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Celtic 2- 4 Rangers

So-how many times do Rangers win away in Old firm matches ?

Answer-not many. But that’s exactly what happened today in an exciting match at  Celtic Park.

Rangers went 1-0 up through  the goal below by Cousin.

Samaras,however,to the delight of the Celtic fans equalised just before half time.

Miller and Mendes put Rangers 3-1 up.

And the final 2 goals came from miller (again) for Rangers and Nakamura for Celtic.

A really convincing performance by Rangers, a less than convincing one from Celtic !

Enjoy. Well if you’re a Rangers fan.

Chelsea 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur

London derbies are always special and this match was no exception. Chelsea dominated the first half and opened the scoring through Belletti from a close range shot after Bent’s error. From then on it looked as if Chelsea would go further ahead and it came as a complete surprise when Bent equalised from a half chance seconds before half time.

And that’s how it stayed.

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Everton 0- Portsmouth 3

Before the game you would have made Everton clear favourites but in the end the visitors ran out clear winners thanks to the partnership of Defoe and Crouch clearly beginning to work. It baffles me that anyone thinks Peter Crouch can play but he scored again the 68th minute with,unusually for him a header !!

Before this Portsmouth had gone in at half time 2-0 up thanks to goals from Defoe and Johnson.

A good win for Pompey and one that would have unsettled Everton and David Moyes.

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Bolton 0-0 West Bromwich Albion

In a goaless encounter neither side were able to break the deadlock despite having a string of chances. West Bromwich Albion may have left the match slightly happier than Bolton because,for them,it was their first point of the season.

Bolton are now mid table with 4.

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West Ham United 4-1 Blackburn Rovers

On paper this seems to be far more convincing than it actually was. West Ham scored 2 goals in injury time for a score that flatters to deceive. A fairer reflcection would have been 2-1. West Ham had taken the lead in the 12th minute through Davenport  and doubled this in the 20th minute with an own goal.

Blackburn pulled one back through Roberts who later missed a penalty and an opportunity for an equalising goal but to no avail as West Ham ultimately ran out comfortable winners.

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Middlesborough 2-1 Stoke City

Middlesbrough defeated Stoke City 2-1 at the Riverside Stadium . Alves opened the scoring in the 37th minute.  Downing missed a penalty  in the 63rd minute with

Stoke City equalizing shortly afterwards. Tuncay Sanli hit a late winner for the home side with an 85th minute goal.

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Arsenal 3-0 Newcastle

Van Persie’s goal from the penalty spot.

Arsenal bounced back from their defeat last week against Fulham to gain a comfortable 3-0 win today against Newcastle. Van Persie scored again in the 43rd minute to make it 2-0.

Denilson scored in the second half to round off a bad day for Newcastle with Arsenal finishing the day on 6 points to Newcastle’s 4.

Check out the final goal.

Manchester United 1-2 Zenit

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Manchester United have lost  the UEFA Super Cup. Zenit defeated the English side  2-1 and were the better side. For most of the match Unied didn’t seem particularly interestedThe Russian side opened the scoring just before  halftime as Pavel Pogrebnyak headed the ball into the net from  close range.

Danny, hit a good goal in the 59th minute  United could only pull one goal back. Paul Scholes was sent off in the last moments of the match.

FC Midtjylland 0-1 Manchester City UEFA Cup Qualifying Round

Manchester City finally won through to the first leg of the UEFA CupManchester City qualifird after a second leg penalty shoot-out against FC Midtjylland. Normal time ended with an 1-0 win for the visitors, while the first leg had been won  1-0 by Fc Midtjylland

 City won after an 89th minute own goal scored by Califf.  The penalty shoot-out was won by City 4-2.

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Football Hooliganism-dead or just sleeping ?

Football hooliganism was really big in the 1970’s and 1980’s. You couldn’t open a newspaper,listen to a local news programme on television without hearing about injuries caused by football violence. So where have all the hard nuts gone?

 

Disappeared or resting?

 

Football hooliganism was actually a term coined by the media to sensationalise violence- pictures of bloody and injured supporters on the back pages made for great sales to a public eager to read about main stream violence.

Really there were two main types- the first was spontaneous: fights brought about by too much alcohol or just because some young blokes are naturally stupid and enjoy a punch up. There were rarely serious injuries caused by this type of terrace violence-these weren’t hard men just kids who pretended to be hard.

The second type of football hooliganism was something else again. The’ firms’ were composed of hard men who took football hooliganism to a whole new, organised level. Fights would be arranged, tactics would be talked through-the firms especially of clubs such as Millwall and Chelsea were to be feared, and if you had half a brain cell, avoided. Of course there were plenty of aggressive young men who enjoyed the thrill of the fight and presumably didn’t mind the pain of injury. The ‘firms’ came close to ruining the good name of football and destroying it forever as a family game. You couldn’t even categorise these men- some of them were unemployed, un-intelligent yobs others had degrees, good jobs, families; some were company directors, successful businessmen.

 

So why did they do it?  Any numbers of explanations were put forward. Speaking personally I believe that there were only two reasons. First: they liked a fight and the adrenaline rush. Second all the men wanted to belong- the ‘firms’ were a little like working men’s’ or gentlemen’s’ clubs only with violence !!

 

Whatever the reason incidents of football hooliganism began to reduce drastically after Heysel and Hillsborough and with the advent of all seater stadia- that and the fact the use of CCTV improved radically and led to easier arrests.

 

Football hooliganism rarely gets a mention in the national press nowadays. The only time it tends to feature is either in a European club game or an international tournament when England are involved. Not that we’re the only nation responsible-Germany and Holland also have their own incidences of violence but we’re still famous as being the kings of football hooliganism.

 

So is football hooliganism a sleeping giant or is it dead ? 

Its not dead. The firms still exist, more and more young people are turning to drink and England is becoming the drinking nation of the world. This will inevitably lead to an escalation of violence. In 2007 for the first time in twenty years there was an increase in the number of violent incidents at football matches and of course the firms still ply their trade only now they fight away from the grounds. The problem has just moved away from the grounds themselves.

 

Violence is not dead and never will be. Whilst excessive amounts of alcohol are available these fuel violence and whilst footballers are treated like Gods men will always express their worship through violence.

 

In my view football hooliganism will increase again –caused by our drink society and the way that nothing else matters now in football-only winning.

 

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