Roman Pavlyuchenko is enduring a torrid time at White Hart Lane. The Spurs frontman can't get into the team and boss Harry Redknapp seems hesitant to sell him until the summer despite interest from Russia. It seems certain he will go down as a ‘flop' in England, but he is by no means the worst of the bunch.

Chelsea have made approximately 50 signings since the take-over of Roman Abramovich. About £470 million (and William Gallas) has been spent on these players – that averages out at just over £9 million (and one of Gallas' hands) per player.

In this time Chelsea have had some really disappointing players, especially when you consider how much have been spent on some of these players.

Chelsea have made approximately 50 signings since the take-over of Roman Abramovich. About £470 million (and William Gallas) has been spent on these players – that averages out at just over £9 million (and one of Gallas' hands) per player.

Compiling a list of the best 10 signings in this time is not a simple task and there will, no doubt, be objections.

Try as he might, Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has a long way to go before he can even come close to carrying the bags of Silvio Berlusconi.

AC Milan's owner and president has been at the forefront of European and Italian club soccer for more than two decades, winning 5 European Cups during that period.

The adidas 2010/11 home kit of FIFA World Cup 2006 Quarter-Finalists Ukraine has officially been launched. While Andriy Shevchenko and company just missed qualifying for this year's tournament in South Africa, they will be co-hosting Euro 2012 with Poland. Expect to see their new kit in action when the Zhovto-Blakytni (Yellow Blues) start their 2010 friendly [.

Cashing in on a comment made by someone on WDKF. Still better than that of Carlos Tevez, Andriy Shevchenko or Fernando Torres Filed under: As Such, LOLs, Lookalikes, Outside Football, Season Bits, Something Different

To celebrate the launch of Mazda's thrillseekers campaign coinciding with the action in the Fifa 2010 World Cup, we are counting down the top 10 most thrilling moments in football.
10. We all know England have suffered more than their share of penalty shootout anguish over the years, but Stuart Pearce redressed his and the nation's spot-kick balance in the Euro 1996 victory over Spain.

If we're to go on recent times, the current title-holder as football's Yoko Ono must be one Kristen Pazik, the wife of Andriy Shevchenko who torpedoed the man's career with one seemingly innocuous request: 'let's go to England, honey'.

But no one in the football world currently holds more Yoko potential than Spain's very own Sara Carbonero, whose dual employment as media personality and jewel of Iker Casillas' eye creates something of a slightly worrying overlap.

Depois de confirmar na última sexta-feira as oito cidades sedes da Eurocopa de 2012, o presidente da Uefa, Michel Platini, apresentou nesta segunda-feira a logomarca da competição mais importante do continente europeu. A marca do torneio, que será realizado na Ucrânia e Polônia, é composta por três flores, com a central tendo o formato de uma bola e as laterais possuindo as cores dos dois países.

With the decade wrapping up, I thought it'd be a good idea to review every season of the decade thus far, starting with the 1999-2000. The review will highlight Serie A of course, but also Italian teams in European competition, and National team stories from that season. So we begin with the 1999-2000 season, the dawn of the new millennium.

The Decade in Review continues with the 2006/2007 season. The 2006/2007 season was the beginning of a new era for Italian football. It was the first post-Calciopoli season, and it was the first Serie A season without Juventus. A reinforced Inter side dominated the championship, finishing 22 points ahead of second place Roma and winning their first scudetto on the pitch since 1989.

A voice cries out in the wilderness but no one hears it. An extinct species flourishes on the frozen ground, making the barren land his own but no one notices.

As Lionel Messi glided across the plains of the Camp Nou, omnipotent in his ability, making hyperbole the norm, another dynamic little man forged his spot in a sport where there wasn't a spot for him.

Footballers who return to old clubs gamble with their legacy but the former Chelsea player is sure he made the right decision.
Andriy Shevchenko hoping for perfect swansong to career at Dynamo Kyiv.

The Mike Tyson goal celebration followed by the....eye poke of death? [101gg] If you click on nothing else today...Louis van Gaal's player pic. He's a pretty boy. (The Best Eleven) Mark Schwarzer thinks travel should go both ways. Amen. (Dirty Tackle) A befitting end for Gordon Smith. (When Saturday Comes) The mystery of North Korea.

İtalya'nın en başarılı spikerlerinden ve bir Milan taraftarı olan Carlo Pellegatti özellikle takımdaki her oyuncuya kendi koyduğu takma isimlerle seslenmesi ile de ünlüdür. Bu lakap takma hadisesi İtalyan spikerleri arasında oldukça yaygın olmakla beraber Pellegatti'nin bu konuda hem sayı hem de orjinallik olarak diğerlerinden üstün olduğu bir gerçek.

The clock ticks mercilessly forward towards one of the most unusual UEFA Champion's League finals in recent memory. Time is running thin and the pressure is on both Bayern Munich and Internazionale to do their fans proud, and yet Inter's Jose Mourinho is really not the picture of optimism and glee.

Jose Mourinho is the best football coach on the planet.
Inter Milan's Serie A championship is his sixth league title as a manager. He will have finished top of the table in every full season he has led a club — bar the 2006-07 Chelsea campaign in which Roman Abramovich forced Andriy Shevchenko upon him while refusing to sign a badly needed centre-back.

Here is a look back at the last 10 Champions League finals and a short recollection on how they ended.
1999-2000: All Spanish EncounterReal Madrid 3Valencia 0Stade de France, ParisThis is the first time two domestic rivals contested a final. Real dominated from start to finish, clinching their second title in three years.

The Estadio Santiago Bernabéu plays host to the 2009-10 UEFA Champions League final

The UEFA Champions League final will be played on a Saturday night for the first time in the competition's history this year when Internazionale FC and FC Bayern München fight it out not just for continental glory but to complete the third and final leg of a Treble winning season.

As yet another talismanic player gets ready to pack his bags and bid farewell to North London, the rumour mill is working overtime as Arsenal are linked with every discontented player in world football. Yaya Toure, Per Mertesacker, Zlatan Ibrahohimivic and Gianluigi Buffon (amongst many, many more) have all been linked with a move to the Emirates in the past few weeks.

Jose Mourinho has enjoyed what is arguably his most successful year in managerial football with a treble in the Serie A. Inter Milan enjoyed an unprecedented rout of silverware under the keen eye of ‘the special one', who will now head west, to the city of Madrid, to hopefully enjoy a similar success that the Spanish giants have not encountered for too many years, seemingly playing in the shadow of the Catalonian supreme.

Jogaram amistosamente no dia 25/05/2010, na cidade de Kharkiv-UKR, no Metalist Kharkiv Stadium, as seleções da Ucrânia (23º do ranking da FIFA) e a seleção da Lituânia (49º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
Eliminatórias Eurocopa
2008Kaunas 17/11/2007 LTU2:0 (1:0)UKR 2008Odessa 28/03/2007 UKR1:0 (0:0)LTU 1996Vilnius 06/09/1995 LTU1:3 (1:0)UKR Group matches1996Kyiv 07/09/1994 UKR0:2 (0:0)LTU Group matches
Amistosos
1996Kyiv 13/08/1996 UKR5:2 (2:1)LTU 1993Vilnius 18/05/1993 LTU0:1 (0:0)UKR
O árbitro do jogo, foi: Stanislav Sukhina (Rússia)
Aos 11 minutos do primeiro tempo, Oleksandr Aliyev, jogador do Lokomotiv Moscou-RUS, abriu o placar para a seleção da Ucrânia, de penalti.

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Luis Fabiano's agent claims that the Brazilian striker is only prepared to leave current club Sevilla for AC Milan in Serie A.

The Rossoneri reportedly made an offer for Fabiano last July with the forward apparently very keen to move from Spain to Italy.

[Dirty Tackle]

Sheva was past tense out of respect always a sly man with a net in the equation, and it appears his predatory skills also translate to giant wallets hanging out the back pocket of Ukrainian television presenters with a popped collar (possibly a large demographic).

How to make sure you get a fair wage for post-match interviews Apologies if you have already seen this while we were on holiday, but it is too good not to post. Ex-Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko seems to be getting a bit flirty with the bloke interviewing him. At the end of the interview it turns out [.

For most Chelsea fans, the name "Riccy" brings to mind nimble feet, the ability to bring the ball out of defence with poise, an almost vulpine cunning, and the occasional image of Senor Martin in bed with another man.

When Ricardo Alberto Silveira de Carvalho signed from Porto in 2004, or as everyone else puts it, was delivered From Russia, with Love, many were unsure of how this man would do in the Premier League.

This morning, Stamford the Lion announced on Twitter that Chelsea's latest signing, Brazilian midfielder Ramires, will be wearing the coveted No. 7 shirt. Wonderful news.

Ramires will be following a long, long line of legends to wear the 7. Here is a sampling.

MANICHE.

Brazilian midfielder Ramires only joined Chelsea from Benfica earlier this month but according to his compatriot Alex, the youngster has already made quite an impression during the club's training sessions.

Such has been his work ethic that he has already earned a comparison with the Blues' midfield maestro Michael Essien, who is inarguably one of the best midfielders in the Premier League.

The adidas 2010/12 away kit of FIFA World Cup 2006 Quarter-Finalists Ukraine has officially been launched. Its launch follows the February release of the new Ukraine adidas home kit. While Andriy Shevchenko and company just missed qualifying for this year's World Cup in South Africa, they will be jointly co-hosting Euro 2012 with Poland.

Captained by former AC Milan and Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko, FC Dynamo Kyiv (Ukrainian: ФК Динамо Київ) is a professional football club based in the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv. It has won twelve league titles, nine Ukrainian Cups, one UEFA Super Cup and two UEFA Cup Winners' Cups along with 13 USSR Championships, 9 [.

Luiz Adriano gave Shakhtar the lead in their 2-0 victory over Dynamo Kyiv

Following the sacking of Dynamo Kyiv coach Valeri Gazzaev last week the Ukrainian capital club faced a difficult task on Sunday in trying to recapture the league leadership from arch-rivals Shakhtar Donetsk. Both clubs have dominated Ukrainian football since the second championship of an independent football league in 1992-93 and this season looks like both teams will be the likely contenders for the title yet again.

Kevin Davies has been working tirelessly all his career to earn an international call-up that has been unanimously appreciated. The man himself was astonished to finally break into an England set-up that never saw enough to give him his much-awaited break.

But such is the nature of a forward's role in modern day football.

Here are a couple of videos showing the history of FIFA Games.

[Note: The first video does not contain FIFA 2001 & FIFA 2002. Please refer to the second video for the same. EURO 2000, EURO 2004, FIFA 10, FIFA World Cup 2010 and FIFA 11 are unfortunately not included at all.]

The games I have personally played the most are:-
* FIFA World Cup 98
* FIFA 2000
* FIFA 2004
* FIFA 2005
* FIFA 06
* EURO 2008
* FIFA 09
* FIFA 10

FIFA World Cup 98 was my first FIFA game.

To start off, yes he is. Now, let me show you exactly why:

Lionel Messi has scored more goals than any other player in the top five European leagues over the last 12 months 31 in La Liga and 9 in the UEFA Champions League. This season so far, he has scored twice in the three league games as well as a Champions League brace against Panathinaikos.

Controversial as it may sound, I just could not help but share my thoughts. Some might agree and some might not, but it's all up to your own judgements. As we all know, from this year onwards, the FIFA World Player of The Year and the highly prestigious Ballon d'Or will be combined and rechristened the new FIFA Ballon d'Or award.

World Soccer magazine has announced its World Player of the Year for 2010, one of many which will do so, and while that in and of itself may not be tremendously significant, its recent history tells us it may be a hint of what's to unfold with the big trophy coming up shortly.