Rio Ferdinand refused to shake Luis Suarez's hand today after seeing that the Uruguayan snubbed Patrice Evra's offer to shake his hand. Despite being found guilty of racially abusing Evra, our captain was the bigger man in agreeing to shake his hand, but bizarrely, Suarez chose not to.

"Bad decision making from their guy," Rio told MUTV.

Celtic v Inverness Preview, Prediction, TV Listings, Betting Odds SPL 11 February 2012 - The 90th Minute Soccer Blog

Celtic have not lost a league match since early October as they host 10th place Inverness in the Scottish Premier League. The match will take place at Celtic Park in Glasgow, Scotland on Saturday, February 11, 2012.

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Position 8th, 9-6-9 (33 points, +9 goal differential)

Home Record: 5-4-3, +8 goal differential

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Last Meeting: Arsenal 2 Sunderland 1 (October 17, 2011)

Crucial match .

Arsene Wenger is well aware that Jack Wilshere should not have played around 50 games in his first season at Arsenal, which has led to him being injured for the whole of this season, and he is worried about making the same mistake with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. The Arsenal manager said: "That's what happened to us [.

Make no mistake about it, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has created a buzz amongst Gooners that is only comparable with Charlie Sheen mangled on Tigerblood.
The boy has burst onto the scene in explosive fashion since making his first league start for Arsenal against Manchester United last month.

Barcelona president Sandro Rosell has criticised the performance levels of Spanish referees this season.

Rosell's club felt aggrieved by the decision of the Spanish federation's competitions committee not to punish Real Madrid utility man Pepe for appearing to stamp on Barca forward Lionel Messi's hand earlier this month.

Arsenal star Jack Wilshere looks almost certain to miss the rest of the season after scans showed his latest injury setback is worse than first feared. The Daily Mail is reporting that our boy wonder is now even doubtful for England's Euro 2012 campaign as he is unlikely to feature at all for us this season.

Arsenal star Jack Wilshere looks almost certain to miss the rest of the season after scans showed his latest injury setback is worse than first feared. The Daily Mail is reporting that our boy wonder is now even doubtful for England's Euro 2012 campaign as he is unlikely to feature at all for us this season.

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The FA Cup Draw gave us a one in three and a half thousand chance that the Racism Derbies (Liverpool v Man Utd and QPR v Chelsea) would be sequelled.
Amidst massive extra police costs and abundant blurtings of racism, the two teams associated with racist behaviour won via a dubious penalty and through one of the victims of racism making the mistake that produced the winner having been under intense racist and/or verbal abuse throughout the previous couple of hours.

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The other match with a potentially explosive racial overtones was effectively nipped in the bud as the FA decided to do away with handshakes pre-empting Anton Ferdinand's contemplated threat not to shake John Terry's hand. The Chelsea captain begins his legal challenge on Feb 1st defending against charges of a racist verbal assault on Ferdinand in their last match on Oct 23rd.

Manchester City have officially went out from another competition, this time it's the Carling Cup after Roberto Mancini's side only managed to get a 2-2 draw against Liverpool in the competition's second leg, while getting beaten 1-0 in the first meeting.

Mancini himself was very disappointed at that failure but once again he put the blame on refereeing decision instead of his team's own performance, which the manager though already pleasing enough.

Manchester City have officially went out from another competition, this time it's the Carling Cup after Roberto Mancini's side only managed to get a 2-2 draw against Liverpool in the competition's second leg, while getting beaten 1-0 in the first meeting.

Mancini himself was very disappointed at that failure but once again he put the blame on refereeing decision instead of his team's own performance, which the manager though already pleasing enough.

Video: Carling Cup: Liverpool/Man City

Kenny Dalglish feeling the heat after a series of underwhelming displays by Liverpool in the Premiership was able to get a satisfying consolation in today's Carling Cup match pipping City to the Wembley finals.

Nigel De Jong gave City the lead to level the aggregate.

Before I go on, let me state for the record that I swore just as much you when Wenger took off The OX last weekend, he messed it up, no doubting that but please don't tell me he done it by purpose or that he just cannot cut it anymore. He made a judgement call and got it hopelessly wrong, that's life.

Nick Sabetti: Picking Ching Was a Mistake

Some interesting thoughts from Nick Sabetti who covers the Montreal Impact for SportsNet and Goal.com.

Andrei Arshavin has been supported by manager Arsene Wenger after his lazy man-marking and tackling against Luis Antonio Valencia created Danny Welbeck's match-winning goal in Manchester United's 2-1 win at Arsenal last night.

Arshavin, who infamously replaced Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain to a negative reaction throughout the Emirates Stadium, has been on the receiving end of tremendous flak for lacking energy in such a massive fixture.

Liverpool's 3-1 defeat over Bolton Wanderers, apparently gave more than just disappointment for the club's manager, Kenny Dalglish, as he was also infuriated with his player's poor performance and threatened to get rid of those who can't improve their performance.

Dalglish was so furious that he doesn't really want to give much credit for his opponent as he really felt that it was the Reds' poor performance which cause that defeat.

After each match the contributors to New England Soccer Today will rate the performances of the United States National Team players who made an appearance on a 1 to 10 scale (1 horrendous, 5 average, 10 perfection). This week Brian O'Connell, Julian Cardillo and Sean Donahue contributed ratings for the USA's 1-0 victory over Venezuela.

The biggest MLS story of the off-season hit Los Angeles on Thursday, as news of David Beckham's return to the LA Galaxy made headlines around the world.

What does Beckham's return really mean for the Galaxy, MLS and American soccer? Here is my Fox Soccer column on what it means, and how we got to this point.

One of Serie A biggest derby was played Sunday night and the blue and black side of Milan won the war. Inter Milan playing as the 'away' side won the derby for the first time in two seasons, thanks to a second half strike from Diego Milito who capitalised on an Ignazio Abate mistake. Juventus and Napoli dropped points at home; Lazio got their first win of the season and.

Sebastien Le Toux Apparently Heading To Bolton

Oh, how Seba has grown up. It seems like just the other day he was a relatively unknown player making a name for himself with the Sounders in the USL. Now, he's apparently heading to Bolton to play in the EPL. It's really a remarkable rise and, unfortunately, a reminder of easily the biggest personnel mistake the Sounders have made since coming to MLS.

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Wigan vs Manchester City 2012 Highlights 0-1 Edin Dzeko goal video header is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter Wigan vs Manchester City 2012 ( Wigan Man City video below) Final score and result:- Wigan vs Man City 0-1 ( Edin Dzeko) DW Stadium, 16th January, 2012- 20.

Winning ugly is something we're all familiar with, despite the doubts expressed in this blog over the years that's an over-used euphemism for a lousy performance that we've got away with. Call it resilience or luck if you like, one reason for Spurs' success in this time is our improved ability to sneak a win when we are off-colour.

BBC: Luis Suarez right to apologise for 'mistake' Mancini

Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini says Liverpool's Luis Suarez is right to apologise for racially abusing Patrice Evra, as he believes it was just a "mistake" that happened on the pitch.

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Mirror: Mancini: Suarez is no racist, but he did make a mistake

"It is important to say 'I am sorry, I made a mistake, I apologise for this and I accept the charge'," says Man City boss

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Mail: Luis Suarez is not racist says Roberto Mancini

Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini does not believe Liverpool's Luis Suarez is racist, but feels it was important he apologised for a mistake in the Patrice Evra affair.

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Telegraph: Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini believes Liverpool's T-shirt support of Luis Suarez was a mistake

Italian is the first manager to argue that Liverpool's show of unity was misplaced.

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I wrote in the blog just before Christmas that I was broadly in favour of Thierry's return when it was just a rumour. If all he does is score one goal, then it's been worth it for a number of reasons.
Firstly, despite returning with Barca and NY, Thierry never really got the send off he deserved.

Mirror: Why Fergie announcing his sell-by date could be a mistake

The last time Sir Alex Ferguson announced he was standing down, Manchester United's form went through the floor. That is why it was so surprising to see Ferguson even putting a timescale on his departure from Old Trafford.

ESPN has a radio show dedicated to youth sports called 'Hey Coach Tony', and all the shows are up on YouTube which is very cool. Word is the show will soon be simulcast on many cable systems. Podcasts would also be a great thing to have for those with iPods. It's an entertaining show that tends to focus on the extremes and controversial situations, but overall Tony covers a number of hot button issues that are worthwhile to debate.

FC Barcelona firmly placed their right foot in the next round of Copa del Rey with a 4-0 victroy against Osasuna at the Camp Nou. Now unless a seriously bad loss happens in the return leg, we will be firm favorite to face either Malaga or Real madrid in next round. A frist half brace from cesc Fabregas put Barca on course for a easy victory.

In game that will be long remembered, Newcastle beat Manchester United by 3-0 for their first win against the Red Devils in 10 years. And make no mistake about it Newcastle deserved all 3 points tonight because they outplayed this mediocre Manchester United side. And it was Bobby Robson who was then manager of Newcastle and if was happening [.

It sounds like we won't have to wait much longer for the 2012 MLS schedule to come out. It seems that the league has the schedule finalized and will be putting it out hopefully later this week. KC is set to have their home opener on March 17th, St. Patrick's Day, other than that, the schedule isn't really known.

Manchester City's Roberto Mancini apologises for red-card gesture

• City manager says reaction to penalty-area foul was 'a mistake' • Mancini signalled for Liverpool's Martin Skrtel to be sent off Roberto Mancini issued a public apology after admitting he had made "a mistake" by brandishing an imaginary red card during the 3-0 defeat of Liverpool that put Manchester City three points clear at the top of the Premier League table.

Liverpool angrily decide not to appeal Suarez ban

Liverpool FC will not be appealing the 8-match ban imposed on Luis Suarez. Their announcement of this decision included further criticism of the FA and its panel but the club said it was for the best that they did not appeal.

Liverpool Football Club have released yet another incredible statement in response to the Luis Suarez racism case. After being found guilty of the charge of using an offensive word relating to Evra's skin colour, "negro", the club have responded very negatively, despite Suarez and all his witnesses admitting he used this word.

Blackburn take a surprise lead at Old Trafford after Chris Samba makes the most of a slight tug on him in the area from Dimitar Berbatov for a penalty, which Yakubu makes no mistake with to put Blackburn 1-0 up.

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Video- Steven Gerrard goal vs Newcastle Liverpool 2011 December is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter This well taken Steven Gerrard goal vs Newcastle ( see video below), capped a wonderful evening for the Liverpool midfielder as the Reds beat Newcastle 3-1 at Anfield on 30 December, 2011.

Lille's Joe Cole suggests Chelsea made a mistake dismissing Carlo Ancelotti & insists Blues 'need to stick with a manager and then they'll be...

The Liverpool midfielder, on loan in France, suggested the Blues made a mistake by not sticking with the former AC Milan boss, believing he will be a success if he moves to PSG

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