Saturday 15th October 2011.
Celtic, fresh from a defeat at Tynecastle, are 3-0 down at half time to Kilmarnock.
Winning the title looks a long way off, Neil Lennon's managerial coat seems to hang on an ever shooglier peg.
They came back to draw 3-3, three goals in a 10 minute burst from Anthony Stokes and Charlie Mulgrew salvaging a point.

This week maybe World Cup Qualifier week but for the good people of Bangladesh there is a chance to see Lionel Messi and his Bangladesh team strut their stuff in a friendly against Nigeria in the capital city, Dhaka.
The Argentine side will fly into Dhaka on the national airline, Bangladesh Biman, which will be an eye opener in itself.

"Forever a Babe: Growing Up With Manchester United" is the story of boy growing up in a working class family in post war Manchester surrounded by poverty, hardship and a football club...
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Lucy Pinder (27) is a glamour model who has featured in lad's Mag's such as Loaded, Maxim, Nuts and Zoo to name but a few.

In 2005 Lucy appeared on Sky Sports as a Soccerette on Soccer AM, wearing a Southampton jersey. Lucy is also an ambassador for Kick For Life, a charity which uses soccer to fight poverty and disease in developing Countries.

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.

Another transfer window means will Cesc go or will he stay. This is become repetitive and tedious. Many Arsenal fans are sick and tired of the annual Barcelona attempt to poach our captain for nothing!

Last summer was the summer we all thought Cesc would leave, he even asked to leave and told Arsene to his face he wanted to leave, or so the stories go.

Great story, and one of those that highlights how having access to pristine pitches isn't the most conducive environment for developing great technique and ability in tight spaces (otherwise known as the "poverty produces footballers, plenty produces automatons" argument). Or so I'll insist to my daughter when we head out to the mix of weeds and fescue growing on hard-baked clay that passes for our local fields.

Great story, and one of those that highlights how having access to pristine pitches isn't the most conducive environment for developing great technique and ability in tight spaces (otherwise known as the "poverty produces footballers, plenty produces automatons" argument). Or so I'll insist to my daughter when we head out to the mix of weeds and fescue growing on hard-baked clay that passes for our local fields.

Barcelona 3 Arsenal 1
If you rule out a goal for offside - like the one at the weekend - and you're wrong, it's acceptable. It's not right, but it's very hard to always get those decisions right in the middle of a match. That's why attackers are supposed to be given the benefit of the doubt, although they usually aren't.

Victory and poverty are relative. For most of America, Nicaragua is looked down upon as the ugly stepchild. The Ticos complain about Nicas despite giving them visas by the thousands, and everyone else forgets that a certain Mr. Dario, the father of literary postmodernism in Spanish literature, came from this cuna.

Darren Bent is what I call a stupid English footballer. It's not a reflection on his intelligence per se, though I'm pretty sure he's no educated sophisticate.

Here is a decent player, not exceptional but decent. But he has a small football brain. He hangs on the shoulder of the defender and hopes to get a run in on goal.

He is the manager of arguably the biggest football team in the world and he has just learnt that his top striker is off to Chicago for a back operation that will rule him out for the rest of the season. So you would expect Jose Mourinho to be lining up a bid for a top-class forward to replace the injured Gonzalo Higuain.

He is the manager of arguably the biggest football team in the world and he has just learnt that his top striker is off to Chicago for a back operation that will rule him out for the rest of the season. So you would expect Jose Mourinho to be lining up a bid for a top-class forward to replace the injured Gonzalo Higuain.