With the amount of simulation in the modern game, one would think that many footballers would do quite well as actors. But as the following list shows, very few have made the transition into film and the results, to be generous, have been mixed. From Pele to David Beckham, we profile some of the more memorable moments when footballers have featured on the silver screen.

With the World Cup just 20 odd days away we thought to ourselves what could we offer to our loyal community to pass the time until the kick off (twiddling your thumbs and having a pint down the local will only keep you busy for a limited period of time). And then it came to us a list of WAGs and HABs websites.

The 2009/2010 football season has been a rollercoaster ride of thrills, spills and tragi-comic falls as it builds up to the summer's main event, the World Cup.

The memory of Blackpool's monumental triumph is still fresh, and the sight of Jose Mourinho gracefully accepting the adulation of the traveling Inter fans on Saturday night was a poignant reminder of the man's sense of timing and ability to mould his destiny to his will.

Congratulations then to Chelsea, who have emerged as rightful Champions, with 27 wins, 86 points, and 103 goals in the bank. For a long time this looked like the competition no-one wanted to win, but once Jose Mourinho had robbed his former side of a shot at Champions League glory, the west-Londoners revved their domestic engine with impressive gusto.

For a long time, European football fans regarded the Bundesliga as the backwater home of poor defending and psychotic goalkeepers. It was a league that lived in the shadow of its more illustrious neighbours: Serie A, La Liga, and the Premier League.

However, growing disillusionment with the ‘bigger' leagues has seen the Bundesliga become the envy of Europe.

It is easy to forget that this season's Europa League was in its inaugural year. After picking up an undesirable yet understandable reputation as the Champions League ‘sinferior little brother, Michel Platini oversaw the rebranding of what we once called, with a pejorative sneer, ‘the UEFA Cup'.

Serie A is a league of pragmatists. There are pragmatic coaches, who specialise in delivering results rather than entertainment. There are pragmatic owners, who will sack a manager without blinking. And there are pragmatic players, who will (allegedly) occasionally agree to play for a scoreline that suits both teams.

I know it's a bit late but we just couldn't resist it after we have been crazy about this song around the same time that the 2010 version of the World Cup kicked off.

It's a rather unknown band – the kind of bands who only have one good song and that's it – Clutch and the song is actually the original soundtrack of the brilliant first person shooter video game Left 4 Dead 2.

It's a well-known moniker in football that "goals change games". But the impact can be cataclysmic when the goal should never have been allowed to stand.

Here are ten goals that will give players and supporters a legitimate reason to bleat "if only!" for decades to come.

1. Diego Maradona, Argentina 2-1 England, World Cup, Quarter Final, 22 June 1986

"The Hand of God".

Accepting that there is no greater feeling in football than scoring a goal, it could be assumed that there is no worse feeling than having one chalked off. Just ask Sol Campbell.

Unlike Campbell's efforts against Argentina in 1998 and Portugal in 2004, which were correctly disallowed for respective fouls by Alan Shearer and John Terry, the following list of ten of the most outrageous disallowed goals features ones which should have stood.

Penalties are a unique experience in football simply because the kicker is expected to score. It is an intense psychological moment, offering a glimpse into the mind and personality of the kicker, particularly at important moments like the final of the World Cup or with elimination from the European Championships on the line.

With all the money and fame that being a superstar footballer brings, it is not exactly difficult for the modern player to find a woman. But as the following list of football's biggest playboys shows, sometimes one is not enough. Indeed, in some cases, sometimes 100 is not enough.

George Best

There is no-one who better epitomises the phrase "playboy footballer" than the late, great George Best.

In the world of sport, sometimes athletes let their emotions get the best of them. When this happens, it can produce some shocking, violent, or even hilarious results. Athletes are a volatile bunch, so I'm sure there are many meltdowns we've forgotten, but here are 12 of the craziest we've found:

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In todays format fullbacks are deadly important, apparently it was Brain Clough wasn't it, who said that fullbacks were the most important player on the pitch because of the space they would get when moving into the final third. And certainly the modern game attacking fullbacks are seen as a must have Evra, Alves, Maicon, Cole.

2010 brought a lot of ups and downs for a football fan with Spain seeing World Cup glory, Wayne Rooney going from a special bloke from the streets to a normal bloke from the streets who wants sex and more money. Cristiano Ronaldo suddenly became a father, Barcelona was caught in debt and was forced to make way for their first ever shirt sponsor while Real Madrid struggled to get a nil out of the fifth straight El Clasico loss.