Oh, Wolverhampton. When they're not passing off manual labor as a prize, they're trying to turn their players into subzero ice people.

The club's physio and masseur took midfielders Michael Kightly and Dave Edwards (pictured above, left) to a cryotherapy clinic earlier in the week. No, they weren't making plans to freeze their bodies after they die so they can one day fight in Walt Disney's unfrozen superhuman zombie army, they were actually there to freeze their living bodies at ungodly temperatures and all while wearing nothing but underpants and gloves.

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With just four games left in the Apertura, the gloves will be coming off as wins have become ever important for playoff contenders San Luis, Tigres, and Pachuca. Click to continue reading...

Kevin receiving the mounted jersey and gloves to commemorate setting the All Time Saves record early in the year.As soon as Kevin spoke in the interview I could tell he was a speaking with emotion. It was obvious that the season being over and missing the playoffs pained him. He speaks candidly about the team and himself. Click to continue reading...

Yesterday The Boss stated in the press that the player we are all desperate to see be given a chance is ready to play. Yep, he says Ramsey has grown into a man and expects him to play 15 -20 games for the first team this season?? Well Arsene, he won't reach the target you have set him if you don't play him will he?

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Meet England's new Assistant Head Coach
Guardian Headline: "Ice hockey is crazy because it's a mix between boxing and other sports. The referee has to stop the game all the time because each incident leads to a boxing match."
Fabio Capello: Okay, John Terry, when the opposing forward gets too close and, como se dice, slashes you with a low stick near, your ah, the ah, loose parts, you will throw off your gloves and skate up to him, and stop, and spray him with ice. Click to continue reading...

So almost without us (or me, anyway) even realizing it, we appear to possibly have a goalkeeping controversy on our hands.

After Manuel Almunia went down a few games into the season with a "chest infection", and last season's number two, Lukasz Fabianski, was also out with a long term injury, we had to hand the gloves over to young Italian Vito Mannone.

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For those of you who didn't get a close-up of Kei Kamara's hair this weekend. Check out this picture. He was also rocking pink gloves for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The new 'do.
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Hello people, hope your enjoying your weekend thus far, and are anticipating a good win over Blackburn tomorrow. I think the team is performing well but we have to be consistent this season which wasn't the case last season, to the point where we had so many 0-0 draws in a row it was unbelievable.

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Aging keeper may be about to call it a day.

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Edwin van der Sar has revealed that he will make his mind up over his future in December.

The soon-to-be 39-year-old is currently on the sidelines nursing a hand injury but admits that the time to call it a day is getting ever closer.

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Same opponents, different day. The Colorado Rapids face another vital game tonight against the San Jose Earthquakes, a team they played in California only this past Friday, somehow escaping with a crucial point thanks to Conor Casey's 95th minute penalty.
That vital point after such a tough game will no doubt boost the Rapids as they seek to secure three points against the basement team in the Western Conference and reach the long-discussed 40 point watershed. Click to continue reading...

Michel Vorm Maarten Stekelenburg trained without gloves on the billiard-like pitch of Hampden Park. The goalie wanted to test his injured finger. Van Marwijk: "The chance that Stekelenburg will play is really slim." This will mean that Michel Vorm will take over and he'll be part of the group of players Click to continue reading...

I had a post of this the other day, but clearly video (thanks to 101 Great Goals) makes it so much better.
You have to think a hair pull from a goalkeeper is less painful due to the gloves, right...? Click to continue reading...

Former winners Celtic are amongst a number of big name teams already fighting for their lives in this season's UEFA Champions League.

Celtic travel to Russia desperate to overturn a 1-0 deficit, but with opponents Dinamo Moscow on a fine run of form, defender Gary Caldwell knows it will take something special to emerge victorious.

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OK, I'll admit I got just about every call wrong last year – although I did redeem myself slightly by identifying Tony Mowbray the moment wee Gordon stepped away from Celtic.But like Yves Makalambay I'm prepared to pull my gloves back on, hurl myself back into the fray and flirt with yet another calamity. Click to continue reading...

OK, I'll admit I got just about every call wrong last year – although I did redeem myself slightly by identifying Tony Mowbray the moment wee Gordon stepped away from Celtic.But like Yves Makalambay I'm prepared to pull my gloves back on, hurl myself back into the fray and flirt with yet another calamity. Click to continue reading...

Morning all,

it looks like the gloves are coming off and the relationships between our biggest shareholders are going to be increasingly tested over the next little while.

You'll have seen some news reports quoting Alisher Usmanov's partner in Red and White, Farhad Moshiri, after he was interviewed on Sportsweek on BBC 5 Live yesterday.

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No, that's not our third goalkeeper - although judging by his performance, he could have had a different career...
The sprawling 'keeper pictured is three-time Pro Bowl kicker David Akers, who came out to the U.S. team training session for a bout of sharing professional secrets with Stuart Holden and Santino Quaranta. Click to continue reading...

Kei Kamara, better known for pouting and starting fights than for putting the ball in the net, managed to do the latter against Kansas City on Saturday and then - for just a moment - scared the living bejeezus out of everyone as he ran toward the touchline to celebrate the goal:
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That was the title of a letter to the editor in today's Evansville Courier Press, which was written by Mark "WK" Murty in reference to Larry Collins. Collins is an institution in youth baseball here in Evansville, and just recently had the Eastside Little League fields named in his honor.
Below is the letter than Murty wrote, and speaks volumes about what coaching is really about. Click to continue reading...

It seems some people find it hard to move on. We all acknowledge that sometimes, in a relationship, both parties might have been at fault and, like adults, we say what we have to say, and move on.

The relationship between clubs and players, players and managers and players and fans is not that different in essence.

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Today's training weather left little doubt what winter means in this part of the country. Starting the session at 5:30 p.m., the first bag of equipment off the bus contained the jackets, hats and gloves, and with good reason. Temperatures dipped into the mid 30's during the hour-long session, which consisted of the usual pre-game work on team shape and re-starts. Click to continue reading...

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Well it looks like those of us who thought there would be something positive coming in this version of the Confederations Cup we're just wishful thinking. If you thought there would be at least, maybe three points in the first two matches then I would say that I was thinking the same thing.

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Background: Well, I had to put one GK in my Hall of Fame inaugural class, and no one (in my opinion) deserves it more than Mr. Kevin Hartman. Hartman has been in the league since 1997, and the statistics he has put up since have been eye-popping. In short, there has been no man more successful between the posts in MLS history than Hartman.

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Stuart Pearce defends 'disrespectful' move England under 21s deployed goalkeeper Joe Lewis as an emergency substitute striker as they coasted to a 7-0 friendly win over Azerbaijan. The Peterborough keeper experienced life on a football pitch without the aid of gloves as he came on as a 75th minute replacement for Wigan's Lee Cattermole. Click to continue reading...

Despite an injury list that would be extremely worrying if the situation was repeated in South Africa next year, we're going into the next two qualifiers in an extremely favourable position to ensure automatic qualification. We should beat Kazakhstan on Saturday (4:00pm on Setanta, highlights 10:00pm on ITV) and Andorra on Wednesday (7:45pm on ITV), but arguably the most important game in the group is the one between Croatia and the Ukraine, which kicks off at 7:15pm on Saturday: it's pretty safe to say that if Ukraine lose, they're unlikely to get to South Africa next summer, leaving the Croats as the only obstacle to overcome.

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Kun Aguero and his boot-gloves want you to know that he has not received any calls from H.Potter Perez yet and that he'll be staying on at Atletico para siempre.

"For me, I will be at Atlético de Madrid forever. I have not talked to anyone.

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Hartman accents replicas of the equipment now on display at the National Soccer Hall of Fame.
You've all heard by now a few times over that Kevin Hartman is the new MLS career saves record holder. Well, the National Soccer Hall of Fame now has the gear to prove it. Check out their story and accompanying picture about Hartman's game-worn jersey and gloves appearing starting today at the Hall in Oneonta, New York. Click to continue reading...

Reading failed to win at home for the umpteenth time this year and went down to a resilient Bongo side by two goals to one on a dramatic afternoon at the Madejski Stadium. There can be no complaints from Steve Coppell's men who were never really in contention until a late rally gave the Blues some minor cause for concern. Click to continue reading...

New Major League Soccer career saves leader Kansas City Wizards goalkeeper Kevin Hartman has donated the gloves he was wearing when he made his record setting 1,137th to the National Soccer Hall of Fame. Hartman tied and broke Tony Meola's record against Colorado on March 28th. "I am excited that the Hall of Fame will place this jersey and these gloves on display," Hartman said. Click to continue reading...

Football is one of the greatest things in the world but it's not perfect. It used to be perfect. Before money and television and the Bosman ruling and Baby Bentleys and roastings and tattoos and takeovers and no standing and agents and prawn sandwiches and rotation. English newspaper The Times takes a stab at the "50 [. Click to continue reading...

Football is one of the greatest things in the world but it's not perfect. It used to be perfect. Before money and television and the Bosman ruling and Baby Bentleys and roastings and tattoos and takeovers and no standing and agents and prawn sandwiches and rotation. English newspaper The Times takes a stab at the "50 [. Click to continue reading...

Football is one of the greatest things in the world but it's not perfect. It used to be perfect. Before money and television and the Bosman ruling and Baby Bentleys and roastings and tattoos and takeovers and no standing and agents and prawn sandwiches and rotation. English newspaper The Times takes a stab at the "50 [. Click to continue reading...

Football is one of the greatest things in the world but it's not perfect. It used to be perfect. Before money and television and the Bosman ruling and Baby Bentleys and roastings and tattoos and takeovers and no standing and agents and prawn sandwiches and rotation. English newspaper The Times takes a stab at the "50 [. Click to continue reading...