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Liverpool FC – Brendan Rodgers Blames Referee for Loss
Brendan Rodgers couldn’t have asked for a worst Premier League debut with Liverpool – Losing 0-3 to West Brom at the Hawthorns while losing his most important defender, Daniel Agger, to a questionable red card and also watching Joe Cole leaving the match injured, which is pretty much a given every time he’s on the pitch.
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Michel Bastos With the Early Goal of the Year in France
Two weeks of football are hardly enough time to declare a goal of the season, but I doubt we’ll see many strikes better than Michel Bastos delivering a perfect overhead kick in Lyon’s 4-1 win over Troyes, putting on top of the table after two matches in Ligue 1 with 6 points.
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Rangers Fans Set New European Attendance Record
No, not a world record, but 49,118 fans who showed up at Ibrox to watch Rangers play their first home match of the season in the Scottish Third division nearly broke the record for highest attendance in a fourth-tier football match, having to settle for a European record.
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Zoltan Gera With the Early Candidate for Premier League Goal of the Season
It probably will be beaten in the next few weeks and during the season, but at least for the opening day of the 2012-2013 Premier League season, Zoltan Gera has the best goal of the year, with his fabulous strike that open West Brom’s 3-0 win over Liverpool at the Hawthorns.
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Spanish La Liga 2012-2013 Summer Signings
The financial hits felt all over Europe took Spain a bit more severely than anywhere else, shown by the lack of big transfers made across the board, with Real Madrid not signing even one player. Jordi Alba to Barcelona was the single double-digit transfer during the Spanish summer, heading into the 2012-2013 season in the La Liga.
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Transfer Rumors 2012 – Manchester Untied After Leighton Baines
The league may be starting this weekend, but Manchester United aren’t finished with the transfer market, now looking into the possibility of signing Leighton Baines from Everton and give Alex Ferguson another option in left back as he tries to win back the Premier League title.
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Djamel Bakar With the First Beautiful Goal of the Season
Not going to win goal of the year, but you have to start somewhere, and Djamel Bakar scoring a nice curler from 20-something meters out against Lille for Nancy in the 1-1 draw on Friday night is probably the first real impressive goal of the 2012-2013 season, at least in French Ligue 1.
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English Premier League 2012-2013: Previews & Predictions
Being a member of the top means that you’re everyone expects you to challenge for the Premier League title and make the Champions League before the season begins. From 2004-2009 Chlesea, Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal were in that club. Things changed in 2010, and suddenly Manchester City and Tottenham were thrown in the mix. No more top 4. Just title challengers and others happy to finish with a 3-4 spot.
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Who Will win the Title in England, Italy, Spain and Germany?
How will the 2012-2013 season end? Trying to do a bit more than guess, we’re assuming that Manchester City repeat in the English Premier League, Juventus repeat in the Italian Serie A, Barcelona go back to their major title winning ways in the La Liga while Bayern Munich get the better of Dortmund after two […]