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I'm going to start by quoting from another thread one of the fuinniest things I think I've ever seen.
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I remember the "Bruno der Problembär" story quite well, it was pretty big around here a few years ago Bruno was the first brown bear in our area for more than 150 years or something ... he was simply known as "JJ1" until someone named him Bruno, no idea why after coming from Italy, he constantly crossed the border between Austria and Germany, until someone shot him in Bavaria. Now he's in a museum. RIP Bruno
nothing to do with the CL, but who cares
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crazy stuff in Germany yesterday in the game between Hoffenheim and Leverkusen. Leverkusen was up 1-0 when Stefan Kießling "scored" for them again - but actually his header went in through a hole in the side netting. The goal counted, despite the ref clearly having a good view. Leverkusen won 2-1, Hoffenheim will protest, obviously.
I have never seen anything like that in football before ... I remember that a goal like that counted in hockey (I think it was at a WC) a few years ago, but never in football. Crazy.
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Robert Pires has said he is excited by the prospect of pulling on his boots again to take part in the mooted Indian Super League next year.
Pires played most recently for Aston Villa until May 2011.
Pires, 40, is among the ageing stars in the frame to take part in the new competition. Hernan Crespo, Freddie Ljungberg, Dwight Yorke and Louis Saha are already on the 'shortlist' of players for the tournament, which was originally scheduled to begin earlier this year before plans fell through.
"I'm on the shortlist to go to India and I cannot wait to be there," he said. "The shortlist is what we would simply call a 'draft', just like the Americans do in basketball. The Indians use it for cricket. That's what they want to do with football. We'll see what happens, but it should start at the beginning of 2014."
India is really onto something here. They know they cannot get the best stars for a long-term sustained league so they have these mini-tournaments like IPL that only take a few weeks and garners interest.
They just did it for badminton! I heard they want to do it for tennis eventually.
Superstars such as Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Serena Williams, Rafael Nadal and legends Andre Aggasi and Pete Sampras have promised to feature in the league, which is expected to begin in December 2014, prior to the Australian Open.
Modelled on the highly successful Indian Premier League cricket event, the IPTL, a Bhupathi-owned Globosport property, will feature the world's best players representing franchises throughout Asia.
At least 9-10 cities including Singapore, Tokyo, Mumbai, Delhi, Hong Kong, Manila, Seoul, Dubai, Jakarta and Doha are in contention to buy six franchisees.
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The one issue the world of football prefers to ignore is the issue of doping. Even when faced with the revelations of cyclists like Lance Armstrong, many footballers and coaches contend that all is well in their perfectly pristine world. Doping? It just doesn’t exist in football, they’d tell you. After all, “drugs don’t make you pass better.” Cycling, now that’s a sport that’s all about physique, so doping there is useful. Football, they argue, is about technique and tactics. Giving Rio Ferdinand EPO won’t turn him into Messi. So, there’s no need for footballers to even think of using doping, and therefore there’s no need for stringent testing either – as FIFA and other federations like to justify their weak testing policies.
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An examination of doping cases in football shows that the history of the sport cannot be told without frequent references to doping. From the 50′s to the 00′s, doping, we must conclude, has always been an integral part of football.
1950's Germany
1960's Inter
1970's Ajax and Beckenbauer
1980's Netherlands, Germany, Algeria, and Brazil
1990's Marseille, Maradona (), Ronaldo (older one), Juve, England
2000's Parma et al
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This is the big one. The case that has the potential to become the greatest doping scandal in all of football’s history. The case that should already have been the biggest doping scandal in all of football, if it hadn’t been for the Spanish authorities and their commitment to ‘protect’ Spanish football from the truth.
In 2006, Spanish investigators uncovered a wide doping network around doctor Eufemiano Fuentes. Most big name cyclists from around the world were implicated and subsequently banned. Then something strange happened. As soon as reports surfaced that footballers too, were on Fuentes’ client lists, no further action was taken.
Even during the current trial of Fuentes, the Spanish judge has forbidden Fuentes to name any athletes other than cyclists. Clearly, some people don’t want the truth to come out.
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I can’t tell which clubs, I have received death threats. I was told that if I told certain things, my family and myself could have serious problems. There are sports against which you cannot go against, because they have access to very powerful legal means to defend themselves. And it could also cost the current chief of the sport his post.
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Perhaps. In 1987 Paul Breitner said the public wasn’t ready to deal with the fact that doping is rampant in football. 26 years later, has the public become informed enough to accept the reality of doping in football?
Thoughts?
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"He also revealed that during his time at Marseille, he and many other of the club's players were injected by club president Bernard Tapie's personal physician with an unknown substance. The physiotherapist at the time insisted the substance was legal and would provide an "adrenaline boost". Cascarino claimed that most players accepted the injections[13] and that "it definitely made a difference: I felt sharper, more energetic, hungrier for the ball". He also later admitted suffering from depression."
I've heard him interviewed a few times about this - he claims that he was never subjected to this kind of thing at any other club, and he never heard of it happening in England. I don't think doping is as rampant in football as some people think.
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Bruno was the first brown bear in our area for more than 150 years or something ... he was simply known as "JJ1" until someone named him Bruno, no idea why 
), Ronaldo (older one), Juve, England
