SPANISH FOOTBALL action tonight with the conclusion of Round 22 of LA LIGA with the Monday Night match between GRANADA & MALAGA FC. Granada - Malaga GRANADA managed to lift a couple of gears in the second half to take this game 2 - 1 against a very inconsistent MALAGA FC. The Malaga defender Demichelis - again - received a red card to leave his side at a disadvantage in the 83rd min mark.

This certainly isn't going to go down that well with the FA.

England manager Fabio Capello laid out his thoughts on John Terry and the FA's decision to strip him of the England captaincy to Italian broadcaster Rai 1 today. To say he's not pleased with what has transpired would be a gross understatement.

As you all know by now, John Terry has this morning been stripped of the England Captaincy once again. The "Official statement" from the FA reads as follows:

"Following the decision to adjourn the court case against John Terry to July, The Football Association confirm he will not captain the England team until the allegations against him are resolved.

By Chris Wright

"Say what now?"

The FA have just released the following statement:

"Following the decision to adjourn the court case against John Terry to July, the Football Association confirm he will not captain the England team until the allegations against him are resolved.

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.

Image: REUTERS/Eddie Keogh.

John Terry will go on trial for his alleged racist comments against Anton Ferdinand on 9th July, just nine days after the conclusion of EURO 2012. Terry, who will captain England in the tourney, pleaded not guilty to a 'racially-aggravated public order offence' via a solicitor at a court hearing this morning.

Editor's note: For your offseason pleasure, PSP is happy to present an multi-part fiction series entitled The Pine Barrens League. In the conclusion of the story, it is the second half of the final. Schnauzer and company have 45 minutes to score a goal to win the money.

We were exhausted when we got off the field at half time.

Chelsea defender Gary Cahill is already feeling at home with his new teammates, describing the squad as an 'entertaining' group following the club's short training camp in Mallorca.

The Blues returned home earlier today and after spending most of the time in Mallorca training together in the warm weather, Cahill feels that the bonding within the squad got stronger by the day.

By Chris Wright

Just a quickie to keep you abreast of the fact that Peter Crouch has reportedly escaped a three-game game ban and, indeed, will be allowed to get away scot free for his sneak-attack 'finger of doom' eye-poke assault on West Brom centre-back Jonas Olsson's corneas at the Britannia at the weekend a crime that would almost certainly land you with a six-match ban at the very least in a game as uncivilised as rugby.

Photo: Daniel Gajdamowicz

Pauno is gone. That much we know. Le Toux's status? Training with Bolton with the potential of a deal. Basically, completely up in the air. That makes this as good as any to look at the four strikers who will be battling to win playing time throughout 2012.

Last August Melbourne Victory Chairman Anthony Di Pietro stated that the Club would be releasing Ricardinho at the conclusion of his loan deal from Parana Clube on December 31, 2011. At the time Victory were clearing the way for Harry Kewell and needed to free up the International Marquee spot which Ricardinho occupied.

Fed-up of a night of Sergio Aguero running in behind the Wigan defence, Latics left-back Maynor Figueroa came up with a new way of defending Manchester City's counter attacks. After misjudging the flight of the ball, Figueroa opted for a leaping handball to deny Aguero a clear run on goal. Referee Chris Foy opted to [.

Almost a year ago, in the Evening Standard of 20 January 2011, Arsene Wenger was quoted at saying:

We have a shared leadership in our team, but I believe Fabregas is an outstanding leader, especially when you consider he is 23 years old, with personality and character and Van Persie as well.

Shortly after his contract with the Revolution was not renewed, Steve Nicol entertained an offer to fill the vacant heading coaching job in Colorado according to a Goal.com report in November. But, according to Nicol, it wasn't he who to reneged on the opportunity.

In a Jan. 10 report from the Boston Globe, the former Revolution manager stated that he never said "no" the Colorado job, but rather, it was the club who declined his services.

A lot of column centimetres have been devoted to Huddersfield Town striker Jordan Rhodes in recent weeks and to have kept his head while others around him have been placing it upon the financial guillotine has been admirable – yes, that's you David Gold. Three excellent articles in The Seventy Two have explored the appeal of the man while our own blogger Ben profiled him in these pages as 2012 drew to its conclusion.

Liverpool vs Man Utd and Watford vs Tottenham in FA Cup Fourth Round Draw 2012 is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

Liverpool vs Man Utd and Watford vs Tottenham in FA Cup Fourth Round Draw 2012 is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter The FA Cup Fourth Round 2012 was conducted after the conclusion of the 3rd round of fixtures on 8th January, 2012.

Sounder at Heart reacted immediately yesterday to the MLS schedule announcement, posting an analysis of strength of schedule. They did a great job collecting the data, and concluded that "Seattle's getting it about as good as you can get it in the West, but of course the league bends over backwards for the Galaxy once again.

People can be so crafty with words and accounts and descriptions, no doubt. But if you listen veeeeery carefully, you can hear what is really being said.Case in point: the curious case of Omar Gonzalez. I'll run through this in order up to the inescapable final conclusion, so you can see how all those puzzle book logic problems as a kid have served me well as an adult listener.

A new year may have begun, but familiar problems are already starting to make themselves clear with conflicting stories concerning the well-being of Blue Square Premier club Darlington. A club that has already had two spells in administration in the last decade could well be headed for further trauma following reports in the local press during the break between Christmas and the new year, but upon what were these initial reports based, and can a consortium group which has since announced itself get the assent of the club's current owner to take over a football club that has been shipping money left, right and centre for longer than most people care to remember?

Let's face it - we all love SZCZ. Since Jens was dropped in 2007 (in my opinion ill-advisedly) we've had to put up with some of the less convincing goalkeepers in Arsenal's history, namely Almunia, Fabianski and Mannone.

Luis Suárez: what they said

• Suarez: 'I said nothing racist to him ... I said nothing of the sort' • Kenny Dalglish: 'Nine weeks to reach a decision is a joke' 16 October "Luis is adamant he has not used language of that nature and the club is totally supportive of the player" Liverpool statement 17 October "It's not something that we want to level at Liverpool, and it's not against Liverpool.

As has been the case here on the Liverpool Offside from the day this debacle kicked off over two months ago, we firmly believe that racism has no place in sport any more than it does in the wider world, and should Suarez be proven to have racially abused Patrice Evra on October the 15th we would be forced to regretfully accept the resulting punishment as justified.

Spurs done a win; the other team didnae. That would by my conclusion of Sunday's meeting with the floundering Wearsiders. And if that's not enough woodbine for your mind-pipe then I don't know if we can go on meeting like this.

But, it's the festive season, I suppose, and I'm a generous sort.

Cliftonville chairman Gerard Lawlor has revealed that Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish has contacted the Irish club about the availability of star striker Rory Donnelly.
The Red's rivals Everton have already held talks with the club but it seems Liverpool are hoping to beat their Merseyside neighbours to the prolific 19-year-old.

BREAKING NEWS: FA delays decision on Luis Suarez-Patrice Evra race row from Liverpool's draw with Manchester United until Tuesday at the earliest

The Uruguay international was expected to learn his fate on Friday but the governing body has confirmed no conclusion will be reached until after this weekend's fixtures

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FA delays decision over Liverpool striker Luis Suarez's alleged racial abuse of Manchester United's Patrice Evra until Tuesday at the earliest

The Uruguay international was expected to learn his fate on Friday but the governing body has confirmed no conclusion will be reached until after this weekend's fixtures

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FA delays decision over Liverpool striker Luis Suarez's alleged racial abuse of Manchester United's Patrice Evra until Tuesday at the earliest

The Uruguay international was expected to learn his fate on Friday but the governing body has confirmed no conclusion will be reached until after this weekend's fixtures

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BREAKING NEWS: FA delays decision on Luis Suarez-Patrice Evra race row from Liverpool's draw with Manchester United until Tuesday at the earliest

The Uruguay international was expected to learn his fate on Friday but the governing body has confirmed no conclusion will be reached until after this weekend's fixtures

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BREAKING NEWS: FA delays decision on Luis Suarez-Patrice Evra race row from Liverpool's draw with Manchester United until Tuesday at the earliest

The Uruguay international was expected to learn his fate on Friday but the governing body has confirmed no conclusion will be reached until after this weekend's fixtures

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FA delays decision over Liverpool striker Luis Suarez's alleged racial abuse of Manchester United's Patrice Evra until Tuesday at the earliest

The Uruguay international was expected to learn his fate on Friday but the governing body has confirmed no conclusion will be reached until after this weekend's fixtures

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BREAKING NEWS: FA delays decision on Luis Suarez-Patrice Evra race row from Liverpool's draw with Manchester United until Tuesday at the earliest

The Uruguay international was expected to learn his fate on Friday but the governing body has confirmed no conclusion will be reached until after this weekend's fixtures

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FA delays decision over Liverpool striker Luis Suarez's alleged racial abuse of Manchester United's Patrice Evra until Tuesday at the earliest

The Uruguay international was expected to learn his fate on Friday but the governing body has confirmed no conclusion will be reached until after this weekend's fixtures

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FA delays decision over Liverpool striker Luis Suarez's alleged racial abuse of Manchester United's Patrice Evra until Tuesday at the earliest

The Uruguay international was expected to learn his fate on Friday but the governing body has confirmed no conclusion will be reached until after this weekend's fixtures

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A news article on 2011-12-16 18:38:00 from: Goal

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BREAKING NEWS: FA delays decision on Luis Suarez-Patrice Evra race row from Liverpool's draw with Manchester United until Tuesday at the earliest

The Uruguay international was expected to learn his fate on Friday but the governing body has confirmed no conclusion will be reached until after this weekend's fixtures

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FA delays decision over Liverpool striker Luis Suarez's alleged racial abuse of Manchester United's Patrice Evra until Tuesday at the earliest

The Uruguay international was expected to learn his fate on Friday but the governing body has confirmed no conclusion will be reached until after this weekend's fixtures

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After 45 minutes it seemed that an unlikely conclusion was in prospect for our latest venture into the Europa League. With Spurs leading and 10 man Rubin Kazan losing to Paok, it looked as though we may turn over the three point and five goal deficit.

A 1-1 score line in Salonika eventually made anything we did irrelevant but our 4-0 win included debut strikes for Steven Pienaar and Harry Kane and a second goal in a Spurs shirt for Andros Townsend.

- Jason Davis
There's a piece of accepted truth in the blogging world, one of those bits of conventional wisdom impossible to verify, that the average blog's lifespan is three years. I'm not sure if this is meant to apply to all blogs, sports blogs, or specifically to soccer blogs, but it's a "fact" I've heard repeated more than a few times during the span of Match Fit USA's existence, and by extension, the time I have been penning my overwrought missives on the state of American soccer.

If only Bob Bradley knew...

Onward...

With Estudiantes Tecos about to wrap up there season and facing a budget-balancing puzzle, the US's prodigal poacher south of the border is headed north out of town.

TSG has confirmed that the 2010 World Cup vet will join Club Santos Laguna (where former US coach Bob Bradley was said to be in talks about their head role before taking the Egypt job) after the conclusion of Mexican Apertura playoff final series Sunday.

Last Tuesday night I sat through a freezing cold 4:0 defeat at Burnley and it was gutting.
I spent the whole drive home in deep thought, trying to make sense of what is going wrong with my beloved Ipswich. I came to the conclusion that the most significant contributing factor to the 6 straight defeats was a lack of confidence.

Assou-Ekotto. Coolest Mo-Fo In Football Right Spurs fans. This has gone on long enough. Benny has been with us for over 5 years now. Sure, he had a bit of a mixed start, but now he's one of, it not the best left back in the league. The partnership he's formed with Bale on the left wing, arguably also gives us one of, if not the best left wing in the league.