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Silly old Joey Barton is currently staring down the barrel of a twelve, count 'em,
twelve! -game ban for general dickery on the final game of last season and, with QPR's
patience reserves dwindling, it looks like English football's preeminent copy-and-paste philosopher
is going to be keeping the chub at bay by training with League Two side Fleetwood Town.
Silly old Joey Barton is currently staring down the barrel of a twelve, count 'em,
twelve! -game ban for general dickery on the final game of last season and, with QPR's
patience reserves dwindling, it looks like English football's preeminent copy-and-paste philosopher
is going to be keeping the chub at bay by training with League Two side Fleetwood Town.
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The prolifically infuriating bad boy will be training with Fleetwood Town for at least a week,
whilst his regular teammates are rewarded for not concussing the opposition by being served up a
relaxing and lucrative tour of Asia. After elbowing, head-butting and snarling his way to a 12-game
ban at the end of last season, [.
Friday night on five live was the last appearance this season of Pat Nevin, Colin Murray and
Perry Groves on the Friday night football show. This trio have tried, not always successfully to
put together 2/3 hrs. of light hearted football talk.  Gossip, humour, opinions, experience and
an assortment of guests are used to kick of the weekend's football coverage.
Friday night on five live was the last appearance this season of Pat Nevin, Colin Murray and
Perry Groves on the Friday night football show. This trio have tried, not always successfully to
put together 2/3 hrs. of light hearted football talk.  Gossip, humour, opinions, experience and
an assortment of guests are used to kick off the weekend's football coverage.
The FA has passed down it's judgement on Joey Barton, and he has been suspended for a total of
twelve games for his misdemeanours in the last game of the season against Manchester City. The
first four games of the ban cover the sending off for violent conduct, plus an extra game ban for
it being Barton's second sending off of the season – every time a player gets sent off more than
once in a season in England, they have an extra game added to their suspension for eqch subsequent
dismissal.
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Joey Barton has come along way. Where once he used to kick out at the world, frothing with
bilious, toxic rage; thrashing the living shit out of teenagers outside McDonalds at three in the
morning and using people's aqueous humour to stub out his cigars, now he actively looks at
paintings and books, each time memorizing their titles, and wears scarves indoor and out even on
the mildest of days.
"You just wouldn't let it lie would you? You just wouldn't let it lie..."
Yep, this crap again. Why the embers are being raked over again we're not entirely certain but
days after Luis Suarez appeared on Uruguayan television to whittle about his eight-game
ban and Manchester United's 'political influence' in England and such like, Sir Alex
Ferguson has piped up to tell all and sundry that he believes the way Kenny Dalglish handled the
whole dismal Suarez-Evra furor ultimately cost him his job at Liverpool.
Liverpool is putting Brad Jones on standby for a first-team call as Kenny Dalglish faces up to a
goalkeeping crisis.
The Australian was pulled out of the Anfield side's reserve team on Monday night and will be in the
frame to replace Pepe Reina during the Spaniard's three-game ban.
Brazilian Doni is expected to step up to face Aston Villa on Saturday after sitting on the bench in
recent weeks, but he has never started a game for Liverpool.
Alexander Doni admits he does not know if he will be at Liverpool next season as he prepares to
fill in for Pepe Reina.
Reina is facing a three-game ban following his sending off against Newcastle for violent conduct
for an apparent head-butt on James Perch.
Doni, who joined Liverpool from Roma last summer, is expected to start in goal against Aston Villa
next weekend in the absence of Reina despite not playing a competitive game for the club as yet.
Brek Shea's frustrating start to the season just got worse.
The MLS Disciplinary Committee handed Shea a three-game suspension and fined him an undisclosed
amount for his actions in FC Dallas' 2-1 loss to the Columbus Crew this past weekend. Shea received
the punishment for his actions in the 24th minute of the match, when he intentionally kicked the
ball at an assistant referee.
MLS announced on Thursday that Philadelphia Union head coach Peter Nowak has been suspended for
two games and fined $5,000 for leaving the technical area and initiating contact with an opposition
player during Saturday night's win against Chivas USA.
Chivas USA coach Robin Fraser was also fined $500 for leaving the technical area but was not
suspended.
FC Sion midfielder Geoffrey Serey Die is in a whole heap of scheisse after being caught on
camera slapping one of the Lausanne ballboys across the face after his side's 2-0 defeat last
night...
Lausanne striker Steven Lang (who we think is the chap on the touchline that comforts the child
after the slap) gave his account of the incident to Blick:
"Serey has gone to the ball boy and he said something that I can not repeat.
Paris Saint-Germain boss Carlo Ancelotti has confirmed his interest in signing Liverpool striker
Luis Suarez.
It was reported in February that the Ligue 1 giants were open to offering the Uruguay international
a route out of England following his eight-game ban for racially abusing Manchester United defender
Patrice Evra.
The ugly row between Arsenal's Robin van Persie and Newcastle United's Tim Krul continues after
Gunners midfielder Jack Wilshere took to Twitter to place all the blame firmly on the
shoulders of the Magpies goalkeeper.
Van Persie, who had scored Arsenal's equalizer less than a minute after Hatem Ben Arfa opened
the scoring for the visitors at the Emirates Stadium, clashed with Krul several times over the
goalkeeper's alleged time wasting.
Unsurprisingly, Hamburg striker Paolo Guerrero has just been slapped with an eight-game ban for
his disgusting, studs-up assault on Stuttgart keeper Sven Ulreich's fleshy bits at the
weekend...
Awful tackle, malicious in it's intent and execution.
Goof mornigh from Monsoon hit Dyblun. Or, to put it another way – having got my hands sorted
Good morning from Monsoon hit Dublin. I have a dead leg picked up during football last night which
made getting up the stairs something of a challenge, but I have struggled manfully on to provide
you with your blog fodder.
Tonight's visit by Wigan presents The Gunners with the opportunity to widen the gap between us
and the chasing pack of assorted Chavs, Magpies, and Spuds. An eight point lead over the last two
and ten over the other one would be a morale booster for us and a demoralising blow for them.
This is an opportunity which must be grabbed with both hands, make no mistake Wigan will be
a tough nut to crack, their last outing was a morale boosting one nil win over the title
favourites who were, admittedly, not at their best and there were the usual contentious refereeing
decisions.
It was a game that potentially could have been a banana skin. In the end we took the skin off
the banana, ate the banana, then put the skin under Wolves who seemed unaware of the danger of a
banana skin, thinking that oranges were the only fruit.
Liverpool goalkeeper Alexander Doni's appeal for wrongful dismissal has been rejected by the
Football Association.
Doni was handed a red card during Liverpool's 3-2 win over Blackburn at Ewood Park on Tuesday
night.
The Brazilian was sent off for bringing down Junior Hoilett as he raced through on goal midway
through the first half with the Reds leading 2-0.
Mario Balotelli 9 game ban?- Balotelli's studs up Song tackle could cost Italian striker dear is
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post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter Manchester City's controversial forward
Mario Balotelli could now be hit with a nine game ban instead of the three he was originally
supposed to serve if referee Martin Atkinson [.
Yesterday I wondered if United going 8 points clear after winning at QPR would increase City's
resolve and fight, or simply add more pressure under which they would buckle. I think it's fair to
say it was the latter but more than anything else it was a fine Arsenal performance from which we
more than merited the three points.
It's a massive game this Saturday lunchtime for both clubs. Chelsea sit four points clear at the top of the table and with a win against Tottenham followed up with a victory at home to Manchester United, maybe then the rest of the Premier League and the media will take notice of our title credentials this season.
Reports and reaction to USWNT winning Olympic gold. Union U-17s win Generation adidas Cup. RIvas
gets extra two game ban for Hoppenot headbutt. Independence owner says team has no plans at present
to join new women's league.
David Beckham lost his cool, and now we will find out just how much Major League Soccer is
willing to let its biggest star get away with.
In case you missed it, Beckham deliberately kicked not one, but two soccer balls at San Jose's
Sam Cronin as Cronin lay on the ground late in Saturday's LA Galaxy-Earthquake match.
Luis Suarez has reaffirmed his commitment to Liverpool and rejected suggestions he has spoken to
either Barcelona or Real Madrid regarding a summer transfer.
The 25-year-old was the club's top scorer last term, but the Reds' failure to qualify for Champions
League football for a third season in succession has seen Suarez linked with a move away from
Anfield.
Yesterday, UEFA saw fit to fine Porto the princely sum of €20,000 for their fans aiming
monkey chants at Mario Balotelli not so very long ago roughly half the even princely-er sum they
charged Arsene Wenger (let alone the three-game ban) for having the nerve to question a few
refereeing decisions.
