The actions of a remorseful man Emmanuel Adebayor was apologetic personified after his crazed sprint to celebrate his goal for Manchester City in front of Arsenal's supporters. But he is not going to let the terrible guilt he feels deep down inside get in the way of a bit of training ground banter. Having found the net [.

Besler in his first career start against San Jose.
Matt Besler entered the starting lineup two games ago, and the Wizards defense has yet to allow a goal. In fact, Besler has never been on the field when Kansas City has allowed a goal. He entered for the final minutes of the Colorado match and nearly registered an assist on his first-ever touch.

British radio station 'TALKSPORT' announced that Argentine forward Carlos Tevez had signed a deal with Manchester City. This news comes after the long speculations regarding Tevez's future and it seems that he has finally made a decision to join United's fierce rivals.

This week the age old melody banter between two sets of fans. Thats right football chants. Obviously there are some offensive corkers we have left out, but the ones we left in are equally class. Enjoy!!

10. 'Nani are you ok, are you ok Nani'

- Man yoo fans to Nani, in the tune of MJ's Smooth Criminal.

The U.S. men's national team will look to move astep closer to qualifying for the CONCACAF Gold Cup quarterfinals tonight by beating Honduras in the marquee match-up of Group B (9pm, FSC).

The Americans are coming off a 4-0 thrashing of Grenada in their first match while Honduras is fresh from a tough 1-0 victory against Haiti.

Morning everyone.

The fallout has begun. For years and years Wenger has been subjected to the vilest of chants, as serious as any racial abuse, whenever we have made the trip to Old Trafford (and certain other grounds, too). The mainstream media occasionally give it a casual reference, but until yesterday it had never been properly addressed.

We're going to use Inter manager and quality silver fox Jose Mourinho as our case study for today's Sizzle Query.

Here he is as usual, dapper and stylish, all swarthy and salt & pepper, with a bank balance to make your black AmEx sing through the halls of Selfridges daily.

However.

Join former Arsenal player Adrian Clarke and celebrated sports journalist Iain Spragg for Episode 27 of the world famous Soccerlens Podcast.

This week's bouncy banter focuses on Barcelona and Inter Milan's Champions League concerns, big money transfers that defy logic, and Stan Kroenke's bid to take control of Arsenal.

PATO's cup campaign continued on Good Friday with a trip to VAKP/2. They are the reserve team of FC Haka's farm club, whose first team is now coached by Haka striker Sami Ristilä. In effect, they are the reserves of the reserves, they play at a very low level, and were effectively cannon fodder for PATO's Third Divisions squad.

Liverpool fans forced to eat retro humble pie Thanks to Football Banter for digging up this old Liverpool banner from 1994 advising Man Yoo fans to come back when they have won 18 titles. Well, that day was Saturday and, perhaps most gutting for Liverpool fans, they have failed to move the target in the 15 [.

I can't actually believe that Gareth Barry has signed for Manchester City. I thought he wanted Champions League football?
Plenty of Aston Villa have come on this blog over the last few months, especially when the race for fourth place hotted up.
There was plenty of banter and plenty of people getting above themselves.

While the players are with the National Team, they of course are keeping an eye on the results from their WPS clubs as the season enters its critical stage in the run to the playoffs. The players mostly have to follow Twitter, text messages from their teammates, WPS MatchTracker and post-game phone calls, but Lori Chalupny and Cat Whitehill were lucky enough to be able follow the St.

Even Liverpool's normally impassive manager Rafa Benitez could not fail to be moved by the adulation and adoration of the club's local fans during a boat ride along the Singapore River on Saturday.
Benitez, who started the cruise inside the boat politely acknowledging fans through the window, ended up standing at the bow smiling and waving as enthusiastic fans cheered his name, sang songs and waved banners written in his honor.

After scoring on an 82nd minute penalty kick to condemn Man City to their Premier League record tying seventh straight draw, Hull's Jimmy Bullard celebrated by sitting his teammates down for a talking to in a parody of manager Phil Brown's infamous on-pitch halftime lecture in front of the traveling fans at Eastlands last season.

By TRAVIS CLARK

The U.S. Open Cup is the oldest soccer tradition in America. In recent times, fans and supporters have claimed that the tournament fails to receive the proper treatment from MLS teams. The 2009 final between Seattle and D.C. is already starting to gain momentum as the September 2 date is just over three weeks away.

Arsenalinsider.com brings you in advance the Wikio rankings for this month, known as the most influential blogs in the UK blogosphere.

We are delighted to come straight into the listing at no 32 and thrilled to see so many Arsenal blogs in the list.

As always, our mission is to provide you up-to-date views, news, analysis, exclusive interviews, videos and more on our beloved club and this leap in the Wikio rankings show how much you appreciate our efforts.

Good morning, a fine start to a new week for many of you. Round these parts there aren't too many Sp*rs fans. I play football with one on a Tuesday and when I told him I was going over for the game he said 'Oh dear, you've just wasted your money there'.

Oh dear indeed. So he'll get some tomorrow night but I can imagine those of you returning to work today who live in much closer quarters to fans of that persuasion will have a jolly good morning engaging in 'banter', you might say.

It wasn't the wisest pre-match interview to give. Criticising the opposition in the build-up to any match is always ill-advised, but when the inflammatory comments come from a Tottenham manager ahead of a trip to Arsenal, you are asking for trouble.

In truth Harry Redknapp did not say anything particularly controversial – he, like the Premier League title betting odds, expect Chelsea or Manchester United to win the league, not the Gunners – but he should have been aware of what the headline writers would seize upon.

So-called 'mind games' have been receiving lots of press coverage in recent weeks, and Sir Alex Ferguson is the most famous for his ‘attacks', but just how effective are they?
Despite deficiencies in spending power and squad depth, we've seen Liverpool become the main challengers to United's dominance this season.

Sky Sports has a cool feature in which they allow footie fans to commentate for English Premier League games. The format is to have one fan from each of the participating teams in a match give their take on the action. Needless to say, the result is usually nonsensical but entertaining banter. This weekend, the gurus [.

The Gunning Hawk brings you in advance the Wikio rankings for this month, known as the most influential blogs in the UK blogosphere. Having made the rankings in January in position 105 and 50th last month, we are delighted to now be in position 33 and thrilled to see so many Arsenal blogs in the list.

It's certainly a tough day for fans of the Arse. The number of them calling for Wenger's head all over the internet is quite astounding. Panic surrounding the futures of Fabregas, Adebayor and Van Persie is rife and it has turned into yet another trophy-less season for a club that expects a lot more.

I haven't felt much like posting the last few days and I don't know when I will again for reasons I'm sure no one wants to hear about but it has given me perspective on a few things. As much as I love Spurs and all the banter that goes along with supporting them, there are more important things in life.

West Brom defender Jonas Olsson has played down his on-field spat with Steven Gerrard in Liverpool's 2-0 win at The Hawthorns.
Olsson hit out at the England international in first-half stoppage-time on Sunday as he thought the Reds' maestro had dived under a challenge in search of a penalty.

All the talk the last day or so has been about Roman Pavlyuchenko desperately wanting a move away from THFC. With Darren Bent also likely to leave, I'm assuming Harry will be stepping up his efforts to sign a replacement sooner rather than later.

The rumour mill probably hasn't been quite as fluid as I expected where Spurs are concerned since the close of the domestic season but that isn't going to last.

If Luis Figo has seriously been approached, things are a lot worse than I ever imagined. Bear in mind I was imagining quite bad things when Jermaine Pennant's name was being mentioned without a comedy effect chuckle in an I almost had you kind of way.

Figo looks like an old man and has been playing like one for the last couple of years.

It appears that a tongue-in-cheek comment made by Ashley Cole has turned a molehill into a mountain for some.
He said that he hopes Manchester City finish above Arsenal and I think it was just some friendly banter really.
I'm not sticking up for him, I can't stand him either but it has to be put into context.

"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."
William Shakespeare
"Well I guess it all started the first time I went through the second grade. I caught my reflection in a spoon while I was eating my cereal, and I remember thinking 'Wow, you're ridiculously good looking, maybe you could do that for a career.

I recently had the opportunity to speak to Ian Cheeseman, who commentates on City for Radio Manchester ahead of the launch of his new book 'Best Job in The World: From Football Specials To The Press Box'.
For anyone who has caught his commentary, it is evident how much of a huge City fan he is (describing himself as a City 'idiot'), but it was only after interviewing him did I get a feel for how deep his passion and commitment for the club is.

The opening day of the 2009/2010 Premier League season felt like a roller coaster ride especially for viewers in the United States most of whom were more exhausted than usual on Saturday morning after getting little sleep from the night before after hearing about the eleventh hour decision by ESPN to acquire the TV rights to the Premier League's early Saturday kickoff as well as Monday game for the upcoming season.

I have football-curious friends who want to come to the pub and watch Liverpool with me. So they say. See, they think watching Liverpool with me will be like watching regular season MLB, NBA or NFL games with me. That I'll be conversational. That I'll crack a lot of jokes. That I'll make plenty of eye contact.

Darren Fletcher faced even more International disappointment this week after a defeat to Holland meant he will not be travelling to next summer's World Cup.

With Wayne Rooney enjoying great goal-scoring form for his country as well club, England have qualified with two games to spare, which has meant the English players have been giving Fletcher a lot of stick.

As Manchester United fans we have been blessed in watching outstanding football on a regular basis for years. The amount of superb performances, great results and lifted trophies has left us spoilt with success. We are famed for our dramatic results and have a habit of scoring vitally important goals late on.

The guys over at Wikio have sent me an advanced preview of their latest monthly sports rankings, which sees yours truly increase one spot to number 14.
The top twenty is as follows:
1Arseblog (=)
2Gunnerblog (=)
3BBC Sport - Football blog (+1)
4West Ham Till I Die (-1)
5Off The Post (+7)
6BBC Sport - Phil McNulty blog (+23)
7F1 Fanatic (-1)
8BlogF1 (+2)
9SoccerLens (-4)
10Goodplaya (-3)
11F1 Minute (=)
12Football Banter (-4)
13Line and Length - Times Online WBLG (-4)
14Bitter and Blue (+1)
15Formula One Blog - Times Online WBLG (-1)
16Twohundredpercent (-3)
17Sport Is A TV Show (=)
18East Lower (-2)
19BBC Sport - Tom Fordyce blog (+6)
20The Rafael Nadal Blog - Times Online WBLG (+37)
Ranking by Wikio

We're going to use Inter manager and quality silver fox Jose Mourinho as our case study for today's Sizzle Query.

Here he is as usual, dapper and stylish, all swarthy and salt & pepper, with a bank balance to make your black AmEx sing through the halls of Selfridges daily.

However.

It's one of the oldest jokes in the book, but it will keep on getting used anyway. Referees are often the focus of a lot of negative banter including the recent incident in which Alex Ferguson called out a ref for being out of shape and unable to keep up with the action. The refs (in short) are often called horrible names most of which I will not even get into.

What is it with footballers and stating the obvious? Chelsea full back Ashley Cole has said that Man United isn't the same without Cristiano Ronaldo. If any football team in the world lost their best player (who also just happens to be the best player in the world) then of course you wouldn't be the same.

So Liverpool were seen off in the week, an entertaining game and overall a deserved victory. Ramsey has taken a lot of plaudits, as has Fran Merida. Fabianski has apparently picked up a muscular strain which means that Arsene cannot hide from the Almunia question. Will Manuel start against the spuds?

Of course, it wasn't as exciting as most people thought it would be. It couldn't be. Still, at least England got a "massive" match in the first round which will, undoubtedly lead to enough "banter" to float several hundred chests of tea in Boston Harbour over the next few months or so. The hype machine will run into overdrive over the next few months or so as we will go on to see, it has already started and there is nothing that anyone can do about it.

Fans of football banter across the country have been physically unable to ignore the sheer hilarity of Newcastle Boss Joe Kinnear's inexplicable pronunciation of his former Winger Charles Nzogbia as "Charles Insomnia" in a press conference last week, but it seems the latest spat between the Newcastle manager and his former employee has now taken another twist.