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With the 2008/09 football season right around the corner - many leagues kick-off today (9th august 2008) - over at Systemlays we’re launching one of our most exciting projects to date - The Football Betting Portal.
In the Football Betting Portal, you will find all sorts of football related stories, which are mostly related to football [...]

In half an hour or so, the 2008 UEFA Champion’s League Final between Manchester Unitad and Chelsea Football Club kicks off (at 7:45 BST).
I’m going to make a quick match prediction, as is customary for these big events, and say that I expect the flair and finishing power of Man Utd to overpower the defensive [...]

Man United are tonight in Rome to take on the Italian side in the first leg of this year’s Champions League Quarter Final.
Last time Man Utd went to Rome for a similar occassion, the Macunian side were terrific and won by an incredible 7-1 scoreline. If anything, this United team is even better, and playing [...]

Sometimes it’s hard to explain to Australians why I like football. Sometimes I wonder why I do.
Dida of AC Milan is a pretty good goalkeeper, though his little game of ‘let’s pretend’ in last night’s UEFA Champions League Game against Celtic was something else. I’m going to struggle to hold the line that “not all [...]

Again it looks as though I’ll be up in the stupidly early hours to watch some sport as the UEFA Champions League is on again this week, with some huge Group Stage fixtures.
Manchester United V AS Roma
On Tuesday night (early Wednesday morning for us in Australia), we’ll see a repeat of the fixture which saw [...]

The Geelong Cats have stormed to victory in the 2007 AFL Grand Final, running out winners over Port Adelaide Power by a record breaking 119 points.
Nervous First Moments
As one would expect with the entire season coming down to one game, both teams started a little nervously, and play was fairly scrappy for four or five [...]

At half time, the AFL Grand Final 2007 looks to be heading to Geelong as the Cats are leading Port Adelaide Power 79-27.
As I had suspected before the game, and Port fans must have feared, The Cats have gone on a couple of unanswered scoring sprees, at one stage in the second quarter the Power [...]

Sticking like glue to my current M.O. of veering unerringly from topic to topic with seemingly no concurrent theme, I’m now going to turn the spotlight towards football. That’s right, football (not soccer - as most Australians still insist on labeling the sport).
The FFA - Football (not soccer) Federation Australia has this weekend come under [...]