Stowe sent me this "100 Greatest Quotes from The Wire" video on Twitter the other day, and I watched it, and I was like, "Oh my God, The Wire," because I haven't seen it in a few years and this sort of brought it all back. Then, for no obvious reason, this video started tugging at my brain after the Thierry Henry handball rocked the core of everything that had a core to rock yesterday.

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Looks like a carry to me, but if it was Iverson they'd let it slide
The Daily Mail has a nice assortment of photoshopped Thierry Henry specials sent in by jokesters around the internet - and this one seemed to me to make the most sense because of Henry's past professed love for the Chicago Bulls. Click to continue reading...

Actually Japan is leading the charge against vuvuzelas leading into the World Cup.
Won't amount to much I'm sure.
But maybe it would if more join the charge!
To the links:Liverpool Daily Post]
Fergie says City is top four material. [ESPN]FIFA warns Iraq to separate gov't/soccer. Click to continue reading...

Garber sees growth in MLS. (Getty Images)

I've spent a good portion of the day collecting my thoughts on a couple subjects and then it happen to be the same day that MLS commish Don Garber had his State of the League address. Yeah, let's just say some of his comments just made my head go nuts (and your's too judging by some emails).

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Have you heard? We first discovered the news about our favourite Party Boy's new love last week. We've compiled a few fascinating and entertaining details and thought we'd share with you in compact bullet-point form.

- It would seem that Nicklas Bendtner is dating Caroline Fleming, a baroness 13-years his senior.

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Have you heard? We first discovered the news about our favourite Party Boy's new love last week. We've compiled a few fascinating and entertaining details and thought we'd share with you in compact bullet-point form.

- It would seem that Nicklas Bendtner is dating Caroline Fleming, a baroness 13-years his senior.

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Some quotes, but not much new information.

A collective-bargaining proposal made by the league last week was "very disappointing," said Crew goalkeeper William Hesmer.
"Based off of what was last proposed, this doesn't end well," Hesmer said.
. . .
The union also is pushing for greater economic benefits, including higher minimum salaries, but Crew midfielder Brian Carroll said monetary considerations are secondary.

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It looks like Man United midfielder Luis Nani has said something that he really should have. Speaking to a Portuguese newspaper called ‘I', Nani has criticized manager Sir Alex Ferguson and that really isn't a good idea.
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Some quotes by Managing Director Derek Llambias today details just how much the ownership of Newcastle is out of step with the fans. Mike Ashley completely out of touch with the fans Derek just doesn't understand where the fans are coming from and it seems like they don't want to. Here's what Derek Llambias said: "It's [. Click to continue reading...

Dieter, Dietmar . . . close enough.

Dietmar Beiersdorfer, the new sporting director for worldwide Red Bull soccer operations, has descended upon New York and has brought with him a cloud of speculation. Is he here to hire a new GM? Perhaps weigh in on the coaching situation?

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Hey everyone, I just got off the phone with Fire Head Coach Denis Hamlett and I got quite a bit of reaction to the 2-1 Game 1 loss to the New England Revolution.

A lot of the quotes are same old, same old from Denis (funny how that happens when the team struggles with the same problems over and over again.

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Those of you who don't like it when I go digging in the numbers may care to leave now...

As you know, I draw "inspiration" from far and wide. Today we're going to borrow from ice hockey!

This article had some interesting quotes to draw me in:

However, it is only one month.

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Right then, it's one busy blog this morning so let's get right into it.

Just moments, possibly seconds, after an article appeared on the official site with Lukasz Fabianski talking about how delighted he was to be back, another appeared advising us that Lukasz Fabianski would be out for three weeks.

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As always, Mr. Unprecedented Access, Steve Goff, has a sit down with Kevin Payne and Tom Soehn over on his blog. Some big quotes...

"We don't want to play like Colorado or New England, which most of the season sat with eight or nine guys behind the ball. How many people go to watch Colorado or New England play?

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Sir Alex Ferguson was charged by the FA for claiming that visibly overweight referee Alan Wiley wasn't fit enough. After Wiley took an unusually large amount of time to book Anton Ferdinand in the second half, our manager accused Wiley of needing this time to take a rest.

Ferguson apologised personally to Wiley but was asked by the FA to explain himself before they charged him.

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Former Bolton manager Sam Alladyce revealed that some of Blackburn's players played against Chelsea despite showing some symptoms of Swine Flu. Big Sam is concerned about the virus but The Wanderers' current manager is not perturbed by an apparent outbreak at The Reebok Stadium.

In a statement on the official Rovers website Big Sam said;

"Obviously, we've had two players who have been particularly poorly with it, and we've had a few more that have had something which looked like the symptoms, but they still managed to travel with us and get through the game at Chelsea.

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The sidelined Brazilian has been speaking again to radio in his home country:

"I'm very happy about the interest that Barcelona have in me, playing in the Nou Camp it is much easier to be the best player in the world than at City."
"I'm not forcing a hypothetical exit from England and neither do I have problems with my coach.

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Well, the comeback was a nice one that severely hampers D.C. United's playoff hopes. Claudio's stoppage-time PK sent the crowd here at CAB into a frenzy on Fan Appreciation Night. Check out the notables below for more, including info on Kamara's first goal for KC and Zusi's first MLS assist.
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• Kansas City finished the season 0-1-2 against D. Click to continue reading...

The clocks have gone back. How did you spend the extra hour? This year I decided not to waste it squeezing in yet more alcopops or sleeping off the day's excess.Instead I've chosen to resurrect an old favourite. The Sunday Post of my childhood used to run a "What They Said" feature on the back page. This involved collating quotes from each of the Premier League managers about their team's Click to continue reading...

"It is a fairy tale that I ban everything. I only ban things that are hurting the team. But when someone comes to me and says he needs ten beers to score a goal, then I lecture him about the risks of alcohol consumption and give him ten beers."

Schalke's coach Felix Magath in an interview with Welt Online.

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Kansas City dropped a 3-2 result to Seattle Sounders FC tonight at CAB after falling behind early and surrendering a late lead. The Wizards had been eliminated from playoff contention earlier in the day by other results but could have put Seattle's playoff future in question with a win. As it turned out, Sounders FC clinched a playoff berth after a great performance from Designated Player and #10 Freddie Ljungberg. Click to continue reading...

Bosnia-Herzegovina have made it to a playoff for World Cup qualification for the first time in their brief history and manager Miroslav Ciro Blazevic (picture above, second from right) says the secret to their success is all down to one thing: passionate mouth kisses.

Wait what?

"I take two of my players and tell them, 'Love him!

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Remember that one coach that got busted for driving drunk?
First he got suspended. Well now he got fired.
That's a lesson to the kids.
Now the links:

• Quotes o' the week. [Sanford's Soccer Net]
  
• Aquilani's Liverpool debut coming? [ESPN]
  
• W.

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There have been a number of rumours about BWFC this week and Gary Megson has spoken out to confirm one and dismiss others.

No Plans For Alan Smith

Gary Megson has denied the recent rumour about his hopes to sign Newcastle United's striker, Alan Smith for Bolton Wanderers. He told the Bolton News,

"I'm an admirer of Alan Smith, he's a terrific player, but there's been nothing because the transfer window is closed.

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An article on Soccer by Ives has quotes from Wizards #7 Claudio Lopez about the tough go of qualifying for Argentina thus far. He remains a popular player in Argentina and with Argentine media, and will also do a live shot today at 3 p.m. CT for Fox Sports Argentina about tonight's monumental game in Uruguay. Click to continue reading...

As the nights draw in and leaves fall and while hedgehogs prepare to be burnt alive in bonfires there is one thing that begins to blossom — transfer rumours. Having said that, transfer rumour seem to be more evergreen than biannual.

The latest rumour involves midfielder Camel Meriem, currently at AS Monaco, who is thought to have gained the interest of Megson.

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Hello there everyone. A fine Monday to you all. Hope everyone had a good weekend even though there was no Arsenal. Mine was pretty good. My Under-9 boys team got their first win of the season in our third match of the year. We won 6-1 after losing 8-0 and 7-0 in our first two matches. So it was a big victory for us and we'll be looking to keep that run going. Click to continue reading...

SOME very interesting news from The West Australian in today's paper - Tony 'James Bond' Sage has revealed that the three Socceroo hopefulls, Chris Coyne, Jacob Burns and Mile Sterjovski, would be let go on loan BEFORE the A-League finals if it helps them get a ticket to the World Cup.
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It is the day after the U.S. national team's impressive 3-2 comeback victory in Honduras and American fans woke up today to the reality that the USA has qualified for the 2010 World Cup.

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It is the day after the U.S. national team's impressive 3-2 comeback victory in Honduras and American fans woke up today to the reality that the USA has qualified for the 2010 World Cup.

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Well it's been a busy news day for Newcastle United fans today....... Literally nothing of note to write up about except for a slightly tardy mention of Barton's belated 'olive branch' to Alan Shearer, after his admission that there was a falling out. More on the story and Joey's quotes can be found here, but [. Click to continue reading...

A life without Roman? It doesn't bear thinking about. Or does it? Well, evidently Chelsea Chairman Bruce Buck thinks about it at least once a year. According to quotes attributed to him in today's Sun, Buck has said:
"I think we'd be in a reasonably good state if Mr Abramovich left.

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A life without Roman? It doesn't bear thinking about. Or does it? Well, evidently Chelsea Chairman Bruce Buck thinks about it at least once a year. According to quotes attributed to him in today's Sun, Buck has said:
"I think we'd be in a reasonably good state if Mr Abramovich left.

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Wow, Warzycha came unglued around Sean Michelle again. Damn, this guy has better quotes than me.

"It's just ridiculous," an agitated Warzycha said today. "It's a crime of soccer. Something like this, it's cheating. To dig a hole and destroy the penalty spot, it's something I don't have words to describe.

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To mark the US release of The Damned United in New York and LA on October 9, Sony Classic Pictures has asked us to give away a pair of movies posters (pictured above) to our awesome and super sexy readers. So, that's what we're doing. Right now.

Here's how this is going to work:

-Email me your favorite Brian Clough quote at Brooks[at]DirtyTackle.

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