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		<title>Failing With Styles</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ethan Armstrong Robinho sped toward the box as Shaun Wright-Phillips’ through-ball spun over the heads of Newcastle’s defenders. As Robinho pressed past the defenders, awaiting his chance to take control of the bouncing ball, in slid Habib Beye. He was a studs-down blur of human missile, winning the ball before Robinho tumbled over his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soccereditorials.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3130482&amp;post=75&amp;subd=soccereditorials&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Real Betis Balompié: A sporting and institutional crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Daniel Sheppard “(We are in the midst of a) sporting and institutional crisis.” This is a worryingly accurate summation of Real Betis by one of their longest serving players, Arturo García Muñoz. The same man once stated that the arrival of Juan Roman Riquelme to the green side of Seville would surely necessitate one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soccereditorials.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3130482&amp;post=70&amp;subd=soccereditorials&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Perfect Match?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ethan Armstrong For any true supporter of English Football, the feeling of anguish during a match is as vital as elation. An attacker slipping on a wet pitch to flub a shot&#8230; That last-minute goal that tears the win from a club’s grasp&#8230; The star getting sent off in the Cup final&#8230; Football is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soccereditorials.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3130482&amp;post=64&amp;subd=soccereditorials&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Liverpool’s England; England&#8217;s Liverpool</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zac Lee Rigg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[England’s recent 4-1 demolition of Croatia in World Cup Qualifying is garnering many comparisons to their 5-1 thrashing of Germany in 2001. Both matches were key victories in establishing the role of a new foreign manager as worthy, and both came despite poor results and glum predictions, so the similarities are certainly there. The main [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soccereditorials.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3130482&amp;post=57&amp;subd=soccereditorials&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Losing Keegan&#8230; Again&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zac Lee Rigg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ethan Armstrong After days of speculation, (Was he sacked? Did he resign? Is he staying? Is he already out the door?) it has been confirmed that Kevin Keegan has parted ways with Newcastle United Football Club&#8230; again. Keegan’s resignation comes a mere eight months after retaking the helm of NUFC, a position he had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soccereditorials.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3130482&amp;post=51&amp;subd=soccereditorials&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, starring Cristiano Ronaldo, Robinho, and Ramón Calderón</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zac Lee Rigg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Fernando Rodriguez-Vila Sergio Leone’s sprawling western masterpiece, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, explores the relative morality of three men against the backdrop of a harsh, brutal, and lawless land. Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef portray the “good” and the “bad” sides of man respectively, and show that between good and evil [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soccereditorials.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3130482&amp;post=48&amp;subd=soccereditorials&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sir Alex Looks To Add To His Legacy</title>
		<link>http://soccereditorials.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/sir-alex-looks-to-add-to-his-legacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson knows that his next two or three seasons at the helm will be as important as any other during his long and illustrious career. Having cemented United as the most dominant English team of the Premiership era and secured his own place as the most successful British manager of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soccereditorials.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3130482&amp;post=44&amp;subd=soccereditorials&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>English Premier League: Happy New Year&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://soccereditorials.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/english-premier-league-happy-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zac Lee Rigg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethan Armstrong]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Ethan Armstrong Outsiders don’t get it. It’s just a couple months, they say. But for the avid English football fan, the off-season is a trying time of anticipation. Waiting for your club to return to its competitive life. Waiting to hear if your favorite striker is going to be bought by Real Madrid. Finally, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soccereditorials.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3130482&amp;post=38&amp;subd=soccereditorials&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Liverpool transfer practices: sign of the times</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zac Lee Rigg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been two notable shifts in Liverpool FC’s transfer policies this summer. The first has been a focus on players developed in British academies. The second has been a startling tendency to release transfer targets to the press. These two may not be unrelated. As the richest league in a country whose youth system [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soccereditorials.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3130482&amp;post=34&amp;subd=soccereditorials&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No such thing as a boring game</title>
		<link>http://soccereditorials.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/no-such-thing-as-a-boring-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zac Lee Rigg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soccer is facing an epidemic. News pushers, analysts, fans, managers, and players all fall into the trap. All of them continually perpetuate viewing soccer through the narrow duality of exciting versus boring. Take the recent Champion’s League matches. Any press report leading up to the Liverpool – Chelsea semifinal tie focused on the expected “boringness” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soccereditorials.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3130482&amp;post=31&amp;subd=soccereditorials&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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