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"It's like theatres and restaurants,"

Fast forward twenty years and the designs have stagnated and fallen below the quality of those in England, Germany and Spain.

 Now with a slew of new grounds in  Delhi Bazaar Satta King France on the way in the build-up to Euro 2016, Italy is having to question its model of municipally-owned arena (also the norm in the USA), while other nations let their clubs own theirs.

said AC Milan's vice-president Adriano Galliani told Gazzetta dello Sport. "There are beautiful theatres and ugly ones, there are luxury restaurants and pizzerias. But without stadiums we can't do anything and without a new law we can't construct new stadiums."

 * Brazilian legend Zico, who has coached Japan and Kashima Antlers amongst others, is set to ink a deal to coach Iraq.

 Former US coach Bob Bradley is in talks to become the national team coach of Egypt.

 *Carlos Tevez is back in Manchester having failed to tie-up a transfer elsewhere and will be training with his supposed replacement and compatriot Sergio Aguero.

 *Barcelona B starlet Thiago Alcantara, who shone in this summer's Euro U21 Championship in Denmark, is in Spain's senior squad for their friendly with Italy in Bari on Wednesday.

 *"We are not touching now the Qatar World Cup" was Sepp Blatter's enigmatic response to a question about the timing of the 2022 competition. As it stands, it will take place in June in arenas air-conditioned to avoid the 40C heat.

 *Tottenham Hotspur's ticket office was trashed in the violence which has engulfed parts of London for the past two nights. The trouble began with a police shooting of an armed man in Tottenham. The club is asking fans to use the internet instead.

 The London 2012 Olympic football will be called 'The Albert' after the Cockney rhyming slang for ball - 'Albert Hall'.

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Turkish tears as Togel SingaporeFrance bags Euro 2016

It always seemed a pipe dream, but it almost came to pass.

 That Turkey, a relatively poor muslim satta king  nation with humble infrastructure on the fringe of Europe, would pip two established football powers to the hosting of the continent's prestige event always looked a bit of a long shot.

 And yet, when it came down to the vote in Geneva yesterday, UEFA's Executive Committee voted for France to host Euro 2016 by only one vote. France was a safe bet, the safest pair of hands of the three final competitors for the big prize. Italy, the other continental giant in contention, was eliminated after the first round of voting, perhaps still reeling from its rejection for 2012 in favour of Poland & Ukraine after Calciopoli and a season of ugly fan violence had exploded in UEFA's face.

 On paper, the French bid had little donkey work to do, Togel Singaporewith the memory of France '98 still vivid and the Eurostars and TGVs still zapping through la campagne at dizzying speeds. Nevertheless, UEFA still found time to nitpick about the hotel provision and the lack of space for media and hospitality around their stadia.

 Compared to its 1998 selection, the French Football Federation's choice for 2016 has no place for Brittany and the North-West with Nantes dropped in favour of Nancy and Strasbourg in the East, a region which missed out 12 years ago. On the Mediterranean coast, Nice replaces Montpellier, while in the far north, Lille's future 50,000-seat venue is included, adding another convenient venue for travelers from the United Kingdom.

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 While three big screens played the play bazaar  infamous 1973 England v Poland World Cup qualifier in its entirety, an ensemble of Polish folk, classical and rock musicians belted out a boisterous soundtrack to accompany it.

 Huge Aston Villa banners slung along the sides of the Clore Ballroom gave a clue as to the evening's instigator - Nigel Kennedy, the enfant terrible of UK classical music who became a household name in Britain twenty years ago for his unusual image: A yobby football lad, albeit with a mockney accent, who at the same time brought Vivaldi to the masses with the elan and sophistication of the finest musicians. Instead of a violin case, Kennedy preferred a carrier bag, instead of black tie, a Villa shirt.

 An indication of how big Kennedy had become was that he was flown out to Sardinia during Italia '90 to entertain the England squad with a flourish of the Four Seasons.

 Football still clearly matters for him as he took the stage in a Villa shirt with 'Agbonlahor' on the back, and alongside the claret and blue were the red and white stripes of KS Cracovia, his adopted Polish club (he lives in Krakow with his Polish wife.)

 For 'Nigel Kennedy's World Cup Project', the now middle-aged wild one, still sporting his trademark quiff, jammed with the at times industrial roar of his Polish entourage, while the time capsule of the famously fated qualifier played out above them. Some Polish lads had come with shirts and scarves as if for a real match, cheering and clapping every wonder save from 'the clown' (as Brian Clough famously called him), Jan Tomaszewski.

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The last to Togel Online know

The night was foggy and the environs of the Royal Bafokeng Stadium poorly lit.

We had just finished a nightmare journey  Delhi Bazaar Satta King  to reach the England v USA clash at last summer's World Cup on-time, though little did we know the absurdly delayed drive to Rustenburg from Johannesburg would be as nothing compared to the never-ending story that was the trip back.

 Two hours after the final whistle we were still waiting to leave the car park, or rather the strip of wasteland commandeered to house the many vehicles used by fans visiting the 42,000 venue; Rustenburg had no railway station.

 What was FIFA thinking handing the World Cup to a place like this, I thought. A veritable nightmare for visiting fans, by some margin the most inconvenient of the six World Cup finals I had attended. Then I got my answer - a military Togel Online helicopter, searchlights beaming through the gloom, hovered in to land. The doors opened and a posse of security ushered US Vice-President Joe Biden into the stadium.

 Biden doubtless had a five-star experience of the World Cup like all FIFA dignitaries did, and the TV feed did its job in pumping the games into people's homes across the globe.

 But what about the real fans, those of us who had shelled out to be there in the South African winter in person. Did anyone care about our experience of the World Cup?

Talking of winter, and in South Africa the thermometer dipped below zero on many nights, a winter World Cup in the Middle East in 2022 looks ever likelier now the International Players' Union has come out in favour of it.

 FIFPRO has added to calls from Franz Beckenbauer and Michel Platini, endorsed by Sepp Blatter and Jerome Valcke, for the Qatar tournament to be shifted to the European winter months, presumably January when the African Nations Cup takes place to avoid that continent's oppressive summer heat.

 "Tourists are advised not to travel to Qatar in the summer months," said FIFPRO's spokesman Tijs Tummers. "Inhabitants of Qatar leave the country en masse during this period."

Tummers went on to note how supporters would suffer in the 50C midday heat "The summer months in Qatar do not provide suitable conditions for a festival of football."

 Did someone mention supporters? Those quaint old aficionados who pay an arm and a leg to support multi-million pound stars across the world instead of watching it at home on their i-Pad. Since when were they a consideration for the game's decision-makers in Switzerland?

 South Africa was a challenge for them: The distances between venues was vast, the public transport next to non-existent and the road network wholly inadequate for a show of the World Cup's magnitude. The clogged one-lane highway in and out of Rustenburg will live long in this European fan's memory.

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Seongnam is busy

There was an oasis of calm in the storm of relocation activities in Korea last month.

 2006 champion Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma, who is not ashamed of a flash of money, is evident in his loss of market, with most  play bazaar  trades, rumors and gossip showing elsewhere in this corner of Northeast Asia.

 There were several whispers in the air about the fate of Ahn Jung-hwan. The striker chose Suwon Samsung Bluewings as his first K-League club in seven years, but Seongnam saw for a while a likely target for the 2002 World Cup hero.

 The money was there to bring the "Lord of the Rings" to the satellite city of Seoul, but Coach Kim Hak-bom shook his head and hid his hands in the pockets of his bright yellow club jacket.

 A look at the front line of the club shows why the heavy smoker Ahn was allowed to ignore the Seongnam exit on the Gyeonbu Highway and drive further south, just a few miles south.

 The 2006 K-League top scorer Woo Sung-yong has left, but the deadly Mota remains. Former Romanian national team Adrian Naega, Ahn Hyo-yeon and the treacherous Brazilian Itamar are also running for $ 1 million. Suddenly, however, the seven-time champions began to behave like the mythical animal seen in the club's logo - Pegasus.

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More specifically, Suwon has changed.

 The team now has little to do with the sleeping and slow-moving side, which dropped into the K-League at the beginning of the season. Coach Cha Bum-keun, considered the most famous footballer of the 20th century, called the loss of the home match as a June day.

 His successor, Yoon Sung-hyo, has so far satta king  been a revelation. Seven wins and two draws, a record surpassed only last week's defeat by Jeju United leaders, brought Bluewings from the bottom to seventh place in the league.

New reinforcement Naohiro Takahara has already started scoring and the former Japanese national team has joined the attack on the returning skirt Shin Young. Given that Kim Doo-hyun and Baek Ji-hoon, like their former midfielders, Suwon fans are sure to call Seongnam.

 It's a bit of a shock by Asian standards. Seongnam was more impressive in the Champions League earlier this season and is still good in the league with six wins from the last ten matches. Coach Shin Tae-yong strives to be the first person to win the Asian Champions League as a coach and player after picking up a trophy at the same club in 1996.

 "Suwon has a strong striker lineup and a midfielder ... But we don't have to worry about that. We will prepare well and win. Shin said on the official website of the Asian Football Confederation.

 "Every K-League club has a great desire to play the Champions League. They want to win prize money and they want to play in the FIFA Club World Cup. So they prepared a lot for the league." I think that's the main reason why four K-League clubs managed to make it into the last eight this year.

 The Pohang Steelers won the third record competition last year and despite the poor form of the home team; they re-entered the last eight. The first stage was a long journey to the home of Iranian League leader Zoban Ahan. It was the first time the hosts had gotten this far, but after Iran's national team won 1-0 in Seoul last week, Pohang had nothing to give.

 In the third race in Korea, Al Shabab will travel from Saudi Arabia to Jeonju to face Jeonbuk Motors. It was the first West Asian opposition to the Greens since the final of the tournament in 2006, where they defeated Al Karam in Syria. Jeonbuk could be the favorite to advance to the last four, even though he lost 3: 1 at home to Gangwon FC on Friday. Finally, and at least for the Koreans, all the fighting in West Asia is taking place between the Saudi superpowers AL Hilal and Al Gharafa in Qatar.

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Football in Sun & Shadow - a look Pengeluaran HKback at the 2010 World Cup

Football in Sun & Shadow - a look Pengeluaran HKback at the 2010 World Cup

South Africa 2010 was being billed Delhi Bazaar Satta King  as a disaster ever since the Rainbow Nation romped home unopposed in the bidding war.

 The country's high crime rate, political turmoil and level of HIV infection had given journalists a rich seam to of scare stories to mine, reviving a primal Pengeluaran HKWestern fear of darkest Africa as the World Cup boldy trod where no one had gone before.

 As it transpired, Sepp Blatter's baby was delivered peacefully, with nothing more heinous than the high-decibel blast of plastic horns to assault the eardrums of fans across the world. Crime was an issue for the locals with their electric fences, multiple doors and roaming security staff, but it was soon obvious there was little risk of any visiting fans becoming another statistic.

 The FIFA President was as disgusted by the ugly card-fest of a final as anyone, but will have slept soundly in the knowledge nothing seriously went wrong during his tournament.

Those of us who travelled to South Africa came away disappointed in the transport situation, which left us stuck for hours in traffic jams on inadequate roads, but fans could not complain about the cost of living in the Rainbow Nation, having shelled out an arm and a leg for the initial flight of course.

 Frank Lampard's wrongly annulled strike against Germany followed by an offside Argentina goal on 'Technology Sunday' ensures that the TV replays debate is back on the agenda, and will never go away until something more advanced than the human eye is allowed to participate in decision making.

 Talking of England, a milestone has surely been reached with no fans being arrested during the course of a World Cup for public order offences, apart from the dolt who briefly entered the dressing room in Cape Town. The team might have backfired once more, but the home of football happily failed to hit the headlines for hooliganism.

 The Three Lions looked a more spent force than ever on the field, utterly eclipsed by a rampant young German team whose simple counter-attacking strategy wiped out Argentina as well before the Spanish passmasters reminded them who is still top dog.

 The winners rarely wowed the crowds like they had at Euro 2008, showed a depressing tendency to surround the referee in order to get opponents booked and were not averse to the odd dive or two on their way to the trophy. And in bagging their first World Cup, Spain also took the prize as the lowest-scoring winners in the competition's history.

 Yet la furia roja's final win was a huge relief to neutrals worldwide after the Netherlands, yes the Netherlands, had tried to foul their way to the Cup with the most unpleasant display seen in a final since Argentina in 1990. They gave the world an x-rated moment courtesy of Nigel De Jong's karate kick and to further blot their copybook, some Dutch players berated the referee when he had actually done them favours in not expelling De Jong and Mark Van Bommel, who after verbally abusing Howard Webb at the end, sealed his display of bad losing by not shaking hands with the Spaniards.

 With Holland no longer the home of cultured football, Spain carry the torch, ironically a seed which may have been sown by Johann Cruyff at Barcelona in the 1970s.

Ghana apart, there were no heroic campaigns to get excited about. The Black Stars won the sympathy vote as the final African competitor and their heartbreakingly self-inflicted exit was the stuff of Greek tragedy, but it seemed too little too late for the underdogs, who had mostly been wiped out in the first round. Japan & South Korea both showed Eastern promise before succumbing to South American power, which briefly looked like overwhelming the competition, and Uruguay can be proud of going furthest from that continent.

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Jobs in the Richest Keluaran HK Country in the World

Jobs in the Richest Keluaran HK Country in the World

Qatar may not be the most well-known Delhi Bazaar Satta King  country in the footie world, but Soccerphile have convered several events in the tiny but extremely rich Gulf country.

That includes the recent play off between England and Brazil in Qatar's amazing Khalifa stadium.

We'll be doing a lot more cover if the country get their ambition of holding the 2022 football world cup!

Soccerphile in Qatar

We are able to cover the football in Qatar so well because we have people on the ground in Qatar.

For several years now we have been running the Keluaran HK tourist and resident's website, Qatar Visitor.

And now we have set up a companion job board, QatarVisitorJobs.com, to provide you with the latest jobs in Qatar.

 Why Qatar?

 Quite simply, Qatar is the richest country in the world. As a result, the best jobs pay top whack - and you don't have to pay any tax on your enourmous earnings!

Added to which, Qatar, while still a conservative Muslim country, is a place where you can still have fun. There are bars, an off-licence (yes, an off-licene! we didn't say it was the fun capital of the world) and even a nightclub.

So unlike Saudi, you don't have to go dry to earn your dosh.

So click here to check out the jobs board and apply for the latest vacancies.

 Familiarity breeds success on J. League opening day

 It's a case of "same again, please" as far as the J. League is concerned, with last season's bumper opening day clash between Kashima Antlers and Urawa Reds reprised for the 2010 campaign.

 The J. League has announced the schedule for the opening two rounds of fixtures, with three-time defending champions Kashima set to start the defence of their title in front of a capacity crowd at Kashima Stadium against arch-rivals Urawa. 

There's also a repeat of the recent Emperor's Cup final as Gamba Osaka host Nagoya Grampus at Expo '70 Stadium, while last season's runners-up Kawasaki Frontale kick off the new campaign at home to Albirex Niigata.

 Round 2 features a much-anticipated Osaka derby, as promoted side Cerezo Osaka welcome crosstown rivals Gamba to Nagai Stadium, with Kanagawa rivals Yokohama F. Marinos and newly promoted Shonan Bellmare also slugging it out at Nissan Stadium.

 The full fixture list will be announced on February 3.

 Round 1

 Saturay, March 6

 Kashima Antlers vs Urawa Reds (Kashima Stadium)

FC Tokyo vs Yokohama F. Marinos (Ajinomoto Stadium)

Kawasaki Frontale vs Albirex Niigata (Todoroki Stadium)

Shonan Bellmare vs Montedio Yamagata (Hiratsuka Stadium)

Jubilo Iwata vs Vegalta Sendai (Yamaha Stadium)

Gamba Osaka vs Nagoya Grampus (Expo '70 Stadium)

Sanfrecce Hiroshima vs Shimizu S-Pulse (Big Arch Stadium)

 Familiarity breeds success on J. League opening day.

 Sunday, March 7

 Omiya Ardija vs Cerezo Osaka (Nack5 Stadium)

Vissel Kobe vs Kyoto Sanga (Home's Stadium)

 Round 2

Saturday, March 13

 Vegalta Sendai vs Omiya Ardija (Yurtec Stadium)

Yokohama F. Marinos vs Shonan Bellmare (Nissan Stadium)

Albirex Niigata vs Jubilo Iwata (Big Swan Stadium)

Shimizu S-Pulse vs Montedio Yamagata (Nihondaira Stadium)

Nagoya Grampus vs Kawasaki Frontale (Toyota Stadium)

 Sunday, March 14

 Urawa Reds vs FC Tokyo (Saitama Stadium)

Kyoto Sanga vs Kashima Antlers (Nishikyogoku Stadium)

Cerezo Osaka vs Gamba Osaka (Nagai Stadium)

Vissel Kobe vs Sanfrecce Hiroshima (Home's Stadium)

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Roy's Togel Hongkong Odyssey reaches its end

Roy's Togel Hongkong Odyssey reaches its end

 UEFA Europa League Final 2010

 Atletico Madrid v Fulham

 When Liverpool sagged to let Diego    play bazaar    Forlan net and send Atletico Madrid into the Europa League final, it was a mini-victory for the competition. An Anglo-Spanish final sounds more, well, continental than a re-run of a Premier League game.

 English clubs might flash the cash but we don't want an all-any nation European final any more than a Chelsea v Man U Champions League final every season. Contrasting styles is what European cups should be about. A bit sad for 'Pool, whose fans could have followed in the footsteps of the Beatles on the Reeperbahn of that great German port city.

 Perhaps the Europa League is just a punch diluted so much it lacks the Togel Hongkong kick of the old UEFA Cup, as lukewarm as the lineup for the old Cup Winners' Cup, a collection of Champions League rejects and former European greats like Marseille, Anderlecht, Benfica and Panathanaikos.

 If we can forget the languorous saga of that 18-game odyssey the teams took to the final, the meagre winnings and overall feeling of second prize compared to the mighty Champions League, the meeting of big-ish Atletico and little Fulham has a lot to recommend it.

 World Cup 2010 Referees and Assistants.

 The 30 referees and their assistants for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa have been chosen. There are 4 referees and their assistants from Africa, 4 from CONCACAF, 6 from South America, 2 from Oceania, 4 from Asia and 10 from UEFA.

 Joel Aguilar (El Salvador)

William Torres, Francisco Zumba

 Khalil Al Ghamdi (Saudi Arabia)

Hassan Kamranifar (Iran), Saleh Mohamed Al Marzouqi (UAE)

 Carlos Amarilla (Paraguay)

Ruiz Roa, Nicolas Yegros

 Benito Archundia (Mexico)

Hector Vegara (Canada), Marvin Torrentera

 Hector Baldassi (Argentina)

Ricardo Casas, Herman Maidana

 Carlos Batres (Guatemala)

Leonel Leal (Costa Rica), Carlos Pastrana (Honduras)

 Mohamed Benouza (Algeria)

Nasser Abdel Nabi (Egypt), Maamer Chabane

 Olegario Benquerenca (Portugal)

Jose Manuel Silva Cardinal, Bertino Miranda

 Massimo Bussaca (Switzerland)

Matthias Arnet, Francesco Buragina

 Koman Coulibaly (Mali)

Redouane Achik (Morocco), Maniel Candido (Angola)

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Monday Missive

Monday Missive

 *ITALIAN STADIA LIKE PIZZERIAS? How times change. In Italia '90 we all marveled at Italy's football Satta King  grounds like Milan's fortress-like San Siro, Turin's caverous Stadio delle Alpi, Bari's space-age San Nicola and Genoa's wonderfully quirky Luigi Ferraris, wishing we could have such soccer cathedrals at home.

 Fast forward twenty years and the designs have stagnated and fallen below the quality of those in England, Germany and Spain.

 Now with a slew of new grounds in France on the way in the build-up to Euro 2016, Italy is having to question its model of municipally-owned arena (also the norm in the USA), while other nations let their clubs own theirs.

 "It's like theatres and restaurants," said AC Milan's vice-president Adriano Galliani told Gazzetta dello Sport. "There are beautiful theatres and ugly ones, there are luxury restaurants and pizzerias. But without stadiums we can't do anything and without a new law we can't construct new stadiums."

  * Brazilian legend Zico, who has coached Japan and Kashima Antlers amongst others, is set to ink a deal to coach Iraq.

 *Former US coach Bob Bradley is in talks to become the national team coach of Egypt.

 *Carlos Tevez is back in Manchester having failed to tie-up a transfer elsewhere and will be training with his supposed replacement and compatriot Sergio Aguero.

 *Barcelona B starlet Thiago Alcantara, who shone in this summer's Euro U21 Championship in Denmark, is in Spain's senior squad for their friendly with Italy in Bari on Wednesday.

 *"We are not touching now the Qatar World Cup" was Sepp Blatter's enigmatic response to a question about the timing of the 2022 competition. As it stands, it will take place in June in arenas air-conditioned to avoid the 40C heat.

 *Tottenham Hotspur's ticket office was trashed in the violence which has engulfed parts of London for the past two nights. The trouble began with a police shooting of an armed man in Tottenham. The club is asking fans to use the internet instead.

 The London 2012 Olympic football will be called 'The Albert' after the Cockney rhyming slang for ball - 'Albert Hall'.

 *The UEFA Champions League playoff draw has been made: Arsenal v Udinese, Bayern Munich v Zurich, Lyon v Rubin Kazan, Villareal v Odense.

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They are so far in front they are virtually over the horizon and out of sight.

They are so far in front they play bazaar  are virtually over the horizon and out of sight.

 Yet despite their dramatic Old Firm winner on the last day of February which put them ten points clear of their bitter rivals, and with a game in-hand to boot, manager Walter Smith and his players are sticking to their guns that there is nothing to celebrate just yet at Ibrox.

 There was an outburst of emotion at the end of the Pengeluaran HKOld Firm game at Ibrox. A winning goal in injury time is always provocative, but the response was an indication of significance.

Satisfaction ought to be enduring. The season remains poised for Rangers, though, as success is possible in all three domestic competitions, but not guaranteed. “We’ve not won anything yet,” says Steven Whittaker, the full-back. “We’ve still got to follow it through.”

 The doubt is novel for Rangers, as all three of the club’s title wins since 2000 have been achieved on the final day of the season. The emphasis now is on avoiding complacency. There is familiarity in encountering Premier League opponents at least three times in each campaign, but other factors are also relevant.

 Almost every side in the top flight still has something to play for. Fixtures against the Old Firm also tend to raise spirits. No game should be considered elementary. “That’s the Old Firm, we’re used to that,” says Smith. “But you get to this stage of the season and there’s a lot at stake for the teams. Our league gets a bit of criticism, for being so small and playing each other four times, but it does bring a situation at the end of the season where there’s no easy matches. The majority of games have a bit of meaning to them. I always stress to the boys that at this stage of the season, a wee bit of an extra edge comes into it for everybody concerned.”

 The mood at Rangers is one of denial. Points have been accrued through sheer force of will at times this season, but they can still be rendered worthless.

 David Weir and other senior players have already prohibited loose talk in the dressing-room. Assumptions about winning the treble are considered hazardous. The pursuit of honours can be gruelling, but the hardship is necessary.

 “You need to try to forget about the position you’re in and concentrate on the points that are still available,” said Whittaker. “We still need to continue on the winning streak we’re on. It’s in our own hands and we need to keep putting pressure on the rest. We all know what’s at stake, we all know what it’s like to win a championship, we did it last season. The motivation is there to do that again.”

 There is little respite for Rangers; midweek fixtures will exert a strain on the squad. Injuries might still imperil the team, but Smith can at least take comfort from the current clean bill of health. Even the international week proved obliging right after the Old Firm game with 13 Ibrox players off on international duty around the globe.

 Meanwhile, through, Smith has lambasted all referee talk in the wake of a month in which the men in the middle have come firmly under the spotlight.

 In the build-up to February's Old Firm game, Celtic leaked it that they had complained to the SFA about the standard of officiating after they felt a catalogue of decisions have gone against them so far this term, three of which have happened in games against Rangers.

 Their complaints appeared to backfire with Scott Brown harshly dismissed at Ibrox and the subsequent appeal thrown out. Rangers, though, were at the centre of another storm when St Mirren boss Gus MacPherson then claimed Weir ought to have been sent off and Smith's patience snapped.

 "Everybody wants people to get ordered off and everybody wants penalties against us,” he claimed. “Everybody wants everything against us at the moment.

"I don't know what road we are going down in that respect. I didn't see much in it myself, I've got to say.

“We seem to be reaching a ridiculous stage where refereeing decisions are actually becoming far more important than the game itself."

 Smith also spoke out following last weekend's Old Firm derby triumph when he criticised the unnamed Hoops source who revealed the club's unhappiness with decisions which they felt had gone against them this season.

 The Ibrox boss added: "Everybody starts talking about the refereeing decisions but it's a game of football.

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Beckham's World Cup Data HKKO'ed

Beckham's World Cup Data HKKO'ed in Italy

 Beckham.David Beckham play bazaar  looks set to miss out on the 2010 World Cup after tearing his Achilles tendon playing in A.C. Milan's 1-0 win over Chievo in Serie A today.

 The England international pulled up in the 87th minute at San Siro today and hobbled off, claiming he heard his tendon snap and felt his calf muscles spasm. He was carried off on a stretcher, with the nightmare of missing the World Cup unfolding before his eyes.

 Recovery from an Achilles rupture to being able to run is from 6-8 weeks following the operation Beckham will have tomorrow, but the proximity of the finals in under three months means a call-up of an unfit Beckham for the World Cup is now Data HKextremely unlikely. The most probable scenario is of Beckham missing the World Cup but making a return to MLS later this season.

 The will-he, won't-he saga of Beckham's once unlikely journey to a fourth finals had looked set to end happily with a place in Fabio Capello's final squad, but his road to South Africa now seems to have finally run out of gas. His attempt to break Peter Shilton's England appearances record also looks to have bitten the dust, ten games short. Perhaps the most celebrity of England footballers has even played his last game for the Three Lions.

 Becks' World Cup debut age 23 in France '98 was a colourful one - after initially having been dropped in favour of Teddy Sheringham, the young Manchester United star played a leading role in England's campaign, supplying the pass for Michael Owen's wonder goal against Argentina before getting himself sent off for retaliating against Diego Simeone. Beckham's expulsion forced England into a rearguard action for the rest of the second-round clash, lost eventually on penalties and coach Glenn Hoddle blamed him afterwards for the defeat.

 Four years later and Beckham, recovered from the tsunami of tabloid opprobrium following France '98, arrived in Japan a soccer idol, especially in the Far East. But a broken metatarsal shortly before the finals meant the England captain was not in peak condition. He got his revenge on Argentina with a winning penalty, but Brazil's silky skills got the better of a prosaic and unimaginative England in the quarter-finals.

Beckham scored the winner in the second round of Germany 2006, a set piece against Ecuador, but his third World Cup finals ended again at the last eight stage, as Portugal beat another solid but uninspiring Three Lions team forged by Sven-Goran Eriksson, this time on spot-kicks. Tearfully resigning as captain, it looked like the World Cup had seen the last of Becks as he jetted off for the sunny climbs of Los Angeles and Major League Soccer.

 Steve McClaren's first act as England manager was to telephone him to say farewell but before long McClaren's obvious frailty in the job saw Beckham back from the dead in the national team fold. Now shorn of what little speed he once had, Beckham concentrated on his dead ball delivery and arching crosses, providing a unique attacking option from the right wing.

 Becks' prowess as an impact substitute with his penetrative deliveries ensured continuous call-ups under Capello, his former coach at Real Madrid and at the age of 34 looked set to have a final World Cup swansong, if not a starting role.

 His tears as he left the San Siro field today were as intense as when he left the field against Portugal, both times believing he had played his last World Cup game. This time, it looks like he has.

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Jobs in the Richest Keluaran HK Country in the World

Jobs in the Richest Keluaran HK Country in the World

 Qatar may not be the most  Delhi Bazaar Satta King  well-known country in the footie world, but Soccerphile have convered several events in the tiny but extremely rich Gulf country.

That includes the recent play off between England and Brazil in Qatar's amazing Khalifa stadium.

We'll be doing a lot more cover if the country get their ambition of holding the 2022 football world cup!

 Soccerphile in Qatar

We are able to cover the football in Qatar so well because we have people on the ground in Qatar.

For several years now we have been running the Keluaran HK tourist and resident's website, Qatar Visitor.

And now we have set up a companion job board, QatarVisitorJobs.com, to provide you with the latest jobs in Qatar.

 Why Qatar?

 Quite simply, Qatar is the richest country in the world. As a result, the best jobs pay top whack - and you don't have to pay any tax on your enourmous earnings!

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 Familiarity breeds success on J. League opening day

 It's a case of "same again, please" as far as the J. League is concerned, with last season's bumper opening day clash between Kashima Antlers and Urawa Reds reprised for the 2010 campaign.

 The J. League has announced the schedule for the opening two rounds of fixtures, with three-time defending champions Kashima set to start the defence of their title in front of a capacity crowd at Kashima Stadium against arch-rivals Urawa.

 There's also a repeat of the recent Emperor's Cup final as Gamba Osaka host Nagoya Grampus at Expo '70 Stadium, while last season's runners-up Kawasaki Frontale kick off the new campaign at home to Albirex Niigata.

 Round 2 features a much-anticipated Osaka derby, as promoted side Cerezo Osaka welcome crosstown rivals Gamba to Nagai Stadium, with Kanagawa rivals Yokohama F. Marinos and newly promoted Shonan Bellmare also slugging it out at Nissan Stadium.

 The full fixture list will be announced on February 3.

 Round 1

 Saturday, March 6

 Kashima Antlers vs Urawa Reds (Kashima Stadium)

FC Tokyo vs Yokohama F. Marinos (Ajinomoto Stadium)

Kawasaki Frontale vs Albirex Niigata (Todoroki Stadium)

Shonan Bellmare vs Montedio Yamagata (Hiratsuka Stadium)

Jubilo Iwata vs Vegalta Sendai (Yamaha Stadium)

Gamba Osaka vs Nagoya Grampus (Expo '70 Stadium)

Sanfrecce Hiroshima vs Shimizu S-Pulse (Big Arch Stadium)

 Familiarity breeds success on J. League opening day.

 Sunday, March 7

 Omiya Ardija vs Cerezo Osaka (Nack5 Stadium)

Vissel Kobe vs Kyoto Sanga (Home's Stadium)

 Round 2

Saturday, March 13

 Vegalta Sendai vs Omiya Ardija (Yurtec Stadium)

Yokohama F. Marinos vs Shonan Bellmare (Nissan Stadium)

Albirex Niigata vs Jubilo Iwata (Big Swan Stadium)

Shimizu S-Pulse vs Montedio Yamagata (Nihondaira Stadium)

Nagoya Grampus vs Kawasaki Frontale (Toyota Stadium)

 Sunday, March 14

 Urawa Reds vs FC Tokyo (Saitama Stadium)

Kyoto Sanga vs Kashima Antlers (Nishikyogoku Stadium)

Cerezo Osaka vs Gamba Osaka (Nagai Stadium)

Vissel Kobe vs Sanfrecce Hiroshima (Home's Stadium)

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World Cup Togel Hongkong Calendar Poster

World Cup Togel Hongkong Calendar Poster

 Designer David Watson of    play bazaar   design studio Trebleseven has created the poster to support Soccer Aid.

 The idea is simple: sales of the A1 double sided poster raises money for Soccer Aid - a British charity event which raises money for UNICEF.

 The front side of the poster (below) lists all the groups, A-H so you can clearly see which countries are in which group. A calendar runs down the right hand side listing chronologically all the matches to be played in the tournament.

 World Cup Calendar Poster

 The reverse of the poster (below) functions Togel Hongkong as a bold World Cup calendar - showing clearly what games are being played on each day.

 The A1 double sided poster, produced in collaboration with G&B printers and PhoeniXmotion paper, is currently on press but will be available to buy soon for £10 (£7 for the print, £3 for post/packaging).

 Johannesburg Fan Parks.

 Johannesburg's Fan Parks are located at Mary Fitzgerald Square in Newtown (official FIFA World Cup fan park), Innes-Free Park in Sandton and Walter Sisulu Square in Kliptown.

 In Nelspruit the fan park is planned for Bergvlam Hoerskool, in Durban on the Beach Front and the fan parks are yet to be announced for Polokwane and Rustenburg.

 South African Breweries (SAB) will provide the beer at all the Fifa Fan Fests and will increase production ahead of the finals to meet the increased demand.

 Ballack Out Of World Cup

 Michael Ballack has probably played in his last major tournament for Germany. Chelsea's German midfielder limped out of the FA Cup final with an ankle injury sustained in a tackle with Kevin-Prince Boateng.

 The ankle injury rules their Captain and inspiration out for eight weeks and means Germany manager, Joachim Low, will have to rethink his team with less than a month to the start of the tournament.

 Germany are in tough looking group with Australia, Ghana & Serbia, and Ballack is still an integral component of the team, nearing 100 caps and having played in every major tournament since 2000. He will be greatly missed and will be a difficult hole to fill.

 So who will step into Ballack's shoes? Low has called on the squad to pull together and for the younger players to use the opportunity to grow into major roles. Germany are traditionally a side who go for experience but Low's provisional 27-man squad has a real youthful look to it, with six players aged 20 or 21.

 Bastian Schweinsteiger has had a fine season for Bayern Munich who have captured the Bundesliga title and could win the Champions League. He's a cert for the centre of the park. Alongside

Schweinsteiger will be Hamburg's Piotr Trochowski. Depending on Low's chosen shape this leaves at least one, maybe two, midfield spots.

   Lazio midfielder, Thomas Hitlsperger, played in nearly all the qualifying games but is also missing from the squad after being snubbed. His January move from Stuttgart to Italy was Low's reason for leaving him out. Other absences from the squad include Simon Rolfes & Aaron Hunt to there will be a posse of youngsters vying for the final midfield berth.

  Mesut Özil (8 caps), Marko Marin (7), Sami Khedira (3), Toni Kroos (2) and Christian Träsch (2) are all 23 or younger and Low will be keeping a careful eye on them all as he ponders the best replacement for his talismanic skipper.

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Unibet Togel HongkongCEO, Peter Nylander released on a €200,000 bail

Unibet Togel HongkongCEO, Peter  satta king  Nylander released on a €200,000 bail

 Unibet’s CEO Petter Nylander was yesterday transferred from the Netherlands to the French legal authorities in Nanterre. The judge decided to release Petter Nylander under the condition of a bail of €200,000 and told that he is to be placed under investigation, which is one step short of being charged, but the case is not likely to lead to a trial.

 Detained at Amsterdam’s Schipol Airport for violations against France’s 19th Century gambling monopoly laws, the case has come as an embarrassment to the nation’s Government as it seeks to iron out regulatory proposals on online gaming in-line with European Union law.

 Upon leaving court in the western Paris suburb of Nanterre, the boss of the Malta-licensed firm stated that Unibet had always obeyed the law.

 The European Union seems to agree as it has disputed the legality of French gambling laws that see lottery operator Francaise Des Jeux and horse racing betting group PMU protected by monopoly laws dating back to 1836 and 1891.

 France issued the European arrest warrant for Nylander after he failed to respond to a court order in April but this caused controversy with two members of the European Parliament objecting to the use of a European warrant to detain the Swede. They stated that these warrants were designed to arrest people accused of violent crimes rather than those in business disputes.

 Microsoft, Yahoo and Google paid $31.5 Million for advertising the “illegal” internet gambling

 Microsoft, Yahoo and Google - the three largest Internet companies agreed on Wednesday to pay a combined $31.5 million to settle federal civil allegations that they had accepted ads for illegal internet gambling.

 The Togel Hongkongcompanies said they stopped taking the ads years ago. The settlement was announced by Catherine L. Hanaway, the United States attorney for eastern Missouri, who said the investigation, conducted by her office, the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, dated to 2000. Negotiations have been going on for 12 to 18 months, she said.

 Microsoft’s $21 million portion of the settlement includes a $4.5 million forfeiture, $7.5 million to be paid to the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children and $9 million in public service ads over a three-year period, starting next year.

 The public service campaign will aim the message that online gambling is illegal at those of college age and younger.

 “We’re hopeful that our educational campaign will stop young people from gambling before they start,” the company said. Yahoo’s $7.5 million share of the settlement includes a $3 million forfeiture and $4.5 million in public service ads over three years.

 Google will pay $3 million. A spokesman, Jon Murchinson, said the ads were in sponsored links at Google.com and other Web sites that belong to its ad network. “While we did not admit any wrongdoing, the Department of Justice has advised that online gambling is illegal in the United States, and ads to promote it are improper,” he said.

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Managerial merry go Togel Hongkongaround in Brazil

Managerial merry go Togel Hongkongaround in Brazil

 There are still three rounds of games to be played     satta king  in the Campeonato Brasileiro before the half way stage in the competition is reached and eleven of the twenty clubs have already changed their managers since the start of the season.

 This staggeringly high rate of hiring and firing will perhaps increase further before the season is out. The most recent appointment was made at Togel HongkongGrêmio who after a disappointing start to their campaign have called upon the services of Celso Roth who returns to the club for the fourth time. Naturally the success of these changes is dependent on the club and the abilities of the new manager at the helm along with external factors such as luck but the logic behind some of the decisions is extremely questionable.

 As with the rest of the football world clubs are predominately concerned with their immediate future and short termism takes precedence. However managerial merry go round in Brazil is exceptional in the pace that managers come and go. Corinthians who currently lead the table are under the command of Tite. He only took on the role last year and amazingly is now one of the longest serving managers in the top tier of Brazilian football.

 Struggling Santos

 The slow start Santos made in the league was to be expected. The Libertadores campaign was naturally prioritized which meant the line up their sent out in the first few games was a pale imitation of the first team. The strategy of resting players paid off as they were crowned champions in June. However they have not been able to kick on in the league as predicted and make up ground on the leaders.

 They were involved in the match of the season a couple of weeks ago when they lost 5 4 against a Ronaldinho inspired Flamengo side. Had Elano converted a penalty the game would have ended up a freakishly high scoring draw. Perhaps the highlight of the game though was the goal Neymar scored after a skillful dribble that left numerous defenders in his wake.

 It is the form of Ganso however that is perhaps the most worrying for Santos supporters. His return to domestic action after a tepid performance in the Copa America for the seleção has been particularly low key. Indeed his coach, Muricy has talked about the player needing to modify his game alittle and make it more difficult for the opposition to mark him. By getting in more advanced positions he will be able to add to the three goals he has scored in 2011.

 Santos are four months away from jetting off to Japan to dispute the World club championship where potentially they will take on Barcelona. The need is to put a good run to together and start to make some progress up the table.

 They are currently just one place off the relegation but in a league that is unbelievably tight, a couple of consecutive victories can launch a team several places higher in the standings. Corinthians recent inability to convert draws into wins has meant they have not been able to create any distance between themselves and the chasing pack. This group of clubs is made up of Flamengo, São Paulo and Vasco.

 However Santos have played two games less than their rivals at the top and if there are able to gain maximum points from these fixtures they will be 13 points behind Corinthians. Winning the league from this position would take a monumental effort and the chances are low. That said, the Libertadores champions will surely perform much better in the second half of the season and aim to finish in the top six.

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Blatter the clown Togel Hongkongprince of football

Blatter the clown Togel Hongkongprince of football

 Blatter.Sepp Blatter's comments to a Brazilian satta king  magazine prove once and for all he is not fit to run football.

 "We have bad losers in FIFA," the FIFA President told Estado de Sao Paolo. "This animosity comes from England," he went on. "Interesting is the timing of the accusations. It was just around the time when they·failed to win host rights to the 2018 World Cup...All this has been an act of revenge for having lost the FIFA Presidency in 1974 to Joao Havelange. Still, they cannot accept that they no longer control FIFA. Since they Togel Hongkongcannot regain the Presidency, they decided they would try to destroy it."

 The words of a mad conspiracy theorist. The surge in reports of FIFA corruption came it is true around last year's World Cup vote but that was because both 2018 (Russia) and 2022 (Qatar) seemed highly suspicious choices to any fair-minded watcher.

 How then to explain the head of the German F.A. and Karl-Heinz Rummenige calling for Blatter's head recently? The fact is England has the most active investigative journalism and endemic FIFA corruption is something Blatter has presided over and allowed to fester.

 The Football Association and the British media has no desire other than a trustworthy governing body for the sport it invented. Under Blatter, the FIFA Ex.Co. has looked like an FBI's most wanted list of felons: Warner, Texeira, Leoz, Bin-Hammam, Blazer (pic) and Grondona for starters.

 If Blatter really believes in transparency and honest management, let him release the judicial verdict on the ISL collapse which languishes in a courthouse in Zug, Switzerland.

 The F.A. however should look themselves in the mirror for shamefully u-turning to back Blatter in his initial bid for the Presidency, betraying the support of the honest Swede Lennart Johansson. How foolish do they appear now that deep anti-English feeling pervades FIFA corridors.

 Recent stirrings from Germany suggest that is the country from which a successful anti-Blatter movement should stem.

  The two giants won 5-0 and 6-0 respectively on the opening day of the Spanish season, leaving Villareal president Fernando Roig to exclaim in anguish, "It's a third-world league in which two clubs are sapping the TV money...I give it three to four years. Either it changes or we kill Spanish football." In third place in La Liga last season were Valencia, a full 21 points behind Real and this season the gripes are getting louder. Seville's president has blasted Spanish football as "not the biggest mess in Europe but in the world".

 Euro 2008 winner Marcos Senna concurred: "The superiority of Real and Barca is brutal."

Three clubs other than Barça or Real have won La Liga in the past 15 years: Deportivo La Coruna in 2000 and Valencia in 2002 and 2004.

 The problem is historic, with Real Madrid built up by the Franco regime into a mega-club and Catalonia focusing its cultural and political frustrations onto its soccer team. Two weeks ago I was in the Castile province of northern Spain and watched the Barcelona v Real Madrid Super Cup second leg, which kicked off at 11pm local time.

It was almost like watching Spain in the World Cup with the whole town glued to multiple TV screens in the main square. TV is the problem, as the clubs negotiate individual deals which inevitably favours the two giants. The locals in Ponferrada were largely pro-Real, as is the majority of Spain, but there were plenty of youngsters in Barça shirts too, presumably having grown up on Ronaldinho.

Most of Spain is like this is in my experience. The big two have too big a hold on the nation. That said, at a national team level, this period of Barça/Real saturation has coincided with Spain winning Euro U-19, Euro U-21, the European Championship and the World Cup. This season began with Spanish players going on strike over money. How long before the imbalance in La Liga results in a breakaway?

 *Dunga and David Trezeguet are the latest to take the Arab shilling, having agreed to take jobs with club sides in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates respectively.

 The 47 year-old Brazilian most recently coached his nation at the World Cup finals and will coach Al Rayyan, while the 33 year-old French striker leaves a storied European career including spells at Hercules, Juventus and Monaco. 'Trez' won the World Cup with France and scored the winning (golden) goal in the Euro 2000 final. He will now play for Baniyas SC.

 No doubt he, like Dunga, are heading to the Middle East for the stratospheric salaries and little else, but in footballing terms it still seems a shame to be moving to real soccer backwaters in search of one last big payday.

*Best wishes to Owen Hargreaves as he attempts one last resurrection of his injury-plagued career at Manchester City. The Canada-born midfielder, it is easy to forget, was England's best player at the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany, despite, or perhaps because he had never played in English club football, gaining his soccer education instead first in North America and then at Bayern Munich.