After Thierry Henry a man with the name Henri will always get my backing to well at the Arsenal.
Not only that, a local boy like Henri Lansbury will get my backing even more than trap 4 in the 12:17 at Crayford dogs.
Lansbury hasn't had many first-team chances at Arsenal.
In fact, he has been loaned out more the dirty magazines I found under my brothers bed when I was 13.

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In this week's roundup of the football news from around the world, we focus on Brazil an amazing goalkeeper, a terrible haircut and claims of racism in a friendly match between the South American side and Scotland.

By Ollie Irish

If you squint, DJ's tiny 'tache looks a tad Hitlerish. Or, less controversially, it's a tonsorial tribute to the late star of sitcom 'Desmond's', Norman Beaton:

More bad hair

The vast conceptual morass of modernism, modernity, and the modern subsumes many different strands. Christopher Mann, in an earlier piece for this site, articulates one such strand quite nicely, ultimately lamenting global soccer's inexorable march toward "materialistic modernity." For Mann, the modern robs soccer of its spontaneity, its naïveté, its inner Romanticism.