There is little down that at the top of world football there are some complete idiots. At the very peak you have Sepp Blatter, a man with more faux pas than Boris Johnson, and whose ideas are often the ridicule of the media and blogs everywhere. On the European stage, you have Michel Platini, who is a [. Click to continue reading...

Non-Arsenal related, but it made me laugh - at the same time as the BBC posted that Villa had called off the Gareth Barry to Liverpool negotiations, the Sun claimed the deal was almost complete: Classic crossed wires at the Sun The Sun use the age old 'we understand' to completely contradict the quotes, which are quite [. Click to continue reading...

Sepp Blatter is a tool. A complete and utter moronic idiot. And Cristiano Ronaldo isn't far behind by agreeing with him. Seriously, how is Blatter still in charge? Does he want the whole transfer system abolished now? Or is this just part of his hatred of English football and the Premiership? Click to continue reading...

The story of Lassana Diarra is extremely familiar. Disillusioned at Chelsea, he joined Arsenal in August (still only nine months ago), before complaining about his lack of opportunities and moving to Portsmouth in January. Within days, he was declaring the south coast club as nothing more than a stepping stone, a wonderful way to endear yourself [. Click to continue reading...

Afternoon. It is the day after the day after the night that was, and there is still a wonderful feeling of achievement around, after the vanquishing of the European champions AC Milan on Tuesday night. Instead of reflecting on what might have been, we are now looking forward with determination, first to Wigan this weekend, and [. Click to continue reading...

Afternoon. It is the day after the day after the night that was, and there is still a wonderful feeling of achievement around, after the vanquishing of the European champions AC Milan on Tuesday night. Instead of reflecting on what might have been, we are now looking forward with determination, first to Wigan this weekend, and [. Click to continue reading...

Ian Plenderleith read Rugby Dim Sum's book about MLS tooliganism, so we don't have to. Thanks for taking the bullet. We owe you one. (Sure makes up for the New York Times giving the damn thing a serious review.) Click to continue reading...

Could you guys maybe start killing each other at basketball games or auto races or something? Grazie, Dan Click to continue reading...

Guess John Thorrington knew what he was doing after all. Click to continue reading...

Offside Rules gives us the sad news that the North End of Columbus Crew Stadium is being torn out and replaced with a concert stage. The North End was a mixture of Charenton Asylum and the People's Front of Judea, where Columbus Crew fans waged ongoing battle against their arch-enemies, other Columbus Crew fans. We [...] Click to continue reading...

Now freaking Reuters has a story on that clown Buggy Drimson yammering about MLS hooliganism. What does he do, go around threatenting to beat you up if you don't write about him? (Yeah, I'm writing about him, but no one reading this is stupid enough to go buy his book.) If it [...] Click to continue reading...

Usually "HOOLIGANS! CAN IT HAPPEN IN MLS?!" articles are published on April Fool's Day. But apparently Fox needed someone to make Jamie Trecker look like Grantland Freaking Rice, so we get Nick Webster. No link from me, but you could probably find it by running a Google search for "useless tools" or something. Bottles [...] Click to continue reading...