Atletico Madrid winger Jose Antonio Reyes says it's time for Arsenal's young players to deliver on their promise.
Unlike his own career, which has seemingly gone into terminal decline since leaving the Gunners, Reyes believes the Gunners are finally poised to reclaim a major trophy this season. Click to continue reading...

Weymouth Football Club, one of the ongoing financial basket-cases of the last three years in non-league football, might have finally reached the end of the line. Reports on the BBC this morning confirmed that, with talks with new buyers having collapsed, the club's administrators are planning to wind the club up this morning.

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Liverpool youngster Mikel San Jose may be set to return from his loan spell in Spain ahead of schedule.
The 20-year-old defender agreed to join Athletic Bilbao on a season-long deal over the summer, but has grown frustrated at a lack of opportunities in his homeland.
He has been awarded just seven minutes of action this term and feels he needs to explore other avenues. Click to continue reading...

Never seen the Heart Shape goal celebration before, that was cool.� Anyone know who it was for?

You thought HP sauce (it's English) had flavor... check out Becks in the middle of this clip!

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Jogaram em Kano, no Sani Abacha Stadium, com uma temperatura de 35º C, as seleções da Espanha (2º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção de Malawi (90º no ranking da FIFA).
Esse foi o primeiro jogo na história entre as 2 seleções.
O quarteto de arbitragem escalado foi esse:
Árbitro: Pablo POZO-CHI
Primeiro Assistente: Patricio BASUALTO-CHI
Segundo Assistente: Francisco MONDRIA-CHI
Quarto Árbitro: Subhkiddin MOHD SALLEH-MAS
Aos 32 minutos do primeiro tempo, gol do camisa 11, Adria CARMONA, jogador do Barcelona-ESP. Click to continue reading...

Ryan Babel will jet back home to Ajax in January if Liverpool get £6million for the striker.
Boss Rafa Benitez has stood by the Dutch flop, 22, and offered him a fresh chance this season.
But his patience has run out and Benitez will listen to offers.
Babel started the campaign in the first team but failed to respond to the manager's votes of confidence. Click to continue reading...

Hull club officials had plenty of patience with boss Phil Brown over the last year or so, even though the Tigers kept underachieving, but they have finally decided to sack him if the team remain in the relegation zone after the next two rounds. Those of you who were insightful enough to place a bet on Brown to win the Premiership sack race are probably in for a nice betting bonus, while those of you thinking about doing that now should know the betting is suspended.

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Jogaram pelo mundial sub-17, na cidade de KANO, no Sani Abacha Stadium, com uma temperatura de 34º C., as seleções dos Estados Unidos (11º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção do Malawi (91º no ranking da FIFA).
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Melanie Slade and her highly-reflective mates at a Manchester shop opening for Helly Hansen

Helly Hansen's PR department did a stellar job yesterday in getting their photo opportunity money's worth out of spokes-model, Melanie Slade.

As you can see, Melanie (who has been dating Arsenal's Theo Walcott since she was a mini), had to model a variety of coats, shopping bags and generally look happy to be shilling product.

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Melanie Slade and her highly-reflective mates at a Manchester shop opening for Helly Hansen

Helly Hansen's PR department did a stellar job yesterday in getting their photo opportunity money's worth out of spokes-model, Melanie Slade.

As you can see, Melanie (who has been dating Arsenal's Theo Walcott since she was a mini), had to model a variety of coats, shopping bags and generally look happy to be shilling product.

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Exciting highlight clip!� The RSL show...

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Having a good year these two.

If you are one of my players reading this pay attention to what they are saying, this could be you one day!

Believe in it!

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I like how the USWNT asst coach is using a translator and then Abby Wambach just asks, "Do yall speak English?" and they all said "Yes!".� Nice one Abby!

Seriously though this is very cool the ladies took the time to run a clinic.� Looked like they had fun too!

JM

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London Derby number two is up next when we play West Ham and as usual the media are building it up in their own typical manner.

Couple of them focused on Wenger's thoughts on Upson. As we know, Upson never quite fulfilled his potential at Arsenal. If I'm wrong about this do correct me but his last ever game in an Arsenal shirt was against Aston Villa in 2001 where he was absolutely shocking in the first half.

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Not the most intense game, but the Fire got the "W" and that is what counts!� Playoff bound!

Wish I could have seen the halftime event where Chris Armas was named to the Fire's Hall of Fame, the "Ring of Fire".� Thankfully Peter Wilt, the Fire's former GM and member of the "Ring of Fire", was posting some great pics on his Twitter feed!

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Sir Alex Ferguson is happy with our 1-0 away win against CSKA Moscow last night with Antonio Valencia bagging the winning goal.

"I think we should be proud of it," said Ferguson. "It's not easy away from Europe because we've been to some fantastic places over the years. Maturity there is a way you play in Europe away from home and I think you saw tonight we showed good patience in the game and kept good possession, I think that's a key factor.

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I never thought I would see the day but there are increasing calls from the Inter faithful for Jose Mourinho to leave.

The self styled "special one" who won the Champions League in 2004, as well as league titles in Portugal, England and Italy, is under intense pressure as Inter's alarming European form continues to slide downwards.

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Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gibson finally lost patience with Gareth Southgate after sacking him following Tuesday night 2-0 victory over Derby County.

"The long term future of the club was a key decision in replacing Southgate. One good result wasn't going to change that decision,"
"We had a strategy for Gareth's replacement.

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Pretty exciting highlight clip!

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What do you think about the Chris Rolfe yellow card?� Dive or no dive?

Personally I say no dive.� I like Chris and Matt a lot but I think Matt got away with one here!

JM

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Wow, could barely keep count of all those yellow cards!

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Schellas Hyndman has done something rather magical with what was, just a few months ago, a honestly terrible side. For the first time in several weeks I went out and watched the team in person. What Dallas is trotting out on the pitch is a squad with pace, balance and patience. Click to continue reading...

This morning is the first morning with a real whiff of winter off it. As someone who suffers greatly with SAD (Sun Am Deadly) this is not good news. Let's hope the football is warm and glowing enough to get me through.

Champions League tonight and we travel to Holland to play AZ Alkmaar. The team news is that Theo Walcott is out and will miss three to four weeks after suffering ligament damage against Birmingham.

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Ghana wins the 2009 Egypt Under 20 World Cup, Ghana is the first African team to win the trophy, and certainly will not be the last. Against a tough Brazil side, Ghana was able to defend well after losing Daniel Addo in the 37th minute because of a red card. Ghana held out until the penalty shootout, where goalkeeper Agyei brilliantly saved Teixeira's penalty, helping Ghana reach the famed trophy. Click to continue reading...

Lots of emotions flying around this game tonight.� With the Charlie Davies accident and then Gooch getting hurt it felt strange cheering so hard when so many sad things were happening but the boys came through for us!

Thank you USMNT!� CONCACAF Champions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Believe in it!

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Great video by the WPS!� I only managed to interview one WPS player this year, Ella Masar and she was awesome, but next year I hope to do a lot more!

Loved the goal celebrations in this video and I love the fact that the girl's I coach have professional female role models to look up too!

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Love seeing a fellow Lynn University Alumni doing well!� He hasn't had the glitz and glamor season like some of the other rookies, but he sure is getting great experience.� All you can ask for sometimes as a young player is to have your coach back you the way Jason Kreis is backing him.

Keep pushing Jean, you are in a great spot!

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Tim Howard's joke about the Honduras fans being there early at 6:30 and him thinking he thought the Honduras fans must have thought the game was for 7 was great!

Donovan was right about possession at the end of the game.� I was very impressed to see the team keep the ball and kill off the game.

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Manager John Barnes and his assistant Jason McAteer have been sacked by Tranmere. Former England legend Barnes and ex Liverpool star McAteer have been told that they were to have their contracts terminated by the club earlier this morning. Tranmere are currently sat in the League One relegation zone - and after a string of poor results in the league and their recent defeat in the Johnstone's paint Trophy earlier in the week, it seems that the Tranmere board have finally lost patience with Barnes and his regime. Click to continue reading...

Could Serbian hooligans solve all our problems?

From Prost Amerika Soccer:

FIFA have already fined the Serb FA $40,000 for incidents in all their previous world cup matches against France, Austria and Romania, and now they have finally lost patience.

Once more, the authorities have stepped in ahead of a match with Romania.

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Patience is a virtue, and for two of the Premier League's best players, that patience has finally paid off. The crazy thing about it all? These two players are on the same team! And the lucky team is Sunderland.

It was just last season that Sunderland were in the heat of the relegation battle.

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