With increasing confusion in the Premier League over which tackles should or should not be punished, an attempt to teach players what is acceptable is being made in home video form. "How to tackle" DVDs will be sent to clubs next week because if there's one thing professional footballers will pay attention to, it's instructional videos.

Despite already making a move in the January market by grabbing Thierry Henry on loan until February, Arsenal's manager, Arsene Wenger, still doesn't really show much enthusiasm about this winter transfer window.

In his thought, this month isn't really the perfect time to acquire players especially since the ones available are usually those who are looking for a way out from their club and didn't really have much playing time.

Way back in September, Feedburner stopped working with RSS feeds over secure connections. This meant that the vast majority of Fake Sigi followers stopped receiving updates. It turns out the only way to get Feedburner to serve a secure RSS feed is to actually cancel that feed. That is what I have done, and that is why several of you are now seeing a bunch of articles fill up your aggregator.

British game can be a culture shock for the likes of Liverpool striker Luis Suarez, says Wigan boss Roberto Martinez

Manager outlines how differences between nations can cause confusion and claims it is difficult to draw the line between right and wrong and FA need to find right balance

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British game can be a culture shock for the likes of Liverpool striker Luis Suarez, says Wigan boss Roberto Martinez

Manager outlines how differences between nations can cause confusion and claims it is difficult to draw the line between right and wrong and FA need to find right balance

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What's worse than having the similar name to an unpopular referee? Being famous and having a similar name.

Chris Hoy is an Olympic gold medal (three time) cyclist. Christ Foy is a Premiership referee who had an unfortunate weekend, which then led to lots of unfortunate moments on Chris Hoy's Twitter feed.

Less than 24 hours is left for the start of the first edition of this season's "El Clasico" encounter in the La Liga. Usually this would have been the first meeting between the two giants of not only Spanish football, but World Football. But this year they have already met twice in the two legged Super Copa clash and Barca had emerged deserving winners at the time.

Regardless of the mind-bending confusion this image causes us, all the legs we can see are remarkably muscular and hot. Criteria fulfilled, then. Image: Robert Cianflone/Getty Images AsiaPac.

Carlos Tevez has once again missed training with Manchester City; hardly the words to conjure up sympathy within the ranks of football supporters. ‘How could anyone be depressed on a million a month?' '£198,000 a week. Depressing times indeed' said disgruntled readers on the Daily Mirror's website.

There seems to be a little bit of confusion here as to where the injury was sustained. Still, Scott is bravely braced and we get a sneaky glimpse at his path the glory. So whothehellcares? Image: Bryn Lennon/Getty Images Europe.

Early this past Saturday I woke with a bewildered start to answer the phone. Confusion swiftly became anger; who was calling me at this inhuman hour? Anger turned to realization. It was my alarm. I lay there for a few ...
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You can't make stuff like this up. England's Brave John Terry was today, amid training and fighting this bizarre racist abuse claim, to serve as grand opener at Reptile Kingdom near Cobham. Wait, what?

Terry, of course, did not show up, much to the dismay of many, including the young one below.

By Chris Wright

Suddenly Cameron Jerome's nonsensical red card against Maccabi Tel Aviv last night makes sense...

We put it to you that Anastassios Kakos is in fact the evil twin brother of our beloved Howard Webb (everybody knows the evil twin always grows a convenient 'Ming the Merciless' goatee so as to avoid confusion) and has vowed to wreak his terrible vengeance on the world one naff striker at a time after being kicked out of the Magic Circle for several 'rabbit-related misdemeanours'.

Andre Villas Boas confirmed in his press conference yesterday that there are deals offered and on the table for four of our first team players who's contracts are due to expire at the end of this season.
Jose Bosingwa, Nicolas Anelka, Didier Drogba and Salomon Kalou have all had offers made to them by the club to extend their time here but I am just wondering who would sign an extended deal.

Like a horse and carriage Bambang Pamungkas and Persija are a partnership many thought was timeless. With the exception of two years in Malaysia with Selangor and a few months in Netherlands with EHC Norad Bambang has spent the last 12 years with Persija. An unheard of period of time in Indonesian football.

In a remarkable speech, Carlos Tevez's agent Kia Joorabchian insisted that Carlos Tevez did not refuse to go on as a substitute for Manchester City against Bayern Munich and that he is simply a victim of mistranslation.

Joorabchian told the Leaders in Football conference in London on Wednesday that Tevez was not the sort of player who would refuse to take to the pitch.

In a remarkable speech, Carlos Tevez's agent Kia Joorabchian insisted that Carlos Tevez did not refuse to go on as a substitute for Manchester City against Bayern Munich and that he is simply a victim of mistranslation.

Joorabchian told the Leaders in Football conference in London on Wednesday that Tevez was not the sort of player who would refuse to take to the pitch.

Something on your mind, Carlos? Original images: REUTERS/Stringer.

Well, didn't this just get interesting?

For those of you who weren't attempting to break the world record for nacho consumption during a football match, some 'confusion' took place on the bench during Manchester City's 2-0 defeat to Bayern Munich last night.

The latest word I have from Egypt's spokesman is that: 1) everything is now settled with Bob Bradley, who signed his contract today & 2) the new coach will be officially presented tomorrow at 3 pm Cairo time (9 am ET for you all). Bear in mind as we continue here that I've yet to confirm these items with Bradley's agent.

The Capital doesn't have an A-League team, the FFA don't want the Capital, it can't be maintained with the Brumbies and Raiders and now GWS in the city.
You've heard it all before.
But when you step back from the emotion it's Canberra's intelligence that can and needs to get it over the line.

Does Gerrard still merit automatic Merseyside selection?

This piece by resident Liverpool expert and Timbers fan John Nyen

The year is 1989 and a nine year old Steven George Gerrard is playing for Whiston Juniors in his hometown of Whiston, Merseyside. His abilities place him in the Liverpool youth academy.

Arsenal's defence at full stretch

Three points in the bag. Move up to 11th in the league (still early days to consider any significance of the table). No injuries suffered during the game. No red card accrued during the 90 minutes. Andrey Arshavin opened his accounts for the season and another clean sheet kept by Wojciech Szczesny (not that it was his effort alone, those in front of him helped of course).

Emotions ranged last night, from despair to hope to joy to...confusion. Let's sort through our feelings together.

Garry Cook, Manchester City's CEO, and the gift that keeps on giving as far as United fans are concerned.

City have today confirmed that they are investigating a matter involving an e-mail Cook sent to Nedum Onuoha's cancer-suffering mother, mocking her illness.

This isn't the first time Cook has shown the blues up though.

Arsenal + Tottenham = 5 matches, 0 wins, 1 draw, 4 losses, 3 GF, 18 GA, -15 GD. I'm half-expecting the rioting to return to North London.
Speaking of chaos, we're getting close to the chaos part of the year in the Weekly Rankings. There were a few changes this week due to moves in domestic schedules.

Graham Poll: Time to clear up the confusion over goal-scoring opportunities

What is a goal-scoring opportunity? When should a player be sent off for denying one? And how can referees get their assistants to signal when a goalkeeper moves off his line before a penalty kick is taken?

After all the fuss and bother of the past few days, the now ex Newcastle United midfielder, Joey Barton, has finally mulled things over, and signed a deal for West London club, Queen's Park Rangers. There seems to be some confusion as to whether Barton has signed for three or four years at his new [.

To avoid confusion, let us make this clear: we stand by Villareal's kits and their decision to live life to the fullest by grabbing 'ballers by their abs. Image via Josep Lago for AFP/Getty Images.

Faryd Mondragon once again tweeted about the Juan Pablo Angel situation, telling fans to get some sleep and wait for news about the striker later this week.

Mondragon had caused some confusion earlier in the day by tweeting about his "brother" possibly coming to play with the Philadelphia Union.

After last year's comfortable win in the Premier Division of the Northern Premier League (and, for those of you that are wondering, we are dropping the sponsors' names from this and the Southern League to avoid confusion, since they are both being sponsored by the same adhesives brand this year) for FC Halifax Town, this year's competition seems set to heavily feature another reformed former Football League club, this time in the form of Chester FC.

There is been universal confusion as to whether Arsenal ever bid for Juan Mata because it appears a deadline which would activate his £22m buyout clause has come and gone. Spurs seem to have gotten in first but their offer was rejected by the player who wants to play Champions League football.

What Spurs did was to poison the well with Valencia now demanding a sky high price for Mata prompting lots of chest beating by Gunner fans already angst ridden by the slow pace of transfers and the underwhelming pre-season performances.

Despite reports suggesting otherwise, Gerardo Bruna's move from Liverpool to Blackpool will be on a permanent basis, we understand.
And the deal is very close to completion, as the Blackpool Gazette also reported yesterday.
Sky Sports and the PFA's website have both published articles in the past few days stating that the Argentine`s transfer to Bloomfield Road would only be on loan.

July finds the state of the States to be disarray, confusion, and pessimism. The crushing senior squad loss to a revitalized Mexico in the Gold Cup final and the struggles of the youth national teams have led to a call for heads and an overhaul of the system. But is that overhaul already taking place courtesy of the Development Academy program?

July finds the state of the States to be disarray, confusion, and pessimism. The crushing senior squad loss to a revitalized Mexico in the Gold Cup final and the struggles of the youth national teams have led to a call for heads and an overhaul of the system. But is that overhaul already taking place courtesy of the Development Academy program?

In order to watch a soccer game and have any idea of what you are watching, it's important to have a basic grasp on the rules. Here are a short list to clarify any misconceptions.

Number of players
A team can bring 10 outfield players and one goalkeeper onto the pitch. Substitutions allowed in a match vary with the game played.

If we cast a yardstick over the comings and goings at Newcastle United during this transfer window, have we done enough already to achieve Alan Pardew's aim of 'getting a reputation and moving forward'? Confusion abounds amongst Toon fans as to exactly what's in store for us during the remainder of this transfer window.

Football, originally known as Association football and commonly called soccer, has no real origin. There are records of the Chinese around second century B.C. playing a game called Tsu' Chu that involved kicking a leather ball through a small hole in a silk cloth strung between two large poles. This was believed to help train the military.

First of all, I was one of those hundreds of people who had to line up and wait to hand in tickets to exchange for new tickets because my printed tickets were destroyed on that stormy night in May. Perhaps I was foolish to think that if I arrived with my original tickets that all would be ok. I missed 40 minutes of the first half because I had to stand in line and prove to TFC/BMO gate staff that I was legit.

The transfer market is a strange and sometimes scary place, with confusion abound by exactly how much money we apparently have, others have the knowledge only provided by Football Manager and FIFA and you'd be surprised how correct that actually is. The long and short is, we have never had £35m to spend never.

I've noticed there's been a bit of a confusion/controversy over EA not including all MLS teams in the newest edition of the game. Here to answer to all that is Mr. Horse's Mouth (not his real name).Side programming note: I will likely drop a combo catch-up/goodies post tonight, but it will be late my time.