The Beauty: For a few years now, Bianca Kajlich has sort of been labeled the only "real" American WAG. It's not because she is the only beautiful lady on a US Nat's arm. It's because she's the only one with a profession (actress) in the public eye.

The Beauty: JoJo (who was born Joanna Noëlle Blagden Levesque) is an American pop star. She rose to fame in the music biz at a very young age, and she parlayed her perfect pipes into a successful acting career. Now, the sky is the limit for the young starlet.

The Beauty: What is it about WAGS (aka Wives And GirlfriendS of soccer stars) that captures the fancy of the public and the media. Is it their bountiful beauty? Is it their fabulous fame?

The Beauty: I won't lie I didn't find Nuria Bermudez to be a "beauty". At least not at first. On first glance, she actually appears quite trashy. After all, her bread and butter is appearing nude in magazines, which is not exactly the favorite hobby of the virtuous.

The Beauty: The Beauty? Really? Beauty? Wha... I have written a lot of these WAG posts, and this is the last of this series (and my last post of the year), and now I have to honor the WAG known as Victoria Beckham? Really? Posh Spice? No! I hate her.

We all know that Arsenal's defense needs work, hell the whole team could step up in that regard: even Cesc is talking about the need for a team defense step-up ahead of the Champions League clash with Man U. So, us fans fretting over it is probably not going to do a lick of good and us bloggers writing about it is pretty much pointless.

There is not much to say about this amazing start to the season. Three wins out of three, twelve goals scored and players who were not convincing last season seem to have turned into true champions. Of course, the tough ones are yet to come, but so far, so good from the Gunners.

I am still not entirely convinced by the forward line, seems as if they are not clicking the way they want to, but I will expand on that tomorrow in my day after thoughts since as always, I will just limit myself to player ratings for now.

Corriere di Livorno is quoting the club president as saying that the deal for Ricardo Clark is done. He claims that Clark will be staying with Houston because of their league position and their inability to cope with the loss of their star player, so he will be joining Livorno in January, during the winter transfer window.

The Beauty: In a previous post written many moons ago, I ranked Alex Curran the #1 English WAG. While not as famous as Victoria Beckham, or as hot as Melanie Slade, Ms. Curran deserved her #1 ranking because she is the perfect WAG package. Her husband (not her boyfriend or fling), Mr.

US Soccer have released their ProZone analysis stats for the win, as well as a behind the scenes video from what is truly a great camera angle.

Prozone Analysis:
Here is the Summary from ussoccer.com:

* 7 DaMarcus Beasley had the highest pass completion percentage with 95%
* 10 Landon Donovan received the most balls with 63
* 17 Jozy Altidore had the most shots with 5
* 2 Frankie Hejduk had the most crosses with 10
* 4 Pablo Mastroeni won the most headers with 11

Thoughts: 1.

The Beauty: Miss Amaia Salamanca is a beauty with few rivals. She's a top model in Spain, and her acting chops have landed her several roles. She has also gained notoriety for appearing in a memorable commercial for Tampax years back. Like America's "Noxema Girl", Amaia is thought of often as Spain's "Tampon Queen".

The Beauty: Coleen Rooney is a WAG, for sure, but she is the least "waggish" of all the English WAGs. What do I mean by that? Well, I mean she's never been a model. She's not an actress either. In fact, she has never appeared on a reality show (gasp).

A financially viable option.

Rafa Benitez is looking into the possibility of bringing Julio Baptista to cash strapped Liverpool. The Brazilian international is interested in a season long loan deal in this World Cup year, which would be ideal for the under fire Spaniard.

Russian heavyweight champ Vitali Klitschko is a beast.
Saw this over at The Original Winger.

This clip appears to be from last season, but it was just posted on YouTube yesterday, so I'm going to assume it hasn't already made the rounds.

Anyway, here we have Maria Martinez delivering her touchline report during a La Liga match between Osasuna and Racing Santander (who just so happen to be playing each other this weekend).

The Beauty: Alena Seredova is not telepathic, but I think she can communicate without talking. It is her brilliant eyes. As they say, "a picture is worth a thousand words", and the one of Alena to the left is no exception. She communicates a lot with her look, like "I'm so much hotter than you".

Back on the USL-1 Project horse, and he's a temperamental beast. Luckily, we're headed down the home stretch, with just a few more teams to go, and I certainly want to see this project...

Sweet. That was the team we expected to see game in and game out this season. We fully deserved those three points, and beating a team that came into the match undefeated really boosts my confidence towards the side. It's the first time we've ever beaten the Goats - and in my view, they just didn't look up to the task.

How often, then, do cup winners get lucky? Ahead of tomorrow night's European Cup final in Rome it's a question worth asking ourselves, because there is a tendency, in cup finals, for those moments of good fortune to be critically important. In this respect, cup competitions are very different to league seasons.

Do you know what ubiquitous means?
I remember the first time I came across the word.
It was in the novel "Moby Dick".
It is an adjective Melville uses to describe the great beast.
Anyway the word came into my head today.
First there was the story about David Beckham hinting he may return to the English league.

The Beauty: Melanie Slade is the perfect WAG to initiate our PLTO Wednesday WAG of the Week Series. She's an undebatable "hottie" with girl-next-door charm. She's dating England's hottest young prospect, Theo Walcott. Thus, she is the future heir to Posh Spice's English WAG throne.

Liverpool fans voted Xabi Alonso man of the match against Newcastle. Clairvoyant passing and two shots from distance that ricocheted off the bar: Alonso was a beast against the Magpies. But I suspect it was his temporary martyrdom that won Alonso the honor over some of the other candidates.

Dynamo captain Wade Barrett is listed as doubtful for Saturday's El Capitan match against FC Dallas. He suffered an injury to his left leg during the victory in New England and was replaced by newcomer Andrew "The Ginger Beast" Hainault. So, will Hainault be pegged as the new starter at left back?

This should have been a morning post. But things got in the way, and my brain refused to function properly, so you're getting it in the evening. No matter, it's still relevant. The big, bad, beast...

Typical! Florentino Perez had to go and make the two biggest purchases of the year while I was away on a much needed break! Ok, so we all knew the Kaka transfer was going to happen, but can you imagine how I felt when I tuned into the wireless to hear that C-Ron had made the jump as well.

This was a tough one. There were a number of players who could have gotten the nod, but we went with Michael Bradley. Junior Bradley was a beast in midfield, scoring a goal (which he also helped set up), putting another couple of shots on target, and winning balls in midfield.

And I thought the Giants had a better chance beating the Pats two years ago haha.. Well I'm going to have to be a little brief on this one cause I'm practically out the door. I'm sure everyone knows that the US took out Spain today 2-0.. and I have a couple things I'd like to touch on.
First, we defended like we had 3 testicles and the play of Rico and Jay.

Saw this on The Offside and was suitably amused.

Chamakh Getting Ready to Dive

I recently spotted an article titled Arsenal Target Marouane Chamakh Isn't Very Good, and guess what, besides their video proof, I have proof too. I agree wholeheartedly with him.

In his 2006 book "Floodlit Dreams", writer Ian Ridley brilliantly summed up the small town politics that drive the running of so many football clubs. He had taken the chairmanship at Weymouth Football Club with big ambitions, but a combination of under-achievement on the pitch, vultures circling overhead and internal squabbling saw him eventually removed by a coup d'etat.

Phil Brown has been talking a storm about Jozy's "Twittergate" this week, including gems like this:

Asked if Altidore had put the twit in Twitter, an unimpressed Brown replied: "I'd have put an 'a' in it."

Now that is the kind of comment Maradona would be proud of!

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Beauty v. The Beast. This match had a bit of everything. Physical football, fluid passing, gripping suspense, missed chances, penalty calls missed one after another and the charming Didier Drobga losing the plot.

Contract extensions, and contracts in general, are a funny beast. They can take off the pressure (when it comes to employment, or renewing an apartment lease, perhaps) or pile on the pressure - when you sign on the dotted line and agree to marry a Ukrainian bride you've never met before.
Luckily for studs Stephen Ireland and Fernando Torres, they are focusing less today on smuggling in mail order brides from Brazil to exercise off the pitch and more on finalizing contract extensions with their respective clubs Manchester City and Liverpool, to continue sweating on the field.

Morning all, and a long overdue 'morning all' it is.

I've barely been able to get on the pooter recently, I don't know what's going on.

I did snatch parts of the Emirates Cup over the weekend all the parts except the goals. I sat through the first 75, goalless minutes of the Atletico game before being called away to feed the animals, then managed to miss the first 20 minutes of the Rangers game.

If it were up to Anheuser-Busch's Bud Light division -- department: Lime, specifically -- my summer wouldn't qualify as having even started yet, despite the calendar now reading August/Agosto. (I haven't brought one out, sadly. I'm presuming I won't by autumn, either, by which I'll have then denied myself a summer, which may or may not retard the space-time continuum.

CONCACAF World Cup Qualifying took place with all 6 remaining teams playing matches on Wednesday night. The USA v Mexico match was the headliner but there were two other matches including Trinidad and Tobago v El Salvador and Honduras v Costa Rica. Here's a recap of both matches along with video highlights.

I don't know about the rest of you, but when it comes to sports, I'm a numbers guy. I love statistics! It could be as simple as how many points Manchester United is away from winning their fourth Premier League title in a row (that number should be three points lower after Wednesday, but Burnley really messed with that stat) or as complex as what Everton's home record is when Yakubu scores with his right foot opposed to his left.

The Beauty: Miss Luli Fernandez is a South American goddess. Born in Argentina, she became the Messi of modeling at a young age. But then again, if she had never done any modeling, she wouldn't be able to satisfy all the pre-requisites to become a WAG, of course.

It is fair to say that Paul Tomkins is one of the leading Liverpool writers out there (Brian Reade, Oliver Kay, Tony Barrett and Tony Evans are the others), a reputation built over the years initially on various forums and then on the club's official website. He is also probably the most prolific author of books about Liverpool FC having published some eight books in the space of four years.

The Beauty: While I still believe Serie A probably owns the title of "League With The World's Hottest WAGs", La Liga makes an excellent case for itself too. Exhibit A: Lorena Bernal. In 1981, Lorena was born in Argentina. One year later, her family moved to Spain, and La Liga stars have been forever grateful.

The Metro Reverse Curse lives.

What is the Reverse Curse? It is a temporary suspension of all footballing ability while wearing a Metro Bull kit that is magically cured once a player switches kits to another club. There are so many examples of this, but sticking to recent memory (and not in any order of importance at all); Hunter Freeman leaves Red Bull and has become a regular starter in Norway, Gabriel Cichero leaves Red Bull and becomes a valuable piece of their National teams youth movement, Mike Magee has proven to be a key offensive cog in the Galaxy's overall make up leading the team in assists, Diego Jimenez continues to excel in Mexico, and notched two goals upon arriving back to his country after his RB departure.