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Spot the footballer

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Created: Friday, 01 May 2009 10:40

Written by Ian Shine

Like the proverbial bus that you wait and wait for only to have two turn up at once, we at 90minutesonline have been tossing and turning at night waiting for someone to correctly spot the footballer, and then three of you do it at once.

Congratulations to Elias the Great, Ana and Jono, who all spotted the barely disguised Brad Friedel.

They’re all invited to write an article for this here website. So once they’ve sent them in to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., you, dear readers, will get a chance to read them.

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What makes a good game of football?

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Created: Thursday, 30 April 2009 21:52

Written by David Moftakhar

The Beautiful Game is an over-used phrase: football is often an arduous spectator sport. When it’s good, it’s really good. When it’s bad, it’s awful. And when it’s somewhere in-between – which is where it spends most of its time – it’s usually pretty turgid.

Those who pooh-pooh ‘the beautiful game’ point to the fact that in 90 minutes you’d be lucky to see an average of three goals. They point to a raft of 0-0s every week and a lack of genuine excitement. But let me point something out to them: you can have an utterly enthralling 0-0 and goals don’t necessarily equate to a good game.

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A titanic struggle of immense proportions.

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Created: Wednesday, 29 April 2009 16:53

Written by Darren Douglas

The footballing news today is predictably dominated by the Champions League clash between Arsenal and Manchester United tonight. Usually I would therefore try and find something else to talk about, but apologies the pull is too much and besides it would be neglectful not to wax lyrical about a match that will probably be watched by millions of people across the world.

There are so many tasty parameters to tonight's game that it is difficult to know where to start. Primarily I was shocked to realise that the two heavyweights have never previously met in European competition. Of course back when the Champions League was the European Cup, there was far less chance of teams from the same country ever meeting. Only the actual title winners of a European League would have access, or naturally the defending champions themselves would have automatic entry for the next season.

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The Liga Sagres goes cottaging

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Created: Tuesday, 28 April 2009 21:08

Written by Ian Shine

The Liga Sagres would’ve fit in nicely on Clapham Common this weekend after its bottom was the scene of some significant action.

Rio Ave leapt over Belenenses and Setúbal into the relative safety of 13^th place

after a scrappy near post goal by Yazalde proved worthy of three points against an increasingly hopeless Naval side.

The top three remained exactly the same after they all ground out increasingly tedious victories against mid-table opposition.

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