“Chelsea have signed 12-year-old French schoolboy Jeremy Boga - dubbed ‘the new Zinedine Zidane’. After weeks of talks with the boy’s parents, Chelsea have reached an agreement for the midfield prodigy to join them when he turns 16.”
– The Sun, September 20, 2008

Does anyone else find this stupid? I mean I shouldn’t be suprised, it is the Sun afterall and before the abuse starts, I don’t read the sun, I just seen this on the rumors section of the BBC Sport website.
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So I have finally got around to giving up the bus and taking up the bike home from work. I throw it into the back of Kim’s uncles car on the way to work and then ride it home. It’s a 12 mile cycle but because of the waiting and the changes on the bus I managed to get home almost 30 minutes quicker than the bus so it is all win win — I don’t feel so guilty about a cold beer in the evening now!

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“I’d give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.”
– Babe Ruth, pre-the first ever game at Yankee Stadium, April 18, 1923

“Only God knows who will hit the last one here”
– Babe Ruth upon hitting the first ever home run at Yankee Stadium in the first game.

The final home-run to be hit here is the one everyone is waiting to see. Their have been two tonight so far, both for the Yankees the latest being by Jose Molina after Johnny Damon hit the first.

It is 10:50 p.m. and I have to be up by 6 a.m. for work but I refuse to go to bed while sporting history is in the making on the T.V. right now.

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Tonight is the last time Yankee stadium will host a baseball game before its doors close for good and the Yankees move literally across the road to a new home. It’s sad to see one of the greatest stadiums in the world shut its doors for good but I am glad to say that I have seen two games at the original Yankee Stadium, back in 2002. I will be sure to tune in and watch the game to see sporting history in the making.

In the mean time here is an article from the TSN website on a huge list of memories and historical sporting moments from Yankee Stadium.

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Ah, the first week at the new job down and I can finally relax a little bit. It is already early/mid afternoon here in sunny Mississauga and I have only been awake a matter of hours. After riding buses all week and getting up shortly after 6 a.m. it was time for a big lie-in. Boy did I need it. This has been a busy week and made fun thanks to two trips downtown to catch two Blue Jay baseball games. They won one, lost one and were officially eliminated with any chance of making the post-season. MORE »

So the first day of work is down but what a nightmare the travelling part is. It is always too early on the first day to really say what something is going to be like but I can without any hesitation tell you that the travel on them buses will be tough. They are cheap, on time and frequent but anything that takes an hour and fifteen minutes compared to a twenty minute drive is never fun, especially at the end of the day when you just want to get home. MORE »

So I got news that I start my new job on Monday, but enough about that. There were more pressing matters at hand this morning. I had my alarm go off for 7.45 a.m. this morning to get up and watch the Liverpool v Manchester United game. Prior to waking up I had a vivid dream that I had woke up and found out that Liverpool had lost the game 2-1 so there was no point in getting up to watch it. Very bizarre, but then dreams tend to be so after a few drinks the night before. Anyway, I did get up in real-time and watched the game online with a great picture, well certainly clear enough to make out Wes Brown firing into his own net and then Babel grabbing a second half winner for the Mighty Reds. Oh why oh why have we finally beaten Untied when I am stuck in Canada and unable to properly gloat?

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What can I say, it is definitely me. Or at least I was beginning to think it was up until yesterday evening when the Blue Jay’s finally lost a game snapping a ten-game winning streak. The winning streak stretched all the way back to August 31 when I arrived in the country and having been here and watching most of the games in the evening through the winning streak I was beginning to believe I had brought the team some good vibes. I wasn’t quite sure where from because it certainly wasn’t from supporting Liverpool back at home, but none-the less I was here and an average Blue Jay’s team were now invincible.

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My Day’s of lying in each morning, applying for job and generally passing time by enjoying the time off of work are OVER. Yes, yesterday I had an interview and yesterday I was hired for a new job. The job is quite similar in work that I did back home which I am pleased about and I start next week.  That gives me enough time to build my bike, which I still haven’t got round to doing, and taking it for a few spins. I’m surprised I got work so quickly after my arrival but I am sure not going to complain about it. So indeed, from next week I will be back in the rat race, fighting traffic to get to the office in time again. Actually I won’t quite be fighting traffic I will be fighting to make it to the three different busses I have to take to get to work each morning.

~ Richard Blayney

I have been for about two full days now and I have left behind a footballing world that is distinctly different than the one people back home are talking about today. Yes them minnows of the Premier League, Manchester City, are now the biggest team in the world and are even outbidding Chelsea for world class players. How did it all change so quickly? MORE »

I have uploaded a batch of over 100 photos to my flickr page for your viewing pleasure. There is more to come but this ton should keep you going for a while. Feel free to leave a comment below.

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Ricky

It’s not White yet, but give it a few months. The sun is shining it is blue skies and the temperature is hot. Thankfully my flight’s company ‘Globe Span’ didn’t go out of business in the days leading into the flight and I was able to make it in one piece with a bunch of people who were meant to be on zoom flights in the last few days. Since I was flying one-way I decided for the first time in my life to upgrade myself to the Business class and leave in a bit of style. It also doubled my baggage allowance from 20kg to 40kg which I made the most of and then a heck of a lot more!  By the time packing was finished on Friday afternoon I had 3 cases and 1 bike bag. Still I didn’t mind paying the excess and when I got on the flight was also glad I upgraded to Business.

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