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Stuttgart 1-3 Arsenal

Aresenal defeated Stuttgart 3-1 in the first match at Stuttgart’s new stadium. Stuttgart scored first in the 51 st minute but Arsenal replied with 3 goals in the space of 15 minutes to score a convinving victory.
Check out the highlights below.

Basturk scored for the home side but Wilshere, Vela and Bendtner replied for Arsenal

An end to referee intimidation ?

n an effort to rid football referees of the fear of intimidation at all levels in the sport the Football Association are set to introduce a new rule at the beginning of next season which will only allow team captains to approach the referee over a disputed decision.

The Premiership begins on August sixteenth and it is expected that ,apart from a few minor tweaks, the rule will be in force then. The new rule, however, will apply to all levels in the game from the very highest competitions to school matches.

Don’t think its necessary ? Try attending school boy games where there are often as many disputed decisions as in the top flight.

The rule, the FA hopes, will mean an end to groups of yelling, screaming players haranguing refs for decisions that they don’t agree with.

 

Currently there are over 40000 registered football teams in the UK but only 30000 qualified referees. This amounts to a shortage but no matter what moves the FA takes to try to reduce the shortage they fail, mainly due to the fact that for all the new referees that are trained annually at least as many give up every year.

The reasons- simple. By and large referees are unwilling to put up with the levels of abuse and often physical intimidation that are handed out by players, spectators and parents.

Parents are often the worst- disagreeing violently with referees’ decisions which deprive their beloved child of a free kick or a goal or whatever!

Parents and other spectators will be asked to stand in roped off areas .Additionally players and managers at all levels of the game will be subject to harsher penalties than currently.

This is part of the FAs respect agenda to restore some sort of order to the beautiful game- a game which is turning ever more ugly due to mass dissent by players.

I, for one hope that the FA stands by any measures-it is time that football players, premiership players in particular, acted as role models both for young players and for youth in general.

If young players see their idols behaving like spoilt children is it any wonder that the schoolboy game is subject to protests and arguments which mirror the premiership.

From August only the captain will be able to communicate with the referee and any protest will go through one person. This will add to the influence of the captain on the pitch and prevent the type of mass hysteria practised by Chelsea and other teams in the premiership.

Lets hope it works.

 - referee attacked after dishing out yellow card

Inter Milan 0-0 AC Milan

AC Milan win the 2008 TIM Trophy after winning both matches of this pre-season friendly game tournament. Both wins were closely fought and completed after penalty shoot-outs.

Inter Milan menawhile registered two defeats. Jose Mourinho’s side lost the second match in the shoot-out against AC Milan after drawing 0-0 during normal time. Milan won a spectacular and tensely fought shoot-out 4-3 and clinched the trophy for the third time .
Check out the highlights.

Juventus 1-0 Inter Milan

Juventus won their second and last match of the 2008 TIM Cup. Caludio Ranieri’s side  defeated the Serie A Champions, Inter Milan,  1-0.  Iaquinta scored the only goal of the game for Juventus in the 26th minute.

 Del Piero came close on 2 occasions, hitting the post twice. 

Check out the highlights below.

Juventus 2-2 AC Milan

AC Milan won the first meeting of the 2008 edition of the TIM Cup. The match with Juventus ended 2-2 after normal time and Rossoneri made the difference at the penalty shoot-out.

Seedorf had opened the scoring for Carlo Ancelotti’s side with a great long range shot that flew just under the crossbar. Trezeguet equalized for Juventus with a clever sliding deflection

Check out the highlights below.

Borussia Dortmand 2-1 Bayern Munich

Borussia Dortmund have won the 2008 German Supercup after  defeating Bundesliga champions, Bayern Munich 2-1.

Jürgen Klopp’s  Borussia Dortmand  was the more adventurous during the meeting. Jakub Baszczykowski  scored first in the 29th minute andTamas Hajnal made it 2-0 to Borussia  two minutes later with a stunning free kick .

Check out the highlights above.

Bayern Munich missed a great chance in the first half as Miroslav Klose shoot wide from  close in while Ekici eventually pulled one back for Klinsmann’s side in the 72nd minute. It wasn’t enough,however, and Dortmund ran out comfortable winners.

Sporting Lisbon 2-1 Blackburn Rovers

Blackburn continued their Portuguese pre-season tournament but lost 2-1 against Sporting Lisbon on Saturday.

Benedict McCarthy opened the score, for the Premier League side, in the 20th minute from a controversial penalty kick. Sporting Lisbon equalized within a minute as Pedro’s long range shot was unstoppable.

Tonel hit the winner, from close range ,for Lisbon in the 73rd minute.

Check out the goals below.

FC Porto 0-1 Celtic

Celtic beat FC Porto in Portugal with a late 88th minute goal scored by Jan Vennegoor . The Dutchman headed the ball into the net after a courageous jump.

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Manchester United 4-0 Kaizer Chiefs

Check out the great video of Manchester United’s easy defeat of the Kaizer chiefs in the final of the Vodacom trophy.

Ryan Giggs and Wayne Rooney both found the target at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium, as did Tom Cleverley and Fraizer Campbell.

 This  was an easy win for Manchester  United as the Kaizer Chiefs looked tired after beating Orlando Pirates on Thursday.

The first of many trophies for United this season ?

Steaua Bucuresti 3-1 AS Roma

AS Roma started their pre-season friendly games with an away game against top Romanian  team, Steaua Bucharest. The Italians were beaten comfortably and were weak tactically.

Steaua,  scored three times against the runners up in the Serie A  last season.

Dayro Moreno  scored first in the 8th minute after chipping  Roma’s goalkeeper. Bogdan Stancu made it 2-0 in the 75th minute with a close range header after a corner kick  Adrian Neaga made it 3-0 for the Romanian side. A surprise this as on paper the Italians were a far stronger team.

Mirco Vucinic scored the consolation goal for AS Roma in injury time with a  long range free kick . Check out the goals below.

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