Harry Redknapp, David Bernstein, and Fabio Capello in Les Liaisons Dangereuses

A day ago, Harry Redknapp was in the dock on tax evasion charges. If proven guilty, it would end his chances to be England manager, a post that he has long coveted. Worse, as a convicted felon, the punishment could mean jail time and a leave of absence from football for a long, long time.

We have something a little different for you today on Twohundredpercent, as Paul Grech meets Ben Perry Acton, a player that forsook the English game to pursue a career in Malta. In addition to this, Ben had a grandfather whose name will be more than familiar to the supporters of Blackpool and Bolton Wanderers Bill Perry, who scored the winning goal in The Matthews FA Cup Final match between the two clubs in 1953.

This might be a touch simplistic and naive, but...

Shouldn't DVDs on 'how to tackle' be handed out to the youth teams of Premiership clubs, rather than the guys getting six figures a week to go in at some poor man's ankles?

But the higher ups at the FA in England have deemed it a necessary act.

This January's Arsenal transfer news was relatively quiet at the Emirates Stadium, with Thierry Henry returning to the club on loan from New York Red Bulls and German teenager Thomas Eisfeld arriving from Borussia Dortmund for a modest fee.

However, activity has not always been this sedate at Arsenal, with Arsene Wenger making some surprising and at times, blockbuster signings in January.

This January's Arsenal transfer news was relatively quiet at the Emirates Stadium, with Thierry Henry returning to the club on loan from New York Red Bulls and German teenager Thomas Eisfeld arriving from Borussia Dortmund for a modest fee.

However, activity has not always been this sedate at Arsenal, with Arsene Wenger making some surprising and at times, blockbuster signings in January.

Harry Redknapp lives in a £10 million mansion at Sandbanks in Poole, Dorset.
Sandbanks has, by area, the fourth largest land value in the entire world.
It is known as 'Britain's Palm Beach'.
Harry Redknapp is a low tier manager who had won nothing of consequence until a fixed FA Cup Final victory for Portsmouth in 2008.

Is it allowable under FA rules for someone to manage the England team from Ford Open Prison?
The HMR&C campaign against different aspects of football fraud, tax avoidance, money laundering and, soon, illegal insider betting activity is parallelling along on numerous fronts - Harry Redknapp and Milan Mandaric, Rangers FC, Portsmouth FC, and other potential routes of investigation still to be unearthed via Quest and the News of the World scandals etc etc.

The tripartite nature of footballing rivalry in the north-east of England means that this afternoons FA Cup Fourth Round match between Sunderland and Middlesbrough has a hint of being a local derby about it without fully appearing to be the real thing.

Still, supporters of both of these clubs have cause to give a wry smile this afternoon.

by STUART WATSON I really love the F.A Cup, a lot of my boyhood memories derive from the competition whether they be good or bad. A few early ones include the two semifinals at Wembley in the early 90's, Wrexham in 92, Linighans late goal to win us the cup in 93, Andy Walker smashing the ball past David Seaman to give Bolton a historic win at Highbury, and getting knocked out by Millwall and Sheffield United in consecutive seasons.

Carlos Tevez's advisor, Kia Joorabchian is quoted in the English newspapers as saying that Tevez will not be sold in the January transfer window:

"We've been in negotiations with three big clubs but I don't think they have reached the figures Manchester City want. Carlos will remain at Man City until the summer.

Carlos Tevez's advisor, Kia Joorabchian is quoted in the English newspapers as saying that Tevez will not be sold in the January transfer window:

"We've been in negotiations with three big clubs but I don't think they have reached the figures Manchester City want. Carlos will remain at Man City until the summer.

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.

By Chris Wright

What with Liverpool set for their first visit to 'Anfield South' in 16 years by way of their Carling Cup semi-final win over Manchester City last night, we though we'd revisit the last time the club earned themselves a day out at Wembley, i.e, the 1996 FA Cup Final against Manchester United.

It's the 60th minute at Wembley. Glorious sunshine stream down on the immaculate playing surface. Kenny Dalglish watches on from the sidelines as the ever-reliable John Aldridge steps up take a penalty...I don't even need to finish the sentence because all Liverpool fans know exactly what game I'm talking about.

Liverpool overcame Manchester City to reach the Carling Cup Final their first final at Wembley since the 1996 FA Cup Final and the club have already chosen what suit they will be wearing. The Reds last played at the home of English football in 1996 when they took on mortal enemies Manchester United in the [.

25 January 2012: FA Cup winner and Hollywood hardman Vinnie Jones has returned to Wembley for the first time in nearly 25 years, to star in an interactive film in which he presents fans with their personalised Wembley Way stone.

In the film, Vinnie plays tribute to the national stadium and the position that Wembley holds in the hearts of football, sport and music fans and jokes: "it's a lot like Hollywood only closer to the North Circular.

Former Liverpool midfielder Dietmar Hamann believes winning the Carling Cup would represent a major step forward for the club and put the Reds "back on the map".
Kenny Dalglish's team takes a 1-0 lead into Wednesday's semi-final second leg at Anfield against Manchester City, another of the ex-Germany international's sides.

Ducky's Note: Die-hard Manc Prashanth speaks fan-to-fan to the Arsenal fans. We repeat, this is a post by a Manc. So, you know, #justsaying *runs and ducks behind door. Pun may or may not have been intended*.

No, I don't want to tell you that its okay to lose, or its okay to boo your manager when he makes a substitution (gamble) trying to win the game.

In the summer of 2006 Manchester United were written off. Chelsea had just won the league with ease and added one of the best players in the world for each position to their squad. Ashley Cole, Michael Ballack and Andriy Shevchenko joined them, whilst in contrast we sold our top scorer, Ruud van Nistelrooy, and didn't replace him, and brought in Michael Carrick, who was hardly the midfield general the fans had been hoping for.

"Twenty years ago, we sponsored Crystal Palace and they got to the FA Cup final. Then last week, we sponsored Newcastle and they beat Manchester United 3-love." "So we're a lucky brand, and may the luck continue throughout the rest of the season." The words of Sir Richard Branson, (3-love?? clearly a tennis fan!

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Thai FA Cup Final
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There remains a sense of great expectations surrounding Leeds United. To get a feel for the root cause for this, we only need to spin back four decades, when Don Revie's team lost out on the Football League Championship to Derby County but managed a little solace in winning the FA Cup final against Arsenal at Wembley.

Mirror: Cheap pints, changing tyres and the magic of the Cup

Matt Lawrence has played for seven league clubs including Fulham, Crystal Palace and Millwall, for whom he appeared in the 2004 FA Cup final during his 16-year career. Now with League Two Gillingham, his diary will appear on MirrorFootball every Monday.

Mirror: Cheap pints, changing tyres and the magic of the Cup

Matt Lawrence has played for seven league clubs including Fulham, Crystal Palace and Millwall, for whom he appeared in the 2004 FA Cup final during his 16-year career. Now with League Two Gillingham, his diary will appear on MirrorFootball every Monday.

Chelsea vs Portsmouth Goals 4-0 Highlights Video FA Cup Third Round Lampard Ramires Mata is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

Chelsea vs Portsmouth Goals 4-0 Highlights Video FA Cup Third Round Lampard Ramires Mata is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter Chelsea vs Portsmouth 2012 ( Chelsea v Pompey FA Cup video below) Final score and result:- Chelsea vs Portsmouth 4-0 ( Mata, Ramires*2, Lampard) Stamford Bridge, London- 8 January, 2012- [.

Well, as Homey mentioned yesterday, I'm back here blogging hopefully pretty regularly. And first up is our 3rd Round FA Cup tie with Leeds at the Emirates tomorrow:

As you probably remember, we actually played Leeds in the same round of the FA Cup. Some brilliant, no doubt dashingly handsome blogger wrote a preview of that match, and wrote as follows:

Leeds, of course, are one of the traditional big footballing clubs –they've won the first division 3 times, most recently in 1992, reached 4 FA Cup finals in a span of 8 years in the late 60s and early 70s.

This afternoon Portsmouth travel to Stamford Bridge to take on Chelsea in the FA Cup third round. Can you believe that just over a year and a half ago, both sides fought out a tight encounter in the FA Cup final at Wembley!?.
Since then, both sides have had their dramas. We as Chelsea fans think we've had it bad but for Portsmouth fans, they had to face the reality of their football club being wound up, court cases, liquidators and contemplating life without their club anymore!

It's that time of year again when I allow myself to go all misty-eyed about the FA Cup while the less sentimental (and perhaps younger) among us tut-tut and denounce the old jug as a busted flush.

The Champions League is bigger, bolder, more watched, more important and above all more lucrative than the FA Cup, this we all know.

Alan Pardew has done well at the other clubs he has managed in Cup competitions and he's been in a Wembley final as a player too. Alan Pardew while at Crystal Palace in 1990 He's going to love me for showing this In the 2006 FA Cup final at the Millennium stadium Alan was on [...]

Alan Pardew has done well at the other clubs he has managed in Cup competitions and he's been in a Wembley final as a player too. Alan Pardew while at Crystal Palace in 1990 He's going to love me for showing this In the 2006 FA Cup final at the Millennium stadium Alan was on [...]

Goal: Jonjo Shelvey reveals Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard broke his heart five years ago when boyhood team West Ham lost FA Cup final

The young Reds midfielder is expected to start against Oldham in the third round of the competition and hopes the journey leads to him lifting the world's oldest domestic cup

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Goal: Jonjo Shelvey reveals Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard broke his heart five years ago when boyhood team West Ham lost FA Cup final

The young Reds midfielder is expected to start against Oldham in the third round of the competition and hopes the journey leads to him lifting the world's oldest domestic cup

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A news article on 2012-01-06 12:16:00 from: Goal

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Goal: Jonjo Shelvey reveals Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard broke his heart five years ago when boyhood team West Ham lost FA Cup final

The young Reds midfielder is expected to start against Oldham in the third round of the competition and hopes the journey leads to him lifting the world's oldest domestic cup

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A news article on 2012-01-06 12:16:00 from: Goal

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Goal: Jonjo Shelvey reveals Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard broke his heart five years ago when boyhood team West Ham lost FA Cup final

The young Reds midfielder is expected to start against Oldham in the third round of the competition and hopes the journey leads to him lifting the world's oldest domestic cup

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A news article on 2012-01-06 12:16:00 from: Goal

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Goal: Jonjo Shelvey reveals Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard broke his heart five years ago when boyhood team West Ham lost FA Cup final

The young Reds midfielder is expected to start against Oldham in the third round of the competition and hopes the journey leads to him lifting the world's oldest domestic cup

View the full story here: Goal

A news article on 2012-01-06 12:16:00 from: Goal

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Goal: Jonjo Shelvey reveals Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard broke his heart five years ago when boyhood team West Ham lost FA Cup final

The young Reds midfielder is expected to start against Oldham in the third round of the competition and hopes the journey leads to him lifting the world's oldest domestic cup

View the full story here: Goal

A news article on 2012-01-06 12:16:00 from: Goal

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Goal: Jonjo Shelvey reveals Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard broke his heart five years ago when boyhood team West Ham lost FA Cup final

The young Reds midfielder is expected to start against Oldham in the third round of the competition and hopes the journey leads to him lifting the world's oldest domestic cup

View the full story here: Goal

A news article on 2012-01-06 12:16:00 from: Goal

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LFC: Jonjo: Gerrard broke my heart

Jonjo Shelvey admits Steven Gerrard broke his heart with two FA Cup final goals against West Ham but now the 19-year-old is hoping to emulate the skipper by helping Liverpool lift the most famous domestic cup trophy in world football.

Gary Ablett obituary

Defender who won the FA Cup with both Everton and Liverpool Such is the rivalry between Liverpool and Everton that footballers rarely play for both Merseyside clubs, but Gary Ablett, who has died aged 46 of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, enjoyed long and happy spells with the two sides.

Soup Dragons, pizza and a Dagger through the heart

Matt Lawrence has played for seven league clubs including Fulham, Crystal Palace and Millwall, for whom he appeared in the 2004 FA Cup final during his 16-year career. Now with League Two Gillingham, his diary will appear on MirrorFootball every Monday.