The hysteria surrounding the England job is quite simply laughable, mainly because in my view, whoever you put in charge of the national team, the current set up and set of players does not stand a prayer of even getting close to winning a tournament in the near future.
Anyway, rather unsurprisingly, following the jury's decision to find Redknapp guilty of tax evasion, combined with the sudden resignation of Don Fabio, the Droopy looking one has found himself firmly at the front of the queue for the England job perhaps sooner than expected.

Don't be a mug and stick with Spurs. Know what I mean ‘Arry? - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

So it's "arrivederci" to Mr Capello and with that once again The FA are in search of fresh man with fresh ideas to manage the England football team. The now infamous "impossible job" is waiting ominously to be filled by a brave managerial soul and the national media appear to be in no doubt as to whom that man should be, yes it's the half human half bloodhound hybrid, Harry Redknapp.

Liverpool's Luis Suarez should have known better, but his racism ban exposes a lack of cultural understanding by the FA

The hysteria that has erupted over the star's suspension both in England and in Uruguay has been as harmful for the football governing body as it has been for the former Ajax star

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Liverpool's Luis Suarez should have known better, but his racism ban exposes a lack of cultural understanding by the FA

The hysteria that has erupted over the star's suspension both in England and in Uruguay has been as harmful for the football governing body as it has been for the former Ajax star

View the full story here: Goal

A news article on 2011-12-22 13:24:00 from: Goal

This news item has been reproduced from today's media.

Liverpool's Luis Suarez should have known better, but his racism ban exposes a lack of cultural understanding by the FA

The hysteria that has erupted over the star's suspension both in England and in Uruguay has been as harmful for the football governing body as it has been for the former Ajax star

View the full story here: Goal

A news article on 2011-12-22 13:24:00 from: Goal

This news item has been reproduced from today's media.

Liverpool's Luis Suarez should have known better, but his racism ban exposes a lack of cultural understanding by the FA

The hysteria that has erupted over the star's suspension both in England and in Uruguay has been as harmful for the football governing body as it has been for the former Ajax star

View the full story here: Goal

A news article on 2011-12-22 13:24:00 from: Goal

This news item has been reproduced from today's media.

Liverpool's Luis Suarez should have known better, but his racism ban exposes a lack of cultural understanding by the FA

The hysteria that has erupted over the star's suspension both in England and in Uruguay has been as harmful for the football governing body as it has been for the former Ajax star

View the full story here: Goal

A news article on 2011-12-22 13:24:00 from: Goal

This news item has been reproduced from today's media.

Contrary to appearances, this bath was not designed by Stephen Ireland. Image: REUTERS/Piotr Skornicki/Agencja Gazeta.

With the UEFA EURO 2012 draw less than 24 hours away, our limited attention spans have gravitated towards teams' accommodations. Where will our favourite 'ballers be holed up during the tourney?

Ah. The nerves are a-jangling.
Scotland on the road again. At stake a place in Euro 2012, a boozed up tour of Poland and Ukraine with all the fun and futile expectation that goes with a major championship.
And then we wake up.
Scotland aren't in the play offs.

Well, after the hysteria of yesterday's shirt giveaway (more on that later) things have taken a rather sober turn this afternoon. Like one of those magic-eye pictures that were all the rage in the nineties, the details are burning into focus and it looks awfully like another international break boogieman.

I've missed out on Beckham mania. He started his football career when I had already left England so I was spared the hysteria and bullshit that accompanies people who are thought of as celebrities.
Now though it seems that I'm about to get my fair share with reports suggesting LA Galaxy will play a friendly in Jakarta at the end of November.

I've missed out on Beckham mania. He started his football career when I had already left England so I was spared the hysteria and bullshit that accompanies people who are thought of as celebrities.
Now though it seems that I'm about to get my fair share with reports suggesting LA Galaxy will play a friendly in Jakarta at the end of November.

For the second time this season, the heavens opened on a Saturday lunchtime for Arsenal in more senses than one today, and this time around they contrived to be more defensively profligate than on the previous occasion, last month against Liverpool. For all the hysteria in the immediate aftermath of that match, it was plausible to chalk down that loss as having had a element of the freak about it.

There are empty seats at Wembley this evening. The FA's hyperbolic per-match ticket advertising for this match may have made inferences to this being the match that everybody wants to see, but the fact that the advertisements were on display anywhere at all told its own story. There are red dots pock-marking the background at the national stadium this evening, betraying the feeling that this match is more of a tussle than a battle of Britain.

It's that time of year again. The hype and hysteria of ongoing transfer saga's continue, the opening weekend has come and gone and pundits the length and breadth of Great Britain the World are having their say on the season's final outcomes already. Well, for others like me, the season is yet to begin.

The news that the biggest club sides in Europe may be looking to cast UEFA and FIFA aside and form their own breakaway league will come as no great surprise to anybody with even the most cursory knowledge of the modus operandum of those that run said clubs. At height of the FIFA corruption hysteria at the end of May, we noted on this site that, "Who is to say that the coup d'etat won't come from a cabal of the biggest clubs and television companies that these clubs already work so harmoniously with?

Guest TSG contributor, Darius Tahir asks if there is a talent gap between the USMNT and their rivals south of the border.

Freddy Adu. A bright spot for the USMNT in the Gold Cup Final.

Somehow the hysteria has sustained itself for a month or so after the Gold Cup loss; it was traumatic, sure, but that's no reason to draw the wrong conclusions.

For the first time in their history, Liverpool Football Club has landed in China to kick off the first leg of their Standard Chartered sponsored pre-season tour of Asia.
Kenny Dalglish and his squad touched down at Guangzhou airport at 11am local time this morning following a 13-hour flight from Liverpool (via Kazakhstan) - and were greeted by scenes of hysteria as Chinese fans gathered in their hundreds to welcome the Reds to their country for the first time.

A Darkness Closes In On Arsenal - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

Being a Liverpool Forum Obsessive I've read plenty of transfer gossip this season, most of which I won't bore you with since it consists largely of hysteria about only having signed one player, albeit, a fairly big one. What I will tell you about is the general atmosphere, and it's the same as many other clubs which find themselves well endowed with finance.

A quiet June for me on the blogging front.
Everyone needs a break. Expecially if they spend too much time thinking about, writing about and watching Scottish football.
What have I missed?
A Romanov rant, this one wrapped up in an apparent defence of a convicted sex offender, followed by Hearts applying the handbrake and deciding on the course of action that most expected them to follow in the first place.

Once upon a time, FIFA was not corrupt, it was just a Eurocentric empire run for the good of a few countries in western Europe unwilling to open the doors of the World Cup to the rest of the world. Those were the 1960s, when Englishman Stanley Rous' FIFA preferred to pander to the racist South African football association over finding ways to integrate the developing world into its halls of power.

Survival Sunday, then a name that was bestowed upon the final day of the season because most issues at the top of the table had been already been resolved. The third class passengers of the Premier League, therefore, have been bumped up to first class. Nature abhors a vacuum and the the last day of the Premier League season wouldn't be the same without a news story.

Even though I can't say sincerely that I'm a fan of Michael Carrick, the hue and cry in the papers and on the blogs that has accompanied his contract renewal, along with that of Darren Fletcher, touches on hysteria. First and foremost, although everybody clearly recognizes that he has lost the desire he showed at Spurs and in the 2007-08 season, not signing him would be stupid.

If there is one thing that the last few weeks of Roy Hodgson's time in charge of Liverpool Football Club became notable for, it was the mass of contradiction that enveloped it. Hodgson was the wrong man for the job at the wrong time, but the hysteria that seemed to engulf the club as the team failed to find any consistency (they neither lost nor won more than two successive matches under his stewardship) ensured that rational discussion was, broadly speaking, the first casualty of the debate that ensued.