During a session with the media at the 2011 All Star Game in, Don Garber responded to a question from the Philadelphia media about the possibility of an All Star Game in the City of Brotherly Love. The Commissioner suggested that Philly would soon host the event and now it is official that the 2012 version of the event will go forward at PPL Park.

Talking tactics When Craig Levein isn't managing Scotland, he's currently starring as weirdo Howard in new Channel 4 yoof comedy Fresh Meat. You can see a recent Levein press conference below and then compare that to Howard giving out some tactical advice of his own here.

Will Craig Levein name Garry O'Connor in his Scotland squad this week?
Apparently not.
Is that the right decision?
Yes.
Why?
O'Connor's form has been exceptional since he came back to the SPL. He's excelled in a struggling side. Hibs aren't a one man team but they've been pretty close to it at times.

Hibernian striker Garry O' Connor (28) was in hiding last night after the 16 times capped Scottish striker was accused of failing a drugs test in 2009/10 while playing for Birmingham City in the Premier League.

And to add insult to injury it is alleged that O'Connor was also charged with fraud after his £100,000 Ferrari was mysteriously found crashed a few short miles from his home a few months ago.

Who says English football doesn't take the issue of drugs seriously?

Channel 4 documentary claims FA's drug policy is too soft

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Meet a Premier League star This morning we told you that a "Premier League star" would be outed as a cocaine user in tonight's episode of Dispatches on Channel 4. It has since come to our attention that the player in question was actually Garry O'Connor. Not only does that mean that the player in [..

Rio Ferdinand's ban for failing to show up for a drugs test has rightly been a frustration to Manchester United fans, given that Manchester City's Christian Negouai also failed to attend a drugs test in 2003 and received no ban.

Channel 4′s Dispatches has today shown we have even more reasons to feel aggrieved, with 240 drugs tests being abandoned between April 2007 and August 2010 after players failed to attend.

Saturday

- Harry Kewell and his LV luggage were met with cheers from Melbourne Victory fans, who greeted the footballer and his accessories at Melbourne airport ahead of his stint with their beloved A-League team. Snazzy!

- We missed seeing her on Friday , but on Saturday were happy to see a healthy and vibrant Noemie Lenoir smiling for cameras at Ungaro's Fashion Night Out party (two days prior) in Paris.

Dispatches to reveal identity of top footballer who tested positive for cocaine

Tonight's episode of Channel 4 programme focuses on drugs in the game

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Prem drugs bust A Premier League star who tested positive for cocaine will be named in a TV programme airing tonight. The player will be outed by tonight's episode of Dispatches on Channel 4. He has reportedly been sold by his club in a multi-million pound transfer since the failed drugs test. And his new [.

Former Manchester United and England Captain Bryan Robson has brought shame upon himself, football and England after been caught on camera by Channel 4′s Dispatches programme telling supposed Foreign Investors how to use loopholes that enable Foreign owners, with help from off-shore accounts make mass amount of money from buying football clubs in England.

Dispatches: How to Buy a Football Club July 8, 2011 (Channel 4, 8pm) Tonight's Channel 4 episode of Dispatches promised much but ultimately proved to be a disappointment, subtitled as it could have been, "How to pretend to buy a football club from some dodgy geezers in a theme pub". That's not to say the whole concept of club ownership in England isn't rotten to its core of course, but the

There were two games being played last night at similar times. One is called El Clásico (The Classic) while the other is simply called the north London derby. Over the years the only people intrigued and excited by goings on in north London were fans of Spurs and Arsenal, with the possible neutral watching on TV hoping for a fight.

In the second part of this afternoon on the subject of football governance, Mark Murphy watched Dave Richards and Richard Scudamore giving evidence to The Culture Media and Sport select committee inquiry on football governance, and found that the most impressive thing on display was Dave Richards' hair.