Most of you have probably already seen this, but Robin van Persie tore an ankle ligament today, an injury which will keep him up for around 2 months..

What, you may ask, super-important match was he playing in to take on such an injury? Was it the World Cup? Nope. The European championships?

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A smart Alex.

Sir Alex Ferguson was given a four match touchline ban and a fine for 20,000 pounds following his attack on Alan Wiley's fitness. But the referees union is still baying for evermore blood. Here is Alan Leighton of Prospect, the referees union.

"From our point of view it is disappointing.

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High School Division 4 Championships took place yesterday. Despite the 5-0 rout by Woonsocket, fans received an extra bonus (2 fights and longer newscoverage). There's alot of anger on the field as of late...Is it really that serious?

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While Sir Alex once again displayed his ref insulting Tourrettes after his side's loss to Chelsea, what Palmeiras president Luiz Gonzaga Belluzzo had to say about referee Carlos Eugenio Simon after their 1-0 loss to Fluminense makes the sum total of Fergie's ref rants look downright complimentary by comparison.

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When the story first broke that Newcastle United's Mike Ashley had decided to sell the naming rights to St James Park, it seemed unlikely that he was doing it with the best interests of the supporters of the club at heart. However, the confirmation made this week that for the rest of this season St James Park will be known as "sportsdirect.

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Derek Llambias moved to allay fear and anger with Newcastle fans on Mike Ashley's pronouncement to sell naming rights to St James' Park. St. James' Park - the Cathedral on the Hill Presented by Ashley announced his plans last week after also confirming he would not be selling the Coca-Cola Championship club but it has met with universal [. Click to continue reading...

Happy Monday to you. It's always good starting a new week when Arsenal won. It's even better when that happens against Tottenham. After 2 consecutive draws, Arsenal maintains their 100% winning record at Ashburton Grove with a comprehensive victory against a side who started the week mouthing off about how great their team are, but has now gone home with their heads firmly between their legs.

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Hajduk Split have had a terrible start to the season in Croatia, especially by their elite standards, sitting 14 points behind leaders Dinamo Zagreb after 12 games up until this weekend. Fan anger though with no reports of any incidents or threats prompted police to step-up security during training and at matches this week.

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Everton manager David Moyes has not contained his anger at the Carling Cup organizers for forcing a Tuesday kickoff at White Hart Lane. The match will be Everton's third in a six day span, and Moyes is pointing the fingers at the tournament's organizers.

The Carling Cup fixture against a strong Tottenham Hotspurs side comes just days after Everton's Premier League fixture at Bolton and their Europa League fixture away to Benfica.

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Last year when we was going through our barren (pre Arshavin) spell if someone had said would you be happy with a 2-2 draw away against the Whammers I would have taken that all day long. But this year we have progressed as a team, a team that can pass forwards and create chances with ease. We still lack the mental capacity to finish games off.

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Call we crazy, but I think this Barcelona team isn't that bad. I mean they did lose to a team earlier in the week that I had honestly never watched play a match in my entire life. But hey everyone has an off-week. Or in this case an off-weekday. Nobody wants to lose a Champions League game period.

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Derby day was massive this year because for the first time in decades City were tipped to actually stand a chance not because of derby day unpredictability, but because they actually had good players.

For us to batter them like we did for the second half really should have put them in their place but it looked as though the bragging rights had been stolen away from us when Rio Ferdinand bizarrely chose to try to flick the ball over Craig Bellamy's head which lead to City's last minute equaliser.

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Today's match against Manchester United at Anfield will decides Liverpool's title ambition after losing four on the trot. Some quarters were venting their anger on the manager for the recent bad run of games. Do you think it is fair to blame it solely on Rafa Benitez?

How about the eleven players on the playing field?

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Rafa Benitez has urged his hurting squad to show strength in adversity and turn their season around in the "perfect game".
Liverpool are currently embroiled in their worst run of form for 22 years but Benitez has remained in a bullish mood ahead of tomorrow's Anfield test against Manchester United. Click to continue reading...

 I apologize to the joker for stealing that quote but it fits in well with this mini review of the match against AZ Alkmaar.

We've now played three games and collected 7 points. Most often than not, 9 points usually does the trick with regards to qualification. We have two home games, one against Alkmaar and the other against Liege.

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It's being reported that at a team dinner prior to England's match against Ukraine, Emile Heskey caused Fabio Capello to shout at the squad in a fit of anger all because the striker was caught secretly texting under the table, breaking Capello's strict rule against phones at meal team. The following is a transcript of that incident.

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We are in trouble. We have a bit of an injury-crisis going into tomorrow's game against Sunderland.
As I reported on Wednesday, Steven Gerrard stayed with the England squad even though he had a groin problem and he even tried to play in a practice match and in doing so, he aggravated the injury even further, madness! Click to continue reading...

Sorry for the lengthy absence - I am back. And seething with anger. This isn't exactly going to be a warm-fuzzy post about how I love TFC. It's a little negative, so brace yourself for it.
If football matches were only 75 minutes long, we'd be 3 points off of first in the league, and we'd have a playoff spot locked up. Click to continue reading...

As international week rumbles on and as we find ourselves exhaling with anger at Sepp Blatter's sudden imposition of a seeding system on the World Cup play offs, as well as cringing with embarrassment at the vast improvement brought about on the Beeb's Football League show by replacing Championship with League One, Bhasin with Chapman, and Claridge with Rosenior, an idle moment has found me Click to continue reading...

Leave it to the Dalai Lama to deliver just the message we need to navigate these troubled times. Click to continue reading...

By Wednesday night the make up of the automatic UEFA qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup finals will be known and it is at least possible, if not likely, that there will be one or two surprises amongst them. Serbia, for example, only need one win from their two remaining matches against Romania and Austria to condemn France to second place in their group, whilst it is almost certain that, in spite of having two comfortable home matches against Hungary and Malta as their final two fixtures, the "lottery of the play-offs" will be the best that Portugal will be able to manage and they might yet even lose out on second place to one of Denmark, Sweden or even Hungary.

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This mini tournament takes place late October and sees the Thai national team taking on Muang Thong United from the Thai Premier League, HAGL from the V League in Vietnam and Yadanarbon from Myanmar.
This will probably be Bryan Robson's first chance to see his new players kick a ball in anger and he must be thinking he's died and gone to heaven. Click to continue reading...

Real Madrid manager Manuel Pellegrini is not pleased with his club's showing last weekend against Luis Fabiano's Sevilla. Pellegrini is not happy for a lot of reasons. First off, Real Madrid had yet to lose a match until last weekend all season which means that los galiticos are no longer chasing after perfection.

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Good on you son.

Aston Villa defender Richard Dunne says he did not celebrate his goal in the 1-1 draw against Manchester City as a mark of respect to his former club.
Dunne, who joined Villa last month after nine years at City, was applauded by opposition fans as he walked back to his own half after the first-half goal.

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The U.S. Under-20 national team has its fate in its own hands. A win or a tie today vs. South Korea (12:45pm, ESPN2) in its final Under-20 World Cup group match will put the Americans into the second round of the tournament. A loss would leave seriously jeopardize the U.S. team's chances of advancing.

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by CARL ELDRIDGE Arise, Sir Arsene Wenger. Ok, Her Maj may not be bestowing a knighthood on our leader any time soon but on the day when he becomes the longest-serving manager in Arsenal's history we the fans should herald him as such.

This morning's papers are awash with features on SAW, charting his successes over his 13-year tenure and the transformation of the club commercially and above all its footballing philosophy. Click to continue reading...

Sol Campbell's departure from Notts County was the most predictable football story of the season so far. The prospect of a recent Premier League regular plying his trade in League Two was an unlikely scenario, but the chances of the big fish sticking at it in a little pond for too long were particularly slim considering the individual involved. Click to continue reading...

Now we here at COS love good old fashioned reasoned debate, hell we also love a bit of in fighting and some good old fashioned swearing but we have noted an upturn in volume from complete headcases who seem to revel in the need to rile others and do so in a thoroughly unoriginal and pointless manner.

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Bordeaux president Jean-Louis Triaud has expressed his anger at Arsene Wenger for 'unsettling' Les Girondins striker Marouane Chamakh during his summer pursuit of the Moroccan frontman. Despite Chamakh's eagerness to join the Gunners', Triaud believes that Wenger was waiting to see what happened with his squad before making a firm offer. Click to continue reading...

The Daily Mirror is reporting that Valencia star David Silva hasn't exactly quashed rumors linking him with Old Trafford. The young Spanish attacker went about the usual business of saying a lot without actually saying anything. "It's an honor for any player that a club of the prestige of Manchester United should follow them and that in itself is enormous praise," said Silva.

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It's a curious thing, footballer rage. We've all seen players we love/hate/are indifferent to displaying various levels of anger and testosterone excess on the pitch. 99.9% of the time, regardless of the background to the situation, we're... well, let's put it this way: angry footballers give us the feelings.

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Thanks to Studs Up for coming up with their usual brilliant take on a topical issue. Perhaps if RVP and Ade see this they will laugh off their collective anger and the world will be a better place, well probably not. CLICK HERE to see the comic sketch.

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Keep your chin up, Arsene Wenger... it's Sir Alex Ferguson who has reason for worry

He [Ferguson] has to convince his stuttering side that they can succeed without Cristiano Ronaldo and remain among the European elite. And it might just work, even if three of the four Barclays Premier League games they have so far contested have exposed worrying deficiencies that could seriously undermine their chances of becoming the first team to win four successive English titles.

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As the day wore on yesterday my anger didn't subside. I thought back at the anger I have felt after Arsenal matches over the last year, how furious I was when I was there to see us lose 2-0 to Villa because we just didn't even try, against Man United in the Champions League, because we just didn't try, against Chelsea in the FA Cup & league, because they just didn't try, but yesterday I wasn't angry at Arsenal.

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Wenger makes a valid point on the culture of simulation.

Wenger has conceded the striker exaggerated his fall, but he still believes Celtic goalkeeper Artur Boruc made contact with Eduardo and a penalty was justified.
'Eduardo made a bit more of it but watch the television and it is part of the game,' said the Arsenal manager.

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