Hello. A good a place to start as any, I suppose. You know where you are with hello. It's comforting, familiar. In the same way it's nice to know that a tiny part of every Arsenal fan's soul must die when they see Theo Walcott in the number ‘14' shirt each weekend, only to more often than not play like Lenny Henry rather than the garment's most formidable inhabitant.

What to do when your squad is underperforming? You take them on vacation to Spain, naturally.

'What do you mean Gary got lost at baggage claim??'

So yeah, apparently this trip is actually happening. AVB did his best to downplay expectations prior to departure, insisting that trips of this variety are normal for English teams.

Image via tumblr.

We thought long and hard about how to thank our faithful band of soldier boys and girls for their support this year. Among the management proposals vetoed by the staff were:

1. Spending the money set aside for the party season bar bills/lawyers fees on a couture outfit for each and every one of you, with the balance to be contributed towards the search for Fernando Torres' mojo.

We picked up bad mojo somewhere. Maybe it was something I ate, I don't know. Whatever the supernatural cause, our month of weirdness rolls right along with a Jermaine Jones to-do quickly brewing over in Germany. Soccer America's Paul Kennedy gives the succinct yet full info and feel for the situation sparked by the Schalke man's midweek DFB-Pokal madness here.

• Kop That: Open Goal campaign: 'The colour of my skin has held me back for years but I aim to be the Prem's first Br... http://t.co/XxpL29v6 23:42:34, 2011-12-08
• Kop That: Revealed: How Capello got Rooney's Euros ban cut http://t.co/36C7Pm0k 23:27:09, 2011-12-08
• Kop That: Kenny Dalglish blasts FA over Wayne Rooney and Luis Suarez http://t.

United have lost their mojo and must buy experience to get it back

It's Thursday nights on Channel 5 for the Manchester clubs, but that doesn't mean England is in the midst of its own Euro crisis. True, we must stop kidding ourselves that the Premier League is the best in Europe.

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?

Overwhelming Relief

Well then. That was something, now wasn't it? If you're looking for high-octane end-to-end stuff, this was the place to be. If you're looking for lots of shots, this was the venue. If you were looking for improvement, this was certainly a good place to start.

Going into OT! Golden goal.

Keep up the mojo!

Go Sodium!!!!

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At the half, Sodium down 1-0. Refs blew the equalizer as the shot it the crossbar glanced into the and spun out. NW Nat'l keeper grabs the ball to throw it out and was just as stunned as the rest at the no call. Sodium has controlled the entire game with multiple shots and the defense pushing up to midfield.

From a Gooners perspective there are many opinions on Marouane Chamakh.
My own thought is that I think there is still a great player there but one that has hardly any confidence these days.
Like Austin Powers his mojo has been stolen.
With Robin van Persie in the form of his life Chamakh knows that he is back-up at best.

• Kop That: Craig Bellamy is back to his best for Liverpool and Wales http://t.co/oz6NeHOe 23:40:48, 2011-11-13
• Kop That: 'Comparisons with Barcelona's Lionel Messi are embarrassing' Liverpool's Luis Suarez http://t.co/IrvmvcIQ 23:24:58, 2011-11-13
• Kop That: Suarez downplays Messi comparison http://t.

Oliver Holt's Big Match Verdict: Spain win gives Capello his mojo back

A carnation pinned to his lapel in honour of his son's wedding, Fabio Capello held court in a small room packed with reporters. He was more animated than usual, babbling with enthusiasm for what he had just seen.

After a first half completely bereft of ideas by either team (I commented at half that the best hope for either team to score was an own goal) the second half perked up and resulted in the Rapids clinching a home playoff game.
The half started on a bad note though as Vancouver scored 4 minutes in.

By Alan Duffy

Back in the Brazil squad after a return to form, Samba schemer Ronaldinho's rediscovered mojo may well be down to a new form of hands-on physical activity.

Here the buck-toothed attacker shows off his manual technique, which no doubt gives every training session a happy ending.

I was going to write a carefully crafted piece about whether it is possible for footballers to lose their mojo. I was going to make reference to people like Gaizka Mendieta and Michael Ricketts to determine whether mediocre players just have one great season (Ricketts) or whether once great players (Mendieta, Torres) simply lose their mojo and never get it back.

A little extra match day mojo for Kalif Alhassan. My Dropping Timber money is on Alhassan tonight.

Does anyone want to win the Eastern Conference?

The constant shifting in the East has as many as five teams in position to lay claim to the conference's top seed. Sporting Kansas City looks like the best bet of the bunch after a convincing win over the Houston Dynamo put the club level on points atop the conference table with Columbus and has the team up to No.

Image: PacificCoastNews.com/Zimbio.

Having cheerily assured the footballing world last week that we're happy to accept swimming garmentage in any format, we're rather chastened to learn that fate has already taken exception to our over-confidence.

It's not that there is anything inherently wrong with the white .

0-0 deadlock at half. Keep sending positive mojo to the lady warriors as their journey continues to win Surf Cup!
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7/30/11
8:20am vs San Diego Surf (CAS)
3:00pm vs FCX North Black (IL)
7/31/11
4:20pm vs TOPHAT 14 Gold (GA)
8/1/11
11:00am Bracket A#1 vs B#2
11:00am Bracket A#2 vs B#1
3:45pm Championship Match
Send some good mojo to the warriors today!

Will all of Aron Winter's work pay off tonight against Dallas? (Getty Images)

You can thank SUM for the large amounts of midweek games this week. All the international friendlies pushed for a big Wednesday night in MLS with five league games. Yup, five of them. For the most part a couple of them sound pretty good too and will have some playoff implication surrounding them.

As I begin writing this, a loan move for Denilson to Sao Paolo has all but been confirmed. Brazilian sites, fan forums and a tearful goodbye via the player's twitter account are all pointing towards a one-year loan deal, which is the best transaction for all parties involved in my opinion. Denilson gets a change of environment and a chance to regain some of his mojo that he's gone and lost in the mother of all Kumbh Melas; Arsenal's wage bill gets lightened, and Sao Paolo get to witness their hero's homecoming.

As I begin writing this, a loan move for Denilson to Sao Paolo has all but been confirmed. Brazilian sites, fan forums and a tearful goodbye via the player's twitter account are all pointing towards a one-year loan deal, which is the best transaction for all parties involved in my opinion. Denilson gets a change of environment and a chance to regain some of his mojo that he's gone and lost in the mother of all Kumbh Melas; Arsenal's wage bill gets lightened, and Sao Paolo get to witness their hero's homecoming.

Once Woy arrived on the scene last season, just about everything worked out perfectly for Albion. The initial phases of the transfer window were also widely acclaimed as a success with some solid (and inexpensive) moves to solidify the back line while not losing last season's star Peter Odemwingie to a bigger club.

I think the Swedish team needs to bring back the team-wide braided pigtails they sported to a third-place finish in 2003. They need the mojo.
They're scoreless against Columbia through the first half hour
30 - Rincon tries a free kick from way outside. Hmm. Colombia is scrappy, but they look exhausted already in the heat.

Fort Lauderdale Strikers #9 Abe Thompson was generous with his time and talked to Miami Ultras Alive on our 9th show. Number 9 on MUA#9, coincidence...?
Abe scored his first Strikers goal this past weekend and celebrated with the fans in the stadium and now on our internet radio show. Abe now has some good mojo coming his way.

With no-one volunteering to write a match report following yesterday's last game of the season at Craven Cottage it seems the disinterest in the final moments of our season have been cemented in silence. To finish fourth after being second for most of the season is hard to swallow.

The 2010/2011 season is over, we can file it away as another trophy less one and hopefully move on to the next with hope in our hearts.

The fight.

I haven't gotten a chance to see the match yet was stuck blogging Spurs for The Score but it looks as if we kind of cruised to the points. Good, not great, news.

Better news? We're up to second on goal difference thanks to another Arsenal capitulation.

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As I sit watching David Silva come on for James Milner in the last 30 minutes of the Liverpool blowout of City today, I had a thought. We've seen Roy Hodgson rediscover both his mojo and his "proper depth" in the Premier League over the last two months. We've seen Milner (and Barry) struggle to justify their prices at a "big club" over the months since they came over from Villa.

This thought springs from a comment Tony Gilroy made at TiFF. It really is a team game, so most praise and criticism of individuals needs to be seen within that context.

Remember Juventus? Our midfield that day: Duff-Baird-Etuhu-Davies

There was a game at Spurs a couple of years ago.

Pay homage.

Yeah, maybe we only needed a draw way back on the final day of the 2002-03 season to ensure our future would forever change. Everyone, a big hand for Marcel Desailly. Still, the man above set it up with a peach of a cross, then added an all-important insurance goal to spark a Blue revolution.

The final two days of the January transfer portal.

Big player; big transfer

Ah, the excitement. A horse race mentality and the media calls it as such.

This dude goes that way; that winger goes this way and everyone's rumored on their way to Turkey. Only Jozy Altidore actually went there.