People can talk about rebuilding. Even if the point of last summer's transfer strategy was to avoid long settling-in periods that would lead to 2011-12 becoming a rebuilding season. Even if it now appears that next season will end up something of a rebuilding season, too, with few entertaining realistic hopes of a return to Champions League action twelve months hence.

If the producers are out there and reading this, may we kindly request more of this man? Image: PAUL ELLIS/AFP/Getty Images.

They're in eighth place in the table, have put that cringeworthy issue behind them and now they've got their own reality TV show. Life is good.

Liverpool's six-part docudrama, "Our Lives: As Sexy Beasts" "Our Liverpool: Never Walk Alone," will air this autumn in the U.

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They're in eighth place in the table, have recently put those cringeworthy racial issues behind them and now they've got their own reality TV show. Life is good.

Liverpool's six-part docudrama, "Life as Sexy Beasts" "Our Liverpool: Never Walk Alone," will air this autumn in the U.

It had been a long time coming and there will be those who believe that there was an air of inevitability about it, but when the relegation of Doncaster Rovers from the Championship last weekend, it came with a degree of controversy that only the end of the domestic football season can bring. The battle for Doncaster last weekend was already an uphill one rooted to the bottom of the table, they needed to win all of their remaining matches in order to secure a fifth season of football in England's second division, but a questionable red card and two goals in stoppage time meant that Portsmouth (who went into the match in an identical situation to them) managed to keep their season alive for another week while the home side fell through the trapdoor.

The weight of expectation on Chamberlain is bewildering
Considering I often complain about the crowd getting on players' backs, this might seem perverse, but the cheering for Chamberlain is ridiculous and unhelpful to the other players.
While the game was still going on with Arsenal on the attack, Chamberlain went over to the bench to get ready to come on.

...but we know what happens to Trees in the autumn. Today we heard the first statement from Forest about the Doughty legacy. It reads as follows [...] Read the original post on Pissing Red

No matter if it was right or wrong, Jamie Carragher was always going to start against Arsenal on Saturday. Legend to some, a man who in his prime fuelled dreams of a cloned brood of Carraghers all straining and screaming as they dragged the club to glory. To others a lately tarnished legacy of behind the scenes politicking, his local's influence and friends in the press helping him hang on to a starting role years after he should have joined Sami Hyypia in riding gracefully off into the sunset as a fondly remembered hero.

If you're looking for a rundown of today's friendlies, we had you covered earlier aside from late-breaking news that Scott Parker and not Steven Gerrard would be England Captain. But for those more interested in the latest Liverpool news than watching fearfully through their fingers, worried that one of Liverpool's players might end the day with an injury they didn't head into it with, these notes are for you.

Ruud van Gol is the autumn of his career. He has found his final destination, lowered his ambitions and lives in realism. "I'm nearing the point where football is costing me more than it yields, in energy terms. If that is the case, I call it quits. I do look [read more]

Let's get this out of the way right at the beginning: Christian Sivebaek sees himself as a wide midfielder. During our relatively brief conversation, the 6-foot-3, soon-to-be 24-year-old made that point abundantly clear. Sivebaek said he could play on the right or on the left, but indicated he's never played as a central midfielder and left little doubt that he felt his skills were being wasted as a right back.

Oliver Holt's Top 10 most interesting people of 2011 part 2, starring Rio Ferdinand and Jack Marshall

We asked our Chief Sports Writer Oliver Holt to name the 10 most fascinating people he'd met in 2011. The resulting piece was so good that we've decided to split it into two separate instalments.

Premier League set new record as no managers are axed in the autumn

Premier League chairmen are not normally noted for their patience. But they stand to set an unlikely record by NOT sacking anyone until December at the earliest.

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By Chris Wright

It's that time of year in Britain again when, after enjoying both weeks of summer, autumn is skipped over completely, winter sets in for the next eight months and Nike roll out their Hi-Vis matchballs for use across Europe's top leagues this year it's the rather swish Seitiro, which will make it's Premier League debut this weekend.

Bate VS Milan | Valencia vs Leverkusen
Arsenal vs Marseille | Plzen vs Barca

Admittedly, there was a time Michael Ballack was a name highly relevant to football. Now, he has been banished to the 'Has Beens' gallery, led by Rivaldo in a cape and feather duster.

Happy Halloween from all of us at A Football Report!

What better indication of the very last glimmer of summer departing is there than kids dressing up as monsters ready to pillage all your sweets when sunset arrives? Nevertheless, the ambiance of autumn is in full swing and, thankfully, the football never stops.

Why anyone still clinging onto the 39th game proposal should heed lesson of NFL's London leg

Whenm in 2007, America's National Football League first announced that it was coming to the United Kingdom, the league's website was swamped with more than a million requests for tickets.

What are the odds Fergie drops at least five of the team thrashed by City? Derek McGovern's Bets of the Day

Newcastle are 100-1 with Hills to remain unbeaten all season. I wouldn't touch that bet even if the season in ­question was autumn. Of their nine Premier League matches so far this term, seven were against teams who this morning are sitting in the bottom half of the table.

It's been a while since I have come across something so hideous – downright hideous that I might comment, "That's a deeeownright hiiiiideous decision, Mr. Clattenburg!".

But, with the Autumn leaves slowly turning from green to brown, like my children taking their mother's surname instead of mine, I picked up a copy of The Beach Boys 11th studio album, Pet Sounds, which made me wonder way on earth I bother getting up in the mornings.

Shankly tribute show to hit stage

Four of Bill Shankly's greatest players will appear in a unique autumn show when the stirring, tartan tones of their legendary manager resonate around Southport Theatre on Friday night.

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Shankly tribute show to hit stage

Four of Bill Shankly's greatest players will appear in a unique autumn show when the stirring, tartan tones of their legendary manager resonate around Southport Theatre on Friday night.

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The last few meetings with Sp*rs in the league have not been events to write home about. In a nutshell, we have epitomised the phrase 'self-destruct' in most of them.

However, whilst I understand a lot of the pundits placing their money on a Spurs win today because of our poor start to the season and T*ttenham getting a few wins under their belts, they seem to forget they have done this a fair few times before.

Louis van Gaal is one of the true tactical masterminds of the past two decades, and has managed European giants Ajax, Barcelona and Bayern Munich.
Stefan Coerts of Goal.com writes about the polarizing shadow that van Gaal casts everywhere he manages.
September 28 was just any other day for most people, but it was a rather special occasion for one of the most colourful figures of the footballing world.

One of the chief hazards of being a good attacking full back is inordinate expectation. Take that hogger of Autumn 2010 column inches, Gareth Bale - so impressive were his performances that Harry Redknapp thought he'd give him a go further forward - that trio of strikes in the Giuseppe Meazza had led us to believe that he might somehow be 'wasted' in a mere defensive role and that bendy volley at

Unique Shankly tribute

Four of Bill Shankly's greatest players will appear in a unique autumn show when the stirring, tartan tones of their legendary manager resonate around Southport Theatre.

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It never really got going properly this year anyway, but the end of August marks the beginning of the passing of summer into autumn, and this Bank Holiday weekend brings an extra round of non-league matches. In the Ryman League a round of derby matches has been scheduled for a day when there are no Premier League or Football League matches being played.

Jack Wilshere and Wayne Rooney will grace the cover of FIFA 12 in the United Kingdom when the popular video game is released this autumn. Wilshere, who was Arsenal's player of the year last season, is an avid gamer as is Rooney, who is gracing the...
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For those of us who are drooling in anticipation of the autumn release of FIFA 12, you may want to take a gander at the above video to see what's in store from Konami in the upcoming release of Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 (or, as it's better known as...
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The Scotland Rugby World Cup 2011 home and away kits from gear provider Canterbury were officially released on Wednesday. Andy Robinson's Scotland team is grouped with Argentina, England, Romania and Georgia for rugby's premier international event to be held in New Zealand this autumn. Here's a description of the Scotland Canterbury Rugby World Cup 2011 kits [.

The Scotland Rugby World Cup 2011 home and away kits from gear provider Canterbury were officially released on Wednesday. Andy Robinson's Scotland team is grouped with Argentina, England, Romania and Georgia for rugby's premier international event to be held in New Zealand this autumn. Here's a description of the Scotland Canterbury Rugby World Cup 2011 kits [.

Two of the most anticipated soccer products for this Autumn are the Real Madrid 2011/12 adidas home and away kits and EA Sports FIFA 12 video game. As we continue bring you coverage on all of he latest and greatest soccer jerseys from around the world and FIFA 12, here is a first legitimate look [...

Could Gianfranco Zola be making his way back to Stamford Bridge as Carlo Ancelotti's new number two in the summer?. According to TuttoMercatoWeb, they believe that if Carlo Ancelotti stays at the club and move into his third season at the club, he will ask for Zola to come back as his assistant.

The Champagne might follow later, but inside Borussia Dortmund's mammoth 80,720-strong full house, the party began fittingly with beer this weekend. Dortmund, the club that almost died of bankruptcy several times over the past two decades, is the Deutscher Meister — the new and thoroughly deserved champion of the Bundesliga.

Sky Sports and ITV have bagged the rights to telecast the Champions League for three more years. The new Champions League TV deal begins in the autumn of 2012, when the current deal expires, and will carry on till 2015. Reports estimate that Sky and ITV will pay a little under £400m for this three [.

Part three of this feature sees Lars and TT bring us right up to the curretn day with some more of the finest Danish players to grace Italian football. If you missed them you can find Part One here and Part Two here Uncle Helveg, Nephew Jørgensen and the Others In the autumn 1993 a young Danish midfielder was sold to Udinese, marking a shift in generations of Danes in Italy.

EA Sports has released the first screenshot of FIFA 12, which features a screenshot of Real Madrid soccer star Kaká. The next installment of FIFA, the video game series, will launch during the autumn of 2011. While it's hard to judge a book by its...
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Denmark coach Morten Olsen insists they will not take any risk with Liverpool defender Daniel Agger's fitness.
Agger has been ruled out for the rest of the season with a knee injury he picked up in last weekend's defeat at West Brom.
The problem is likely to sideline the central defender for up to two months and Olsen says he will not pick Agger for the Euro 2012 qualifier with Iceland on 6th June.

Forest Park's Autumn Berry finds great joy on the soccer field InsideNova

The Torneo Clausura pattern returns to normal this weekend, with two games on Friday and none on Monday, now that daytime kick offs are once again allowed by the players' union with the return of autumn to Buenos Aires. The ... Continue reading →

Twente/20 Vision FC Twente 2-2 Rubin Kazan (24:02:11) Continuing our ever popular Readers' Lives section here at European Football Weekends is Fulham fan, Eddie Fremantle... When my friend Kevin suggested in the autumn that we go to FC Twente Enschede's Champions League match at White Hart Lane, I wasn't that keen on the idea but Kevin sold it to me.

PARIS, France Raymond Domenech continues to slide apparently effortlessly from one controversy to another. His latest is an interview with L'Express in which the former national team coach labelled the players who mutinied at last year's World Cup as "horrible, unthinking brats." This angered both his former employers at the French federation whom he [.