It's over: after 5 years and 207 days, Mick McCarthy is no longer the manager of Wolverhampton Wanderers.
I watched the game on Sunday and we were abject. We were fortunate to get into the changing rooms at half time with the score at 1-1, but it's hard to deny that we didn't deserve the spanking that West Brom eventually handed us.

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Benjamin Franklin once said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. With this definition in mind events at the Emirates stadium on Sunday could lead some Arsenal supporters to question the mental health of their manager.

Sunday 28th August 2011 will be a date forever etched on the minds of Arsenal and Manchester United supporters alike, remembered with very differing degrees of fondness.

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We really ought to stop over-analysing these club catalogues. It never makes us happy and what's the point anyway? They're basically devices to get fans to buy branded merch, and as such, don't need a shed load of money spent on them.

But still. It's as good a way as any of giving the office snark some exercise.

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Football Aid 2012 – Bid to Play at Loftus Road!

A chance to play at Anfield

IT'S that time of year again: the Christmas tree is up or at least threatening to be, the snow is falling or at least threatening to, and the streets are packed with frantic shoppers threatening to do things to the next person to get in their way as they search frantically for the ideal pressie for their loved ones, never quite sure if the loved one in question already has that particular one anyway.

After twelve years, comes the return home. Enfield Town have been a going concern for more longer than a decade now, but today is the day that normality, perhaps, began to return to this particular corner of North London. They've already played a clutch of matches here a friendly to open the ground against a Tottenham Hotspur XI, a Middlesex Senior Cup match and a Ryman League Cup match but today sees the arrival of league football to The QE2 Stadium, which has already on account of its Donkey Lane postal address earned itself the nickname of "The Donkeydome.

Today there was only going to be one game in Loughborough in the form of Genesis FC, but on having had a butchers at some of the under-21 fixtures in the Midland Combination an easy Loughborough double stood out. The Under-21's section of the Midland Combination was set up this season and the majority of the kick-offs are on Saturday mornings.

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Football Aid 2012 - Play at Loftus Road!

By Chris Wright

In which Chelsea urchin Daniel Sturridge, like Robin Cook before, stumbles across a case of gross age discrimination after seeing himself, Salomon Kalou and Romelu Lukaku knocked out of a shooting game (insert Ashley Cole pun here) during training and sent back to the changing rooms by senior pair Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka and immediately embarks on a stint of amateur investigative journalism to expose the racket all while Kalou fiddles with Lukaku's rubbish hair.

Football Travel: Best European Cities To Watch Football In - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

You can travel to just about any different city throughout the European continent and your footballing experience will differ in one way or another.

Here at Soccerlens we have conjured up a list of some of the best cities in Europe to indulge in a mix of football, culture, sightseeing and maybe a drop of alcohol.

Let us go then, the reserves and I,
When the afternoon is spread out against the sky
Like Newcastle etherised upon the league table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted stands,
The muttering fans
Of Amsterdam,
To restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And headlines about who our owner sells:
Tweets from followers like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question.

CARLTON TOWN 2-0 STAVELEY MINERS WELFARESaturday 23rd July 2011Pre-season friendlyBill Stokeld Stadium
My second game of the day is a trip to the other side of Nottingham to Carlton. The journey through Nottingham city centre from Beeston took around half an hour and following lunch in a well known ubiquitous fast food joint I arrived with around 20 minutes before kick-off.

CARLTON TOWN 2-0 STAVELEY MINERS WELFARESaturday 23rd July 2011Pre-season friendlyBill Stokeld Stadium
My second game of the day is a trip to the other side of Nottingham to Carlton. The journey through Nottingham city centre from Beeston took around half an hour and following lunch in a well known ubiquitous fast food joint I arrived with around 20 minutes before kick-off.

Damien Comolli believes new signing Stewart Downing is the 'missing link' that Liverpool have been lacking.
The Reds shelled out £20million for the former Aston Villa winger who joins fellow new boys Jordan Henderson, Charlie Adam and goalkeeper Doni at Anfield.
And Liverpool's director of football is delighted with the capture of the England international, as well as the other additions and cannot wait to see them training together for the first time on Monday.

By Chris Wright

An Aussie amateur playing in the VicSoccer Melbourne league earned himself a red card over the weekend for refusing to remove an 'intimate piercing' after it was spotted through his shorts by the referee good eye.

Aaron Eccleston, captain of the Old Hill Wanderers reserves, was clouted in the nads by a stray shot, only to be frog-marched into the changing rooms after the official noticed that the player had a metal stud through his old fella as he sprawled on the turf in agony.

WELDON UNITED 2-1 WELFORD VICTORIASaturday 14th May 2011Northants Combination Premier DivisionOundle Road
Today was a rare chance to meet up with good friend Kevin Zupp with this being only the second time this calender year. Our original plan was to go across to Oundle for a Peterborough & District League encounter between Oundle Town and newly crowned league champions Ramsey Town.

WELDON UNITED 2-1 WELFORD VICTORIASaturday 14th May 2011Northants Combination Premier DivisionOundle Road
Today was a rare chance to meet up with good friend Kevin Zupp with this being only the second time this calender year. Our original plan was to go across to Oundle for a Peterborough & District League encounter between Oundle Town and newly crowned league champions Ramsey Town.

I just got back from a quick trip to Houston, where I saw Colorado get off the matt with a (somewhat fortuitous) 2-1 win over the Orange. Don't sweat it, Tally Hall. You've had better nights, and you'll have better nights in the future.

I might see another game or two there this year.

Everton's 2-1 win over Fulham, and a Seamus Coleman goal was the perfect way for the young Killybegs born international to head into next Saturday's Euro 2012 game against Macedonia and the Uruguay friendly the following Tuesday.
The young Irishman says the win over Mark Hughes' side has given Everton a big lift ahead of the fixture gap, and he hopes to see the team return to Merseyside with the same level of optimism once the international fixtures are complete.

ROME, Italy — Claudio Ranieri has resigned as Roma coach following Sunday's disastrous 4-3 defeat at Genoa, despite having led 3-0. It was the club's fourth defeat in a row and Ranieri then told Italian news agency Ansa he had decided to quit. "I've always thought about the good of Roma and after a game [.