By Ollie Irish

Karl Henry yesterday, De Jong today...

Note: the footage is graphic. Poor Hatem.

As I just tweeted, physical intimidation epitomised by (frankly) thuggish tackles is becoming a serious problem in English football and in English football alone, it seems.

How many different ways can you wear lace? Is Denilson sneakily telling Dunga that he wants a World Cup spot by dribbling about in that jersey? What kind of music does LacePod give you exactly, Cannavaro? And as for Arshavin.

How could that exciting display not trigger memories of magnificent Arsenal victories at Wembley?

Arsenal dispatched West Ham in a thrilling third round tie and by doing so continued Wenger's excellent record of never having been knocked out of the FA Cup in the third round.

Surely when we win a match the manager's team selection should be regarded as the correct one?

Number 18: Diego Forlán Country: Uruguay Position: Forward Club Team: Atlético Madrid American-Based Professional Sport "Soulmate": "Sugar Shane" Mosley, Welterweight Boxer Contrary to what you might have heard from Manchester United supporters whenever his name is brought up, Diego Forlán is no bum.

Joe Cole has stoked the fire to the title race and John Terry has challenged the Chelsea team ahead of this weekend's games.
Joe Cole has put pressure on United in no uncertain terms. He said:
"If United beat Manchester City on Saturday then we know we have to win; if they lose we can put the final nail in the coffin, But we know we can't take anything for granted.

While we here at The Yanks Are Coming try to stay away from telling our readers which non-soccer sporting events to watch out for, probably because we can't have Neil pimping every mid-season Atlanta Braves game, we're making an exception today. A couple months ago I wrote an award winning 32 Players To Watch piece (What?

The Boys PERFECTLY understand what this win means
In the days before last night's 3-2 thriller of a win versus Sevilla, Gonzalo Higuain told the world about the words of wisdom Ruud Van Gol shared with him:

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"Ruud told me that goals are like a bottle of kethcup... Sometimes they don't come no matter how much you push, but later they all come out in one hit".

Iron Mike dons Posh kit West Ham's pre-season friendly at Peterborough was given some extra, erm, bite by the presence of Mike Tyson. The cash-strapped boxer was in Peterborough for a £100-a-head Evening With The Baddest Man On The Planet. He went onto the pitch at half-time wearing a Peterborough shirt and told the crowd through a [.

There have been plenty of strange promotions at sporting events over the years, but never has an English football squad ever had a promotional night titled An Evening with Mike Tyson at least that I can remember.

But Peterborough was recently the first team to take initiative and invite the troubled boxer to be honored at a friendly home match against West Ham and the squad even decided to unwisely allow the infamous ear biting boxer to give a motivational speech at halftime for the lower tier squad.

By Ollie Irish

"Yar! To the Emirates we go! Yar!"

Don't have nightmares.

More in this series

Dimitar Berbatov, Video Rental Store Manager

Phil Brown, Bodybuilder

John Terry and Bobby Zamora, Big-Game Anglers

Rafa Benitez, Wine Waiter

Joe Hart, Women's Rugby Forward

Joachim Low, Catalogue Model

Alan Wiley, Aerobics Guru

Nigel de Jong, boxer