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Curious, does the national service exemption apply to medals in any sports, or is it just the football team with the privilege?

Does that mean no national service exemption for him? Gonna suck if that got away cos of some naivety on his part.

It would have been fine if the Olympics weren't sandwiched between 2 ACoNs. The club made the right call in this. With a bit of luck, he'll miss the next ACoN too. Will be all ours for the season.

Don't know if it's area-specific but they are streaming it live on the official olympic channel on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/user/olympic

The 'Newcastle United' is allowed, isnt it? This from twitter earlier... My bad, wrong corner...

I know they can't show the SportsDirect signs. Didn't know 'Newcastle United' is not allowed though.

As if I take Wiki at face value. Click on the link which refers to a translated article at OM's website before u facepalm

Where's the final year of contract from? Wiki has him signed with OM for 5 years in 2010. Link in references seems to suggest so too. http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.om.net%2Ffr%2FSaison%2F101005%2FActualites%2F48184%2FLoic_Remy_a_signe_pour_5_ans&act=url

http://www.epltalk.com/media/2012/07/man-united-away-shorts-600x346.jpg Great away shorts boxers to go with the top. Kagawa's lass would love that.

The least he can look like Shola

I like this.

Or rather EPL, which you'll hear very often around here.

New kit!

Read wiki's entry on Sunderland's 05/06 season after the previous few posts and came across this excellent bit. Also their season summary is one big blur of (classy) text.

Imagine - Senegal qualify and Ameobi gets the remote chance of a call-up from Nigeria.

Any1 else noticed that the back of the Espanyol kit seem to be a solid colour, not stripes?

Good (if true). Bad IMO, we shouldn't be denying any player the chance to compete in the Olympics. Unless he doesn't want to personally. Can entirely see the reason why the club wouldn't want to release him though. That would be 3 consecutive international tournaments within the space of 13 months - 2 ACoNs + Olympics. He'll probably be running on near empty at the end of it.

Ribery's wife is the most unattractive I've seen so far. Let's just say they're a match made in heaven.

Good point. Maybe the new TV money had changed our transfer plans for this summer, and we are aiming to get in before the competition comes along or selling clubs ask for even more knowing the improved TV deal after next season.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordi_Alba Nice profit.

A return to the club he started his youth career with it seems. Barca DNA.

What effect your user name had on me.

Go on.

http://www.fotos-hochladen.net/uploads/bvbtrikot121azs6e3c4ij.jpg One of Dortmund's 3 kits.