Articles By Ahmed Bilal (1013)

Daily News Roundup: 31 March 2007

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Feb 22 2012

Premiership weekend (finally!) and a quick look at what you should be reading right now:

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Football’s wealth league puts Chelsea far behind Manchester United and Arsenal

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Feb 22 2012

Forbes business magazine has placed Manchester United at the top of the wealthy clubs pile (740m), with Arsenal (466m) in 3rd spot and Chelsea (274m) way back in 8th place.

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Daily News Roundup: 30 March 2007

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Nov 20 2011

Today’s best news as the Premiership season gears for the final leg of the season:

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Daily News Roundup: 29 March 2007

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Dec 31 2021

A look at the more interesting headlines this morning:

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The English media and the fans are pathetic and deserve the worst

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Feb 29 2012

We’ve spent so long criticising and whinging about the England team and the players that we now take it as our god-given right to attack the national team at every…

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Andorra 0-3 England (match videos), and a good thing we’re off till June

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Feb 29 2012

So yes, England beat Andorra by 3 goals (should we be ashamed?), and now we can watch the rest of the Premiership season in peace without fretting over bad England…

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Ruud Van Nistelrooy Video – Holland vs Andorra

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Feb 22 2012

Ruud van Nistelrooy has had his share of taunting by opposition players for missing penalties. He rarely gets the chance to avenge it in the same match though.

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Newcastle United 2007-2009 Kit – Home Shirt

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Feb 29 2012

The new Newcastle United 2007/2009 home kit was out in March – it’s an inverted version of the 07 strip, with the badge in the center and less stripes.

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Newcastle reject Distin and Silvestre

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Jan 9 2022

Oh, this is absolutely priceless. To have Glenn Roeder come out and categorically reject transfer rumors that were linking Newcastle to Manchester City’s Sylvain Distin and Manchester United’s Mikael Silvestre…

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Daily News Roundup: 27 March 2007

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Feb 29 2012

A roundup of the key football news this morning (27th March, 2007):

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Klose and Bale linked (again) to Tottenham, Arsenal, Manchester United and Liverpool

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Feb 29 2012

The Bale rumours have started again (god help us), as have the Klose rumours.

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England watch: McClaren under viscious attack from the Sun

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Feb 20 2012

Before the Israel game, Pini Zahavi, super-agent, predicted that the English media would set upon Steven McClaren like a pack of wolves if England failed to beat Israel. He may…

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The State Of The “Beautiful” Game

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Apr 7 2023

Here’s an experiment – please read the following two paragraphs and tell me what you think:

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Israel 0-0 England – out of balance and out of ideas

Author image Ahmed Bilal  •  Feb 29 2012

This post is about the Israel qualifier in March 2007 – for the recent qualifying game (September 2007), see this article: England vs Israel, 8th Sep 07, Wembley. Yesterday, I…

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