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FA Youth Cup Final tonight

By 6000 | 6000 | May 23, 2011

Sheffield United’s much-vaunted Academy side goes to Old Trafford tonight in the second leg of the FA Youth Cup Final. Now that might not sound like a big deal to anyone else, but the first leg at Beautiful Downtown Bramall Lane last Tuesday attracted a crowd of 29,977. For a Youth game. Put that in [...]

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So close…

By 6000 | 6000 | May 21, 2011

I’m getting a little tired of writing hard luck football stories: England, Sheffield United, Sheffield United, Sheffi… look – you get my point, right? But here’s another hard luck football story anyway. It concerns local boys Ajax Cape Town, who, thanks to the wonder of mathematics, were guaranteed the PSL title should they beat Maritzburg [...]

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Ajax to return to Cape Town Stadium

By 6000 | 6000 | May 13, 2011

Favourable grass-growing conditions, plus some expert love and care by the Cape Town Stadium groundstaff means that despite previous reports to the contrary, Ajax Cape Town’s final game of the season will be staged at the Mother City’s World Cup venue: Ajax Cape Town is returning to Cape Town Stadium for their last game of [...]

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Notes on the death of football

By 6000 | 6000 | May 4, 2011

A quick post which I can use as an “I told you so” link when football dies in the future or ignore completely should football not die in the future. As I tweeted last night about the football: It saddens me. If the “best team in the world” have to play act like that, what [...]

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Bravery in the face of defeat

By 6000 | 6000 | May 3, 2011

(post title borrowed from The Streets’ track Has It Come To This? [youtube] which is also quite apt) After the upset of Saturday evening, it was heartening to read the first few paragraphs of this: Instead, the team went to every corner of the ground, acknowledging the supporters who had stayed behind to sing ‘We love [...]

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