Geylang Field is the alternate base for the LionsI was at Geylang Field this afternoon to catch the national team in their ongoing centralized training session.
Normally, the session would be held on the artificial turf of Jalan Besar, but with the main ground being used for a televised event, coach Raddy Avramovic and his assistant, former skipper Aide Iskandar led their charges on this obscured turf concealed in the back alleys of Geylang.

The odds that a 20-player roster for a CONCACAF Women's World Cup Qualifying tournament would feature three players with the same first name are pretty high.
Yet, meet the USA's Morgans: Morgan Andrews, Morgan Reid and Morgan Stanton (a.ka. Lil'Mo).
There is just one Morgan in the entire 2012 U-20 Women's National Team Player Pool (sublimely skilled center midfield Morgan Brian) and one in the U-23 WNT Player Pool (current Santa Clara striker Morgan Malborough) and none in the full WNT Player Pool (unless you count Alex Morgan?

Now we've seen him drinking , we're forced to consider the propriety of our intentions towards Ryo Miyachi. Similar to when Cheech wore that bib. Image: Matthew Lewis/Getty Images.

Roberto Mancini channels his inner Muhammad Ali on someone who can't even drive a car straight, doesn't know how to put on a bib, and burns down his own house.

"So what you're essentially telling me is that these fancy electronic shoes only work if I shave my legs?" Fulham's Pavel Pogrebnyak puzzles over the instructions for his new miCoach boots.

Much was made of Mario Balotelli's failure to control a bib last season, but were we being unfair to Super Mario by singling him out for his hilarious ineptitude?

Ray Hudson, do your wonders never cease? The Geordie commentator, who plies his eclectic linguistics on an American sports channel, is a fan of football first and a describer of football matches second. We expect he requires a bib in the gantry given his habit of salivating like a hyena at a barbecue during his [.

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Thank goodness for Good Week/Bad Week, Kickettes. If it wasn't for this post, we'd never, ever be able to catch up with any of the stuff we didn't have time for while we were socialising/drinking/falling down/sleeping.

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International breaks, gotta love them. Unless you hate them. In which case, as somebody who is generally indifferent to international breaks, I can respect your position but do not agree with it. [INSERT PROFANITY LACED POST]

For folks as sick of the club/country debate as much as they are of friendlies, here's a handful of enjoyable soccer links.

They don't call her Lightning for nothing...

The USA's training in the Algarve is basically done as just one practice remains before the team opens the tournament on Feb. 29 against Denmark. Once the games start -- there will be four in eight days -- the USA does more recovery than training.

Balotelli's bib! Mick McCarthy gets spooked! Ball boy gets flattened! Our 50 funniest football videos of 2011 part five

Every day at 3PM, MirrorFootball brings you the day's funniest football videos in our 3PM Extra feature. Here is our personal choice of the best foul-ups, fouls, fails and four-letter words from 2011.

Balotelli's bib! Mick McCarthy gets spooked! Ball boy gets flattened! Our 50 funniest football videos of 2011 part five

Every day at 3PM, MirrorFootball brings you the day's funniest football videos in our 3PM Extra feature. Here is our personal choice of the best foul-ups, fouls, fails and four-letter words from 2011.

Balotelli's bib! Mick McCarthy gets spooked! Ball boy gets flattened! Our 50 funniest football videos of 2011 part five

Every day at 3PM, MirrorFootball brings you the day's funniest football videos in our 3PM Extra feature. Here is our personal choice of the best foul-ups, fouls, fails and four-letter words from 2011.

Balotelli's bib! Mick McCarthy gets spooked! Ball boy gets flattened! Our 50 funniest football videos of 2011 part five

Every day at 3PM, MirrorFootball brings you the day's funniest football videos in our 3PM Extra feature. Here is our personal choice of the best foul-ups, fouls, fails and four-letter words from 2011.

Balotelli's bib! Mick McCarthy gets spooked! Ball boy gets flattened! Our 50 funniest football videos of 2011 part five

Every day at 3PM, MirrorFootball brings you the day's funniest football videos in our 3PM Extra feature. Here is our personal choice of the best foul-ups, fouls, fails and four-letter words from 2011.

There are a couple of problems with waking up at 6.30 AM Central Time to catch a lunch-time kickoff on a Sunday. One, it's really early for a Sunday morning, and your system has not really slept off/flushed out everything that went into it on the Saturday night. Secondly, when they say lunch-time, they apparently mean noon.

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What's going on here, Arjen Robben... alles OK? Well, it's only a minor problem that happens when your eyes refuse to OPEN and you don't know what on Earth you're doing at the training ground at 7 in the morning.

3PM Extra: Watch Balotelli's wardrobe malfunction, a brilliant adidas ad and one of the funniest goals ever

Presenting quality football videos from the interweb, daily at 3pm. Here's today's collection: 1) Remember that time Mario Balotelli got all confused trying to put on a bib?

Out with the new and in with the old Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli is not unacquainted with wardrobe malfunctions (who could forget his bib antics), but this moment from Italy's match against Uruguay is particularly puzzling. Having played the first half in the correct attire, Balotelli emerged for the second period wearing Italy's old [.