Yup he has suffered another stress fracture... to the same BLEEPING ankle!!

This news has only just broken in the last few minutes, and I'm sure there will be plenty more to follow throughout the day.

Don't blame me.... just the messenger.

I can see where this is going to go now, if we suffer a poor result tonight at the Reebok it's going to be Wenger's fault for not buying a player to cover for Jack.

Feliz Sabado! If you haven't heard of 'Cuando Messi', you've gotta get with the program right away. Yesterday (for the most part), most of the football fraternity was up in arms over something Pele said :

"When Messi has scored 1,283 goals and won three World Cups, then we will talk.

First I suppose I should welcome Sean O'Driscoll to Forest I'm quite pleased with his arrival. He might encourage a few of the team to, y'know, try passing it along the floor to their teammates occasionally. Certainly he's used to trying to make silk purses out of sow's ears and with not a particularly high level of investment.

Fishtown Hipsters, kicking in the balls. I have to give it to the Russians, they know how to make surprise moves, even Bobby Fischer wouldn't have seen this one coming. We all were anticipating a team of skilled bullies in order to break us physically, to get at least one of us hurt. Instead they went the other way.

Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker showed off his rabbit in the headlights look during Saturday night's programme when his autocue packed in part-way through a link. Lineker immediately flags up the problem to viewers before commenting that it is "not really something you want to happen in the middle of a programme".

By Chris Wright

Not one that I'd be willing to share with Morison in person. He may look a bit like Percival Proudfoot Plugsley thanks to his 'ears on stalks' arrangement, but he also looks like the kind of guy that gets very 'headbutty' very quickly.

Got a Shit Lookalike for Pies?

Thank God it's blow off work in the afternoon day...Let's start with Earnie Stewart, who talks Jozy with ESPN's Leander Schaerlaeckens.Everton keeper Tim Howard talks about his goal and the loss against Bolton.What's that you say, Timmy? Had it happen to you before? Oh dear, you should not have said that to my ears.

Sir Alex Ferguson at 70: Aberdeen achievements should be remembered

The plaudits will once again be ringing in Sir Alex Ferguson's ears this weekend as the Manchester United manager turns 70. His achievements with Aberdeen should still be remembered.

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A news article on 2011-12-30 19:32:53 from: The Mail

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Suarez: Charged As Being Racist On One Man's Word

Suarez at Alder Hey with Martin Kelly... If i called you a murderer and you said you weren't one but then you were sent to jail, you'd be pretty miffed I'd imagine? You'd want to see some evidence, some reasoning, something other than one persons word against another and the fact that you admitted to having a spade in your shed.

Oh yeah, snow, that's just what we need. It might only be a light dusting but that's all it takes for everything to grind to a standstill. The only person who will be pleased is the Mugsmasher who went out and bought snow tyres for his car. Or his mountain bike. One or the other. He'll be gleeful this morning, let me tell you.

By Chris Wright

In which, during Napoli's 3-3 draw with Juventus last night, the home side win themselves a penalty which Marek Hamsik duly converts.

The shit-hawked (like a mohawk, but several shades shitter) Slovakian midfielder then celebrated by disappearing down a flight of stairs and into the bowels of the San Paolo for a spur-of-the-moment stadium tour, resurfacing several moments later with his hands cupped behind his ears only to have the smirk wiped off his face by the news that he would have to take the spot-kick again due to encroachment.

The world of professional football isn't as carefree as it seems. Look past the fame, fortune and adoration and you'll discover that all is not rosy in the garden of the beautiful game. Game Intelligence opens our ears those whose ... Continue reading →

It's often said that a player returning from a long-term injury is like having a new signing and that is certainly true for Liverpool after Steven Gerrard's first start in more than six months last weekend. He couldn't have asked for a much better comeback, playing 90 minutes against Manchester United and scoring a goal too.

::: FistedAway welcomes a guest post from Elliott,
editor of the rather lovely Futfanatico :::

If the summer was bad for the Gunners, the start to the season was even worse. No Nasri. No Fabregas. Fine. But the loss to injury of Jack Wilshere was devastating, and Arsenal touched bottom in a humiliating loss to rivals Manchester United.

By Chris Wright

Pies Says: 'The Hills Have Ears'

You say?

Friends, readers, countryman lend me your ears ............Figured I'd start with a grandiose opening for what is going to be a different sort of post ahead of a U.S. National Team game, which just so happens to be tonight against Honduras in Miami (6 p.m., FOX Soccer) in front of a friends-and-family crowd.

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Looking for accommodation? There's a vacancy between those ears

Robbie Savage, genius and clairvoyant extraordinaire, gets Arsenal new signing, Per Mertesacker, all confused with national team mate Christoph Metzelder. This happened a week ago in his BBC show 606 and many have pointed out the howler but it still holds good because Savage cannot be savaged enough.

Lots of Liverpool fans have been asking why the players are often photographed flicking each other's ears in training, so we got one of Kenny Dalglish's first-team stars to reveal all.
Martin Kelly kindly explained what is going on in the picture above during an interview with Liverpoolfc.tv earlier this week.

What's going on ear?

Lots of Liverpool fans have been asking why the players are often photographed flicking each other's ears in training, so we got one of Kenny Dalglish's first-team stars to reveal all.

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A news article on 2011-09-07 08:34:22 from: Liverpool FC

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By Chris Wright

When asked about his feelings vis-a-vis the latest England squad containing so many of his Manchester United players, Sir Alex replied:

"It is fantastic. The FA may realise one day who has produced more players for their country than any club in the world.

Lots of smaller business stories worth noting from the last couple of days. We'll start with an announcement from MLS and Neulion to increase the league's mobil device reach. According to the press release, the league and Neulion announced the launch of MLS MatchDay Live on Panasonic Viera Connect TVs and Roku devices across North America.

Evening Standard KAA Gent 3-1 Standard Liège 1 (13:08:11) France: that's done. Now it was time to move on towards Belgium as LesEFW continued apace. Walk this way with Stuart Fuller from The Ball is Round .... With the noise of the Les Sang et Or fans still ringing in our ears we headed away from the Stade Félix Bollaert so that we could see our second game in a day in Gent, Belgium.

Evening Standard KAA Gent 3-1 Standard Liège 1 (13:08:11) France: that's done. Now it was time to move on towards Belgium as LesEFW continued apace. Walk this way with Stuart Fuller from The Ball is Round .... With the noise of the Les Sang et Or fans still ringing in our ears we headed away from the Stade Félix Bollaert so that we could see our second game in a day in Gent, Belgium.

By Chris Wright

In which Peter Crouch pays a visit to the Tottenham barber shop run by 89-year old Spurs fan Aaron Biber that was looted and ransacked during the London riots last week.

Well, to be specific, 99.9% of it was ransacked the vandals chose to leave a signed photo of Crouchy well alone.

OTP's Pod goes video Not content with assaulting your ears every week, the Off The Post Podcast crew are now attacking the eyes with our new feature Stoppage Time. Crowbar-ing in a few extra minutes of content we couldn't squeeze into the audio show, Stoppage Time brings a bonus round of planet's favourite feature [.

I like pre-season. A lot. It frequently gives us a chance to see promising youngsters mixed in with the established senior players and can provide clues to what lies ahead. Notice the emphasis on the words 'can' and 'clues'.

The truism I keep returning to is that more can be learnt from a failure than a success.

Well here's an interesting subplot to the Union's 1-1 draw in Chicago, and particularly ahead of Saturday's home match against Houston: despite a report posted today on Major League Soccer's official website citing officials of Mexican side Veracruz that an acquisition of Carlos Ruiz's rights from MLS has gone through, Philadelphia Union CEO and Operating Partner Nick Sakiewicz told Union play-by-play announcer JP Dellacamera that this is not the case.

When my Dad first started taking me to Fulham regularly we'd stand more or less in the same place every week. Back then the Hammersmith End was terracing and there was plenty of space to pick where you wanted to be. Having watched my first ever game from the very middle of the terrace the old man clearly decided things were a little too "vocal" for my seven year old ears and we flirted with the posh seats in the Riverside for a couple of games.

David de Gea is ready to make his first United appearance in the Tour 2011 match against Chicago Fire on Saturday, with praise from goalkeeping coach Eric Steele ringing in his ears. Steele has been explaining why the champions opted for the Spaniard when scouring the globe for a long-term replacement for Edwin van der Sar.

Everyone has an opinion on Fernando Torres at Chelsea. We all know that Torres struggled for a number of reasons here and scoring just the one goal has put more pressure on him to do well next season.
Fernando Torres spoke earlier in the summer about his time at Chelsea and the fact that this summer is the FIRST summer he would have had off to relax with his family and recuperate.

By Chris Wright

Chinese Super League side Guangzhou Evergrande have announced that they have completed a €10 million transfer for Dario Conca, an attacking midfielder from Brazilian side Fluminense (and 2010 Brazilian Player of the Year) which, you are probably thinking, isn't altogether that startling in itself.

Everyone of us can't wait for pre season training to start, to get a feel of how AVB see's the current players he has and to get HIS settled squad fully prepared ahead of the season starting in August.
I have already said that I thought Villas-Boas' Press Conference was really good and he really impressed me with the way he spoke, his vision and the fact he has brought in Bobby Di Matteo in as his number two.

So, seemingly weeks after everyone else the club and Puma decided to finally let us have a look at the kits for next year. Of course we can't buy them yet. No, you'll have to wait for that. Until September 14th if you want the home or away kit. Coincidentally after the transfer window is shut.

While the Omar Gonzalez report - including his inclusion on AS Roma's "thumbs up" list - only dropped yesterday, I'd held that bit for a couple of weeks trying to uncover details about the other interested parties and such.The reality is, that things have suddenly gotten very quiet for my ears out of Roma.

Following Swindon Town's relegation to League Two, Paul Hart's eyes have formally tendered their resignation. With an Easter Monday loss to Sheffield Wednesday sealing Swindon's relegation, Hart's eyes resigned from his face in a tearful post-match meeting with Town chairman Andrew Fitton.

What started as a grassroots idea for a Steve Zakuani tribute has apparently reached the ears of ownership. Drew Carey, one of the team's minority owners, recently made this comment on twitter:

#11 cards for next #Sounders game in honor of Zakuani and his broken leg have been requested.

Game Intelligence looks at the bigger picture obscured behind Rooney's colourful language. Despite an impending two match suspension, Wayne Rooney's foul mouthed tirade will be music to his manager's ears. Forget the debate over whether Rooney should be punished for ... Continue reading →

Game Intelligence looks at the bigger picture obscured behind Rooney's colourful language. Despite an impending two match suspension, Wayne Rooney's foul mouthed tirade will be music to his manager's ears. Forget the debate over whether Rooney should be punished for ... Continue reading →

Barcelona 3-1 Arsenal

Another year, another aggregate defeat to Barcelona, but this one was tinged with a dose of 'what if'.

What if, at 1-1, we had remained with eleven men? Would the game, as Wenger argues, have opened up and presented us with a really good opportunity to go through?