So Arsenal find themselves still competing on all four fronts, with the final of the Carling Cup up first at the end of February.

Sports Betting is an ever growing market place with every major sporting event fully covered.

I know of one chap who resides in North London (no links to the club) who made over £200,000 in 2010 from punting on Football alone.

With today's economic difficulties, losing a job isn't a laughing moment. Someone should tell that to Hannah Storm and Adam Schefter. While announcing the news of Eric Mangini of the Cleveland Browns being fired, the two ESPN talking heads excitingly gave each of a high five. Check the video below to see the high five and then the awkward way the duo tried to back away from the outburst of emotion.

Nani is a man who has attracted criticism from the footballing world as well as from his own fans since his move to England, with many perceiving him to be selfish and lacking the skill and talent that the player himself seems to believe he possesses.

With direct comparisons made to the largely incomparable Cristiano Ronaldo, Nani was never going to find it easy to win over the United faithful quickly but it would seem that, slowly but surely, he's doing just that after a solid start to the season that culminated in a stunning curled winner last night against Stoke.

Playing Korea Friday. A great team. Great players.
Bet we don't play two up front.
Bet Holger does a Pim.
Bet Aussie media crucify him if we lose.
Team needs Australian support despite the result or else after the Ashes media barrage we really are a nation of whinging losers.

OK, after two weeks off for the holidays and a hard drive melt down we're back. Luckily its been pretty quiet lately so there's not that much to catch up on.

• The Rapids sign Tyrone Marshall to a one year deal with a one year option.

I like the short term nature of the contract, but the real key to this will be the salary number (which we'll see when the union releases the salaries in March).

Fifa's first World Rankings of 2011 came out last Wednesday from Fifa HQ in Zurich, Switzerland. World Cup winners Spain remain in top spot for 2011 followed by The Netherlands, Germany and Brazil.
England are in 7th place
Egypt is the highest African team in 10th. The USA stay 18th.

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It's been almost 12 months since DISH Network were the first TV provider to launch Fox Soccer Channel in HD. Since then, slowly but surely, other major TV providers such as DirecTV, some Time Warner regions and smaller cable providers have added the channel. Verizon FiOS customers have been enduring an agonizing wait to find out when the channel will be added to their programming guide.

Harry Redknapp states that Spurs deserved at least a point from Saturday's game at Newcastle. An injury time strike from Aaron Lennon secured a point for Spurs after trailing to Coloccini's goal after sixty minutes.

"We absolutely deserved a point and it would have been an injustice if we hadn't got something out of the game.

With the Vancouver Whitecaps and Portland Timbers joining Major League Soccer in 2011 the league had to make some changes to conference alignment.

As it turns out, MLS made just one change.

The Houston Dynamo will be playing in the Eastern Conference in 2011, a move that is more cosmetic than anything since the league will play a balanced schedule in 2011.