Shambolic defending

It was not the send off that we wanted to see. For the fans or for Pat Rice. The 90 minutes was the shorter version of what our season was. The bright start (Udinese) to the shoddy defending (United away, Fulham away) to coming back strongly (Chelsea away, Sp*rs home) to more lapses in defending (QPR away, Wigan home).

Shambolic defending

It was not the send off that we wanted to see. For the fans or for Pat Rice. The 90 minutes was the shorter version of what our season was. The bright start (Udinese) to the shoddy defending (United away, Fulham away) to coming back strongly (Chelsea away, Sp*rs home) to more lapses in defending (QPR away, Wigan home).

OTP is at the launch of the new Adidas Predator today. We'll bring you all the details later, but here's a first look at the new boots to whet your appetite.

Hughes teaches his players to head the foot

The recent weeks has become a little bit boring in all fairness. Who likes to continually read or write about the good stuffs. About how the squad is showing real resilience and fight and courage and we're suddenly a pretty decent team when we have our players back fit.

The premature post-mortem into the league campaign begins, and if criticizing a popular manager is too hard to stomach, there is usually an array of boardroom executives, owners or Liverpool players who are more convenient targets.
Nowadays, there is an even more vulnerable object of the fans' ire: the director of football.

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Manchester United's appetite for the Europa League was demonstrated when Nani and Danny Welbeck turned up to the airport without their passports yesterday. The pair had both left their identification at home and were left hanging around at the security area of Manchester Airport waiting for their passports to be delivered by a member of [.

The deed is done. The legend has signed on and is cleared to play against Leeds in the FA Cup tie on Monday. Whet your appetite with the top 25 goals while at Arsenal, each goal more delectable than the last.

What stands out apart from his outstanding physical attributes is extreme self confidence.

New Year's in NYC x AFR

No, the whole AFR Team didn't come together to take over the Big Apple. Now that would be writing a few thousand words about. But my brother and I, alongside a couple of friends, did enjoy a few festivities and quite a bit of footy.

By Chris Wright

Saturday evening sees Real Madrid welcoming Barcelona to the Santiago Bernabeu for the first league El Clasico derby of the season, and to whet your appetite we've put together a bumper gallery of some of the finest still images the game has produced down through the years.

What a year 2011 was for Football! We have had fireworks, management fallouts, enthralling top-of-the-table encounters, relegation scraps and transfer embargos to drive any football fan round the twist. So without wetting your appetite any further, here is In The Stands' top ten football moments of 2011.

Wimbledon legend and former 'Crazy Gang' member Robbie Earle Liverpool are forced to abandon their natural game when Andy Carroll is in the team, and he has urged the striker to start believing in himself more.
Earle, Earle was appointed an MBE in 1999 for his services to football, argued:
"The jury in many ways is still out on Andy Carroll.

'Why I thrive in the Prem'

Martin Skrtel has sharpened his competitive edge by revealing his appetite for battling encounters at the most daunting venues.

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Lionel Messi was the star of the show after he bagged his 2nd consecutive hat-trick as Barcelona smashed Viktoria Plzen 4-0 to seal their passage into the last 16. Messi bagged another hat-trick after hitting three against Real Mallorca on the weekend in a 5-0 rout, and the Argentine's gigantic appetite for goals never ceases [.

There is a debate going on on whether the Premier League should scrap relegation and promotion or not. Frankly, i think all those who are proposing the idea are crazy. I tried looking for an appropriate word but the truth is only insanity can define such an idea.

Scrapping relegation would drastically reduce the level of competition in the league not to mention reducing the revenue the league generates every season.

Scudamore dismisses talk of scrapping relegation as 'nonsensical'

"It's just a nonsensical starting point...it's scare-mongering of the worst order in my view. There is absolutely no appetite for it," says Prem chief

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Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard admits spending six months on the sidelines recovering from a groin operation has renewed his appetite for the game.
After three substitute appearances totalling just under an hour, Gerrard marked his first start since his surgery with a goal in Saturday's 1-1 draw at home to Manchester United.

By Alan Duffy

Training at Kettering Town this morning

New Kettering Town boss Mark Stimson has been shocked by the lack of fitness of his lardy squad since taking over at the struggling Blue Square Premier League side.

"Some players who've been here since pre-season lacked quality and massive fitness levels, it's now beyond a joke," bemoaned Stimson.

Kenny praises Suarez input

Kenny Dalglish today paid tribute to Luis Suarez's all-round contribution to Liverpool and praised the No.7′s appetite to make a decisive impact every time he takes to the field.

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Ryan Giggs has warned the youngsters coming through the ranks at Old Trafford that talent alone is insufficient to make the grade at United.
The veteran midfielder feels a number of the club's teenagers are good enough to pull on the famous red shirt but the important step is to have the fight and determination to succeed at the highest level.

Skipper Backs Striker To Become Liverpool Legend

Liverpool Skipper Steven Gerrard has backed Luis Suarez to become a legend at Anfield, after many impressive display's in the red jersey of Liverpool Suarez signed for Liverpool from Ajax in January for a fee in the region of £22m, and has made quite an impression on club captain Gerrard and fans ever since.

Steven Gerrard expects striker Luis Suarez to establish himself as one of Liverpool's all-time greats over the next few years.
Suarez made an immediate impact following a £22.7 million move from Ajax in January, ensuring Liverpool did not suffer following the sale of Fernando Torres to Chelsea.

Luis Suárez will be a Liverpool legend, says Steven Gerrard

• Uruguay forward's potential is 'scary' • His form gives Liverpool good chance of trophies The Liverpool captain, Steven Gerrard, has been so convinced by the performances of Luis Suárez that he is certain the Uruguay forward is going to become an Anfield legend.

Photo courtesy of University of North Carolina

By JOHN BOSCHINI

For all the success enjoyed by the University of North Carolina last season, there was one player who found it hard to enjoy.

Redshirt junior forward Billy Schuler was one of the most potent attacking threats the Tar Heels possessed during his first two years in Chapel Hill and was set to be a focal point last season.

THFC1882 is pleased to welcome back guest writer Gareth Johnson for his thoughts on our upcoming Europa League game against Heart of Midlothians on Thursday.

As Luka Modric took to the pitch in our pre-season friendly against Athletic Bilbao, he was perhaps a little surprised at the rapturous applause that broke out around the ground after his summer of discontent.

It's coming SEGA and Sports Interactive have today announced if you can announce an annual event that Football Manager 2012 will be hitting stores in time for Christmas. And to whet your appetite they have released a couple of videos. The footage above shows the new game's match engine. And get your first [.

Football hardly seems important in N17 today. Regards to the families and good people of Tottenham.

Here's part 1 of the season preview an overview. More on Tuesday, earlier if i pull my finger out the best of the rest, tactics and off the field

Season 2011-12 represents a watershed in the modern history of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.

Well we are just over a week now until the new season starts and I for one cannot wait!. Pre season is good to see how we are progressing but it's when the Premier League gets started once again, that's when the excitement really begins.
So, with the new season around the corner, I wanted to post a couple of videos on here to wet your appetite and FULL CREDIT goes to SPINFIRE on YouTube for these fantastic videos.

We are just a few hours away from the 2011 MLS All Stars game versus Premier League Champions Manchester United and just to get the appetite going here's a look at the highlights of last seasons game which United won 5-2.

It is very rare these days that we see an Arsenal player with a genuine connection to the club. A local lad, someone who has known Arsenal all their life, and not just from the start of their footballing education. When Lansbury scored against Spurs last season everybody could see what it meant to him he is Arsenal born and bred and suggestions of letting him go without giving him a decent chance in the first team would be typical of the youth project in recent years.

David Moli hit a hat-trick and Adam Morgan grabbed a brace as Liverpool U18s continued their 100 per cent pre-season record with a 7-0 win over Preston on Wednesday afternoon.
The freescoring youngsters were a constant menace throughout and took their tally to 21 goals in just three outings with some superb finishing in front of the watching Kenny Dalglish.

If the Womens World Cup whetted your appetite, make a date for the 2012 Olympic Games here in London.As I said, the football has not sold out and once the global ticketing machine returns its spares, there should be seats available next summer, particularly at the regional venues. There are also packages available and more tickets will go on sale this winter in the US and elsewhere.

The second in this long running series begins with footysphere. A remarkable site that features a superb advert for Kevin Keegan slippers (1). <Insert your own I'd love it if I had a pair of them joke here>. This advert led us onto the magnificent French site The Vintage Football Club, that features amongst other things some holiday pics of a fully-bearded George Best (2).

Liverpool FC is looking to expand its retail empire – but its sights are focused on Southport, rather than Shanghai.
In an exclusive interview with LDP Business magazine, which is published tomorrow, Liverpool FC chief executive Ian Ayre outlined the short-term plans to reach more fans with its retail offer.

The world's oldest football competition will be sponsored for the next three years by the "King of Beers". The competition is to be grandiosely re-branded as the FA Cup with Budweiser.

The FA of course gets some serious business. For the more finicky it's a measure of the beer's quality when the Budweiser ads generate more buzz than the taste.

And it's finally back!

These guys, um, yeah, they got it covered...

The Beer & Soccer Series. Bang!

Today, we offer just a morsel, a tidbit, a spec of the beer and footie pairings for your 2011 Gold Cup enjoyment. A primer, if you will.

Today, he tease you with the introduction of a well qualified group of experts and whet your appetite with the first pairing.

The famous World Soccer magazine came with 'New Look' starting April issue. The new look was not so much in the quality of the paper of the design of the cover, but in the content and material itself.
I found it very interesting to take a little journey into the new look as it reflects a new world of soccer.

The famous World Soccer magazine came with 'New Look' starting April issue. The new look was not so much in the quality of the paper of the design of the cover, but in the content and material itself.
I found it very interesting to take a little journey into the new look as it reflects a new world of soccer.

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It was supposed to be round 3 of this once-in-a-lifetime ‘World Series' of Clasicos, and it was supposed to be the first of the 2 games where the chance to vie for the biggest prize in club football was at stake. It didn't even have to be Real Madrid vs. Barcelona, any 2 Tom, Dick and Harry teams vying for this prize would've turned this match into a potential classic.

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It was supposed to be round 3 of this once-in-a-lifetime ‘World Series' of Clasicos, and it was supposed to be the first of the 2 games where the chance to vie for the biggest prize in club football was at stake. It didn't even have to be Real Madrid vs. Barcelona, any 2 Tom, Dick and Harry teams vying for this prize would've turned this match into a potential classic.