Landon Donovan and Bob Bradley at Thursday's U.S. press conference

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PRETORIA, South Africa – The first U.S. opponent here is England, of course.

It's just been announced that Cheryl Cole is officially separating from her hubby, Ashley. Hardly surprising, really.

While we don't know if a divorce is imminent, our readers saw this one coming after we all caught a first glimpse of her "Mrs. C" tattoo. We can't help but feel slightly saddened for the gal; she's really been put through the media ringer.

John Terry has always been one of footballs bad boys. No matter how hard he tries to be good, he always seems to screw up. In the past year, he came under fire for allegedly selling Chelsea tours to support his charity. Now, the papers are saying how he knocked up Wayne Bridge's ex-girlfriend. Should this man be England's leader?

We certainly hope Real Madrid stocked up on tissues, as the teams two longest serving players finally said goodbye this week.

As you know, Guti's off to flaunt his 'creative' take on hairdressing and equally creative fashion choices in Turkey at Beksitas, and Raul looks likely to take his tousled locks and adorable fam to the Bundesliga with Schalke.

China White seems to be the footballer's choice destination on a Saturday night. Unlike Hollywood where the celebs take the spotlight over athletes, London is all about football bad boys that make inordinate amounts of money and spend their Saturday's at a table with a gaggle of women.

Finally!! The interwebs are back in my house!! That was truly interminable. Let's begin with one of these bad boys, then later a USMNT catch-up before tonight's match with Colombia. I still have a Top 5'er in the can, but we can get to that on Friday...Before we get into the Euro 2012 qualifying gems from the weekend and yesterday, let's run through the MLS Goal of the Week candidates.

In the past month or so, some of England's finest have gotten into a bit of trouble. It was only fitting that Joey Barton, who was once football's most notorious bad boys, spoke up about footballers. In a recent interview, he stated, "Most footballers are knobs. I meet a lot of them and they are so detached from real life.

It's just been announced that Cheryl Cole is officially separating from her hubby, Ashley. Hardly surprising, really.

While we don't know if a divorce is imminent, our readers saw this one coming after we all caught a first glimpse of her "Mrs. C" tattoo. We can't help but feel slightly saddened for the gal; she's really been put through the media ringer.

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I believe that the FFA is frustrated with Brisbane.
Sydney's ability to pull only 25,000 in its biggest game demonstrates just what the FFA have lost in Brisbane no longer being viable. Brisbane in the same position has pulled 30,000 plus even in wet weather.
Sadly, the signs for next year are not bright.

By Ollie Irish

Name the five clubs from the shirt details:

Good luck with those bad boys.

By Ollie Irish

Name the five clubs from the shirt details:

Good luck with those bad boys.

In tribute to John Terry and the latest sordid headlines from France, Goal.com's Patrick Reilly ranks the most outrageous stories from down the years. With so many bad boys we could have done a Top 100...

The Indomitable Lions and Puma have combined to become the fashion bad boys of international football. They don't really care for FIFA's rules and don't really want to hear about it. Back in early '02 they ran out a sleeveless kit which was met with lots of legal memos from the boys of FIFA, which then necessitated a quick change before the World Cup.

He came, he scored, he stripped. Twice.

Congratulations are due to Atlético Madrid on their shiny new Europa League Championship silverware. Unfortunately, the city of Madrid's other team sealed the EPL's trophy-less fate in European club competitions this season, much to the dismay of the Fulham boys.

We're at the end of the African road, at least as far as Puma goes, and thus that precocious little fennec is the last you'll get to see peeking at you from across the shoulder. A bit sad, isn't it?

I know very little about Algerian fashion. However, I do know a little something about Firefox's logo having seen it before and all that and I can comfortably say that with a slight color tweak, Algeria's going to make an awful lot of money selling these bad boys onto Mozilla once they're done.

This guest post is brought to you by author Steve Wilson who's new book "The Little Boys From Little Mexico" comes out in bookstores on June 1. Steve, many thanks for reaching out to Maracanazo and sharing your views.

Soccer faces several hurdles in its ongoing attempt to gain a foothold in the U.

Newcastle's 21 year old striker Andy Carroll has had a great start to the season, as have the Mags themselves. Even the most optimistic Geordie wouldn't have had them sitting in fifth at this stage of the season. I think Joey Barton got it spot on today when he called on Fabio Capello to give his team mate a chance in the England team, urging him to give England's 'bad boys' a chance.

Kofi signing his contract with Ajax in 2008

There aren't many things a professional player can do to make a club fire him. Time and time again we've seen players be welcomed back into the fold after being accused of some pretty serious allegations (though the validity of such accusations is often questionable).

MIAMI, Fl. A five-year contract dispute between one of international soccer's bad boys and England's Chelsea soccer club has landed in Miami federal court. Striker Adrian Mutu is Romanian by birth, now plays for the Italian Serie A club Fiorentina and lives part-time in South Florida. He is coming off a nine-month suspension for [.