Liverpool's extensive search for a new manager is over after Brendan Rodgers agreed a three-year deal to take charge at Anfield.
According to the Daily Mail, the Swansea boss will be officially announced as Kenny Dalglish's replacement within the next 24 hours, after he informed his current chairman Huw Jenkins of his desire to move to Merseyside.

Here is the Sky Sports interview where Papiss Cisse and Demba Ba talk about Cisse's two goals last night. Every Newcastle fan should see this, and Demba Ba acts as the interpreter for his pal Papiss. It doesn't seem to us that Demba Ba is too unhappy on Tyneside.

By Chris Wright

Fiorentina have a pretty lousy season in Serie A, languishing down in the lower reaches of the table, just six perilous points about the relegation zone. Morale is thin on the ground.

Last night, Fiorentina played second-bottom Novara and, after going 2-0 down after just thirty minutes, coach Delio Rossi was forced into making a change; hauling off midfielder Adem Ljajic (the name may ring bells for Man Utd fans) after just 32 minutes.

Real Madrid's recent La Liga success in beating Barcelona 2-1 at Camp Nou notably give a strong sense of confidence for Jose Mourinho's side ahead of their upcoming Champions League's second tie against Bayern.

Mourinho himself stated that considering his squad's performance this season, getting into the final would be something they deserved and obviously will target after already looking home and dry in clinging the league title.

Their Words "I think it's fair to say no supporter would be delighted with the results we've achieved this year. We feel we are a club that needs to be perceived as the strongest club in football and we want to get there." Liverpool chairman Tom Werner. Other Sources Scheduling EPL as opponent helps MLS pay bills and acts as measuring stick - from The Sporting News's Brian Straus: "Ultimately we selected Chelsea, as they.

In the world of skateboarding, there's something that ever skater dreams about: doing a 1080. And now, it's finally been done. Tom Schaar landed a 1080 with ease see it for yourself in the video below. The most amazing part? Tom Schaar is only 12 years old!

In the Tom Schaar 1080 video, you can see him gain great speed and then start spinning right when he gets into the air.

TweetA sex tape starring X-Factor judge and former N-Dubz singer Tulisa Contostavlos is doing the rounds online with speculation as to who the male figure is. The ‘Tulisa sex tape' seemingly stars the 23-year-old herself and having been leaked on the Internet on Monday morning, shows the former N-Dubz singer engaging in sordid acts of [.

First off let me make this clear. My posting of these videos is not a protest against the restrictions placed today on the Houston Dynamo supporters groups. It is not an attempt to absolve certain individuals at recent Dynamo matches for their behavior. Objects CAN NOT be thrown on the pitch under any circumstances, it's dangerous to other fans, to stadium staff and players.

As if today's disappointing result wasn't enough to elicit anger, we now have news that a section of Chelsea supporters were reported to authorities after allegedly making racist remarks about Anton Ferdinand as they were traveling back from Norfolk via train.

Chelsea Football Club is concerned to hear that a small number of fans travelling back by train from Norwich were alleged to be involved in racist chants and comment.

The latest edition of our new NSC custom acts as annex to today's Postcard From Europe with Big Bad Brad.On whether he could take over as cup goalie should they reach the late stages or a final:"That hasn't been discussed. We have a great group of goalkeepers, so there's no way that would be discussed.

Big names and bad jokes ruled the day in Nyon as the Euro names were announced. And given that it's the Euros, where the quality has a higher density, Groups of Death are often just the groups. However, Group B is a clusterfuck of quality and Group C, should Bilic's boys get their acts together as they can, aren't tremendously far behind.

Scheming for support and ticket sales is one of sport's greatest traditions. Most of them take a more traditional route, such as standard marketing. None of those methods likely involve bringing Akon to Blackburn.

But give those chicken men some credit, because they tried to try. And clearly failed.

By Chris Wright

Back in 1988, when football was a man's game, Real Madrid's Juanito was (perhaps unsurprisingly) banned for five whole years for this brazen double-whammy, back-stamping, cheek-mashing assault on Bayern Munich's Lothar Matthaus as the German midfielder lay pole-axed between the legs of the referee.

After the 1-1 draw at Anfield yesterday, Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini accused Liverpool players of getting Mario Balotelli sent off, and having examined the incident several times - and being completely objective - I have to agree with his view.
Mancini was clearly disappointed with the decision:
"It was not the correct decision.

Brendan Rodgers says he was "honoured" by the congratulations Swansea received from Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish after their Premier League promotion.
Dalglish was among the first to congratulate the Welsh side after their Championship play-off win over Reading.
As the Swans prepare to travel to Anfield on Saturday, Rodgers said he still treasures Dalglish's letter.

This is an absolute winner for women and football! Last night, 41,663 women and children filled the stadium to watch Turkish side, Fenerbahce play against Manisaspor. The Turkish Football Federation recently took up a decision to ban male supporters from attending games following their acts of hooliganism against Shakhtar Donetsk.

This is how a true teammate acts. I wonder if Beckham had this written in his contract.

As the statue of Sir Bobby Moore looks on, London burns in the distance behind a desolate Wembley Stadium. The scenes across England this week have been devastating and surreal. These images have brought to mind the sectarian unrest I witnessed as a child when the IRA and Loyalists committed weekly acts of bloodshed.

In what is a terrible acting performance, unless it was on a Brazilian soap opera maybe, Brazilian defender Erika acts like she's been stabbed in the back.

If a new American Rules Soccer League was formed, what single event could guarantee an excess of publicity to thrust the league further to the forefront of the minds of sports consumers? What single event could accompany the league and strengthen it every 4 years with the biggest bang for the buck?

Episode 109: "Two Aliens and an A-Hole"
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This week on the show, resident diva Sarah Wilson and star of the silver screen Brian Bentley are joined by Around the League star ELAC who makes his show debut.

The Mirror got jokes.

Ashley Cole shot my mum last week. The drama has since been immortalized in digital form, first by Taiwanese television and now by some crafty fucks with degrees in software engineering.

No disrespect, of course. This is good, real good.

This week on the show, resident diva Sarah Wilson and star of the silver screen Brian Bentley are joined by Around the League star ELAC who makes his show debut. Many topics are covered and as is tradition with a Sarah and Brian show, Sarah learns new terms to describe various...acts. CSRN MEDIA PLAYER

The upcoming Real Madrid defender David Mateos was banging heavily on hercules hurting FC Barcelona on the Saturday night. The truth was Hercules definitely tried, they played well, were very organised but this Barca side was too muchb for them to handle in the end. But the question in everybody's mind is whether the newly promoted recruit from Real Madrid B team was expecting too much from his senior side to keep on the tail of this exceptional Barcelona side.

The other day I made a funny image about Arshavin and his goal face. I said it made him look like he was constipated. Loyal readers commented that generally speaking I was a terrible human being for that. In response, over a twitter conversation with arseblogger, I ended up joking about making Arhsavin riding a unicorn, as though that would make Arsenal supporters happy.

Hmmm, bank holiday here and in the UK, I believe. Which is kind of annoying because I wanted to ring up my bank today and complain about something but I suppose it'll have to wait.

It means things are fairly quiet with not much in the way of fall-out from the Birmingham game and little written about City just yet.