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	<description>&#34;We knew that you don&#039;t get to be world champions without a struggle.&#34; Eric Cantona</description>
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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving from Avoiding the Drop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Thanksgiving to our American readers, and happy Thursday to our non-American readers.  We&#8217;ll be free from content today, but back tomorrow same as it ever was.
Thanksgiving is a truly great American holiday, one that I&#8217;ve come to love and cherish since I&#8217;ve been here.  It&#8217;s a uniquely &#8220;family&#8221; holiday that doesn&#8217;t revolve around a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=avoidingthedrop.com&blog=6612338&post=4466&subd=avoidingthedrop&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://avoidingthedrop.com/2009/11/26/happy-thanksgiving-from-avoiding-the-drop/</link>
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		<title>Last Call: We&#8217;re sort of already on Vacation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure about the rest of you, but we&#8217;ve kinda taken the week off around here in anticipation of thanksgiving tomorrow. Sure there have been games, but we&#8217;ve all been busy prepping for the holiday in various ways. I&#8217;ve been sick, and the rest of the guys have been doing whatever they do for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=avoidingthedrop.com&blog=6612338&post=4462&subd=avoidingthedrop&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://avoidingthedrop.com/2009/11/25/last-call-were-sort-of-already-on-vacation/</link>
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		<title>The Thursday Challenge:  The Answers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Craven Cottage:  Fulham F.C.

The Home Depot Center:  L.A. Galaxy/Chivas U.S.A.

King Fahd International Stadium:  Saudi Arabian National Team


Páirc an Chrócaigh/Croke Park:  Irish National Team


Estadio Alberto J. Armando, &#8220;La Bombonera&#8221;:  Boca Juniors

Central Park:  Cowedenbeath F.C.

Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho, “Maracanã Stadium”:  C.R. Flamengo &#38; Fluminense F.C.


Egyptian Army Stadium/Borg El Arab Stadium:  Saudi Arabian National Team

Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, &#8220;San [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=avoidingthedrop.com&blog=6612338&post=4351&subd=avoidingthedrop&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://avoidingthedrop.com/2009/11/25/thursday-challenge-birds-eye-view-edition/</link>
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		<title>About Last Night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What you missed while the Boston Aquarium was teaching kids to operate on squid (it&#8217;s not quite jellyfish, but we&#8217;re gonna use that tag anyways)&#8230;


Your Champions League results: Rubin Kazan 0 &#8211; 0 Dynamo Kiev, Debreceni 0 &#8211; 1 Liverpool, Fiorentina 1 &#8211; 0 Lyon, Barcelona 2 &#8211; 0 Inter Milan, Rangers 0 &#8211; 2 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=avoidingthedrop.com&blog=6612338&post=4458&subd=avoidingthedrop&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://avoidingthedrop.com/2009/11/25/about-last-night-171/</link>
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		<title>A Few (Not All) Matchday #5 Lineups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So today&#8217;s a pretty big day if you&#8217;re a fan of either Liverpool or Barcelona. Sadly for me, I like both of them; that means that there&#8217;s a fairly good chance that I&#8217;ll follow that epic 38-37 Browns loss on Sunday with the elimination of one or both of the soccer teams I follow from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=avoidingthedrop.com&blog=6612338&post=4448&subd=avoidingthedrop&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://avoidingthedrop.com/2009/11/24/a-few-not-all-matchday-5-lineups/</link>
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		<title>The Thursday Challenge:  A Reminder and a Notice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was a lot of chatter (HOORAY!) in the comments section of the most recent Thursday Challenge, but so far only two of you have actually emailed your answers to avoidingthedrop@gmail.com.  If you went through all the trouble of tracking down all of (or even some of!) the stadiums featured in the aerial photographs, why [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=avoidingthedrop.com&blog=6612338&post=4446&subd=avoidingthedrop&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://avoidingthedrop.com/2009/11/24/the-thursday-challenge-a-reminder-and-a-notice/</link>
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		<title>About Last Night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What you missed while perusing the jellyfish family album&#8230;


Russian fans have started an online petition to convince Guus Hiddink to stay on as national team manager.
Qatar would like to host a World Cup in spite of daily temperatures around the 104°F mark in June and July.
Sevilla striker Arouna Kone will miss today&#8217;s match against Unirea [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=avoidingthedrop.com&blog=6612338&post=4443&subd=avoidingthedrop&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://avoidingthedrop.com/2009/11/24/about-last-night-170/</link>
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		<title>Fun with Wenger &#8211; The Sunderland Loss</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arnie Wagner sends out emails to the supporters after each league match.  God bless his French heart, he does it week in, week out, win or lose.  Let&#8217;s have fun with the latest one, FJM-style.
Dear  Supporter,
I  was asked after Saturday&#8217;s game whether we missed Robin van Persie but I don&#8217;t  think we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=avoidingthedrop.com&blog=6612338&post=4441&subd=avoidingthedrop&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://avoidingthedrop.com/2009/11/23/fun-with-wenger-the-sunderland-loss/</link>
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		<title>So Who Does the African Cup of Nations Hurt Most?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, a lot of stuff happened. There was that Thierry Henry thing. The placenta healing thing. The Russia getting knocked out of the World Cup thing. The U.S. men sucking at soccer thing.
All of those were pretty important. Unfortunately, in our distraction with those things, pretty much everyone missed another potential big deal: the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=avoidingthedrop.com&blog=6612338&post=4432&subd=avoidingthedrop&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://avoidingthedrop.com/2009/11/23/so-who-does-the-african-cup-of-nations-hurt-most/</link>
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		<title>Henderson Cup Wrap Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We here at Avoiding the Drop love the game in all it&#8217;s forms, from the Champions League final seen by millions worldwide to kicking a ball against a wall in a back alley. This weekend we were fortunate enough to have one of our field correspondents Kevin at one of the biggest U-10 tournaments of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=avoidingthedrop.com&blog=6612338&post=4436&subd=avoidingthedrop&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://avoidingthedrop.com/2009/11/23/henderson-cup-wrap-up/</link>
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