Last night the official draw for the 2008 Big Scary Monsters Records 5-a-side football tournament took place at a secret location in London. As you will see from the below video (proving that no fixture rigging took place - as outrageously claimed 12 months ago!) it was a very professional and organised do, with the captain of last years winning team, Sam Duckworth from Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, tak
Good Afternoon,My little angel here is my 2 year old grandson.His favorite song for the last year has been Old McDonald has a farm-eee iii eee iii ooo.Well, he has a new song now. Shake shake shake your booty! He can sing it very loud and plain too.Farm man didn't want me to admit this part to you. When that song came out years ago, I thought a booty was your foot. So I would shake my foot to the
After a few years at The Peacock the annual Crewe ASi Family Footy Day is nipping over the border into Dabber Land. The Alex fans' group have always set out to promote footall and friendship across the borough so it's great to see that they will stage this year's tournament and fun day at the Wrenbury Sports & Social Club on Sunday 8th June. As well as the pitches there are superb kiddy facil
The professional and semi-pro footy scene has been covered recently, but last week also saw the local East Timorese community in Crewe host a Football Festival and Family Fun Day for Portuguese speaking families from across the North West. Crewe has a well-established community and the East Timorese were keen to have an opportunity to celebrate their culture and their passion for football. Portuguese groups from across the Northwest were invited along, and seven football teams enjoyed the football festival at the Cumberland Arena. Afterwards, there were activities at the Fun Day held in the Victoria Oakley Centre. Support for this initiative was provided by the Changing Community in Crewe Project, which aims to improve communication and community cohesion between emerging and existing comm
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Soooo much action on the field this week, how is anybody supposed to keep up with the blogosphere? Luckily, there are many footy blogs that enhance--rather than detract from--what has been taking place on the pitch, making reading them a joy rather than a burden. Onward, non-denominational soldiers:My favorite blog for Latin American soccer is hands-down Hasta El Gol Siempre. This week they have an excellent piece on the buildup to the Copa Sudamericana finals. The first leg kicks off tonight, so this is a timely feature. I was going to do my own story on this, but then I came across theirs and realized it was better than anything I could ever come up with. HEGS says tonight's game is the biggest in Arsenal de Sarandi's 50 year history. The team is a veritable giant-slayer, not only in the Copa Sudamericana but also in their domestic league where this past weekend they ended Boca Juniors' title hopes. Their opponents, Mexico City's Club America, are a strong--and rested--side, but
Readers of this blog are of course familiar with its signature piece (or one of them), the weekly ranking of the world's top 25 soccer clubs. It turns out mine is not the only such list in the blogosphere. Rankings of the top European clubs abound (if you're a soccer fan in New York you're no doubt familiar with Ives' site, which does one such table each week). But I recently came across worldclubrankings.com, which has a mandate identical thing to mine, namely to rank the top 25 clubs worldwide. Check out their rankings from last week here. Unlike me, they try to actually make their rankings objective, by basing them on a quantitative algorithm rather than their own knowledge, expertise and research like I do.Okay, so now we have a quant model and a fundamental one (to get all financial one you for a second). But what about a consensus poll of all the soccer experts out there in the blogosphere? The worldclubrankings.com folks have already put out a call for such an idea on their
You have to feel sorry for the hard-working Crewe ASi committee, the supporters' group who organise events across the year to promote the name of Crewe Alexandra and involve people throughout the borough of Crewe and Nantwich. Today was the annual family football day that takes place behind the Peacock Pub on the edge of Nantwich. The last two years have seen glorious sunshine, packed crowds and plenty to see and do. Today, as you can imagine, was a miserable, soggy sight. They battled on, the footy tournament kicked off, but the bouncy castle, BBQ and other attractions were as good as washed out. We still went along but it was a very different experience from previous summers. Only a brave few were still outside, players waiting for their next game were huddled under gazebos and it was jackets, walking boots and wellies instead of sunglasses and flip-flops! The above snap sees two of the teams settling their match with a penalty shoot-out...
In what is believed to be a first in any footy code around the world, Australian Rules Football (AFL) is set to use radio transmitters this weekend to transmit live information to the TV broadcasters including speed, endurance, collisions and heart-rates of players.
The AFL has granted Collingwood, Brisbane and, perhaps most significantly, Channel Ten permission to use the same extraordinarily detailed measurements during its broadcast.
Four Collingwood players and five Lions will carry the radio transmitters under their vests, which means television viewers — and clubs — will see:
■Distance covered and top and average speed of those players.
■G-force, which measures the impact of their collisions, including their biggest hits.
■Heart-rates of two players from each club, with the average and highest rates covered.
■Number of collisions for those nine players and the average force of their hits.
■A breakdown of how much jogging, running and sprinting the measured players d
Last weekend the Vietnam Swans Australian Rules Football team jetted of to Bangkok, Thailand for the 2007 Asian AFL Champs.The Vietnam Swans where unable to pull of their first Champs win in their 4 pool matches, however they all put in a massive effort and also made sure that Vietnam is now well and truly on the Asian AFL map!The winners in 2007 where Hong Kong, beating the Bali Gecko's in extra time!For full details of the Champs check out the Vietnam Swans Blog. If your in Hanoi or Saigon and want to meet the Swans or have a kick, details can be found right here on the blog or Email Club Pres. Phil Johns.Footy is everywhere.......great isn't it!
Well, I say watching the footy, but yesterday's end-of-season encounter with Tranmere wasn't up to much. It was a gorgeous day and, perched up at the top of the main stand, it was often more interesting casting an eye across town. You can pick out plenty of Crewe's landmark buildings and it occured to me that several will disappear as and when the town centre redevelopment eventually kicks in. The two large high-rise office blocks (Delamere and Wellington Houses) will fall, as will the Queensway shopping block that includes the impressive Big Bill clock tower. I've snapped it many times from various angles and, unless something similar is included in the new designs, I'm sure many will miss it...
And so another season at Gresty Road draws to a close. The final home game of the 2006-07 season ended all square (1-1) after a last-gasp Alex equaliser, despite playing 50 minutes against just ten-man Tranmere. But, as we all know, it's often harder playing against 10 men! How does that work? Whatever, a gorgeous day that started at the Brocklebank sitting outside supping cider (well, I was) ended after a decent curry at the Passage to India on Nanny Road. Inbetween, the Alex looked limp and rarely threatened the Tranmere goal. They rallied towards the end, grabbed a deserved equaliser and nearly nicked all three points. Then the farce. As ever, the friendly neighbourhood stewards couldn't help themselves. I know a couple, both decent fellas, but as a group they seem to lose their heads. On the final whistle there was the usual "please stay orf the pitch" request. Fair enough, but everyone knows they don't mean that. Everyone goes on the pitch after the final home game. Anyway, one
You might think that
the last thing going through a soccer player's mind would be science. It's
difficult to imagine a striker contemplating the current nature of the universe
just before game time, or the coach giving a short tutorial on statistics for
inspiration. Soccer may be the beautiful game, but what of the science behind
the artistry? With the soccer world cup currently being played in Germany, and
with the great Australian team performing exceptionally well, it is a good time
to take a look at the Science of Soccer.
Olof Mellberg has expressed how much he is enjoying life at villa under the leadership of Martin O'Neill "I'm enjoying my football as much as ever here, there is a good team spirit and a feeling that the club is moving in the right direction".This is a feeling that appears to be shared by all squad and staff members at Villa Park since the arrival of Randy Lerner and Martin O'Neill at the end of last summer.Though Martin O'Neill is eager to open talks on new contract for Olof Mellberg and Gavin McCann, Mellberg insists that there is no rush, and right now he simply wishes to concentrate on his football.Mellberg's current contract expires in 2008. read the full story at the official aston villa website: http://www.avfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/HeadlinesDetail/0,,10265~988068,00.html
