Israeli midfielder Ashraf Soliman was involved in arguably the most exciting game of his life when Maccabi Umm al-Fahm took on Hapoel Afula in a cup tie. With his team 2-1 up and injury-time looming, Soliman contrived to score perhaps the worst (or best depending how you look at it) own goal ever as he [.

Manchester United produced a trademark comeback to force a draw at Stamford Bridge. Two Wayne Rooney's penalties and a late equaliser by Javier Hernandez saw United snatching a draw from the jaws of defeat, after having been 3-0 down at one stage, while David DeGea produced two outstanding saves deep in injury time to deny Chelsea [.

Newcastle now have 39 points after 23 games in the league, and that's just 7 points short of our overall total after 38 games last season, when we finished 12th. Gabriel Obertan after scoring in injury time last night So there's a good likelihood Newcastle can do a lot better this season, and we are on track for 64 points, and that was good [.

Andy Carroll who has come under intense fire from the Liverpool faithful the past few weeks for his inconsistent performances, responded to his critics by scoring in Liverpool's 3-0 win over Wolves yesterday.

The £35 million signing from Newcastle opened the scoring for the Reds, to take his tally for the club to 7.

It seems that a lot of people are not talking about football these days. Whether it be racism, gayism (ok not sure if that's an actual word) or other outrageous incidents not even related to the beautiful game. Here are a few things which I think should be brought back/or removed to help bring the English game back to the glory days of the 90s.

THFC1882 welcomes back guest writer Kenny Palmer with a preview of Tottenham Hotspur versus Wigan.

A week is a long time in football, as Spurs two contrasting performances highlighted. Heroic in defeat against Manchester City earning plaudits for the character they showed in coming back from 2-0 down to level the scores before losing to an injury time penalty.

Manchester City's Mario Balotelli could quit English football over the perceived unfair treatment he has been receiving, his agent has claimed.
The striker has been charged with violent conduct by the FA, which will carry a four match ban if he and City don't contest the charge.
The charge relates to an incident in Sunday's match against Spurs, in which he appeared to stamp on Tottenham midfielder Scott Parker.

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At half-time yesterday Arsenal left the pitch to a chorus of boos. 2-0 down against Aston Villa, it looked as if we were heading for a fourth January defeat. We hadn't played particularly badly, to be fair, but got caught out twice in ways we really shouldn't have.

Saturday 15th October 2011.
Celtic, fresh from a defeat at Tynecastle, are 3-0 down at half time to Kilmarnock.
Winning the title looks a long way off, Neil Lennon's managerial coat seems to hang on an ever shooglier peg.
They came back to draw 3-3, three goals in a 10 minute burst from Anthony Stokes and Charlie Mulgrew salvaging a point.

They say that lightning doesn't strike twice but both Equatorial Guinea and Gabon scored late goals in their matches to make the last eight of the African Cup of Nations.. Then again many experts said that Equatorial Guinea and Gabon shouldn't be hosting the African Cup of Nations as neither country has any real football pedigree.

Ahead of this weekend's FA Cup game against Liverpool, Andy Cole has reflected on his time playing for United at Anfield.

Cole scored at Anfield in our 3-1 win in the 1996-1997 season, scored two there the following season, and again in 1999.

"When I was in the team I used to love playing at Anfield," he told the official site.

Real Madrid came back from a two-goal deficit to draw 2-2 with Barcelona, but that was not enough as Barcelona progressed to the Copa del Rey semi-finals 4-3 on aggregate.

Real Madrid will rue their missed chances, especially in the first twenty minutes when they had more than enough chances to win this match.

By Chris Wright

There were amazing scenes in Spain last night, where third tier part-timers CD Mirandés beat La Liga side Espanyol 2-1 in injury time at the tiny, 6,000-capacity Anduva Stadium to secure themselves a 4-4 aggregate (away goals) win and a berth in the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey in the process.

A trip to Wembley and Liverpool's first cup final in nearly five years are on the line on Wednesday, with Manchester City heading to Anfield for the second leg of the League Cup semi-final. Liverpool have a 1-0 advantage from the first leg after a Steven Gerrard penalty capped a dominant opening spell for Kenny Dalglish's squad, but there's little illusion that they'll be able to coast into the final, with City more than capable of turning the tie over.

A trip to Wembley and Liverpool's first cup final in nearly five years are on the line tomorrow, with Manchester City heading to Anfield for the second leg of the League Cup semi-final. Liverpool have a 1-0 advantage from the first leg after a Steven Gerrard penalty capped a dominant opening spell for Kenny Dalglish's squad, but there's little illusion that they'll be able to coast into the final, with City more than capable of turning the tie over.

1. Mario Balotelli should not have been on the pitch to score the winner against Spurs. He should have been answering questions at the local nick after his stamp on Scott Parker. 2. Everyone said Spurs would miss Emmanuel Adebayor's height, but they can hardly have envisaged Jermain Defoe's little legs unable to stretch far [.

1. After the man that should have been sent off for a nasty stamp won and scored a match winning penalty in injury time for Manchester City, you had to wonder whether today was going to be our day. There had been plenty of talk of "revenge" from Arsenal players ahead of kick-off, in reference to the 8-2 battering we dished out at Old Trafford, so we knew they would be up for this game even more than usual.

Mario Balotelli scored an injury time penalty to give Manchester City a 3-2 win over Tottenham Hotspur in the English Premier League on Sunday. The victory secures top spot in...

In the big two Sunday games in the Premier League, both Manchester City and Manchester United dealt big blows to North London rivals Spurs and Arsenal.

In the first game, Man City won a thrilling controversial 3-2 match thanks to Mario Balotelli's injury-time penalty.

The controversy is whether Balotelli should have been on the field to score the penalty as he appeared to stamp on Scott Parker's head.

In the big two Sunday games in the Premier League, both Manchester City and Manchester United dealt big blows to North London rivals Spurs and Arsenal.

In the first game, Man City won a thrilling controversial 3-2 match thanks to Mario Balotelli's injury-time penalty.

The controversy is whether Balotelli should have been on the field to score the penalty as he appeared to stamp on Scott Parker's head.

Manchester City maintain their lead at the top of table and also widen their gap with third place team, Tottenham Hotspurs after Roberto Mancini's team edged passed Harry Redknapp's boys this Sunday.

Controversial Italian striker, Mario Balotelli arrived as City's savior in the match after scoring the winning goal deep in injury time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyGKr2S3J4k&feature=player_detailpage You simply can't keep that man out of the news. And whilst Balotelli's principal effect in Manchester City's game against Spurs was to gain and score the injury time winner from the penalty spot, Super Mario gained some of the controversy that seems to follow him around.

Malaysia Super League
Kedah v Kelantan 0-3 (M Ghadar, Norshahrul, Danny Antiwi)
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Harimau Muda B v Johor 1-1Sime Darby v ATM 2-1PDRM v Malaysia Pos 2-2NS Betaria v MP Muar 1-2MBJB v PP USM 1-1Perlis v Pahang 2-2
ATM suffered their first defeat of the season when they lost 2-1 away to Sime Darby in a game that was played on 21 January having originally been rained off.

Roberto Mancini seems to be faltering under some of the questioning from the media recently, seemingly letting them get under his skin as the season starts to hot up. His side lost 1-0 at home to Liverpool in the first leg of the League Cup semi final, with a Gerrard goal the difference, and apparently the 2 came to clashes in the tunnel after the game over a bad tackle by Glen Johnson.

Newcastle won this game this afternoon in injury time, with the winner coming from Jonas Gutierrez as Newcastle fought their way back from being 1-0 down at the break. But it was the great Ben Arfa who Newcastle have to thank as he scored a wonderful goal just 20 minutes from time to equalize the scores, after [.

Won on the lips Fan kiss a player right on the mouth by Anatolly7 Sunderland striker Ji Dong-Won got an unsolicited introduction to the passion of English football with a post-goal snog from a persistent fan. The South Korean starlet found himself on the receiving end of some love from a Black Cats supporter after [.

After last night's hectic London Derby ended with honours even, Spurs manager Harry Redknapp reflected on the game and felt that a draw was probably the right result.

After Daniel Sturridge cancelled out Emmanuel Adebayor's opener, both sides had great chances to win the match with Ade going so close in second half injury time.

There was a match the other day. After the first twenty minutes it mostly wasn't a very interesting match. Unless perhaps you're the sort who finds joy in dull performances and endless reminders that it isn't 2009 any more and that this Liverpool side isn't big on pulling out points that seemed long gone when injury time started.

Oliver Holt's Top 10 most interesting people of 2011 part 1, starring Wilshere, Beckham and Dyer

We asked our Chief Sports Writer Oliver Holt to name the 10 most fascinating people he'd met in 2011. The resulting piece was so good that we've decided to split it into two separate instalments.

Trevor James, an assistant coach for the Portland Timbers during the 2011 season has officially departed from the team's technical staff today. Those of you who were with us during this past pre-season will remember that he had spent the previous 5 years as an assistant coach and director with the LA Galaxy, which means he brought a lot of experience from one of MLS's best teams to the Timbers, unfortunately for us.

Tom Goom is a physiotherapist and Gooner. He loves Arsenal, cheese and shooting thirty yards over the bar. He hate grass munching, racist centre halves, and former Manchester United strikers who look like Black Beauty's ugly diving younger brother.

This week, the grisly details of Abou Diaby's ankle injury:

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Editor's note: At the end of the 2010 season, we posted a series of season reviews of every Philadelphia Union player. Over the next several weeks PSP continues with a review of the 2011 season.

What a roller-coaster ride 2011 was for Philadelphia's favorite Frenchman.

Disappointing midweek arrived for English teams in their Europa League campaign, Fulham have to forget their European ambition as they're journey ended on Wednesday after only picking up a point against Odense BK.

Meanwhile, Stoke City suffered their first defeat in the competition but still secure their passage into the next round although that loss relegated the Potters into runners up position behind Besiktas.

Yes the Clasico was not the only game played in La Liga this weekend. Here is a review of the other games played.

Third placed Valencia looked to have the points wrapped up at Betis on Saturday, before two injury time goals from Ruben Castro turned the result around to give the Seville side their first win in 11 games, winning 2-1.

The In The Stands goal of the week comes from Marseille winger Mathieu Valbuena after his screamer against Borussia Dortmund sealed a 3-2 win for the French giants. Marseille came from 2-0 down to bag an unlikely 3-2 win with Mathieu Valbuena grabbing the headlines after his injury-time belter, thus earning himself the moniker 'Mr [.

By JOHN BOSCHINI

Manchester United and Manchester City might be competing atop the Premier League standings, but neither of them will be taking part in the UEFA Champions League group stage. Instead, it's off to the Europa League.

Manchester United became the first finalist to be knocked out in the group stage the following year after being shocked by FC Basel in Switzerland, 2-1, and relegated to the second tier competition with a third-place group finish.

Marseille secured their passage into the Champions League last 16 after a 3-2 win over Borussia Dortmund with Mathieu Valbuena grabbing an amazing injury-time winner This is what the UEFA Champions League is all about! Knock-out football, pressure, drama and great goals to boot. Trailing 2-1 with 10 minutes on the clock (at one point [.

On Saturday lunchtime, Mike Dean shamelessly distorted the hyperreality in Chelsea's aided 3-0 victory at Newcastle - an outcome only a surprise to those utterly outside the loop.
Last night Mr Dean was in Dortmund in a heavily and obviously rigged Champions League match against Marseille.
On the final rounds of matches in UEFA and FIFA competitions when qualification is dependent on the outcome of two separate matches, the authorities insist on coincident kick off times to ensure no team(s) possesses an advantage in time.

By Chris Wright

Nepal saw off Bangladesh (the highest-ranked team in the tournament) 1-0 in the South Asian Football Federation Cup in the final minute of injury time tagged onto the end of their Group B game, with a 45-ish-yard free-kick from captain Sagar Thapa doing the business as the last grains of sand ran through the egg-timer of destiny.