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Threesome: Most boring ever sides
Relentless victory can be difficult to watch – Chelsea, Michael Schumacher and Pete Sampras were often tarred with the “boring” label for merely being better than everyone else – but occasionally football sides who unscrupulously dispense with all attacking tendencies emerge to truly bore the pants off the watching public. eleven-a-side.com looks at three of the most boring teams in living memory.
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Team of the Week #10
The tenth eleven-a-side.com Team of the Week sees some regular faces, including Bohemians goalkeeper Brian Murphy and ever-green Derry City defender Peter Hutton.
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Deano! There’s only one Deano!
Dean Kiely’s decision to retire from the international game was a premature one but Irish fans should be grateful that he is still holds sufficient interest to return to the fold this week.
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Official blunders detract from League improvements
Standards in the eircom League of Ireland have improved year on year in recent seasons – in every aspect, it seems, but the performances of match officials.
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Threesome: Great football ads
We were sufficiently dazzled by the recent television debut of Nike’s two-minute movie, directed by acclaimed film-maker Guy Ritchie, to make great football commercials the subject of this week’s threesome.
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Celtic a steal in SPL bookie battle
The odds still available about Celtic retaining the Scottish Premier League is akin to buying money: Rangers’ bolt is well and truly shot, and a nightmare fixture list over the next fortnight can only nail a few more nails into the Ibrox side’s collective coffin.
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Team of the Week #9
There are two places apiece for weekend winners St Patrick’s Athletic and Sligo Rovers in the ninth eleven-a-side.com Team of the Week, while Anto Flood’s hat-trick for First Division side Shelbourne takes him into the XI for the first time.
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Threesome: Football Philosophers
Having seen this sketch again this week, and read about Roy Keane’s belief in divine predestination, we’ve gone for Football Philosophers as the subject of this week’s Threesome.
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Team of the Week #8
Derry City have three representatives in this week’s eleven-a-side.com Team of the Week following a fine display away to Bohemians last weekend, while there are two apiece for Bray Wanderers and champions Drogheda United.
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Dunne can become key cog in Magpies machine
Revelations that Kevin Keegan has started the procedure to bring Ireland star Richard Dunne to Newcastle should bring plenty of succour to St James’s Park regulars.
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Threesome: Irish money-men
The boardroom manoeuverings of Tom Hicks and George Gillette, the Glazers and Roman Abramovich have hoarded the headlines in the Premier League in recent seasons, but there are Irish money-men ploughing funds into clubs here and in the UK.
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Team of the Week #7
Bohemians dominate the seventh eleven-a-side.com Team of the Week selection following their fine win at the home of champions Drogheda United on Sunday evening, while Bray Wanderers, Cork City and UCD are also doubly-represented.
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Sam has the class to become Celtic legend
News that Georgios Samaras will not return to Manchester City should force Celtic manager Gordon Strachan – or whoever is in charge at Parkhead this summer – to make the Greek star a permanent fixture at Parkhead.
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The struggles of Reading’s Irish
Kevin Doyle and Stephen Hunt were both dropped by Reading manager Steve Coppell for Saturday’s meeting with Arsenal. Are they just in need of a rest? Or, more worryingly, have they been exposed as short of the requisite class?
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Threesome: Great own goals
After last week’s hat-trick of players who couldn’t believe they missed, the second eleven-a-side.com Threesome continues the theme of footballing mishaps by looking at three who wish they had.
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