Arsenal youngster Jack Wilshere has called in police after a jealous female "fan" threatened to murder his girlfriend.
The 17-year-old Arsenal is rising in popularity around the football world and it seems that a few over-devoted fans have started posting messages on internet sites expressing their love for the young Gooner.

Watch out for the girl in red, as the crowd celebrate a Leeds goal in the 2-1 win on Tuesday evening against Walsall.

Last night as he was doing analysis for Sky Sports, Paul Merson watching the Burnley - Man Utd game, just couldn't keep his feelings to himself.
With Burnley taking the lead in the 19th minute, Merson gets more and more excited as the game goes on reaching the point at the final whistle (4.

With both teams fielding weakened sides for the annual Joan Gamper pre-season friendly in Barcelona. Man City pulled off a shock by beating Barca 1-0 with Martin Petrov scoring the only goal of the game.
Despite being roared on by 90,000 Catalans and with the debut of Zlatan Ibrahimacvic, Barcelona were kept out by a superb display by Shay Given.

Having aquired Adriano earlier in the season, Brazilian side Flamengo's shirt sales have gone through the roof!
With Flamengo being Brazil's most popular club, and helped by Adriano changing his squad number every 5 minutes, it seems that there is no holding those Brazilians back when it comes to getting hold of a replica shirt.

A few posts from around the Football blogosphere!
Robbie Fowler resorts to Ninja (Dirty Tackle)
Man City fan gets tatoo predicting Champions league 2011 win (Who ate all the pies)
Great slalom goal from Alex Hleb for Stuttgart, this evening (101gg)
Paul Lambert gets Norwich job, after beating them 7-1 in opening game (the guardian)
Top ten football stadiums of the world (Pitch Invasion)
Dani Alves gets plastic surgery (The Spoiler)
Roman Abramovich is gonna be a dad.

This goal comes straight from the Maltese Super Cup and a match between Sliema Wanderers and Hibernians. A game which was played in front of a few hundred fans and a very annoying drummer.
Anyway, the goal scorer's name is Alex Muscat, who executes a perfect 45 metre lob over the keeper which sends the crowd and the said drummer into raptures!

Arsenal will take a 2-0 lead to The Emirates after beating Celtic 2-0 at Parkhead.
After an Arshavin effort was ruled out for offside. A wicked William Gallas deflection of his back from a Fabregas freekick, gave the Gooners the lead, and then a second half Gary Caldwell own goal doubled their lead, leaving an up-hill task for Celtic in the second leg.

Good news for Newcastle. With most of their star players headed out the exit door, Sol Campbell is in negotiations with Newcastle United about a possible move to St James' Park.
The former England centre-half, a free agent after leaving Portsmouth this summer, is engaged to Fiona Barrett – of the Barrett property empire family – and the couple have recently bought the magnificent Hallington Hall in Northumberland, and is keen to settle down as Lord of the manor at his new country spread.

This video from Sky's Soccer AM, shows the making of Sky Sports pen pics for each Premier League player. All they had to do was turn and smile. George Boeteng was fine, but it was all a bit of a struggle for Jimmy Bullard.
Funny Stuff!

That Championship match between Bristol City and Crystal Palace will not be replayed, the Football League has confirmed, following the so-called goal that never was.
Palace had been looking for a rematch after their striker Freddie Sears had a "goal" ruled out even though the ball had gone into the net and bounced back out again.

This Fenerbahce fan gets his reward for running onto the pitch risking the wrath of the police and stewards, by getting to hug the holy grail that is Emre's leg.
The fan in question is called Rambo Okan and a legend among Fenebahce fans for his mad antics, such as this.

The rather over-confident Arsenal striker, Niklas Bendtner announced his decision to switch his squad number from 26 to 52 on Arsenal's website, yesterday.
However, being aware of the fact that many Gooners have already bought the shirt with his 26 squad number, the young Swede has offered to compensate those who have already shelled out for the shirt.

After some pretty dismal results of late, Diego Maradona was hoping for a good performance from his Argentina side in Moscow last night in the friendly against Russia.
So, after Jesus Datalo put away the third goal for the Argentines, Datalo rushed to his coach on the sidelines who embraced him in jubilant fashion and threw him to the floor, whereby Maradona starts to show him his appreciation a little too much!

David Bentley today apologised to Tottenham and the club's fans after being charged with drink driving. He apparently collided with a lamp-post in the early hours of this morning, Hertfordshire police have confirmed.
"He has been charged with a drink driving offence and has been released on bail to return to St Albans Magistrates' Court on 28 August," A police spokeswoman said.

Brazil legend Romario has has confirmed he is going to come out of retirement to fulfil his late father's wishes and play for América Football Club.
After a career spanning 23 years and over 1000 goals, the 43-year-old hung up his boots over a year ago. However, he has now decided to play a couple of games for América – the team his father supported.

Only in Brazil, are the goalkeepers allowed to take set pieces and here is a reason why. They tend to be just as useful as the outfield players.
Atletico Goianiense have one such keeper Marcio, who gladly stepped up to the plate when Atletico needed him. With just a one-step run-up, his right-footed effortd sailed speedily and accurately into the top corner.

The Copa Sudamericana tie between Argentina's River Plater and Blooming of Bolivia was no ordinary match.
After conceding a goal to River Plate thanks to a horrendous blunder from the keeper, with 20 minutes remaining, an angry Blooming fan decided it was time to invade the pitch and knocked River Plate's Henry Gimenez to the ground.

With their forthcoming friendly against Estonia tonight, to celebrate a centenary of Estonian football. Brazil's Kaka decided to take a late night walk around the Estonian capital Tallinn but needed a police escort back to the team's hotel, Brazilian media reported.
The Real Madrid midfielder took an early morning walk around the old town on his own and was spotted by two policemen, which was easy as apparently he was wearing his training tracksuit, and a patrol car stopped to talk to him.

Lille striker Pierre-Alain Frau, is not having the best of luck!
Having been car-jacked 10 months ago, Frau was attacked again as robbers posing as police briefly locked up the striker in the boot of his Mercedes in the early hours of Monday, before releasing him in another part of town and stealing the vehicle.