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Fantasy Football Style- Premier League predictions for the new season.

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Time draws near for the beginning of the new football seasons across Europe. This weekend (aghh tomorrow- time waits for no fan then!) the Football League will get up and running again in England. The following weekend will be the Premier League’s turn (August 14th).

In fact one of the Premier League clubs have already got their season underway- Liverpool having just begun in their quest to emulate Roy Hodgson's former team Fulham. By entering the Europa League at the third qualifying round they face the prospect of a long and arduous season, but Liverpool fans will be hopeful that their new manager can raise his team to the challenge like he did last season.

Can David James or the next England goalkeeper please stand up?!

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The big news from beneath the Premier League this last week was all about Bristol City, or namely all about David James. The current England no. 1 signed a one-year deal for the Championship side last Friday after the confirmation of his release from Portsmouth (where he had initially been offered a new contract after their relegation last season).

This was subsequently withdrawn after the appointment of Steve Cotterill as their new manager, a position James was rumoured to have been keen on whilst also wishing to prolong his playing career. Instead Steve Coppell has made the first seismic signing in his Ashton Gate surroundings and bolstered those fans hoping for a repeat of his Reading successes.

 

Has Steven Gerrard lost his ambition or is it just misplaced?

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Congratulations are in order for Liverpool FC, not only have they appointed Roy Hodgson as their man to replace Rafa Benitez as manager, but it now appears that their captain has been talked into extending his love affair with the club. Add this to the acquisition of Joe Cole on a free transfer from Chelsea, and the red half of merseyside have possibly had their best week since the tail end of the season before last!

 

World Cup: Golden boot consolation and Octopus contemplation

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After very nearly a month the 2010 FIFA World Cup is reaching it's climax. This evening's 3rd place play-off between Uruguay and Germany will have a sense of what might have been for the beaten semi-finalists. However both camps have been keen to stress that there is plenty left to play for, even if the match is usually seen as being of little overall importance.

 

So it's goodbye from them and goodbye from him!

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First there was France and Italy and then less surprisingly England and Portugal, now Brazil and Argentina have also joined the slagheap for the 2010 World Cup. By the quarterfinal stage many pundits and 'experts' held the belief that the final would feature either Brazil or Argentina, possibly even both, in what would have been a World Cup first.

So much for predictions in the world of football. On Friday evening Dunga's Brazil had imploded in the second half of their quarter-final with the Netherlands, and it now looks like the manager will be leaving his post imminently. Meanwhile Maradona's quest to emulate Mário Zagallo and Franz Beckenbauer was shattered by the latter's country.

 

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  2. FIFA and the FA need to wise up, whilst the British tabloid press need to grow up.
  3. World Cup: England survive to earn German reacquaintance
  4. World Cup: None the wiser except for French disaster!

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