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		<title>Sorry Sepp But That Wasn&#8217;t Special</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the World Cup has drawn to a close with the trophy heading to sunny Spain for the first time. The final itself, however, followed an all too familiar pattern for big games at this tournament being as it was on the whole a completely tedious affair. Sepp Blatter’s conclusion of the tournament was that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://commentarybox.pkht.co.uk/football/sorry-sepp-but-that-wasnt-special/</link>
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		<title>Hodgson to Liverpool, Toure and Silva to City and the small matter of trying to make sense of England v. Germany</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well the new season is now just over six weeks away and it is with this in mind that clubs are now gearing up for another nine months on the roller-coaster. Clubs are now back in pre-season training and those with major issues to resolve are now looking to do just that. Of course in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://commentarybox.pkht.co.uk/football/hodgson-to-liverpool-toure-and-silva-to-city-and-the-small-matter-of-trying-to-make-sense-of-england-v-germany/</link>
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		<title>Au revoir France, arrivederci Italy, hello the domain of the penalty shoot-out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After the tedium of the first week, I think it is safe to say that the World Cup has exploded into life as it moves from the group stages to the knock-out rounds. Teams have been faced with do or die games to get out of their groups and stay at the tournament and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://commentarybox.pkht.co.uk/football/au-revoir-france-arrivederci-italy-hello-the-domain-of-the-penalty-shoot-out/</link>
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		<title>A Red Mist, Peter Crouch and a bit of perspective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So one week down in the World Cup and I&#8217;m not quite sure what to make of it. In places, it&#8217;s business as usual, but then in other games we&#8217;ve seen total destruction of the apple cart. The Good Argentina. They&#8217;ve been pretty sensational so far. Much better then I expected. Having struggled through the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://commentarybox.pkht.co.uk/football/a-red-mist-peter-crouch/</link>
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		<title>The football World Cup without the football</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the first of my weekly reports on the World Cup. I should though begin with a couple of confessions, firstly, I am not in South Africa as no-one seemed willing to send me there to write this, instead I am in a flat in central Leeds (how glamorous), and secondly, I have not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://commentarybox.pkht.co.uk/football/the-football-world-cup-without-the-football/</link>
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		<title>I get the distinct impression that some football tournament is about to start</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has watched a commercial television channel in recent days can’t have failed to notice that the vast majority of adverts now involve the great sport of football. This has become so prevalent that the greatest sport of them all now features in adverts for sofa sales (that always seem to end on Sunday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://commentarybox.pkht.co.uk/football/i-get-the-distinct-impression-that-some-football-tournament-is-about-to-start/</link>
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		<title>Capello&#8217;s Conundrum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some strange reason I love this bit in a World Cup Year. The country (England this is) is swept up in World Cup Fever. Every other advertisement has a football connection somewhere, builders start parading the flags they got free in The Sun on their vehicles and grannies across England start knitting jumpers of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://commentarybox.pkht.co.uk/football/capellos-conundrum/</link>
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		<title>Blackpool&#8217;s brilliance, Mourinho&#8217;s movements and ciao Carrick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The football season may be in its last breaths before the World Cup roars into being, but the old dog has shown in the last week that it still has plenty of life in it yet. This week has seen a brilliant Championship play-off final at a boiling Wembley, a rather tedious Champions League final, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://commentarybox.pkht.co.uk/football/blackpools-brilliance-mourinhos-movements-and-ciao-carrick/</link>
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		<title>Finals, transfer sagas and play-offs &#8230; it can only be May!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So here we are in the middle of May in that strange period between the end of the season and the start of the World Cup. Fear not though dear reader as there is still plenty going on as the FA Cup and Europa League finals have taken place, the drama of the play-offs is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://commentarybox.pkht.co.uk/football/finals-transfer-sagas-and-play-offs-it-can-only-be-may/</link>
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		<title>What happened to final day tension?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So that is that then, the end of league football in England and Scotland and all in all the overriding feeling about the final weekend was that it was on the whole tension free. This is in great contrast to the season finales of recent years which have been characterised by unbearable tension and an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://commentarybox.pkht.co.uk/football/what-happened-to-final-day-tension/</link>
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