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TIME Magazine Cover: The Tragedy of English Football - June 11, 2012

1st
June

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awkwardfootballphotoshoots:

The US Women’s National team’s first meeting with their new manager isn’t quite as relaxed as hoped

Lightning kills entire football team.

Not seen this reported anywhere else. Anyone?

Baris Northern Counties East Football League : Proposed 2012/13 Constitution Confirmed

Proposed 2012/13 Constitution Confirmed

Following the reconvened FA Leagues Committee meeting held yesterday, the following is the proposed constitution of the NCEL for season 2012/13 to be confirmed at the NCEL AGM on Saturday 16th June.

Both the Premier Division and Division One will be increased to 22 teams under the plans.

Glasshoughton Welfare and Worksop Parramore will be promoted to the Premier Division whilst Selby Town will be relegated to Division One.

Heanor Town will also come up into the Premier Division from the East Midlands Counties League.

And, there will be four new teams in Division One with Athersley Recreation, Knaresborough Town, Cleethorpes Town and Clipstone Welfare coming in.

29th
May

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I can kick a soccer ball again, and walk! It’s a wonderful thing,”
cultfootball:

via Rehabilitation Center Groundbreaking Opportunity for Disabled Haitians- RedCross.org*
Their caption for the photo:

Jordanie Derulus, a 10-year-old orphaned by the January 2010 earthquake, tests out his new prosthetic leg from Healing Hands for Haiti. “I can kick a soccer ball again, and walk! It’s a wonderful thing,” he said. Photo by Daniel Cima for the American Red Cross.

From the Red Cross article:

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 — A state-of-the-art outpatient rehabilitation clinic and prosthetics center was inaugurated Tuesday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, marking a new phase in progress to assist the city’s thousands of amputees, many of whom were disabled by the January 2010 earthquake.
The center, operated by Healing Hands for Haiti (HHH) with support in part from the American Red Cross, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and other members of the global Red Cross network, is a welcome and highly anticipated resource.
More than 5,000 people lost limbs following the 7.0 magnitude quake that collapsed buildings and homes and killed more than 300,000 people. Support from the ICRC Special Fund for the Disabled, to which the American Red Cross contributed more than $1.3 million specifically for the Port-au-Prince clinic, will provide prosthetic devices for 1,000 people and rehabilitation services for 3,000 people. With just one physician and 40 staff members for the entire operation, including a prosthesis workshop operated with partner organization Handicap International, Riché Zamor, executive director of the center, anticipates a substantial workload, even though initial capacity for the prosthetics department is limited to lower limbs.

*: which we came to via the American Red Cross fb page posting the photo, which we came to via our friend Jeremiah resharing it!

PROPOSED CLUB ALLOCATIONS – STEPS 1 to 4 SEASON 2012/2013

I tried to post it, but it went wrong,. Have a link instead.

League Allocations 2012 / 2013

Pished Celtic fan on bus, in Blackpool.

Well worth a read!

25th
May

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Pele in goal, 1963.
Cheeky backheel from @interleening

25th
May

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It’s a novel approach to the obligatory “eye candy” used at other prestigious European football tournaments. Cheeky backheel from @meninblazers

25th
May

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“Andy Gray startles another poor deer”. Cheeky backheel from @awkwardfootballphotoshoots