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Yesterday at the day job, I said that with both His Ginger Majesty and Chad Ochocinco on Soccer Talk Live last night at least one of them would say something quote-worthy.

Y'all want the real reason* TiTi isn't traveling to LA for the Beatdown in Tinseltown? Frenchies gotta move. It seems dude has just splashed out on a $9m apartment in Soho so obviously this Saturday will be spent in a college sweatshirt & a baseball cap moving boxes up & down the stairs with the help of his bros.

In these times of perpetual ass-clown behaviour (by England footballers in particular), we would like to take a moment to honour a pairing that to date, have managed to neatly side step a skank-related scandal in the Sunday tabloids.

Above you will see Nicola Carragher supporting hubby Jamie at his testimonial game against boyhood club Everton, held at Anfield last Saturday.

Who loves fan-fiction? Twilight-ers and D&D geeks, that's who. I don't know if there is much in the way of soccer fan-fiction out there but why not take the time to create some now if no one's doing it already? And don't give me any "SF, that's not cool" BS; I read MLS blogs, I'm not too cool for anything but MISL.

Der 167. der Weltrangliste hat es nicht einfach. Das Land selber gerät immer wieder in Turbulenzen zwischen Regierungstreuen Bürgern und Oppositionellen. Aufstände, Terror, politische Unruhen und häufige Regierungswechsel sind die Folge und natürlich leidet auch die Bevölkerung dadurch. Ohne stabile Verhältnisse geht es halt einfach nicht und solange das Volk andere Probleme hat als so [.

Here is the VIDEO that shows some smart free-kick strategy that won a vital game for the SPANISH U 21 NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM against Poland. Midfielder Thiago finds Sergio Canales who puts in the goal & the winner. Final score 0 -1Poland u21 - Spain u21 0-1If you are not able to watch the video it maybe because you have Chrome Navegator

Images via Style.com/Giles Deacon

Abigail Clancy's love life may have recently gone up in flames, but the one burning fire she won't mind is that of her career. Abbey is en fuego, y'all.

Acting as his muse, Abbey modeled for Brit designer Giles Deacon's entire Resort 2011 collection lookbook.

Last Friday, US national team coach Bob Bradley held an online Q&A session at the USSF's official website, and he answered questions about the World Cup including the controversial decision to start Ricardo Clark in the first knockout match against Ghana. It's apparent that Bradley saw Clark's role as strictly a spoiler type, but I am struck that the word "possession" never appeared in his explanation.

The Blues have turned up the heat as we approach the final 3 games of the season. Last night Miami FC beat first place Rochester Rhino's 2-1 in front of a stunned crowd at the Marina Auto Stadium.
Miami FC looked good on the field and dominated the play for many minutes throughout the game.

Der Isländer an sich ist komisch. Dort gehen die Spieler auf den Fussballplatz und tun dann dort so, als ob sie sich mit der Zeitung aufs Klo setzen. Komisch, hierzulande macht man so etwas wirklich auf dem Klo, alleine und nicht mit seinen Mitspielern. Wenn ich jetzt aber noch den Klubnamen des Spielers, der sich [.

Second half goals from Natwuti Madyalan & Vivat Sreeyanong gave Port their 13th win in the last 14 games. Despite that, they are still 4 points behind league leaders RBAC going into the weekend crunch fixture between the top two teams.
THAI FUTSAL LEAGUE 2010 - ROUND 18
SAMUT PRAKAN 1 - 4 SAMUT SAKHON
ROYAL THAI NAVY 7 - 3 SRIPATUM
SURAT THANI 9 - 4 BANGKOK FC
NONTHABURI 4 - 5 CAT FC
LEO BG 0 - 2 PORT AUTHORITY
RBAC 3 - 2 I AM SPORT
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The SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM , & current FIFA World Champion, kicks off tonight its defence of the European Champions title won back in 2008 with its first Group game qualifier away against LIECHTENSTEIN. The Group is made up of other teams like Scotland, Lithuania & Czech Rep all playing for spots in the 2012 Euro Championships to be held in Poland/Ukraine.

Pato's 'Happy Birthday to me' dance needs a little work. Images: Getty Images & Reuters via Daylife

Yes, we know. This was yesterday.

But between Cescy's Twitter announcement and Marco Borriello's ... er... face we simply didn't get around to it.

Happy 21st, Alexandre, and happy 22nd to Athletic Bilbao's Javi Martinez ( left); your birthday yesterday was also sadly overlooked during our donut/perv fest.

Y'all know I'm down with Dunny & co. at The Original Winger right? Check out his interview with TiTi from Friday night; good stuff. Serious respect for landing such a big fish.
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Both Luis & Helen recognised that since the 'Intimately Beckham' advert, the couple-shilling product bar had been significantly raised. Nevertheless, Helen was startled when the first scene called for head removal. See more at Dona di Bola

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This week on the show we welcome back Houston's own Pancho & Lefty along with the Hullbird for another edition of America's favorite soccer centric radio game show thingy.

The rumour is hot in Italy, so hot that it has not gone away even after the players transfer period window shut last Wednesday the 1st of September. Did INTER MILAN really offer SAMUEL ETO´O to REAL MADRID? It's the talk of the "Calcio", gossip that has reached Spanish media who are now analyzing if true & if Real Madrid missed a bargain.

ENZO ZIDANE is the 15 year old son of World Football French Legend ZINEDINE ZIDANE & is currently lifting eyebrows here in the REAL MADRID junior team & with Spanish Football observers. The youngster has apparently inherited the style & playing finesse of his father & may soon make a serious jump in level in his early career which calls for a mayor decision.

The news comes out of Italy & from the web "calciomercato.it". According to this online media source specialized in European Football, English Premier League Club CHELSEA FC could make a 20M€ offer to SEVILLA FC for its young Spanish International winger JESUS NAVAS.The move would be during the Winter "transfer window" & taking advantage of the fact that the players contract with Sevilla FC ends

You read about the NFL star's footie past, now see & hear about it live & in color! Or something equally hypetastic.

Fifa's World Rankings came out today. World Cup winners Spain remain in top spot followed by The Netherlands, Germany and Brazil down to 4th place!
England are in 6th place, one adrift of Argentina who are in 5th.
Egypt is the highest African team in 9th. The USA is 18th. Russia and Switzerland drop out of the top 20 teams in the world.

Chelsea and Arsenal get their UEFA Champions League campaigns underway as the English pair tackle MSK Zilina and Braga respectively on Wednesday night. Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho, who won the Champions League with Inter Milan last season, sees his talented side lock horns with Ajax at the Bernabeu in Group G.

Here is a curious piece of information for the FC BARCELONA fan & the Football _ Soccer lover in general. Argentine International & Barça forward LEO MESSI has become the Top Goal Scorer in the History of FC BARCELONA for the Champions League competition. His two goals yesterday against Greek Club Panathianiakos took him pass Brazilian Rivaldo to take his goal tally to 27 goals.

United & Farinelli's Wolf vs. Goat Spring 2011 menswear collection

The men of D.C. United are adding some Black-and-Red flare to Farinelli's Wolf vs. Goat Spring 2011 menswear collection. The Lookbook has already been published online so check it out to see a preview of United's new look.

It's that time again SBI readers. Time for you to send your soccer (and pop culture) questions my way in the latest SBI Live Q&A.

If you want to talk American soccer or international soccer, MLS or EPL, U.S. national team or European qualifiers, you can do it now. If you want to discuss it, send your questions my way.

Thai Port booked their place in the last 16 of the Toyota League Cup with a 2-1 aggregate win over Roi-Et United. The plucky Division 2 team went into today's game at PAT Stadium with a 1-0 lead from the first-leg, but their hopes of pulling off another shock result suffered a blow in the first-half.

At the end of my preview article for the Thai Port vs Al-Qadsia first-leg match, I wrote: "It is vital that we take a positive result into the second-leg, because from what I've heard about these kind of games, you don't get much out of the referee in the Middle East". That comment looks even more pertinent following the AFC's announcement that the match officials for Tuesday's game are all from Iran, a country separated from Kuwait by 9 miles of Iraqi desert at their closest point.

Die Amerikaner entdecken immer mehr den Spaß am Fussball und das wollen sie jetzt der Welt ein weiteres Mal beweisen. Nach 1994 wollen sie jetzt wieder ein Weltmeisterschaftsturnier im eigenen Land austragen und alle großen Mannschaften der Welt dazu in den USA begrüßen. Ob das klappt oder nicht, wissen selbst die allwissenden Amerikaner nicht, aber [.

Independently of the "bad" performance tonight by REAL MADRID in their 0-1 Champions League Group G victory over Auxerre , here is the REAL MADRID TEAM PHOTO starting 11 for the fans.L to R Back: Khedira, Ramos, Pepe, Benzema, Xabi & RonaldoL to R Front: Casillas, Marcelo, Lass, Higuain, Arbeloa

If you have ever found yourself wishing you could take part in an SBI Q&A, but couldn't because of when we usually hold them, you may be in luck.

I will host the first evening SBI Live Q&A tonight at 7pm (ET) tonight. You can send in your soccer-related questions and I will try answer as many of them as possible.

Good evening folks. It's time for the first night-time edition of the SBI Live Q&A.

Time for us to talk soccer, and time for you to send your soccer-related questions my way. Want to talk UEFA Champions League? The MLS Playoff Race? Some college soccer? Send your questions my way and I'll try to answer and discuss as many of them as possible over the next few hours.

Den Gemüsestand von Didi Schweiger kennt in München jeder. Nicht nur weil er direkt vor der Uni steht und er dort Studenten, Touristen und Schwabings High Society gleichermaßen mit Vitaminen versorgt, sondern auch weil er eben ein richtiges Münchner Original und ein absolut bekennender Fan der Löwen ist.

Given the recent passing of the European transfer window, and the recent news of Bob Bradley's re-hiring as U.S. men's national team head coach, it's time for the latest SBI Live Q&A.

Get your soccer-related questions ready and at Noon today I will kick off a new Q&A, where I will try to answer as many of those questions as I can.

Hier schreibt Udo Lindenlaub eine exklusive Kolumne für Fritten, Fussball & Bier. Udo Lindenlaub ist der Autor des wunderbaren Buches „Von Asche zu Asche". Sehr geehrter Herr Diego! Was waren das für unvergessliche Momente, als Sie sich im grün-weißen [...]

Fritten, Fussball & Bier - Ein alternativer Fussball-Blog, der sich um die wirklich wichtigen Themen des Fussballs kuemmert!

Good afternoon everybody (and good morning on the West Coast). It is time for another installment of the SBI Live Q&A, where you send me your soccer-related questions (and some pop culture questions as well) and I try to answer as many of them as I can.

Want to talk European transfers? Need to discuss Bob Bradley's re-hiring?

Europaweit ist man neidisch auf den deutschen Fussball. Alles läuft harmonisch, die Vereine sind finanziell gut aufgestellt, die Eintrittskarten sind billig und das Niveau ist in allen Ligen konstant hoch. Der deutsche Fussball ist im Ausland inzwischen so beliebt, dass aus allen möglichen Ländern Fans nur für ein Fussballspiel zu uns kommen.

Meine lieben Fussballfreunde. Wer jetzt noch keine 16 ist, der muss darf hier eigentlich nicht mehr weiterlesen, denn dieses Thema ist nicht ganz jugendfrei. Zumindest ist das so, wenn man Bremer Politikern glauben darf, aber wer glaubt denn heutzutage noch Politikern. Leider niemand und daher lege ich ganz demokratisch die Entscheidung in eure Hände.

Once upon a time REAL MADRID had six Dutch players in their squad for a cost of 123M€ paid to have their services. Today, & with the departure of Rafael Van Ver Vaart to Tottenham, the number of Dutch players in the team is zero.To get to that zero, Real Madrid sold them for a price of 63M€ (- 60M€ loss) & Drenthe loaned out to Spanish Club Hercules.

The endeavour is a difficult one. Attempt to finish second in its Group (4) & hope that they – the SPANISH U 21 NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM – are amongst the 4 Best 2ºnd placed teams to go into the elimination phase against the Group winners for the London Olympic Games.First step conquered tonight as SPAIN defeated group leaders HOLLAND 2-1 with a grand performance from Real Madrid youngster SERGIO

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We talked a bit too much about Real Madrid this episode. I suppose we got too carried away talking about Mourinho and Harry Potter. Isaiah Cambron overslept and woke up thinking that Barca actaully made a profit from the Ibra & Etoo deals.
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And we have a new member (and the first female member of the panel at that!