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Pundit-o-meter (Updated)
It's back, and at popular request, more pundits, from the good, to the bad, to Paul Merson,
have been added.
Click here
to see who's hot and who's not on the md pundit-o-meter.
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Steve Sherwood's Soccer Slang (NEW!)
A Watford legend back in the Graham Taylor heydays, Steve went onto even greater things in the 1990's when he
became Professor of Footballing Vernacularisms at the University of Basingstoke. Now
he brings you his favourite
selection of soccer slang...
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The Ugliest Footballers (Updated)
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the midfield dynamo player's section, we bring you the
another 10 of your nominations for the ugliest footballers ever...
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England Boss Opening Games (Updated)
At the start of the month (to celebrate the appointment of Fab Capello) we brought you the England's gaffers
opening games from the 1960's and 70's. Well it's the turn of the 80's and 90's next, from Sir Bobby through to
King Kev...
Click here
for the details.
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Footballers Nicknames (Updated)
Vindaloo, le Prince, the Little Donkey, the Blond Arrow and er... Dave are amongst the new player nicknames
that have been added.
Click here
for the full list.
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20 Questions (NEW!)
Photographer Brian Sweeney, who has spent many years snapping football images around the world, as well as
following Celtic and Icelandic club FH, answers our 20 questions this month...
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The Best Player Names (Updated)
Two of our Swiss favourites make the list this week, with defenders
Bernt Haas and
Mr Eggimann
making the list. Thanks to Tony D for his contribution. To see all the other names
click here .
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South American Player of the Award (Updated)
Paraguay striker Salvador Cabanas is the surprising winner of the South American Player
of the Year award, joining the likes of Pele, Figueroa, Zico, Maradona, Socrates and Francescoli
as winner of the competition.
To see the full list of previous winners,
click here.
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Footballers Nicknames (Updated)
Pele, Malcolm McDonald, and The Header-Beast are amongst the latest footballing nicknames
to be added to our list.
Click here
for more.
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Celebrity Footy Fans (Updated)
Forget Goodies star Tim Brooke-Taylor, Wolfie from Citzen Smith, Timothy 'the rather dull 007' Dalton and
er... Maxine from Coro. Yes, there's only one name worth knowing about in our list of
celebrity Derby County fans...
legendary Blue Peter farmer boy Simon Groom, and that dog of his.
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Top 10 Pele's (NEW!)
So you thought Pele was good eh ? Well meet the other ones who, ..er, aren't quite as good., as we list
the
top 10 footballing Pele's....
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England's Highest and Lowest Stadiums (Updated)
Hmmm... what's that smell ? It's the monthly smell of stats.
Previously we just had a top 10, now we've grabbed ourselves a whole load
of Ordnance Survey maps and worked out the height of the rest of the
chuffers.
Click here
to find out where your team figures in the list.
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England Boss Opening Games (NEW!)
It's the poisoned chalice that everyone's after (providing the money's right). Yes, it's the England manager's job.
To celebrate the latest incumbent here's a cut out and keep guide to those happy opening games, where even
Steve McClaren looked as though he knew what he was doing.
The day when an England manager could emerge from the Wembley tunnel with a smile on his face.
Safe in the knowledge that he wasn't going to be humiliated the next day by the tabloids or
Spitting Image or some bird on the make at the FA.
First up we look at the
bosses from the 1960's and 70's.
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The Most Bizarre Transfers Ever (Updated)
8 goals in nearly 50 games in the 4th tier of English football was enough to persuade Italian club
Verona to successfully bid for Oxford Utd's Craig Davies back in 2006. For this and
more, go to our list of football's
most bizarre transfers.
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World Record Transfer Fees (NEW!)
Ok, so the transfer window has just been slammed shut, and whilst there was a fair bit of
activity on a manic last day, nothing claim close to breaking into
this list.
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The Best Player Names (Updated)
You couldn't make it up - 3 appropriately named players:
Dropsy,
Diver and
Misse Misse
are the latest entries to our list of weird and wonderful footballer names.
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Fancy That ! The 3pm Boys (NEW!)
Larry and Kenny are back with more gossip from the
world of football including the latest on Ashley Cole
and Iva Longoria.
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Fancy That ! Top Spots (NEW!)
"He's been away, for far too long,
And now that he's back, we'll sing this song...
Nah-nah-na-nah. Nah-nah-na-nah........"
Yes, Shreevesy is back with his latest roundup of your top footballing spots, including some interesting sightings
of Ian Ormonroyd and Carlton Palmer.
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Italian Footballing Nicknames (NEW!)
28.01.08 To go with the English, German and Spanish sections, we've now started an Italian section
for footballers nicknames.
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Fancy That ! Sir Trevor Brooking (NEW!)
25.01.08 You've read all about Lee Bowyer's love of the opera, Graeme Le Saux scoffing down
turkey twizzlers and micro chips, and Kevin Keegan stroking a gerbil during his days in Germany.
Now it's time to get the lowdown on everyone's favourite FA director as we bring you
10 surprising facts about Sir Trevor Brooking.
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The Best Club Names (NEW!)
24.01.08 Following the success of our
list of amusing and often puerile player names
we have added a section for club names too.
Click here for the full list.
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Top Spanish Hard-men (NEW!)
23.01.08 Yes, alright, there can be only one winner, but apart from the Butcher of Bilbao
who else makes our top 10 ?
Click here
to find out.
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Europe's Largest Stadiums (Updated)
22.01.08 Time for an update on this, as good old Wembley hadn't been finished when we first did this list.
Click here
for the updated list.
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Ballon d'Or Award (Updated)
21.01.08 Lionel Messi, Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo were the 3 highest nominations for Europe's most
prestigious individual award. To see which one of them took the trophy home, and
to see the full list of previous winners,
click here.
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The Dyanamos (NEW!)
20.01.08 Could they one day be the footballing equivalent of the Oscars ? Probably not.
Anyway, they're called the Dynamos, and they're our not very glitzy list of awards to the top football
performers for the year.
To see who our first winners are,
click here.
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Celebrity Footy Fans (Updated)
19.01.08 Random football club alert. Yes, for some reason Michael Harrison has sent us a list of celebrity
Hartlepool Utd fans, so we're obliged to add them to the others on the celb fans page.
He doesn't give any explanation to why Meat Loaf supports them but assures us that he does.
For the full list,
click here.
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Footballers Nicknames (Updated)
17.01.08 More nicknames than you can shake a stick at...
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Top Fan Chants (Updated)
16.01.08 Updated entries for Aberdeen, Atletico Madrid, Colchester, Liverpool, Luton Town, Man City,
Middlesborough, West Brom and York City. Many thanks to all those who contributed.
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Football Curiosities (NEW!)
15.01.08 A new section for the site, as we look at some curiousities and oddities
from the world of football, starting with two interesting tales from the World Cup.
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Spanish Foreign Player of the Year (Updated)
14.01.08 Barcelona's Lionel Messi is the winner of the 2006-07
Spanish Foreign Player of the Year Award (Don Balon Mejor Extranjero de la Liga).
To see the full list of previous winners,
click here.
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10 Contenders for the Newcastle Job (NEW!)
With Big Sam joining that not so exclusive club that is the Former Newcastle Managers Society, the search is on
for a new boss for Premiership football's oddest owner, Mike Ashley, and his robot chairman M.O.R.T. Ashley is
certainly football's least likely looking billionaire. Will he ever speak? Can he speak? He makes Roman Abramovich
seem like Stanley Unwin. Anyway, these are questions for another day. Here at MD we've sifted through the
smoke emanating out of St James Park and
this is our shortlist...
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Premio Golden Boy Award (Updated)
Atletico Madrid's tiny Argentinian maestro Sergio Aguero is Tuttosport's choice for the
2007 Premio Golden Boy award, which is the Italian newspaper's title for the
best under 21 playing in the Europe.
To see the full list of previous winners,
click here.
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The Best Player Names (Updated)
The delightfully named Frenchman Rod Fanni is our latest entry into the growing list
of the best and strangest names in the world of football.
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Trofeo Bravo Award (Updated)
Barcelona's Argentinian wizard Lionel Messi is the not very surprising winner of the 2007 Trofeo Bravo award,
given by an Italian magazine to the best under 21 player in the European leagues.
To see the full list of previous winners,
click here.
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The Worst Transfers Ever (Updated)
He was the most expensive British player ever back in 1979 and the biggest transfer flop
for years, bringing new meaning to the word average, but Steve Daley and Wolves can still look back
and laugh about it. Unlike the followers of Man City...
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The Best Player Names (Updated)
Wiggins-Thomas, Nutter, the Fuchs family (Uwe and his Dad, Fritz), the best named goalkeeper's called
Dean (Brill and Gerkin), and what about Boutabout ? Yes, it's our latest entries to the list of the best
and strangest names in the world of football.
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Celebrity Footy Fans (Updated)
David Icke, Engelbert Humperdinck, Gary Newbon, Roy Cropper, Nicholas Parsons and er, Rusty Lee.
No, it's not the next list of desperate contestants on Celebrity Big Brother but some of Leicester
City's fine array of celebrity fans.
For the full list,
click here.
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