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	Alan Ball (footballer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ball was given the captaincy after the abrupt dropping of Emlyn Hughes by Revie and held it for six consecutive games of varying importance, none of which England lost.
		Ball resumed his managerial career in May 1984 with Portsmouth and was a huge success, after two seasons of finishing in 4th spot in Division Two, he guided them to the top flight in 1987.
		Ball's tenure at Maine Road was controversial, in that many observers and supporters felt he was appointed for his name and friendship with the chairman rather than for any credentials as a coach (and pointed out that previous manager Brian Horton, whom Lee had inherited from the previous regime, had done no wrong).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alan_Ball_(footballer) (1985 words)

	TheFA.com - My greatest ever England XI...Alan Ball
		Alan Ball was just 20 years old when he ran the Germans into the ground during the 1966 World Cup final.
		Ball was a central midfield dynamo but picks the sophisticated talents of Johnny Haynes as playmaker in his team.
		Football's first knight, Sir Stan was known as the Wizard of the Dribble and was famous in all four corners of the globe before the advent of colour television, let alone the internet.
	www.thefa.com /England/SeniorTeam/NewsAndFeatures/Postings/2003/09/EnglandXI_AlanBall.htm (989 words)

	World Cup Special Feature
		Alan Ball, (see extract 1, from Farnworth to Wembley), was the midfield dynamo, the engine of the England team.
		Alan Ball’s father, also called Alan, was born in Farnworth in 1925.
		Alan Ball remembers that it had a massive back yard, ‘ideal for practising his football skills’.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /kenneth.beevers/WorldCup.htm (293 words)

	ATL World Cup Soccer. All the top world soccer news daily. News from international soccer. World Cup 2006, Euro 2004, ...
		Alan Shearer scored one of the most spectacular goals of his illustrious career to fire Newcastle to a crucial 2-1 win over Chelsea.
		Fallen football idol Diego Maradona was "improving" and "responding to treatment" in hospital, doctors said, as he fought for his life after a major heart attack.
		Argentina football legend Diego Maradona was no longer in a critical condition after being rushed to hospital five days earlier apparently at death's door with heart and breathing problems.
	www.wldcup.com /arch11112004Apr.html (6485 words)

	CV2
		Football has been the sticking plaster that helped me through primary and secondary education and provided a platform for many new friendships.
		Footballers in particular possess a streetwise intelligence, along with social skills honed to survive a dressing room and training ground.
		At the end of the day it is they and their footballers wives, who laugh all the way to the bank.
	www.footballfineart.com /cv2.htm (826 words)

	Arsenal Land \| History
		Ball’s father, an ex-player who had carved out a meagre career in the lower Divisions with clubs like Rochdale, Oldham and Southport, called in a favour with a former playing acquaintance, Ron Stuart, who was a manager at Blackpool, and after a trial, he was immediately signed up.
		Alan’s final tally of 13 goals in his 36 league appearances probably saved the club from a far worse finish and reflected his outstanding contribution, but the mediocre level of the team’s overall play was far below the standards he deserved and expected.
		Ball’s abrasive character ensured that his disenchantment with the club’s decline was both audible and unforgiving, and the unrest spread through the dressing room.
	arsenal-land.co.uk /history/?col=76 (2567 words)

	PELE - International Football Hall of Fame
		Pele was born in the poor district of Tres Coracoes in 1940.
		The year of England's greatest football triumph saw Brazil lose their first World Cup match for 12 years and then they crashed out of the tournament in the first round as Pele was literally kicked off the park by the butchers of Portugal.
		England defended brilliantly, Alan Ball hit the bar, but a Jairzinho goal - laid on by who else but Pele - was enough to give Brazil a 1-0 victory.
	www.ifhof.com /hof/pele.asp (1639 words)

	Welcome to World Cup Years!
		In 1972 Banks was voted footballer of the year in England, he had been instrumental in winning the League Cup for Stoke City, after yet another “impossible” save, this time to the detriment of West Ham’s Geoff Hurst.
		Only five foot six, Ball had a talent for terrier like aggression that resulted in frequent brushes with the referee, particularly early on in his career.
		Ball’s ferocious temper made him something of a two-edged weapon, although this temper, the product of a win at all costs mentality, was the source of his seemingly endless stamina and his omnipresence on the pitch.
	www.worldcupyears.com /years/1966starplayers.shtml (978 words)

	Mirror.co.uk - Sport - Football - ROONEY VOWS TO HAVE A CUP BALL
		Ball was the guest speaker as the Manchester United ace picked up his award as PFA Young Player of the Year for the second season running.
		Ball's emotive admission that he was "jealous" of the unique opportunity in front of Sven Goran Eriksson's team - and his urging that Rooney and the rest of the England players should "seize the day" in Germany - had an immediate and massive effect on the young Scouser.
		Also like Rooney, Ball made a major mark wearing Everton's blue shirt, and the United man added: "It is there for me to do what Alan and the rest of that team did.
	www.mirror.co.uk /sport/football/tm_objectid=16988856&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=rooney-vows-to-have-a-cup-ball--name_page.html (525 words)

	Nigel's WebSpace - English Football Cards, Player Pages - Alan Ball
		Ball was recalled for the quarter and semi-final games, and provided the cross in the Final for the decisive but infamous Hurst goal in the 98th minute.
		Ball did play in the fateful quarter-final game against West Germany, though the Mexican heat is reported to have sapped his normal high levels of energy.
		Ball's debut for the Saints was in December 1976.
	cards.littleoak.com.au /player_pages/007_alan_ball.html (1059 words)

	Inspirational Speakers
		Ball began his international career in 1965 on his 20th birthday, scoring his first England goal just four days later.
		Alan Ball then joined Everton for a fee of £110,000 and four years later Ball was again in the national side’s starting line-up as the West Germans overturned a two-goal deficit to knock England out of the 1970 World Cup.
		At club level, Alan Ball’s move to Everton spurred the club to its seventh league title, two seasons after the Merseyside outfit had finished FA Cup runners-up.
	www.creatingexcellence.co.uk /is/alan_ball.htm (370 words)

	Keith Cassells - Profile of the English Footballer
		Having to compete with strikers of the quality of Luther Blissett, Ross Jenkins and Alan Mayes at fourth division level was challenging enough for the newcomer but within two years the club was in the second division and Cassells chances of establishing himself were even more remote.
		The respective valuations of Cassells and Wright in the deal were never made clear and it was difficult to assess from the outside which of the players the Saints had coveted most in approaching Oxford.
		A distinctive figure with his sharply receding hairline and generous moustache (one of the last truly successful footballing moustaches) the quality of his play was even more eye catching.
	www.football-england.com /keith_cassells.html (1235 words)

	alan ball
		The son of Alan Ball Senior, a footballer and manager, he was a tireless, marauding midfield player who could operate centrally or on the right flank,...
		Alan Ball is a graduate of the Florida State University School of Theatre.
		Ipswich are at the Turf, and it is an Ipswich with a difference this season with no sign of Long Ball Joe who left the club at the end of last season to be replaced by former player Jim Magilton.
	www.neapolis.it /immagini_ricerca/search/alan-ball.htm (498 words)

	Telegraph \| Sport \| ALAN HANSEN'S ULTIMATE XI
		ALAN HANSEN'S ULTIMATE XI "Football is, to borrow a phrase, a matter of opinion and this opinion was trained on selecting the best team from players who have appeared in the English Premiership or the old First Division since 1966.
		ALAN HANSEN'S ULTIMATE XI For me, there were four players who were automatic choices, while other selections were made on the basis of getting the balance of the team absolutely right.
		ALAN HANSEN'S ULTIMATE XI A case could be made for inserting a tough, aerially dominant, ball-winner like Tony Adams, yet Hansen and Moore demand selection for their composure and ability to assist forward momentum.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/gallery/football/bestpremXI/upixbestnew.xml (1197 words)

	Soccer Q&A - How to effectively go around opponents
		As you near an opponent, lock your eyes on his feet and be prepared to react to his threats.
		If he raises his foot that is further away from the ball, you move out.
		If he raises his foot that is nearer to the ball, you move in.
	www.expertfootball.com /gossip/answer.php?qid=344 (296 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Football \| World Cup 2006 \| The worst of times for England's delicate boys
		As the golden age of English football sat weeping in the centre circle at the end of Saturday's quarter-final against Portugal, having again entered a penalty shoot-out with the confidence of men playing darts blindfold, it would indeed have taken a heart of stone not to laugh.
		Interviewed on TV before the match he spoke stirringly of the chance Eriksson's players had to become a part of England's football history, pointing out that the 1966 World Cup winners were still remembered 40 years on.
		It is hard to judge since the Football Association's preparations for the tournaments of the 1950s barely went beyond pith helmets and butterfly nets.
	football.guardian.co.uk /worldcup2006/comment/story/0,,1812881,00.html (801 words)

	England Honours - Knighthoods and Other Royal Honours
		We thank the well-known football journalists Norman Giller, author of the Billy Wright biography reviewed elsewhere on this website plus more than 60 other football books, and Cris Freddi, author of the leading World Cup history, for consulting their records and filling in many gaps in our list.
		For services to football; regarded as second footballer to be knighted; also received CBE in 1974 and OBE in 1969.
		For services to football; regarded as third footballer to be knighted; also received CBE in 1992 and OBE in 1961.
	www.englandfootballonline.com /TeamHons/HonsRoyal.html (461 words)

	beatiful football girls? in Players from Football.co.uk
		As long as they are good at football, which is what the scouts look for and not whether they look like Pamela Anderson.
		Womens football is becoming more glamorous, but i think its got to be talent over looks - but i must admit the reach of womens football is spreading now that its no longer the robust frames that are playing but the athletic fit ones!
		well it is like any sport really isnt it, football, golf, tennis, cricket...etc, some are ugly and some are good looking but they can all play their chosen sport well and that is what counts to them.
	forum.football.co.uk /about3967.html (897 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Football \| News \| Obituary: Jeff Astle
		The centre-forward Jeff Astle, who has died suddenly aged 59 after collapsing at his daughter's home, was famously remembered for an important goal and a cataclysmic miss.
		When the ball came back to him, a fine left-footed drive tore past the Everton keeper, Gordon West, and into the righthand top corner of the goal.
		Astle was well known for his wry sense of humour, and from 1995 appeared on Baddiel and Skinner's Fantasy Football League television show.
	football.guardian.co.uk /News_Story/0,1563,636770,00.html (507 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Football \| News \| Solskjaer back with vengeance as Van Nistelrooy edges closer to exit
		Alan Smith is due back from his broken leg in September and Giuseppe Rossi could find himself loaned to gain experience.
		"Being out for two years is not easy for any footballer and to have him back and to see him playing at that pitch without any handicap was fantastic," Ferguson said.
		There was no luck about Solskjaer's first goal on Saturday, the product of a piercing ball from Paul Scholes, a nudge onward by Rossi and a sublime touch into space by Ryan Giggs.
	football.guardian.co.uk /News_Story/0,,1822007,00.html (597 words)

	Altrincham and District Referees Society
		Whilst the referee is ensuring that the defenders are the required distance away from the place of the infringement, the ball, which had gone down the considerable slope behind the goal, is lobbed back, swiftly and forcibly.
		The free kick is taken and the ball enters the net at some speed.
		A WOMAN was involved in a controversial goalmouth incident after a football fan blocked her drive with his van on match day.
	homepages.tesco.net /~Alan.Budenberg/oddballs.htm (438 words)

	BBC - Radio Solent - Alan Ball - The Ball Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		AS Solent's star pundit in The Ball Game every Saturday afternoon, the former Saints and Pompey manager never runs out of passion for the game despite, or perhaps because of, a lifetime of it.
		After a remarkable career which has seen him both play for and manage the Saints, as well as Portsmouth and other teams, Alan is happy to be keeping his hand in with BBC Radio Solent every weekend.
		Team spirit means a lot to Alan in all walks of life and he holds the BBC Solent Sports reporters to the same values.
	www.bbc.co.uk /england/radiosolent/theballgame.shtml (591 words)

	ESPN.com Soccernet England: News for Thursday December 7, 2000
		Alan Smith, Leeds United's Champions League match-winner against Lazio, is in line for a massive pay rise to mark his impressive graduation from potential tearaway to top Premiership striker
		Adam Crozier, chief executive of the Football Association, is to take a more hands-on role in the £600 million national stadium project - but Ken Bates looks to have survived an attempt to have him removed as head of the scheme.
		Neil Ruddock is to be fined £100 by the Football League for using a nickname on the back of his shirt.
	www.soccernet.com /england/news/2000/1207/index.html (923 words)

	Liam Brady - Arsenal, West Ham & Ireland Footballer
		Over the next year, training & playing alongside Alan Ball and watched by John Giles (who would give him his first Ireland cap), Liam Brady became a consummate performer.
		Moments later, Liam Brady led forward a final attack and played the ball into the path of Graham Rix on the left.
		Rix crossed, Alan Sunderland headed in, the cup went to Arsenal.
	www.football-england.com /liam_brady.html (976 words)

	maltafootball.com - June 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Chris Harris concluded that through this new youth football development system, their philosophy is that one day the Premier Clubs in UK will eventually not need to rely on so many foreign players.
		Chris Harris, Football Development Officer for Surrey and Sussex at FITC and Laurence Batty, Goalkeeping Coach from Chelsea CF Academy were invited to Malta by CSCM to assist the Maltese adjudicating panel.
		The Malta Football Association feels the competition rules stipulate who is eligible to take part in its competitions and that such rule is based on the principle of the specificity of sport and not on the principle of nationality and hence does not breech any laws.
	www.maltafootball.com /archive/news/04jun.shtml (12776 words)

	Alan Rickman News & Info (Feb. 2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Alan Rickman is one of our finest contemporary actors, with a range that embraces classic Shakespearean stage roles and the Harry Potter films.
		A provocative, surreal serial-killer movie set in a nowhereland of motorways and service stations, it to some degree established the visual sensibility of several of his succeeding films, combining a sense of the rawness and mundanity of everyday life with a poetic eye for the everpresent possibility of transcendence.
		Alan Rickman is said to appear in a concert in honour of the memory of Maria Bjornson (designer)at Her Majesty's Theatre in London this Sunday, 8pm.
	www.alan-rickman.com /archives/news/news-feb-03.html (5533 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Football \| Premiership \| Blast from the past: Part two
		This is a man who scored 30 goals in 33 England appearances, a record far better than that of Alan Shearer or Michael Owen.
		And there are also those who dream of seeing the silky skills of Kevin Sheedy slotted into the current side, the defence bolstered by the scruffy presence of Neville Southall in goal or the attack garlanded by Gary Lineker.
		But we have gone instead for the diminutive and somewhat controversial figure of Alan Ball.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/low/football/eng_prem/2873349.stm (649 words)

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