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			<title><![CDATA[Farewell Big, Brutal, Big-Balled B**tard]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[If you won't miss Didier Drogba, then you don't like football. So says Johnny, who pays tribute to a hero, villain, warrior and big girl's blouse. He really will be missed...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 11:26:00 BST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Operation 'Pretend To Be Gay' Starts Now]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[England can learn a lot from Chelsea's Champions League win, says Johnny. It's time to constipate the goal and come home with fingers smelling of sweet love...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 11:00:00 BST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[It Was Great Because It Was Rubbish]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Perfection is boring, and quality is overrated. John Nicholson salutes Manchester City's title-winning season because everyone was a bit crap, & that's the way he likes it...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 10:17:00 BST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Why 3pm Is Becoming Less & Less Relevant]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA["I'm a traditionalist," was the complaint from most after the FA Cup final was moved from its 3pm kick-off, but Johnny reckons we need to let go of arbitrary 'tradtions'...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 09:50:00 BST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Why Does Everyone Hate John Terry?]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Is he really that sort of player? And are we really the sort of people to demonise him for a collection of 'crimes' that may be no worse than we would commit ourselves?]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:52:00 BST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Will Plastic Barca Fans Switch Allegiance Now?]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[There's little that annoys Johnny more than people from hundreds of miles away wearing Barcelona shirts in a 'I like brilliant footballers so I am also brilliant' kind of way...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:01:00 BST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[On King Kenny And Old, Tight Jeans...]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Kenny Dalglish is like a much-loved old pair of jeans: a symbol of past glories, and hard to resist. But time moves on, and you should never go back...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:07:00 BST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA['By Any Means Necessary' For Chelsea...]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[What Chelsea must do is play a dirty, disruptive and downright dull game, smother Barcelona in the midfield and hurt their best players. It's not the time for prettiness...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:26:00 BST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Give Me The Crazy Dude Any Day]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Mario Balotelli has received plenty of criticism for his antics, but at least he's not as boring as Gareth Barry...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:09:00 BST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[When Is It Ever Acceptable To Walk Out?]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Is it okay to walk out when your team is 3-1 down and chasing a comeback as well as the title? Is it something about the English game that makes it alright to walk?]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:40:00 BST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Until Liverpool Shake Off Their Own Myth...]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[...they will continue to disappoint, says Johnny. Kenny Dalglish's passion was a positive when Liverpool were recovering their soul, but now it just looks like a retreat to the past...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:23:00 BST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Can This Bring Long-Term Perspective?]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[It's all very well saying that Fabrice Muamba's collapse ''puts everything into perspective', but can it cast a shadow longer than a week and actually rid the game of bile?]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Let's Not Cross The Tech Rubicon....]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Goal-line technology would be nice but it would never stop there, would it? We can't have a game partly judged by humans and partly by technology, says Johnny Nicholson...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Come On Boys, Just Take The Reins...]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[You want to decide how many games you shall play, great. Be the manager. Let's see just how good you all really are. Let's see what Roman thinks of the job you do...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[How In-Ger-Lund Is Killing England For Me...]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[If you can bring yourself to support the set of twunts that represent England on the pitch, can you bring yourself to side with those who represent England off the pitch?]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Why Wenger Should Stick To His Guns...]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Don't go changing to try and please anyone Arsene - stick with your beliefs. To see him squirming and being attacked for being himself is an unusual punishment...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[When Did Football Become So Hysterical?]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Is there any chance that we can all just stop wetting our knickers about everything? The mass hysteria following the non-handshake has left Johnny feeling sad...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Feeling Sick At This Stalinist Whitewash...]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[There is a case for Harry Redknapp as England manager but there is also an argument against - but you won't hear this in the media today. Apparently, we all want him...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[We Might As Well Have A Monkey Captain]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The captain is just the bloke who leads out the team and tosses the coin so why do we get our knickers in a twist? We should just have a monkey working for peanuts...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
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