Harry Redknapp lives in a £10 million mansion at Sandbanks in Poole, Dorset.
Sandbanks has, by area, the fourth largest land value in the entire world.
It is known as 'Britain's Palm Beach'.
Harry Redknapp is a low tier manager who had won nothing of consequence until a fixed FA Cup Final victory for Portsmouth in 2008.

Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas has urged the media to stop focusing the spotlight heavily on John Terry as the Blues skipper returns to QPR next Saturday for the first time since being accused of racially abusing Anton Ferdinand in October.

The Rangers won the ill-tempered clash 1-0 as Villas-Boas saw two of his players dismissed, leaving the visitors to fight with nine men for most of the afternoon.

By Darshan Joshi

I find it difficult to engage in schadenfreude when it comes to Fernando Torres because he's so pretty. Sure, it was funny at first – £50m former world's best striker looking less likely to score six yards away from goal than world's most hideous face Steve Buscemi at a nightclub – but it's now become a global source of depression (step aside, financial markets).

This is our last installment in a series of post setting out the top business stories in American soccer from 2011. We have looked at Portland and Kansas City while also discussing NBC's entry as a soccer broadcaster and FOX's big play for World Cup television rights. We will set up a vote to select the top story early next week.

The feet-dragging on various issues pertaining the S.League is not doing any good if the league authority is keen to have the struggling competition back on its feet.
With mysteries of the identities of Winston Lee's replacement for the league's CEO, the 13th and 14th team still looming large, plus the near "black-out" on S.

Baseball calls it Hot Stove season. The NFL occupies months with draft talk, organized team activities, mini-camps and training camps. Whatever the name, off season events have become an integral part of the modern sports business model. Fans hungry for team and league news flock to websites, mainstream media sources, sports radio and sports television for year round coverage of their favorite sports.

I just wish the media would stand up and be counted at times like these. So many experts thought we would be the only English side struggling to make it through the Champions League group stages. The polar opposite of the mainstream media's predictions has come true and this tells a whole story in itself.

There's a Golden Sky By Ian Ridley Published by Bloomsbury, October 2011 £18.99 ISBN: 9781408130407 It's often been asserted that the one remaining advantage mainstream media has over bloggers is the issue of access to the game's personalities – Jonathan Wilson made this point on establishing The Blizzard earlier this year and Kevin McCauley expounded on the subject in an overview of a spat

There's a Golden Sky By Ian Ridley Published by Bloomsbury, October 2011 £18.99 ISBN: 9781408130407 It's often been asserted that the one remaining advantage mainstream media has over bloggers is the issue of access to the game's personalities – Jonathan Wilson made this point on establishing The Blizzard earlier this year and Kevin McCauley expounded on the subject in an overview of a spat

Over the last couple of weeks or so, a debate has been being passed back and forth between football bloggers over both the present and future of what they do. On the one hand, we have seen the introduction of a new news feed service which has angered some that are seeking to make a living from their writing whilst, on the other, the behaviour of an established football website (which could clearly be described as "Mainstream Media") has seen the scales fall from quite a few eyes on the matter of the ethics of established media sources.

One of the saddest parts of modern football is the way in which the non-Premier League divisions have been neglected and forgotten by the mainstream media. Take a look through some old cigarette card collections or the wonderful Football League Review magazine and you'll find that although not necessarily billed as equals with First Division clubs, many of the smaller lower league sides were included and covered alongside many of the giants of English football.

Tom English was strutting his stuff in the Scotland on Sunday yesterday. Gird your loins fellow bloggers. He had his sights set on us:
"This is the reality of the online blogger. They can spout stuff that turns out to be untrue and, when they get it wrong, it never boomerangs back and hurts them.

The midweek teamsheet against Fulham, which involved yet another coaching change for Chelsea.

But what's perhaps most important, and going undetected by the mainstream media, in all of this is that someone has finally indicated just how Chelsea manage to successfully traverse the minefield that is John Mikel Obi.

I like to think that we provide a vaguely balanced view of all things Arsenal related here, anyway we try to be fairly objective and not get carried away as certain people do in the mainstream media. The world is not black and white, we live in many shades of grey and many people would do well to realise this.

How to watch Stoke v Liverpool

Liverpool are away to Stoke today in the Barclay's Premier League and with it being a traditional 3pm Saturday kick-off it won't be shown live on any of the UK's TV channels. This makes it difficult for Reds without one of the 2753 allocated away tickets to see it.

As I sit here watching Sky Sports News tediously round up a number of what will probably end up being completely insignificant transfers, I can't help but think of the deals being rushed through on the continent which could have a far greater impact on the global game.

Looking beyond the narrow gaze of our national mainstream media, I have highlighted three continental transfers were noting and as intriguing as anything likely to happen involving any Premier League club tonight.

How many sports fans knew there were two U.S. Opens going on last night? The tennis one is the obvious one, the Soccer championship is the lesser likely of the two to have been acknowledged. Mainstream media only covered the tennis, yet the semi-finals in Soccer took place and will now see the Chicago Fire taking on the Seattle Sounders October 4th in Seattle for this year's U.

Scotland are world champions.
In the words of the late Donald Dewar: "I like that."
In Paris yesterday Scotland's Homeless World Cup men's team beat Mexico to life the trophy.
A tight game finished 4-3, with a goal from Sean Lawrence and a William McLean hat-trick for Scotland.

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I am not sure how the whole phenomena started, following the announcement of the FAS-FAM MOU at Kuala Lumpur.
Seen as a mere exercise to foster better footballing tie of both countries with each side will send a team to take part in each other's domestic league as a "cornerstone" arrangement in this symbolic partnership.

It is perhaps one of football's most popular myths that Manchester United get help from referees, in the form of anything from the rub of the green to outright corruption. Not only will it be referenced several times throughout the season by rival fans, it has actually entered the mainstream media, with phrases like "that was an Old Trafford decision", "if that was down the other end it was a pen" and "Fergie time" entering the common parlance of footballing punditry.

It is perhaps one of football's most popular myths that Manchester United get help from referees, in the form of anything from the rub of the green to outright corruption. Not only will it be referenced several times throughout the season by rival fans, it has actually entered the mainstream media, with phrases like "that was an Old Trafford decision", "if that was down the other end it was a pen" and "Fergie time" entering the common parlance of footballing punditry.

A big weekend for soccer in the United States. The US Women lost to Japan in the World Cup Final, however there will probably be another of couple days of soccer coverage from the mainstream media. Appearances on morning and late night talk shows are sure to follow. What this means for the WPS remains an open question, but for a weekend, soccer was one of the primary stories in the worlds of both sports and current events.

Also file under: Dude, stop talking. You're embarrassing yourself

Sunday's Women's World Cup final has my keys a-jingling. I think a lot of people feel the same way. The soccer world has been touched by Japan's gratitude and fortitude, and they respect the Americans never-quit grit.

In an attempt to generate some sort of regular feature on the blog (whatever happened to those Alliterative XIs anyway? More of them soon I hope...), I've decided to start a seven of the best feature. It will link to some of the best stuff I've read and seen online during the week.

So, starting out at in no particular order we have a wonderful piece from VivaRovers detailing the fan managerial speak (1) that is vital to understand should you feel brave enough to listen to the angry Alan Green or confused Spoony (both of which I believe have taken the radio show as far as they can) on a Saturday evening.

For Union, attention to detail means wins | Philadelphia Daily News | 06/10/2011
Hey, it's not a issue for us, either. While blogs have done a superb job of running with it, the mainstream media have kept it quiet. In fact, only two credentialed reporters waited to shed light on the situation Wednesday, only after the fan-driven blog, the Brotherly Game, first reported it Sunday.

MLS released the fan balloting component of the 2011 All-Star Game voting. Fans have until 11:59pm ET on July 5th, 2011 to vote for their favorite players in hopes they will represent the league against Manchester United on July 27th at Red Bull Arena.

Yay...that's a sarcastic yay since sarcasm tends not to show up well in written form.

With the mainstream media already whispering suggestions that Sir Alex Ferguson is considering a radicalplan for 'if and when' Barcelona take the lead in the Champions' League Final this evening, it's a wonder over a billion people are even bothering to watch. Whilst Barcelona are certainly the better ball-playing side and simply can't be outplayed in midfield, I believe and I have touched on this elsewhere that with the right tactical approach they can be reduced to being merely 'another very good side'.

With currently 19 teams in its league, MLS is more than halfway to 36. No other major team sports league in the U.S. has more than 32 teams. The NHL, NBA and MLB leagues have 30 and the NFL has 32 teams. What would be the sense in MLS doubling its size?
It is the perfect sense. It gives MLS strategic positioning for all areas of the U.

When Saturday Comes is 25 this year, so let's all sing Happy Birthday. After three, with me. One, two... Actually forget that, it'll take too long.
To celebrate the milestone, the magazine has been running a series of retrospectives exploring the changes that have taken place during the period.

I've been sitting on this story for a couple of weeks now, waiting for more mainstream media to do something on it and of course instead of it being a headline stop the press story it kind of sneaks through the back door.
Basically what I have heard is that the Liga Primer Indonesia will merge with the Indonesia Super League, the top 10 teams from each division will combine to form a new, I guess, super duper league.

The media is a rapid changing landscape. We all know the reason why the paid hacks of the mainstream media keep going, but what about the bloggers? What is our motivation? In the first of a two-parter that originated on Twitter and ended up here, Gav Stone of Les Rosbifs explains his motivation for keeping going.

The Football Supporters' Federation has launched a petition – visit www.fsf.org.uk/safestanding as part of our campaign for the introduction of safe standing areas in the top two divisions in England and Wales. We know some of you might think that signing a petition is a bit of a futile gesture, but the timing for the campaign is crucial.

Because we love you, we occassionally bring you the best in LA Galaxy and worldwide futbol videos. Today that means the video highlights from Saturday's game and the recap from the LA Galaxy media team, plus a fun video of one of the youngest LA Riot Squad members leading cheers during the game. And finally, from our friends at Soccer America, a video from last week's internationals, in this case Uruguay vs Ireland.

It's time to welcome another new face to Twohundredpercent. This week, Luke Edwards explains how he has fallen out of love with the Premier League and sought solace in what may well really be The Biggest Football League In The World.

You hear time and time again from pundits and media alike that, "the Premier League is the best in the world", and this is a comment that is seldom challenged in the mainstream media.

Yes, that's right, his mistake. When asked if he was happy at Liverpool, he gave the same run-of-the-mill answer, but did manage to let on that things weren't going to plan. No sh*t Sherlock!
You know it's only a matter of time before the mainstream media junkies start writing headlines like "The Prodigal Son Returns" and "I'm REDy to Quit my Liverpool Hell".

Good to see, and hear, quite a bit of atmosphere at the two SLeague games I attended, Hougang United v Home United and Young Lions v Geylang United. Another interesting thing I noticed was the youth of many of the fans that surely bodes well for the future...if they can be kept engaged and involved with their football club.

In December we ranked our top 5 stories of 2011. Number 3 on that list was the explosion of Twitter as a marketing and sharing tool in the world of American soccer. This is what we wrote: Few sports fans are as devoted to social networking sites as soccer supporters. Because of the lack of soccer coverage in mainstream media, soccer fans are forced to the web to follow their favorite teams and games abroad.

Just came back from the S.League Fanfare held at the *SCAPE at Orchard Road (pictured above).
I think it was the first in years that the annual pre-cursor of the League being held in the downtown area with aim to use the music, the carnival atmosphere created to draw the attention of any random passer-by to take a peek what's going on and tell them the new season is going to kick-off in 12th February.