With Arsenal visiting Newcastle at a time when both teams are recovering from losing their most established players, it came as no surprise that the season opener ended in an uninspiring goalless draw at St. James' Park.

Also, something else that came across as no surprise was the demeanor of Joey Barton, particularly throughout the second period of the match.

I've been watching football in South East Asia for a number of years now and crowd misbehaviour, while not as widespread as is made out, does happen on occasion. Not the all out brawls that plagued the game in England for so long but still enough to poison the atmosphere.
Kingdom of Football is reporting that fans of Prek Pra Keila recently turned a bit nasty after some refereeing decisions didn't go their way during their CLeague game with Build Bright University at the Olympic Stadium in Phnom Penh.

A good all in brawl on the field among the players is an essential part of the SLeague experience. In fact given the lack of atmosphere at most games a free for all is about all there is that can get players' adrenalin pumping.

It was felt that once striker Noh Alam Shah had gone to play overseas things would quiet down in this regard but, fortunately, there have been others ready to step up to the plate.

The potentially biggest story of the day for Chicago soccer fans was the announcement that the United Soccer League has entered into an agreement with the Major Indoor Soccer League to combine forces for the 2011-2012 season. The Chicago Riot run by Chicago soccer legend Peter Wilt played in the 2010-2011 MISL season.

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Brawls happen. Sometimes they seem to happen a bit more frequently in ertain places, but they happen on every level at some point. Tis the nature of the competitive beast.

A junior brawl erupted in Florida last week, the scale of the scrum proportional to the level itselt twas a high school game.

There aren't many things which can put the Bulgarian A Professional Football Group (seriously, that's its name) into the main stage spotlight. Those things include, but are not limited to, brawls, corruption, ultra violence, transfer foibles and Things Vaguely Related To Dimitar Berbatov, for a thousand, Alex.