Tuesday, November 26, 2024

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The Growth of Soccer in the United States

The 2010 South African FIFA World Cup is fast approaching. Fans from all over the globe will be flocking to South Africa to watch their countries compete. Excitement is building as the opening match approaches on June 11th. Football, or soccer (US), is the world’s sport, and mounting anticipation can only be expected. However a high level of enthusiasm is coming from an unlikely nation this year, the USA.

 

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Stamford Bridge and an end to Spurs derby hoodoo

So on Tuesday it came to pass that your editor accepted an offer to sample the surroundings of Stamford Bridge as Chelsea hosted Bolton Wanderers. The difficulty in this was completely to do with my own allegiances to north London rivals Arsenal, meaning that the occasion felt a little like an extra-marital affair.

 

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Why is it that nobody wants to talk football when your team is winning?

I am a Chelsea fan. There you go I have said it, you probably realise my motivation for the article already. For those of you that are still reading I shall continue.

 

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Premier League: Arsenal reach the summit, Bassong forgets his shorts and Rooney destroys Hull

Apologies once again for our hiatus, we’ll be back more regularly from now on! Football may not have a winter break in the UK, but here at 90minutesonline circumstances led us to follow in the footsteps of some of Europe's other top leagues.

Time to catch up on some of the latest action from the Premier League. Snow may have affected a number of matches during the first fortnight of the new year, but barring any more blizzards the fixture list is getting back on track. Wednesday night saw two previously postponed games finally kicking off: Liverpool versus Tottenham and Arsenal versus Bolton.

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Champions League draw comes up trumps

Today saw the draw for the last sixteen of the Champions League, or if you like, when the competition starts to get juicy. The knock-out stage means that there is little chance for a respite if a team has a poor result, and for the neutrals at least, there is always the chance of enjoying a penalty shoot-out.

There are two clear stand-out ties to whet the appetite, Manchester United will face AC Milan and Chelsea will come up against Inter Milan. Both fixtures will be heavily built-up by the press, with the focus on returning 'heroes'.

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