By FRANCO PANIZO

The 2011 MLS Combine is in the books, but before all of the focus turns towards where these guys will be playing this season, we're looking back at the event's top performers.

Several of the top prospects did not participate in the Combine, but there were still many players who showed considerably well over the three days worth of matches in sunny Ft.

Tonight, in about 30 minutes actually, SB Nation's MLS writers will attempt to predict just what what will happen in Baltimore next Thursday...this could be interesting.

You can follow all the action on the Live Mock Draft Thread and be sure to check back here at Dynamo Theory after I make my selection in the 7th spot for the "logic" behind my thinking.

If you don't tingle with pride at being an Arsenal supporter today then you my friend have a severe case of Jaguaritis and that is not good because yesterday we walked with giants and witnessed the quality of champions.

How dare these pie eating upstarts take two points off us up North? How dare they?

1. The January Camp friendlies rarely provide the most exciting matches normally our MLS-ers against a decent country's domestic-leaguers but they do provide a glimpse at our youth (most players on our roster are under 25). For a lucky few, it can even propel them into the first-team conversation.

League 2 - Saurday 1st January 2011
Cheltenham started like a team who had won 4-0 in their previous game and were confident another was well within their capabilities. It certainly seemed the case for most of the first half. Early chances came to Pack and Melligan. The Robins out passed Wycombe and looked a classier act.

The Referee | Rättskiparen [2010] from Freedom From Choice AB on Vimeo.

I want to share with you a wonderful documentary from Swedish director and producer Mattias Löw about the referee who was responsible for the controversial mistake that helped France qualify for the 2010 World Cup.

Our Mock Draft stars in just 30 minutes. You can follow along on the whole shebang by CLICKING THIS LINK.

Or you can read my thoughts on Sounders specific stuff once I've made each pick as I update this post.

Hopefully some of our industrious readers can critique my thoughts like I will be critiquing Hanauer and Co during the real deal.

Well in 30 minutes we will be treated to Villareal hosting Valencia once again.

In our previous encounter we battled it out to a 0-0 draw in Mestalla with some atractive football.

Valencia dominated the pitch but failed to capitalize.

That does give us some advantage going into this match.

Don't miss the brand new episode of the 3 Up Front podcast!

Host Adrian Clarke does his best to control feuding pundits Iain Spragg and Iain Macintosh during half an hour of lively laughter-filled football chat that features;

Darren Bent is a money-grabbing traitor Fact or Fiction?

Arsenal booked their first cup final since 2007 today with a 3-0 victory over Ipswich.

So here's the deal in all probability there will be no match review or ratings for this one. Sairax and I always do our best to try to divide up the work so that one of us is always available to watch matches and put up the recaps and ratings as soon after the match as possible, but due to circumstances beyond our control (me having a hellish day at work, Sairax having some family issues she needs to attend to), it looks like it won't happen.

The San Jose Earthquakes have hit the goalkeeper jackpot.

Entering Wednesday's lottery for Cal goalkeeper David Bingham with the fifth-highest odds of winning (8.8 percent), the Earthquakes cashed in by landing the final 2011 Generation adidas prospect on the market.

Bingham enters an appealing situation.

Time and time again the Unions are painted by the media as being loony-left strike happy agitators.
Consider this relating to British Airways taking legal action against Unite and stopping it's members from striking (because they failed to mention the number of spoiled ballots
In January 2010, Unite gave BA notice of its intention to conduct a ballot.

Houllier's much rotated side ensured their place in the draw for the 5th round of the FA Cup thanks to goals from Ciaran Clark, Robert Pires and Nathan Delfouneso, but were forced to see out just under 30 minutes with 10 men after Nathan Baker was shown a straight red card for a dangerous tackle on David Hoilett.