The appetite for commentary on the farce in Paris still seems strong, and I thought Arsene Wenger had a very wise take on the entire situation today. Wenger is, obviously, a French supporter and very close with Henry. In fairness to the Irish fans, the world football community, and for the sake of Henry, he called for the game to be replayed.

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A bit of conjecture here. The injury news is looking a bit more positive but that might not be what could be worrying Arsene Wenger now.

He has to get William Gallas and Bacary Sagna to refocus on club football after the Ireland France odyssey. Gallas of course was one of the principal characters in the France farce and might be in for some stick with fans with Irish national players in their club like City and Aston Villa.

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Thierry Henry. A contentious and topical subject if ever there was one.
Whilst the footballing world today recoils in disgust at the actions of the France captain, there are plenty of misguided Arsenal fans who will be lightning quick to shout you down if you dare as to utter a derogatory comment. Click to continue reading...

Its all pretty confusing but it seems that Raymond Domenech was complaining that they were really playing the English B squad. Or some bowdlerized version which of course even if untrue is used to motivate your players. Which is what got Richard Dunne all bent out of shape. He had been using Domenech as comedy material before the match.

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Where will this all end?

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You just knew it, everyone in the stadium knew it, everyone watching from home knew it, everyone who has any interest in the game of football knew it, so why the hell are FIFA seemingly doing nothing about it?

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Just a few short weeks ago, Chelsea appeared the strongest team at least squad-wise in the English top flight. How quickly things can change.

Following this weekend's international break, the list of those on the treatment table has grown exponentially and not simply from lining up for their respective countries.

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What a miserable Tuesday morning, it's dark, raining and just.... miserable!

On top of that we have no club football to look forward to until the 21st November – that's eleven days by my calculations..

Had a little peep around for some news, but there is very little. Suppose there won't be for the next week or so, well not until after the first batch of international friendly's, then it will be fingers crossed that none of our players pick up any injuries.

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Conspiracy theories don't usually do it for me, but tonight's farce is enough to make me pause for thought. If Jack Warner can retain a high ranking position in FIFA than nothing in football is impossible; could it be that UEFA, frightened by Roma's poor start to the campaign and desperate to show off their new Europa League, have issued a far reaching anti-non-famous club mandate?

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While Gary Cahill joins England for their World Cup qualifier against Ukraine we look at which other Bolton Wanderers team members are on international duty.

Jlloyd Samuel was meant to be playing for Trinidad and Tobago but once again he has had to miss out. There is a farce that surrounds Samuel's non–involvement with the Soca Warriors.

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So we're a month or so in to 2009/10, and it's been pretty hectic, to say the least. Lots of flashpoints, talking points and most importantly, lots of football. So what have been the characteristics of this opening month that have captured the imagination?

1.   There has been an awful lot of football played.

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" Manchester United star Wayne Rooney must not be labelled a diver - I remember him as a player who tried to keep on his feet."

Graham Poll was always a buffoon. The depths of his incompetence was plumbed with the Josip Simunic farce in the Croatia vs Australia match in the 2006 World Cup.

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Queue the hate.
The battle to show the league who the loudest supporters are is on. While Toronto has always prided themselves as having the loudest fans in the league, Seattle supporters will hear nothing of that and aim to show us all on Saturday that they are the ones who bring the decibels. Click to continue reading...

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Johnson Carragher Skrtel Insua
Lucas Mascherano
Kuyt Gerrard Benayoun
Torres
Goals:
Lucas (og) 34'
Davies 45+2'
Torres 72'
Young 75' (pen)
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The takeover farce is, as usual, suffering from conflicting press opinions. First we hear from newspapers like The Guardian, The Telegraph and The Journal that Ashley arrived at the training ground in his gunship to join Llambias and Moat in takeover talks. Then The Chronicle comes along and says Ashley isn't there for takeover talks at all but is merely [. Click to continue reading...

Shola Ameobi has come out today and said that the Newcastle players will continue to ignore the ongoing farce at the Tyneside club and do something to relieve the depression on Tyneside. That sounds good. Shola Ameobi - players determined to produce this season Newcastle started their attempt to make an immediate return to the Premier [. Click to continue reading...

I hate the tabloid media with a passion, perhaps almost as much as I hate Man Utd. Take the crocodile tears shed over the recent death of Bobby Robson. The very same tabloids who in 1988 following Englands draw with Saudi Arabia declared that he was a "plonker" (The Sun) and the Daily Mirror roared "In the name of Allah, go" People get the tabloids they deserve, they also know how to wind up Gooners.

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I hate the tabloid media with a passion, perhaps almost as much as I hate Man Utd. Take the crocodile tears shed over the recent death of Bobby Robson. The very same tabloids who in 1988 following Englands draw with Saudi Arabia declared that he was a "plonker" (The Sun) and the Daily Mirror roared "In the name of Allah, go" People get the tabloids they deserve, they also know how to wind up Gooners.

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People either love or hate allstar games. They are a tradition in baseball, but fans still complain about them. MLS has wisely given up on the East vs. West format and seems to have embraced a MLS vs the world approach. Six of the last seven Allstar games has pitted an all-MLS selection against a foreign club side. Click to continue reading...

Beautiful Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah. A suburb of Salt Lake City was the host for this years All-Star Game which was a fantastic display of Goalkeeping we haven't seen in a while. Both Kasey Keller & Tim Howard making diving save, after diving save to keep their sides alive for the eventual match winner that never came and all credit to Everton's Manager David Moyes for taking this event seriously and having a little fun.

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Failure is almost always a more interesting subject for a book than success. Grant Wahl did not originally intend to spend 16 months following the dramatic disaster that was the David Beckham Experiment in America: but when Beckham's celebrated arrival as the saviour of American soccer degenerated into a farce of injuries and infighting at the Galaxy, the juicy tale of how the biggest investment in American soccer history resulted in one of the worst team meltdowns ever in MLS became the story he had to follow all the way through.

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Good morning peeps, sorry about yesterday, wasn't feeling to great and to be honest I'm still not this morning so apologies for whatever state this ends up in.

In a way, I'm kinda glad I didn't blog yesterday as Arsenal 'news' and blogs were dominated by the farce of a story that is 'Cesc to Spain'.

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The Reserve fixtures were announced today and are available to view on Arsenal.com.

Normally I would not get excited about such an event and would skip past this "Breaking News", but this season's fixtures need a second look. In fact if you look a second time you would see what a farce Reserve team football is.

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Meetings between the Mexican national team and Panama are always heated, but Thursday night's clash in the CONCACAF Gold Cup took the rivalry to new, uglier levels.

Fan violence in the stands and clashes on the field turned the match into an ugly encounter as three red cards and one very unfortunate intervention by Mexican head coach Javier Aguirre (and his subsequent ejection) transformed the match into a farce.

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Microblog alert!

Yes, Van the Man finally signed (OFFICIAL) a new long-term contract (so what's that four years?). Finally. So I guess he's liking what he's seen so far this summer and hopefully has been hearing about all these other wonder-players we've got lined up for 11.

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When the FFA introduced the Youth Marquee allowance before the start of last season I thought it was a great initiative to help keep some of our youngest stars here in Australia for a year or two longer but now it has just turned into a farce and is effectively just a defacto $150,000 increase to the Salary cap. Click to continue reading...

As closing days of the Premier League go, today's was incredibly flat.
There was no to-ing and fro-ing, no nail-biting tension nor edge-of-the-seat excitement. The three teams involved in relegation struggle, the tedious battle for the title having been decided already, ended up losing, leaving the league table unchanged from last week. Click to continue reading...

After a specially convened meeting, UEFA have insisted "there were no grounds" to contest the decision of Italian referee, Roberto Rosetti following Darren Fletcher's sending off against Arsenal. So that's that, Fletcher will miss the final.

The meeting of UEFA's Control and Disciplinary body was arranged to discuss the validity of Manchester United's protests that Darren Fletcher should not have been sent off and should therefore not miss the final.

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What can be done?

After last week's Champions League farce in which Didier Drogba and Cristano Rolando played a pivotal role in the final destination of the trophy, one can not hide from the fact that both players disgraced the game of football for different reasons, and despite the governing bodies effort to eliminate diving, it seems these two players are on a one man crusade to bring the ugliest side of football back into the game.

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Fever Pitch hits Wembley

It took the moans and groans of Arsene Wenger and Sir Alex, but the FA have finally confirmed today that in fact yes, the Wembley pitch is to be dug up immediately!

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They want the surface ready for the FA Trophy final on 9th May, the Football League play-off finals and the FA Cup final on 30th May.

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Fergie & Harry

I, like many other Spurs fans, am sick of our woeful record against Manchester United. I've lost count of the amount of times we have outplayed them and still got beat. The two games that stick in my throat the most are probably the same as the rest of you. Firstly when we were 3-0 up at half time at the Lane only to capitulate in the 2nd half, then the win that never was at Old Trafford under Martin Jol when Pedro Mendes scored only for the goal not to be given under orders of Sir Alex! Click to continue reading...

The PFA Player of the Year nominees are now out, and what a farce they are. It's not that five Manchester United players have been nominated for the main award that I find farcicle. Nor that Steven Gerrard is the only representative from the 19 other clubs. Nor that Aaron 'I can run very fast but I get a little stumped when I have to do something with this ball thingy' Lennon is in with a shot of winning Young Player of the Year.

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The PFA Player of the Year nominees are now out, and what a farce they are. It's not that five Manchester United players have been nominated for the main award that I find farcicle. Nor that Steven Gerrard is the only representative from the 19 other clubs. Nor that Aaron 'I can run very fast but I get a little stumped when I have to do something with this ball thingy' Lennon is in with a shot of winning Young Player of the Year.

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Naomi Klein: "In moments of crisis, it is possible to speak hard truths with great force and clarity. But when the truth has gone silent, lies, boldly told, work almost as well."
Of course, she is talking about the Paulson Crisis rather than the ScudamoreWorld Crisis, but boldly told lies are boldly told lies, whatever their source. Click to continue reading...

Football supporters, and I am no exception, are quick to give the sport´s governing bodies a difficult time when they mess things up with their own unique brand of farce and bureaucracy. So for once I will put my neck on the line and say ´Well done, Uefa!´, because their new regulations on homegrown players [. Click to continue reading...