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Fabrice Muamba may never play again for Bolton or the England set-up, but his triumphant return to the Reebok Stadium last night was something out of a fairytale.

When he collapsed with a cardiac arrest on the field during the Tottenham v Bolton F.A. Cup tie on the 17th March, a whole nation feared the worst.

Following their 0-0 draw at the Brittania on Sunday, Stoke manager Tony Pulis and Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas have been in a war of words. The new Chelsea manager has accused Stoke of being too physical, and Pulis has once again jumped to the defense of his resilient side.

"This big Stoke team was actually outmatched by Chelsea at the end.

MANCHESTER, England — Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has questioned the use of Twitter as the club considers limiting what players can post on the social networking website. Striker Wayne Rooney this week threatened to put a Twitter user "to sleep in 10 seconds" after being sent abusive messages.

Written by Harry

Right everyone, stick with me, a bit of a ramble, Peaches collared me late last night.....

Yesterday, Arsene Wenger staunchly defended his team, his players, his beliefs, the season, something he certainly didn't do on Saturday after the lacklustre display against Blackburn.

It's that time of the year again. The most overhyped bunch of players and manager in the Premiership visit the most undervalued lot at the Emirates for a game that stretches the boundaries of passion.

We can say all sorts of things for this one. The cautious ones might say the Tiny Totts have some good players and Arsenal will have to be close to their best to win.

That was the sentiment many expressed when Walcott was injured. I hate internationals is another common feeling that is shared by football fans across club boundaries. And I totally relate with anyone who has gone bonkers with the news that Walcott will be out for six weeks or so.

These are times when the polite ones go ‘WTF!

I'm getting a little irked with a lot of the reporting around Villa in recent times. Let me be clear; I couldn't be happier that Nigel Reo-Coker is going to be wearing the armband and will also be negotiating a new contract at the club, regular readers will know I'm a fan. However, you'd think from the way it's being portrayed that NRC had been exiled to Siberia and was literally coming in from the cold.

The rules and regulations of online comment, if indeed they exist at all, have been subject to much scrutiny in recent months. Legally, boundaries are not so much grey as pitch black and there has been a sense of finding one's way through a minefield of potential problems. This site has been prominent in recounting the issues that have faced two Yorkshire based websites, Viva Rovers and Boy from Brazil after both bit the dust, and the closure of a cluster of other sources has left the footballing blogosphere in a state of flux.

Already identified as the game of the weekend by Sky Sports, tomorrow's Yorkshire clásico has taken on greater significance after a simply apocalyptic Tuesday night. If Doncaster Rovers fans weren't anticipating this one enough given the local connections and events the last time they met, Leeds' capitulation two days ago, also within the boundaries of South Yorkshire, coupled with Rovers' own

The events of the weekend in the Football Conference have re-opened a debate within non-league football that has lain dormant for several years, in spite of increasingly contradictory geographical arrangements starting to become more commonplace. Mike Bayly wonders whether it is time to rip up the league committee's rule book and start again.

Football, by its very nature, is a game played predominantly with the feet, but 11-year-old Gabriel Muniz is challenging this convention. The Brazilian youngster was born without feet, but has been walking since the age of one and regularly indulges his passion for football. He was donated foot-ankle protheses last year, but chooses to discard them when playing.

BUKIT JALIL: Barely four days after the country celebrated a scintillating victory in the final of the Sea Games football final in Jakarta, the Tigers suffered a reality check.

Last night at the Bukit Jalil National Stadium, the message was chilling, and yet loud and clear — that though the Sea Games gold signaled a triumph, Malaysian are still minnows when they step out of the boundaries of Southeast Asia.

There are certain days on the football calendar when even the most level-headed, tolerant fan allows the throes of passion, anxiety or excitement to send any sense of reason and long term judgement spiralling out of the window to be replaced by an almost Neanderthal desperation, with either joy or fury displayed beyond any normal boundaries [.

Far too often we take things for granted. This might sound trite and at times can come across as somewhat hypocritical depending on who is saying it, for it is usually referenced as part of a guilt-inducing prose by one who is afforded similar luxuries in life to those to whom they are admonishing.

Another draw on the road falls somewhere between the boundaries of good result and a slight disappointment. Of course, such simple statements aren't generally enough to summarise a whole game yet another disappointing goal conceded doesn't account for the chances the home side later spurned, but well, that's the point of a match report isn't it?

Stjarnan's latest and greatest goal celebration has the world (read: me) wondering to which depths they'll plummet yet, now with the "human toilet" experience fully achieved. The good money may be pushing the boundaries of simulation and reality, with their next goal followed by the goal scorer peeing on an unsuspecting teammate.