It's been awhile since I dropped a hat trick and QOTD, so the time is ripe to bring it back out from the shadows. It has certainly been a disappointing last week for Fire fans, first dropping the result to Columbus and then the shocking loss to the Michigan Bucks Tuesday night in USOC competition.

Shambles in Shanghai: Tigana, Tantrums and Anelka as manager is a post from: Just Football

by Andrew Crawford

The Chinese Super League (CSL) is once again watching its most noisy tenant, Shanghai Shenhua, soak up all the attention. Its big name manager, Jean Tigana is gone, replaced, or rather deposed, in headline-grabbing style by Nicolas Anelka, who will now try to rescue the club from its plunge into the bottom half of the league.

Liverpool head back out on the road, visiting the West Midlands in search of their second consecutive win in league. Success away from Anfield has been easier to come by, with Kenny Dalglish's squad winning more at opposition venues than they have at home. Alex McLeish's squad are level on points with Norwich City in ninth and have earned eleven of their nineteen points at Villa Park despite losing two of their last three.

With the recent signing of Cristian Nazarit, the Chicago Fire have filled the roster and used the final international slot. A lot of people have taken note at the large number of forwards we have now, and that our defense is still lacking in discipline and health. Given that, why did we pick up Nazarit, another forward, instead of adding to our depth defensively?

The financial figures released today for the Newcastle club, for the time they were in the Championship, gives Newcastle fans both good and bad reading. Newcastle manager Alan Pardew six new players this summer? It was an absolute disaster when Newcastle were relegated, make no mistake about that, and that's true if only because [.