By Ollie Irish

As Yoda once said, "a true Jedi drop the F-bomb would not."

Apart from that, it's bang-on.

I usually leave the soccer aggregating up to this guy. How he finds the time while doting on that epic beard, I'll never know – but he does.

But I wanted to call attention to a couple of Jim Dandies.

A lot of sites dish the dime on U.S. players abroad. But Avi Creditor's report at SI.

The response to the attack on the Togolese team from much of the rabble that constitutes the English Premier League was predictable. The emirs and oligarchs did not say much, leaving it to some of the old fashioned brass merchants to bellow about bringing their players "home".
Arsène Wenger was not of the same mind.

After a light schedule last week, MLS dropped the bomb on us in Week 3; eight games, all in one day, making it incredibly tough to follow them all. Nevertheless, here I am, trying to take one thing...

What on earth is happening to the England team?

We have:

two out of form centre-backs
two very attacking full-backs
no defensive nous in midfield
not the most creativity up front

It's feeling ominous.

The team balance feels horribly wrong. If Cole and Johnson are going to 'bomb on' (and they might as well because this is what they're good at), how can we play two undefending wingers before them, and two attacking midfielders in the middle of the pitch?

While not even 24 hours have passed since the New York Red Bulls formally introduced French star Thierry Henry as their newest player, there is word this morning that another world superstar is on the verge of joining Major League Soccer in a matter of weeks, if not days. It's a rumor that has been making the rounds for some time, but multiple sources are now corroborating reports that Ronaldinho will soon become a member of the Los Angeles Galaxy.

Not the Pratchett novel, but well worth reading... No, I'm talking about the acquisition of Adam Cristman. Not that I'm anti-Cristman or anything (well, outside of that time his virtual self hit a bomb that beat my FM2010 DC United side), but...

This is what I love about Indonesian football. I can watch a game purely as a neutral and not give a toss who wins.
It's been fun watching both these teams this season. Persema may lack the big names but there is a wonderful team ethic that flows through the eleven players on the field. None of the pouting or arm waving so called big names like to indulge in, these guys just get on with it.

Before the game there was a funeral atmosphere around Stamford bridge. The script involved Chelsea going all Indiana-Jones on Mourinho's Inter Milan and ending it in true bad-ass style with three goals and a clean sheet. Unfortunately, the game panned out more like a Japanese horror movie than a good-always-beats-evil Harrison Ford starrer, where in a completely uncalled for plot twist, the villain, who the hero is about to stuff into a meat grinder, comes back to life, shoots the hero twice in the head and then proceeds to dance over his dead body.

Episode 67: "Gina Drops an F-Bomb"
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Panel: Zach Woosley, Gina Zippilli, Jason Longshore
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This week on the show the censor beeps are significantly reduced as some level of order is returned to the studio.

Hans Gillhaus played nine matches for the Dutch team and scored twice. He's currently head scout at Chelsea. He made his debut against Cyprus, the bomb-match that was cancelled. The former PSV striker speaks about the past, present an future...

Gillhaus was a tremendous goalscorer at FC Den Bosch, and made [read more]

D'oh! On Tuesday night, Ryan Guy helped St. Pat's take a commanding 4-1 first leg lead from the Setanta Cup semifinal tie with Sligo Rovers with a nasty bomb from long range. And then, he talked about it with the local press.- Greg Seltzer

The Boleyn Ground opened for business in 1904 and has also been around for over a century of football. The grounds is home to West Ham United and the name Boleyn is in honor of who other than Ann Boleyn the famous second wife of Henry the VIII. Many critics believe that Boleyn lived in the castle or house that was near the grounds; whereas some other critics believe that perhaps the Queen was from around the area.

Tomorrow, the USA Bid Committee will present our bid book to FIFA, and to help spread the word and support the bid, the soccer-loving nation will be exploding a "Tweet Bomb" at 1 p.m. CT to let the entire USA know that we're bidding for the chance to host the World Cup and that we're pumped about it!

Following the pre-season from behind blue eyes:

Chelsea dived straight into the premier footballing burger biting of a lil bit more than what they could have chewed.

Hull, Sunderland, Fulham, Burnley and Stoke were dispatched quite easily raking in 12 goals in the process.

Tough nuts from Porto came to the bridge and left with empty shells and so like every year I kept sayin to myself surely this is our year.

Brian Clough's statue muses on his life and what's happening in the world today... Well, when I wake up on a Sunday morning it always looks like someone's dropped a bloody bomb on Market Square. There's chip paper getting blown around me ears, polystyrene trays swirling around me feet, and I'm surrounded by half eaten pizzas [.

Fabio Capello's biggest worry after the form of his players is Wayne Rooney's shooting his mouth and getting sent off.

He gave a preview in the Platinum Stars friendly when he launched into a tirade against referee Jeff Selogilwe complete with the F bomb. Selolgilwe had some words of wisdom for the England striker.

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Every day during the World Cup, the languagecaster team will be explaining a football phrase or cliché connected to this summer's tournament. Click on the link below to hear the word or phrase and you can also read the transcript.

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Just try not to get a tear in your eye watching this...I dare you...and "Some Guy in Arkansas" is the bomb.

WORLD Cup photos Ghana march on and the USA trudge home... Let's bomb Ghanania!

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Ghana's Kevin-Prince Boateng (left) challenges USA's Maurice Edu (right).

WORLD Cup photos Ghana march on and the USA trudge home... Let's bomb Ghanania!

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Ghana's Kevin-Prince Boateng (left) challenges USA's Maurice Edu (right).

The baby faced Muslera just celebrated his 24th birthday. In goalkeeping years, he is a toddler when compared to some of the graybeards who still continue in his position. He had about a half dozen national caps for the Charruas but for those who follow the Serie, his performances for Lazio have been nothing short of phenomenal.

A few pieces of news the day after Liverpool's 2-0 win at Anfield...

The first of which is tied directly to said win.

The Europa League draw, still firmly placed in the shadow of the Champions League draw, took place this morning, and as it were, Liverpool received a decently difficult opponent.

Empty seats were visible last night at the start of England's UEFA Euro 2012 Qualifier with Bulgaria, not because of some ongoing protest against the Three Lions after the shambles in South Africa. It wasn't because a seat at Wembley costs a bomb these days. You couldn't even attribute the pockets of red plastic to the corporate spectators, still waiting in line for their pre-match prawn sandwich.

Macheda nets a powerful bomb playing for Manchester United Reserves. Good to see he's fighting for first team football. Going to be tough though with Berba playing quite well as of late.

Major League Soccer Week 24 Goal of the Week Nominees

There are some good ones this week baby! Who said there is no excitement in MLS? This weeks nominees includes a bomb from Omar Cummings, a great combination in the 18-yard box from the LA Galaxy, a sweet finish from Thierry Henry after a back heel in the box, and last but not least a set play from the New York Red Bulls you don't want to miss!

The Jacksonville Jaguars and Houston Texans appeared headed to overtime. But the extra time wasn't needed after the a Jaguars Hail Mary pass landed in the arms of Mike Thomas to give the Jaguars a stunning 31-24 victory. The Jaguars Hail Mary video can be found below it truly needs to be seen to be believed.

The Fire did manage to win something this season after all. MLS announced today that Marco Pappa's week 3 bomb against San Jose was voted the AT&T Goal of the Year. Pappa managed to defy all adds and beat out the ballot stuffing, bot-voting fans in Seattle who only managed to get one goal named into the top five finalists.

Our biggest worry when Mike Ashley dropped his latest bomb on Tyneside a week last Monday when he sacked Chris Hughton, was that the club would fall into disarray as it did two years ago. Kevin Nolan a terrific captain and leader on Tyneside The last disputed departure from Newcastle happened in early September [.

PSP is running some tests on our Twitter account. So if you see this on the RSS feed, that's why. I'll be posting and deleting a test post periodically so that we can get our posts automatically posting to Twitter again, which we used to have until Twitter decided to carpet bomb itself a few months ago.

Michael Vick paid his debt to society and is now back at work and performing better than ever. However, that hasn't stopped the haters from hating. While most haters wish the NFL would have banned Vick for life or wish the quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles was still in jail, Tucker Carlson took hating to an all new level.