We've all done it. Tried to decipher the means, motives and mayhem behind a certain situation all within the whirling storm of our minds, failing to do the one oh so simple thing which could solve all our problems. On occasion causing a much larger problem through the tangents of an imagination enough to make [. Click to continue reading...

Thanks to our friends at Dirty Tackle for bringing this to our attenion. Imagine you have two teams who quite literally hate each other to the core, two local rivals who can't stand the sight of each other. Then you take an away team who takes the spoils and you add a player who wishes to create mayhem.

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The Reds of Liverpool showed great promise early in the season going on a 6 match winning streak after dropping their first match to Tottenham. Then, over the last 4 matches...they've lost 3. Liverpool was so UPthat I considered doing a long interest piece on the team, then I got distracted with all the other mayhem and foolishness going on in the Premier League and now I look up and they've lost 3 of 4 matches.

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Marseille Offside gives us a clip of the post-PSG-Marseille cancellation mayhem with someone being plowed by a car. Rafa's still not out of the doghouse. (Football 365) To love and hate Diego Maradona. (Futfanatico) The world's worst tournament kicks off. (La Liga Loca) Brazil should kick back to the old model. Click to continue reading...

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I was going to write about this yesterday but...... (well, you don't have time for my saga of yesterday.) Let's just say it involved lots of lost work and headaches...and some rain. I'm down here in Atlanta and it's raining ALL the time.

Anyways, so when I saw that Salt Lake had won its match from Wednesday I was very, very happy.

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Amanda Palmer is one half of The Dresden Dolls. "Leeds United" is off her solo album, Who Killed Amanda Palmer?. The track isn't directly about Leeds but the pounding on the keys, the blaring horns, the voice hoarse from shouting/screaming/singing taps into the riot of football crowds. She explains that the whole idea of turning out to support your team & getting into brawls with each other struck her as "Roman" and a good subject for her. Click to continue reading...

Francis Laurent's injury time strike gave Southend all three points after an exciting encounter at the Withdean Stadium.
The Blues took the lead on 8 minutes, when Lee Barnard angled a header into the net from a Simon Francis cross. It was his eighth goal of the season.
The home side equalised through another in-form striker, Nicky Forster, on 21. Click to continue reading...

In football, as it's played today, central midfielders have become the most important players on the pitch. Due to the growing importance of the transition game, the roving role of a post-to-post player demands competence in both defense and attack.

Finding the right player, however, is difficult.

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Stewie's a winner all right

Winners:

• Stuart Holden - he scored one absolute scorcher against Haiti and came damn close to scoring a second. With him and Robbie Rogers looking scary good, Bob Bradley's head is going to be spinning from all the real competition for places on the midfield flanks.

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How wild was last night?

If you watched Mexico-Panama last night hoping to get some insight into the U.S. national team's biggest rival you were treated to a night filled with ugliness, absurdity and unintentional comedy.

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Zidane is in Vancouver due to play in a exhibition match marketed as "Zidane and Friends"The event has run into some problems.Zidane is not able to play for awhile because he injured his back while picking up his three-year-old daughter during Canada Day fireworks.Some people are demanding their money (all $200 of it) back because most of the "friends" they had paid to see ( like Samuel Eto'o, Alessandro Costacurta, Franco Baresi and Gennaro Gattuso haven't made an appearance.

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Zidane held a midweek charity match in Toronto and it seems the locals were a tad overexcited to see legend walking among them. After the match, a few fans who simply could not contain their psychotic joy jumped out of the stands and attempted to charged Zidane as he left the pitch. Luckily the security team did a masterful job of taking down those crazed crazies, thus protecting the French phenomenon from whatever dry-humping mayhem they intended to inflict.

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I will never understand this.

Rival fan groups in Argentina, who support and love the very same team Huracan, a club favored to win the championship went to war with each other during and after a home win against Arsenal (Argentina's Arsenal, not Wenger's), resulting in two deaths.

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Hard to know what Wenger makes of this transfer pandemic, isn't it?

The great man has kept radio silence over the last week, presumably either because he's off on business or because he's staggering around Blackpool half cut wearing a Kiss Me Quick hat.

But we can guess: For a man who has long (and correctly, in my view) espoused common sense in the running of a football club, this mayhem must be deeply discomforting.

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John makes the case for Blanco rejoining Mexico:
Quote: Why Blanco? Why now? Because Mexico just hasn't produced a player that matches his immense talent. Because He can mentor the youngsters who are tabbed to be his successors. He can be a calming influence on Nery. Because He can still make that one pass, that one move that no one else can see. Click to continue reading...

A day later, I'm almost grateful for the conspiracy theories. It's meaningless, but at least Øvrebø on the grassy knoll gives us something to find our position by. We all know the coordinates of lunacy plus bad refereeing; just about everything else related to this game left us in a murky latitude where the stars and our star-charts don't match.

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Sir Alex Ferguson has praised Paul Scholes today, claiming he is within the best players ever to represent the club and had a better touch of the ball than anyone else on Sunday.

"Funnily enough we have never had one enquiry for Paul Scholes," he said. "You know why? Because they all know he will never leave.

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Every little kid dreams of scoring the winning goal for their favorite football club. On Sunday at Old Trafford, that dream became reality for one kid.

After a Gabriel Agbonlahor goal put Aston Villa up 2-1 in the 58th minute, Sir Alex turned to an unsuspecting bench player. Federico Macheda, a mere 17-year-old Italian boy, was given his first playing time for United in one of Manchester United's biggest matches of the season.

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It's still a couple of weeks away but the city is Jakarta is worried. 19 April sees Persitara host Persebaya in the Copa Indonesia, provisionally at Lebak Bulus Stadium, but permission has yet to be granted for the game to go ahead.
Persebaya's fans, known as Bonek, have a reputation for mayhem. Click to continue reading...

The Bundesliga would have us believe that.

A Bosnian duo are striking mayhem.

Edin Dzeko of VFL Wolfsburg has scored 14 goals. He and Brazilian Grafite with 18 are benefiting from the playmaking ability of Dzeko's countryman, Zvjezdan Misimović, the captain of the Bosnia & Herzegovina national team.

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Catching up on something from the weekend that led me to make a few calls during the week. This, along with a couple of posts you'll see today, would've been posted sooner if I hadn't been called away to various catastrophes in progress.
If you're heading out to an MLS venue this weekend, remember a couple of things:
- Don't throw things on the field, though streams and confetti are OK as long as you're not interfering with play. Click to continue reading...

Catching up on something from the weekend that led me to make a few calls during the week. This, along with a couple of posts you'll see today, would've been posted sooner if I hadn't been called away to various catastrophes in progress.
If you're heading out to an MLS venue this weekend, remember a couple of things:
- Don't throw things on the field, though streams and confetti are OK as long as you're not interfering with play. Click to continue reading...

Okay, I'm not quite letting go yet.  Here's a bit about the chaos in Philly, post World Series win!  We begin in an anonymous house, somewhere in Philly, as the Phils close it out and some college students watch ... then spill out into the street. From there we move along toward Broad Street ... [. Click to continue reading...

Horrible news out of the Congo as accusations that a soccer player was using witchcraft (juju) during a match in eastern Congo sparked a riot that killed 13 people, a U.N.-funded radio station reported Monday.
Most of the victims were between the ages of 11 and 16, Radio Okapi said. They were suffocated as panicked crowds ran for the exits during the mayhem Sunday in Butembo in eastern Congo's North Kivu province. Click to continue reading...

Whilst thumbing through The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer in bed the other night, I wondered to myself "when is someone going to do the first book about Becks in America?". With Europe's bookshelves already rammed full of books about our David it was only a matter of time before someone got in the act over on this side of world. Click to continue reading...

MARKHAM - Two 'Magical Men of Mayhem' were pulling out the tricks last night, as Eddy M. and Mark C. led the Pistolas to their latest victory.
Eddy 'M.VP' didn't need many games to return to his All Star form as he netted a hat trick. With 5 goals in his last two games, you'd never know he was injured all these weeks. Click to continue reading...

The Championship match between Burnley and Ipswich kicked off late yesterday when a parachutist involved in a pre-match jump missed his target and landed on the roof of the Turf Moor stadium. There was more mayhem when the fire engine that came to rescue the stranded parachutist couldn't get into the ground because of parked cars. Click to continue reading...

The Championship match between Burnley and Ipswich kicked off late yesterday when a parachutist involved in a pre-match jump missed his target and landed on the roof of the Turf Moor stadium. There was more mayhem when the fire engine that came to rescue the stranded parachutist couldn't get into the ground because of parked cars. Click to continue reading...

In the next week we should get a barrage of Olympic previews. I have mixed feelings about the international ritual but the cynicism goes on the back burner for soccer, which holds my attention even through the smog marketing mayhem. I'll watch some of the television coverage of other sports thanks in large part to [. Click to continue reading...

Chris at Studs Up has done not one, but two comic strips about Joey Barton being given free reign to cause terror and mayhem by both club and country. A sad, sad time indeed. Links after the jump... You can read them here and here. If you enjoy them, don't forget ... Click to continue reading...

Chris at Studs Up has done not one, but two comic strips about Joey Barton being given free reign to cause terror and mayhem by both club and country. A sad, sad time indeed. Links after the jump... You can read them here and here. If you enjoy them, don't forget ... Click to continue reading...

Or comments you won't be reading elsewhere.
HAHAHA...AWESOME! - Danang Ismartani, leader of Persija Supporters' Club
Fucking mayhem - One of the TV commentators in a private sms, not on air!
This is a good day to win! - Yusuf Andibachtiar, movie maker
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Classic tacklage today with this infamous collision from the '82 World Cup. Keeper Harald Schumacher and French defender Patrick Battiston chase down a long ball over the top and mayhem ensues. Schumacher hits the Frenchman like a Panzer rolling through the Maginot Line, leaving him missing a couple of chiclets and his pulse. Click to continue reading...

Most of us will remember Chelsea's 2-1 victory against Man United last season, with Michael Ballack's late winner causing all sorts of mayhem. There were words of fury from Fergie and Queiroz, an on-pitch scuffle between Patrice Evra and a Stamford Bridge groundsman, while Rio Ferdinand threw his toys out . Click to continue reading...

WHO will ever forget those Eight Mad Minutes in the Fritz Walter? Inside the stadium it was mayhem as thousands of Aussies, this nutter among them, went ballistic, jumping all over anyone in sight. At one point I remember picking up Matthew Johns - aka Reg Regan - who was seated a couple of rows behind, and lofting him above the shoulders. Click to continue reading...