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posted 4/1/2008 from
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A roundup of the most elaborate pranks and
hoaxes in soccer history, including the Maradona-Madonna love child
and the evil joke on Pele that left 400 orphans in tears.
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Maybe it happened in a charity game. Maybe
racecar driver Michael Schumacher had three assists in the
same charity game. Just watch this, and tell me it doesn’t count. This is Ronaldo, playing the double-roulette one-two over-the-body ...
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There’s a certain quality that comes into the
facial expressions of men who, somewhat battered and chastened
by life, somewhat rumpled by it, somewhat the worse for wear, nevertheless retain an unusually clear sense of the virtue or ideal ...
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Well, that was fun! The first-ever Run of
Play contest has run its course, and for a
blog competition that wasn’t even organized around the publication of a vaguely cynical tie-in book (next time, guys) I think we did pretty well. You wanted ...
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It’s never with a feeling of great moral
comfort that you can get excited about a player’s
injury, but at the same time, if Didier Drogba’s now-surgically-repaired knee broke away from Chelsea and founded its own three-ring circus, the only ...
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runofplay
posted 12/15/2007 from
www.runofplay.com
All about the eerie similarity between Chelsea manager
Avram Grant and Warner Bros. cartoon mascot Michigan J.
Frog...
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This week’s Run of Play at Pitch Invasion
feature looks at the problem of communication in the
globalized world of contemporary football, and asks how, with such a wide range of languages in use at any given moment, players, managers, fans and ...
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Soccer
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OVERTURE A television commercial in which the burden
of meaning is carried by a shot of a
large silver and black map of the world on which the land is full of tiny holes of slightly varying diameters as though it had been stuck with pins only ...
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Soccer
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MVNsoccer
posted 2/22/2008 from
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February 21 --- The Run of Play: I
know William Gallas is supposed to have undergone a
complete transformation and become a leader with a heart of oak since he signed for Arsenal, but I’m not seeing it; there’s too much desperation in his mohawk and his eyes. --- Compared to the group of calm bankers and war-heroes-after-the-war in the Milan defense yesterday, he looked wound up...
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I’m just going to come out and say
this, as simply as I know how. Arsenal goalkeeper
Manuel Almunia moved into a house that was built on the site of an abandoned psychiatric hospital, and now his wife is being haunted by the ghost of ...
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runofplay
posted 16 days ago from
www.runofplay.com
H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
Friday Night Lights, subjected Deadspin blogger Will Leitch to
an incontinent tirade about the menace of sports blogging on Bob Costas’s HBO show last night. Was he holding blogs responsible for the very stupidity that's made people turn away from the mainstream media in the first place?
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The Structure of His Face Is in three
layers, with each outer layer fitting slightly too largely
over the layer it contains, so that the overall shape is one of sculptural creasing and drape, like the skirt of the Winged Victory. At the ...
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MVNsoccer
posted 12/22/2007 from
www.runofplay.com
Clement Clarke Moore Has Nothing to Fear From
Me --- "Wenger in his kerchief, and Sir in
his cap, Had just settled down for their long winter’s nap, When out on the lawn there arose such a Flores, That everyone knew it was Quique, not Torres..."
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One takes something so difficult that a practiced
adult can’t do it reliably and makes it so
easy that we see it done dozens of times, acrobatically, in a game. The other takes something so simple that my two-year-old niece can do it and ...
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Soccer
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The goalkeeper as a figure of steady, ineluctable
anxiety is arguably the most modern player in football,
the one who both emotionally and as a potential subject for iconography echoes the feeling of the woman with something in her briefcase as she ...
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BARNSLEY HAVE JUST BEATEN LIVERPOOL 2-1 AT ANFIELD
AFTER A GOAL IN INJURY TIME. Wild, inspired, desperate
performance from Barnsley, who spent half the match in their own six-yard box flinging themselves into the flight path of Liverpool shots. ...
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People who say that soccer is boring and
people who say that soccer is beautiful are usually
talking about the same thing, which is that the game makes it hard to tell the difference between intention and accident. The game takes very graceful ...
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Soccer
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I’m writing this from an abandoned tower high
up in the Alps, by the light of a
paraffin candle and the glare of the moon on the snow. It’s been an…interesting few days. You may recall that I’d been challenged to a duel by ...
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Dimitar Berbatov taking the penalty kick that drew
Spurs level in the Carling Cup final yesterday: coolness
so pronounced that it almost seemed rude to Chelsea, matter-of-fact confidence taken to the point at which it began to resemble an ...
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runofplay
posted 3/25/2008 from
www.runofplay.com
The fate of Liverpool's season and the fading
genius of Rafa Benitez.
Greatest April Fools' Day Tricks in Soccer History