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by Paul Gardner on Apr 13, 3:35 PM
Here they come ... the astounding, amazing, unprecedented, truly wondrous details of the new astounding, amazing etc Al Rihla, the new WORLD CUP BALL.
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by Paul Gardner on Feb 28, 7:17 PM
When Carlos Cordeiro appeared on the U.S. soccer scene, I dubbed him the Phantom President.
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by Paul Gardner on Feb 22, 10:15 PM
Leeds United's Robin Koch suffered a nasty head injury in last week's game against Manchester United.
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by Paul Gardner on Jan 31, 12:57 AM
We now know so much about the long-term effects -- particularly the behavioral problems -- that head injuries can cause.
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by Paul Gardner on Dec 24, 5:21 PM
Does this complication of soccer improve the game, make it more entertaining, more worth watching?
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by Paul Gardner on Dec 8, 3:16 PM
This starts way back, way, way back, during the 1940s when I was a teenager in England. The war had just ended
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by Paul Gardner on Oct 25, 3:02 AM
Maybe, amid the welter of La Liga, Serie A, EPL, Bundesliga, La Ligue and MLS games, you will have noticed that Spennymoor FC took on Team Solan.
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by Paul Gardner on Oct 6, 11:43 PM
I'll start this by going back three years, almost to the day. It's October 7, 2018. We're at Anfield. TV pundit Graeme Souness was beside himself.
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by Paul Gardner on Sep 29, 3:12 AM
I'm not the praying sort, but how I wished for that goal. Me and tens of thousands of others. And Raul.
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by Paul Gardner on Sep 23, 8:52 PM
That concussion protocol is often not being taken seriously, and not properly administered, has been pretty obvious for some time.
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by Paul Gardner on Sep 20, 7:34 PM
My thoughts and opinions about soccer, a somewhat incoherent bustling jumble, received a jolt on Sunday morning.
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by Paul Gardner on Aug 30, 3:48 AM
A week or so ago I was busy damning FIFA and IFAB for not making rule changes that would ensure that soccer would be an entertaining game.
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by Paul Gardner on Aug 20, 5:02 AM
UEFA has ditched the away-goals rule. Good news or bad news? Neither, really. Simply a matter of facing up to the facts.
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by Paul Gardner on Aug 3, 3:13 PM
We now have the FA researchers sitting on a mountain of research, virtually all of which points in one direction.
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by Paul Gardner on Jul 26, 2:21 PM
Brutality? In soccer? Not very often, I would think. I don't ever remember using the word myself, and am pretty sure I haven't ever heard it from soccer people.