Joey Barton's recent red card against Norwich could easily be put down as Karma. Remember the incident which seen Barton over reacting to a mere slap at the start of the season from Arsenal striker Gervinho which seen the player red carded?

Ah, the age of the smartphone: you can't even enjoy a bit of chanting at your rivals' expense without it coming back to bite you. These Tottenham supporters were so delighted to be playing AC Milan in the Champions League last season that they broke into a chant of "Are you watching, Arsenal?". Their neighbours [.

After the Man City game last week, I posted an article arguing (in the interests of fairness) that Lucas, Charlie Adam and Dirk Kuyt did their best to persuade the referee to send off Mario Balotelli. It was unsporting behaviour on a grand scale, and the photo evidence I provided backed this up.

Jones keeping up with the Berezoutskis szólj hozzá: M0-1S Manchester United youngster Phil Jones has blamed defensive colleague Rio Ferdinand for his midweek Champions League own goal against Roma. The wonderkid revealed he had been laughing at CSKA Moscow defender Vassili Berezoutski following his comedy own goal in the early kick-off on Tuesday evening.

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Three years after Thierry Henry's infamous handball in France's World Cup play-off with the Republic of Ireland, the Irish finally received some kind of footballing karma at the Aviva Stadium, courtesy of another appalling refereeing decision, this time by Spanish official Eduardo Ganzalez.

Yes, we were lamenting the lack of goals for a good part of the Juventus-Milan fixture yesterday until signore Claudio Marchisio (and those pair of eyes) stepped in to score twice for Juventus! With a name like that, the whole of Turin will not be sweating over his complimentary one week risotto.

By Alan Duffy

Jonathan Woodgate's career has been utterly ruined by injury, which may be some kind of karma for his involvement in the attack on an Asian student back in 2000. Still, despite his immense talent, the 31-year-old central-half has struggled to stay fit for any decent length of time since leaving Leeds United in 2003.

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Losing Aurelien Collin for six weeks a big blow for Sporting KC, but with eight straight home games looming, KC is still in good shape.

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You may have heard at some point that the guy who killed Abe Lincoln shot him in a theater and hid in a warehouse and that the guy who allegedly killed JFK shot him from a warehouse and hid in a theater. It's not totally true as Lincoln's killer was actually caught in a barn. Either way, it's still spooky.

<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 21 <![endif]--> I love football. Wherever I go it has brought me friends and a life. Except here in Venezuela. At first I was happy that apparently with my usual karma for this (everywhere I visit, the country starts doing well football-wise; I must be a fucking lucky charm, at least in something!

For the first time this season, Sporting KC's high powered offense was completely shut down in Columbus as the Crew pulled out a 1-0 win last night at Crew Stadium. Disappointing is one way to describe the game, boring might be another. Neither team really went about creating many great chances, Sporting KC had one or two good looks at goal while Columbus had about the same.

The power of karma never ceases to amaze! There have been strong suspicions expressed in many quarters that former Manchester City board member and now chairman of the FA David Bernstein, was the man...
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Some day, a forward is going to try that cheeky chip penalty, maybe in an important game, and the keeper will just stand there like the last five minutes of "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly." And won't that forward look foolish.
Didn't happen last night - at least, not the saved penalty part.

Bundled on the bench...are the good times now over for Totti and Roma?

Editor's note: I'm pleased to kick off our Serie A coverage I'll use that word lightly for no with a kick *ss piece from guest columnist Eric Giardini.

This week the great Roma star Francesco Totti came out with a simple three-word, but monumentally deflating, statement for every Roma fan after being introduced with but four minutes left in a 2-1 loss at Sampdoria.