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Jozy Altidore Doesn’t Let Racist Fans Stop Him
He wouldn’t let ignorant, evil people get to him. The referee in the Dutch cup match between Den Bosch and AZ Alkmaar wanted to stop it because Jozy Altidore, AZ’s American striker, was being racially abused from the stands by Den Bosch fans. Altidore asked the ref to keep going, scored a penalty goal and finished with an incredibly calm interview about the whole situation.
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Transfer Rumors 2013 – Manchester United & Arsenal Interested in Stephan El Shaarawy
The financial reality dictates that AC Milan is no longer a big team or major player in the market, for now, which means that other big clubs can lure away their best players. Right now, it’s Stephan El Shaarawy, causing quite an interest among a few clubs, especially Manchester United and Arsenal.
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Liverpool FC – Brendan Rodgers Reaches His Lowest Point
These days, the league is so much more important than the FA Cup, no matter what managers say. Still, it’s hard to decide if Brendan Rodgers thinks so highly of the youngsters in his squad or is he really that uninterested at this moment with anything not having to do with Liverpool in the Premier League?
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FC Barcelona – Everything Changes But Lionel Messi
There were some talks about Lionel Messi sitting out the league match, in order to prepare for a more important test further down the week. Discussions of his fitness didn’t really matter, and a change of tactics made no difference as well. The finest scoring machine on planet earth led Barcelona to another convincing win, and looks more than ready for the Clasico that’s coming up.
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Real Madrid – Cristiano Ronaldo Better With Mesut Ozil & Angel Di Maria
At this stage of his career, it doesn’t really matter if the thing that truly motivates Cristiano Ronaldo is titles or individual success. He’s not going to win mister popular as long as the other greatest player in the world is around, but he can play at the same level, almost all of the time, and especially when Mesut Ozil and Angel Di Maria look like themselves.
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Transfer Rumors 2013 – Christian Benteke Wanted by Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester City & Tottenham
The only good thing about Aston Villa, a shade above the relegation zone, has been the ability of Christian Benteke, their 22 year old striker. He’s been good enough to attract the attention of quite a few of the bigger Premier League clubs, among them Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester City and Tottenham.
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Juventus FC – Thinking Small With Nicolas Anelka
How exactly is Nicolas Anelka a better player than Fabio Quagliarella or any other striker Juventus have on their squad? Anything might be better than Nicklas Bendtner, but it doesn’t mean that the veteran Frenchman is the answer to Juve losing their huge lead on top of the serie A, and his signing seems like a panic move without any real future to it.
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Manchester United – Javier Hernandez Enjoys Pathetic Defending
Some matches are over before they even start, and Manchester United enjoy quite a lot of these at home. There was nothing standing in its way of making it into the fifth round, as Ryan Giggs scored before all the fans too their seats, paving the way for the Wayne Rooney and Chicharito show.
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Arsenal FC – Theo Walcott to Save the Day
Most of the work on the FA Cup triumph was done by Olivier Giroud, who suddenly can’t stop scoring (although against a vastly inferior opponents), but defensive malfunctions set up Theo Walcott to save Arsenal from an embarrassing result with a goal that probably caused him some deja vu.
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2013 FA Cup – Fourth Round Upsets
We still have plenty of upsets in the fourth round as three more Premier League teams said goodbye to the FA Cup. Aston Villa began the series with a dramatic away loss at Millwall, followed by QPR losing to League one side Milton Keynes Dons at home and Norwich with an embarrassing home loss against Luton.