Luis Suarez has been back in action for twenty-five minutes, and he's already lucky he hasn't been banned two or four or seventeen more times. In related news, the buildup to a match against Manchester United is always so very much fun...

* In amongst all the excitement over Kenny Dalglish reminding the world that the club never thought Suarez' ban was an entirely appropriate punishment, following Monday's match there was an even more ridiculous Suarez b-plot that popped up when Wayne Rooney hopped on Twitter to suggest that the Liverpool striker should be banned for his mis-timed kick to Scott Parker's midriff.

Harry Redknapp, who spent most of last week aiming poisonous verbal darts in the direction of Manchester City manager, Roberto Mancini, last night went on live television to try to get the FA to take retrospective action against Mario Balotelli for an alleged stamp on Scott Parker during City's dramatic win against Spurs.

Morning all, welcome to an Arsenal free Saturday. We don't play until 4pm tomorrow so there'll be lots going on to cause joy/consternation today.

Arsene's press conference was interesting yesterday. We'll come to team news etc in a little bit, but midway through he launched into quite a broadside about the way television influences the fixtures, and even suggested that cosy relationships between some clubs and the TV companies were being exploited to give those teams an advantage.

The FA recently condemned Liverpool's Luis Suarez to a life of being labelled a racist, but when it comes to their own employees, they shy away from taking any kind of action. Case in point: In September 2011, FA Council member Peter Brown sent a racist email to his brother from a dedicated FA email account.

Liverpool's hypocrisy undermines anti-racism and our young people

The future of football needs strong and decisive leadership especially for the next generation of young people Liverpool FC need to take a hard look at themselves and how they have responded to the complaint and the investigations into the allegations of abuse in the Patrice Evra/Luis Suárez case.

We continue our new series on the Free Beer Movement. It's called "Brews and Views" and we pose a question or topic to various prominent soccer persons and, well, they give us their view on it.
We've got loads of get people that have already responded to our call for essay submissions and each week we'll feature a unique perspective on the current topic/question at hand.

The Daily Mirror's Arsenal Hypocrisy: A preliminary analysis By: Anne and Bobby Pliers I'd like to begin this article by taking a look at the overall performances of EPL clubs in the Champions League thus far, taking into account the overall difficulty of the groups into which EPL clubs have been drawn.

- Jason Davis
The fourth installment of the Free on a Bosman program, enumerated with the classy Roman numeral desigination, is here for your enjoyment.
Jared and I start with the good news and the bad news around the USMNT. Just when Holden gets back, down goes Torres. Gooch is playing well (maybe?

While this doesn't specifically relate to Valencia, it is an issue that has and will affect all teams playing the beautiful game at some point or other. Watching the highlights reel of the Copa America quarter finals inspired this piece, as it reminded me of one of my greatest hates in modern football, after the corruption and hypocrisy of Fifa, and the role of money and the media as an all-too-powerful force.

By Chris Wright

As we've already seen this morning, Newcastle United are about to embark upon a 10,419-mile round-trip tour of the States in the next few days, though one man who will not be feeling the benefit of all those lovely air miles will be poor old Joey Barton who has been refused a VISA for, essentially, kicking seven shades out of a guy in front of a McDonald's a couple of years ago.

By Chris Wright

As we've already seen this morning, Newcastle United are about to embark upon a 10,419-mile round-trip tour of the States in the next few days, though one man who will not be feeling the benefit of all those lovely air miles will be poor old Joey Barton who has been refused a VISA for, essentially, kicking seven shades out of a guy in front of a McDonald's a couple of years ago.

It seems to me there are three distinct types of football writing.
First, we have the straight-up, journalistic, newspaper style match-report. There are some intriguing variations on this approach, like Michael Cox's Zonal Marking with its intense tactical hermeneutics, or the florid style you might sometimes find in a strange place like the Mirror, incorporating all sorts of colourful, often mixed metaphors that end up featured in the opening pages of When Saturday Comes.

It's not unusual for such things to happen and gifts have been around throughout the history of Fifa. What's happening now for me is hypocrisy.

Jack Warner resigns. Doesn't understand what he did wrong. Well, Jack, times have changed and you didn't adapt.

Yeah, we're kinda psychic I guess.

I need a favor, broseph..

We did this. Or so I'm convinced.

True or not, it's rather vindicating to see the latest rumors put Capello in yet another bind with regards to his captain issues, or lack thereof. It seems he's run out of second-string leaders to masquerade as top dog, so he's decided to finally give it back to England's Brave ahead of next weekend's vital fixture with Wales.

On this week's Gadsby's England, the FA finally stand up to Sepp Blatter, a Welsh ticketing fiasco, and England were part of the World Cup bidding hypocrisy all along...

Following on from yesterday's article looking at Barcelona's hypocrisy, it's worth looking at Arsene Wenger's reply to comments made by Barcelona's ex-president Joan Laporta and current VP Javier Faus about Cesc Fabregas.

While Faus was only talking about how much money they have available for transfers, Laporta went a step further, talking about a sense of 'entitlement' with Fabregas "It's an issue of justice, we now want to recover them," he said.

While I was ‘away' at the Asian Cup, English football ‘personalities' maintained their capacity to infuriate – through stinking hypocrisy as much as the usual pig ignorance.

Brady

Everybody on the planet bar a couple of Buddhist monks in Bhutan (only a couple, mind) has had their say on Andy Gray's and Richard Keys' departures from SKY.

Whatever Cesc Fabregas did or didn't say in the tunnel at half time during the Everton game, David Moyes's comments on the issue are pathetic.
Clearly he wanted to distract attention away from his team's latest defeat and their lowly position (15th) in the EPL.

Apart from insisting that Cesc should have been given a red card for what he allegedly said in the tunnel, Moyes also claimed that any fair minded observer would have felt his team deserved to come away with something from Tuesday's game.

This has been a big week in football media, obviously. Richard Keys and Andy Gray were fired from/pressured to resign from Sky Sports for sexist comments about female linespersons caught on tape. I don't want to speak much more to the hypocrisy of traditional football media's open-mouthed shock reaction to sexism within its own ranks, an institution that has largely been completely dismissive of women's soccer (to the detriment of the development of the sport in England, as well as an echo of the sad legacy of the FA's relationship with women's football—see Dick, Kerr's Ladies).

For anyone who hasn't kept up to speed with this whole affair, Richard Keys has now spoken on Talksport and apologised for his behaviour. I have to say he comes across very well, makes some eloquent points and rightly points out the rank hypocrisy of the media. He has now resigned from his post at sky, possibly jumping before being pushed one would imagine.

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Rafael da Silva was sent off at Tottenham today with 17 minutes (+4 injury time) remaining on the clock.

With Spurs fans always whinging about the decisions that have gone against them, as if it's an exclusive disadvantage, you have to wonder if their hypocrisy can continue.

Kickoff from Ewood Park at 20:00 GMT and 3:00 EST.

Ways to Watch:

Match shown live somewhere, I'd imagine, in the UK and on Fox Soccer Plus in the US.

MyP2P.eu
Atdhe.net
ChannelSurfing.net

Liverpool:

Team sheet when it's released.