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		<title>49ers beaten at own game as Giants road trip reaches Super Bowl</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NFC Championship Game: San Francisco 49ers 17 New York Giants 20 (OT) There was to be no &#8216;Har-Bowl&#8217; and no fairy-tale ending for the San Francisco 49ers and Alex Smith. A year after they finished a lowly 6-10 and the former number one overall pick was drummed out of town, Jim Harbaugh&#8216;s revitalised team fell [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thearmchairsportsfan.com&amp;blog=13717215&amp;post=16168&amp;subd=thearmchairsportsfan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The week in numbers: w/e 22/1/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[85 &#8211; Age of Joe Paterno, former football head coach of Penn State University, who died after a short battle with lung cancer. Paterno won 409 games and two national championships in nearly 46 years as coach, but was sacked last November for his links to a child abuse scandal. 0 &#8211; Number of sets won [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thearmchairsportsfan.com&amp;blog=13717215&amp;post=16111&amp;subd=thearmchairsportsfan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arsenal outflanked by United</title>
		<link>http://thearmchairsportsfan.com/2012/01/22/arsenal-outflanked-by-united/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arsenal 1 Manchester United 2 van Persie 71; Valencia 45+1, Welbeck 81 Arsenal succumbed to a third consecutive Premier League defeat as familiar defensive weaknesses on the flanks and Danny Welbeck&#8216;s late strike cost them at least a share of the points. The loss left them five points adrift of the top four despite the four [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thearmchairsportsfan.com&amp;blog=13717215&amp;post=16110&amp;subd=thearmchairsportsfan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The week in numbers: w/e 15/1/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[3 &#8211; Lionel Messi was awarded his third Ballon d&#8217;Or, becoming the fourth player (after Johan Cruyff, Michel Platini and Marco Van Basten) to win three times. He is only the second man after Platini to do so in three consecutive years. 23 &#8211; Sachin Tendulkar was dismissed for 15 and 8 as Australia defeated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thearmchairsportsfan.com&amp;blog=13717215&amp;post=16072&amp;subd=thearmchairsportsfan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No defence for Arsenal as Ramsey suffers kitchen nightmare</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swansea 3 Arsenal 2 Sinclair pen 16, Dyer 57, Graham 70; van Persie 5, Walcott 69 As the old saying goes: if you can&#8217;t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. On the occasion of his first league fixture in his home country since leaving Cardiff City 3½ years ago, Wales captain Aaron Ramsey [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thearmchairsportsfan.com&amp;blog=13717215&amp;post=16067&amp;subd=thearmchairsportsfan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The legend makes a fairy-tale return as Henry steals the limelight</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arsenal 1 Leeds 0 Henry 78 Leeds fans must be sick of the sight of Thierry Henry. The last time he lined up against them for Arsenal in April 2004 he put four goals past them in a 5-0 demolition, and they were subsequently relegated from the Premier League. In his return to the Emirates Stadium at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thearmchairsportsfan.com&amp;blog=13717215&amp;post=16020&amp;subd=thearmchairsportsfan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The week in numbers: w/e 8/1/12</title>
		<link>http://thearmchairsportsfan.com/2012/01/09/the-week-in-numbers-we-8112/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[224 - Jacques Kallis, playing in his 150th Test, recorded his highest ever score of 224 as South Africa won the third and final Test in Cape Town to clinch a ten-wicket win and a 2-1 series victory over Sri Lanka. 30 - South Africa&#8217;s Vernon Philander took six wickets in the match, raising his totals after just four Tests [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thearmchairsportsfan.com&amp;blog=13717215&amp;post=16014&amp;subd=thearmchairsportsfan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arsenal floored by late one-two punch</title>
		<link>http://thearmchairsportsfan.com/2012/01/03/arsenal-floored-by-late-one-two-punch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fulham 2 Arsenal 1 Sidwell 85, Zamora 90+2; Koscielny 21 Arsenal were comprehensively outplayed in the second half by a determined Fulham side who snatched two late goals after the sending off of Johan Djourou to complete a dramatic turnaround. The visitors&#8217; cause was not helped by some poor decisions by referee Lee Probert, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thearmchairsportsfan.com&amp;blog=13717215&amp;post=15861&amp;subd=thearmchairsportsfan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The week in numbers: w/e 1/1/12</title>
		<link>http://thearmchairsportsfan.com/2012/01/02/the-week-in-numbers-we-1112/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2 &#8211; 15-time world champion Phil Taylor was defeated by Dave Chisnall in the second round of the PDC Darts World Championship, only the second time in his career he has failed to reach at least the quarter-finals at the tournament. (He also lost in the second round in 1993.) 10 &#8211; Defending PDC champion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thearmchairsportsfan.com&amp;blog=13717215&amp;post=15850&amp;subd=thearmchairsportsfan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing a new cycling blog: Velo Voices</title>
		<link>http://thearmchairsportsfan.com/2012/01/02/introducing-a-new-cycling-blog-velo-voices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Followers of this blog will know that cycling, along with football, is one of my two great sporting passions. However, unlike football, it is not always so easy to come into contact with fellow cycling fans and chew the fat over the issues of the day. Even though Mark Cavendish was recently voted BBC Sports [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thearmchairsportsfan.com&amp;blog=13717215&amp;post=15928&amp;subd=thearmchairsportsfan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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