By Alan Duffy

Arsenal's gifted young goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny has made the latest in a long line of footballing Twitter boo-boos. Indeed, it's not even his first offence.

On responding to a photo team-mate Aaron Ramsey has posted of himself at a golf event, the Polish international Tweeted: "I don't wanna be rude mate but you look like a rapist on that picture.

Mario Balotelli ist und bleibt der Traum für die englische Boulevardpresse. Selbst wenn er mal nicht direkt selber was angestellt hat, gibt es immer etwas über ihn zu berichten. Selbst in der Musikwelt ist er inzwischen vertreten, auch wenn nicht ganz freiwillig. Der englische Rapper Tinchy Stryder hat sich Mario Balotelli angenommen und ein Lied [.

Tinchy Stryder's Balotelli rap, Arshavin, Dalglish, Hernandez and 10 songs about footballers

Including the one and only 'Niall Quinn's Disco Pants'

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Luis Suarez to discover if FA are on his case once again

Luis Suarez will discover on Wednesday if he faces another FA rap after disciplinary chiefs investigated the crude, one-fingered salute he delivered at Fulham on Monday night.

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Suarez facing new FA rap over 'finger'

Liverpool striker gestures at Fulham fans after 1-0 defeat

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CJ Sapong interviewed shortly after finding out that he had won the MLS 2011 Rookie of the Year. CJ gave a small performance of the first draft of his Rookie of the Year rap. He also wants the fans to help him get Hope Solo to the awards dinner. My article on examiner Many of CJ Sapong's goals were acrobatic like this one against New York

Us gals get a bad enough rap when we can't go to the ladies' room without one another, so what's with the hand holding between Chantelle (Emile Heskey's WAG) and Jessica (Stephen Ireland's missus)?

Remember Afroman's "Because I Got High"? Much like Alanis Morrisette's "You Outta Know" it was one of those rare late 90s/early 2000s pop songs that managed to sneak a blatant oral sex reference onto America's most mom-approved radio stations. Subsequently, many of us experienced that awkward moment where you are in a small confined space (i.

In seiner ersten Saison in Deutschland lief es für den Stürmer der TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, Ryan Babel, noch nicht so besonders gut. Am Ende hatte der holländische Nationalspieler in 15 Saisonspielen nur 1 mageres Törchen erzielt und wurde von vielen schon als Fehleinkauf belächelt. Aber ganz so schnell sollte man einen Spieler mit der Klasse [.

CJ talked about the reaction to his poem/rap for Hope Solo, breaking hearts, fans and the desire to finish top of the table in the conference. CJ rapping his affection for Hope Solo

The women's national soccer team is back on the field this week, getting ready to play a friendly against Canada. It's their first training session since the FIFA Women's World Cup and they're excited to play at Livestrong Stadium, home of the MLS' Sporting Kansas City.

There are lots of soccer fans in KC and one super fan appears to be striker C.

You versed in the social media may have seen this already, but here we go. With the U.S. team training at the Sporting Kansas City facilities, one player had the opportunity to meet one of his favorite players.
When we were told that Sporting Kansas City forward C.J. Sapong (who went the same high school as U.

A quick interview with US Womens National Team Keeper Hope Solo. She talks about finally being able to put the World Cup behind her and of course the rap of hope from CJ... Watching the ball over the endline Hope laughing during CJ's rap...

My view of CJ rapping to Hope Solo The official view from the Sporting KC camera... Hope Solo blushing during CJ Sapong's rap of love and hope....

With the US Women's National team in Kansas City this week for a friendly, some of the players stopped by Sporting Kansas City's training to see how one of the top Eastern sides are doing. Well, one of the Sporting players decided to entertain some of the ladies, including keeper Hope Solo. Rookie CJ Sapong even had a little rap to sing to her.

On a recent visit to Sporting Kansas City's training facilities, U.S. Women National Team Goalkeeper, Hope Solo, was treated to a poem/rap from Kansas City's C.J. Sapong.

On a recent visit to Sporting Kansas City's training facilities, U.S. Women National Team Goalkeeper, Hope Solo, was treated to a poem/rap from Kansas City's C.J. Sapong.

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In which Sporting KC's C.J Sapong serenades Hope Solo with a slightly unsettling/cringe-inducing rap mid-way through the USWNT's training session at Kansas' training ground...

Yes, yes, I know. It's another Hope Solo post. My legal team would like me to point out that I am in no way stalking her, and that the 'glint of a binocular lens' in the bushes outside her house the other night was just the wind.

Because we can all use a good laugh sometimes, here is MLS Rookie of the Year favorite and Sporting Kansas City striker C.J. Sapong serenading U.S. Women's World Cup star Hope Solo with a poem/rap.

It has some cringe-worthy moments, but might be one of the funniest things you see today:

Hey y'all I think we may have a new heir to the MLS hip-hop throne. Hell, he may even be the new king really because it's not like anyone has fully claimed it for themselves. Steve Zakuani and Michael Lahoud & his boys at Chivas USA are trying to lay it down but neither have thrown down any that's unimpeachable.

Good news and bad news for Dalglish

Liverpool boss safe from FA rap on refs but faces another month without Johnson

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One of my favorite records of last year was Mark Ronson & the Business International's "Record Collection." The title track features Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran) on the hook and a verse by U.K. MC Wiley. Everytime I listen to that song I actually imagine Steve Zakuani doing Wiley's verse and after hearing him rap I feel like I was a visionary.

For all the fans new and old of the USWNT, Liza Ellis and friends created this great rap/dance video and posted it on womenssoccerunited.com. Bring on 2012!

Find more videos like this on Womens Soccer United

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By Chris Wright

Presenting: 'Jemay-Lee' by Royston Drenthe a little ditty about the part-time Dutch full-back's little girl, which comes off sounding somewhere between 'Seven Days' by Craig David and the tinny rap shite you have no choice but to overhear on buses these days.

This may end up being my summer rap anthem. You have to have a new one every summer, you see. If not there is virtually no way to time-stamp the drunken, sweaty capers that make the season so memorable. Except for photos on Facebook.
Although Chiddy Bang's recent mixtape wasn't all that and producer Xaphoon Jones' penchant for utilizing sped-up indie songs for hooks might get him pigeonholed as a nuevo College Dropout-era Kanye West, this track is just fun for fun's sake with a hook that's hard to hate.

Chiddy Bang have dropped a new, "swelly"-themed mixtape over at Illroots that may be the best thing to come out of Philly since the Carlos Ruiz wondergoal goal from a few weeks back. If you like your rap happy, clean-ish and peppered with liberal amounts of indie hooks I highly recommend copping this now.

I try not to speak ill of the dead but I was never a huge fan of Biggie Smalls. Too much gun talk and unnecessary N-bombs for my bourgeois, happy-rap tastes. Having said all that this remix is an all-out champion. Minnesota killed it y'all (the track, not Biggie).

La banda sonora del vestuario del FC Barcelona durante esta temporada ha sido la canción ‘Nuestra B.S.O' del grupo de rap gallego Delahoja, que publica sus discos en el sello discográfico Wahin Makinaciones, propiedad del portero blaugrana José Manuel Pinto.
El delantero argentino Leo Messi publicó el pasado jueves en su Facebook la noticia que la canción del grupo gallego ha servido de inspiración y motivación al equipo dirigido por Pep Guardiola, como en la temporada 2008/09 fue el ‘Viva la Vida' de la banda británica Coldplay y en 2009/10, la canción ‘Human' del grupo The Killers.

Quick, run, before the tabloids come
Run from the night or we end up in The Sun
-Jay-Z, American Boy remix

"ASHLEY COLE is in talks with JAY-Z to learn how to tackle the music business."

You can't make this stuff up. Cashley, according to your rapper's favorite tabloid, who else but The Sun, is in talks with S.

Google Translate has always been creeping just around the title of Best Thing Ever. The gap between it and the field just widened significantly.

Pep on Jose in Spanish:

Pep in English, apparently a bit more sweary:

Somewhere, that has been or will be a rap lyric.

As illustrated footballers go, Marco Materazzi's near the top of the heap somewhere. The man just loves his ink, and increasingly so, it seems, as he grows closer and closer (one would think) to leaving the pitch behind. Lots of standard, if cliched, stuff.

But I bet you didn't expect him to display a few pairs of Air Force Ones in the colors of Perugia and Inter.

Up to now we've tried to keep our references to Justin Bieber to a minimum. This has been difficult, what with the pesky lad's insistence on dominating popular culture with his brand of catchy rap pop and causing unnerving hormonal conflict in women over twenty-five.

Now though, the little tyke has finally infiltrated our perfumed airspace by appearing in public wearing a Barcelona kit, during a kickabout with some local kids on a break from his world tour.

This is the very reason YouTube, possibly the world, exists. Though if you can watch past the one minute mark, that may signal a shriek for psychological help.

Apparently the United States national team made a video before their trek to Italia '90, in which it's proclaimed "I never lose because I'm a champion".

Every single year, TV 2 in Norway unveils their Tippeligaen promo videos, typically the best league promos you're likely to see. With the Tippeligaen season now one week fresh, the promos are on YouTube.

And they do not disappoint. One is even a music video. With Norwegian rap by the Riise brothers' chunky cousin.

What is there to say about House of Pain other than "Jump Around" is kind of the scabies of 90's pop-rap: you often get it in nightclubs, it's kind of annoying but scratching it kind of feels good.
Outlandish step-overs, flicks and drags feel even better though so get stuck into the latest offering from Total Skills.

El día 19 de Febrero del 2011 adidas y Snoop Dogg llevarán a cabo el torneo VIP de basquetbol adiHOOP 3-3 durante el final de la Semana de las Estrellas de la NBA. adiHOOP es un torneo 3 contra 3 con celebridades, músicos y artistas en la que participarán el equipo de Snoop Dogg, "West Coasters", los Kidz in the Hall y U-N-I entre otros músicos y artistas.

Wow, did yesterday's post ever open a vein. Response was enthusiastic, although there were some notable dissent from my perspective on how to be a successful soccer writer on the web. The first criticism was I didn't define "success" in soccer blogging. The second was that I offered no "practical advice," and third, I seemed to be implying that making a living from writing isn't as important as caring about what you write (I should also say I didn't mean to rap any knuckles over the use of social media; I've been guilty of spamming this blog on twitter more than once).