Mmmm, Tuesday's looking up isn't it? Images via Greg in Hollywood.

We've been jonesing for brand spankin' new (and naive) man meat to profile on our humble little site, and boy did our wishing, hoping and bartering with God pay off!

Allow us to introduce you to Lance Parker and his abs, who both play for FC Edmonton in the North American Soccer League.

The Montreal Impact came away from last week's expansion draft without a proven goalkeeper, but that void was filled in a major way on Monday after the Impact acquired Jamaican national team goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts from the Impact for allocation money.

Ricketts had been one of the best goalkeepers in the league before a broken arm sidelined him and paved the way for Josh Saunders to take the starting job away from Ricketts.

As you already know, a promising young midfielder named Josh McEachran may be leaving the club on loan in January. Could an injury-blighted veteran with monster upside make his return around the same time? We can only hope.

Moving forward

Andre Villas-Boas, speaking today in his customary pre-match press conference, dropped some knowledge on the situations of both Didier Drogba and Michael Essien.

Does anyone want to win the Eastern Conference?

The constant shifting in the East has as many as five teams in position to lay claim to the conference's top seed. Sporting Kansas City looks like the best bet of the bunch after a convincing win over the Houston Dynamo put the club level on points atop the conference table with Columbus and has the team up to No.

The top team in MLS takes on the second-place team in the Eastern Conference as the Los Angeles Galaxy travels to the midwest to take on Sporting Kansas City (6pm, Fox Soccer Channel).

The Galaxy are in first-place in the West, and cruising in Champions League play, and will be favored against a Sporting KC side coming off a disappointing late loss to FC Dallas.

By Chris Wright

In which St Pauli forward Marius Ebbers suffers a stomach-churning broken arm after falling awkwardly during the German side's recent clash with Aachen.

Consider this your warning, it's pretty gruesome...

Told you it was grim.

I'm no a doctor not by a long chalk but even I know that it's not supposed to be pointing that way.

I couldn't watch the San Jose game until the last few minutes, so imagine my surprise when I turned it on to see this. Mike Magee can't pick up the ball! That's a handball!! Well, not that night.

Who would have thought that for a number of weeks keeper would be the most exciting position on the field for the Galaxy?

Two of the top teams in MLS will square off tonight at Home Depot Center as the first-place Los Angeles Galaxy faces the red-hot Seattle Sounders (10:30pm, ESPN2).

The Galaxy will play with third-string goalkeeper Brian Perk after losing Donovan Ricketts to a broken arm and Josh Saunders to a red card suspension.

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It's no secret that West is the more dominant of Major League Soccer's two conferences. It's even more evident considering that the top four teams in the SBI MLS Power Rankings all hail from the Western Conference.

Los Angeles, FC Dallas, Seattle and Real Salt Lake occupy the top four spots in the latest rankings, respectively, after all added points to their totals this past week.

Czech Republic Under 21 player Jan Lecjaks ended the European Under 21 Championships with a broken arm for his troubles as his side lost the third-place play-off against Belarus. Belarus grabbed a late goal to see-off the Czechs, who had been one of the favourites to win the tournament. But Lecjaks was already off the [.

U.S. 2 Mexico 4

Golden boys: Mexico celebrates their win in style Gold Cup victory that featured a dazzling display of attacking soccer the U.S. just couldn't stay with (AP Photo).

*Staff writer Miguel Mendez has the game story.

But really you could boil it down to this comment from Tim Howard:

"We didn't get it done - that's what it's about.

U.S. 2 Mexico 4

Golden boys: Mexico celebrates their win in style Gold Cup victory that featured a dazzling display of attacking soccer the U.S. just couldn't stay with (AP Photo).

*Staff writer Miguel Mendez has the game story.

But really you could boil it down to this comment from Tim Howard:

"We didn't get it done - that's what it's about.

Mike Williamson is still recovering from the broken arm he somehow picked up in the gym, that forced him to miss the last 3 games of the season. Mike Williamson may miss pre-season How do you break your arm in the gym? When one door closes, another always opens and 25 year-old local lad [...]

I write this post with a heavy heart and trembling hands. The dream is not dead. The dream is not deferred. But young men are prone to distraction. Focus comes from experience. At only four years of age, Junito has proudly and defiantly donned the weighty expectations of millions of Real Madrid fans the world over.

Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew has today said that a broken arm will keep defender Mike Williamson out for the rest of the season. Mike Williamson breaks arm in training today So it seems like it's yet another injury picked up in training what are these guys doing in training to pick up [..

There was one surprise in the official starting eleven:

Isaksson,

Lustig, Granqvist, Antonsson, Wendt,

Wernbloom, Källström,

S. Larsson, Elmander, Bajrami,

Ibrahimovic

Antonsson is going to be the final puzzle piece in our makeshift defensive line. He'll be playing with a broken arm (though obviously not that bad).