Great news for fans of Green Street, Bend It Like Beckham and Soccer Dog: European Cup — the rich and illustrious canon of soccer in the cinema is set to be expanded with a Hollywood movie about FC Barcelona.

Paul Greengrass— the Oscar-winning British director of United 93, The Bourne Ultimatum and Green Zone — is currently at the Cannes Film Festival looking for international backers for "an epic cinematic portait of FC Barcelona", which will focus primarily on the four years in which Pep Guardiola guided the Catalan giants to 13 trophies.

Bend it like Beckham, meet Power it like Pabon.

Colombian side Atletico Nacional sits atop its group in the Copa Libertadores, and the play of Dorlan Pabon is a big reason why. The 24-year-old Colombian international attacker, who leads the tournament with six goals, sent a powerful, swerving free kick from more than 40 yards into the right upper 90 as part of Atletico Nacional's 3-0 victory over Penarol Tuesday night that is worth at least a few looks.

TweetAmerican soccer enthusiasts, owe their interest, at least in part, to David Beckham, an internationally famous British soccer player. His persona, on and off the field, is one reason soccer has taken root in the American sports psyche. Even people who know nothing about soccer know about "Bend it like Beckham.

The papers have been full of reasons why Sir Alex Ferguson dropped Wayne Rooney for United's 3-2 defeat at the hands of Blackburn so before you here it from them, the pair also clashed at United's quiz night last week and this had nothing to do with why the striker was dropped but it was pretty hilarious.

Last year we debuted our first selection ever for "Person of the Year". The award went to the German ad agency Nordpol+ for their roll in creating the brat train and under-the-seat kegs at St. Pauli's (Germany) soccer stadium.
Beer and soccer indeed.
This year we're opening the award to out FBM community to decide.

When Wayne Rooney draws "Bend it Like Beckham" in a game of Manchester United charades, it's hard to imagine comedy not ensuing. Enjoy:

Watch Wayne Rooney wind up Fergie in a game of charades

Imagine, for a moment, that you were playing charades, and were asked to mime the film Bend it like Beckham. How would you convey the Beckham part of that title? Perhaps you might think back to that famous incident in which then Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson hit him in the face with a boot and act that out.

Watch Wayne Rooney wind up Fergie in a agme of charades

Imagine, for a moment, that you were playing charades, and were asked to mime the film Bend it like Beckham. How would you convey the Beckham part of that title? Perhaps you might think back to that famous incident in which then Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson hit him in the face with a boot and act that out.

By Chris Wright

Manchester United staged their 'Big United Quiz' for MUTV t'other day which, at one point in the proceedings, saw Wayne Rooney charged with leading Ryan Giggs and Jonny Evans in an innocent game of charades.

Rooney was tasked with acting out 'Bend It Like Beckham' to his teammates and, considering his audience, our Wayne's choice of mime for the fourth word of that particular film title has to be seen to be believed.

Wayne Rooney's Strategy for Charades

Just in time for the holidays, we get to go inside Rooney's mind...

"Hm... Bend It Like Beckham. Four words. Right, let's start with the fourth word. Make a squiggly line with your hand. That'll remind them of David.

By Dario Camacho - MIAMI, FL (Nov 4, 2011) US Soccer Players -- It was a wonderful assist. A lobbing ball, kicked from just past the half field circle. It arched into New York's box, bounced upwards once, and sat pleasantly enough in the air for Mike Magee to slot it far post into the net. To put it simply, it was classic Beckham.

20,000 pople don't see botched clearance Bend it like Beckham, spin it like a Tory media flack. What's with the empty terraces when there's football like this going on? We don't know where it's from but the Arab teams responsible for this are probably happy to remain unknown in the wider world for now.

A year ago this month, we took a look at ten of the finest films and television shows ever made on the subject of football. In some respects, finding truly excellent programming about the game is more difficult than it is to find absolute rot, but there are some rules that we can apply which help us find our way through the minefield of production companies that want us to watch their offerings.

Famed British literary theorist Terry Eagleton's book Figures of Dissent (2003) includes essays on radical political and cultural figures like the eccentric Lacanian critical theorist Slavoj Žižek, post-colonial scholar Gayatri Spivak, Oscar Wilde, and T.S. Eliot. Sandwiched between his terse but dense musings on these radical thinkers and anti-establishment gadflies is an essay on David Beckham.

Brand Beckham definitely has cracked the Asian market now! North Korea treated its citizens to a Boxing Day TV screening of Bend It Like Beckham. Martin Uden, the British ambassador to South Korea, claimed on Twitter that it was the "1st ever Western-made film to air on TV" in North Korea. He also claimed that [.