There's Premier League football, and then there's Sunday League football. One is glamourous. The other is a mixture of aching limbs, no glory, pints of beer and having a laugh.

The latter is portrayed in a surprisingly trendy viral video from The FA (yes, the Football Association). It's a spoof of the Nike video that was released a few months ago.

All the stuff being covered outside the unfriendly confines of Dirty Tackle...

Kaka either passed his final medical for Real Madrid or he's into some really freaky things that I'd like to stop thinking about now. [Eurosport]

The Spanish national team are helping to spread the plague of vuvuzelas.

First of all, apologies for missing my usual Wednesday post yesterday. I've been full of cold for the past few days and the goo-filled drudgery of my current existence makes each day blur into the next and I lost track. To make up for it, today we have the first of a two part post, [...]

As Liverpool captain, Steven Gerrard is apparently taking new teammate Glen Johnson under his wing and helping him adjust to his new home. The following is a transcript of one of their recent conversations.

Gerrard: Feel free to ask me anything you may be pondering about, Glen.

A strange game, with long periods of quiet nothingness punctuated by moments of brilliance. All the goals were spectacular in their own way, and the fact that there could have been several more (at either end) suggests a quite unFulham-like evening. In the end we settled for 3-1, which is good but not that good.

Christmas Day is definitely a hectic one for me, as it was this past Friday. After the kids opened the presents. we headed to my in-laws for Christmas lunch, followed by more presents to open and then tried to stuff them all into my car. We were then whisked away to my parents where we had Christmas dinner, which was then followed by you guessed it more presents to open and then dessert.