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Steven Beacom

Steven Beacom: If Kaka is worth £60m, what price Stevie G

Istanbul 2005. The referee had just blown his whistle for half-time. The brilliant Brazilian Kaka glided off the pitch having just delivered a majestic display.
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Steven Beacom: Why Nigel deserved so much better

Thursday, 4 June 2009

I’ve been critical of Nigel Worthington in the past. It’s no secret that on occasions I feel he has got his tactics and team selection wrong.
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Steven Beacom's Premier League predictions

Friday, 22 May 2009

The Premiership title may have been decided but going into the final day of the campaign, issues at the bottom of the table need to be resolved.
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Steven Beacom's Premier League predictions

Friday, 15 May 2009

It's the penultimate weekend of the season when the title race is likely to be decided once and for all and everyone will be a lot clearer about who is going down to the Championship.
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Steven Beacom: My team of the season

Thursday, 14 May 2009

The Premier League campaign is coming to an end, so it’s time to name my team of the season, a selection which normally gets you going. Here’s my XI.
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Steven Beacom's Premier League predictions

Friday, 8 May 2009

The Premiership is fast coming to its conclusion. And this weekend I have a feeling a lot of things will be sorted out at the top and bottom of the table.
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Steven Beacom: Now Glens must do a Linfield

Thursday, 7 May 2009

They are still celebrating in east Belfast. And rightly so. After three years when their nearest and not so dearest won everything in sight, Glentoran fans finally have something to feel good about.
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Steven Beacom's Premier League predictions

Friday, 1 May 2009

The Irish League championship comes to an end on Saturday but there are a few weekends to go in England’s top flight, though this one could be defining.
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Steven Beacom: This title would be Linfield’s finest

Thursday, 30 April 2009

It’s amazing really. This season Linfield had their infamous crisis when they couldn’t win the toss of a coin, let alone a game of football.
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Steven Beacom's Premier League predictions

Friday, 24 April 2009

Manchester United took a firm grip on the title race earlier this week when Liverpool slipped up in their thriller with Arseanl, but down at the bottom of the table it is still anyone’s guess who will go down.
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Steven Beacom: Rock Steady Eddie stands (or sits) alone

Thursday, 23 April 2009

Recently I was walking around Mothercare with my wife, as you do when your second child is on the way, and who happened to be doing exactly the same? None other than Cliftonville manager Eddie Patterson. Funny the places you run into people.
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Steven Beacom's Premier League predictions

Friday, 17 April 2009

This week, somehow the results of football matches just didn’t seem as important with the Hillsborough tragedy being remembered 20 years on.
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Steven Beacom: Why we should never forget the 96

Thursday, 16 April 2009

I can remember it as if it were yesterday. I was supposed to be playing for Lisbellaw in the Fermanagh and Western League, but injury ruled me out.
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Steven Beacom's Premier League predictions

Friday, 10 April 2009

The Premier League was magnificent last weekend with Liverpool and Manchester United scoring late winners.
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Steven Beacom: Crunch time for Big Mac

Thursday, 9 April 2009

I've always liked Alan McDonald.
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Steven Beacom: So, here’s how we’ll end up in South Africa

Friday, 3 April 2009

Windsor Park was bouncing on Wednesday night. The Green and White Army were going crazy, Nigel Worthington was hugging everyone and the Northern Ireland players walked off the pitch believing that dreams really can come true.
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Steven Beacom's Premier League predictions

Friday, 3 April 2009

What a fascinating period of international football. And what a wonderful double header for Northern Ireland, beating Poland and Slovenia.
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Steven Beacom: South Africa, we really are on our way

Thursday, 2 April 2009

It’s on. Boy, is it on. Shout it from the rooftops, Northern Ireland are well on their way to the 2010 World Cup finals.
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Steven Beacom: Please don’t throw our World Cup hopes away

Tuesday, 31 March 2009

I wasn't in the Windsor Park press box on Saturday. Decided to sit in the stands. Hadn’t done that in years. Probably since the early 90s when I went purely as a supporter, not a reporter.
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Steven Beacom: Stevie Glee deserves title success

Thursday, 26 March 2009

There’s a bit of debate going on amongst Liverpool supporters these days. You can join in yourself if you want by answering the following question: Is Steven Gerrard Liverpool’s finest player ever?
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Steven Beacom: Time to earn your keep Nigel

Thursday, 26 March 2009

It’s around that time that you can start making rational judgements about how an international boss is doing.
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Lawton: Wimbledon still not home for Andy

It might be different if Andy Murray had been born in Bromley or Tunbridge Wells, or his great grandmother was an innovative over-arm server in Victorian Wimbledon, like Tim Henman, or he had renounced his Scottish blood the first time he crossed Hadrian's Wall.

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The Punter: We just didn’t get to Sea

The victory by Fame And Glory in the Irish Derby poses the question as to whether or not he would have taken his revenge on his Epsom conqueror Sea The Stars?

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