<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621200225847292479</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2024 16:50:45 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>Football</category><category>Manchester United</category><category>movies</category><category>Aguero</category><category>Andy Carroll transfer</category><category>Argentina</category><category>Batman</category><category>Chris Nolan</category><category>Coaching</category><category>Copa America</category><category>Costa Rica</category><category>English future</category><category>Inception</category><category>Knight</category><category>Kun</category><category>La Liga</category><category>Liverpool</category><category>Messi</category><category>Newcastle United</category><category>Sergio</category><category>Spanish Football</category><category>The Dark</category><category>World Cup</category><category>autobots</category><category>dark of the moon review</category><category>england</category><category>facebook</category><category>future</category><category>kermode</category><category>life</category><category>michael bay</category><category>movie blog</category><category>society</category><category>things i hate</category><category>top ten annoying</category><category>transfer market</category><category>transfer prices</category><category>transformers</category><title>Dead Ball Specialist</title><description>New to blogging so go easy, follow me and I will follow back. &#xa;&#xa;Blogs about my main passion, football. With occasional miscellaneous topics discussed for variety.</description><link>http://deadballspecialist.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew_Cook)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621200225847292479.post-6287627517348427880</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-21T16:18:21.397-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Batman</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Chris Nolan</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Inception</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Knight</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">movies</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">The Dark</category><title>I&#39;m totally bumming Chris Nolan rignt now...</title><atom:summary type="text">Well not literally, but he&#39;s a fucking class A director. I mean every film he&#39;s ever made has been &quot;woah, fuck me&quot; material. Memento was his first mainstream movie, starring Guy Pearce from &#39;Neighbours.&#39; A total mindfuck of a movie going both forwards and backwards at the same time. Then you had &#39;Insomnia&#39; starring Mrs Doubtfire and Michael Corleone, well Robin Williams and Al Pacino. With them </atom:summary><link>http://deadballspecialist.blogspot.com/2011/07/im-totally-bumming-chris-nolan-rignt.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew_Cook)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlXXWi7Gzc3M-wVo8ZkLa0HW7GM8AF9qaaFeAvhPABqcwwWLMQalucuUnRTKXQQ2i4e3B-11x2Be_d6GHWvrzZ-7MKVj7ziRit3CtAT-qYDt9TcbOarGJ35SBUClwuHCGeo00CuQKLpAU/s72-c/christopher_nolan07.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621200225847292479.post-82474660310058880</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 04:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-21T16:18:43.548-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Aguero</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Argentina</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Copa America</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Costa Rica</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Football</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Kun</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Messi</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sergio</category><title>Argentina 3 – 0 Costa Rica | Kun Saves the Day</title><atom:summary type="text">


It’s absolutely criminal that Sergio Aguero is not a regular starter for Argentina. However, one suspects after his heroics at the Copa America the past week that Batista will be under severe pressure to include the soon to be former Atletico Madrid hitman regularly.




In the opening match of the tournament, Aguero came off the bench to score a rather fortunate late equalizer for the host </atom:summary><link>http://deadballspecialist.blogspot.com/2011/07/argentina-3-0-costa-rica-kun-saves-day.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew_Cook)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKrbIC-z3uiHQQBoQwyDN65nw_lxvllgtTV3y1AMulWLP3TLGqDuYRjc8mInOc5YW1jh6l_O6CF33w23TYQitdTuipafu8kqqFn7p2tcxG6f5gx3_QkWsAAeDrj0ecKwTVUOA3naLhhQM/s72-c/aguero1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621200225847292479.post-1510138795865236236</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 06:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-21T16:19:02.997-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">facebook</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">life</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Manchester United</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">society</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">things i hate</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">top ten annoying</category><title>The 10 Most Annoying Things About Society and Life</title><atom:summary type="text">10.

Facebook


It had to be here didn&#39;t it? Facebook is without doubt one of the most annoying things about modern day technology and culture. Facebook has taken away an under-appreciated part of life from us to some extent. Real human interaction. Nowadays if you have a Facebook profile then it sort of becomes this trap that you can&#39;t get out of as people will develop an annoying tendency to </atom:summary><link>http://deadballspecialist.blogspot.com/2011/07/10-things-that-annoy-me-about-modern.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew_Cook)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSvlTFgyxSxp7WER7KehJbTfzu-TtmltZwWOxdOQwPpj4ATgLkiOD2yG9vn_5uRcSjSK_JxBXEUc7TiKzBx5ET-coGk0ADqxRg1MYJL-FOtiT3UhlMv_Mx5vfhdojCNY6FG9ORuPwrpE0/s72-c/facebook-logo.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621200225847292479.post-2521354625149719130</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 21:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-21T16:19:25.357-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">autobots</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">dark of the moon review</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">kermode</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">michael bay</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">movie blog</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">movies</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">transformers</category><title>Transformers: Dark Of The Moon</title><atom:summary type="text">
Transformers has always only ever been about robots smashing each other up on our doorstep. Lets face it, for those who know of director Michael Bay, we know the man is pretty talentless when it comes to attempting any kind of deep, hard hitting story. I&#39;d probably put him in the same class as Zack Snyder. His films looks spectacular, granted, but as a bit of a &#39;Movie Boffin&#39; I kind of want more</atom:summary><link>http://deadballspecialist.blogspot.com/2011/07/transformers-dark-of-moon.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew_Cook)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt_fOfqQZUkbLGSH4WVi0rRVO_hbCcREteleDLYR5ebw_6P4KeE48Q-naGyFc3fxWmpoYCeKxeME7TAOZcX3dt0GhAXwBtBbGQlhmfY7K9-GukGmJKM-xSmknNfJhlEfOf8yPuEVKRnQg/s72-c/transformers-dark-Of-the-moon.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621200225847292479.post-5940756713647586261</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-21T16:19:39.701-07:00</atom:updated><title>3 Overrated goals</title><atom:summary type="text">Let us take a moment and mention three goals that I consider to be overrated and overhyped.


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Michael Owen v Argentina - 1998
He showed blistering pace, he was only 18 years old, but nonetheless Michael Owen&#39;s goal v the Argies in France &#39;98 is overrated. A good goal, but a &#39;truly&#39; great one? He takes it past TWO Argentinian defenders. The second defender Ayala, simply backs off in fear </atom:summary><link>http://deadballspecialist.blogspot.com/2011/07/3-overrated-goals.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew_Cook)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFifexIaXMvICJH7QPQX7oxNezllF-mrCze6XdsqFNN8drJq5K0L4jN_B53CBXjpGUymMTo_mBPGNEw6fKE3T69ogS6VygIN2ZiNPhWPzhqyjNF1KE7kKURA3i6cmKcFLElANHucYRHLc/s72-c/akinbiyi.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621200225847292479.post-1303259899405339262</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-21T16:20:01.060-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Andy Carroll transfer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Coaching</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">england</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">English future</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Football</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">future</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">La Liga</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Liverpool</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Manchester United</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Newcastle United</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Spanish Football</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">transfer market</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">transfer prices</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">World Cup</category><title>Overpriced and Overrated - The English Transfer Market</title><atom:summary type="text">
Many cite the Andy Carroll transfer from Newcastle United to Liverpool at the turn of the year for £35 million as the transfer that set a precedent when it comes to purchasing young English talent. However, some seem to forget history when it comes to the transfer of English players. Rio Ferdinand moved from Leeds United to Manchester United for £31 Million way back in 2002, Wayne Rooney moved </atom:summary><link>http://deadballspecialist.blogspot.com/2011/07/overpriced-and-overrated-english.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Matthew_Cook)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgke5hUT-TunD_zd08ah2mmwk6KsMMgXIl_pePqzEn4pp1HvK6oiNOcnPVFiZhINrCHx0Jgcvb-4b7DO9PFmYPFZ_Gn-idyy6leZ2-b9pHhXsl0AVBnDzaE0RaZIK9TAW_brWKfnWQdy5g/s72-c/carroll.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>