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Following the game changing refereeing incidents in the World Cup’s second round, FIFA president Sepp Blatter has announced that the use of technology to help referees will be back on the agenda the next time all of soccer’s bigwigs meet for lunch. I’m not sure why so many people seem to think this means change is on the way, when it is a rather obvious empty promise from an organization that had to say something in the wake of the weekend’s action. Nevertheless, let’s run with the idea as we look back at the most famous refereeing errors in World Cup’s past to see how the course of soccer history might have been altered by video replays. No. 5: Geoff Hurst’s Second Goal—England vs. West Germany (1966) With the 1966 World Cup final between England and West Germany in extra—tim...

Could this male help? In a issue of Englands World Cup exit, a media as well as a fans have been already planning for 2014, as well as a European Championships in 2012. There have been calls for a brand brand new manager, an renovate of a patrol as well as even a shift to a made at home league. However, which is all obscuring a categorical point. England did all they could, they attempted their best, as well as it wasnt great enough. They strike their ceiling. The calls for changes have been rubbish, a brand brand new manager would really be a hillside from Capello. Everyone really knows this, a calls for a shift have been only to see a fresh face as well as get everyone to forget about a dismal campaign. A shift of manager would really not be beneficial. The players havent stopped listening to him, as well as in interviews he has appeared to assimilate his mistakes. That is really better starting brazen than a brand brand new oldster who will positively have his own learning curve. T...

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After copiousness of speculation as well as calculated designs, Arsenal has officially suggested photographs of their brand brand brand brand new football pack for a 2010-11 season. As suggested two days ago, Arsenals brand brand brand brand new home shirt is a classical retro pattern which is really suggestive of a same shirt which Arsenal won a 1970-71 double in. The brand brand brand brand new Arsenal jersey features a white rounded collar, white sleeves, red cuffs as well as a important red shirt. Designed as well as made by Nike, a brand brand brand brand new Arsenal home jersey features Dri-Fit fabric, which claims to be thirteen per cent lighter than previous kits. Plus, similar to most of a brand brand brand brand new shirts from Nike, a shirt is made from recycled cosmetic bottles. More images of a brand brand brand brand new Arsenal home jersey can be found after a burst including images of Arsenal stars Andrei Arshavin as well as Thomas Vermaelen wearing a brand brand brand...

Baines joined from Wigan in 2007 Defender Leighton Baines has signed a new five-year deal with Everton. The 25-year-old was part of England coach Fabio Capello's provisional World Cup squad of 30 players but failed to make the final 23 for South Africa. "It was simple - it would've been done sooner if I hadn't been on holiday," said the left-back, who joined Everton from Wigan in 2007 in a £6m deal. The Goodison outfit have also signed French teenager Magaye Gueye from Strasbourg on a five-year deal. The French Under-21 international, who turns 20 next week, scored nine times for the French second division side last season and arrives at the Premier League club for an undisclosed fee. Gueye becomes Everton's third signing of the summer following the arrival of strikers Je...

New Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson will have a major restructuring job on his hands at Anfield with questions marks over the futures of a number of his senior players like midfield anchor Javier Mascherano and forward Ryan Babel. But he will also be looking to bring in some new players to help him lift the club out of their slump and depending on who leaves, Hodgson could be sitting on a £50m+ transfer kitty. So who will be going through the Anfield revolving door this summer? MirrorFootball has all the ins and outs. OUT: Yossi Benayoun Deal already done to take him to Chelsea for £5m. Albert Riera After a spectacular fall-out with Rafa Benitez, he was told he would be sold, and that still stands, with a £5m price tag on his head. Ryan Babel Squad player at best, Birmingham were due to sign him in January for around £10m, and could still be interested in the deal. David Ngog Failed as understudy to Torres, will be allowed to go for £2m. Diego Cavalieri Understudy keep...

Arsenal have revealed their new home kit for the 2010-11 season - and MirrorFootball has this exclusive first picture of Thomas Vermaelen wearing the retro-style Nike shirt. The classic design has already proved a big hit with the big Belgian defender. “I really like this new kit. It’s the typical colours for Arsenal, white and red, and it’s really nice. Every club has their own traditional colours. For Arsenal it’s red and white and that’s the way it’s supposed to be.” If the kit's '70s-styled design is traditional, then the technology behind it is cutting edge. Every shirt is made entirely from recycled polyester, crafted from up to eight plastic water bottles as part of Nike’s ‘Considered Design’ programme, which sees discarded plastic bottles diverted from landfills to be used in the manufacturing process. Vermaelen also praised the kit’s recycled makeup: “It’s good I think, these days the environment is really important for the world and it’s good that Nike cares...

guardian.co.uk by Paul Hayward The Black Stars carry Africa's hopes as the World Cup's powerhouses gather their stride towards the final This World Cup is heading towards the hallucinatory opera of Diego Maradona becoming the Franz Beckenbauer of the rehab age. There could be no more uproarious outcome than El Diego emulating Der Kaiser by adding a World Cup won as a coach to the one he landed as a player. To predict that melodramatic ending when Maradona was going through the Argentine phone book to try dozens of players in qualifying would have invited ridicule but his team's progress has been so serene that purists are dreaming of an Argentina v Brazil final in Soccer City on Sunday week. This would pit the bad overcoats and regimentation of Dunga against the cigar smoke and volatility of a rival who was the Brazil coach's antithesis as a player. But first the quarter-finals serve up a scenario that would add much greater resonance than a mere touchline cabaret to A...

A bad time to be an England player, a great time to be a trouserless mayor. First, a players, who a tabloids are starting for as well as it isnt pretty. Yesterday a Mirror held Ashley Cole as well as Ledley King shouting in public as well as utterly righteously went big upon a crime. The Sun werent starting to be outdone as well as currently came up with a belter a photo of a England players having a drink up after a Germany game. To be fair it wasnt a best drink up Ive ever seen, what with there being two bottles of beer upon display for ten grown men as well as nobody actually appearing to be drinking, though The Sun have made their point. For a foreseeable destiny its open season upon a England players as well as management as well as we have to contend Im concerned. Elsewhere today, at a propagandize in Leicester, a newly inaugurated mayor was forced to apologise after pang a habit malfunction that onlookers described as something out of a Carry On film. As Mayor Hall stood up in...

There is a stream malaise effecting roughly everybody in England which follows a inhabitant side, from fans, retailers, journalists as good as TV executives. The finger of blame is being forked fairly equally in between Fabio Capello as good as a rarely paid, rarely hyped as good as self important members of a squad. Ashley Cole, despite being a usually initial group unchanging who can honestly reason his head tall after a South Africa debacle, is right away being accused of hating his nation due to content messages assumingly sent before to a tournament. Yet there have been dual points which have been clearly being paper-covered over as good as as prolonged as it continues, England will continue to regress. Firstly is a uselessness of a Football Association as good as a second is a quality of coaching in England. The F.A. board, when a not embroiling itself in comedy crisis which have been customarily self inflicted is a strange beast. Made up of a set of people whos usually seductiv...

Everton has strictly unveiled their brand new home football pack for a 2010-11 season. Evertons brand new home shirt from Le Coq Sportif facilities a simple nonetheless elegant blue tip with white trim (see above pattern featuring Tim Cahill wearing a kit). The shirt additionally facilities a call of blue across a top part of a chest, a stylistic underline that is additionally included in Evertons brand new away kit. Everton will wear their brand new home pack for a initial time upon Jul 10th, when they face Sydney FC during a first-team squads pre-season tour of Australia. In further to a tie opposite Sydney FC, a Blues will play two other games while Down Under, opposite Melbourne Heart upon Jul fourteen and Brisbane Roar upon Jul 17. Another photo of a brand new Everton home pack can be seen after a jump. Share your feedback about a brand new Everton football shirt pattern in a comments section below. For a largest selection of Premier League shirts for all 20 clubs, revisit theEPL...

Hes had the successful World Cup as well as valid last deteriorate he can fool around in the Premier League, though should Landon Donovan join big spending Manchester City this summer? Donovan is right away in tall demand, though is Manchester City the right fit for the US internationals second go during the Premier League? As reported by Yahoo! Sports, the Champions League-hungry Mancunians have been offering somewhere in the area of $12 million to the LA Galaxy of MLSfor the services of the former Everton upon loan midfielder. Weve been down this road prior to youre thinking, after dual flattering catastrophic stints in the German Bundesliga, Donovan eventually valid his worth in the single of the worlds many rival leagues when he joined Everton upon loan last winter. In the handful of starts as well as appearances, thirteen to be exact, Donovan showed hes got the pace as well as technical ability to contest in the Premier League. So with the plain integrate ofmonths during Everton ...

Weve seen 19 true days of World Cup soccer. During that time, weve watched an mind boggling 56 games. There have been plenty of highs, lots of controversy and a few lows. But how does this World Cup compare to prior ones in your opinion? Better or worse, or same? Vote in a poll below. And Im interested to read your opinions in a comments section below. Is World Cup 2010 better or worse than WC 2006, WC 2002, WC 1998, WC 1994, etc? Ill share my feedback after so we dont pitch a voting in a certain direction. View Poll Related posts: Poll: How Will a Premier League Be Affected By Englands World Cup Exit? Poll: Which Team Has Been a Worst In a 2010 World Cup? World Cup Poll: Should England Pick David James or Joe Hart? World Soccer News | Video | Podcast | Gallery | Live Streaming