Mmm ....... Roland Martin seems quite comfortable in his ascot. Too comfortable.

Roland Martin, CNN's most vocal homophobic bigot gets all frothy and excited over the David Beckham undie ad that aired on Super Bowl. With friends like these, does Obama need any enemies?

He probably thought seeing the ad would turn half of America's menfolk gay.

For today's introduction we are going back into the mists of time, when men were men and not floppy overcooked strings of spaghetti like Busquets, Nani and Pepe.

England were World Champions and Man Utd had recently won the European Cup. For the younger reader who has grown up in the Sky era, there can be no understanding of the excitement and national pride that both events stirred.

Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany foolishly got himself sent off early on in yesterday's FA Cup derby after a dangerous tackle on Nani. The defender went in with both feet off the ground and with a scissor kick took the ball away from Nani who, unsurprisingly, got out of the way of the challenge.

By Chris Wright

I'm willing to venture, with reasonable confidence, that this - Gerardo Masini's angled scissor kick against Atessa Val di Sangro in Italy's Serie D is the best goal you're going to see today...

Not bad, not bad at all. In fact, I'd be willing to go to 'impressive'.

Harry Redknapp enjoyed a successful return to the Tottenham Hotspur dugout tonight as he saw his side stroll past Aston Villa 2-0 at White Hart Lane. With the win, Spurs are up to third place in the Premier League table, four points behind Manchester United with a game in hand.

The spotlight this season has been on the two Manchester sides, and problems and both Arsenal and Chelsea and nobody has paid any real attention to a Spurs side that is much better than the one that finished fifth last season.

It was a beautiful night in New England and I took my daughter and her friend to see the New England Revolution play the San Jose Earthquakes. As usual we sat in The Fort, which was a lot smaller and quieter than earlier in the season. Whether that was due to the Revs overzealous policing of The Fort, or because of the Revs poor play this year, I don't know.

Quick Recap:

The Portland Timbers comes out flat again on the road and goes down a goal early. Salt gets rubbed in the wound when a penalty is called a red card awarded in the second half. Portland goes down 2-0.

First Half:

For the first 10 minutes of the game Portland looked like the team that came out against New England.

Cristian Ronaldo provided a great assist to Benzema vs. Getafe. It was a great pass that reminded us of such great passes of the quality by Pele, Maradona, Platini, Zidane and Messi.
The Japanese Yoshida scored a wonderful scissor kick vs.

Here are some collection of very old goals from the archive, mostly are non-famous goals or at least not over-consumed by media such like the WC goals. Okay, to say it is historical, i selected them to be at least 20 years old, so they are up to 1991, I will arrange them historically
1961, I start with this goal from the 1961 European Cup final, scored by, Czibor , a Hungarian player who used to play in Barcelona.

Everything was going so well. Sure, a few harsh and untimely challenges from both clubs, but it will always be an element of this bitter rivalry. For ninety minutes (plus the ninety from the first leg on Sunday), Real Madrid and Barcelona wowed the masses with a display of football that puts both clubs light years ahead of the rest of the competition.

By Chris Wright

Thanks Moses, Jesus and Chewbacca the Premier League is back though, we can't lie, the opening day was a little bit on the pap side here's our pick of the photos...

Newcastle 0-0 Arsenal: Joey Barton hoists Gervinho to his feet after the Ivorian had collapsed in the Newcastle penalty area looking for a spot-kick.

After losing 2 -1 to Manchester United last week Barcelona lost 4 - 1 to the Mexican Club Chivas in a World Football Challenge game.Marco Fabian scored a brilliant scissor kick that will easily rival Rooney's famous goal.Barcelona were without Lionel Messi,Daniel Alves, Javier Mascherano and Alexis Sanchez but even so 4 -1 is a bit of an upset.

It seems like every week there is a new BEST GOAL EVER in MLS, and this Saturday a new choice has been added to an impressive list. In Sporting Kansas City's 4-2 romp over Toronto, Kei Kamara scored the first goal of the match off a Jéferson corner kick. The kick deflected off a Toronto defender right to Kamara who did his best Wayne Rooney impersonation and unleashed an awesome scissor kick, which you can see here:

So what do you think?

Sporting Kansas City got their 9 game home stand started the right way last night against Toronto FC, scoring 3 first half goals and added a fourth in the second to defeat the reds 4-2 at LIVESTRONG Sporting Park. The way the game started though, it looked like the result could have gone the other direction.

I will start with a volley from Nehterlands with a superb scissor kick for Pa Modou Kah (Roda v VVV Venlo)
Next, amazing kick by a keeper, I could not know from which country. All I can know that it seems that they speak Spanish
Next, is from Saudi Arabian Cup Final, when Al-Hilal defeated Al-Wihda 5-0, a very nice volley
Another volley from Sweden

Van Persie's first goal against Wolverhampton yesterday did not make the news.Nowhere near as spectacular as Rooney's strike but a scissor kick nevertheless.
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Alex Ferguson said he'd never seen a goal like Rooney's scissor kick yesterday.
But Berbatov has been scoring off scissor kicks for Man Utd with monotonous regularity.
Here's one against Liverpool..

Here's another one - this one against Sunderland..

And the first goal in this next video - against West Ham

Berbatov may be feeling a little bit put out by the fact that his own scissor kick efforts are not getting the same amount of attention as Rooney's.

I picked four interesting videos for this week, the first is a very interesting goal from Russian league when Lokomotiw beat Plowdiw 4-0
My second pick is from Napoli when Cavani scored a hattrick. He scored 17 goals so far for Napoli this season, in the best season so far for this club since Maradona left.

Stefan Bienkowski writes at The Oval Log and you can follow him on Twitter @Stefan_Gla. This is his account of Rivaldo's famous overhead kick to secure Champions League football for Barcelona in 2001.

Vitor Borba Ferreira. Rivaldo. He is regarded as one of the greatest players of our generation.