A three-year deal Joao?"El MosQuito" will be buzzing around BMO Field for the
foreseeable future as Toronto FC announced today that Joao Plata has signed a multi-year deal with
the club. The dynamic yet diminutive Ecuadorian was often the only bright spark in a miserable
first half of 2011 and his re-signing was considered as an off-season must in most supporters'
eyes.
szólj hozzá: Arsenal v Leeds 1:0 HIGHLIGHTS
The stage was set after 68 minutes of frustrating football with Arsenal brought to a standstill
by a Leeds Utd team that parked the bus. The moment everyone was waiting for with bated breath.
Number 12 strode in to a standing ovation - Thierry Henry had arrived home to a flood of good time
memories.
There are moments of true magic in the beautiful game of football. This year, perhaps no one
knows this better than SSC Napoli in sizzling form in the Serie A, and now having sealed their spot
in the final sixteen of the Champions League! Napoli's debut in the Champions League has been
nothing less than a Cinderella story.
So much promise....
At some point you just have to feel sorry for a coach.... regardless of team affiliation. The
execution time is quickly approaching with bated breath and grim reaper fingerprints. This is the
time where Roman Abramovich gets itchy on the trigger finger, picks up a cell phone from Moscow and
calls the front office of Chelsea Football Club to let them know that Chelsea will no longer be
requiring the service of Andre Villas-Boas.
A great video of street football in Kolkata as the city waits with bated breath for the
Argentina Venezuela friendly tomorrow.
...and more footage of Messi mania in one of the most soccer crazy cities in India.
About 120,000 people are expected at the Yuba Bharati Krirangan Stadium in Salt Lake tomorrow and
they will all turn up to see Messi play
Bhaswar Goswami, chief executive of the celebrity management group staging the match, has
highlighted the importance of Messi's arrival: "Pele came here at the end of his career - Diego
Maradona came but did not play.
Cesc Fabregas is on the verge of leaving and Samir Nasri could be a Manchester City player
before long. So who is Arsene Wenger going to bring in before the transfer deadline?
All summer we have been linked with players but there is a fresh round of speculative yarns in
the papers this morning with the obvious names being bandied around as reporters write stories
about AW splashing the cash in the wake of the double departure.
Dominic Pollard's blog, Polly's Pause for Sport, is one of the Guardian's Top 100 blogs
to follow in 2011. You can follow him on Twitter @DominicPollard ... This is Dom's favourite
goal:
Ok, so zero marks for originality with my choice. The more I racked my brains for my all-time
favourite goal, though, the harder I found it to pull myself away from this moment of magic from
Zidane.
You may well have come across Rocco Cammisola's football writing at ITV Sport, In Bed
With Maradona or maybe on his blog The Football Express. Oh and Rocco is also a Twitter legend so
follow him @RCammisola .. this is his account of the last ever goal in the European Cup Winners'
Cup ..
On the Law-road to Wembley It was with bated breath that I loaded up the BBC sport homepage this
morning. Fingers crossed, mouth slightly dry, and a heart beating marginally faster than if I was
in the presence of a female porn star or royalty. And so it became true. Our man has done a [...]
