By Alan Duffy

#gobshite #withoutaclub #sixgrandoutofpocket

Once one of the country's most highly-rated young players, 32-year-old Michael Ball has been punished by The FA for an offensive Tweet he sent to Coronation Street star Anthony Cotton.

Jordan Henderson determined to win back England place

• 'One day I know I will be given the opportunity' • England Under-21 captain reflects on 'blur' of a year The England Under-21 captain Jordan Henderson admits the last year has been something of a blur but is determined to bide his time as he waits for another crack at the senior squad.

England manager Fabio Capello chose to keep John Terry inhis squad for friendlies against Spain and Sweden but also had one eye on thefuture.
Chelsea skipper Terry is currently the subject of a police investigationof allegedly racially abusing QPR defender Anton Ferdinand. Terry strongly deniedthe allegations and Capello insisted he should not be punished for a crime hehasn't even been convicted of.

Anybody who saw Steven Taylor's performance at Stoke City on Monday night would have been impressed with another solid performance from the Newcastle center-back. Steven Taylor can masked man get England cap? When Alan Pardew arrived at the club last December, he quickly identified Steven as a key player for Newcastle, and helped to [.

By Chris Wright

Sir Bobby Charlton poses alongside his vast blue velvet hat collection at his home in Cheshire in May of 1970 after winning his 100th England cap the previous week against Nothern Ireland (scoring his penultimate 48th international goal in the process)...

Ready for your close-up Mr Charlton?

Emma Davies on Twitter: "For all the ill-informed haters ... Kevin spoke to Tom Cleverly [sic] on the phone earlier. He would never intentionally hurt anyone."
Name football's dirty players. Paul Scholes, perhaps. Midfield hardmen like Lee Bowyer and Joey Barton. Football's hard-tackling cheats are idiots, aren't they?

Molyneux. Saturday September 10th 2011. 3pm Kick-off.

With the international break out of the way Spurs head to Wolves and the start of the season couldn't be more contrasting for the two clubs. Wolves have started undefeated with two wins and a draw, whilst Spurs have been comprehensively beaten by the two Manchester juggernauts.

Sell Luka Modric to Chelsea and give me the funds to spend on new players, Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp muttered under his breath a fortnight ago. A move which could have secured the signings of multiple long-term targets and inevitably defined our forthcoming season.

Spurs have retained a midfielder with undoubted quality, but no matter how hard Modric tries to forget about his dream move to Chelsea, he wouldn't be human if he wasn't feeling some bitterness toward a club he will be playing for each Saturday in front of a leaky defence.

Jordan Henderson should not be targeted by Sunderland's boo boys when they play Liverpool, according to Kenny Dalglish.
Liverpool moved quickly to sign the midfielder in the close season, sealing a £20million deal for his services.
At just 20, Henderson had become a feature of Steve Bruce's midfield and had earned himself an England cap.

Leicester City manager Sven Goran Eriksson is ready to rescue former England midfielder Owen Hargreaves from the scrape heap following his release from Manchester United after making only one appearance for the club in over a year.

Eriksson who gave Hargreaves his first England cap in 2001 said he would welcome his former player to Leicester City having seen his fitness video's on YouTube recently.

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Going down to the Championship where we now find West Ham, it was interesting to see some transfer rumours surrounding our old centre half Anthony Gardner. The 29 year old is out of contract at Hull after a loan spell at Crystal Palace.

Gardner came to Spurs back in 2000 after a couple of years at Port Vale.

Liverpool have agreed a fee believed to be £20m for Sunderland midfielder Jordan Henderson.

Henderson (20) gained his first and only England cap last November, partnering his now club captain Steven Gerrard in midfield against France.

Liverpool and Sunderland have agreed a deal thought to be worth about £20m for midfielder Jordan Henderson.
The 20-year-old England international will travel to Liverpool for a medical and to discuss personal terms.
"A fee has been agreed with Liverpool for Jordan Henderson and he travels to Anfield with the club's blessing," said a Sunderland statement.

Alright, here's the scenario. An English footballer, who's talented, determined, driven to succeed in football and doesn't mope or hang around in the dark. With the way English footballers are managing the game, this scenario exists only once our eyelids drop and we're in the dream world. However, Wenger's search has transformed that dream into reality by discovering the new Iniesta: Jack Wilshere from Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

MANCHESTER, England — Neil Young, a striker in Manchester City's trophy winning teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s, has died aged 66 from cancer, the English Premier League club announced Thursday. Young, who scored the winning goal in the 1969 FA Cup final, was also a member of the City side that [.

It's a sad day. An iconic figure in the English game has hung up his boots after an illustrious career. Gary Neville has finally called it a day at the age of 35, not short of a trophy or an England cap or two. A widely hated figure outside of Manchester (and in certain parts of it), Neville may be missed equally by opposition fans – Red Nev, the embodiment of Manchester United and Ferguson's philosophy, has been a premier exponent of some of the most tasty rivalries in the Premier League.

Some footballers can really sicken me. Even more so than a bottle of cheeky Tequila.
I cannot believe the transfer of Andy Carroll from Newcastle United to Liverpool. It really confuses me.
The fee is as unreal as Pamela Anderson's bangers. Seriously do you think that Andy Carroll is worth the reported fee of £35m?

A stalwart of the anti-apartheid sport boycott movement, Isiah Stein, has passed away in the UK. After serving time in prison with Nelson Mandela in the mid-1960s, Stein left South Africa for Britain where he worked tirelessly with the exiled South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SANROC).

My first memory of Alex Bruce was watching him as a young lad on Steve Bruce's excellent 'Captain's Log' video. He grew up as a red and played for our academy but was released when he was 16-years-old.

However, the coaches at our academy had spotted something in him and were in the process of helping him change positions from the striker he had hoped to be when he was 9-years-old to the defender we now see him as at Leeds United.