Tickets for the daftly named LionsXII, sorry but it is a daft name, opening game in the Malaysia Super League against Kelantan go on sale this Friday. Again the Singapore FA have this nonsense idea that tickets will only go on sale to Singaporeans and Permanent Residents which means if I wanted to go I couldn't.

Kemsley and Pinton Broker Their DealI hate Hollywood endings. Like many sports fans, I structure my life with the seasons of my teams, the failure of another trophy-less year the painful reminder of all I hoped to accomplish within the same time span but haven't yet wrapped up. The playoff loss to LA was all the more painful as it seemed to play out to someone else's script.

Soccer is a man's game. Soccer is a white man's game. Soccer is a heterosexual white man's game. These are the messages lurking behind the media, radio, blogs, and newspapers that saturate our universe. Almost out of sight, like a shadow they follow our every footstep.

And they are easily found in that notorious of locations, the "locker room.

Something is going on at Arsenal.

Behind the scenes there is plotting and planning on a scale that has not been seen at the club for over a decade.

Of course I have no proof of this: it's pure speculation just like 99.9% of what you read in the newspapers and in the Arsenal blogosphere (all sound and fury signifying nothing, to quote old Bill Shakespeare).

"Mummy, for Christmas.."There have been many reviews of Green Day's latest live release that have compared Awesome As Fuck to 2005's Bullet In A Bible. "It's OK, but it's no BIAB", or something like that. Of course, a band should look to improve with each album (and you'd hope that this would also apply to live albums), but, for the purpose of this review, let's forget that the 2005 live album even exists.

PARIS, France Raymond Domenech continues to slide apparently effortlessly from one controversy to another. His latest is an interview with L'Express in which the former national team coach labelled the players who mutinied at last year's World Cup as "horrible, unthinking brats." This angered both his former employers at the French federation whom he [.

PARIS, France Former France coach Raymond Domenech has broken his silence over the World Cup debacle, labeling the players "stupid brats" for going on strike at a training session to make "a laughing stock" of their country. Domenech's bitter six-year tenure as France coach ended after last year's World Cup in South Africa and [.