kick-offs

Anyway, I shall be back shortly with some more thoughts ahead of this game as well as some updates from the early kick-offs.

NFL: San Diego Chargers 21-35 New England Patriots - as it happened | Paolo Bandini 2011

In Sunday's earlier kick-offs Roberto Soldado slotted an 89th-minute equaliser for Valencia in a 1-1 draw at home to Athletic Bilbao after Iker Muniain had put the visitors ahead with a splendid run and shot on 70 minutes.

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"We don't have many 12pm kick-offs these days so could this goal be one of the earliest ever scored in a top-flight match?"

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Early games round-up: So, to confirm, here are the final scores from the 1pm ET kick-offs.

Green Bay Packers 27-17 Chicago Bears - as it happened | Paolo Bandini 2011

"We don't have many 12pm kick-offs these days so could this goal be one of the earliest ever scored in a top-flight match?"

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Saints 14 49ers 20, 10:36 3rd quarter Loving the 49ers' preparation for kick-offs – a bizarre outward facing huddle with most of the players either trying to hype up the crowd or seeming to goad the return team before splitting off to their positions just before Akers runs up for the kick.

New Orleans Saints 32 San Francisco 49ers 36 - as it happened | Paolo Bandini 2012

There have been only two goals in the Serie A kick-offs today evening game not kicked off yet, wrote a trigger-happy Sean Revis-Penn on Sunday.

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Texas had recovered two kick-offs during the game, so scoring 10 points in 50 seconds can be done without much once-in-a-lifetime type plays (endless hook-and-laterals, Stanford Band Plays, etc), especially against a great passing attack.

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We don't have many 12pm kick-offs in the Premier League and we have even fewer 11.15am kick-offs.

The Knowledge | Has anyone ever erected a statue of a player younger than Thierry Henry? 2012

A miasma of lunchtime kick-offs, the bete noir of all serious football fans, will now determine who is promoted to the Premier League and who will make the play-offs.

Endless sprawl of fixtures fills cups with thin gruel and a bad taste | Paul Hayward 2011