Liverpool Football Club will this week be heading for South Africa to discover whether the highly-acclaimed Tactics 4 Families initiative will scoop a prestigious Beyond Sport award.
The program has been nominated for the Sport Team of the Year accolade, and the club recently travelled to New York to showcase the scheme at the world famous Yankee Stadium as part of the Beyond Sport United summit during which LFC Family Officer Mark Chester delivered a presentation about Tactics 4 Families.

Well it's now official. Yesterday was the very last day of the Timbers training for the year. The guys are now officially on vacation until late January when they have to report to training. Just about two months worth of time off... I'm not even sure I would know what to do with that time off.

Anyway, I'm keeping it short this morning as the US-Slovenia game is going on right now.

Football League blog: Leicester loan move is the perfect solution for Manchester City's Michael Johnson

For the new season, MirrorFootball is teaming up with some of the blogosphere's best new writers to bring you even more great football reads every single day. Friday is Football League day, so please be upstanding for theseventytwo.

As last season moved along, a fairly strong consensus formed: Lucas Leiva was the most underrated player on the squad, and quite possibly the most underrated player in the league. Opinion, though, can shift, and by the end of the season he was the consensus player of the year for his club, a starter in midfield for his country, and had won over many of his former critics as the top tackler across Europe's five biggest leagues.

Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt gained compensation for last weeks disqualification in the 100m World Championship Finals by taking gold in yesterday's 200m equivalent, recording the fourth quickest time ever in the process with a time of 19.40, only the great Michael Johnson has run faster 19.

Who's Looking Good?

Leicester: Having massively overhauled the squad during the summer, signing no less than nine players, including the marquee signings of Kasper Schmeichel, David Nugent, Michael Johnson, Neil Danns and Paul Konchesky should give the Foxes the quality needed to reach the Premiership for the first time since 2002.

Will it be West Ham or Leicester for Championship Glory?

The waiting is almost over as the Championship kicks back in to action on Friday night as Hull face Blackpool at the KC Stadium. For lower league fans all across the country the time is now upon you as reality kicks in. Will your pre season optimism turn to a nightmare?

The 2011/2012 Championship season gets underway this weekend and in what has become recognised as possibly the most competitive division in football, it is Leicester City and West Ham United who are the favourites to win the much coverted price of a place in the Premier League.

Traditionally the hardest league to be promoted from, the Championship has earned the reputation of being uncompromising, erratic, unpredictable but always entertaining, where any team can win any game.

Leicester have announced the latest name to join their promotion push with the news that Manchester City midfielder Michael Johnson will join the club on a season-long loan.
Johnson had been on the wish lists of a number of clubs including Premiership side Wolves and Championship rivals Leeds but it has now been confirmed he'll spend next season at the Walkers Stadium.

Leicester have announced the latest name to join their promotion push with the news that Manchester City midfielder Michael Johnson will join the club on a season-long loan.
Johnson had been on the wish lists of a number of clubs including Premiership side Wolves and Championship rivals Leeds but it has now been confirmed he'll spend next season at the Walkers Stadium.

Inspired by our rediscovery of Neil Shipperley, and his subsequent inclusion on our Top 10 fattest football managers list, here's a group of personalities who have undergone quite a transformation. 1. Neil Shipperley Where better to start than the man who planted the seed from which this list grew? Don't get us wrong, the ex-Southampton, [.

Here lies Part 3 of my Football Manager series: Looking back at the time(s) when the game took over my life. Read Part 1 and Part 2 first.

It felt good I must say. Usually with any new Football Manager game I would have the tendency to first dip my toe, picking, perhaps, a high end Championship side to build my knowledge of the game.

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Manchester City will try and end Aris Salonika's unbeaten home record in Europe tonight, an unbeaten streak that stretches back 40-years.

In the Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium, Aris Salonika have played 24 home games in European competition, and no team has left Greece with a victory. Can Manchester City end this unbeaten streak?

To be a footballer would be to live the dream but you do have to make sacrifices. Here are some who have really taken the freedom of retirement to heart heart disease, that is...

This was prompted by a picture of Neil Shipperly I stumbled across remember him? Battling striker who played for Chelsea, amongst others?

According to Stuart Brennan at the Manchester Evening News, 22-year-old Manchester City midfielder Michael Johnson wants to be loaned out. Johnson said,

"Without saying too much, it's better for me to go and get games now ... Ideally, that would mean going out somewhere for the rest of the season.

In November 2007, after England failed to qualify for Euro 2008, The Daily Mail did a quick scout of the country to highlight the players pushing for internation stardom in the future entitled 60 reasons why the future of English football is not as gloomy as you might think...ITS investigates.

In November 2007, after England failed to qualify for Euro 2008, The Daily Mail did a quick scout of the country to highlight the players pushing for internation stardom in the future entitled 60 reasons why the future of English football is not as gloomy as you might think...ITS investigates.

As you may know already the Reserves Team played out a friendly against Leicester City behind locked doors yesterday. At the same time there are rumours that both teams wants to take City player Michael Johnson on loan for the season. Unfortunately I guess Championship team Leicester has the upper hand in that, as the [.