As we showed on Sunday, Zlatan Ibrahimovic has made the transition from kicking teammates to slapping opponents. And to prove his new hobby, Zlatan has allegedly done it again already. After the final whistle in Juventus' 2-1 win over Milan in the first leg of their Coppa Italia semifinal, Ibra argued with Juve keeper Marco Storari and, according to Juve defender Giorgio Chiellini, Ibra also gave him a slap.

Arsenal On The Up. Fantastic F.A. Cup Tie by Lorenzo Sallows Drawn against another Premier League side and coming after a torrid spell of form, emotions were sure to run high. The match did not disappoint. I have been more than negative in my approach to Arsenal these past few weeks but, like all fans, [.

Oh how it hurts to lose to one of the teams that we absolutely hate losing to; Liverpool. How the faces got gloomy and sullen after a defeat like that. The emotions felt at this point of time would...
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Coke-d up spot-kick row Bury captain Steven Schumacher and midfielder Giles Coke were both booked after a row over who should take a penalty during their 3-2 win over Yeovil. Having won the spot-kick, Coke grabbed the ball with the intention of taking the penalty. Skipper and usual penalty taker Schumacher attempted to pull rank, [.

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has rubbished suggestions that substituting Andrei Arshavin for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain led to the club's 2-1 defeat at home to Manchester United and insists that he owes the doubters no explanation.

With the Gunners tied 1-1 after Chamberlain had assisted Robin van Persie second-half equalizer to Luis Antonio Valencia's first-half opener, Wenger brought Arshavin on to a negative reaction throughout the Emirates Stadium.

In the most recent match-day programme Marcus Evans sent out a rare direct message to the fans.
As inconsistent results continue into the New Year, our club balances just four points above the Championship's relegation zone. So it's difficult, as a fan, not to feel concern for the direction our club is going.

Mario Gomez with girlfriend, Silvia Meichel. Images: Sky Germany.

Last Friday, the Bayern Munich 'ballers of past and present turned up to celebrate club legend Uli Hoeness' 60th birthday at an open bar party. Present were Mario Gomez and his girlfriend, Silvia Meichel. Isn't she just a breath of fresh-faced, normal air, Kickettes?

During yesterday's Dutch League match between Ajax and AZ Alkmaar, an Ajax fan invaded the pitch and went running towards AZ's keeper, Esteban Alvarado, who managed to trip the 19 year old invader and then kicked him for good measure. The match's referee then awarded a red card to Alvarado, who is from Costa Rica, an act that resulted in AZ abandoning the match.

Disappointment is part of football, of course. We all know this and in some respects enjoy it: our real lives are generally on the ordinary side and furthermore it's very rare for us to be able to shout, scream, jump around or make outrageous accusations in the real world without there being consequences.

Both sides of the Clásico Regiomontano experienced different emotions during the weekend. CONCACAF club champions Monterrey were knocked out of the FIFA Club World Cup by Japanese champions Kashiwa Reysol, 4-3 on penalties after the match finished 1-1 at the end of 120 minutes. Reysol took the lead through their star midfielder Leander Domingues, but the Rayados equalized through Humberto Suazo five minutes later.

Remember when Rafael Benitez showed up that press conference ahead of Liverpool's game against Stoke and produced a sheet of paper containing 'facts' about Sir Alex Ferguson?

During Andre Villas-Boas Friday press conference, the Chelsea manager produced a laminated chart to show the press his club's current points compared with other teams of years gone by.

Short Frank Klopas Interview at the MLS website.

"To come back and have the opportunity to work in something that's been such a big part of my life in the city that I love and I grew in is a dream come true. To be the head coach leading this team, it's a great opportunity. I'm thankful. I'm honored.

Friends,

I'm leaving. No not permanently- much to the chagrin of some of you Liverpool stalkers. But I will be absent for the next month whilst I traverse the globe with my bride to be. I'm a mess of sorts. One part excited, equal parts nervous. To those of you that are married, you probably are all too acquainted with said feelings- and those of you that are not well, just use your powers of deduction to figure out what this might feel like.

The Brazilian national championship has made a habit of last day climaxes in recent years and this season's competition is no exception. Corinthians (Played 38, Points 71) won their fifth Brasileiro tonight, their first league title since 2005, following a goalless draw against arch rivals Palmeiras.

Revolution fans can finally exhale.

In a surprise announcement made during the team's 2012-13 jersey unveiling at the Gillette Stadium Pro Shop on Saturday, Revolution President Brian Bilello announced that the team had re-signed midfielder Shalrie Joseph. According to a tweet from Boston Herald reporter Kyle McCarthy, Joseph's new deal will classify the Grenadan center half as a Designated Player for the 2012 season.

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I have to say that I am finding it increasingly difficult being a Chelsea fan at the moment. I have been and will be a Chelsea fan all my life and will support them through thick and thin. I have seen good times in recent seasons and plenty of bad times at this club. I stood on the old shed end and supported Chelsea week in, week out when we were in the old second division so I know just how bad it can be.

I feel for Chelsea fans who yet again had to endure another loss 2-0 home loss to Liverpool last night. I mean the first loss although hard to accept was a bit understandable, however, suffering a similar loss with an identical scoreline to the same team in less than 2 weeks is simply unacceptable.

Ndamukong Suh has the physical ability to become the best player in the NFL. Unfortunately, the second-year player doesn't yet know now to control his emotions. That fact was on full display during the Thanksgiving Day game between the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers.

In the aftermath of the ugly incident that saw Suh push a player's head into the ground and then stomp on his arm, the Lions defensive lineman has now officially been suspended for two games.

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As fans, we are more than easily riled aren't we. I will be the first to admit that when it comes to Arsenal, emotions are rarely things within my control. When I saw the way Real Madrid has acted in trying to tap up one of our players, I was incensed.

Back on Friday, the FA confirmed that they have charged AVB for his comments made after our defeat at Loftus Road against QPR. The statement from the FA said:

Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas has been charged with improper conduct by The FA, following media comments he made about the match official after his side's match at Queens Park Rangers on 23 October 2011.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. The scene outside the Revolution locker room on Wednesday brought with it a mixed bag of emotions.

As the players and coaches cleaned out their lockers and carried their belongings to their cars, many were probably relieved to finally put the 2011 season behind them, head home, and relax after tumultuous 34 games.

Two contrasting emotions depicted in the picture snapped off the television after the game with a grim-looking Cambodian's Korean coach Lee Tae-Hoon (top half of the picture) pondering what could have gone wrong after two straight defeats in Jakarta.
While his counterpart Sloban Pavkovic (below half) breathe a sight of relieve having see the Cubs came back from a goal deficit to beat the Khmers 2-1 in the near-empty Senayan with headers from Khairul Nizam and Nigel Vanu.

Where's your Caravan?By Chris HargreavesPublished by The Friday Project, August 2011£8.99ISBN: 9780007364145What next for a lower league footballer upon retirement? A simple enough premise, but too few biographies have tackled the theme with any distinction, so Chris Hargreaves' recent release, which engages throughout with the realities and emotions of signing off from one's playing days, is a

AVB is featured on the Official Chelsea website speaking after the disappointing result at Genk last night. I have had my say on the performance here and AVB has given his insight.
He said:

'It's not a bad result away from home but we expected to win. I wouldn't say we lost control.

The Seattle Sounders travel down to the Home Depot Center to face Chivas USA. Each team could really just consider this a 'super reserves' game. For the Sounders it will be preparation for the MLS Cup Playoffs and the ultimate goal of the 2011 team, the MLS Cup. For Robin Fraser with Chivas it will be another chance to make decisions about next year's talents.

Instead of a match report, the memorable photos and videos: Forgive me for not posting it on time, but as one might imagine, I was too happy to start writing or undertaking something seriously. Now that emotions are coming back to normal, I take the time to upload some nice photos and the highlights.

And the scarf is back Manchester City recorded their first ever win in the Champions League last night by nicking a 2-1 win over Villarreal. The result, probably undeserved on the balance of play, was clearly a great relief to manager Roberto Mancini. The Italian struggled to keep his emotions in check at the final [.

Easily one of the most underrated aspects of football is the prematch press conference photography. Before the Champions League? It's magic. Dozens of photogs clamoring for the best facial expressions, angles and moments of maniacal madness.

Andres Villas Boas appears as though he's running through the cycle of emotions posed by an acting class teacher, while Massimiliano Allegri is looking to explode someone's brain with his own.

Football can do a lot of things. It can turn completely stable people into emotional wrecks, it can play with our emotions like nothing else, save perhaps a member of the opposite sex. In short, it's a very powerful thing. One thing it should not do, however, is to change our perspective. Not footballing perspective, of course you should feel free to argue that your team is better than my team, your fans are louder than my fans, your grass is greener than our grass.

Steven Gerrard was pleased to mark his return to Liverpool's first XI with a goal but he was disappointed Manchester United could not be defeated at Anfield.
The fit-again Liverpool captain's free-kick found its way through a United wall weakened by Ryan Giggs deserting his post to give the hosts the lead.

After the shock of being banned for all 3 of England's group matches at Euro 2012 Manchester United star Wayne Rooney will be looking to blow-off some steam against eternal rivals Liverpool. Pissed off, angry, hurt, victimized and vengeful. These were just some of the emotions England striker Wayne Rooney would have felt having learnt [.

Remember how I moaned about the fact that Chelsea Chairman Bruce Buck made a ridiculous statement about the fact that AVB could be our manager for the next 10 years and how we should just let AVB get on with the job at hand this season?
Well, as predicted, the press brought Buck's comments to the attention of AVB and asked him about the possibly being our manager for that long.

I undertsand that times are tough, that there are many people with serious frustrations & emotional needs to belong. Sports is traditionally a "release button" of emotions which eases the five-six days of "pain". However, when the "frustration" gets mixed up with twisted illusions & many times "intoxicated" minds we sadly get events that occured at the ATLETICO DE MADRID "Vicente Calderon"

Goals by Rafael Van Der Vaart and Kyle Walker gave Tottenham a 2-1 win over neighbours Arsenal in the North London derby on a day where Arsenal's status as a top four club officially died. Asinine, awkward, apoplectic, amused, angry; these cornucopia of emotions rankled amongst the small pocket of watching Gooners situated at the [.

We've seen this before, at least somewhere. A player goes a little bat-sh*t crazy on someone. It happened again last night with Real Salt Lake's Kyle Beckerman on Chicago Fire midfielder Daniel Paladini.

Beckerman, who was enjoying a very strong MVP-like season until his head butt on Paladini last night.

In a game typical of this local derby, emotions ran high and it wasn't until the second half before a soccer game reared it's head. With both squads affected by injuries to key players, it would fall to strong individual efforts to create goals this evening.

The first goal came as Hunter Durham fought off a challenge for a head ball and pushed hard into the box where he was able to reach the endline and turn towards the box.

Today, ten years after the fateful 9/11 disaster, is full of emotions, sorrow, grief and remembering those that sadly died in the airplanes, in the buildings and the many firefighters and police officers that made the huge sacrifice to risk ...

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

By Alan Duffy

Former Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez has obviously had a serious and long-term effect on his former Premier League rival, Sir Alex Ferguson.

Accoding to the Daily Express, during a recent interview in the offices of an Italian newspaper, Fergie noticed a photo of Benitez on the wall.

Gazzetta dello Sport Euro Pazzo Pazzini goal: Italy qualify for Euro 2012. And what a Balotelli! Spain are OK Capello almost Trap draw Cavani: "Mazzarri, a Scudetto man" Juve, a show to baptise the new stadium Tuttosport Cairo: "Ogbonna, the new contract is ready" "It's a great stadium. Now a great Juve is needed" Lippi: "I remember the emotions at the Nou Camp, and I.