No, not me. CONCACAF announced that Tim Howard has been promoted from deputy general secretary to acting general secretary of the confederation. He was previously involved with the original North American Soccer League in the 1970s and early 1980s, and held executive marketing positions with Ohlmeyer Communications (formed by fomer sports television producer Don Ohlmeyer) and the NBA before joining CONCACAF in 1998.

Name: David Phillips In his 1990s prime for: Norwich City, Nottingham Forest Lowdown: Phillips was already 29 when the Premier League started, having played for Coventry, Plymouth and Manchester City throughout the 1980s, including winning the FA Cup in 1987 with Coventry. However, he became Norwich City's record signing when he joined for £550,000 and [.

We go back to the days of perms and short shorts to pick our team of the 1980s. That's the best possible XI from the decade fashion forgot, but creative midfielders did not. We also discuss Fabio Capello's shock resignation as England manager. Was Capello right to quit? Did the FA push him too far?

Johnny Rep between several West German opponents

The 1980s EC were held in Italy. Holland was among the eight finalists on this tournament. The Dutch impressed in 1974 and 1978 but failed to become a major force in this version.

Holland had qualified for the EC through a legendary 2-3 away [read more]

It's not always good news, is it? Though this seems it could be at least partly the plot to a Bond film, so if any of the victims fancy whipping up a quick screenplay and they are there's certainly some money to be made from this.

There's been a disturbing trend of disabled children of those who played for the Algerian national football team roundabout the time a Russian doctor with mysterious practices showed up in the early 80's.

Former Anfield forward not particularly impressed with Liverpool under his former boss.
Former Liverpool striker John Aldridge has insisted his old club are "in a crisis" following last weekend's defeat by Newcastle — their sixth loss in seven Premier League games.
Liverpool have won this season's League Cup — their first trophy in six years — and return to Wembley a week on Saturday for an FA Cup semi-final with Merseyside rivals Everton.

There have been 217 Merseyside derbies in total. I limited this remembrance to the previous 122, those played in the last 50 years. Which is actually a handy dividing line, as Liverpool and Everton only met once between 1951 and 1962, in the '54-55 FA Cup (which Liverpool won), because of Everton then Liverpool's relegation to the Second Division.

One of the main rules of the Intertoobz is that thou shall not repost, (or cross-post or go postal or something like that. I've never been very good with rules.). However, this one is something I noticed today, and put over on the comments thread of the previous post about the third kit, as well as on the DT Facebook page.

"Celebrate good times c'mon" werethe lyrics pumping out of every Liverpool fan's vocal cords, at theweekend, as the Reds celebrated overcoming their bitter rivals,Everton, in the FA Cup semi-final.
However, whilst the celebrations in thered half of Merseyside may well continue for a few days to come, thereality remains that Liverpool are now a side playing second fiddleto the top teams in England.

Rajon Rondo and a cameraman got into an altercation after Tuesday night's game between the Boston Celtics and Atlanta Hawks. Apparently Rajon Rondo didn't want to be on camera and went to the cameraman and told him to his face. You can watch the Rajon Rondo cameraman video below to see how it unfolded.

adidas Tango 12: Official Euro 2012 Match Ball - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

adidas Tango 12 is the official Euro 2012 match ball, based on the classic Tango design used during both the FIFA World Cup™ and UEFA EURO™ tournaments during the early 1980s. The adidas Tango 12 features a modern interpretation of the design including bespoke graphics designed to represent the two host countries and link to the key characteristics of football – unity, rivalry and passion.

TweetLiverpool have unveiled their new collared home kit for the 2012/2013 season with a dash of gold to boot! The kit has come to be known as the 'Warrior kit' and closely resembles the home strip sported by the famous all-conquering Reds sides of the 1980s. Of immediate stand out was the large collars and [.

Gianfranco Zola has laid one of football's great urban legends to rest by confirming that he didn't appear in the music video for Bonnie Tyler's 1980s classic Total Eclipse of the Heart. Myth and Wikipedia has long claimed that the pint-sized forward featured in the power ballad video. But Zola says it's not [.

Football League play-off finals aside, the domestic season is now all-but over and last week saw the last of our non-league videos of the week. To fill the gap between now and the start of next season, though, we're going to bring you some videos from the history of the game in England and who better to start with the new European champions, Chelsea?