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A bit of what's in Butt's Brain on a Monday evening...

• A Happy New Year and thanks to our Butt Buddies at The Football Corner for naming us 2009 Football Blog of the Year. We are hoping for a great 2010 - a World Cup year, brilliant.

• Breaking news coming out of EPL Talk that Fox Sports International is in talks to acquire Setanta Sports.

Fox Sports International is in discussions to acquire Setanta Sports USA and an announcement is expected in the next 72 hours, sources confirmed to EPL Talk on Monday.

Fox Sports International is best known to soccer fans as the company that runs Fox Soccer Channel.

In related news, Setanta Sports USA has dropped the Premier League from its list of sports programming available on its network.

The big breaking news coming out of Man United today is that the club have announced pre-tax profits of £48.2 million. That amount includes the £80 million transfer fee of Cristiano Ronaldo. The...
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By Chris Wright

When winter's drawing in, try a gentleman's all-in-one body stocking!

Breaking news from the Aston Villa camp this afternoon is that Glasgow Rangers striker Kris Boyd has held talks with the club over a possible move south of the border.

If you were hoping that the U.S. national team would play a friendly between its Honduras and Netherlands exhibitions, you may have just received your wish.

The U.S. team will continue its World Cup preparations by playing host to El Salvador in a friendly on February 24. The stadium in which the game will be played has yet to be confirmed.

In shocking breaking news, the Togolese Football Team's bus has been attacked by machine gun fire while crossing the Congolese border. Two players have been injured by the gunfire and the driver has been killed. "The Angolan driver was killed on the spot," the Togolese official reported to Reuters."I am fine but several players are in a bad way," FC Nantes forward Thomas Dossevi told Radio Monte

Tragedy has struck ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations as several media outlets are reporting an attack on the Togo national team bus that was transporting them to Angola.

The BBC is reporting that a group of armed rebels opened fire on the bus as it crossed the border into the oil-rich nation.

The question of whether Togo will play in the Africa Cup of Nations following the fatal attack on their team bus in Cabinda has taken another turn, with the team's request to re-enter the tournament after a three day mourning period apparently being rejected by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).

It's the last day of our RCA for 2009 and let us say: you all must be exhausted. You've been voting at an impressive rate. Have some vitamins and let's get to work with a bumper crop of nominations today.

And as you might have guessed, David Villa's face features in one of them.

- Best "Boys Week" Contribution
- Breaking News of the Year
- Biggest LOL of 2009
- King of all Bitchfaces
- Rookie of the Year
- Biggest WTF of 2009
- Ovary-Exploding Photo of the year

It's the last day of our RCA for 2009 and let us say: you all must be exhausted. You've been voting at an impressive rate. Have some vitamins and let's get to work with a bumper crop of nominations today.

And as you might have guessed, David Villa's face features in one of them.

- Best "Boys Week" Contribution
- Breaking News of the Year
- Biggest LOL of 2009
- King of all Bitchfaces
- Rookie of the Year
- Biggest WTF of 2009
- Ovary-Exploding Photo of the year

We are not above wanting to compete with the best for some nice shiny awards, we have after all competed and won other prestigious web accolades and would like your help to continue our run of success.

We are looking to get ourselves as many nominations as possible in the Soccerlens Awards so it would be great if you could CLICK HERE and vote for us.

By Chris Wright

David 'The Cat' James resorts to washing his kit in the only way he knows how

The 'BREAKING NEWS' ticker on Sky Sports News has farted into action this afternoon to confirm that Stoke City have pulled out of their shock loan move for Portsmouth goalkeeper David James.

We are not above wanting to compete with the best for some nice shiny awards, we have after all competed and won other prestigious web accolades and would like your help to continue our run of success.

We are looking to get ourselves as many nominations as possible in the Soccerlens Awards so it would be great if you could CLICK HERE and vote for us.

Breaking news on Sky Sports this afternoon, that Jermaine Beckford has committed himself to Leeds United through the end of the season. Jermaine Beckford - commits to Leeds United for rest of the season This is somewhat similar to our other top target in January, Matthew Kilgallon, who also committed himself to Sheffield United through the end [.

We are not above wanting to compete with the best for some nice shiny awards, we have after all competed and won other prestigious web accolades and would like your help to continue our run of success.

We are looking to get ourselves as many nominations as possible in the Soccerlens Awards so it would be great if you could CLICK HERE and vote for us.

We are not above wanting to compete with the best for some nice shiny awards, we have after all competed and won other prestigious web accolades and would like your help to continue our run of success.

We are looking to get ourselves as many nominations as possible in the Soccerlens Awards so it would be great if you could CLICK HERE and vote for us.

Certainly the Reds are the butts of a lot of one-liners these days. And I'm OK with that.
Footy Factor provided the cartoon and caption to this one:

Breaking News: The players from Liverpool FC visited the local Children's Hospital in Liverpool .

UPDATED:
Southend's top scorer Lee Barnard will sign for League One rivals Southampton, longpier.com understands.
The forward, who has netted 17 times this season had attracted attention from other League One clubs in recent weeks, including Millwall and Leeds.

United has completed the signing of defender Chris Smalling on a 4 year deal worth £12 million. This deal is bringing to belief that Nemanja Vidic will be leaving in the summer. Ferguson is refusing to answer to such claims, although, with Johnny Evans already established as back-up to Vidic and Rio Ferdinand, something's got to give if Smalling is to make any true contribution during his debut season.