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SOCCER REFERENCE
- Albion
Road - Focuses on clubs, the origins of their names, and general
history.
- buffen.de
- A football directory
from Germany with links to clubs, fan sites, and players, from all over
the
world.
- Club
Soccer - Directory of clubs from the remotest islands, tiniest
enclaves, disputed territories, big nations and even virtual nations
alongwith magazine, news, chat, and blogs.
- Cosmopolis Soccer Links
- Official soccer club pages, official football player pages,
publications and federations
- E
Premiership - The official soccer club links in Europe.
- eGoalz
- Soccer and World Cup links collection: blogs from the five
continents, live scores from all over the world, a special World Cup
Germany 2006 selection, and Flash games.
- Elsporto
Football Links Directory - A links site to football club web sites,
both official and unofficial. All the major UK teams covered plus many
non-league sides. Each site has a brief description.
- e-soccer
- Directory and index for football clubs and soccer links in England.
- European
Football Clubs - Lists all the European first division clubs.
- FA
Premiership Football Teams - Index of Premiership Football Teams
with links to individual teams and their web sites, location maps,
contact information and honours.
- FA-Football.com
- Links to FA Premiership (England) and Football League clubs official
sites, plus a list of FA Cup winners, runners up and results since
1872.
- Fanbase
- English football links. Includes links for football chat, transfer
rumours and gossip covering the Premiership, Football League,
Conference, Non League and England International football.
- Fanbay.net:
Major League Soccer - MLS coverage including links to team sites,
scores, and soccer news.
- FirstFootball.com
- Links to leading official and unofficial English Premiership team
sites and listings and reviews of top football sites.
- Football Chat-linX
-
Direct links to UK chat rooms, message boards, and forums.
- Football
Connect - A searchable global directory of links related to junior
football / youth soccer.
- The Football Directory
- Categorised and sorted directory of football links, from non-league
to
World Cup. UK focused but covering the footballing globe.
- Football Finder
- Tiger Tech's site is an alpha index for finding football pages.
Formerly Football Crazy.
- Football
for you - International soccer coverage. Leading online football
source. Offers
a wide variety of football news and links. Thousands of pages and
thousands
of images and videos.
- Football
Links - Over 2500 links to the top soccer sites worldwide including
amateur, non-league, professional teams, tables, stadiums, competitions
and tickets.
- Football
Resources - Links to clubs, tickets, equipment, betting, fantasy
football, results, and scores.
- Football
Supporter - Link
indexing site to football sites all over the world.
- Football
web ring - Football web ring. Soccer web ring. A directory of
soccer
web sites in the world.
- Football Web Sites
- Links to the official web sites of English and Scottish football
clubs
and players sites. Includes links to news stories and fantasy football
web sites.
- Football-linX
World of Soccer Links - A list of links to official and supporter
sites. Includes chat room/forum links, player sites and Top 50 list.
Also Clipart gallery and downloads.
- FootyMundo.com
- Lists thousands of sites from around the world in all kinds of
categories and all kinds of languages.
- Free
Global Soccer Database - A free encyclopedia dedicated to the sport
which allows anyone to add or edit the contents.
- GFDb -
Global Football Database - Community, directory and general
information about the sport around the world.
- Gotsoccer
- With 'the' list of youth sites on the web with a powerful search
feature.
- InlandSoccer.net
- An online soccer resource serving the Inland Empire, The High Desert,
and Pomona Valley communities of the United States. Tournaments,
events, adult and youth soccer, player recruitment, and referees.
- Italian
Soccer Ring - The ring contains sites about Italian soccer,
players, news, and related articles.
- Kenbox,
Football - Media collection, press, portals, and related sites of
football sections.
- LinkAthletics.com
- Soccer menu for college men's teams.
- Megasoccer.com
- Features news and links for clubs in the UK, Europe, USA, South
America, Africa and Australia.
- My
Soccer Links - Listings include, by club, country, coaches,
confederations and associations, and referees, with an American soccer
emphasis.
- Pickup
Soccer Games - Directory of local soccer matches in Canada, the
United States, and Australia.
- 360
Soccer - Comprehensive pages covering the world cup and
Pelé.
- Soccer
Corner - A worldwide directory indexed by championships, clubs, and
leagues.
- The Soccer Directory
- Links to clubs, organizations, instruction and tournaments plus
general
information about soccer in Washington, Oregon, the Pacific Northwest,
and
the world.
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- Soccer Links
- Listed are various soccer links that you will find interesting.
- Soccer
Top 20 - NetTop20.com's pick of the 20 best soccer sites on the Net
today.
- SoccerBars.com
- A global directory of soccer-friendly bars and pubs.
- Soccer-411.Com
- Offers links to soccer sites organized by popular categories with
emphasis on World Cup Football.
- SoccerGeek
- Worldwide links from club teams to national teams.
- Soccerhighway.com
- A directory listing high quality soccer web sites worldwide.
- Soccerlinks
- A links directory to soccer related sites worldwide in 900
categories.
- soccerlist
- A directory with links to official and fan sites throughout the
world. Also
includes Top 100 soccer sites list.
- Soccer-Sites
- Dedicated to sites about soccer, football, and the world cup.
- Supporter
Sites - Soccer portal for the fans and supporters with links, news,
pictures, results, standings and weather conditions from all over the
world.
- Team Spirit Football -
Links to official player and club sites plus confederations, and
associations.
- This
is Football - A portal site with an average of ten links to every
UK professional
football club.
- Travels
Through
Germany - Sports - This German site contains links to the
Bundesliga clubs.
- uk250.co.uk
football web sites
- A directory service for quality football web sites.
- World
Football Organization - A listing of soccer clubs around the world
organised by countries.
- The
World Soccer Year Book - Links to clubs indexed confederation.
- Yahoo!
Sports Groups - Soccer - Directory of association football clubs
and fan
groups which include message forums, chats, newsletters and photo
galleries.
- Yorkshire
Football Links - Lists football sites for the county, indexed by
league.
- Youth
Soccer Tournament Directory - Listing of USA and Canadian youth
soccer tournaments, categorized by year and state.
Opta Soccer
www.optasoccer.com |
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Settle those pub arguments in dignified
fashion by calling up this site. Utilising the widely touted Carling
Opta
statistics, you'll find everything from the team that's conceded the
most
corners, to the dirtiest team in the Premiership.
Particularly
illuminating are the head-to-head comparisons, which pit the likes of
Roy
Keane against Patrick Viera to see who really is the best midfielder in
the
country.
Smart
design
and the latest news updates complete a stylish site. |
Soccerbase
www.soccerbase.com |
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| If you're one of those fans who remembers
your team's entire season in minute detail, right down to attendances
and
goal scorers, then this site will be a home from home. Featuring a
mind-boggling
array of information and statistics from the last three seasons in all
divisions,
the plan is to make this the ultimate football anoraks paradise.
Everything
from the line-up to the scorers to the name of the referee is recorded
in
painstaking detail, and is all easily accessible. |
Soccernet
www.soccernet.com |
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| One of the biggest internet success
stories, Soccernet was started by a brainy 12-year-old from the family
PC
and is now a mulit-million pound operation. It's strength lies in the
swiftness
with which it reacts breaking stories and then follows them up with
insightful
analysis. If a big name manager resigns, for example, you can bet that
Soccernet
will be onto the story within minutes. There's also a specialist
section
for every club in the country. |
Teamtalk
www.teamtalk.com |
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If you're one of those fans who can't live without
a
daily dose of tittle-tattle about your team then this is the site for
you. Updated regularly, Teamtalk will keep you in the know with the
very latest gossip and rumours.
The style
is
very much that of a tabloid newspaper, so the stories may not be
entirely
accurate, but they're always entertaining. It's nice to see that it
doesn't
just concentrate on the big boys too, featuring over 80 teams from
Birmingham
to Burnley. |
Chelsea FC
www.chelseafc.co.uk |
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A recent survey showed that the Chelsea site is visited more
often
than every other official club site put together - and on this evidence
it's
easy to see why.Lavishly presented and entirely comprehensive, the site
nevertheless
manages to retain its sense of humour - a characteristic needed in
abundance
by fans of the team. Even if you don't support Chelsea, you'll find the
interactive
tour of Stamford Bridge a good reason to visit. And fans can spend
hours rifling
through the news, views and chat pages. The Informed Investor was
launched
at Stamford Bridge in 1972.
However all supporters should realise that the
original Chelsea Football & Athletic Club no longer
exists.
It was put into liquidation over a decade ago. It is no longer
the
club of Hughie Gallagher, Roy Bentley, Jimmy Greaves, Peter Osgood,
Charlie
Cook etc or the wonderful brainchild of the Mears family. A
new
site called the Syd Bathgate
Appreciation
Society will shortly be launched
for
those of you who supported the real Chelsea! |
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People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
Off To The Siberian Saltmines
Bats's Epitaph
A Foreign Mercenary circa 1999AD
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THE BATTLE OF STAMFORD BRIDGE
THE TRUE STORY
The Battle
of Stamford Bridge in England is generally considered to mark the end
of
the Viking era. It took place on September 25, 1066, shortly after an
invading
Norwegian Viking army under King Harald HardrådeEdwin of Mercia
and
Morcar of Northumbria at Gate Fulford two miles south of York.
King
Harold Godwinson of England met Harald with an army of his own, taking
him
by surprise, unarmoured and unprepared, after a legendary forced march
from
the south of the kingdom. defeated the army of the northern
earls
According to
the
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (SA 1066), the Stamford Bridge was immediately
held
by a powerful individual Viking who delayed the approaching English; he
was
finally brought down by a spear from underneath the bridge. This delay
gave
Harald Hardråde time to form his army in a circle on high ground
and
let the English approach uphill with their backs to the river. After a
stubborn
battle with losses on both sides, although particularly bad for the
unarmoured
Vikings, Harald Hardråde and Earl Tostig both fell. The arrival
of
Norwegian reinforcements prolonged the battle, but in the end the
Norwegian
army was decisively defeated. King Harold Godwinson accepted a truce
with
the surviving Norwegians, including Hardråde's son Olaf and they
were
allowed to leave after giving pledges not to attack England again.
This battle
marked
the end of full scale invasions of England from Scandinavia, and was
the
turning point of Viking activity in that area. King Harold's success
was
not to last, however. Little more than a fortnight after the battle, on
October
14, after having marched his army all the way from Yorkshire, he was
defeated
and killed by Norman forces under William the Conqueror, at the Battle
of
Hastings. Thus began the Norman Conquest of England.
  THE BATTLE OF
STAMFORD BRIDGE
THE UNTRUE FAIRY TALE ?
Once upon a time circa 1905 AD
an
underground system was being built in Londinium, the main metropolis of
England.
The problem for the great builder of the time Gustavus Mears was to
find
a site to put all the earth from the excavations. Eventually he found a
spot in the borough of Fulham next to the Bridge over Stamford Brook.
What should
he do with this mound of earth? He decided to make an arena for the the
populace
to watch many warriors run or kick a ball or for dogs to run around. He
called
this arena Stamford Bridge and for 76 years he and his
descendants ran
this arena and provided entertainment for the populace of Londinium.
But
in 1982 AD those descendants fell upon hard times and were forced to
sell
their mound of earth to a Property Company and the array of ball
kickers
to an invader from the North named Bats for £1. Bats was an
adventurer
who had previously been
involved in the northern territories of Wigan and Oldham.
His reign of terror saw the ball
kickers
dive down to the lowest point in their history. Meanwhile the accounts
were
run so well that the ball kickers became bankrupt owing some £12
million.
Was Bats disturbed- Oh no he immediately re-introduced the ball
kickers
under a similar name and went about business again. He got the
supporters
of the ball kickers to buy the mound of earth and set about building
himself
an hotel and other facilities there. He even called in ballkicker
scribes
to announce his own divorce. For film buffs of Psycho it is interesting
to
note that he employed a man called Hitchcock and ran an hotel. He also
hired
many mercenaries from other tribes including Gauls, Romans and Slavs.
By
2004 AD he had once more run into debt- this time owing some £60
million..
At the eleventh hour a Knight in Shining armour appeared from the East
and
saved the ball kickers from extinction. This lovely man called Roman
paid
off the debts and made the ball kickers champions of All England.
For
a while Bats remained but as he was no longer chief of the ball kickers
he
took a pay-off of some £17 million and went back up North to
Leeds
to try his luck with another group of ball kickers who had fallen on
bad
times. And having taken his
17 million
pieces of gold called the knights in shining armour "Siberian Shysters".What does he do? Back to his old tricks he uses a
shell
company called " Roman's Heavies" and takes over payment of a
£2 million loan made by Cope Industrial to help save Leeds
United. Bats and "Roman's
Heavies" agreed to pay interest and pay off the loan in 2009. Surprise,
surprise
Bats has failed to pay the interest an "Roman's Heavies" went into
liquidation
in June 2006. Where have we heard this story before? Come on the
Football
League ban this man from football- and the authorities in Monaco should
deport
him. Up to his usual tricks he got Leeds put into administration after
they
were regulated to league Division 1 in May 2007. This time he got
caught
out & unfortunately Leeds got a 15 point deduction for season
2007-8.
Surely this is unfair on the footballers & the fans. Ought not the
authorities
have banned Bats from holdong any football office. The board at
Sheffield
Wednesday were right to ensure he didn't buy into their club. This time
the
"Wise" man shouldn't help save this wretch.
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Bristol City Football Club - The
Robins
Bristol Rovers Football Club - The Pirates
AFC
Bournemouth - The Cherries
Cheltenham
Town - The Robins
Oxford United- The U's
Plymouth
Argyle - The Pilgrims
Portsmouth- Pompey
Reading - The Royals
Southampton- The Saints
Swindon Town - The Robins
Torquay
United - The
Gulls
Yeovil Town- The Glovers
