A reader once said my posts are void of controversies. I guess the ice has just broken. Here's another one

I would like to express my sincere thanks to all the Arse fans who sent in their appreciation of my post. Buoyed by their response I would like to give them back a second installment of my thoughts on yesterdays match.

Back in May of 2007, I took a friend of mine to see Toronto FC play the Chicago Fire at BMO Field. Like most Torontonians at the time, my friend was only barely aware of the existence of the MLS expansion team and looked bemused as we entered the gate and received our complimentary circular seat cushions meant to keep our arses cozy in the cold, plastic seats.

The title of the post says it all. Jose came back to Chelsea and said "I never lose at Chelsea" and he was right. Before I speak about the game and the players, the fact of the matter is that Jose has out-foxed Ancelotti twice now in the matter of weeks and has beaten us twice.
There are people who will have different opinons on the why and how etc but its there in black and white.

Sneijder practicing scoring via arses. This is Bert's....

Let me repeat what I said before here... I don't mind Spain winning it. In general, I mean.

I respect their football a lot. Like many in Holland, Barcelona is my second team ever since one Johan Cruyff came flying through the screen at [read more]

'Twas not so very long (last October, as a matter of fact) when all and sundry in the upper echelons of the Tottenham Hotspur hierarchy were crowing about having submitted their planning permission proposals to Haringey Council to redevelop White Hart Lane into a new 56,000 capacity stadium by turning the current North Stand around and building out into a vacant car-park situated directly behind it.

With the alternate Liga Primer Indonesia due to commence on 8 January PSM Makassar are set to announce their withdrawal from the FA sanctioned Indonesia Super League and commit fully to the new league. They site the lack of funding in the ISL and the problems of what they claim to be poor referees.
PSM currently sit second in the ISL behind Persipura but won just one game in their last five dropping 11 points in the process.

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I believe once or twice I may have touched upon the fact that marketing and promotion are quite useful in any kind of business and it is also within the realms of possibility that when the Thais start to do this kind of thing they do it pretty bloody well. One reason why the TPL enjoyed such a successful year at the turnstiles in 2009.

You know, there's nothing worse than a smart-arsed, told you so, blogger. Yesterday I said:

Last time Porto came to the Grove they got a 4-0 spanking. I don't see that happening again.

How right I was. I don't take any great pleasure in being right, under the circumstances.

Morning all, not quite the happy Monday we had been hoping for but there you go. Firstly, thanks to Tom for filling in. One of these days he's going to have a glorious blog to write. As I'm off the Barcelona game next week we can only hope the footballing and blogging Gods make it happen sooner rather than later.

By Felipe Hassin Pinto a.k.a The man from the Grove

Maddy's Note: A highly indignant albeit slightly inebriated Felipe is back. This is not his run of the mill review you might have noticed. His posts usually span 1500 words and you almost relive the entire game with them.

Today In Spurs History: April 8th

1901 Tottenham beat West Bromwich Albion 4-0 in the FA Cup semi-final, with 'Sandy' Brown scoring all four goals. Southern League Spurs would beat Sheffield United in the final.

1967 Spurs are lucky to force a goalless draw away at Birmingham, after it appeared that Pat Jennings had dropped the ball over the line for a late goal.

Bayern Munich destroyed Lyon 3-0 at the Stade de Gerland to book their place in the Champions League Final. They are my pick to lift the trophy irrelevant of who they face come that Saturday afternoon in Madrid and here is why...

Bayern scraped their arses through the group stage.

After returning from 5-a-side football last night I remarked to Mrs Blogs that the mint plant in the garden was looking well.

"One of these nights we should have a mojito night", I said.

"Yes, indeed we should", she said. "Tonight will be that night".

"Tonight, Mrs Blogs?", I exclaimed responsibly.

Since this Cesc business began Arsenal have remained steadfastly quiet on the whole. Through various channels they have made their position clear enough but everything changed yesterday.

Barcelona, using the press as always, announced that they had made a 'formal' approach for Cesc, saying:

An informal conversation with Arsenal became formal on 1 June and now an official approach has been made to the club.

On This Day In Spurs History: 10th June

1981 After winning the FA Cup, our boys went on a post-season tour that saw them travelling to Bahrain, Kuwait and Turkey. On this day in 1981, we beat Trabzonspor 4-0, with goals from Mark Falco, Ossie Ardiles, Ricky Villa and Garth Crooks.

Holland v Brazil: @ 3pm UK time (Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Port Elizabeth)
It's time to find out whether the Dutch have a genuine chance or are just another bunch of seventies-style chokers forever condemned to a life of repeats showing them falling on their arses again.

By Simon Whitehead

OK I'm going to say it I've had a week to calm down. England, as expected, were rubbish. They were barely a round of 16 team....nothing more. The English FA should be banned from training any coaches ever again in England.

Sorry, the arses from today's post appear to be broken like Pepe Reina's tragic, fumbling heart.

So here are some fresh arses to play with until tomorrow's post.

Stories about a new league in Indonesia, called the Indonesia Premier League, still circulate even though most Super League clubs are moving to distance themselves from the idea after the PSSI have said they will not support it.
About the only clubs to have expressed interest in the idea are Persitara and Persiraja banda Aceh and, no disrespect to either club, sponsors are not going to be falling over themselves to throw money at clubs like them.

The Ultimate Football Blog
It's not hard to make the incompetent idiots in the FA look stupid. They make stupid decisions every single week and their failure to make any attempt to change the rules to improve the game (along with FIFA) is slowly killing the sport we all love. In other words they're fucking idiots.

In this final video blog for the 2010 Toronto FC season I briefly cover off the game in DC that saw TFC come from behind to earn the three points. I ponder DeRo and what to do with a 17 goal scorer who wants more $$$'s, I speak to the promise of Nicholas Lindsay, the enigma that is Julian de Guzman, and who needs to get their arses outta BMO Field.

Don't you hate it when you're team loses? If you're anything like me, I'm sure you'd rather have your balls used as Christmas ornaments or say, have a gay locust couple raise a family in your rectum, than actually sit through 90 minutes of the appalling-some-shit that passes for football.

Today is the day we need to see a reaction, and that reaction has to be visible for the rest of the season. No more cheap goals, no more capitulations. When we are in control we must stay in control.

And that starts tonight.

I probably speak for a lot of fans when I say that we aren't really looking for a 5-0 or 6-0 scoreline, it would be nice but most of all we want to see maturity, discipline and mental strength when we take charge of the game we don't let up, don't give Braga a sniff of hope because that is what happened at the weekend and it then snowballed.

This Arsenal team, eh? They really do put themselves, and us, through the wringer in nearly every game. A hard-fought three points, that I think we just about deserved, but it won't have done anybody's blood pressure any good.

Too often at home we've been guilty of a sluggish start but yesterday was quite the opposite.

What the Feck is all the crap going round that Chelsea calling off Sunday's game against United, 29 hours before the game was scheduled to go ahead after advice from the Police and the local authority, was a "ploy" because of our current form!?. They have even got hold of CC TV pictures of the local area,
ROM the "top" United blog has asked their fans the question:

"It begs the question, if Chelsea were top of the league with a game in hand, if they were playing well, if their most effective players were fit and in good form and if United were playing badly, would they have cancelled the game at midday yesterday or would they have waited until this morning?

It's -9 again this morning and this time it comes with snow. My back garden is a picturesque winter wonderland ... for now. Wait until the elderly dog has to go out and make the whiteness a bit yellow and then a bit brown. Sure, it adds some colour to proceedings but it'd be a bit like taking crayons to your newspaper.

Good morning to you from waterless Dublin.

It's New Year's Eve, of course, and for many it's a time to look back and take stock of their year. From an Arsenal point of view I'll be quite happy to see the back of it. There have been some fun times but far too many not-much-fun-at-all times. You can all remember them I'm sure but here's my list of the worst days of 2010, in no particular order.