Zlatan, in a bit of self-promotion stop it for his new book, did an interview with Gazzetta which was published this morning. It doesn't disappoint. The Fiver offers a few excerpts, while the rest can be read here in Italian with a magic password (requires registration).

He, Mourinho and Balotelli should probably have a talkshow when all is said and done.

We're probably a bit slow on the uptake of this one but its worth reporting again anyway for those of you who may have missed the story originally, but ex Man United midfielder Owen Hargreaves, who is now a free agent having been released from Old Trafford a few weeks back, has resorted to uploading videos to YouTube in a bid to prove his fitness again.

We aren't quite to Hot Time In Old Town's one-year anniversary (September 14) so that makes a couple of new changes and announcements around here all the more exciting. First off, if you like Hot Time in Old Town, there is now an iPhone app for that. Well technically there's an app for SB Nation but so close to HTIOT's birthday?

Football strip on the cards Back on 4 July when Paraguayan model Larissa Riquelme vowed to strip on the pitch if her beloved national football team won the Copa America, it seemed likely to be another shameless attempt at self-promotion on the back of a major football tournament (she had made similar declarations at last [.

Paul Scholes: a tribute to a player born in the wrong country - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

In the last 15 to 20 years the best central midfielder that I have seen — the most complete — is Scholes. I have spoken with Xabi Alonso about this many times. Scholes is a spectacular player who has everything.

It seems that Alan Pardew isn't the only Newcastle manager who blows his own trumpet. Joe Kinnear while at Newcastle For some strange reason, there's an interview with former Newcastle manager Joe Kinnear, in the Newcastle Journal this morning, and Joe goes into the self promotion game himself. This is what Joe said today, [.