Shiny bar, shiny seats, shiny floor and shiny barman standing by to fulfill our every sordid whim. This is looking promising so far, Kickettes! Image: JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP/Getty Images.

They might not be the national team whose pants drawer you're most interested in familiarising yourself with, but the 'fun factor' of the Greek NT's accommodation arrangements far outweighs any disappointment at the lack of potential fantasy material.

The more than 500 hundred million dollars that went into the recent renovations of BC Place seem to be well spent as the incredibly aesthetic building as been a great host to the USA and all the teams in the CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament. The down-sizing of the upper deck with flowing tarps that drape out over the field rather than back over the seats makes the venue intimate and the artificial turf field is about as good as you can get for that kind of surface.

The Belgrade derby has some, shall we say, "behavioral issues" which require constant considerations. How best to combat a problem of lighting the stands on fire whilst also throwing Molotov seat cocktails?

Remove the damn seats.
Good in theory, questionable in its successful application.

Trust Valencia to waste no time in ruining my health in the first available 90 minutes. But sho, in hindsight it was worth it.

Where I come from, we use a word "bok" to describe when something is "very" or "extremely". Given my emotionally vulnerable state I'm going to be using that word a bok lot in this write-up.

There may never be a more touching description of Soccer's power to affect the masses. In the 1985 movie, Vision Quest, the late actor J.C. Quinn, playing Elmo, a blue-collar guy with friendly advice, gets the honor of handling some beautiful writing.

When I woke up this morning I made sure to check the internet to confirm that last night's result was not a dream. We really did win. We really did get 3 points. For a few brief, placid days the Revs will occupy 7th place in the East. And I won't complain.

I'll admit, after our game against the Union I thought for sure that we'd hit rock bottom.

There's too much MLS tonight. That's not a complaint just a fact. Dallas play Toronto, Philly host Becks-less LA, and the Whitecaps welcome the Earthquakes to Vancouver to party like it's 1978 in a NASL redux match. How am I supposed to watch all three of those meaningful matches and the alleged "Arsenal of MLS"'s random foreign friendly du jour in Montreal tonight?

Here's what you could've won...

I did start this morning off by trying to write a match report about the weekend's visit of Blackpool. Then, after reading it back, I realised I wasn't writing a match report at all, I was actually just carving expletives into the back of the living room door with a steak knife.

Back in February we put aside the potential for a promotion-defying points deduction to consider which of Neil Warnock's charges might be ready to face Lamps and Stevie G next season. Now, with our League One hats on, we've replicated the original post in order to assess Brighton's third-tier winning squad along the same lines.

By Neil W. Blackmon Nearly one year after a British announcer's call on a Californian's defining moment in a game played on a far away continent catapulted American soccer into coffee break and living room fodder and inspired a country, fate intervened. Fate intervened in the 89th minute and delivered the American soccer diehards, the [.

He may only be nine years old, but Gooner fans are already salivating at the prospect of this young Japanese boy filling their ranks at the Emirates. I've seen tons of videos of little kids (don't draw any conclusions) showing skills on the ball no English player could ever dream about possessing, but this boy is quite unique.

I think every poker game has one of these guys the fat man victory dance! This is the latest very humorous advertisement from PokerStars.

The story behind the commercials is PokerStars latest project Home Games, which allows poker players to compete against friends in private games online.

There was a great interview with Xavi in the Guardian this past week, where he talks about 'the Barcelona way'.
Many have described Barcelona's 5-0 win over Real Madrid last November as the greatest performance ever. Even Wayne Rooney admits that he stood up in his living room and started applauding.

There's no doubt that the addition of Daniel Sturridge has given the team a jolt. He's scored two goals in two games, earning three points with one of them. He's attracted the praise of his new teammates, Taylor saying, "Sturridge has done very well. He gives us something different. He's very confident and wants to get on the ball and play.

For the next few weeks, Monday night will be literature night here on Twohundredpercent. We are delighted to welcome Football Hobo's Alan Smithy back to our pages this evening for the first act, if you will, of a seven part epic that he written for us which traces the life of the football supporter in relation to the celebrated monologue from Shakespeare's "As You Like It" that is best known as "The Seven Ages Of Man", or "All The World's A Stage".