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		<title>Summer Scouting:  Real Madrid, Part I</title>
		<link>http://first90.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/summer-scouting-real-madrid-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analysis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Summer Scouting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C. Ron]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do I insist on looking at clubs I dislike?  Well, at any rate, the series continues, with a two-parter on Real Madrid.  This springs in part from an exchange with two friends who I hope to persuade to weigh in.  Because I don&#8217;t like (understatement) Real Madrid for reasons that should be obvious to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=first90.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5028694&amp;post=166&amp;subd=first90&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Scouting: Chelsea</title>
		<link>http://first90.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/summer-scouting-chelsea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analysis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Summer Scouting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ancelotti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chel$ea]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first in a series analyzing major football clubs and attempting to spot their needs ahead of the summer transfer window. This time, it&#8217;s Chelsea, who one has to figure will be making some big moves to add depth to their aging team.  They also have a relatively rational management structure, unlike Real [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=first90.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5028694&amp;post=164&amp;subd=first90&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Bosman News</title>
		<link>http://first90.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/summer-bosman-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analysis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Liverpool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Man City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rafa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Arse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting note you may have seen in the news today as teams start offering pre-contract terms to poach out-of-country players whose contracts are up in the summer (such as Marouane Chamakh):  Liverpool have apparently agreed terms with Milan Jovanovic of Serbia and Standard Liege.  He looked good in the probably two Champions&#8217; League games I&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=first90.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5028694&amp;post=161&amp;subd=first90&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fancy A Striker Who Can&#8217;t Score?</title>
		<link>http://first90.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/fancy-a-striker-who-cant-score/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Burnley]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hull]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stupidity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sunderland]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Transfers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It occurs to me that signing unnecessary and not-very-good strikers was the major theme of this transfer window in addition, of course, to signing washed-up former Premiership stars. What follows is a brief review of the attackers signed in the Premier League&#8217;s January window, with comments.  None of them are major, exciting signings with the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=first90.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5028694&amp;post=156&amp;subd=first90&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on the January Transfers</title>
		<link>http://first90.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/thoughts-on-the-january-transfers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rafa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stupidity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This January has been interesting largely for the lack of big-money moves, especially on the part of Chelsea, who will be embargoed in the summer.  The financial problems that have rocked European football generally and several English clubs specifically are a major part of it, of course.  Of course, the fact that January fees are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=first90.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5028694&amp;post=153&amp;subd=first90&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keano&#8217;s Back!</title>
		<link>http://first90.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/keanos-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bad Behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Football365 reports that Roy Keane will take the reins at Ipswich Town, currently 9th in the Championship (and mathematically out of the playoff race). I&#8217;m glad he&#8217;s back in the game, and I think Ipswich is a good place for him: this is a good, young team. Ipswich for promotion next season? Also, check out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=first90.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5028694&amp;post=149&amp;subd=first90&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Succession Question</title>
		<link>http://first90.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/the-succession-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Punditry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hiddink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keane]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Manchester United]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rafa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sparky]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Special One]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://first90.wordpress.com/?p=146</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Gunner friend of mine, disappointed with Arsenal&#8217;s foibles this year&#8211;represented, perhaps, by their absolutely awful performance against Roma in the Champions&#8217; League this week, regardless of the fact that they&#8217;ve stumbled into the quarterfinals&#8211;threw the name of Frank Rijkaard into the ring of potential successors to the increasingly myopic Professor Wenger. Nevermind that they&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=first90.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5028694&amp;post=146&amp;subd=first90&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Excuse Round-Up</title>
		<link>http://first90.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/excuse-round-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rafa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stupidity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today witnessed two Big Four Premiership managers spouting off with excuses that would be surprising in their facility, if not outright inaccuracy, if the men in question were not so prone to whining and excuse-making. A quick debunking is in order. This is not to say that there is not some truth to both claims, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=first90.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5028694&amp;post=143&amp;subd=first90&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Week</title>
		<link>http://first90.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/quote-of-the-week-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harry Redknapp wins my respect with another of my occasional quotes of the week, this time with a dose of perspective. &#8220;It looks worse than it is. I get brilliantly paid for a good job, it&#8217;s easy to get up each morning. Pressure? People in this game don&#8217;t know what the word means. Pressure is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=first90.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5028694&amp;post=141&amp;subd=first90&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Curse of the Keano II: the Return</title>
		<link>http://first90.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/the-curse-of-the-keano-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I see it, there are four remotely plausible rationales that could underlie Harry Redknapp&#8217;s purchase of Robbie Keane: 1. Redknapp is trying to reverse the Keano Curse; 2. Redknapp&#8217;s wheeler-dealer side couldn&#8217;t resist the bargain; 3. Redknapp didn&#8217;t know quite what to do with Tottenham&#8217;s budget and so is merely turning back the clock; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=first90.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5028694&amp;post=135&amp;subd=first90&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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