Don't be a mug and stick with Spurs. Know what I mean ‘Arry? - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

So it's "arrivederci" to Mr Capello and with that once again The FA are in search of fresh man with fresh ideas to manage the England football team. The now infamous "impossible job" is waiting ominously to be filled by a brave managerial soul and the national media appear to be in no doubt as to whom that man should be, yes it's the half human half bloodhound hybrid, Harry Redknapp.

Que triste! It isn't a good week for fans of the US Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) league. The board announced it would be "suspending play" this year due to complex legal issues involving a former club owner. This matters because some of the world's best female players ply their trade there including Abby Wambach, Marta, Alex Morgan and Hope Solo.

Roberto Mancini has criticized the Premier League for scheduling the next round of fixtures in a way that means Liverpool will have two days' extra rest before their away game against Manchester City a week on Tuesday.
Liverpool are at home against Newcastle United on Friday night and City face Sunderland at the Stadium of Light on Sunday afternoon, giving Kenny Dalglish's players close to an extra 48 hours to recover for the match at the Etihad Stadium.

Roberto Mancini angry at Liverpool's 'extra 48 hours' before key game

• Manchester City coach criticises Premier League fixtures • Extra rest time 'can make a difference' Roberto Mancini has criticised the Premier League for scheduling the next round of fixtures in a way that means Liverpool will have two days' extra rest before their away game against Manchester City a week on Tuesday.

Stoke manager Tony Pulis believes Liverpool counterpart Kenny Dalglish was right to raise the Football Association's apparent double standards on disciplinary issues.
The Reds boss was unimpressed with the governing body yesterday successfully reducing Wayne Rooney's three-match ban - for a red card picked up in Euro 2012 qualifying - by one game.

We are back to the betting uncertainty of domestic football, and it is truly back in style with seventeen games from across Europe across Sky, ESPN and the BBC. I personally will be taking advantage by setting up an Everest Base Camp style den on my sofa. The first bet takes into account three form [.

What ho Arsenal fans? After two weeks of wandering in the interlull desert, with only the horse flies that feast upon our vapid flesh for company, a light twinkles on the horizon. Norwich be thy name! I can almost feel that 9am train beer (is there a better kind of beer?) slinking seductively down my gullet and slaking the thirst.

By Eric Beard

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Inter Milan poised to swoop for Arsenal striker Robin Van Persie. Or how about Borussia Dortmund midfielder Kevin Grosskreutz admitting he is interested in a move to Gunners?

These are two of the offerings within the nation's sports pages this morning in a week that will drag out the merest rumour of a yarn to fill the papers in the absense of domestic football and the stories to meet our thirst for knowledge.

The Thai Premier League 2011, which kicked off in February will now end on 7th January. The fixture list has been changed so many times it's hardly been worthy of mention. What would be worthy of a mention would be a fixture list in the region not being changed on a whim and a prayer or, whisper it, at the behest of certain clubs.

Samuel Eto'o has continued to hint that his long-term future lies way from the Russian league, implying that he might end up at Chelsea in the coming years.

Eto'o was rising to prominence at Mallorca when then-Blues boss Claudio Ranieri attempted to bring the striker to Stamford Bridge.

However, the Cameroon international opted to join Barcelona in 2004 and went on to enjoy five great years in Catalunya before moving on to another two successful seasons at Inter.

Premier League Twitter Q&A with correspondent Greg Stobart at 13:00 BST

Domestic football is back with a bang after the international break, and there's been plenty to think about over the last fortnight, and we want your questions on the big issues

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It's official, qualifying for the European Championships in the Ukraine and Poland next summer is over, well almost. 240 games have been played by 51 national teams across 403 days with 648 goals scored. So far the tournament has 12 sides confirmed, Italy topped group C and finally we can get on with a few weeks of uninterrupted domestic football; about bloody time.

By Alan Duffy

Sunderland's combative midfielder Lee Cattermole has apparently cultivated something of a persecution complex judging by his latest comments.

The 23-year-old hardman, who has picked up only 47 bookings and five red cards since 2005/06 in domestic football said: "I feel like they (referees) are out there for me at the minute.

Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny has dismissed suggestions that Tottenham Hotspur have become North London's stronger side after winning two of the last three derby clashes.

The Spurs came from two goals down to win 3-2 at the Emirates last year and fought the Gunners to a 3-3 draw at White Hart Lane later in the season before Sunday's showdown once again ended in their favor.

Officials don't know how the new domestic football league will be run, when it will kick off or even which teams will be in it. But one thing is certain — for the first time in history, Indonesian league matches will be broadcast overseas.
Liga Prima Indonesia, the country's professional league administrator, signed a broadcast deal on Thursday with television content provider Broadway Media of Malaysia, which will air Indonesian football games in Malaysia on the Bintang and Pelangi channels on Astro All Asia Networks's digital satellite network.

Tonight's Europa League group game sees PAOK Salonika take on Spurs for the first time and with no history between these sides, how much do we know about our opponents tonight?

PAOK are usually in the shadow of the larger Greek club,s but they have won their national championship on two occasions, the last triumph coming in 1984/85.

Brazil vs Ghana was a thrilling clash of cultures and philosophies just a shame none of it was on the pitch

If I were to describe the difference between a football match in the UK and a baseball or ice hockey game in the United States, the word I'd use is ‘energy.

The wait is over Congratulations, my friends, for we have made it. It seemed a long journey at the end of May but by taking each small step we have achieved our goal. Domestic football is back. Always difficult to predict games at the beginning of the season (I know, I managed two minutes without [..

The wait is over Congratulations, my friends, for we have made it. It seemed a long journey at the end of May but by taking each small step we have achieved our goal. Domestic football is back. Always difficult to predict games at the beginning of the season (I know, I managed two minutes without [..

Domestic football will again be here before we all know it. Thrust in the middle of the Silly Season, it behooves me to add to the silliness and put out some fun queries to ponder and pontificate upon.
Question: Can Barcelona's empire be toppled?

Answer: Depends.

SOURCE: REPUBLICAKATHMANDU, July 13: Amidst match fixing rumors and controversy surrounding the referee´s decision in the league, Manang Marshyandi Club (MMC) President Tashi Ghale on Wednesday appealed to the football governing body ANFA to take serious action against the guilty.

Toppling the Murdoch Empire: Could a Pub Landlady from Portsmouth help seal BSkyB's fate? is a post from: Just Football

While the News Corporation / News International phone hacking storm continues to rumble with menace, Theo Fan reports on another threat facing Rupert Murdoch, and how the fate of the televised game and BSkyB could rely on a pub landlady from Portsmouth:

Who will have the biggest impact on domestic football in the next 10 years?

Part of the joy of loving the sport of soccer is getting to deal with carcass picking vultures that swoop in when they smell the decay of a negative story that can roost on for a few days.
This time, it's Dan Wolken, national sports columnist for The Daily.
I swear, these idiots probably have a file folder labeled "Insulting Things to Say About Soccer" that they pass down from writer to writer like some kind of ancient book of useless wisdom.

No domestic football you say? Pah An odd summer often means little to chuck away your cider on, but with the transfer window hotting up early and some international tournaments of note, we provide you with some tempters to sink your teeth into. A £100 pot, judge the winnings at tend of August: 10. Guud [.

Thomas Rooney takes a look at England's prospects in the UEFA U21 tournament, which started yesterday.

The domestic football season may well be over, but the serious stuff for England Under-21 manager Stuart Pearce is just getting underway.

The former Manchester City boss leads England's young guns in the European Under-21 Championships this month, starting with a game against tournament favourites Spain today.

The end of the domestic football season can be a tough time for anybody that works in the game. As contracts expire, many players are left with their livelihoods hanging by a thread and, for the adulation afforded to Paul Scholes upon his recent retirement, there will be dozens upon dozens that slide from view, seldom thought of by anyone apart from their nearest and dearest.

The domestic football season has now come to an end across Europe, and also in Mexico. Argentines have been key to the denouements of leagues and cups across western Europe, so here's the rundown of who's won what from ... Continue reading →

The curtain comes down on domestic football for another season.
Yesterday's Scottish Cup will not perhaps be long remembered as a classic. Celtic too often seemed unable to click through the gears, that lent long periods of the game a scrappiness that seemed to offer Motherwell their best hope.

The end of the domestic football season can perhaps be best summarised as a full sensory overload. It's an intoxicating mixture of the stifling warmth of the spring, mixed with stomach-wrenching nervousness and the occasional feeling, or realisation, that something, or rather something else, is happening elsewhere.

In international week Fabio Capello has once again made himself a sitting duck for the British media. A press pack that are renowned for not needing an excuse to lay in to the England boss. But does that mean you should care as the Head Coach? Should any of your decisions be dictated by how the media will react?

Joe Cole faced up to the reality of his uncertain Anfield future, by admitting last night he must take things 'day by day'.
The England midfielder has endured a tough time since his high-profile move to Liverpool last summer and already there are suggestions the writing is on the wall for him at the club, with Tottenham rumoured to be a potential summer destination.

CAIRO, Egypt — Egypt want a 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against South Africa during March postponed until mid-year because of recent political upheaval that led to President Hosni Mubarak being toppled. The record seven-time winners of the premier Pan-African national team competition are scheduled to play the Group G leaders at an unannounced [.

The European Club Association, representing 197 clubs across Europe, is meeting today and tomorrow and ECA is being very vocal in its opposition to some of the thigs that UEFA and FIFA are doing.

Top of the list is the scheduling of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar with the ECA opposed to playing the tournament during the winter.

Never before has Indonesian FA chairman Nurdin Halid been under so much pressure from so many angles. Halid is of course no stranger to controversy. He may well be one of the few FA chiefs to have served time in jail for his role in a corruption scandal. Interestingly the FIFA fat cats, them what's supposed to run the game world wide, overlooked this breach of their own statutes, an oversight they have never adequately explained.

Does anyone know who's leading the Liga? No, not La Liga; the Liga, the Primeira Liga Portugal's first tier of domestic football. Does anyone know? Does anyone care?

Heck, even I've been known to look past the Primeira Liga, and I'm Portuguese. That's the lure of the fast-paced, money-rich, crowd-packed Premier Leagues and Bundesligas and La Ligas of this world, whose fan-friendly cable packages are often too much to resist when the alternative is a game between Paços de Ferreira and Olhanense in an empty back-lot stadium that wouldn't make it in League Two in England.

?DOHA, Jordan — Jordan's Prince Ali bin Al Hussein stunned powerful South Korean Chung Mong-Joon by unseating him as a FIFA vice-president on Thursday while Mohamad bin Hammam won another term as AFC chief. Chung, the controlling shareholder in industrial giant Hyundai Heavy Industries, a major FIFA sponsor, had been in the job since 1994 [.