Given his game-changing substitute appearance, there's no doubting Tom Huddlestone's commitment to the Tottenham cause. But he did provide a comedy moment when TV cameras caught him joining Manchester City fans in a rendition of Blue Moon from the comfort of the Spurs bench. It is a catchy tune. This follows hot on the heels [.
Fulham 1-0 Aston Villa Premier League 20th October 2012
Making his 150th appearance for Fulham, defender Chris Baird capped his milestone appearance with the only goal of the game at Cravan Cottage on Saturday, netting from a corner on 84 minutes.
Sir Alex Ferguson is famously very picky about who can and can't attend his press conferences, so
it was a tad hypocritical of him to turn up unannounced at tennis star Andy Murray's post-match
presser following his US Open semi-final victory. In a veritable Who's Who (Scotland Edition),
Fergie and James Bond star Sean Connery [.
Wojciech Szczesny is out with a rib injury. With Per Mertesacker and Carl Jenkinson filling in
for Laurent Koscielny and Bacary Sagna, this means more pressure on the back four to step up. Add
Abou Diaby making his second Premiership appearance after a long, long injury absence and this
could be a very long afternoon for the Gunners on set pieces and counterattacks.
USWNT Goal Keeper Hope Solo made an appearance this morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe to discuss
the team's winning the gold medal in London, her new memoir, and the various "controversies" that
seem to surround her.
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Coach Mano Menezes has named his squad for the friendly against Colombia in New Jersey. Chelsea's David Luiz, Ramires and Oscar have been included as well as Tottenham's Sandro Ranieri. Kaká keeps his place after decentperformancesagainst Iraq and Japan. The match is Brazil's 1000th outing and their last appearance of 2012.
Paulo Nagamura's goal was his 10th in league play in his MLS career.
At 20 years and 56 days, Oriol Rosell is the 3rd youngest player to score a league goal for KC. He
knocked Chris Brown at 22 years 31 days out of the top 10.
Rosell became the 4th youngest in all competitions to score a goal, knocking Eddie Johnson at 22
years 1 day out of the top 10.
It appears Andrew Duran just can't catch a break. The Seattle Sounders rookie, who was their top
pick in the most recent SuperDraft, could be done for the season after tearing his ACL while on
loan to the Atlanta Silverbacks. Duran has rejoined the Sounders, but only so he can get the
surgery done here, which will likely happen next week.
Unless Spurs take the unlikely step of loaning Steven Caulker out to a Championship side once
the relevant window is open, the centre half is set for a full season at White Hart Lane. Caulker
reminded the club that he has plenty to offer at the back after an assured display was rounded off
with the opening goal for England Under 21's as they saw off Azerbaijan last night.
The Roger Espinoza news continues today as Honduras announced their roster for the upcoming
World Cup qualifiers on September 7th and 11th, both against Cuba. Even though he's suspended for
their first game on the 7th due to his red card in the Olympics again Brazil, Espinoza has been
named to the roster.
Steve Zakuani's return and assist should be the glory of the game. That moment put smiles on so
many faces. After many long months of hope Zakuani returned to the pitch and performed admirably.
September 2nd isn't a day that will be remembered as a the Sounders first ever US Open Cup win, but
as the day that Steve Zakuani didn't just play, but played well and was clearly a starter.
Newest Seattle Sounders Designated Player Christian Tiffert received his P-1 Visa and will be
available for Sunday's game against the LA Galaxy, the team announced on Friday. Sounders officials
had been cautiously optimistic that Tiffert would be available, but had expressed skepticism as
recently as earlier this week.
Pia Sundhage has led the U.S. Women's national team to two Olympic gold medals during her four
years in charge, but that wasn't enough to keep her around for another four years.
Sundhage's desire to return to her native Sweden has led her to decide to leave the U.S. team
"It was an honor to be able to coach these players for five years and I learned a tremendous
amount from them," Sundhage said in a statement released by U.
If Andrew Wooten is to find consistent minutes in the 2. Bundesliga this season and further his
development, it apparently won't be with Kaiserslautern.
According to a report, Wooten is set to go on a season-long loan to recently-promoted club SV
Sandhausen in a quest for playing time.
Steve Harper seems to be the Newcastle number two this season having nudged ahead of former
Charlton Athletic goalkeeper Rob Elliot and Steve was on the bench on Saturday when Newcastle
beat a strong Tottenham side 2-1, and will make his first senior appearance for well over two
years for Newcastle in a competitive game Athens, Greece tomorrow night.
The Swope Park Rangers got back to their reserve league season yesterday against the Houston Dynamo
down in Houston. Cam Weaver of the Dynamo scored both of the goals in the game. The first in the
17th minute on a header from a Colin Clarke cross. In the second half, goalkeeper Eric Kronberg
earned himself a red card as he took down Weaver in the box.
Liverpool have reportedly agreed a £1 million fee with Sami Hyppia's Bayer Leverkusen for 18
year old Turkish starlet Samed Yesil. Like recent Liverpool arrival Nuri Sahin, Samed was born in
Germany however is of Turkish descent. Unlike Sahin though, Samed chose to play for Germany.
He notched up an impressive 19 goals in 21 games in the 2010/11 season for the Germany u17
national team.
We have been keeping you up to date and now UKFF FC Academy can exclusively reveal that
the West Ham Academy are to sign Ishmael Kamara after just one appearance for the UKFF Reserves.
Denva McKenzie who gained the permission from UKFF to take Ishmael to West Ham said.
Spurs boss Andre Villas-Boas has praised new signing Jan Vertonghen, likening the Belgian
defender to retired captain Ledley King. King made an appearance before the club's clash against
West Bromwich Albion at White Hart Lane on Saturday and received rapturous applause, which manager
AVB is confident is on the cards for Vertonghen.
To the uninitiated, Johnny Heitinga's 87th minute substitute appearance against Aston Villa
appeared to serve the dual purpose of wasting a few seconds as the Toffees wound down time towards
a 3-1 victory while also bolstering the defensive ranks. Despite David Moyes' side having done most
of their good work prior to the last three [.
Image: Tumblr. Wait don't panic. Edin Dzeko did not get married without telling any of us first.
His sister Merima did, though, recently tying the knot with her Bosnian singer-boyfriend, Mirza
Soljanin. About Mr Dzeko's appearance in this wonderfully candid wedding day pic, we are filled
with a deep sense of dislike for his sideburns (if [.
What you're about to see it The Guardian's 'secret footballer' (@TSFGuardian)
first ever appearance on camera. If you're not familiar, the secret footballer is an industry
insider, whose documents the riches, debauchery and pressure that professional footballers are
subject to from a first-hand perspective.
Despite some good chances, Mario Balotelli failed to score in his brief appearance as a
second-half substitute during Man City's 3-2 comeback win against Southampton to start the Premier
League season. Balotelli is recovering from conjunctivitis, so a bit of rust on the pitch is
understandable, but he showed that his pranking is already in midseason form.
Ravel Morrison has joined Birmingham City on a season long loan from West Ham United.
Morrison was once one of United's brightest youth team prospects but after a series of
indiscretions off the field as well as a poor attitude lead the club to not offering him a new deal
and allowing him to leave.
Name: Gary Charles In his 90′s prime for: Nottingham Forest, Derby, Aston Villa, West Ham
Lowdown: Joining Nottingham Forest under Brian Clough in 1987, Charles made more than 50
appearances for the club, but often struggled to hold down a first team place. His most well-known
appearance for the club was in the FA Cup [.
Name: Gary Charles In his 90′s prime for: Nottingham Forest, Derby, Aston Villa, West Ham
Lowdown: Joining Nottingham Forest under Brian Clough in 1987, Charles made more than 50
appearances for the club, but often struggled to hold down a first team place. His most well-known
appearance for the club was in the FA Cup [.
After a grand total of one competitive appearance for the Gunners, against Olympiakos in the
champion's league in 2009, Kyle Bartley has decided to call an end to his Arsenal career. I am not
really being fair to the lad, he was desperate to play for Arsenal but never quite managed to force
himself in [.
As if told by Liam Neeson that he will be found and he will be killed if he doesn't leave
Arsenal, kidnapper/outbound striker Nicklas Bendtner has warned potential hostage
negotiators/suitors that he has some very specific demands that must be met if you're serious about
purchasing him.
The king of all ball boys is back making his final appearance #needed #for #timewasting Charlie Morgan™ (@CHARLIEM0RGAN) January 23, 2013 The ball boy involved in the incident that saw Chelsea star Eden Hazard sent-off in tonight's Capital One Cup semi-final had admitted in pre-game tweets that he planned to use timewasting tactics.
Brazilian whizz-kid Neymar put's Santos 2-0 up against Ronaldinho's Atletico-MG with an amazing solo run on his 200th appearance for the club, hence the 200 on the back of his Santos shirt.
For the second time in about a year, the Seattle Sounders have loaned out Michael Tetteh to a
Florida-based lower-division team. This time, he's joining the Ft. Launderdale Strikers of the NASL
as they head into the final stretch of their season. Last year, he played a handful of games for
Orlando City of the USL-Pro.
Earlier this week it was reported that Spurs were in the market for Roma's Bosnian midfielder
Miralem Pjanic. The 22 year old had seemed a viable replacement for Luka Modric but as soon as the
stories broke, the player's agent was denying that a deal would take place.
"Tottenham made a move for him, but both Roma and Pjanic thanked them for their interest and
politely declined the offer," said Michele Gerbino.
David Villa made his first competitive appearance for Barcelona since snapping a shinbone back
in December of last year at the weekend, scoring ten minutes after coming on as a substitute
against Real Sociedad a cathartic goal that Villa celebrated by unveiling an excellent photo of his
wife and two daughters along with the message 'Imposible sin Vosotras!
Dan Gosling signed for Newcastle two years ago from Everton as a free agent, but he arrived
still recovering for a serious ACL injury to his knee he picked up in late March of that year, and
he essentially took all of the first season to recover from the injury, making just one late
substitute appearance at Sunderland a year last January.
Jerry Bengtson made his New England Revolution debut against New York on July 8th. He scored a
goal in a 2-0 win, and then made his next appearance the following week in a 1-0 loss to Toronto.
After that, he packed up and went off to London for Olympic duty with Honduras, and didn't return
until last week.
The Beeb is reporting that, according to Michael Owen's agent, there are a number of Premier
League clubs chasing the signature of his injury-plagued, horse-owning client.
Now the hooftastic Stoke City have already been linked to the out-of-contract Owen this summer,
but the identity of the other clubs reportedly sniffing around the player remain unknown.
Jamie Carragher insists his 700th appearance for Liverpool was less important than Brendan Rodgers
taking charge of the club for a first competitive game.
The centre-back on Thursday night played the full 90 minutes as a 1-0 win was secured over FC Gomel
in Belarus in the first leg of their Europa League third qualifying round tie.
