Rapper gets into an Emirates State of Mind Every now and then one of those stories comes out that makes you immediately reach for the calendar. However, it's miles away from the 1st April, so it must be genuine. The Daily Mirror has picked up on the story that Shawn Carter would not only like [...]

Aaah, so that's maybe why he left Inter and Barcelona This is the moment when Ibra casually introduced himself to teammate Rodney Strasser during a training session with his new side AC Milan. It looks like a cross between playground bullying and dreadful karate classes as a kid. Whatever the reason, Zlat has forged a [.

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I know in my last blog I said I would sway around the Tackling issue but enough is enough. So much has happened in the last few days and some of it has been over the top.

Sam Allardyce, Owen Coyle, Harry Redknapp and even Steve Bruce have criticized Mr Wenger on his comments about referees.

Don't oppose the USA 2018 bid because the Americans are our rivals. Support the bid because in this case what's good for the Americans might be even better for us [Canada].

The Canadian Call for a USA World Cup

EightySixForever might not be the first Canadian blog to call for the US to win the rights to one of the two World Cups up for bid, but they are the first that I have noticed.

A bit of neat link-up play Alan McInally does 'a Kammy' [101GG] An educated guess at the contents of Cristiano Ronaldo's little black book [Soccerlens] A Man Utd blog that actually disputes Arsene Wenger's love of kiddies [Republik of Mancunia] Blackpool boss Ian Holloway on his way to FA HQ with his chequebook [The Sun] [.

There are a lot of great things about the women's game, but if there's one thing it could use more of, it's bicycle kick goals. Of course, when is a bike NOT fun? Never. Since, to our knowledge (and the WNT Blog is pretty knowledgeable), there has never been a full bike scored in a WNT game, we asked resident bicycle kick expert Megan Rapinoe (she's our expert because she actually tries them) who would most likely to score on a bike?

Domestic football season likely to be bleak North of the border Although Neil Lennon was predictably optimistic following his side's first competitive match of the season, even before the second supporters were resigned. Celtic were going to go out of the Champions League at the qualifying stage for the second season in succession.

One day in high school I was talking to my best friend about what we'd do if we became famous writers. She was adamant that she would write under a pen name. "Wouldn't it be great," she said. "If you could just sit in the back of the theater, watching the play you wrote, and no one would know it was you?

What is Individual Functional Movement Screening? Good question. It was the first activity of WNT training camp so the WNT Blog decided to find out exactly what the heck was going on in the gym at the hotel this morning. Turns out, in layman's terms, it is tests that measure the right and/or left side imbalances in strength, range of motion and flexibility, all important factors to help a soccer player train as efficiently as possible and avoid injury.

Chicago Fire Blog Joins SBN

Welcome to Tweed, and his Fire blog. They get to do a little rebrand, but with even more coverage planned.

Thanks for taking Freddie...

Go say hi!

More blogs on the way - Year of Soccer

Sometimes, and especially when you write a blog analyzing such things, you get WAY too clever for your own good in fantasy sports. This is even more true coming off a week in which just about everything I touched turned to gold (at least in Premier League fantasy terms). Now, on the plus side, even with some stupid moves, I still didn't have a terrible weak (50 points from Drogs and Malouda

So McHead is retiring. You probably read that on ________ blog because on a slow news day like today that is the only thing worth mentioning so far. I would write some glowing, adulatory exposition on what he's meant to American soccer but how can I top the Lego tribute? I can't, I just can't.

Continuing on with our 'Dig out your old shirts' campaign we're now giving away a shirt for the kids. This popular shirt originated on the training ground but became our third kit for between 1998-2000.

To win this shirt, tell us who the youngest player to ever play for our first team is and their age.

This blog is not going to pass judgement on Wayne Rooney following lurid allegations made by the gutter press over the weekend. It is hoped the accusations are not true, for the sake of all concerned. But if the claims are true, then there's no better manager in the game to turn to. Ferguson is the master of man-management, he famously brought Cantona back from the brink on more than one occasion

Hello all Russia fans. Im back after a lengthy absence but was blogging over in the Greece blog during the World Cup. For UEFA Euro 2012, I will no take a dual role here and write for both Russia and Greece. Anyway the big news of the day was Russia [read more]

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Van Basten, Rooney, Yeboah, Zidane, Scholes... I am sorry. This is the new tekkers yardstick I promise it's not because i've been keeping it from you. Although I also admit i have simply been watching it and watching it. So let's get this straight. You're a professional footballer. You look like Russell Brand but with [.

What, no Carlton Palmer?? 10) Valentino Mazzola Although this is the player on the list that many will never have heard of, Valentino Mazzola was one of the true greats of the game. Mazzola played for Torino for seven years from 1942, scoring 118 in 195 games. He was revered by the Italian public as [.

Honestly, you would just check wouldn't you? Sometimes, articles just don't need words.... Apart from one... Clown.

Finnish side slump to a new low Take a long hard look at yourself boys. Jaro of Finland are the club in question, and at best this could be described as dubious. Quick point: At no point should wigs be used a prop in a goal celebration!

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We are running a contest to coincide with the Landon Donovan Jared Montz Soccer Podcast that was released this morning. If you haven't heard/watched it yet give it a listen on our blog or in iTunes. On the podcast we talked about the World Cup, Bob Bradley, his thought to be $16 million dollar transfer fee, took some user submitted questions, discussed the children's book The Wild Soccer Bunch which Landon is endorsing and he described to us his game day routine.

My fellow blogger, Antony Sutton of "Jakarta Casual" warned me before-handed that Indonesian football is full of surprises and uncertainty with many transfer deals inked in the last minute or collapsed at the eleventh hour (ask Duric).
And so last night, when I took this picture of Singapore skipper Shahril Ishak (pictured above in middle) receiving "S.

Scunthorpe vs United "LIVE BLOG: Scunthorpe vs United" was originally published at The Republik of Mancunia.

It's easy to know where the focus of this morning's blog is going to be. The lack of a new goalkeeper at the club.

Firstly, let me state for the record, I am disappointed. I thought it was vital that we bring in a new keeper this summer and I can't quite understand why we didn't. I don't think we'll ever know because Arsene is not going to tell us.

Over the last few days, just about every post on every Arsenal blog has been about either Mark Schwarzer or Manuel Almunia, and most of them have been pretty negative. Well todays Guest Post is from another new guest who goes by the name of Sagar Vase, and he is in the opinion that, despite [...]

I honestly can't believe that I missed so much of action at Barca. Been away for sometime with some work. Let me first apologise to the regular readers for not updating the blog.Eventhough I was tracking each of Barca's event, never got substantial time to pen down my thoughts. The last time I wrote was about the nonsense of Cesc pursuit and am delighted that it atleast ended for the time being.

FIFA World Cup trophy

A little rainy day viewing for you, courtesy of the World Cup blog who notes

yesterday brought forth a significant obit: the only player still remaining from the first World Cup final in 1930. Argentine Francisco Varallo passed away at the ripe young age of 100.

This blog needs a new writer. If you think you've got what it takes to write about the Russian national team for World Cup Blog, then read our application guidelines and send us an email. [read more]

Two things were confirmed today. One is that Gigi Riva definitely reads this blog. The second is that the squad numbers for our two upcoming friendlies have been revealed. [read more]

Both expansion clubs for next year have a big day set today. One will be unveiling a sponsor, likely for their jerseys for next year while the other is set to name their head coach.

The hot rumor is that Alaskan Airlines will be the kit sponsor for the Portland Timbers jersey next year (we'll have that later today hopefully when the announcement hits).

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I was watching highlights of my son team, Atletico Madrid beating Gigon 4-0 and I thought this goal must be posted into my blog very elegant and powerful goal, kinda of my favorites styles
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England are yet to have their post World Cup watershed moment France have installed a new coach (albeit an appointment that was arranged during the tournament) and held crisis talks, Brazil too have a new manager, Italy have done the same and even brought back Antonio Cassano. England have changed little.

By Ronnie Browne Let me start by saying that I think Le Grove is probably the best formatted blog of it's type there is, there are posts everyday and it's clear and easy to view and contribute to the comments section. I have been a reader for a long time, mainly because I like reading [...]

Many of you will by now have read Daniel Taylor's blog on The Guardian website, in which he aims to throw some light on the alleged infighting at the City Ground. This is interesting for a couple of reasons: firstly, Taylor is probably correct in asserting that, while this has created something of a lather [.

Well well well. The story broke yesterday and has been covered by THE SUN once again this morning. Wayne Rooney has reportedly been at it once more with a "vice-girl" while his missus is preggers and let's be honest its a disgrace.
To his credit, Scott the Red over at the ROM (United's biggest blog) has written a decent enough article about Rooney and what it now means for him and for United fans and the fallout will carry on for days and weeks no doubt.

By Tony Attwood The issue has been raised a number of times: this blog has gone totally over the top in praising Arsène Wenger, instead of recognising his faults. Maybe there's something in that, and if so, it is entirely my fault. So I thought I would go back, look at Wenger, and all he [...]

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SINGAPORE, 7 September 2010 - The Great Eastern-YEO'S S.League match between the Young Lions and Beijing Guoan Talent tonight was abandoned at the 89th minute after a scuffle broke out between players from both sides.
The FAS takes a serious view of this gross misconduct by the players.

This blog needs a new writer. If you think you've got what it takes to write about the Germany team for World Cup Blog, then read our application guidelines and send us an email. [read more]