The Fédération Française de Football (FFF), France's governing football body, this week made the peculiar decision to include Gael Kakuta in their U19 squad for next week's Limoges Tournament. You'll recall the FFF were instrumental in getting Kakuta banned for four months by FIFA as part of the Chelsea transfer ban.

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Here is this week's episode on Kenn's page. Here it is on iTunes.
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Who says you should never play soccer on fake turf? Kenn and I - mostly Kenn - interview Zach Adams, defending national champion of Subbuteo. I have a set at home, courtesy of a garage sale. Click to continue reading...

Rain didn't stop play...
10 Football Games You Can Play In Your Own Home
1. Subbuteo
2. Striker (or for the really posh, World Cup Super Striker with subs and floodlights)
3. Wembley
4. League Championship
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From the Telegraph's "Pictures of the Day": bespoke Subbuteo figurines. From left to right: Fabrizio Ravanelli, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Steven Gerrard, Alan Shearer, and Obafemi Martins. Hovering in the background like the smiling, bespectacled god of a race of men who are curiously affixed to brightly colored disks: creator Tom Taylor. Click to continue reading...

From the Telegraph's "Pictures of the Day": bespoke Subbuteo figurines. From left to right: Fabrizio Ravanelli, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Steven Gerrard, Alan Shearer, and Obafemi Martins. Hovering in the background like the smiling, bespectacled god of a race of men who are curiously affixed to brightly colored disks: creator Tom Taylor. Click to continue reading...

I believe that supporting your local football team is hugely important, and have nothing but respect for those people who week in week out traipse to the shack they call a grandstand and watch a non-glamorous club. These, in truth, are the country's true football fans, the ones who don't expect trophies, just to enjoy the game in its purest form. Click to continue reading...

Over the next few days, expect to read a multitude of odes written by bloggers from the UK regarding the demise of Shoot Magazine, the popular British football publication which owner IPC announced it would be shutting it down at the end of this month. Shoot! was a hugely popular weekly football magazine aimed at children. Click to continue reading...

It's our absolute delight to bring you another article written by one of you, our wonderful audience. It comes from TheGreatDandini who recently left us a comment on our 'Obscure Kits From British Football History #5' post where he made reference to the great and much overlooked pastime of Subbuteo.
Well, we appear to have sparked off a train of thought within TheGreatDandini, the result of which is a wonderful look back at the more memorable aspects of that fabulous finger-flicking game of days gone by. Click to continue reading...

With a matter of minutes to go before England play Germany at the new Wembley Stadium, it's hardly surprising to see the BBC frothing at the mouth at the prospect of another blood-boiling encounter with the old enemy. With all that history between the two sides, they'll be at each other's throats tonight, won't they?
Er, I doubt it. It's a friendly, and about as meaningless as they come. Click to continue reading...