Do you ever expect to win the league again while Wenger is manager at Arsenal?

I was listening to Talk Sport the other evening (I know, I know) when suddenly they posed that question and it struck me like a bolt of lightning. I don't usually take too much notice of the anti-Arsenal rhetoric that Adrian Durham spews out.

He's been here a week - who knows who the better Coach is - but football is often about bluff and baloney and the man from Belfast has it in spades...or so it seems.
Memhet has a deep rich voice but his media efforts were poor, didn't inspire or excite the fans. He couldn't explain his vision, looked frozen before the camera and when things got tough he had no bluster or baloney to fall back on.

At Gay4Soccer, a call to offer support to gay players and fans:

Imagine how David Testo's career would have gone if he didn't have supportive people to come out to early on in his career while at the Columbus Crew. I'd like to think the kindness and support of the players he told kept him in the game and standing strong against the on-field taunts he's had to endure.

Intrigued by the nominations for Supporters of the Year in the SLeague. Normally SAFFC win it with their neo super hero style outfits and dangerously young cheerleaders and of course they are in the running again this year.
Looking at contenders this year, SAFFC, Gombak, Albirex Niigata and Young Lions, you get the feeling that for all the rhetoric that comes out of the FAS about rebranding the game it's all just same old, same old.

Welcome back Real Football. We missed you.

Sometimes the international break helps. And on occasion it can disrupt a team's momentum. Many Gunners have only played 90 minutes during the fortnight and, arguably, at an intensity level fairly below the Premiership level. Ideally, this should help Arsenal as the players will not 'lack sharpness'.

Former Liverpool striker Stan Collymore has attacked a small section of the club's fans fans for showing 'open dissent' towards manager Kenny Dalglish after the Swansea game at the weekend.
Fans were reportedly booing at Anfield on Saturday after Liverpool were played off the park, and during Collymore's radio show on that night, there were a few very irate fans (Liverpudlians, it should be added), who were vehemently castigating Dalglish for his perceived failings.

‘Football fans have been exposed to the type of policing historically that is probably unfair and untargeted. I think it's evolved, I think it's moved on. My football unit police with the best interests of football fans that are around safety and that's our principle driver. It's not you and us at all.

Liverpool forward Luis Suárez is expected to be interviewed by the Football Association next week as investigations continue into allegations of racist abuse made by Manchester United defender Patrice Evra following last Saturday's 1-1 draw between the two clubs at Anfield.
Suárez has strenuously denied accusations made by Evra that he uttered racial insults during the Premier League fixture, with Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish insisting on Thursday that the club remain "totally and utterly behind" the Uruguay international.

Adequate is the word that I would use to describe Arsenals transfer window. It could have been better but then again it could also have been worse. Watching the post match interview with Wenger after our dismal Sunday last weekend left me feeling angry, deflated and pessimistic about our future.

There are different ways of interprating the latest comments of Barcelona's new signing Cesc Fabregas, even if they might just be more of the usual rhetoric churned out for interviews, people can reveal a lot when not on their guard.

Fabregas spoke of his joy at re-joining his boyhood club, and says he will relish the strong competition for places in the star-studded lineup of the European Champions.

Congratulations!

Whether you'd like to believe it or not, this is your triumph. I believe Bob was relieved of his duties in large part due to your collective voices.

Like the last point in my optimistic piece, 5 positive influences on US Soccer in 2010, suggested, I had never witnessed such a strong and sustained outcry for the head of our national team coach.

Sentimments on a sensational, dramatic final, on the ascending quality of women's soccer and on one particular word that really needs to be retired from the sports writing lexicon:

1. What a superb final. As we all know, caution rules and expectations rise in championship deciders and the matches rarely deliver what we would call, on and around July 4 fireworks period, the "big finish.

Honestly, for all the negative rhetoric spewed about United States national team's match on Saturday in Massachusetts, you'd think they lost a game that actually mattered.
Here's the truth: Of the seven games Bob Bradley's squad will likely play over the next 22 days, the drubbing to Spain was by far the least important.

A season ends at Goodison. So, too, may an era.

Who: Everton
What: Barclays Premier League, Round 38
When: 22 May, 4pm local time (11am EST)
Where: Goodison Park (40.

I was not present at the weekly Wenger press conference yesterday morning in the media room at the Emirates - but with so many websites posting up the video of it, I did not need to be.

The noise from the pond life scum, otherwise known as the British Press, this weekend will no doubt be a negative one towards our transfer policy, based purely on the fact Wenger stated he believes in his current crop of players.

The game against Barcelona evoked a number of emotions among all Gooners. Most were infuriated by the ref, some were disappointed with the performance, or by the tactics, or for any number of reasons. As always, there were also those who came up with irrelevant and illogical rhetoric based on their personal fancies that had very little to do with what happened on the pitch.

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.

First things first, I'm not attacking the Chronicle. They are doing the best they can monitoring the comments posted by users on their website, but sadly more than a few idiots still manage to get their misguided nonsense through. I mentioned in a previous post that there was some racism (which is fairly typical when it comes to soccer) but now there some sexism and more typical anti-soccer rhetoric.

Apologies for the title taken from a Robbie Williams song. I would have preferred another song, more earthier, more direct but there you go.
Questions are being raised about the authenticity of a fax allegedly sent from FIFA to the Indonesian FA, PSSI, calling on the Indonesian body to impose sanctions on the breakaway Liga Primer Indonesia.