If you are one of the several thousand season ticket holders and waiting list "holders" that did not purchase tickets to the Reserve Team games, get your arse down to the Jelly tonight for the 7:30 pm match vs. LA Galaxy Reserves. If you're still holding on to anger from Wednesday night, let it go and know that many of the guys playing tonight were not on the pitch Wednesday night.

There is no need to repeat the details but it seems safe to say most, if not all, Arsenal fans were seething with disappointment, anger, or worse after the way events transpired last summer. Of the millions of words written on the transfer business and the subsequent season, few have covered the fact that Arsene Wenger had a massive tactical challenge in front of him after the departure of his talisman and captain, the player who could have taken his place in midfield, and that of a very hardworking and reliable defender who even though popular opinion was to the contrary remains one of the best at his job in the League.

I may have been a little hasty to dare criticise Chelsea's Champions League triumph and the quite delectable way in which this fine football club has been managed under the fine and principled leadership of the most benevolent of dictators, Roman Abrahmovich. I have to say that my original article was just a sarcastic piece, intended to whip up anger in all those idiots who would dare to

It's the Monday morning after the nightmare weekend before and not only are we facing up to the reality of no Champions League football, there is the gloating of West Ham supporters whose team climbed the mighty summit of finishing third in division two and scraping into the top tier.

Inboxes across the country have actually been flooded with such gloaters from West Ham, Chelsea and Arsenal and it has been a tough couple of days.

The launch of the new Liverpool home kit has prompted an angry response from a number of the families of those killed in the Hillsborough disaster.
The club's home shirt for the 2012-13 season, designed by American company Warrior, was revealed on Friday.
Fans have welcomed the design, but the decision not to consult some families over the decision to move the symbol honouring the dead, has angered many.

With one match left against Chelsea left to play, Blackburn have completed the alienation process with their fans by sealing their relegation from the Premier League after a dismal season of protests, anger and frustration. The following is a transcript of Blackburn manager Steve Kean's season-end performance review as conducted by the Blackburn Chicken.

Manchester United's 4-4 draw against Everton this weekend has simply set the title race back on again especially if Sir Alex Ferguson's team got beaten by Manchester City in the upcoming Manchester Derby.

This tricky situation is acknowledged by United's Portuguese winger, Nani, but he is confident that his side can provide a quality performance at the Derby, bouncing back from their disappointment against the Toffees along with sealing the premiership title.

Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has been assured that he will not be replaced at the end of the season whether he leads his side to the Premier League title or not. City owner Sheikh Mansour said this during an interview with Abhu Dhabi TV.

"The difference is three points and we do have a chance [to win the title]," Mansour said.

I've known worse times as a Spurs fan. Forgive me if for the moment I can't quite name them. An afternoon so utterly dispiriting, the fans, the decisions, the outcome, that heart and soul are thoroughly drained. Not anger, though there's just cause the referee, the way we just slipped away without enough of a fight.

The Galaxy are off to a terrible start to the 2012 season. No matter how you spin it, this team is underperforming, at least based on the expectations that were placed on them heading into the season. The three losses speak for themselves.
Is it time to panic? Do Galaxy fans need to start riots and turning cars over in anger?

Increasingly wary of his own teammates since Kaka and Marcelo conspired to trip him, Pepe turned his violent fury on Alvaro Arbeloa during Real Madrid's 0-0 draw against Valencia on Sunday.

Worked into a paranoid delirium when by a tackle from Valencia's Pablo Piatti, Pepe kicked out at Arbeloa, who just wanted to check and see if he was OK.

The New York Red Bulls forward tandem of Thierry Henry and Kenny Cooper continued their assault on MLS defenses on Saturday, combining for four goals in a 4-1 thrashing of the Columbus Crew in Columbus.

Cooper jumped all over the Crew with a pair of early goals that helped the Red Bulls take complete control of a lethargic Crew side that offered little resistence in the first half.

The 2012-13 Arsenal home shirt was leaked yesterday and no matter how you look at it, you cannot avoid the obvious fact: it looks like it belongs to Manchester United. More specifically the 2010-11 away jersey.

Perhaps this is a new strategy for Arsenal seeking a bit of luck in claiming their first piece of silverware since 2005.

Imagine you owned two professional sports teams. Let's call them Team A and Team B. Imagine your two professional sports teams played in the same venue. Now you're probably going to post some signage on the outside of the stadium to let the population know who plays there, right? You wouldn't be silly enough to hang a sign that reads, "Home of Team A" and completely omit Team B would you?

Jeff Parke Trying To 'Keep Frustration And Anger Down' Over His Benching

Many have asked about Jeff Parke's situation. On Wednesday, he talked to the media about it He's definitely not happy.

Sounds a bit like someone got a little too buzzed at a society wedding and the braidesmaids got into a bit of a dust-up, doesn't it?

League Two ain't quite "society" however, nor was a haughtily flipped silk glove to be found. This was proper footballer anger for no apparent reason, which then resulted in five players being sent off in the dressing room after the game the brawl itself after the game as well.

This is pretty tragic, more so because it's neither surprising nor uncommon in the Russian Premier League. In fact, one fan was recently acquitted of racial abuse for throwing a banana at Roberto Carlos because he'd simply chucked it out of anger. Mmhmm.

Christopher Samba, new to Anzhi in the last month, received a rude welcome to go with the boffer pay packet they're handing out in Dagestan these days.

The Russian fan who threw a banana at Roberto Carlos back in June -- the second banana incident involving the Brazilian during his time with Anzhi -- has been aprehended and confessed to the police, but he claims he didn't do it out of racist intent, just general fury.

From RIA Novosti:

"The person who threw it was arrested with the help of surveillance cameras.

The first anger after the game have given way for the usual disappointment and despair. It's not a good idea to write abut the game when still upset and angry, even if it's probably more interesting to read, because your senses gets distorted by the sentiment in action. Yesterday I wouldn't be able to write [.

UPDATE: A reminder that Steve's memorial is tomorrow. You can donate to his memorial Melanoma Research Fund online, and cash donations at the memorial will be matched up to $5,000 by Sounders FC.

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Last week a Sounder supporter passed on the way to watch the team face Jaguares de Chiapas.

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has snapped up Luton Town winger Tarum Dawkins. Well, we say snapped up but he apparently signed three months ago but the it has only just been confirmed for some reason.

Dawkins trained with Steve Gatting's Under 16s in the summer before Wenger sanctioned the recruitment of the teenager, who was also on Chelsea's radar.

Come in No.26, your time is up. As Mark Twain once said after his obituary had been published in the New York Times, 'Reports of my death have been widely exaggerated'. So too the end of Ledley's career has been widely and often forcast. Such predictions will inevitably come true one day. Has the time arrived?

Well, that was quite a game. A poor start was followed by an absolute rout, and the only disappointment by the end was that we didn't put six past spurs. Thoughts as follows:
* I'm not going to lie - I was bemused by the team selection when I first saw it. I was fully expecting Gervinho to play, and was hoping to see the Ox as well.

For me last year, or was it the year before, Taisuke Akiyoshi (pictured left scoring for SAFFC against Sengkang Punggol in 2010) was one of the most exciting players in the SLeague playing for SAFFC. Unfortunately he couldn't keep his early season form going all year and faded.
But other noted his potential and after being released by SAFFC he has now signed for Bulgarian side Slavia Sofia.

Everyone's culpable

It is widely known that Arsenal has the biggest presence on social medias. Which is also particularly why it's sometimes very hard to be on any social network after an Arsenal defeat. Especially in a week where we were trounced in a Champions League away match and knocked out of the FA Cup in a space of 3 days.

News from Singapore that one of the ex Arsenal trainees who joined Geylang United has been dropped before he could kick a ball in anger.
Oliver Nicholas came over to Singapore to take part in trials conducted by the Singapore Football Association along with several other hopefuls and Geylang must have seen enough because they signed him up.

- This week the Fire will travel to Charleston and compete in their first competition. We will probably see the team looking a little more like game day than before. Hopefully we see answers to alot of the questions that have been asked by critics, like me.
- According to many reports these past few days, Adolfo "El Bofo" Bautista has been rumored to be coming to the Fire.

Regular readers of this blog will know that neither of the two D words in the headline are those I ever use about Arsenal, or anything connected with this great club. Optimistic and defensive in the extreme, I'm not one for reactionary anger, at least inwardly (opposition and incompetent officials are a different story), preferring attempts to rationalise and find mitigating reasons for the bad days.

A man has been charged with criminal damage after writing graffiti at Newcastle United's ground just before 2:00 am in the morning. The graffiti before club officials removed it yesterday morning The famous St. James' Park sign was removed by workmen on Thursday to the anger of Newcastle fans, and gaudy and cheap looking red [.

Liverpool's management had seen and heard enough. Kenny Dalglish's head in the sand post match interview coming on the heels of Luis Suarez's dastardly snub of Patrice Evra's handshake were considered damaging enough for their MD, Ian Ayre, to come out condemning their striker.

In particular, Suarez's promise to shake hands with Evra made earlier in the week and then reneging caused much anger.

Welcome to English football in 2012. The captain of the national team faces a criminal charge for the use of racially aggravated abuse during a Premier League match. Five months after the event, the FA announce that this player will be stripped of the captaincy without, it would appear, having consulted the manager.

By Alan Duffy

"You see this smile on my face? It's only for the cameras, ok? I genuinely despise you"

Currently doing a spot of pre-season training in Spain with new club Shanghai Shenhua, Le Sulk, Nicolas Anelka, has described the hell he had to endure during his final days at Chelsea.

You could be looking at the Annual Congregation of Munich's Santa Clauses, except this photo would've been only complete if Mario Gomez joined the bench instead of looking down at them! During Bayern's 1-1 draw against Hamburg over the weekend, there was a lot of frustration and anger from all corners of the club.

We thought it'd be appropriate to spend a few minutes of today to send our thoughts and prayers out to the families of Egypt's football tragedy last night. Contrary to popular beliefs, we all know that football shouldn't be a matter of life and death. Lives can't be taken away out of one's anger at the scoreline of a match.

Blackburn's Junior Hoilett does his best Scuba-Diving impression against Newcastle last night and not only does he get away scot free, his opponent Ryan Taylor is given a yellow card for venting his anger. It's time the FA stood up and banned this type of behaviour once and for all!

Yesterday in a comment on here I said that passion is not equivalent to anger. Once you start confusing the two, people begin using the notion to justify all sort of idiocy. I was looking for a way to make my point [...] Read the original post on Pissing Red

How bad was Wolves' 3-0 home loss to Liverpool on Tuesday? Andy Carroll scored the match's opening goal. That's how bad. It was his first league goal since October. Liverpool scored two more second half goals to leave Wolves with 18 points from 23 matches and slumped over at 19th in the table.

Photo: Earl Gardner

Le Toux talks

It just won't stop.

As suggested by the 130 readers' comments posted on PSP in less then 24 hours since the Le Toux transfer news broke, if the sadness felt by Union fans at the news of Sebastien Le Toux's transfer to Vancouver wasn't enough, subsequent comments from Peter Nowak and Le Toux will, for many, see that sadness turn to anger.

The long substitution

It's finally confirmed, the news that we did not want to hear. That Jack Wilshere has had a setback and would not be available in the date that we initially had hoped he would be back for. AC Milan's games were touted as his return period but that will now have to be extended.

After the 2-1 defeat to Manchester United at the Emirates on Sunday, I was emailing with a friend who has been an Arsenal season ticket holder since the ‘70s. He knows infinitely more about the team than I do, so I figured I'd let him speak in his own words. (My email comments inserted for clarity of what questions/comments he's responding to.