Squarefootball Diary

Squarefootball diary brought via the medium of football tweets on Twitter. 23:37 Squarefootball Diary bit.ly/dbqxh #sqf # 12:17 Dare Rafa Benitez play Torres and Gerrard tonight? bit.ly/2rMyGX # 12:39 Dare Rafa Benitez play Torres and Gerrard tonight?: International breaks are tricky things. Four ...

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Liverpool must beware Birmingham late show

Liverpool face an obdurate Birmingham with question marks remaining over star players. With Chelsea, Arsenal, Aston Villa and Tottenham winning at the weekend Liverpool need to win if they are to keep pace with the top four. The international break can seem awfully long if you are itching to set r...

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Dare Rafa Benitez play Torres and Gerrard tonight?

International breaks are tricky things. Four weeks ago Liverpool lost Ferndando Torres and Steven Gerrard to short-term injuries - but both need either rest or surgery over the next few weeks to rectify the situation. And although Torres only initially missed two matches he was clearly playing wit...

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Good News At Last For Northwich Fans

The FA Cup can reward struggling teams whose supporters have had to put up with a diet of gloom for many years. This year Northwich Victoria have finally found some luck and after beating Charlton Athletic they will be at home again in Round Two. Home for the Vics used to be the Drill Field where t...

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Wigan Athletic vs Fulham: First goal wins?

Not usually a high scoring game between Wigan and Fulham as the history of this fixture in the top flight (8 games) has seen just 9 goals. This is a game between two evenly matched sides with similar budgets and adjacently placed in lower mid-table - this really could be a case of first goal wins. ...

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Hull City vs Stoke City: Icarus and father

Hull and Stoke came up together in 2008, but whereas Stoke settled quickly into midtable Hull's tale has been more akin to Icarus - flying high before crashing towards the waves. There is a lot of speculation that unless Phil Brown gets a win in this game then he will be sacked, and the new owner wa...

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Chelsea v Manchester United: Fergie set to leave capital with the Blues

The Premier League leaders entertain the champions Manchester United this afternoon in arguably the biggest game of the season so far and surprisingly no-one in our Panel has plumped for a United victory. Chelsea have made a strong start to the season and are currently in excellent form. They have ...

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West Ham United v Everton: Hammers have mid-table in their sights

West Ham United and Everton have both underperformed this season but while Gianfranco’s Hammers are beginning to show signs of progress Moyes’s Toffees go into this afternoon’s clash searching their first league win since September. Both teams were tipped for a decent campaign this season but the H...

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Squarefootball Diary - Saturday 7 November 2009

Squarefootball diary brought via the medium of football tweets on Twitter. 09:36 Manchester City v Burnley: Is another away day horror show on the cards for Burnley?: Manchester City have.. bit.ly/PZWAg #sqf # 12:38 Wolverhampton Wanderers v Arsenal: Gunners have the leaders in their sights: Both...

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Why Chelsea will beat Manchester United?

The Premier League’s top two clash at the Bridge on Sunday but in my mind there’s only going to be one winner and that’s the boys in Blue. Most teams fear the arrival of the champions Manchester United, but Chelsea thrive on meetings with the Red Devils. They have taken more points off Fergie’s me...

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Villa look to four-get recent form against Bolton

Two struggling teams meet, with Villa seventeenth in the Premier League form guide after picking up just six points from the last six games; Bolton are a point from the relegation zone but have won two of their last three away games. With eight draws in the last twelve meetings between Villa and Bo...

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Wolverhampton Wanderers v Arsenal: Gunners have the leaders in their sights

Both Wolves and Arsenal go into today’s game full of confidence after morale-boosting results last weekend. While Wenger’s men were tearing their north London rivals Spurs apart at the Emirates, Wolves showed their true grit and determination against Staffordshire foes Stoke City, coming from two ...

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Manchester City v Burnley: Is another away day horror show on the cards for Burnley?

Manchester City have only lost once this season but after four draws on the trot Mark Hughes has to get City back to winning ways this afternoon against a Burnley side who are frankly hopeless on the road. City should be buoyed by the return of former Arsenal duo Toure and Adebayor who were sorely ...

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Squarefootball Diary - Friday 6 November 2009

Squarefootball diary brought via the medium of football tweets on Twitter. 01:19 And thanks to @Football_Journo - who is the latest to be my 100th follower - cheers!! # 01:2411:33 Boltons canny thoughts of Premier League Division 2 bit.ly/3VmsXQ # 11:37 Boltons canny thoughts of Premier League Di...

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Blackburn Rovers v Portsmouth: Pompey aim to pile pressure on Big Sam

Portsmouth may be bottom of the table but they are riding high in confidence following Saturday’s 4-0 thumping of Wigan Athletic. A clinical Dindane hat-trick lifted Pompey to within touching distance of their rivals and gives their survival hopes a huge boost. Paul Hart’s men travel to Ewood Park...

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Tottenham Hotspur v Sunderland: Bent seeks revenge on Redknapp

Darren Bent returns to his old stomping ground this weekend with a real point to prove. The former Charlton and Ipswich frontman believes he was never given a fair crack of the whip at White Hart Lane and was way down the pecking order in Redknapp’s eyes. However, the England international has redis...

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Prediction Panel Commentary Round 11

A better week for the panel after last week's disaster, with around half the results correctly picked and 10% of scores predicted accurately. In terms of results Chelsea and Manchester United winning were easy enough and given their form, most people had Arsenal to beat Spurs - but Liverpool losing...

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The Liverpool revival starts on Monday

Everything runs in cycles and Liverpool have recently had the equivalent of a solar eclipse in the third week of December - black patches in an otherwise grey sky; but cycles, like winters and eclipses end. And Liverpool really should be seeing the light any day now. Firstly since thrashing Hull 6...

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Bolton's canny thoughts of Premier League Division 2

The gap in finances between the Premier League and Championship is turning into a chasm and increasingly the clubs that have finances suggesting that they will finish below tenth are favouring a Premier League Division 2. This new second division is most prominently pursued by Bolton's Phil Gartsid...

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Squarefootball Diary - Thursday 6 November 2009

Squarefootball diary brought via the medium of football tweets on Twitter.01:09 #Arsenal are absolutely brilliant at the moment - great goals, great teamwork - must put Fabregas into my Fantasy side ... # 07:38 Chelsea: Besides Rooney, would any Manchester United stars get into your starting XI?: ...

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Chelsea: Besides Rooney, would any Manchester United stars get into your starting XI?

Premier League leaders Chelsea welcome the champions Manchester United to the Bridge this weekend in arguably the biggest game of the season so far. Just two points separate the English giants but the Red Devils know a defeat in West London would severely damage their hopes of lifting a fourth succe...

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Squarefootball Diary - Wednesday 5 November 2009

Squarefootball diary brought via the medium of football tweets on Twitter.06:37 Hammers and Villains seek happy days: Both West Ham United and Aston Villa go into tonight’s game at the B.. bit.ly/16SZ7K#sqf # 09:49 Not sure if sticking @StJamesPark at the end of the name helps really, what if the ...

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Liverpool have focus - its the players that are a worry

Liverpool play Lyon in a game where defeat could take qualification out of their hands; on the back of six losses in the last seven games. If Lyon avoid defeat then the French team will have qualified and that could be disastrous for Liverpool as Lyon's next game is against Fiorentina - in a match ...

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Hammers and Villains seek happy days

Both West Ham United and Aston Villa go into tonight’s game at the Boleyn Ground on the back of two draws but both teams are desperate for the win, although for very different reasons. West Ham United have picked up two points from their last two games but are only kept off the bottom of the table ...

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Squarefootball Diary - Tuesday 3 November 2009

Squarefootball diary brought via the medium of football tweets on Twitter.11:07 Guardian: CL cash is pro-rata to games played so if #Liverpool eliminated then there are extra £ms to #Arsenal #Chelsea #ManUtd # 11:11 Guardian: Lyon may miss 4 central halves - Boumsong(!), Bodmer, Anderson and poss...

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The legal threat to NewsNow and all football websites

I've been using NewsNow for football news since I moved onto the web in the late 1990s - so it is with some disquiet that I read an open letter from the NewsNow CEO asking all the major newspapers to stop threatening his organisation with legal action if NewsNow didn't stop offering links to the new...

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Everton says that Liverpool FC is the most popular club*

Social Media (web 2.0 is so 2008) is starting to dominate the thoughts of our top football clubs, to the extent that the official Everton website is now urging the club's fans to sign up for Facebook and "Help the Blues become league champions and show the rest of the Premier League why Evertonians ...

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Michael Owen could dream a dream against CSKA

Michael Owen's dreams do not concern scoring the winning goal for England in the World Cup final - and that's official. In fact Owen barely thinks about England at all, as his quotes about England that he made yesterday make clear. "I don't go to bed thinking about if I will play for England again...

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