By Richard Nash

2012 will see the inaugural Premier League Soccer competition take place in India. It follows in the footsteps of the hugely successful Indian Premier League cricket competition which began in 2008 and has now run for four seasons.

Thiery Henry's short return to Arsenal is pretty much imminent but theres still some question being raised regarding the necessity of the deal as some doesn't really understand what would the Gunners gain with Henry's addition aside from a short stop gap solution.

However, the London outfit's keeper, Wojciech Szczesny, shuts down the doubters by stating that acquiring the club's legend even for only two months is very important indeed.

Last week, Everton manager David Moyes admitted to offering Arsenal legend Thierry Henry a chance to return to the Premier League, but is he still good enough for Europe's toughest football competition? Arsene Wenger seems to think so. last week, Moyes revealed Everton's interest in Arsenal's record goalscorer:"I already asked him [Henry].

All 15 matches of the 2011 South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championship, South Asia's premier football competition will be broadcast live on YouTube from December 2 when the tournament kicks-off.

Backpackers FC is a unique sports holiday that enables you to work, play football and play some more in Perth, Australia's sunniest state capital, enjoying over 3000 hours of sunshine a year. In 2012, Backpackers FC will kick off their inaugural season in the Perth Metropolitan Football Competition.

Backpackers FC is a unique sports holiday that enables you to work, play football and play some more in Perth, Australia's sunniest state capital, enjoying over 3000 hours of sunshine a year. In 2012, Backpackers FC will kick off their inaugural season in the Perth Metropolitan Football Competition.

The Game As much as you may love the English Premier League, you cannot deny that the Champions League possesses something special, something that indeed makes it the most important football competition, for clubs. Today we have ...

Author Devin Pleuler is miles ahead of you when it comes to fantasy "football" preparation...

Wenger's, Le Professeur...but he can't match this.....

It may come as no surprise that in the Fantasy Football competition hosted on the English Premier League's website, the more a player is worth doesn't necessarily mean that that player will produce more fantasy points.

We are one week into the SEA Games football competition and the games have been marked by pitifully low attendances so far. While Timor Leste attracted plenty of supporters for their games at Lebak Bulus Cambodia have been followed by a few embassy staff and teams like Thailand and Singapore have seen their support swallowed up by the cavernous Bung Karno Stadium.

Viewers looking at the television schedules for last night may have noticed a gap in the football coverage. For the first time in more than two decades, there were no highlights from the FA Cup First Round on the television on the Saturday night after the matches were played, and viewers were forced to wait until this morning to catch up with what happened yesterday afternoon instead.

We haven't bothered to cover the whole Team GB Olympic 2012 football side palava mainly because proper Football Association business makes us nod off. Our view was that if/when the British powers-that-be stopped bickering and decided to field a unified squad to play, we would post photos of them looking hot.

Better candidates than Beckam for Olympic captaincy - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

Understandably, European nations often decline to participate in Olympic football competition. The alignment of their respective four year rotations means that UEFA's European Championships coincide with the Olympic Games.

The Europa League is often viewed as the poor cousin of the much more high profile Champions League. This contents of this video propose a new theme song for the competition in order to help it reach its rightful place amongst the world's great footballing competitions.

I would be very interested if anyone else has any ideas for theme songs for the Europa League (or any other football competition for that matter).

European soccer's governing body decided on Wednesday to replace Turkish champions Fenerbahce with league runners-up Trabzonspor in the Champions League group stage draw.
The UEFA Emergency Panel, composed of the UEFA president and four members of the UEFA Executive Committee, met Wednesday following the decision of the Turkish Football Federation to withdraw Fenerbahce from the 2011-12 UEFA Champions League due to the fact that the club has been involved in alleged match-fixing, a statement on UEFA's website read.

The Joan Gamper Trophy is an annual friendly football competition held in August, before the start of Barcelona's La Liga season.The competition is hosted by Barcelona at the Camp Nou stadium and is named in honour of Joan Gamper, a founding member, player, and later president of the club. The competition has been around since 1966.

Right now it may be hard to think about anything other than the riots that ruined England over the last week, but just wait; the Premiership is starting.
A few great goals, dodgy decisions and tough tackles will have you forgetting the riots like your partners birthday. As the season goes on though, something will be forced into your thinking, no matter how much you want to ignore it.

Did you know that there was a World Cup Football competition happening? Yes, the female version, with JAPAN proclaiming themselves yesterday 2011 World Champions after defeating the brave USA female team in a dramatic penalty shoot - out after the game finished 2- 2 in the regular period (+ extra time).

Did you know that there was a World Cup Football competition happening? Yes, the female version, with JAPAN proclaiming themselves yesterday 2011 World Champions after defeating the brave USA female team in a dramatic penalty shoot - out after the game finished 2- 2 in the regular period (+ extra time).

While the cats are away, the mice can play, and while the pros are away, Lucozade is giving amateurs the chance to play at Arsenal's world-class training facilities. So while the Arsenal first team squad are on their preseason tour of Malaysia, Lucozade are offering one lucky fan has the chance to enter a competition [.

A team of Liverpool fans have arrived in Ukraine ahead of the annual Eurofan International Football Fan-Festival.
This is Anfield FC are made up of a number of players from the This is Anfield internet forum and will take part in the annual pan-European football competition in Lviv for the third year in succession.

The world's oldest football competition will be sponsored for the next three years by the "King of Beers". The competition is to be grandiosely re-branded as the FA Cup with Budweiser.

The FA of course gets some serious business. For the more finicky it's a measure of the beer's quality when the Budweiser ads generate more buzz than the taste.

The world's oldest football competition the F.A. Cup continues its descent into mediocrity as the Football Association has signed a £24 million sponsorship deal with Budweiser.
America's best-selling 'beer' (over 11 billion bottles per year) continues to seek new ways to shake off its reputation for tasting too weak and tepid to tempt Europeans away from their native brews.

Roped once more into acting as question setter as a local hostelry puts on a themed quiz.
Tonight's theme is Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
No, I jest.
It's the Champions League as Barcelona and Manchester United go head to head in the final.

Cambodia will host six matches in Group A of the qualifying round of this year's Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President's Cup from 21-25 May 2011 at the National Olympic Stadium in Phnom Penh. This is the first time that Cambodia has hosted such a prestigious international football competition for club teams, with the national Cambodian League champions, Phnom Penh Crown working in close harmony with the Football Federation of Cambodia to stage the event.

Starting off, a half-hearted nod of the head to Man United and an outstretched hand from me in spite of obvious danger to my personal hygiene. Winners of any football competition deserve the victory in the end, the League more so than most, and United were the least bad team this season. The Sun is shining on Fergie and the perch, he should retire now and take over Wrigley's while the going is good.

So, the dream has become a reality and Spurs have made it to the Quarter Finals of the Champions League. After being three nil down against those pesky Young Boys in the first qualifying round, Harry Redknapp and his European soldiers are now just four games away from the final of Europe's biggest football competition.

Asking how much you remember from last season One question for each PL club this week: 1. Who was Arsenal's top league goalscorer? 2. What is the name of the charity that sponsored Aston Villa? 3. Only one Birmingham City player played every Premier League game. Name him? 4. Which international and cult hero retired [.

With a young players theme... 1. Who is the the youngest player to play in the Premier League? (Clue: He played for Middlesbrough) 2. And who is the youngest to score? 3. At what age did Jermaine Jenas captain Nottingham Forest? 18,19 or 20? 4. Who was in goal for Argentina when Michael Owen scored [.

The 2011 Copa Libertadores, South America's elite club football competition, got under way last night with the first match taking place in Brazil.

Fluminense, Libertadores finalists in 2009, got their campaign under way at home to Argentinos Juniors and it would prove to be a tale of two goal scorers in what was an exciting game.

The Oceania Champions League has resumed action with three matches taking place this weekend, one less than scheduled due to the postponement of the game featuring AS Magenta and Auckland City due to the former's stadium being deemed unsuitable to play the game. Despite this there was still plenty of action and goals on Matchday 4 of Oceania's elite football competition.

With an old skool Premier League footballers theme You will all have enjoyed our Random 90s Footballers feature, so this week we thought we would test you out. And remember, this week it is meant to be very tough! 1. Name the two Moroccans to have played for Aston Villa in the 90s? 2. Two [...]

International women's soccer seems to grow quite a bit between every Women's World Cup and this summer's tournament in Germany will set some new milestones.
On the topic of TV coverage, this is a press release that FIFA put out today. Pretty cool stuff.

The FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 Germany from June 26 to July 17 is poised to mark a milestone in competitive women's football with unparalleled coverage on television in terms of both production and distribution.

With an FA Cup theme... 1. What year was the first FA Cup final at Wembley? 2. In what year did Cardiff beat Arsenal, becoming the only non-English team to win the Cup? 3. And name the other four teams beginning with C that have won the FA Cup (impressive if you get all 4!) [...]

With the SLeague due to start in a couple of weeks fans in Singapore expecting great changes following a disappointing 2010 are likely to be disappointed. Tanjong Pagar have returned to replace Beijing Guan but that's about it. Weekend games aren't being scheduled because they clash with English premier League, talk about an insecurity complex emanating from FAS headquarters!

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ACT starlet Tom Rogic said he was stunned and elated after winning one of eight professional contracts at the Nike Academy in England announced in London on Saturday night.

First Chris Bush gets an A-League contract with the Brisbane Roar - now Tom Rogic scores an amazing contract, one of eight, and he was up against the Rest of the World!

20 Questions this week, on on each Premier League team this season 1. How many league games has Nicklas Bendner started this season? 1, 3 or 5? 2. Can you name the five Aston Villa players to have scored more than two PL goals this season? (Great effort if you get the fifth) 3. Birmingham [...]

(Pictured above L-R) FAS Sec-Gen Winston Lee, FAS president Mayor Zainudin and Jaguars GM Francis Lee hold the Jaguars' jersey.
RETURN OF THE JAGUARS
Only from the mouth of Mayor Zainudin Nordin, the president of the Football Association of Singapore that it's finally confirmed the returning of Tanjong Pagar United back to the S.

With a top goalscorers theme... 1. Who was the top scorer in the first Premier League season? 2. Three of the top twelve all time PL top scorers still play in the Premier League. Name them? 3. What is strange about the top two scorers in the German, English, Spanish and French leagues? 4. Who [...]

With a foreign Premier League imports theme 1. Who is the only Albanian to play in the Premier League, having one season before leaving for Galatasaray in 2010? 2. Which four American players started for their country against England in the World Cup and played in the Premier League last season? 3. And which two [.

As its FA cup weekend, a fact about the worlds oldest football competition seems appropriate...

Manchester United's Eric Cantona was the first foreign player to captain a winning Cup Final team (1996). Since then Sami Hyypia is the only other foreign player to repeat this feat.