spanish football sports Another SPANISH FOOTBALL lazy summer day lack of news story coiming out of England, thats being picked up by some online blogs & finally has landed in Spanish Sports online editions. The latest "tickle" is the reported meeting between ARSENAL FC officials & REAL MADRID over the possibility of landing KARIM BENZEMA over to London.

Here we are, just a week after Martin said his goodbyes, and now I will be saying goodbye too. This will be my last post here at Arsenal Offside.

I almost don't know what to say. I'm not very good with goodbyes, so I'll try to keep things short. I basically came to this blog like the rest of you, as a fan and a frequent contributor to the comments section.

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Welcome to the fourth in my small series of ‘blogs looking at Newcastle United's new signings in the latest transfer window. In this episode, I will be looking at former West Ham and 1899 Hoffenheim player, Demba Ba. I was going to write that this is the final of my little series, but like many [..

Guest Writer Griggers is back with his take on Chad Ochocinco. If you haven't heard by now Ochocinco has made the reserve team in Kansas City and anyone who consumes soccer blogs or news surely knows how big ... Continue reading →

Over the past few weeks most blogs have been publishing their teams and reviews of the 2010/2011 season. I thought it would be nice to do something along the same lines, but rather than toil over a hot computer I thought I'd get the BBC to do it for me. I'm going to post season reviews of all twenty Premier League clubs as word clouds from all of their BBC match reports for the 2010/2011 season.

Obviously I've been strongly hinting at this opinion in my blogs throughout the summer, so I'll try not to restate everything I've already written. But I do have a few more points to make, and I want to sum up why I feel Arsenal needs a new manager. And the more I think about it, the more I feel that it's not even a close call either.

I know. I missed a few things.
Mostly the launch of the Blizzard, what that meant for football blogging and whether it heralded a new page in football journalism, which I hope to talk about in the coming days.
As I hope you've been aware, I've been writing daily posts for The Score's Footy Blog, which has been an incredibly useful discipline.

Welcome to the third in my small series of ‘blogs looking at Newcastle United's new signings in the latest transfer window. In this episode, I will be looking at free RC Lens youngster and French Under 18 international, Mehdi Abeid. Much attention has being focused on the last three Newcastle United signings, Yohan Cabaye, Demba [.

Sometime during the last week there was this article on the Arsenal website with a few comments from Benayoun. The Israeli skipper said that he can understand the reasons for not getting regular starts and was happy to contribute whenever he got a chance.

They say you don't change a winning team and we are on a good run so it is very difficult to get into the team.

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- Chris Ballard
Last week, I wrote a post about choosing a team to follow in the forthcoming MLS season (and in many future seasons). I tried to choose criteria that were important to me in order to eliminate teams, and come the finish I was left with Portland Timbers. First off, I was surprised with the reaction I got; I expected a bit of ribbing but not only did I get a nice welcome from Portland fans, but fans of other teams criticized me for the way in which I chose the team.

Welcome to guardian.co.uk's review of the 2010-11 Premier League season. As the campaign draws to a close, we want you to help us find the most spectacular goal, biggest flop and best signing, as well as the winner in seven other categories. Our writers have nominated some contenders, but this is just the starting point for the conversation: we would like your suggestions so that we can compile the best into final polls that you can vote on.

I don't think I could be a football agent.

Firstly, I'm just not that kind of hard-nosed businessman driven solely by money. Secondly, I'm not a particularly great liar. Mrs Blogs always knows when I'm spoofing because of the look on my face. I tend to make a face which suggests that I'm making a face so as not to look like I'm fibbing but the face says "I'm fibbing".

Welcome to my small series of 'blogs looking at Newcastle United's new signings in the latest transfer window. First cab off the rank will be Yohan Cabaye. Cabaye, who's recent signing was broken on Joey Barton's Twitta, and this 'blog, was signed from Lille OSC for £4.3 million, which must be something of a bargain [.

I have not been interested in most of the transfer rumours doing the rounds (quite literally!) this summer. But a recent story linking Costa Rican striker Joel Campbell to Arsenal, being run by Gunnerblog and Young Guns, got me excited.

Here was a young, pacy striker that I'd never heard of and Wenger was interested in him.

Big ears

We all know about the Champions League and how it is now the most prestigious football trophy out there right now. To some, it's even bigger than the World Cup (yes, I'm sure Ryan Giggs would agree). It is now the competition that every club in Europe wants to participate in. Not only because of the glory involve in winning the cup but also the huge money that will be paid out to participating clubs.

We've started a new feature on our Blogs and, for now, we're calling it Rewind. This is where we pull an old video from our archives that we think was really good, historic, just plain fun or all of the above.
We'll start with this little gem from 2008 in which we feature current U.S. WNT regulars Amy Rodriguez, Lauren Cheney and Tobin Heath when they were all just breaking into the team.

It's draft day in Major League Soccer, and once again, ESPN2 will offer coverage of the first round in Baltimore. As in past years, the draft is in the middle of the day, requring working fans to DVR the draft, watch online or follow one of the many blogs that will offer coverage. On Thursday we will offer a business blog of the draft and draft coverage.

Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here Victory Through Harmony Snooping Around Everton and Tot Blogs By Sammy The Snake (plus a little meander from his friend) Taking cue from President Hosni Mobarak of Egypt, and in line with all our Untold efforts to avoid an uprising around this strategic corner of the [.

Does a match of such magnitude end any better?

I will admit at around the 75 minute mark, I had given up on any chance of a win... a draw was a maybe... however it seemed we had blown our early chances, including a cracking chance for Robin in the opening minutes, after a delightful chipped through pass from Cesc.

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Look there are going to be all sorts of stories about us and the game Tuesday night but a story that is doing the rounds about Abramovich being fed up with Fernando Torres is ridiculous!!
Torres has come to Chelsea to help win the Champions League but also as part of our future so all this rubbish in the press stating that we may sell him is the press once more doing their best to de-stabilise Chelsea ahead of the game.

We had seen the report on one of the local Newcastle blogs yesterday, that Stephen Ireland could miss the game tomorrow night because his girlfriend had been in a serious car accident. Stephen with attractive girlfriend Jessica It turns out that Stephen Ireland has been at the bedside of his partner Jessica Lawlor, after she [.

By Tony Attwood As everyone who reads the mast head knows, this is a pro-Wenger site a site set up to balance the very anti-Wenger approach of some other blogs. The site has had a little difficulty over the past 18 months as readers who are against Wenger have used the site to express [...]

Nos sentimos honrados que el diario "Libre" se acuerde de nosotros al nombrar las cargadas del superclásico y nos de un lugar en su edición del día martes.
Nuestro sincero agradecimiento a Franco Pedrazzi, sub editor de deportes y Luciano Dolber, editor de actualidad del exitoso envío de la editorial Perfil.

So what are people saying after last night's brawl before the Hougang United v Etoile SLeague which saw the game cancelled before the kick off.
The SLeague website comes out with the usual spiel about taking a serious view blah blah blah. The FA took a serious view last year of a similar incident between Young Lions and Beijing Guoan, those lengthy suspensions saw players miss out on the AFF Cup and obviously no lessons have been learned.

Wir lieben ja Bier, was ja auch schon der Titel unseres Blogs aussagt. Leider vernachlässigen wir das Thema immer sträflich, denn bevor wir etwas darüber geschrieben haben, haben wir das Bier schon getrunken und unsere Lust auf kreative Texte verloren. Macht aber gar nichts, denn kreativ sind dafür ja andere und deshalb zeigen wir einfach [.

Welcome to second in my small series of ‘blogs looking at Newcastle United's new signings in the latest transfer window. In this episode, I will be looking at free Rennes signing and French Under 21 international, Sylvain Marveaux. Like the previous subject in this series, Yohan Cabaye, Marveaux is another very versatile little Frenchman with [.

One should NEVER co-sign on an article they haven't read. So I won't co-sign on this article in Grantland from Carles of Hipster Runoff fame...but maybe read it anyway. Not because it's Carles and his sh*ts always bratty and funny but because maybe if a soccer piece gets good traffic on Grantland they might actually feature it from time to time.

By Walter Broeckx Untold Arsenal has always been one of those blogs that is very open to the thought that games can be bought in some way, either by buying some player(s) or is it by buying a ref. Why a player or a ref is bought for is something we don't know yet. I [...]

So it seems like a lot of various soccer related blogs and news sites are creating a sort of "mid season" award piece which highlights the best of what MLS has to offer. Unfortunately, the Portland Timbers haven't graced many lists. I guess being near the bottom of the standings will do that. But that doesn't mean we should be left out of the mid-season awards fun altogether!

I've realized from a few emails that some readers may not know that I no longer work for Goal.com. I quit over a month ago. I wish my friends there the best of luck, but I didn't want to be there any more. Unfortunately, I didn't really didn't have another soccer writing job lined up, so I've gone back to teaching.

0-1 Gervinho

0-2 Gervinho 16′

1-2 Jenkinson (Own goal) 45′

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The proliferation of foreign players in the Premier League is an often covered subject on radio phone-ins and blogs like this one. I thought rather than offering the same glib observations on foreign players in the 'English game' I'd offer some facts on the number of non-English (and non-British) players who currently ply their trade in the Premier League today (or to be more specific last season).

Por Pachi de "Desde el tablón"
Empezó el esperado Torneo Apertura de Primera División para Atlético de Rafaela y la ansiedad que demostraban sus hinchas, jugadores y dirigentes fue rápidamente saciada. Si había alguna duda sobre el funcionamiento del equipo antes de debutar en la élite luego de siete años de ausencia, éstas fueron zanjadas en pocos minutos.

by Adam Bate

I am now writing as a featured contributor for Life's a Pitch the BT football website for big interviews, expert pundits and blogs from the UK's top writers.

My first piece takes a look at the reasons why in a world where the poacher is becoming increasingly redundant Michael Owen and Pippo Inzaghi have been handed contract extensions by two of the biggest clubs on the planet.

Check the contents I have to report that Trading Standards have been round to examine the current article to assess the football content. Football blogs are no different to sausages apparently,. There has to be a certain level of football and, or meat content. Fellow Bloggers you have been warned. Any more of this looting, arson , vandalism and socio economic special pleading malarkey will

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