It was, as things turned out, a mercifully quiet transfer deadline day, but the most curious acquisition of the day ended up involving a young player with just a handful of first team substitute appearances under his belt but also, it would seem, the capacity for potential brilliance and and self-destruction in roughly equal measures.

After Liverpool's recent 3-1 defeat to Bolton, Nigel Reo-Coker laid into Craig Bellamy during his post match interview, and the Welshman has stayed silent on the issue. Until now...Reo Coker and Bellamy were involved in an onfield spat during the game, and afterwards, the Bolton captain scathed:"Craig Bellamy is going to be Craig Bellamy and I've got no respect for him.

Greg Schiano has been taking on challenges his whole life, and where his recent task of rebuilding the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL is daunting, the former Rutgers University coach is up for the task.
Stephen F. Holder of the Tampa Bay Times writes of the man who continues to rise to the occasion.

If the "news filtration" out by Spanish Sports Barcelona based paper "Sport" is correct, FC BARCELONA fans should begin saving their money for the new uniform that will be official next season: 2012-2013. Below is an image/s of the new design/s that signals that if you just forked out 90€-110€ for the current uniform, you will be shortly "old school".

U.S. Soccer Federation President Sunil Gulati speaks to U.S. supporters (including the American Outlaws) in Chicago. He might have been taking about this....
The idea is simple: invite your friends to a soccer game, buy them a beer. There... you've done it! You're now a participant in the Free Beer Movement.

Swansea face a battle with Liverpool to sign teenage Cliftonville striker Rory Donnelly reports the Daily Express.
The 19-year-old is attracting interest from a number of English clubs, with League One side Brentford having also made an offer for the talented youngster.
Reds boss Kenny Dalglish has been alerted to Donnelly's potential and is weighing up an attempt to entice him to Anfield when the transfer window reopens in January.

Jamie Carragher returned to his old school to donate a footy kit on Friday.
The 33-year-old visited All Saints Primary in Bootle as part of an initiative launched by the Barclays Premier League and the Professional Footballers Association (PFA) to boost the sport at grassroots level.
All 20 top flight teams have donated £25,000 to create a £500,000 fund to provide schools and clubs with free kit and equipment.

Carra goes old school with kit

Jamie Carragher returned to his old school to donate a footy kit on Friday.

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Montreal unveils their new jerseys. (Photo via Montreal Impact)

It's blue. It's white. And that's about it. Simple and to the point but nothing over the top.

Boy that away jersey just screams San Jose and old school Kansas City.

What do you all think?

So you just forked out around 90€ that you have been saving for the last three months to grab the Spanish National Football Team shirt & it looks great. Well, you are now "old school" as there is a new version that will debut next 12th of November when the current FIFA World Champions SPAIN travel to ENGLAND for a International Friendly.

Old-school turnstile entrances at West Ham United's Sir Trevor Brooking Stand at their Boleyn Ground (rather better known as Upton Park). Photo taken October 20, 2011.

Photo credit: Tom Cuppens on Flickr

By Chris Wright

Want to achieve that thick, lustrous, healthy 'Brendan Rodgers' look that all men are striving for this season? Fetch your old school uniform out of the attic, get your see-through protective face mask on and WORK IT GIRLFRIEND...

Want to know what else went on at Newcastle training this afternoon?

By Alan Duffy

Peter Hill-Wood, Stan Kroenke and Stan Kroenke's hair take their seats at the Emirates

Silent Stan Kroenke finally spoke to Arsenal's shareholders at the club's annual AGM in London today. The US billionaire said: "(Arsenal) has tremendous management at the top, a wonderful manager on the pitch who makes great decisions in regard to personnel, and a tremendous following with the supporters.

Now this is interesting. According to SoccerAmerica -remember SoccerAmerica?-- the current iteration of the New York Cosmos front office is getting blowed up. Paul Gardner's latest, quasi-bizarrely written treatise for the old-school footie mag throws forth a tale of upheaval around the MLS expansion pretenders and leaves you with more questions than answers.

We're gonna be running some old school NSC game this week. Today, we drop some statistics you will never have any use for - and never wished to know. Will did grouping one, we split the keepers and I handled the final tally.That all said, let's digitize...THE BIG DANCEEvery fall, we look at the UEFA cup fields, picking out the Americans and wondering what barriers they can break next.

We'll never come whack on an old school track...Let's begin with the MLS Goal of the Week nominees. I gotta go Cruz control on this one, folks.Real Zaragoza's Helder Postiga builds one bitchingly fast bicycle.Look for how high above frame this looong free kick from Slovenia's Dare Vršič is as it passes the spot and how quickly it falls off the table.

The Swansea game wasn't the easiest to watch, I have to admit. We looked nervous at the back and uncomfortable throughout the 90 minutes; in fact we looked like a team that was still struggling to come to terms with having the absolute stuffing knocked out of us by one of our greatest rivals which was fair enough.

Der-der-der-der, der-der-der-der, der-der-der-der-derrrrrr He will mainly be playing Snake on his old school Nokia. The wheeler dealer Tottenham boss ought to be getting stuck into some tricky contract negotiations today... with his mobile phone company. 'Arry must have had that phone since his West Ham days.

Average position charts from ESPN. Things to note:

Looks like the team's going for a sort of old school imbalanced back four. This is not uncommon in football's history, and attacking full-backs are an important part of the game now. At Barcelona they have a system in which Dani Alves storms forward, whereas the left back is less progressive and Sergio Busquets drops back while Alves raids.

Written by Harry

Well it was an early start as I had to get my eldest boy, Luke, to the ground for 0930hrs, as he was due to meet the squad as a thank you for been a ball boy last season........So Reece, my youngest, and I were at the ground nice and early with little going on, supposedly there was meant to be more happening, but perhaps the rain stopped that.

Chelsea skipper John Terry has hailed new boss Andre Villas-Boas, stressing that the mood around the club has already changed following his arrival. The 33 year old Portuguese manager enjoyed a lot of success at Porto, and now follows in the footsteps of Jose Mourinho after taking control of the Blues.

John Terry is featured giving an in depth interview on all things Chelsea this coming Friday evening on Chelsea TV and in that interview he speaks of AVB giving his honest opinions. A part of that interview has been published in the Guardian this afternoon.
So, on AVB since he has come in and pre season, Terry said:

"He's come in and, really, from day one, he's been on the ball and on the button with us all.

Was there a picture after the game of President Obama screaming and throwing furniture around while his wife and children looked on horrified?
No? That was just in my house? Okay.
Looking at the US after the game really gave me an insight on how China felt twelve years ago. I thought Hope Solo was going to kill someone, and then we saw her getting consoled by fans - presumably relatives, but if not, that's not surprising.

Today in Frankfurt, Germany, the USA WNT faces Japan in the Final of the 2011 Women's World Cup in an attempt to win the trophy for the second time in 12 years. I think it's fair to say that 95% of soccer fans around the world, especially, of course, in the US and Japan, will either be watching the match live, or be monitoring the score via whatever.

As last season drew to a close it appeared that Spurs only hope for European football was the Europa League that came with 5th place. Arguments raged as to whether or not this was a good thing and it appeared Harry Redknapp and a number of his players didn't seem keen on the idea.

Captain Carlos will need to old school today because he's on Chicharito Patrol.

It's the United States.

It's the Mexico.

Both clubs come in today looking for that golden ticket to the 2013 Confederation's Cup.

No more is to be said.

The Rose Bowl in Pasadena is filling up.

Hello!

This note comes to you from Ho Chi Minh City, or Saigon as it once was and in some ways still is.

Nothing too dramatic to report as I've spent most of my time here either asleep (jetlag isn't, as I had thought, a made-up thing that people who have spent time on aeroplanes use to make a fuss) or working in my hotel room.

Hello!

This note comes to you from Ho Chi Minh City, or Saigon as it once was and in some ways still is.

Nothing too dramatic to report as I've spent most of my time here either asleep (jetlag isn't, as I had thought, a made-up thing that people who have spent time on aeroplanes use to make a fuss) or working in my hotel room.

The San Paolo goal feast that took everyone by surprise Even in a city as superstitious as Naples, the omens can sometimes be wrong. The fans turning out for the visit of league leaders Inter in February 1980 had every reason to expect a tense, low-scoring affair. Instead, they were treated to a glorious riot of goals.

It's that time again. Time for SBI readers to send me soccer questions in an old-school version of the SBI Live Q&A.

What's the old-school version? You submit your questions in the comments section below, and I'll post answers at a future date. We do far more Live Q&As these days, but I know not everyone can make it to those, so if you have a question you'd like to submit, just ask it below.

I would like to introduce to you an amazing website called Chelsea 2D.
"Inspired by the Nintendo World Cup game, I'm going to be creating an old school interpretation of the modern day events at Chelsea Football Club. I won't be offering our highlights in 3D, I won't be screening live games, but Chelsea2D.

Jonathan Wilson of Sports Illustrated writes of his tactical analysis of all the UEFA Champions League matches from this past week-
MANCHESTER UNITED vs. MARSEILLE

Twenty years ago, when striker partnerships were still alive and well, they came in two basic forms: a big man and a quick finisher, or a deep-lying creator and a quick finisher.

Today former Fanhouse soccer editor and writer Brian Straus announced over Twitter that he had accepted Sport News' offer to become the 125-year-old publication's first ever soccer writer. Straus sat down with the Brotherly Game's managing editor, Scott Kessler, to discuss the move to Sporting News.

Liverpool football chief Damien Comolli's position is coming under intense scrutiny.
The Daily Mail says when Kenny Dalglish is confirmed as the permanent Liverpool manager, insiders are standing by for a power battle with director of football strategy Comolli.
Dalglish has an old-school managerial attitude of liking to be in sole command.

Personal goal for the 2011 season: get to a night game in Vancouver before they move downtown as Empire Field looks absolutely radiant under floodlights. What I would give to see an epic game in the rain there.
Aside from the nocturnal look at the 'Caps temporary home there's a lot of great footage of some of the old-school 86ers/Whitecaps fans and the mobs that greeted the team after they won the 1979 SoccerBowl.

Good afternoon folks. While Live Q&As have become the standard on SBI in recent months I am also aware that not everybody can make it to our Live Q&A sessions so every once in a while I will bring back the old school SBI Q&A format.

Send in your soccer (and pop culture) questions and I will answer them in the coming weeks in a series of posts.

This is turning out to be one of THOSE transfer windows, as in mental.
Liverpool have agreed a £35MILLION fee with Newcastle for Andy Caroll.
The world has indeed gone mad.
Don't get me wrong, I rate Carroll, I think he has immense potential and is an old-school centre-forward who could potentially link up with Suarez effectively.

Never quite seen the attraction in Darren Bent. Old school forward, nothing more. Does a job at fair to middling clubs. Moving to Villa for 24 million is lunacy, I thought England was in the middle of a financial crisis?
Anyway why don't we start valuing players based on the number of followers they have on Twitter?

Having fallen into the football supporter's trap of self obsessed navel gazing it's time to redress the balance.
Amid the fun or pain to be had, depending on your persuasion, of watching Hibs suffer a massive, institutional mental breakdown, we shouldn't forget the role that Ayr United played last night.

By Ollie Irish

In celebration of football's greatest Stans (before you mention it, there is no room for the Stanley knife, beloved of old-school hooligans)...

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10. STAN WILLEMSE - No-nonsense left-back who played for Brighton, Chelsea and Leyton Orient in a 12-year playing career (1946-1958).