On the day that a report of Andre Villas-Boas being informed that he'll get the sack if Chelsea are knocked out of the Champions League by Napoli, Jose Mourinho used his international break to "secretly" visit London with his wife. According to tabloid trinity of The Mirror, The Sun and AS (only the English two are claiming it as a "World Exclusive" though), the Mourinhos were in town to pick out a new home in preparation for their supposedly inevitable departure from Madrid this summer.

Steven Gerrard said that he would "be there" for his cousin Anthony, who missed the final penalty in Cardiff's heart-breaking shootout loss to Liverpool in the Carling Cup final. Steven stopped to console Anthony before celebrating Liverpool's win, but Anthony obviously wasn't in the mood to listen.

Galatasaray are on white-hot form at the moment, leading the Turkish Super League by nine points after overcoming fierce rivals Besiktas in the Istanbul derby on Sunday. Credit for their success is in no small part due to Fatih Terim, currently in his third stint managing the club.

To show their appreciation for his efforts — and to provide an elaborate distraction from the current match-fixing trial — Gala fans helped construct an impressive 3D display in his honor, emotively choreographed to the Braveheart theme.

As we have already established, being a teammate of Zlatan Ibrahimovic's can be very painful no matter if it's club or country. But even when Zlatan isn't actively trying to thwack his teammates, he still does. In fact, he seems to be even more dangerous that way.

During a Sweden training session ahead of their friendly against Croatia, Zlatan made easy work of midfielder Anders Svensson with a shoulder check, sending Svensson tumbling to the ground and right onto Celtic defender Daniel Majstorovic's leg.

With his recent move to Tottenham and a recall to the French national team, things are going well for Louis Saha in the tail-end of his career. So, what else would he have to talk about besides the hooker habits of young footballers?

Saha told a French newspaper while promoting his new autobiography (via the Daily Mail):

"Let's be honest: women are the greatest temptation.

It's a foregone conclusion that Spurs manager Harry Redknapp is the FA's top choice for the vacant England job. But after a 0-0 draw against League One side Stevenage in the FA Cup and a 5-2 loss to Arsenal at the weekend, some doubts have arisen as to whether Harry is truly the right man to lead England.

Back in December, we brought you footage of a dimwitted St. Pauli fan throwing a roll of paper from a cash register roll onto the pitch during a match with Eintracht Frankfurt. Getting hit by a piece of paper may not seem like a big deal — particularly in Germany where throwing stuff on the pitch appears to be customary — but it has had great repercussions for the club.

Though he was recently stripped of the England captaincy a second time, John Terry attended the England Footballers Foundation Lions and Roses Charity Dinner 2012 in aid of Help For Heroes and Cancer Research UK with other members of the squad on Sunday night. This photo from the event was taken by Getty's Dave Hogan and features Ashley Cole standing right in front of Terry and blocking out most of Terry's face from the shot.

A while back we featured a very successful Football Manager player's application to Middlesbrough for their vacant manager's position and the club chairman's fantastic replay. Along similar lines to that correspondence, Fraser Syme has written an as yet unpublished book aptly entitled "My Book of Absurd Letters to British Football Clubs.

Before Cristiano Ronaldo scored with his seeing-eye backheel against Ray Vallecano, Sergio Ramos was lucky not to get sent off even before the half hour mark. He picked up a yellow card in just the third minute, putting him on dangerous ground from the start. And about 15 minutes after that, he casually employed a defensive technique that is usually frowned upon (keyword: usually) by elbowing Diego Costa in the face.

Cardiff shocked just about everyone by recovering from the loss of their 16th minute lead over Liverpool in the Carling Cup final and then falling behind in extra time to push the match to a shootout with an equalizer of their own in the 118th minute. Cardiff goalkeeper Tom Heaton then came up with another shock by stopping Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard's first penalty of the shootout.

After a nervy 120 minutes ended 2-2, the Carling Cup final between Liverpool and Cardiff went to a penalty shootout that proved just as manic as the rest of the match. Both sides failed to convert their first penalty and Liverpool also missed their second, but eventually won 3-2 when Anthony Gerrard, cousin of Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard, put Cardiff's final penalty wide of the post.

Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 37 goal in 36 matches and proved that he can put the ball in the net pretty much however he likes in Real Madrid's match against Ray Vallecano on Sunday. Ronaldo chased down the ball as it rolled around the box after Mesut Ozil fired in a corner and though he was running away from the goal, Ronaldo then took a big wind-up and kicked his leg backwards, sending the ball trickling past a handful of frozen defenders, teammates and the goalkeeper.

Ten minutes after Antonio Nocerino gave Milan a 1-0 lead in the first half of their battle for first place against Juventus, Sulley Muntari headed in a second goal for Milan and even though the ball was well past the goal line, it was not counted.

Of course, this could be yet another example of why goal line technology is necessary, but being Serie A, there's always that chance the officials had reason to conveniently not see a bright yellow ball bounce a couple of feet into the goal before being pulled back out.

Trailing MK Dons 1-0 at halftime, Bournemouth needed a kick in the pants to spur them on to victory in the second half. Usually, it's the manager who delivers a stirring team talk to achieve this, but in the Bournemouth dressing room on Saturday, it was the owner's wife who took it upon herself to address the team.

Mario Balotelli scored Manchester City's first goal in their 3-0 win over Blackburn and he celebrated his goal by lifting up his shirt to reveal another special message. It was Mario's first goal since returning from his four-match ban for stepping on Scott Parker's head, so you might expect another message along the lines of his "Why always me?

AAAAHHHHHHHH I AM ARTUR BORUC AND THIS IS A LIST OF THINGS THAT MADE ME ANGRY THIS WEEK:

1. VIDEO CAMERAS -- IF THERE IS A VIDEO CAMERA BEHIND ME RIGHT NOW THEN I AM NOT GOING TO BE HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF THERE IS NOT A VIDEO CAMERA BEHIND ME RIGHT NOW THEN I AM NOT GOING TO BE HAPPY!

After three years and a recent run of poor form, Andrei Arshavin, everyone's favorite misogynistic women's clothing designer is being sent back to Zenit St. Petersburg by Arsenal. It's only a loan spell that will last until the end of the season, but it seems this could be the end of Arshavin's stay in London.

With the recent focus on racism in football, the fight against homophobia in the game has been overlooked by some. But, Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho reminded us of this other scourge during international Football v Homophobia week in the wrong sort of way while inspecting the frozen plastic pitch in Moscow ahead of Real's Champions League match against CSKA earlier this week.

Iceland's Steinthor Freyr Thorsteinsson's is quite good at flip throw-ins and he demonstrated this fact repeatedly in a friendly against Japan. (The Footy Blog has video).

The water bottles on the ground somehow make this picture even better.