Currently in 6th place in France's second tier of soccer, French Ligue 2 club FC Nantes has a new sponsor in the form of brick and mortar and online footie...

When we're not watching the footie, we love nothing better than kicking back with an industrial sized bucket of popcorn and criticising the hell out of the latest offerings from Hollywood. We were therefore thrilled when a "Movie Titles To Describe Your Sex Life" thread broke out on Twitter yesterday.

One of the best parts about travelling is meeting exciting and inspiring individuals from all walks of life. Here are some of the fabulous folks, futbolitos and futbolitas in London posing with Futbolita and/or our postcards! We'll share a lot more including video footage very soon!

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After two relegations in a row Stockport County appointed former German international Didi Hamann as manager three months ago.
And it is already looking as though a third demotion from the Conference National is on the cards as County are level on points with Lincoln City who occupy the fourth relegation slot currently.

More Seattlish stuff...

(First, apologies, if you just flew over from Twitter based upon a certain Megan Fox tweet that bent the truth. This is, afterall, a piece on marketing. Read on friend for the connector.)

A great tweet on Sunday for MLS: 64,140 people watched Seattle beat San Jose in MLS this weekend.

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?

Welcome to the newest show on CSRN, The YSA Report, covering the Philadelphia Union of MLS!

The August Edition of the YSA Report features panelists: Jon Marks, Nick Youngstein – Unholy Union blog, Earl "Kemosabe" Gardner – Evil Genius Producer and as always Murph.

In the August YSA Report Podcast we break down the Columbus Crew match, talk about the Union's new signing Freddy Adu, hear about Roger Torres new business venture, talk to Union Ultras the Bearfight Brigade, examine Nowak's preferred XI, and his foray into Twitter.

Still one match left to go and we still haven't seen Spurs play. That aside, here are some observations from a weekend where I got to watch a pretty serious amount of footie. Here we go... Mo Rules - As we mentioned over the summer, buying road players is a dodgy proposition. Exhibit A from this weekend is Manchester City.

It seems all the major footie Journalists have decided to jump on the band wagon, telling us about Fergie building a new squad of young tallent.

But hold on a second just last season these guy's were telling us how United were finished as a major power in English football because of their ageing squad who won the Premier League Title last season.

What a great footie story: USMNT and Vancouver Whitecaps centre back Jay Demerit. I was fortunate enough to meet DeMerit last winter after he left Watford and just as he had begun his winter training camp with Vancouver and ... Continue reading →

From Dublin to Australia to the Ukraine, we catch up with Gary and John from YBIG.ie and Foot.ie who talk about the forums and Irish soccer.
Some of the topics discussed include:
- European Fans Championships
- Players on the Move
- Dodgey Posters
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The President's posse... the Colorado Rapids.The President welcomed the reigning Major League Soccer champions Colorado Rapids to the White House this week building on his already bulging soccer credentials. He even compared himself to Barcelona great Lionel Messi.
Even though its customary for Presidents to welcome league title holders in American sports, Barack Obama has proven to be unique in his soccer fandom from his predecessors.

This is sure to bring out the pitchforks and torches from the FIFA faithful: this year's version of the finest footie game around will only feature a partial selection of MLS clubs. To say this is disappointing is an understatement; how else can Red Bull New York win the league if not for a prolonged campaign of late-night button mashing on my couch.

Michael Owen snapped this shot of his son, James, sporting his own (mini) England NT kit before the father and son duo skipped out to a kiddie training session. Seeing Mikey's boy all proud in his footie clobber was so overwhelmingly endearing that even our office wheelie chairs caved to the cuteness.

Welcome to The Weekly Five. Each week I address a topic by presenting a list of five examples that support, oppose or simply relate to the subject.
There is no doubt that the English Premiership, one of the top (if not the) best soccer leagues in the world, is better than Major League Soccer.

If you're in Seattle ahead of Saturday night's big Sounders-Timbers steel-cage death-match, you should make it a point to stop by Golazo HQ on Friday night. The footie-fixated energy drink manufacturer are throwing what looks to be a proper party under the moniker of Los Fanaticos featuring 3v3 soccer, DJ's, FIFA 11 tournaments, and complimentary (read: free for your broke/cheap/stingy ass) Golazoritas & Brougham Bitter, the bespoke brew of the ECS.

Smiling through the pain? Mark van Bommel, Clarence Seedorf and Luca Antonini model the new AC Milan home strip. Image via soccereviews.com

The Serie A champions launched their new home kit last week, and being the self-appointed connoisseurs of all this fash and footie on the web, we would be derelict in our duty if we were to neglect to make some sort of comment.

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With stories as vital and varied as David Luiz' language lunacy, Helen Flanagan's root issues and Peter Crouch's wedding woes, Kickette's Good Week/Bad Week column is the only place you can arm yourself with the information you need for a successful weekend.

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I am a fan! Like many Arsenal fans I call myself, with a great deal of pride, a ‘Gooner'. This clearly identifies me as a fan of the greatest footie club in the world. I bet you do too.

But here is the thing. Although the behaviour, the thought processes and the values of many who also call themselves Gooners chimes very closely with my own ideals, there are many others who seem to have decidedly different views of what constitutes a real fan.

As some of you will already be aware, for the next few weeks Monday night is now literature night here on Twohundredpercent. We are delighted to welcome Football Hobo's Alan Smithy back to our pages this evening for the fifth act of his seven part epic which traces the life of the football supporter in relation to the celebrated monologue from Shakespeare's "As You Like It", which is better known as "The Seven Ages Of Man", or "All The World's A Stage".

Fans of the UEFA Champions League should be a little more than excited about next week's footie matches, especially if they're of the betting ilk. For fantasy news, up-to-the-minute player shuffling reports, League implications, or anything with a real fan ... Continue reading →

For all the foreigners pouring in from outside Manchester to watch their beloved United play, one defiinite thought must be passing through their collective non-Manc gray matter. it can't possibly be any more mediocre than their last meeting at Eastlands in November. For all those 'genuine Mancs' in sky blue scarves who insist that Roberto Mancini is a tactical genius and a winner, entertainment and money are beside the point.

And when I say weird, I'm talking communist footie cartoon-weird. Who's in?

Will he kiss this badge?

Wrong day for The Shin Guardian to be working on a Saturday.

Dempsey with a bucket, Arsenal leak four to "earn" a draw. Mighty Unitey chewed up by Wolves.

Sunday we'll be firmly planted before American footie.

Early on West Ham vs. Brum and Celtic vs.

*The EPL's Tottenham Hotspur hopes/believes/is trying to convince themselves (take your pick, one is as good as another at this point since the Galaxy never confirm any deal until every "i" is dotted) that David Beckham could be on loan to them by Sunday. Details here. And don't you just love those vague comments from Spurs boss Harry Rednapp.