Anti-racism groups have hit out at a comedy 'skit' on Uruguayan TV that makes fun of Patrice Evra and Luis Suarez race-row situation.The two-minute sketch slams the FA's tough approach to racism in football, and the Man United and Liverpool pair trade insults in Spanish, with the Suarez character telling 'Evra' that he could hide a ball in his Afro haircut.

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SINGAPORE, 15 JANUARY 2012 – The Courts Young Lions emerged victorious over the H-TWO-O Ultimate Dream Team after a nerve-wrecking penalty shoot-out in a match that was played at Jalan Besar Stadium this evening.

Arise Sir David Beckham: Footballer, Celebrity, Legend - The Biography of Britain's Best Loved Sporting Icon traces David Beckham's incredible life starting from his early years playing for Manchester United at the age of 17 up to his present day success playing for Major League Soccer's Los Angeles Galaxy squad.

No need to get shirty Bayer Leverkusen sports director Rudi Voller has vowed that two Lionel Messi shirts acquired during his side's Tuesday night defeat to Barcelona will both be auctioned for charity after his players fought over one of them at half-time. Defenders Michal Kadlec and Manuel Friedrich battled to get Messi's shirt as [.

Major League Soccer's Disciplinary Committee and overall leadership was kept busy this week thanks to the Houston Dynamo at Seattle Sounders match. The more famous Colin Clark anti-gay slur incident earned him a three game suspension, but there is more fallout from the game now. After post match review Adam Moffat is suspended for his next match and fined due to "a reckless challenge which endangered the safety of his opponent" (Osvaldo Alonso).

The Alnwick branch of the Newcastle Building Society, has come up with a unique way of supporting the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation. You can now open a Sir Bobby Robson Foundation ISA. This is a savings account which will provide an additional cash donation to the charity, for every pound invested by customers.

A significant portion of the proceeds ($10 per scarf) from all pre-orders this week of the new Pitch Invasion bar scarf will be donated to benefit the Operation Pitch Invasion charity in Portland, Oregon. Here's why...

When supporters of the Portland Timbers, organized by the 107ist Trust and Timbers Army, announced in 2011 that they were launching a new charity called Operation Pitch Invasion to support the growth of the game at the grassroots level in Portland, Pitch Invasion's interest was piqued by more than just the Doppelgänger.

Continuing their preseason tradition of a Community Shield match to raise funds for charity partners, the Seattle Sounders today announced that their opponent in the Feb. 29 7 PM match will be Jaguares de Chiapas of the Mexican Primera. In a new twist, the match will be free and seating on a first-come, first-serve basis, but the club will be accepting donations at the door.


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The first ever Ultimate Cup just wrapped up their Girls Weekend tournament action this past weekend in Richmond, VA. The tournament was created by the merger of the Chesterfield United Icebreaker and the Kickers Invitational.

Lionel Messi's 5 star show in Barcelona's 10-2 aggregate win over Bayern Leverkusen last night had most of the media diving for superlatives.

But it seems Messi had Leverkusen beaten even before a ball was kicked in their Champions League second leg tie at the Nou Camp, after it was revealed both Michal Kadlec and Manuel Friedrich fought it out for Messi's shirt at half-time in the first leg in Germany.

Chelsea fans all over the world it's time to come together and support two of our supporters in their challenge to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to mark it as "Chelsea Territory" and most importantly of all, to raise money for FOUR tremendous charities: Help a Capital Child, Right to Play International, Association for Suicide prevention and Save the Children.

If you want to contribute to Tom's campaign, hit him up here. Original image via Facebook.

Using a combination of science, Photoshop and Newcastle Brown ale, we've worked out that Tom Huddlestone's charity 'fro will be this big (above) before he gets anywhere near a pitch to score the goal he needs to shave it.

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By Chris Wright

With charity the theme of the day here on Pies, here's another little yarn to pluck your cockles and warm your heartstrings.

What you are about to see is Manchester United's Nani, Park Ji-Sung, Jonny Evans and Chris Smalling humping 200 footballs into the back of the DHL van (with a little help from the tricksy driver) at Carrington.

By Chris Wright

Here it is folks, Liverpool's new home strip as modelled by Warrior's first 'football brand ambassador', Craig Bellamy...

A little word on that Bellamy dealio; As mentioned previously, the Welshman has signed on to become Warrior's first football 'brand ambassador', though the contract will see all of his sponsorship fee going directly to the Craig Bellamy Foundation in Sierra Leone.

Goal: Man arrested as police investigate claims of racial abuse towards former Liverpool striker Stan Collymore on Twitter

A 21-year-old has been taken into custody by police following claims from the broadcaster and charity supporter that he was racially abused on the social networking website

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Goal: Man arrested as police investigate claims of racial abuse towards former Liverpool striker Stan Collymore on Twitter

A 21-year-old has been taken into custody by police following claims from the broadcaster and charity supporter that he was racially abused on the social networking website

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Goal: Man arrested as police investigate claims of racial abuse towards former Liverpool striker Stan Collymore on Twitter

A 21-year-old has been taken into custody by police following claims from the broadcaster and charity supporter that he was racially abused on the social networking website

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Goal: Man arrested as police investigate claims of racial abuse towards former Liverpool striker Stan Collymore on Twitter

A 21-year-old has been taken into custody by police following claims from the broadcaster and charity supporter that he was racially abused on the social networking website

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Goal: Man arrested as police investigate claims of racial abuse towards former Liverpool striker Stan Collymore on Twitter

A 21-year-old has been taken into custody by police following claims from the broadcaster and charity supporter that he was racially abused on the social networking website

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Mirror: Forget Cantona, here's our Top 5 players who DID go into politics

Former Manchester United star Eric Cantona was set to launch a bid for the French presidency, according to reports this morning. But it now appears Cantona is simply the frontman for a publicity stunt to raise awareness for a French charity.

Bayern Munich arrived in New Delhi, India on Monday to play a friendly against the Indian national team for charity and Franck Ribery appears to be racing to his hotel room with perhaps that slight overwhelmed feeling of the subcontinent's sweltering heat we've only heard about. In my best Anglo-Indian patois "Welcome to India Sahib" (photo via Futbolita via Bongarts.

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Football Aid 2012 – Bid to Play at Loftus Road!

Last November I held the Scottish Football Blog's first - perhaps only - blogathon.
One post an hour for 24 hours with topics chosen on Twitter and by fellow bloggers.
All in aid of two fantastic charities: Alzheimer Scotland and the Homeless World Cup.
24 hours, a few energy drinks, too many cigarettes and 17,000 words later and I was done.

Ok, it's not exactly an ad - but this is a definitely a heartwarming photo of Athletic Bilbao's Fernando Llorente and an adorable girl from a charity visit. Queeee bien! / via Bellazon (Aga)

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While the final score was not what the Comets were looking for, the game was still a success. Over 8,200 tickets sold and a bunch of fans got to see a traditional back and forth Comets-Wings rivalry game. Throw in a fun reunion game, retro jersey's auctioned off for charity and the presentation of the Turnpike Trophy to the Comets, it all added up to a fun evening.

Any one who follows Mario Balotelli's career knows his slogan, "Why Always Me?" Well some English rapper was inspired by this and has now penned a song about him. The Italian striker decide to take advantage of this situation by creating a t-shirt with the help of Umbro. The proceeds of the shirt will go to a charity of Balotelli's choice and the song will be featured in an upcoming campaign.

Nottingham Forest FC have once again shown magnificent support and joined forces with Football Aid, allowing football fans the opportunity to grace the hallowed turf and play on their Field of Dreams at The City Ground in 2012, while at the same time raising funds for charity [...] Read the original post on eighteensixtyfive

Sounder at Heart is co-hosting (along with Golazo) an away viewing party for the second leg of the Sounders-Santos Laguna CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal on March 14 from 4 p.m.-9:30ish. The event will double as our scarf distribution event. We of course appreciate those of you who have bought and will buy scarves, but buying a scarf is not a mandatory part of attending.

Carlos Tevez has once again refused to enter a match after starting on the substitute's bench, this time during Martin Palermo's testimonial in Buenos Aires. Tevez, who has been frozen out at Manchester City since pulling a similar protest during a Champions League match against Bayern Munich in September sparked outrage from both teams taking part in the tribute to Palermo, a friend and former international teammate.

A charity donation website has raised more than £1000 in memory of former chairman and club owner Nigel Doughty since it was started this morning [...]

Please excuse the non-football post. I appreciate that in the modern world we can't move for charity requests. Whether it's those people on the pavement who won't take a fiver but will badger you to commit to a year of donations, or people like me asking for money, charity is everywhere.

So here goes: my sister's running the Loughborough 10k to raise money for Cancer Research UK.

By Chris Wright

"WAKE UP!!!"

A 12-year old girl from Crotone in Italy has been woken from a 15-day coma by the soothing voice of her idol, one Alessandro Del Piero. That's a sentence that doesn't tend to get used very often.

Jade fell ill and reportedly slipped into a coma while watching the goals from Juventus' 2-0 win over Atalanta on January 22nd.

Over the last 19 years of his career, Alessandro Del Piero become a revered footballing legend while sticking with Juventus through good times and bad. He's won a World Cup and committed his time and financial support to cancer research. He also dresses up like Santa Claus and walks the streets of Turin at Christmastime.

The charity appeal set up to raise money in memory of Nigel Doughty has reached the £4,000 mark in under two weeks. The tribute, set up by LTLF Forum member Paul Elmore, has been raising money for ChildLine, one of Mr Doughty's favourite charities. With gift aid included the current total raised is £4,822.

The biennial Sport Relief charity telethon began Friday and Chelsea's Frank Lampard joined his fiance Christine Bleakley and the cast of Outnumbered (plus a guest appearance by Howard Webb) in a comedy sketch to support it.

The premise of the sketch is that Lampard is stuck with Karen from Outnumbered, a mascot for the "big" match against Aston Villa, while Christine has to put up with the men of the family in the stands.

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They are back at it again! Soccer player McCall Zerboni and Emma Bayer, are raising money again for breast cancer research. If you have no idea what this article is about, check out this other article for some background information on how a professional soccer player and fan came together to help make a difference.

Chelsea fans all over the world it's time to come together and support two of our supporters in their challenge to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to mark it as "Chelsea Territory" and most importantly of all, to raise money for FOUR tremendous charities: Help a Capital Child, Right to Play International, Association for Suicide prevention and Save the Children.

By Chris Wright

Immense stuff from Udinese hero Antonio Di Natale, who has vowed to take guardianship and provide both financial and emotional support to the sister of former teammate Piermario Morosini the Zebrette midfielder on loan at Livorno midfielder who died at the tragically young age of 25 after collapsing on the pitch in Serie B this weekend.

Romario sets up a vastly inferior Argentinean in a 2011 charity match

Brazilian legend Romario has never been short on self confidence, and with a illustrious 24-year career that saw him win a World Cup and numerous domestic titles, he has every reason to feel good about himself.

Yet the 46-year-old, now a member of Brazilian congress, has anointed himself into the Holy Triumvirate of the best three players of all time, ranking himself above a certain Lionel Messi.