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Yossi Benayoun scored a fantastic goal in a friendly vs Wycombe yesterday. Head to the usual outlets to check it out.

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Think Rooney really could do with a hair-transplant.

 

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I remember when Arsenal's tournaments had the best clubs in Europe in it. I know there's nowt particularly wrong with PSG, Boca Juniors & New York Red Bull, but stinks of big clubs aren't bothered by it so let's hide this by making it "global" this year.

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I remember when Arsenal's tournaments had the best clubs in Europe in it. I know there's nowt particularly wrong with PSG, Boca Juniors & New York Red Bull, but stinks of big clubs aren't bothered by it so let's hide this by making it "global" this year.

tbf I'd be curious to see how those sides do Boca especially

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RBNY are really not a good side, having seen them at shitbull arena. Unfortunately, the benefit of them being mid-season (and match fit) may do a job at making them look competent.

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Ooooh football on the telly, even if they are just pointless friendly matches.

 

Bangor vs Helsinki on the Welsh channel. Put it on to see Litmanen play and he's out with a knee injury :(

 

Go hand in hand really.

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Think Rooney really could do with a hair-transplant.

 

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Is it just me that can see a resemblance btween Rooney and troll face in that picture ?

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I remember when Arsenal's tournaments had the best clubs in Europe in it. I know there's nowt particularly wrong with PSG, Boca Juniors & New York Red Bull, but stinks of big clubs aren't bothered by it so let's hide this by making it "global" this year.

tbf I'd be curious to see how those sides do Boca especially

 

Poorly I suspect since their season finished weeks after ours and so I'd imagine preseason is a bit behind (plus theyre average at best anyway) although they're fans will ensure a good atmosphere.

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I remember when Arsenal's tournaments had the best clubs in Europe in it. I know there's nowt particularly wrong with PSG, Boca Juniors & New York Red Bull, but stinks of big clubs aren't bothered by it so let's hide this by making it "global" this year.

tbf I'd be curious to see how those sides do Boca especially

 

Poorly I suspect since their season finished weeks after ours and so I'd imagine preseason is a bit behind (plus theyre average at best anyway) although they're fans will ensure a good atmosphere.

oh i know but it will be nice to see them play anyway

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Think Rooney really could do with a hair-transplant.

 

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Is it just me that can see a resemblance btween Rooney and troll face in that picture ?

 

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BILLIONAIRE Toon owner Mike Ashley is handing staff almost £90m of his sportswear firm’s profits after the business bucked the high street trend.

 

Retail giant Sports Direct, which has 15 stores across the North East, announced underlying profits of £200.4m today, with thousands of staff in line for a share of the cash.

 

The group exceeded its expectations and met tough targets for the second year running.

 

Around 2,000 staff will now get a share payout averaging £30,960 as Newcastle United fans wait to see how proceeds from the £35m sale of striker Andy Carroll will be spent.

 

It also emerged this week that golfer Lee Westwood is in line for a £2m bonus from Mr Ashley if he wins the British Open, which starts today.

 

Among the favourites for the title, Westwood is sponsored by Dunlop, one of Sports Direct’s main brands.

 

The amount Sports Direct staff will receive for this year’s trading is on top of a sum of more than £10,000 for the previous year’s results.

 

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0858: FOOTBALL - BBC Sport's John Sinnott reports that Wales could be a bottom seed for the World Cup qualifying draw after being overtaken in the rankings by the Faroe Islands.

 

:lol: :lol:

 

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14143711.stm

 

Wales could face a nightmare World Cup qualifying draw because the Faroe Islands seem to have overtaken them.

 

The 30 July draw in Rio de Janeiro will be based on Fifa's rankings system, calculated by a complex formula.

 

Wales are tied with the Faroes on 273 points - with one of those teams set to join the likes of Andorra in pot six.

 

And the Faroe Islands are lobbying Fifa to include decimal points in their calculations - something which would see them leapfrog Wales into pot five.

 

The Faroes' coach, the former Republic of Ireland manager Brian Kerr, told BBC Sport: "Decimal points will have to be taken into consideration. Our general secretary has had a verbal confirmation with someone in Fifa that our calculations were correct.

 

"They [Fifa] were surprised that any country could work [the ranking points] out so accurately - they hadn't come across that in the past."

 

Current Fifa rankings do not recognise the small decimal difference between countries, keeping Wales in pot five and the Faroes in the sixth pot of seeds.

 

Being relegated to pot six - along with Andorra and San Marino - would make Wales's task of qualifying for Brazil 2014 even more difficult.

 

Fifa will publish its new ranking list on 27 July, three days before the World Cup draw. Given that neither Wales nor the Faroe Islands played in July their position should not change.

 

"The teams are tied in 114th place and have been placed in the list on Fifa.com in alphabetical order," said Fifa in a statement. "This is simply the standard way of listing the teams which are tied.

 

"We are not in a position to speculate on the potential difference of decimal points.

 

"What we can confirm is that the change has been done on Fifa.com due to teams that are tied being listed in alphabetical order. Other teams were also tied and not listed in alphabetical order, something which has now been corrected.

 

"The draw procedure, as well as the pot allocations, will only be announced on 27 July."

 

The whole affair has led Kerr to call for greater "transparency" from Fifa in the way rankings are calculated.

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    We know with other aspects of Fifa's dealings it's not always transparent.

 

Brian Kerr Faroe Islands coach

 

"We don't know if it was an error or if Fifa ignored the differential and were hoping that neither country would take too much notice before the final draw," said Kerr.

 

"We know with other aspects of Fifa's dealings [that] it's not always transparent. I'm surprised that even after they changed the list last week that they didn't make any comment.

 

"They have to have a protocol to decide which teams are ahead of each other where the margins are so small and the consequences are serious for both countries.

 

"If Wales end up in the bottom pot they are quite capable of winning games.

 

"But for the Faroe Islands (to be promoted to pot five) it would mean we might be able to play against a side of a similar population and that would give us a chance of winning a game both home and away which hasn't been the case in the past."

 

The fact that the Faroe Islands should be 0.7 points better off than Wales in the rankings was initially spotted by a 30-year-old Romanian computer programmer, Eduard Ranghiuc, who runs a football ranking website.

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