When a politician suspends his or her campaign, it effectively means the end of the campaign. Even if it is restarted, all of the momentum generated has been lost and almost impossible to recover. Sports league operations are no different, and especially soccer leagues in the USA. So the news today that Women's Professional Soccer has suspended operations for the 2012 season is very bad.

British Labour Party politician Steve Rotheram gave a passionate plea Monday to the House of Commons on the topic of the Hillsborough Disaster. The Liverpudlian MP, who was at Hillsborough on that fateful day in 1989, argued for the disclosure and...
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Love him or hate him, you have to admit, he's game for a laugh.

And Robbie Savage's personal journey on the British TV show 'Strictly Come Dancing' got off to a cracking start last weekend when he and partner Ola Jordan successfully completed a foxtrot without falling down or falling out with the officials.

Got this email overnight from England - loved it, so blogged it!
Eamonn
Without doubt the greatest week in the short history of the A-League.
Not the greatest day: that was when the A-League kicked off but certainly the greatest marquee since Dwight Yorke.
I am currently living in the UK (missing Australia like you wouldn't believe) and I was driving in my car listening to the radio coverage of Arsenal/ Udinese when they cut to Blackburn Rovers who had just scored in the Carling Cup "Brett Emerton.

The Eto'o mega deal has put Anzhi Makhachkala on the map, but what sort of reception will he get?

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. Here's Russian football expert Eliot Rothwell on the mega money deal that's shocked world football.

Liechtenstein Prime Minister Dr. Klaus Tschutscher has hailed Liverpool's Ability Counts team and believes they have done the club proud during their week-long stay in Switzerland.
Although they were beaten in the final of the European Disabled football tournament by FC Zurich in Ruggell on Saturday, the Reds made a big impression on everybody they encountered.

Back when I was a general assignment sports writer I covered countless introductory press conferences, where new coaches were paraded out and then queried about directions, philosophies and what not. Mostly these were college football and basketball coaches, but I helped cover a few professional coaching introductions, too, when it was "all hands on deck.

BBC David Bond: Qatar 'spent big' to win 2022 World Cup.

I can't help wondering as I listen to David Bond's interview with Hassan al Thawadi, the executive in charge of Qatar's successful bid to host the World Cup in 2022, that we all got suckered in by first of all, a very smart intelligent businessman who knew exactly what he was doing, and by FIFA's decrepit bid evaluation rules that allowed all kinds of shenanigans to take place, "within FIFA rules", as he so eloquently points out.

Uncanny Have you ever heard of Hildegarde Naughton? Nope, us neither. But that doesn't mean we cannot appreciate the beauty of this lookalike. Apparently, she is a Fine Gael politician in Ireland but from now on most people will simply know her as 'that politician who looks like Fernando Torres'. Spotted on @Doyler9

The Bangkok Post is saying that Thailand will host the winner of the preliminary qualifier between Afghanistan and Palestine in Buriram.
Really? Isn't there some FIFA rule that stipulates a stadium used for FIFA sanctioned events needs to be pretty bloody close to an international airport? And Thai FA head, Worawi Mukadi, as a member of various frequent flyer programmes and FIFA committees should know this.

After seven years at the helm of Tampines Rovers Vorawan Chitavanich has finally decided to return to Thailand. His choice of Samut Songkram may seem a bit of a surprise, they're not one of the bigger Thai teams after all, but I guess Vorawan has been used to doing things a certain way at Tampines Stadium and perhaps Samut Songkram offered him something similar.

After Jose Enrique's interview with the BBC it wasn't clear to us exactly what Jose was saying. Jose Enrique - Newcastle fans expect him to leave Jose seems to have become a bit of a politician, and there's bits in the interview that pleased almost everybody. If you wanted him to stay, then in the [.

A new episode of Sports Show with Norm MacDonald airs tonight (Tuesday, May 3) at 10:30pm/9:30c on Comedy Central and we've got a few clips from the show.

Filipino politician/pop-star/boxer Manny Pacquiao will engage in a spirited round of fisticuffs with "Sugar" Shane Mosley this Saturday in, oh, let's say, Vegas.

Guest blog post by Mohlomi Maubane in Soweto, South Africa
One of South Africa's iconic tournaments, the Telkom Charity Cup, is no more. PSL chairman Irvin Khoza's announcement this week brought down the curtain on what was arguably one of the most loved tournaments in the country.

Steve Rotheram has explained why he will be putting down an early motion requesting the Queen confer a knighthood on Kenny Dalglish.
Steve Rotheram has explained why he will be putting down an early motion requesting the Queen confer a knighthood on Kenny Dalglish.
The Liverpool MP made the announcement during a moving speech at Friday's Hillsborough Memorial Service at Anfield.

Buriram PEA, under their flamboyant owner Newin Chidchob (named after a Burmese dictator), claim Arsenal will be playing Leicester City to inaugurate their new stadium sometime in July. The same report suggests that Arsenal pulled the plug on a tour of Japan following the earthquake there.
Buriram PEA will win this season's Thai Premier League, it's written in the tea leaves.

Thailand has many attractions. For example there are many, many temple. Oh and don't forget the Thai people. They are very friendly and they always smile alot to help foreigners to their country.
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The Olympic Stadium decision will be announced this week, and the biggest question the legacy committee will be asking themselves is what bad things will Karren Brady have to say about them if they rule in favour of Tottenham?

She's conducted herself in a manner any unscrupulous politician in the world would be proud of latched on to one key piece of rhetoric (promises, legacy, equating Tottenham with 'shaming Britain') and subsequently ignored everything tangible about the Tottenham position.

Revolution not Evolution? How to reform Scottish football is a post from: Just Football

Rangers, Celtic, Rangers, Celtic. Is it time for serious structural reform in Scottish football? William Heaney takes us through the options.

Scottish football has a history of missing opportunities and shooting itself in the foot.