2012 squads announced

This week, we’ve already covered two other decidedly attacker-heavy, in terms of quality, squad announcements from Germany and Holland and, carrying on theme among many of the favourites for the tournament, France and Portugal have similarly shown where their qualities lie.

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Blanc should return to the club scene after the Euros

France is very often pointed at for being late at everything, especially by the English. Only on this occasion, our neighbours up north can’t mock us as they have the same problem: the lack of quality managers being of the nationality of their own country.

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