This certainly isn't going to go down that well with the FA.

England manager Fabio Capello laid out his thoughts on John Terry and the FA's decision to strip him of the England captaincy to Italian broadcaster Rai 1 today. To say he's not pleased with what has transpired would be a gross understatement.

The artist formerly known as England's Brave John Terry. Again.

Innocent or guilty, right or wrong the time has come for the Chelsea captain to leave the Three Lions, and the circus surrounding them, behind. Permanently.

An era passed

It's difficult to argue however much I disagree with the Football Association's decision to relieve Terry of the England captaincy in wake of the racist abuse trial he faces in July.

Nothing beats knocking a Premier League side out of the FA Cup when you are a lower league side. Brighton did that by knocking out Newcastle 1-0 over the weekend. The fun of the Cup was shown by Brighton's Adam El-Abd as he dances with an FA Cup mascot after the win. This is my favorite moment of the weekend.

Okay, you can all relax now. Turns out that our hero, Arsenal captain Robin van Persie, will NOT be sanctioned for allegedly throwing an elbow in the face of defender Carlos Cuéllar, after all. Had the Football Association chosen to sanction him, and there certainly seemed to be justification for doing so, the punishment to both Robin as an individual and Arsenal as a cohesive whole would have been severe enough, considering the awful timing, to virtually end the team's season on quite a sour note.

Okay, you can all relax now. Turns out that our hero, Arsenal captain Robin van Persie, will NOT be sanctioned for allegedly throwing an elbow in the face of defender Carlos Cuéllar, after all. Had the Football Association chosen to sanction him, and there certainly seemed to be justification for doing so, the punishment to both Robin as an individual and Arsenal as a cohesive whole would have been severe enough, considering the awful timing, to virtually end the team's season on quite a sour note.

Deloitte report assessing the financial impact of The FA Cup reveals: £650m earned by clubs in the past 10 years Crawley Town receive £1m pay day from single FA Cup tie

As excitement builds ahead of The FA Cup with Budweiser Fourth Round Proper, the financial impact of the competition has been revealed in a new report by the Sports Business Group at Deloitte.

Come era nell'aria così è stato. La stangata per "Super" Mario è arrivata. Balotelli è stato squalificato pr 4 giornate dalla Federcalcio inglese. Gi scontata una (ha saltato la sfida di Carling Cup con il Liverpool, terminata 2 a 2) dovr saltare altri tre turni per la "condotta violenta" nel match di Premier League vintoContinua a leggere .

Vincent Kompany was rightly sent off for a two footed challenge on Nani at the weekend in a game that saw Manchester City knocked out of the FA Cup.

Nani got out of the way of the challenge, saving himself from getting hurt, and Wayne Rooney complained to referee Chris Foy.

After the game, Roberto Mancini claimed that the challenge was "300%" not a red card and accused Rooney of influencing the ref.

FA officials studying the video of Manchester City's 3-0 win over Liverpool have retrospectively awarded Martin krtel an imaginary three game ban following Roberto Mancini's persuasive waving of an imaginary card.

The Imaginary Appeal panel is set to meet on Thursday to imagine what punishment they imagine would be appropriate.

Here are the most interesting and important points from the 115 page document which explains why the decision was made to charge Luis Suarez with racially abusing Patrice Evra.

Evidence
- The FA and Evra watched some video footage of the match. Evra pointed out to the FA, by reference to the video footage, when it was during the match that Suarez made the comments about which Evra had complained.

Whilst Liverpool decided to wear t-shirts for Luis Suarez, who has been found guilty of racially abusing Patrice Evra this week, Manchester United have kept quiet. Today, Sir Alex Ferguson has given his reaction to the ban but is eager to put it all behind us, claiming it was never about United against Liverpool.

With Euro 2012 seemingly drawing ever closer, it is still unclear whether or not the English FA have begun to consider who they would like to see replace current boss Fabio Capello whose contract expires at the end of the tournament next Summer. Whoever takes the job will have the task of getting England to the finals of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

Considering the fact that Sepp Blatter has been working for FIFA for the best part of 40 years, it is remarkable just how good he's gotten at annoying football fans, or should I say English football fans.

Now if any other 75 year old man with a degree in business and economics (and has never played professional football) walked into your local and started spouting their nonsense opinions about how issues such as racism in football can be solved with a handshake, I'm sure he would be told to pipe down and get out with some colourful language thrown in for good measure.

It's not going to happen, so STOP TALKING ABOUT IT! LMA chief Richard Bevan is a bellend for even mentioning the subject. The fact of the matter is the FA can veto any motion that 14 Premier League chairmen clump together and try to ratify. So if foreign ownership in the Premier League does rise [...

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In the summer of 2006, Wayne Rooney was sent off during the pre-season Amsterdam Tournament for an innocuous challenge on Pepe, as both players jumped for the ball. It was only a couple of months earlier that Rooney had been sent off against Portugal in the World Cup and Pepe was prepared to use this to his advantage.

With over 2000 followers: Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood The government of the UK has given the governing body of English football until the end of February to sort itself out. Talk about the blind leading the blind... The threat behind the demand is that the FA will be regulated if it [.

Last season, Wayne Rooney swore during the celebration of one of his goals against West Ham and was banned.

Rooney broke Law 12 and was charged with using "offensive, insulting and/or abusive language". Despite players directing this language at referees and opponents on a weekly basis and receiving no punishment, the FA banned Rooney for two games.

Arsenal have opened Pandora's Box Don McMahon Following the departure of Cesc Fabregas for a derisory sum of around 30M Euro after add-ons, with Barca's mocking confirmation that they robbed us, and with the sale of Samir Nasri to City for 25M sterling, there were innumerable cries of outrage and dismay from the British media,punditry [.

The FA are hopeful of appointing Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp prior to Euro 2012 as disillusionment with current England coach Fabio Capello sets in. Secret FA plans to instill Harry Redknapp as the new England boss have been revealed by the The People who also stress that an official approach could be made to [.

Rio Ferdinand's ban for failing to show up for a drugs test has rightly been a frustration to Manchester United fans, given that Manchester City's Christian Negouai also failed to attend a drugs test in 2003 and received no ban.

Channel 4′s Dispatches has today shown we have even more reasons to feel aggrieved, with 240 drugs tests being abandoned between April 2007 and August 2010 after players failed to attend.

Sir Alex Ferguson has had a pop at the FA for the repeated double standards they show towards our club. Time and again our players and manager are made an example of, receiving harsher punishments for identical crimes as managers and players from other teams.

Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand, Ashley Young, Michael Carrick, Tom Cleverley, Phil Jones, Danny Welbeck and Chris Smalling have all been called up to the provisional squad to face Bulgaria and Wales in the Euro 2012 qualifiers, much to the delight of the manager.

Arsene Wenger is expected to make some big-name signings at long last with days remaining before the transfer window closes.

It emerged that Kaka, Gary Cahill, Leighton Baines, Yann M'Vila & Lille forward Eden Hazard are all possible targets*.

But here lies the problems, Arsenal fans, including myself are fed up with that word.

Here's the final installment of this Seasons Prem Wars trilogy sans the Lightsabres and Orks although the Death star does get a mention. This is how I fancy the top tier of the English league to look come May 2012. I'll also have a punt on the Champions League. Barcelona...no surprise there then.

Part 2 of my season preview sees me look at the chances of the mid tablers. If it pans out anything like last season, these predictions could be all over the shop and separated by just 8 points come May. I'm on a hiding to nothing really ain't I hey?

We continue....

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The Trotters disappointed me last season, I thought Owen Coyle really had something but the longer the season went on, the worse they got.

Its clear that Arsene Wenger needs someone new at Arsenal as months of ongoing transfer gossip involving the sales of Samir Nasri and Cesc Fabregas finally look to be coming to a close.

Team spirit is Wenger's number one priority, he constantly repeats it in his interviews, and I would strongly concur with him.

It's here at last, sort off, some games may be re-scheduled, due to the terrible rioting the country has seen over the past week, but hopefully things will run smoothly over the coming weeks. Back to the footy, there have been untold comings and goings in pre-season on and off the football field.

Arsene Wenger has had 41 days of the transfer window to bolster Arsenal's squad, yet just three days until the start of the Premier League and six until their Champions League qualifier against Udinese, he has failed to address any of the important issues facing his team.

With Arsenal's monumental implosion at the business end of last season, much was made of their need to purchase experienced players with the mental grit to set an example to the horde of talented youngsters in the squad.

Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood Arsenal have been using Ryo Miyaichi in their friendlies this season and yet he does not appear to qualify to play in the UK. So what's going on? The first possibility is that somehow during his time in the Netherlands he picked up a local passport, [.

Following United's 3-1 win over Chicago Fire, Sir Alex Ferguson has spoken about the FA singling our club out when it comes to

In recent years they have banned Paul Scholes and Wayne Rooney for three league games following sending offs in a pre-season, banned Rooney for swearing and even charged Ferguson for praising a referee.

The 17 September 1997. The day Newcastle United embarked on their first Champions League campaign. La Liga runners-up Barcelona provided the opposition, boasting names such as Rivaldo, Luis Figo and Luis Enrique.

Newcastle were going into the unknown. After finishing runners-up in the Premier League to Manchester United the previous season Kenny Dalglish's side deserved their chance with Europe's elite.

David Gill has today spoken about the FA's treatment of Manchester United last season, claiming that they singled us out for harsher punishments because we're the country's biggest club.

Wayne Rooney was given a two match ban for swearing at the camera, despite the laws of football making no distinction between any sort of swearing.

The Scottish, Welsh and Irish FAs have denied claims from the British Olympic Association (BOA) that an "historic agreement" for a Great Britain Olympic football side was now in place.

The BOA said this "historic agreement" had been reached with the English Football Association over fielding teams at the 2012 Games.

Untold Arsenal on Twitter is in the top 1% of all Twitter sites for followers @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood After about a week in France with no access to the internet, or the English media, I return with the thought that something ought to have happened in football. But picking [.

It's become almost as boring as a Steve McClaren interview, will Cesc Fabregas stay, or will he go? Or do we care any more?

Like previous Arsenal captains before him, summer time is all about when, and where North London's prized asset will end up.

I have a new theory and a great way to get rid of our worst players, make them captain!

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Bruce & his Black Cats seemed to be the cats whiskers doing well until he found out that he's daughter was seeing Darren Bent. I'm sure Bruces face was picture ....a nasty picture with that mush. Bent was on his toes in no time with a big move down to the Midlands with Houllier where he continued to keep scoring.

With a week to reflect on the last 10 months of footy I can safely come to conclusion that it was a belter! This 2010-2011 brought us the tightest Premiership in yonks with just the cats whiskers separating the top teams from the bottom. Some people are preaching that it was a very weak league compared to others of the past but surely the smaller gap points means that it is improving as a whole with the so called smaller fish giving the big whales a run for their money.

Like EastEnders or Coronation Street going on a summer break to Spain, Blackpool or Ireland, the footballing soap opera has upped sticks for the summer.
A cast of thousands, a few suitably over the top villians, a couple of unlikely characters attempting to play the hero and subplots aplenty.

As we all know playing like Barcelona is the only way forward and if we don't follow suit the World will crumble into a murky abyss filled to the brim with paella. Soon, full English's will become continental breakfasts and cups of tea will, of course, befall to coffee...

Wanna eat this puke!

Sir Alex Ferguson recognises that most of the non-United supporting football fans in the country will be cheering on Barcelona this weekend.

After winning his 12th English league title this week, he could win his 3rd European Cup on Saturday.

This season, Rooney has been banned for swearing whilst other players do it weekly with no punishment and Ferguson has even been charged for praising a referee.