UK Soccer

Joey Barton Defended By Eric Joyce Over Football Violence

The Huffington Post UK | Ned Simons | Posted 16.05.2012 | UK Politics

Read More: UK News, Labour Party, Football, Soccer, Violence, Queens Park Rangers, Manchester City, Qpr, Eric Joyce, Manchester City QPR, Joey Barton, UK Politics News

Joey Barton, the QPR footballer charged with two acts of violent conduct following his sending-off during his team’s end-of-season game against Manc...

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Time for Tottenham to Define Their Season

Scott Thompson | Posted 01.05.2012 | UK Sport

Read More: Premier League, Harry Redknapp, Gareth Bale, Luka Modric, Soccer, Tottenham Hotspur, UK Football, UK Sport News

It's hard to think of an instance in Premier League history of a team's season being composed of two such contrasting halves, but Tottenham Hotspur have a knack of being unpredictable. After an all-conquering first half of the year the wheels didn't so much fall off Tottenham's season but were smashed and burnt.

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Cash-Strapped Rangers Forecast 'Difficult' Season Ahead

PA | Posted 24.04.2012 | UK Sport

Read More: UK News, Rangers, Football, Soccer, UK Football, Rangers Fc, Rangers Football Club, Glasgow Rangers, High Court, UK Sport News

Financial experts trying to revive ailing football giant Rangers FC are scheduled to try to add the best part of £30 million to the club's coffers at...

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Norwich City Fan Claims 'Big Over-Reaction' Over Club Photo Leaks

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 19.04.2012 | UK Sport

Read More: UK Football, Internet, UK News, Norwich City, Norwich City Fan Leaks Pictures of New Kit, Football, Soccer, Online, UK Sport News

A teenage football fan has spoken of his regret after he was reported to police for leaking images of Norwich City's new home kit on the internet. ...

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Football, the Nostalgia of the Future?

Billy Reeves | Posted 25.05.2012 | UK Sport

Read More: Football, UK Sport, John Barnes, Billy Reeves, Nostalgia, Sport, Soccer, Football Nostaliga, UK Sport News

If you believe open terraces, skins with Stanley knives, getting coined at the railway station, unpoliced 'football special' trains, pitch invasions, running battles with police horses and throwing bananas at John Barnes were good - you want your head testing.

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Please Ditch the Old Firm to English Football Talk for Good

Andy Muirhead | Posted 22.05.2012 | UK Sport

Read More: Celtic, Rangers, Soccer, Football, England, Scotland, English Premier League, Old Firm, UK Sport News

For years Celtic and Rangers fans have heard about a potential move to English Football, whether it is intimated by their own club directors, peddled by the Scottish media to sell a few more issues or proposed by the likes of Bolton chairman Phil Gartside. After the latest knock-back can we now put the idea to bed for good, Please!

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Offensive Behaviour Bill in Football's First Convictions

Andy Muirhead | Posted 14.05.2012 | UK Sport

Read More: Celtic, Scottish Football, Spl, Rangers, Football, Soccer, Scotland, Old Firm, Sfa, UK Sport News

On 1 March, the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012 came into force and just two weeks since it became law, two football fans have been fined and banned from football for a year.

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Football's Financial Own Goal

Damian Collins | Posted 14.05.2012 | UK Sport

Read More: UK Football, Coventry City, Money Laundering, Glasgow-Rangers, Soccer, Leeds United, UK Sport News

A radical new approach is needed to sort out the finances of football and stamp out potential abuse from allowing in investors who are not fit to be part of our game. These ideas are the driving force behind the Football Financial Transparency Bill I introduced to the House of Commons this week.

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War and Peace and Football

Matthew Crockatt | Posted 12.05.2012 | UK

Read More: Arsenal FC, Fulham Premier League, Mark Hughes, Borodino, General Kutuzov, Soccer, Football, Harry Redknapp, Leo Tolstoy, Spurs, War and Peace, Arsene Wenger, Cardiff City, Roy-Hodgson, UK Football, UK Sport, UK News

Next time you sit down with a pint or two in the pub and start slagging off your team's manager think of Tolstoy, general Kutuzov and this blog post and have a nice game of darts instead...

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European Court Throws Out Football Fixture Lists Copyright Claim

PA | Posted 01.03.2012 | UK

Read More: UK Football, English Premier League, Premier League, European Court of Justice, Football Fixtures, Soccer, Football, Football League, UK News

A claim for copyright over football fixture lists has been rejected by European judges. A ruling in Luxembourg said that although compiling such li...

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WATCH: Conclusive Proof That Lionel Messi Never Dives

Huffington Post UK | Alastair Plumb | Posted 28.02.2012 | UK Comedy

Read More: Lionel Messi, Football Diving, Football, UK Football, UK Viral Videos, Diving Football, Soccer Diving, Diving, Lionel Messi Diving, Video, Football Funnies, Messi, Soccer, Barcelona, Fc Barcelona, Sport Funnies, UK Sport, Messi Diving, UK Comedy News

Lionel Messi, then. FIFA World Player of the Year and three-time Ballon d'Or winner, he's possibly the best player football has ever seen: fitter than...

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Football Fan Stabbed On Eve Of Cup Final Named By Police

Posted 28.02.2012 | UK

Read More: Liverpool FC, Cup Final Death, Alex-Jarmay, Soccer, Carling Cup, UK Football, Carling Cup Final, Cardiff City, League Cup, UK News

A young man stabbed to death in a bar brawl at the weekend had come to London to watch the League Cup final, police have said. Alex Jarmay from Bro...

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The FA's Statement In Full After Capello Resigns As England Manager

Posted 08.02.2012 | UK

Read More: Football Association, Fabio Capello, UK News, Fa, Football, Soccer, UK Sport, UK Soccer, Bernstein, England Manager, Pitch, News, UK News

After Fabio Capello resigned as England Manager on 8 February the Football Association made the following statement: The Football Association can c...

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WATCH: Japanese Striker Kicks Football Into Moving Bus

Huffington Post UK | Alastair Plumb | Posted 20.01.2012 | UK Comedy

Read More: Celtic, Glasgow, Football Free Kick, Soccer, Football, Nakamura, Scotland, Shunsuke Nakamura, UK Viral Videos, Japanese, Japan, Free Kick, Video, UK Comedy News

Japanese free kick virtuoso Shunsuke Nakamura played for Celtic from 2005 to 2009, where he regularly wowed the crowds with his precise set pieces. ...

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England Football Fan Jailed For Three Years Over Fatal Punch

PA | Posted 21.12.2011 | UK

Read More: Old Bailey, Sports, UK News, Football, Soccer, Football-Violence, UK News

An England football fan who killed a Wales fan outside Wembley Stadium in a "heartbreaking" attack has been jailed for three years. Michael Dye, 44...

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John Terry Race Row: Footballer Will Be Charged With Racially Abusing Anton Ferdinand

PA | Posted 21.12.2011 | UK

Read More: Chelsea Football Club, John Terry Race Row, UK News, UK Crime, John Terry, UK Football, UK Sport, UK Soccer, UK News

England and Chelsea football captain John Terry will be charged with racially abusing Queens Park Rangers player Anton Ferdinand, the Crown Prosecutio...

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John Terry Race Row: Crown Prosecution Service Charge Decision Due

PA | Posted 20.02.2012 | UK

Read More: Football, Chelsea, John Terry Race Row, Queens Park Rangers, John Terry, UK Football, Chelsea Football Club, Anton Ferdinand, UK News, UK Sport, Chelsea FC, Soccer, UK News

Prosecutors are expected to announce today whether footballer John Terry will be charged over his alleged racial slur against Anton Ferdinand. The ...

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England Footballer 'Shocked' By Cousin's Violent Murder

PA | Posted 19.02.2012 | UK

Read More: UK Crime, St Lucia, Football, UK Football, UK News, UK Sport, England Football, Jermain Defoe's Cousin Stabbed, Jermain Defoe, Soccer, UK News

England footballer Jermain Defoe said today that he was "shocked and saddened" after his cousin was stabbed to death. It is understood Allan Edgar,...

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WATCH: The Own Goal To End All Own Goals

Huffington Post | Alastair Plumb | Posted 20.12.2011 | UK Comedy

Read More: Blunder, Own Goal, Fail, Video, Soccer, Football, Hong Kong, UK Viral Videos, Web's Funniest, UK Weird News, Festus Baise, UK Comedy News

No-one's ever proud of scoring an own goal - but if you're ever going to score one, you better pray it's as magnificent as this glorious scorpion kick...

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Why Kim Jong-Il's Death Got Me Thinking Of Football.

Matthew Handley | Posted 18.02.2012 | UK

Read More: Pyongyang, South Africa, Football, Dictator, Soccer, Regime, Jong Tae-Se, Dictatorship, Cape Town, Portugal, Debate Mate, Brazil, World Cup, Kim Jong-Il Dies, North Korea, Kim Jong-Il, Kim Jong-Il Dead, UK News

With Kim Jong-Il's death part of the seemingly impenetrable opacity of North Korea may have just been breached. Maybe one day the world will get to see 'the real Korea'. Until then however, we have to find alternate ways of understanding this most complex of regimes; I'd argue that football isn't a bad place to start.

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Darren Fletcher - Colitis Doesn't Care Who You Are

Ian Wilson | Posted 14.02.2012 | UK

Read More: Colitis, Sports, Russell Martin, UK Sport, Ulcerative Colitis, Norwich City, Soccer, Football, Scotland, Darren Fletcher, Manchester United, Man U, UK News

On hearing the news that Manchester United and Scotland footballer Darren Fletcher is taking an extended break from football due to on-going issues with ulcerative colitis, my heart truly sank. Colitis is a terrible debilitating condition that has the potential to be life-threatening.

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How the X Factor Can be Manipulated to Benefit Men Worldwide

Aaron Downey | Posted 10.02.2012 | UK Entertainment

Read More: Arsenal FC, Simon Cowell, Marcus Collins, Dermot O'Leary, Simon Cowell the X Factor, Soccer, Football, X Factor, Arsenal, Little Mix, UK Entertainment News

For most men in the United Kingdom, the X Factor represents several months of mind-numbing, repetitive singing by people they don't care about, compet...

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Are Spurs Now London's Strongest Side?

Duncan Tucker | Posted 30.01.2012 | UK

Read More: English Premier League, Tottenham, Chelsea, Arsenal, Soccer, Football, Spurs, UK Sport, UK News

If Spurs can continue the form that has made this their best start to the league since the double-winning season of 1960-61 then this will be the year they establish themselves as the top team in London.

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Gary Speed's Last Interview: Wife And Children Are Things I 'Cherish The Most'

PA | Posted 30.11.2011 | UK

Read More: Wales Manager, Depression, UK News, Gary Speed Dead, Football, Soccer, Footballer, Suicide, Pa, Louis Speed, Hanging, Premier League, Hanged, News, Wales, UK News

Wales football manager Gary Speed described his wife and children as the thing he "cherished the most" in a poignant interview given shortly before hi...

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Heading A Football 'Can Lead To Brain Damage'

PA | Posted 29.11.2011 | UK

Read More: Sports, Games, Rugby, UK News, Brain, Research, Children, Health, Soccer, Press Association, Brain Damage, Pa, Ball, News, Team, Header, UK News

Heading a football too often can lead to brain damage, scientists have warned. New research by the Radiological Society of North America found that...

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