English football giants, Manchester United closed their two match tour of South Africa with a 1-1 draw with Ajax Cape Town at the Cape Town Stadium on Saturday.

Manchester United, recently voted by Forbes as the most valuable sports brand in the world, played matches in Durban and Cape Town as part of their 6 match, 4 countries, world tour which will see them play in China, Sweden and Germany in the coming weeks.

When asked about his impressions of his team’s tour of South Africa, Manche...

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Spain became the first football team in history to win three consecutive major international tournaments, when they beat Italy 4-0 in the Euro 2012 final on Sunday night.

“We’re talking about a great generation of footballers … this is a great era for Spanish football” said Spain coach, Vicente del Bosque, after a victory which saw them add to their Euro 2008 and World Cup 2010 triumphs.

Stung by criticism throughout their Euro 2012 campaign that their football was boring and neg...

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 The UEFA European Football Championships (Euro) 2012 kick off in Poland and Ukraine this weekend. An occasion football fans, worldwide, have been waiting for since the end of the club seasons.
 

So to help you keep your conversation alive and well informed, here is our guide to t...
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On the outside, Montpellier triumph in winning France's ligue 1 may fade into irrelevance in a world of European football and the big money leagues of England and Spain, but to the football world the little side from southern france's  victory over Auxerre ,to win the french title from the challenge of PSG, represents a resistance to the way football is going, a spit in the face of the billionaires ruling football.

Billionaire owner's involvement in football may not be a new thing in fo...
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Update: Following his refusal to join the national team for World Cup Qualifiers, Moeneeb Josephs has stated that he has retired from the national team to allow him to spend more time with his family.

 
 

While other Bafana Bafana players are at camp for the World Cup Qualifier's, Orlando Pirates goalkeeper, Moeneeb Josephs was seen on Tuesday with his Pirates teammates parading the streets of Johannesburg in celebration of their recent league championship.

According to reports,  Josephs has...
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Hero turned Villian turned hero, Didier Drogba, scored the winning penalty to hand Chelsea the Champions League title on Penalties against Bayern Munich at the Allianz Stadium in Munich on Saturday night.

Bayern Munich did everything right in the penalty shootout until both Olic and Bastian Schweinstiger missed their penalties to hand Ivorian International Didier Drogba the chance to write his name in Chelsea folklore, after scoring a goal and conceding a penalty within moments of each othe...
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Benni McCarthy scored two goals in the second half against Golden Arrows, to hand Orlando Pirates the 2011/2012 ABSA Premiership title.

 

Pirates opened the scoring with a goal in the 26^th minute through Captain Lucky Lekgwathi, before Arrows scored two goals in two minutes to go before Sagweni scored five minutes before half time to go into the break 2-2. Pirates responded shortly after the restart with a headed goal from McCarthy after good positioning from the long throw.

McCarthy who sp...

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Recently appointed England football manager, Roy Hodgson, on Wednesday named John Ruddy and Roy Carroll in his youthful 23 man squad for the European championship later this month.

Hodgson, who was conducting his first squad announcement since replacing Fabio Capello last month, announced a squad filled with youthful stars. His focus yielding the inclusion of young stars such as Phil Jones, Alex Oxlade- Chamberlaine, Danny Welbeck and Theo Walcott.

The Surprise inclusion of Andy Carroll...

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A late goal by Sergio Aguero deep into extra time ensured that Manchester City won their first English league title in 44 years on Sunday.
 


The goal scored in the fourth minute of extra time ensured that City won the title from their neighbours, and defending champions Manchester United, on superior goal difference.
Going into the final game of the season both Manchester teams were equal on points, with City ahead on goal difference, United visiting mid-table Sunderland and City hosting releg...

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 I recently discovered an ebook which tells a gripping account of the man. The legend. THE Duncan Edwards. Here’s an excerpt from Best XI Manchester United along with selected comments: 

 "LESS THAN FOUR months before his life was tragically cut short, Duncan Edwards played one of his last internationals for England against Wales at Ninian Park in Cardiff.

On that day in November 1957, the Welsh manager was Edwards’ mentor and Manchester United’s assistant manager Jimmy Murphy.

Before the...

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Football fans from across the nation came out in numbers to witness two Soweto giants going head to head for the Absa Premiership Soccer League at FNB stadium this past Saturday. Tension, excitement and thrill was in the atmosphere as Orlando Pirates, following its 3-0 catastrophe against Santos just days earlier, Beat their rivals Kaizer Chiefs 3-2 in the popular Soweto derby

 

  Unlike most PSL football games played in recent weeks; this match was exciting, breathtaking and the result somewh...

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The Carling Cup, or League Cup, has been called many things: a waste of fixture space, a poor man’s trophy and even a playground for the young ones to have a kick around on, but all of that is set to change this Tuesday and Wednesday evening when 4 of English footballs heavy weights battle each other for a place in the League Cup semi-finals. It may not be a European night at the Nou Camp but we here at GEM can’t wait for the action to start. Below we review the big matches of the draw, t...

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FIFA president Sepp Blatter revealed that before the month is through there may be a change to the FIFA executive , this after one of the members is said to be in a decade long corruption scandal.

“It does look like some people won’t be able to stay on the executive committee,” Blatter told a German newspaper in an interview published on Sunday. In what is seen as the clearest message of intent by FIFA that disciplinary action may be taken against executive member Ricardo Texeira...

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source: guardian.co.uk

The weekend demonstrates everything right, and wrong, with supporting sport. In a matter of a few hours your weekend, and much of the coming week, is made. It starts as early as Monday morning with the build up and anticipation of the coming weekends "big match" and culminates in a weekend filled with superstition and expectation.

This past weekend was no exception with the rugby World Cup coming to an exciting climax and the football world watching the Mancheste...

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 the Rise and fall of Arsenal under Arsene Wenger.


   

It all started in hope and then joy and then on Sunday: pain like never before. Arsenal have in the last decade and a half gone through the highest of highs and the lowest of lows and all of it has been under the helm of the Frenchman Arsene Wenger. Wenger Joined Arsenal in 19996 as a replacement for Bruce Rioch. The Frenchman has just ended a short stint at Japanese club Nagova Grampus eight where he was voted the leagues best manager. The...

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What has already been a difficult month for London yesterday became a nightmare. Not only have london residences and buisnesses been mugged by rioters recently but now their beloved Footballl teams have been mugged on the pitch. an the culprit?: Those pesky lads from Manchester. Manchester City started first by trouncing Tottenham in the "game of pretenders" 5-1 with Edin Dzeko bagging 4 of the goals and Nasri grabbing the headlines on his Debut. It was always gonna be a hard act to follow fo...

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The draw for the Champions League Group stage was made today in Monaco and it threw out quite a few mouth-watering surprises. The 32 Teams involved in today’s draw were seeded and placed in one of 4 Pots ,according to UEFA Co-efficiency ratings, these pots emptied one by one would fill the four places in each of the 8 available groups. The announcement was long awaited by the International Footballing community and did not disappoint. Some of the clashes include a rematch between Real Mad...

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one of the funniest and most interesting thing to do when the new Football season comes along is to predict and monitor the sides who will go unbeaten for the longest. Last season in the EPL it was Manchester United and this season it promises to be just as juicy. With all teams having to play 38 Matches in the EPL and 30 in the local PSL, it becomes a hard task for anyside to remain unbeaten but its fun to see how far your favourite team is doing.Coming into this weekends second round of ...

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In England, Chelsea, arsenal and Liverpool endure dreary draws to their title chase in their opening weekend matches of the English Premier League; meanwhile champions Manchester United signalled their intent to retain the Premier League title with a hard fought 2-1 victory over West Bromwich Albion at the Hawthorn Stadium yesterday. United controlled much of the game with dazzling skill but after a conceding against the run of play and losing a number of defenders through injury they ma...

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The English Premier League (EPL)start this weekend and fans all around the world are anxiously crunching calculators to predict which player will end this season as Golden Boot winner. The Golden Boot is given at the end of every Football League season to the player who has scored the most goals accumulated over the course of the 10 months that the league program runs.
Here at GEM we decided to do some predicting of our as to who will hold taht distinguished title come May next year

Last year...

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Orlando Pirates V Sundowns
Kaiser Chiefs V Ajax Cape Town

1st leg will be played
Orlando Stadium,Soweto
Chiefs designated Stadium (TBC)                        on the weekend of 20/21 August 

2nd leg will be played
Sundowns designated Stadium (TBC)
Green point Stadium, Cape Town                        on the weekend of 27/28 August
  

what's your thoughts on the draw?, Are you relieved we don't have another "soweto derby"?, Who do you think will win the Top 8?
Leave your comments below.
 
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Jurgen klinsmen has been named the new coach of the United States National Soccer team, and has already, in modest fashion, talked of reforms needed in the U.S Soccer Program, Chief among them in the development at Grass roots.

“I can’t promise anything,” Klinsmann told reporters at the news conference on Monday. “There are a lot of difficult challenges ahead.”

“I’ve studied the US the last 13 years, and it’s going to be quite a challenge, He added, There are a lot of opinion...

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The Fifa World Cup 2014 Prelimenary draw took place this last weekend in  Rio de Janeiro,Brazil. the draw, led by FIFA General Secretary Jerome Valcke and assisted by a number of past and future brazilian football stars, was a sneak peek of what the world can expect when they start arriving for FIFA's showpiece event in just under 3 years time but despite the festivities it was the World Cup draw that grabbed the headlines and it didn't disappoint with at least 1 or 2 mouth watering...

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Tottenham Hotspurs arrived just under 2 weeks ago and it’s been a flurry of events since. After 9 days later and 4 exciting matches the Vodacom challenge has come to an end.

The arrival of Tottenham had many local soccer fans licking their lips. The idea of their favourite team taking on the mighty champions league quarter finalists was a sweet one to savour and so it was with little surprise that tickets were being sold in large quantities despite prices being over 10 times the normal cos...

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Once the most free spending football club in the English premier league, now Chelsea’s transfer season has been the most quite in recent memory. Since unveiling their new coach Andre Villas- Boas 2 month ago Chelsea fans have experienced only 1 minor new signing and no significant departures.

So we here as GEM decided to do some scouting of our own and bring you 3 signings Chelsea should make before it’s too late and 3 players its best to just let go.

 

Give that man a contract.

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