If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

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Milan has really jumped up the table these past few weeks. After the horrible start where everyone condemned the Rossoneri to a season of misery, Leonardo's squad has made a complete turnaround, finally playing well and becoming contenders once again. They now find themselves 5 points behind leaders Inter and only 2 behind Juventus and saying the word Scudetto shouldn't be met with laughter.

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My lover and I went to Reading today to visit two long standing friends of my lover.
Neither are football fans but both are two of the most delightful people you could wish to meet.
Anyway, prior to having a wonderful lunch and afternoon of laughter and music, my lover took the backroads to his old home town. Click to continue reading...

They say that laughter is good for you.
But whoever would have thought that the Carling Cup could offer such a barrel of laughs?
For example, I'm not great Chel$ea fan as you know, but I'm enjoying their 4 -0 drubbing of Bolton.
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As Michael Owen prepares to go back to Anfield as a United player, another player to break the unwritten rule, Paul Ince, has reflected on his respect for Sir Alex Ferguson, their fallings out and why he left the club.

"I was playing golf with Ryan Giggs in 1995 when the phone rang. It was Fergie telling me he was at the clubhouse," said Ince.

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You just can't get that Saturday feeling without football can you? Well, I say without football but there is just no Arsenal today, it should be a crime against humanity if you ask me and when I come to power one day I will make sure that there is Arsenal 24/7, 12 months of the year. I might even make sure there is some Arsenal on that extra day in a leap year.

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It's one of the oldest jokes in the book, but it will keep on getting used anyway. Referees are often the focus of a lot of negative banter including the recent incident in which Alex Ferguson called out a ref for being out of shape and unable to keep up with the action. The refs (in short) are often called horrible names most of which I will not even get into.

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If you read Arsenal Station regularly, you will know that I regularly criticize the British press, especially their treatment of Arsenal. Today, Arsenal Station guest contributor, Ted Harwood, continues that tradition with a look at the media's reaction following the incident between Jack Wilshire and Jerome Thomas in Arsenal's third-round Carling Cup match last weekend. Click to continue reading...

Theirry Henry and Allen Iverson, now sadly carrying on his basketball career with the Memphis Grizzlies, were brought together in Barcelona by their shared sponsor Reebok for...I don't know some kind of cross-promotional brand synergy thing (or maybe corporate hypnosis and introduction to cannibalism?

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Creepy Jose, on finally realizing we were giving Terry Cooke a tryout:

Some of you alerted me to this the last couple of days, and to be honest I just dropped the ball and never even noticed Cooke was out there until today.

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One glance at this weeks table tells us that the odious rumours were true. As the everyday folk of Church Langley chattered animatedly over their Friday night barbeques and the aroma of cremated sausages filled the air, smoke was rising from a darker place. Nobody heard the grate of metal above the laughter as [. Click to continue reading...

Meet Manchester City fan Kirk Bradley. He's 25 years old (hmmm, really?) and he looks like a malnourished Fabien Barthez.
Check out Kirk's new tattoo. Yes, that is the Champions League trophy inked on his right gun, accompanied with the legend "Manchester City 2011 Champions League Winners". Click to continue reading...

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Come on now, futbolitas... let's gather around the fire and play a game! Which one of these lindo meninos is Rafael... and which one is Fabio? This one's pretty easy and ya'll know which twin we prefer but didn't get to meet (hey, at least the other was equally sweet!

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The deluded pre-season optimism of Spurs fans is a quintessential part of the British summer, up there alongside heroic failure at Wimbledon and an English batting collapse. Like moths to a flame we just can't seem to help ourselves banging on each summer about making the top four.

Typically the wafer-thin bases for this argument are a fairly unnecessary spending spree; rampant (but entirely irrelevant) pre-season form; and the rather unscientific assumption, more commonly found in six year-olds, that if you repeat a lie often enough you can start to believe that it's actually true!

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Laughter is probably not really appropriate in regards to any injury news, but this did give me a chuckle.

Arsenal midfielder Tomas Rosicky has suffered a minor injury setback after returning from 18 months on the sidelines.
After playing half the recent pre-season game against Barnet, Rosicky was substituted as a precaution by boss Arsene Wenger.

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It makes me laugh it really does. Almost every bastard out there has written us off before the season has even begun and I can't wait till those wankers are made to eat their words.
There is no doubt about it. We go into the campaign as complete underdogs and I reckon that suits Arsenal just fine. Click to continue reading...

While waiting for departure to The HDC today, a few U-15/16 FC Dallas players were in the lobby and the YNT blog decided to ask about their favorite TV shows that have taken place in LA and the surrounding So Cal area.
Reality TV shows peppered the conversation, with The Hills and Cribs being mentioned, alongside dramas 24 and The O. Click to continue reading...

While waiting for departure to The HDC today, a few U-15/16 FC Dallas players were in the lobby and the YNT blog decided to ask about their favorite TV shows that have taken place in LA and the surrounding So Cal area.
Reality TV shows peppered the conversation, with The Hills and Cribs being mentioned, alongside dramas 24 and The O. Click to continue reading...

In January, I was in Dublin, Ireland staying in a hostel. I had just completed an exhausting week, with lots of sight-seeing and a lot more drinking. But, in my final day in the city (I would return two months later but that's another story) I was ready to take a night off and go to bed early. Luckily, thanks to the world economy being on the brink of collapse, the hostel I was staying at was nearly empty and I was the only one in my six-bed room.

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You've been reading about Kaka' and CR7, well this is Liverpool's new addition, CSD version 2. You might remember me from a while back. I was the yank from Texas that everyone hated because I'm from Bush land and am out of touch with what's happening on Merseyside. If you've kept up with this blog, then you already know why I left.

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The whole world is talking about it, and barring a dramatic setback on the doctor's table (he's too short on all accounts, gaffer), Michael Owen should sign for Manchester United on a free transfer in the next few days.

The purported move brings with it ridicule, surprise, anger and more ridicule disguised as laughter - surely United are not left to scrape the bottom of the barrel with an over-the-hill striker no one wants?

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This reminds us of a story our amigo told us about a young Mexican journalist who had travelled half the world to see Greaseano at his Nike boot launch earlier this year. Except hombre looked exactly like CR - immaculately-gelled hair, silver studs, a nice tan, even wearing the player's jersey.

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So, you play a forty-six match season in which you have finished in third place, some distance clear of the opposition. At the end of that season, you have take part in a play-off match against a team that finished three league places and eleven points behind you, and you fail to kill them off over the 210 minutes of open played that transpire, and the tie goes to a penalty shoot-out.

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If you are looking for one sentence that will continuously be written all summer, it will most likely be this:

(RED BULLS PLAYER A) has been loaned out to USL-2 side (TEAM NAME HERE) for a one game loan.

With the dissolution of the reserve league (Ruud Gullit must be rolling on the floor with laughter), teams have found themselves in quite a conundrum; how do you keep your bench players playing and growing?

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Chivas USA Coach Preki isn't known as the greatest quote, but he had the assembled press corps in stitches in the post-game press conference Sunday in this exchange with a reporter about next weekend's derby with the Galaxy.

Question: Next step is the Galaxy. Did you see their game last night or did you watch the tape at all?

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Unnoticed by many Spurs announced plans for a new stadium on April fools day. The date chosen was appropriate for a club that wants to be taken seriously but every announcement about the stadium leaves everyone rolling around in laughter.  David Levy proudly announced to the world that they want a stadium with 58,000 seats (down [. Click to continue reading...

Goal scorer and assist man... We would like to see a passionate, disciplined and somewhat inspired Oranje work hard and win against tough but still lesser opponents. And we did. With the laughter and ridicule of one draw and one loss in friendlies put aside, Oranje bagged the three points in a match Click to continue reading...

The guys at The Spoiler have once again had us at COS in fits of laughter whilst consuming our usual diet of web-searching. We thought we would pass this one on to the Toon Army, would could well do with some cheering up as Mike Ashley continues to make himself ... Click to continue reading...

This weeks cutie is 20 year old Kelly O'Sullivan. Keely is a photographers dream, not only is she gorgeous, she's a little ball of fun. Put her behind the camera and she comes to life, with a beautiful radiant smile, amazing sparkling eyes, non stop laughter and her cheeky but infections personality. Click to continue reading...

The key ingredients of football culture are beer, football shirts and laughter, so it's appropriate that we introduce you to The Onion Bag. Created by football mad Iain McNee, the site features a wide selection of football shirts for sale as well as  The Onion Bag Blog that highlights soccer pubs, funny videos and more. Click to continue reading...

Oh, the happy preseason. A time for fun. A time for laughter. A time for sunshine. A time for silly drills where you skip across the field, holding hands with your teammates, grinning self-consciously as you think: "Oh, bollocks. I can hear the 'Brokeback Mountain' jokes already." (Thanks, Kickette! Click to continue reading...

IF it wasn't for the ongoing Ronaldo to Madrid saga we United fans would be doubled up with laughter at Manchester City whose leadership is every bit as deluded as their supporter base in their collective belief that they really are a big club.
Thaksin Shinawatra had us rolling with laughter when it emerged that his lawyers recently tried to bribe three judges over his impending court case in Thailand, the case has become known as "pastrygate" this after £30,000 was given by way of a bribe to the court officials. Click to continue reading...

Marc Burch has a dangerous left foot. The man nearly beat John Busch in Chicago last month on a set piece and he left LA's Steve Cronin standing on his line as his 30-yard free kick smashed off of the cross bar last Sunday. Tonight, he again showed his skill, scoring on two second half free kicks, leading United to a 2-0 win over the Rochester Rhinos and into the U.

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I was pissing myself with laughter after reading an article in the Star today.
Adebayor was in there talking about his goal scoring lean patch at the end of the season. The reason? His haircut, hence the song we Gooners began to sing
"Give him a wig, and he will score"
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Today was a tough day to be a soccer player. After completing our morning session, the team went bowling for a little fun. And boy was it fun. With a shotgun like start the action was on. And the laughter was as well. Some guys were TERRIBLE. Others were quite good. Craig Waibel was the [...] Click to continue reading...