It was a fight that we didn't hear many details about, but given the players involved, it figured to be a serious scuffle.

Now we know just how serious.

Just days after the one-year anniversary of the Oguchi Onyewu-Zlatan Ibrahimovic fight, details have surfaced about the highly-publicized brawl that left one of the combatants with a broken rib.

There likely aren't too many who suffer the delusion that Jurgen Klinsmann is a great coach. Figurehead, perhaps, but not a great tactician. The credit for '06 lies in the background with the quiet fellow rolling little bits of nose candy into his mouth as he dreamed of the day he could force Michael Ballack to retire against his will.

"Keane is the hottest prospect in football right now," Brian Clough said of Roy in his last season at Nottingham Forest. Jack Walker was trying to buy Blackburn success, something he would later go on to achieve, and Kenny Dalglish identified Keane as the man to take the club forward in 1993.

RoM has been on the receiving end of quite a bit of stick for some of the articles written about David Beckham. Not being badly inlove with him is often confused with hatred, apparently, but let me assure you that isn't the case.

Beckham was a great player for United and you could tell he really cared about the club.

It started in September 1997, when Alf-Inge Haland (then a Leeds player) mocked Roy Keane after a clumsy foul in the box. As Keane lay prone on the ground, Håland stood over Keane, accusing the injured United captain of having tried to hurt him and of feigning injury to escape punishment.

Mike Trudell of Lakers Basketblog writes of Grant Wahl's recent article in Sports Illustrated about Jose Mourinho, and the comparisons between Mourinho and Lakers' coach Phil Jackson.

Grant Wahl recently profiled Mourinho ("What's So Special about José Mourinho) for the magazine, where we learned of the connection to Jackson.

Ahead of the Champions League Final on the 28th May...

Defensive mistakes are the norm in football. You make one, you get up, dust yourself off and not let it affect you. However, the story of Gerard Piqué's remarkable rise to stardom since his move from Manchester United to FC Barcelona is an extraordinary one.

Two years ago, we were all singing: "We want you to stay, we want you to stay, Guus Hiddink, we want you to stay!" Our temporary manager Hiddink's response was always along the lines of, "Thanks, but I'm not interested in coaching club football on a permanent basis, bye!" It seems the Goose has now changed his tune and given a clear indication that he is on his way back to the Blues.

If you've a clear diary on the Thursday 1st September then you could do a lot worse than pop down to The Approach to take in an Evening With Mark Crossley (and friends!). For just £12.50 you get entry AND a signed copy of his new autobiography "Big Norm Looking After Number One" [...] Read the original post on Through the seasons before us

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Submitted for your perusal, Joey Barton leafing through Neil Warnock's autobiography 'Made In Sheffield' ("The f**king referee's only gone an gi' 'em a penalty when the lad's gone down in the box like a f**king Jessie. I gave 'im a piece of my nauseatingly no-nonsense Northern mind in the tunnel afterwards.

Listen up everyone, it's story time with Zlatan! Image via Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko.

Zlatan and Pepe are about to unleash their inner Shakespeares, Kickettes.

It seems like Zlatan has all sort of secrets & gossip hidden under that hideous ponytail. His autobiography, which will be released in Sweden and Italy in two week's time, already has people talking after a few choice outlets were given an advance copy.

There may have been no action on the field last week, however, there was still much talk off it. We can thank the release of Zlatan Ibrahimovic's autobiography for this; it hit the shelves on November 11. Before being published, AC Milan supporters and football fans in general were impatiently waiting for the release date.

Clear the bookshelves, Zlatan and Pepe (and others), Chelsea's Fernando Torres has (another?) literary masterpiece of his own coming out (again?): 'Fernando Torres: Number 9′.

Let us put aside the stupid non-highlighted-because-I'm-growing-out-my-roots look Fernando is trying to bring back into favour and talk about the levels of hotness that were sizing us up (yeah right) at today's autobiography presentation in Madrid.

Welcome to the Friday Crackovia Club... a Futbolita special! Bruno Oro, the fantastic Catalan actor who plays Cristiano Ronaldo's character (you know it!) has returned again with a fantastic rendition of Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Rachna and Shana host a very special "New Year's Insanity Special" of the podcast, where they discuss their very biased overview of the upcoming MLS Superdraft. The girls also discuss the future of the USMNT backline in a not-so-serious fashion, and make some interesting New Year's resolutions. There's also a reading of select passages from John Harkes' autobiography, Captain for Life, just to cap off this very special episode.

Keano leaves Tractor Boys were any of these methods employed? 1. By text, the same way he quit as manager of Sunderland. 2. Through a message written on the dedications page of Alf-Inge Haaland's autobiography. 3. Keep it a secret for a while, tell everyone else except Keane then let Patrick Vieira "shoot his [.

After a winter break which seemed like an eternity, Serie A finally returned yesterday on it's annual Epiphany match-day. It was an great return with many interesting results, and showed that these next few months of Serie A should be excellent. Milan are officially winter champions (the last giornata of the first part of the season is Sunday), and that's a good omen for Milan fans, because out of the 16 times the Rossoneri have been crowned winter champions, 10 times they have go on to win the Scudetto.

Forest legend Viv Anderson will be meeting and greeting fans at the club shop before tonight's game with Preston. The Nottingham-born double European Cup-winner will be signing copies of his autobiography First Among Unequals from 6pm to 7pm.

It must be made clear that this is NOT the latest book written by Rio Ferdinand but it can be argued that it's the most revealing. In a 384 page, hardcover autobiography written in 2006, 'Rio, My...
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As former Manchester United captain Bryan Robson fights his battle to overcome throat cancer, it becomes relevant to have a look at his 2007, 302 page paperback autobiography ‘Robbo' in which he...
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::: Today we welcome a guestpost from Russell Berrisford, who you may remember from such gaily flickering difference engine lanterns as theVancouver Sun and Soccer Report Extra :::

Through the years many football managers have been known to put the fear of God into their players, but there has been only one who has terrified them by killing off God completely.

I typically don't cope well with the fallen-athlete-finding-redemption storyline. The only time I've felt really good about it was with Andre Agassi, and that was largely down to the fact that I had picked him as my favorite tennis player when I was 12. I wanted to see him succeed, I was happy to see him succeed, and I felt like it validated my instincts as a student of the game when he finally did succeed.

Why every football fan should read Paul Lake's brilliant new biog

I read Paul Lake's­­ ­autobiography, I'm Not Really Here, from cover to cover yesterday. I started it and couldn't put it down. It's the best book I've read for a long time. It's not easy reading. In fact, some of the passages in it made me cry.

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Coming about a week after Jose Enrique accused owner Mike Ashley and managing director Derek Llambias of a lack of balls and lying about a new contract offer, Joey Barton was tweeted his way into a transfer-listing at Newcastle.

More accurately, Barton has been made available on a free transfer, with the Toon board simply running out of patience with his incessant need to tweet every single gripe he has with the club's hierarchy over a summer of botched transfers and contract re-negotiations.

Chief sports writer of The Sun newspaper Steven Howard had some outspoken comments to make about Gary Nevilles' soon to be published autobiography appropriately called ‘Red'. Manchester...
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Theo Walcott smiled through the pain, but even he was beginning to realise that Arsene Wenger's youth policy was getting way out of control. Image: Jan Kruger/Getty Images Europe.

If all the world's literature were set on fiyah, which of the following footballers' books would you attempt to save?

Bayern stopped reinventing and are themselves again. A premature autobiography by the captain keeps everybody busy off the pitch. Games are routinely won on the pitch. The table is topped. Jupp Heynckes is the coach. Sounds like a short best-of compilation from the past 20 years of Bayern Munich.

EXCLUSIVE: Capello in book dig at Walcott

England boss jokingly hits back over star's critical autobiography

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What are the odds Walcott and Lampard will miss out against Wales? Derek McGovern's Bets of the Day

Theo Walcott has an awful lot to say for a man whose last decent game for England has yet to be played. The Arsenal winger caused controversy with his recently-published autobiography, carpeting Fabio Capello for not taking him to the World Cup.

Liverpool legend, Ronnie Whelan has brought out his autobiography: "Walk On: My Life in Red".
Its a very good piece of work, from his humble beginnings in Dublin to having a glittering career with the Reds from 1979-1994.
During that time he won six League Titles, one European Cup, three League Cups and two FA Cups.

Meet Ronnie Whelan at L1 store

Liverpool legend Ronnie Whelan will be signing copies of his new autobiography at the club shop in Liverpool One on Tuesday, October 4.

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Brazil nuts over Tevezgate, plus afro KO for Goodman

Alan Brazil's reaction to Tevezgate on Talksport? Easy. The Argentinean was described as "a disgrace" who "should never play in British football again". Alan Brazil's reaction when a caller pointed out that Brazil's own autobiography contains him admitting he once refused to come on as a sub for Tottenham while feuding with his manager?

Barwick: My Reds passion

Following the recent launch of his autobiography 'Anfield Days and Wembley Ways', Liverpoolfc.tv caught up with lifelong Kopite and former FA chief executive Brian Barwick to discuss his passion for the Reds.

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Reina Reveals All in New Book

Liverpool's Pepe Reina has revealed all about the highs and lows of his career at the club in a new book serialised today by the Daily Mail . The star stopper tells of his ‘depression' under the previous regime, and how he came close to leaving last January but was talked out of it by his wife.

Blog: No dressing room divisions

In his latest Kop blog, Tony Barrett discusses Pepe Reina's autobiography and dressing room unity.

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Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina claims the club blocked him from making a £20million move to Arsenal in the summer of 2010.
Reina admits he was tempted to leave Merseyside after returning from Spain's victorious World Cup campaign last year to find the Reds in a downward spiral.
Manager Rafa Benitez had been sacked, while director Christian Purslow was desperately seeking new owners to replace Tom Hicks and George Gillett as the club struggled under a financial crisis.

Pepe: We were all put in a bad situation

Pepe Reina's autobiography is out today and depending on how candid he's chosen to be we'll maybe find out a lot more about the player than we deserve to. When we read it, rather than just take in soundbites hand-picked by newspaper columnists unconnected to the book and looking for something juicy for a headline, we'll have a better insight into a man we rely on far more than some would like to give him credit for.

Exclusive chapter of Pepe's book

Liverpoolfc.tv brings you an exclusive chapter from Pepe Reina's new autobiography in which he explains how Rafael Benitez pestered him into joining the Reds and reveals that he was already a Liverpool player during Istanbul.

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Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina has revealed the details of an explosive row he had with Anfield stalwart Jamie Carragher, which spilled over into the dressing room after beginning on the pitch.
Reina and Carragher, both mainstays of the Reds rearguard since the Spanish shot-stopper joined the club in 2005, clashed in an unnamed game because of a disagreement about passing options.

Fill 'er up Liverpool keeper Pepe Reina has problems. In his new autobiography, the Spaniard has revealed the lengths he goes to in order to satisfy his pre-match superstitions. These unusual quirks are not uncommon in footballers, who often have OCD tendencies or insist on putting one shin pad on before the other.