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A livescore site

October 21st, 2007

Lately,I came across a site www.flashscore.com.My friend recommended it to me.

When I first time came the flashscore.com,the navigation is still quite easy for me as a new user.It offers simple web interface,so I have no problem finding results of my favorite team,Arsenal.

It offers live score update for quite a lot of popular sports actually,and
that of course covers football and infamous EPL football,Spanish Primera
Liga,Italian Series A.And the best is it also offers live updates for 2nd (CCC Championship),3rd and 4th Division match.

Other than that,it also features sound and grafic goal alert, red card
indicator, info about type of match(for example first round if it is a cup
match) so users can easily recognise the match.It updates itself frequently so we didn’t have to refresh the site by ourselves.We can just leave it and we can do other thing,surfing webs and if you don’t want to surf but want’s to be stay tuned,just leave the browser on with Flashscore.com.

So,if you are a lower division team’s fans,let’s say Southampton,you can
easily know your team’s results instantly without waiting for news etc with
this site.It’s good for you all as well as me since not many sites offer live updates for these matches.Although streaming videos could be a better choice,but streaming video takes a lot of internet banwidth.Those who are subscribing to data-limited broadband,you can’t stream videos for too long time(90 minutes) for many times.Or those who are still using dial-up,it’s almost impossible to stream videos since the speed is just limited to 56.6 kbps I think.So even my 512 kbps connection is struggling to stream videos,I can’t imagine how slow is it if we are usány dial-up.But as this site is much simpler,it does not consume a lot of internet bandwidth as it’s just a website anyway. Therefore,livescore site is more viable choice if you have a slower internet connection or using bandwidth-limited broadband.

And the best of all,it offers live updates for other type of sports as well
such as basketball,hockey,baseball or tenis live scores.But sadly rugby is not included in the live score update.But it focuses more on live soccer results as soccer is the most watched sports in the world.

And for those who like to play sports betting,this site offers betting guide at the ODDS section.I’m not a gambler my self so I can’t elaborate more in this section,it’s up to you to explore it.

Finally, www.flashscore.com is quite a good site and you should try to explore it,especially if you are relying to livescore updates to know your favorite’s team result.

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Gunners maintain the tension with 2-0 win against Bolton.

October 20th, 2007

Free-kick score by Toure and easy goal by Rosicky gave Gunners another important win before going through Reds and Devils journey.

However,the game wasn’t as easy as expected in first-half as Gunners missed a lot of chances,and Trotters defended well and they played very physically but I would not say they played well.I think they play like a wall.Why?I will explain it later on in this article.

But after Walcott and Rosicky came into the game,Gunners momentum began to increase.Attacks going for every second into Trotters defense.But the breakthrough only came at 67th minute when Toure surprisingly scored from a free-kick to make Gunners lead with 1-0.It’s surprise isn’t it?A defender can score a free-kick.But anyway Toure came to Arsenal as a striker,but Wenger trained him as defender eventually.

Bolton didn’t do much either,so Almunia was very free in this match.

Then,at 81st minute Walcott crossed the ball and Rosicky just easily back-kicked the ball and make Bolton 2-0 behind Gunners.

Walcott could score actually after this but his shot was blocked by Bolton’s defender.Talking about Walcott,I think he bring a lot of chances to Gunners to score with his fast pace towards the goal but somehow he’s taking the midfielder job.Yes,I think he’s a midfielder at that time but Wenger wants to train him as striker eventually.Let’s see how he will progress.

About my last comment about Bolton was a wall because they play just like Manchester City last time;they did not have counter-attack or it’s very less.It’s not nice to see as a football match when the attack or the game just going in one-way.So I can say they played like a”wall”,very strong but gives no harm.

There are no upsets in this weekend at least for Saturday’s match,with all the top teams winning and there are very little change in the Top 10 standings in EPL.Liverpool,just same as last week scored at last minute of the game but they scored a winning goal yesterday.

Aston Villa began well with their 1-0 lead but ended worst with 4-1 lost against Man.United.The tension in the league will be even higher for us with our next match against Liverpool at Anfield,and Man.City’s match against Chelsea.

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Arsenal vs. Bolton match preview

October 19th, 2007

Wow,it has been two weeks since I posted Gunners match preview.

But anyhow,we finally could have EPL too after suffering for two weeks(at least for me) and Arsenal get to defend their standing again.

But this time,we will have to play without Robin van Persie because of injury,which means my prediction was right:(.But hopefully Edurado could take this chance to shine in EPL,and since he does not score much yet in EPL I hope he could score more for us.I think Wenger think the same too.Senderos was injured too but the good news is our captain Gallas is available for this match.

Oh yes,in that previous news states that Persie could be our for 4-6 weeks,which means he could not venture in the coming Reds and Devils journey.But I think Persie could play after three weeks from now,because I think sometimes media is too exaggerated and it include even the official website.Well,I could be wrong but sometimes my quotes just now is true.

Another good news for us in Trotters main goal-scorer or ex-Gunners Anelka was injured too.And currently Bolton is quite messy for now so I hope Gunners could take all the three points from this match before going through the Reds army journey and Red Devil next.These two match could define whether Gunners is capable for the title for this season or not.

Manchester United visit Villa Park this weekend,and hopefully Aston Villa could do well enough to make Devils drop points this weekend.Manchester City face Birmingham,and I think Man. City should be able to collect all the three points.

Liverpool will have a tough game with Toffees I think,and Chelsea will play Middlesbrough away at Riverside.

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EPL and European news

October 18th, 2007

Source:Arsenal.com

I thought they are injured,but I think it’s better to them to miss Arsenal’s game because of national games rather than injury.Adebayor on the other hand should follow them but because of Togo’s failure to qualify in African Cup,he could not follow them.

Persie too could miss this weekend’s game because of injury but I’m not sure yet about the injury severeness.Hopefully the injury is not serious and he could feature this weekend.

I’m sure the sudden departure of Sammy Lee from Bolton attracted our attention,especially when we have match against Bolton this weekend.They haven’t find his replacement yet,and there are a lot of rumours about the new Bolton manager.Some say Jose Mourinho,some say Capello and lots of manager who I can’t think of.But if Mourinho become Bolton new manager next day I’m sure this weekend’s match will be interesting to watch.

Then,I would like to talk about England’s recent 2-1 defeat to Russia.Actually I’m going to sleep after watched England lead the game with 1 goal,but I’m shocked to see that England lost to them.That means England is in a very dangerous position and they face the risk of being disqualified for European final 16.

In order to Three Lions to qualify,Russia must lose to Israel and they themselves must beat Croatia.Eduardo will have hard time playing against Three Lions.

Hooray!!!,EPL is coming again.

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Wenger:I can’t wait for my players to return

October 16th, 2007

Source:Arsenal.com

Actually this news are quite outdated but it’s still relevant today.

All club manager,be they are EPL manager,Spanish Primera Liga manager,Series A manager or almost all club managers are worried that their players are going to be injured in international games.

National coach on the other hand are worried that their players are going to be injured in club games.I think Ukraine coach will be worried to death if Schevchenko are injured for a long time because of club games.Well,we as fans are worried as well if our favourite club’s player are injured .

If any of our main players are injured,let’s say Fabregas,Gunners has lost a great player for attacking and mainly,midfield player.But fortunately none of our players are injured in last weekend’s game.Hopefully it will be the same for next two days.Chelsea on the other hand will have to cope without their left-back Ashley Cole.Worse of all,it’s going to be as long as three months but I think it’s going to be two months only.Why?3 months as reported by the media are sometimes too exaggerated to attract readers attraction.

On the other hand,Wenger seems to have choice between the two goalkeepers,Lehmann or Almunia.Source:The Sun

If the news are true,that means he choose Almunia as his goalkeeper.But anyway,he still has about two month to make his decision between these two players as the transfer window will be only open on next January.There are a lot of rumours as well,such as Gilberto going to Juventus,Gunners hunting for Miguel Viloso etc but all of these could be only proved their trueness next two months.

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