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Several Union players talk about preseason training at YSC SPorts last week. The team landed in Orlando on Sunday.

Danny Califf, acknowledging that only he and Brian Carroll are the only players remaining on the Union who are older than 27, tells MLSsoccer.

On the eve of one of the more important matches of the season for Real Madrid, manager Jose Mourinho is making headlines again for all the wrong reasons.

According to reports out of Spain, Mourinho is letting it be known that he wants out of Madrid at the end of this season, which would be two years into his four-year contract with the club.

According to the laws of the game, shouldn't Robin Van Persie have been sent off against Manchester United in Arsenal's 2-1 loss on Sunday? I know when it comes to yellow and red cards it's often pretty hard to keep track of all of football's strange rules. But it's widely believed that an automatic yellow card is to be shown to any player who lifts his team shirt to reveal a printed message on a tee-shirt below.

Unfair on Arshavin, Unfair on Arsenal FC (By S.H) The home stadium erupted in loud BOOS in protest over Wenger‘s decision to substitute Oxlade-Chamberlain for Andrey Arshavin. Even Robin van Persie appeared to show his dissent over the manager's decision. The Ox had played a marvellous game, and I too, was disappointed to see him [.

mansub by arsenalist Having just benefited from an assist by the Alex Oxlade Chamberlain, Robin Van Persie joined thousands of Arsenal fans in a show of dissent when Arsene Wenger replaced the young Englishman with Andrey Arshavin. Oxlade Chamberlain had looked lively and had been the only Arsenal attacker who looked like causing the Manchester [.

On this week's show we feature the phrase 'to be booked for dissent'

No de Cologne You would have thought that when you are an international footballer and you get yourself booked, you might just try and keep under the radar for a while. No bad challenges. No dissent. And no strangling. Not Franck Ribery. After a fairly blatant dive in Bayern Munich's game against Cologne last night, [.

No de Cologne You would have thought that when you are an international footballer and you get yourself booked, you might just try and keep under the radar for a while. No bad challenges. No dissent. And no strangling. Not Franck Ribery. After a fairly blatant dive in Bayern Munich's game against Cologne last night, [.

By Sharon Hom
In their first game against a team not named Illinois Piasa, the Magic found themselves in another shootout, this time against the Detroit Waza and former Kansas City Comets MF Miki Djerisilo, a familiar face to long-time Kansas City indoor soccer fans.

By Sharon Hom
In their first game against a team not named Illinois Piasa, the Magic found themselves in another shootout, this time against the Detroit Waza and former Kansas City Comets MF Miki Djerisilo, a familiar face to long-time Kansas City indoor soccer fans.
442 fans at Epic Indoor Sports watched as the 2 teams contually fouled each other.

Depressingly, few of us who work at the University of California were surprised by the fact thatdemonstrating students would be treated with such violence. A squad ofcolleagues affirmed that it was business as usual when they stood passive whileOfficer Pike calmly went about his task. UC Davis's Chancellor and its PoliceChief both reacted as if this were an unpleasant routine, until it became anews item.

Despite the ubiquity of mobile phone cameras, there doesn't seem to be an equal growth in the number of mediums who know when to flick on the record button as something big is going to happen in the next five seconds.

No medium was apparently on hand for a Scottish Cup match which has landed one angry soul a fourteen game suspension.

Kemsley and Pinton Broker Their DealI hate Hollywood endings. Like many sports fans, I structure my life with the seasons of my teams, the failure of another trophy-less year the painful reminder of all I hoped to accomplish within the same time span but haven't yet wrapped up. The playoff loss to LA was all the more painful as it seemed to play out to someone else's script.

'Slave' Kuszczak has made his last United blunder by crossing Fergie

You would think that after all the reminiscing about Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years, Tomasz Kuszczak would have realised the golden rule at Old Trafford. No-one crosses Fergie. Paul Ince, Jaap Stam, David Beckham, Gabriel Heinze, Ruud van Nistelrooy even Roy Keane in the end made that mistake.

It's the second Scandal to hit Iranian football inside a week, a referee officiating a third tier match hand's out a second yellow card to Chooka Talesh striker for dissent only to see the card ripped out of his hand before getting a savage beating from player's coaches an fans alike. Disgraceful stuff!

Former Liverpool defender Gary Gillespie has added his voice to the growing chorus of dissent over Liverpool's stuttering performance against Swansea at the weekend, and believes that the lack of fluency in midfield played a big part in the team's inability to take charge of the game.
Gillespie, who was analysing the game for LFC TV, described the result as a 'massive disappointment', but was quick to praise the performances put in my Swansea's players:
"Lucas Leiva found it very difficult today, as did Charlie Adam, because they got outnumbered in the middle of the park.

By Chris Wright

In which, during an Iranian lower league tie between Chooka Talesh and Shahrdari Dezfool, the referee in charge administers a second yellow card to Chooka's striker for dissent (we think) only to have the card torn from his hand, thrown back in his face and have all holy hell let loose.

Former Liverpool striker Stan Collymore has attacked a small section of the club's fans fans for showing 'open dissent' towards manager Kenny Dalglish after the Swansea game at the weekend.
Fans were reportedly booing at Anfield on Saturday after Liverpool were played off the park, and during Collymore's radio show on that night, there were a few very irate fans (Liverpudlians, it should be added), who were vehemently castigating Dalglish for his perceived failings.

Suarez Hits Back

Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has hit back at Patrice Evra's claims that he racially abused the French defender during Saturday 1-1 draw at Anfield. The FA has confirmed that they will investigate the allegations further, Evra was quoted as saying that Suarez had insulted him in a attempt to wind him up.

Manchester United captain Patrice Evra has accused Liverpool striker Luis Suarez of racially abusing him during the 1-1 Premier League draw at Anfield on Saturday.

The France international told French television after the game that Suarez used the same insult "more than 10 times" throughout the match.

Luis Suárez 'categorically denies' using racial abuse, Liverpool insist

• Anfield spokesman says player was questioned by club • Patrice Evra has complained in past of racist taunts Luis Suárez has been accused of racially abusing Patrice Evra in the north-west derby between Liverpool and Manchester United at Anfield.

Former England international Terry Butcher believes Wayne Rooney should expect to face a lengthy ban after being sent off in England's 2-2 draw with Montenegro.

While England secured their place in Euro 2012 with the draw, the game was marred by Rooney's petulant kick at Miodrag Dzudovic which earned him an automatic one match ban that rules him out of the start of England's tournament next year, while UEFA may decide to extend the ban at a hearing on Thursday to anything up to three games.

He's come a long way since he joined the ranks of Newcastle United as a £10.3M Centre Back under the control of Kevin Keegan. It's probably debateable whether Keegan even wanted him in, but I don't remember there being too much dissent when he transferred. We all knew of him through his days playing for [.

Saved by the cameras Blackburn Rovers v Manchester City by fantasmac In the wake of the Carlos Tevez saga and Edin Dzeko's display of dissent, BBC commentator Jonathan Pearce highlights just how far Manchester City's other strikers are prepared to go in order to avoid causing further discomfort to manager Roberto Mancini.

Serie A blog: Dubious tactics, dressing room dissent... is Ranieri really the man to revive Inter?

For the new season, MirrorFootball is teaming up with some of the blogosphere's best new writers to bring you even more great football reads every single day. Today it's our new Serie A blogger, footballitaliano.

The Alliance Council met prior to the match against the Columbus Crew. An update is now posted over at the SoundersFC.com Alliance Council Blog (which will be getting frontpage attention soon). The main issues resolved around voting changes, work on the Constitution/ByLaws/Charter (which will be public for voting in Sept) and the End of Year Meeting.

Opening day in the Premier League...so, is it good to be back?

The Premier League kicked off with a promise of a new campaign to crack down on dissent and encourage respect to referees. What is the verdict?

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With seventeen minutes left in the France/USA semi-final, Eurosport analyst Emma Hayes was asked if the game, already a classic, was going to extra-time. "We're going to extra-time," she declared, "unless someone puts a good ball in and Abby (Wambach, USA's combative centre-forward) gets on the end of it.

It's tough to sift through 122-plus minutes of a match filled with so much action, excitement and intrigue and distill it down to a few details. But here are the five major events from today's match that shaped the outcome of the game.

-Brazil's Early Miscue

The United States jumped out to an early lead thanks to a flub by Brazil just 74 seconds into the game.

A jubilant Wambach celebrates her goal as the US live to finally win

Even the most cursory of followers would not have failed to be gripped by the epic unfolding yesterday. As the end of extra time approached the USA was in mortal danger of failing to advance past the quarterfinals for the first time leaving Brazil with their first taste of victory in the World Cup over their rivals.

Taunting, swearing, tripping, punching, tackling, shirt-tugging, shirt removal, dissent...d**k ring?! It appears a new item has entered the lexicon of bookable offences after an Australian player in Melbourne was sent off for a rather intimate piercing.

Aaron Eccleston, captain of Old Hill Wanderers, was struck in the groin during a match against Swinburne University reserves causing him to fall to the ground in agony.

1. Bob Bradley will field the exact same lineup that he sent out against Canada. What's more, two of his three subs will be the same Edu and Wondolowski. The one change is that Eric Lichaj will get a run at left back in the second half.

Correct on the lineup, incorrect on the subs.

1. Bob Bradley will field the exact same lineup that he sent out against Canada. What's more, two of his three subs will be the same Edu and Wondolowski. The one change is that Eric Lichaj will get a run at left back in the second half.

The headline I went with when Martin O'Neill walked out on Aston Villa was something along the lines of "They think he's taken us as far as he can... he has now". It was a reference to the persistent theme among the growing dissent that our club was stagnating under his stewardship and also the fact that the record would forever confirm that that would indeed be as far as he could take the club.

By JOSE M. ROMERO

The Portland Timbers are undefeated at home in MLS play no more.

DC United got goals from Perry Kitchen, Chris Pontius and Josh Wolff, overcoming two linesman calls that awarded an additional two penalty kick opportunities and resulted in a Timbers goal to walk out of Jeld-Wen Field with a hard-earned 3-2 victory.

Written by TotalArsenal

Your dreams are china in your hand.......................

‘Don't push too far your dreams are china in your hand'. The lyrics of this well-known, and somewhat tacky song by T'pau in 1987, came to my mind when I read recent comments regarding Arsène Wenger's position on a variety of Arsenal websites.

I'm moving at match speed today; I have to get on the road to Houston to catch the spiraling Rapids and the soaring Dynamo on the University of Houston campus. It's mostly a chance to see Will Bruin perform the Dancing Bear in person. It's all the rage – or maybe you've heard.

En route, I'm sure I'll stop here.

By JOSE M. ROMERO

Tony Tchani's first goal for his new team also got him sent off with a second yellow. His dismissal helped the Columbus Crew take a point on the road in Saturday's 1-1 draw with Tchani's side, Toronto FC.

The second-year midfielder guided in a long ball from teammate Julian de Guzman in the 41st minute.

Rio Ferdinand has compared the attitude of Manchester City players to that of Manchester United's ahead of the semi-final clash this weekend.

During City's 3-0 thrashing at Anfield this week, James Milner, who has done little to justify the £26 million which was paid for him, was visibly annoyed at being subbed off.

I've waited until now to discuss the takeover story to give myself a little time to digest the news, and analyse what it realistically means for Arsenal Football Club. It is very easy to jump to snap judgements on whether it is a positive or negative thing, and as usual there are many shades of grey.