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Published: Friday, 18 September 2009, 12:39PM

There are thousands of football websites and blogs vying for your attention out there in cyberspace. So where do you start? Here are our current favourites...

Official sites

The Football Association
The official site of the FA covering football at all levels.
http://wwwthefa.com

UEFA
The site of European football's governing body. Find out all about the Champions League, Europa League plus a host of other tournaments the organisations run.
http://www.uefa.com

FIFA
Sepp Blatter's organisation's offical site covering football across the globe. Check out their special section on the 2010 World Cup.
http://www.fifa.com

Blogs

The Onion Bag
Wonderfully offbeat site featuring football news that may or may not exist only in the writers’ heads and will have you laughing like a drain.
http://www.the-onion-bag.com

Soccerlens
Quality daily fan analysis and good banter in the comments, plus the occasional excellent in-depth feature.
http://soccerlens.com

Who Ate All The Pies
Shiny’s site is one of the UK’s biggest football blogs and it’s easy to see why. Plenty of humour mixed with the odd exclusive nugget of gossip.
http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/

3nil
It's digg.com but for football. Recommend your favourite football articles and blogs and let users see if they agree.
http://www.3nil.co.uk

Two Hundred Per Cent
Ian King’s peerless analysis of the state of football, particularly non-league. Written by a true football fan who doesn’t see the game through rose-tinted specs.
http://www.twohundredpercent.net/

Some People Are On The Pitch
Group blog that covers all aspects of football, with detailed pieces on some of the more leftfield aspects of the game others may miss.
http://www.spaotp.com/

Two Footed Tackle
Going studs up into the Premier League, this Villa-fan penned blog goes far beyond the Midlands in one of the best individual top-flight blogs around.
http://www.twofootedtackle.com/

The Offside
Excellent world football site, covering everything from the Bundesliga to small South American leagues. Their MLS coverage is particularly good.
http://www.theoffside.com/

Pitch Invasion
Online magazine with contributors based around the world. Regular features, news and analysis, plus a huge Flickr stream with some excellent football photos.
http://pitchinvasion.net/

Run of Play
Very quirky, almost surreal, coverage of football around the globe. Where else would the Champions League correspondent run off midway through his liveblog to pursue an oligarch’s daughter?
http://www.runofplay.com/

A Different League
Website which aims to provide "intelligent, insight, commentary and information" on the Premier League and beyond
http://adifferentleague.co.uk/

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