Tony Pulis' Technical Area Tony Pulis was so unhappy with Robert Huth's red card against Sunderland that he emailed Match of the Day attaching a photo showing that the big defender's boots didn't make contact with David Meyler. Quite why the Potters boss thought MOTD would be lacking camera angles of the incident is unclear, [.

Former Rep of Ireland u-21 striker Eamon Zayed (28) became a hero for his new Iranian club Persepolis Tehran after he scored a late,late hat-trick to secure a 3-2 win in the Tehran derby last night.

Persepolis trailed 2-0 with just nine minutes remaining on the clock before Zayed found his scoring boots to fire a hat-trick in just over 10 minutes.

Spurs assistant manager Kevin Bond revealed that Aaron Lennon and Jermain Defoe remain as major doubts for Monday night's clash with Liverpool. Both players have been struggling with hamstring injuries and while the timing of the game gives them an extra chance to recover, it looks as if both will miss out.

Editor's note: Today, the staff here at PUT woke from a 3 month whiskey and BIMBO brand mini Kaiser roll-induced haze to the realization that face-of-the-franchise, leading scorer and all around exception to French stereotypes Sebastien Le Toux was gone. His side of the closet was empty, his neon boots no longer by the door.

Both immovable object and unstoppable force, allowing nothing to knock him off course in pursuit of the ball no matter the cost and never conceding the battle as lost. Over ninety minutes or nine hard years, through promotion joy and play-off tears, no one gave more than this fellow fan, the local boy we watched grow to a man.

Messi and Tevez beating Maradona in Soccer Tennis

It doesn't exactly solve the "Who's better?" debate, but it's certainly a nice Friday Flashback. There's nothing like seeing El Diego put the old boots on and duel with the best. With Enzo as his partner, Maradona took on Lionel Messi and Carlos Tevez.

Melbourne Victory were worse than ever - and yet that's despite changing the coach.
Kevin Muscat has been told to work on the defence!
He'd be better doing a Paul Scholes and get himself back on the pitch.
Adrian Leijer and Roddie Vargas are not just weak, but have been exposed all season and how is Leijer a leader.

It looks more and more likely with each passing day that Andrey Arshavin will pack up his boots and leave London during the summer, likely back to Russia with Zenit St Petersburg, where he's still considered a hero. In fact, it seems all of Russia regards Arshavin as some kind of football genius since he was named that nation's athlete of the year again for the fourth time running and is still the captain of his country's team.

David Beckham is staying in LA for two more years, after that it could be owning a MLS team. (Getty Images)

This is something we've been hearing since 2007. David Beckham has a clause in his contract with Major League Soccer that once he retires, he can buy a MLS franchise.

That much was true with his five-year deal in MLS and it is true once again with his new two-year deal.

Some footballers become pundits or postmen when they retire. And some join bands. Steve Wright looks at a couple of ex-Forest players who hung up their boots and picked up a guitar. Forest chairman Frank Clark was well known in his playing days for taking his guitar on the team bus to entertain the team [.

Players on both teams involved in this weekend's Barclays Premier League clash between Manchester United and Arsenal have committed to Nike's "Make It Count" campaign, pledging to make 2012 the year in which they give everything in pursuit of perfection. Rio Ferdinand, Wojciech Szczesny and Theo Walcott will be amongst the players sporting boots embroidered with "#makeitcount" and the active

At the end of the 2011 MLS season, one of Major League Soccer's veterans retired. After 14 years in the league, Andy Williams chose to hang up his boots and pick up a clipboard as he joined the RealSaltLake technical staff. After winning an MLS Cup, representing his national team and building a life in Utah, the Jamaican is able to look back on his career with pride.

"PICTURE: Rio's Twitter Boots For Arsenal Game" was originally published at The Republik of Mancunia.

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has signed a long term deal with Liverpool to keep him at the club for the rest of his playing career and beyond as a club ambassador.

Gerrard is set to become a one club player after he first signed for Liverpool when he was only 8 years old. No wonder he is said to be so happy to commit his long term future to the club.

Liverpool Captain Steven Gerrard has re-upped his current Liverpool contract which will see him end his career at his boy-hood hero's.

Gerrard told Liverpool's official website:
"It's a very proud day for myself and my family.

"This is the club I love and is the club I have supported since I was a young boy.

By Chris Wright

Tottenham went level on points with second-placed Manchester United in the Premier League pile last night, after goals from Aaron Lennon and Benoit Assou-Ekotto (a 30-yard stonker he doesn't score often, but when he does... etc, etc) afforded Redknapp's rabble a comfortable 2-0 win over Everton at the Lane a 14th victory from 20 league outings.

From the outside looking in, everything seems to be fine in Gunner land. King Henry comes back to save the day with a late winner against Leeds in a 1-0 victory and Arsenal hosts Aston Villa in the next round of the FA Cup.

However, after reading between the lines, I wasn't too thrilled with Arsene Wenger's pre-game "motivational speech" to the fans, players, owners, and sponsors.

Paul Scholes: he may score goals again Paul Scholes has made a remarkable return to Manchester United and could make his second debut in today's FA Cup clash against Manchester City. The 36-year-old has answered an SOS from Sir Alex Ferguson and agreed to un-hang his boots for the remainder of the season.

'Arry angered by sock butchery Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp is said to launched a dressing room rant at his players over their new craze for cutting the feet off their socks. Football's latest fashion fad has seen many Premier League players opting to play in tennis-style ankle socks, believing it gives them better traction inside [.

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Fulham 2 (Sidwell 85, Zamora 90) Arsenal 1 (Koscielny 21)
(Premiership)

It is always difficult to write a match report after a game like this. I was tempted to pen my thoughts in the immediate aftermath, but decided to let the game settle a little and write in the morning.

After weeks of speculation within the local football fraternity, former Gombak United coach Darren Stewart (file pictured right) is confirmed as Balestier Khalsa coach for the upcoming 2012 season.
A former Australian international himself, Stewart starred for the Tigers when they were still called Balestier Central in the S.

Last week I touched upon our feeling as supporters around the squad; how the bonhomie appears to have improved. This both between the players and according to the respect that radiates out from fans compared with six months ago. I met little opposition to the supposition that the supporters were more tolerant with this more experienced roster than last year's.

A drunk fan decided that the best way to utilize his buzz during the Dutch Cup clash between AZ and Ajax was to attack AZ's keeper Esteban Alvarado because...well, he was drunk. So the keeper defended himself, then attacked the intruder with his boots and boiling anger. Understandably. However, the referee decided he should then send off Alvarado, which then prompted AZ to walk off the pitch.

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Let's be clear, people. We might be world renowned slouches, but if you're going to throw random videos of Dutch footballers doing weird things while wearing lycra at us, we're going to make it our business to find out why.

Here's what we came up with: the Stars of Football campaign for which this (and numerous other amusing films featuring NT players) was made for, has something to with a Dutch supermarket chain called C1000.

Hannukah begins at sundown tonight, and for those of you who will be celebrating the Jewish Festival of Lights, the Houston Dynamo have something for you. (You can purchase it by clicking here.)

Shalom.

Of course, there are plenty of other Dynamo related items for you out there.

Ella: The First Female Table Football (Foosball) Player

The idea: "She was born under the hands of a craftsman who has carved the image and likeness of her male partner. The exact proportions but with more curves. Her game is as precise and her shot as powerful as the men's.

Nike soccer has launched new colorways of its Mercurial, T90, Tiempo and CTR360 boots. Here is a look at each along with information on them from a Nike press release. They will be available at World Soccer Shop and Big Toe Soccer. NIKE T90 LASER IV Focused on adapting to the technical demands and movement [.

MirrorFootball Podcast: Listen again to Robbie Savage's MirrorFootball live chat with Steve Anglesey

He became known as football's Mr. Marmite during his days as a professional footballer, then he swapped his boots for a microphone to become one of the game's most outspoken and honest pundits before wowing the crowds in Strictly Come Dancing.

By Chris Wright

With winter coming on strong, Nike have rolled out a clutch of dazzling new colourways for their four signature boot ranges (T90, Mercurial, Tiempo and Maestri) that are set to debut when the relevant players take to the field in them across the world this Saturday and we've only gone and got ourselves some bloody photos of 'em.

Mario strikes again If you thought Mario Balotelli's form was warmer than fellow striker Sergio Aguero during Manchester City's loss to Chelsea last night, now you know why. The cheeky Italian pinched his team-mates gloves before kick-off while the Argentine star made some final adjustments to his boots.

It's still early but the draft boards are heating up. (Getty Images)

For the last few months I've been working on a list of players that could be available for next month's 2012 MLS SuperDraft. Naturally a lot can and will happen between today's post and the draft. Players could stay in school, go elsewhere in the soccer world or just decide to hang their boots up for good.

These dark nights by the Thames aren't half special, eh? A lively 0-0 turned into a scintillating 1-0 win, Clint Dempsey's late goal nicking the points with five minutes left. We more or less deserved them, riding our luck to a degree but mainly doing enough, then taking advantage when Liverpool lost a man after Spearing's red card.

Liverpool defensive stalwart Jamie Carragher has revealed his frustration over the club's failure to reach a final or a semi-final of a domestic cup competition since 2006.
Carra, who helped Liverpool keep a clean sheet against Chelsea in the recent Carling Cup quarter final, said:
"The minimum Liverpool should be looking at each season is getting to the semi-final of one of the cup competitions, either the FA Cup or the Carling Cup.

Jadson, Fer, Tiote, Gonalons and Britton: 10 replacements for Lucas at Liverpool

10 midfielders who could fill Lucas Leiva's boots at Anfield in the new year

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Out of the blue Chelsea defender Sam Hutchinson has signed a new one-and-a-half year contract at Stamford Bridge despite retiring more than a year ago. The 22-year-old hung up his boots in August 2010 due to a knee injury. He had played four times for the Blues and had been singled out by Jose [...

Facebook Xmas Comp: Luis's boots

One fan is going to win over 20 great prizes this Xmas including some signed Luis Suarez boots. Could it be you?

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Windswept Tottenham striker Emmanuel Adebayor flaps his arms and generates a powerful wind tunnel allowing team-mate Benoit Assou Ekotto to put his afro to the test. OK, you rumbled us: this is a spurious excuse to showcase the Spurs left-back's increasingly spectacular hair. OTP has only just noticed Assou Ekotto's odd boots combo.

If you'd heard of the American Samoa national football team before this week, there's likely only one reason: Australia. A few years back, they took a beating that would leave even a ginger stepchild quaking in their boots at 31-0. They're also the joint-worst team in all the world. But in a successful effort to stave off symmetry, they won what was to be #31 earlier this week, then drew against the Cook Islands today in their WCQ, keeping them undefeated in two.

Stourbridge celebrate raeching FA Cup second round for the first time in their history, and one of the scorers was former Manchester United trainee Sean Evans who wore an old pair of Paul Scholes Nike Total90 boots which he had to tape up to hid Paul Scholes embroidered name on them.