January 2011
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The journey to TAL
Photographs of the walk to Ten Acres Lane on a crisp winters day. Show the wonderfully different dimensions in Manchester. New developments juxtaposed with local life and former industrial glory. All spotted at Deadbeat Descendants Flickr…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/58709557@N07/sets/72157625769442943/
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Stop it Eric!
Eric Cantona has joined the New York Cosmos as Director of Football. As many people have pointed out, this could be a difficult role considering the team doesnt currently exist or have a ground (rented or otherwise. Yeah yeah, I know FC are just tenants too).
Judging by the photo shoots, it would appear his job will be mostly sitting around in thrones pretending to be Billy Idol or David...
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Sam Ashton - better than Pele
A while back, there was a slightly daft attempt (I think by FIFA) to judge who was the best football player ever. I say its daft, because its quite hard to compare players from different eras. The ball is different, training methods better etc. Anyway Pele is probably quite a nice chap, but Maradona shouldve won it, if I remember rightly. Not quite fitting with the image wanted by FIFA (they...
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St Pauli - Ive seen it happen, in other peoples...
The details of the developments at St Pauli recently have been documented and will be available to read in the next printed issue of A Fine Lung (due out end of Feb hopefully), so I wont dwell on them in detail here, but its fair to say we have a situation on our hands. A clear case of commercial creep by those elected to be in charge versus a large section of the match-going fanbase (a recent...
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It'll be back!
With much delight, I discovered that the blog It’ll Be Off, is back up and posting. Offering a delicious blend of FCUM related comment and sarcasm, I can thoroughly recommend you adding it to your favourites bar or RSS feed!
http://itllbeoff.wordpress.com/
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Government in "being a load of divs" shocker -...
A little while ago, it was linked to on here, that one of the coaches in FC United Community Programmes, Mehdi Mirzae, was being threatened with being forcibly removed from the UK and sent back to Afghanistan, this despite him being a resident of Manchester since 2003 and an active member of the community.
That was back in October and his removal was successfully halted. However, since then he...
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