John Terry Good Or Bad For England's Euro 2012 Campaign? - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

The extraordinary delays in a resolution to the Terry-Ferdinand affair have already resulted in the wholly unnecessary cop-out by the FA and the Premier League in asking Chelsea and QPR to forego handshakes in their recent league clash.

Yes we can! The JimmyG2 Column A fantasy or a nightmare, I can't decide. Dear Daniel,. Just an informal thank-you on behalf of the 'Scheduling Committee' for your co-operation in the 'five goal thriller' as the tabloids would have it, on Sunday. We extend our thanks to Mr.Bale and Mr.Defoe for contriving to miss the late goal in such a convincing manner which had it been scored would

Mirror: New Year, new transfer rumours Milan clubs in tug-of-war for Carlos Tevez

MirrorFootball has teamed up with some of the blogosphere's best new writers to bring you even more great football reads every single day. Today it's our Serie A blogger, footballitaliano.

Forced goodie, it is - just not for the reason I'd anticipated. Mexican tabloids have sniffed a little something out and ran wild with bemus-able imagination on it, claiming Puebla are in advanced talks to sign an American they figure is either Juan Agudelo or Daniel Williams.Little girl not having it is wondering: "Is that the best they could come up with?

According to one of the tabloids in the UK this morning, Danny Sturridge has been into see AVB and has asked that he is played through the middle from now on.
Sturridge is the one striker we have who is on form, playing well and scoring goals and I guess he has every right to ask the question.

We'll hopefully get a chance to see Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain again tonight in the Arsenal's Carling Cup quarter-final clash against Manchester City at the Emirates. No doubt AW will shuffle the pack to give players such as the Oxo Kid, Park Chu-Young and Yossi Benayoun a run, while at the same time resting key first team personnel.

Welcome to our weekly Monday Blind Items, where our hardworking sources put forward a (mysterious) football puzzle for you to guess! Here's one that has still remained unsolved, with more hints. Can you guess who we're talking about?

This rather charming football personality (he's no longer playing, by the way) enjoys the Moet & Chandon bottle of premium champagne in his hotel room more than going out to social events, where he's likely to be mobbed.

Those were 150.000 Euros not well spent for Wolfsburg. Felix Magath loaned Aliaksandr Hleb from Barcelona for a special €100k per game and €50k per goal fee. Thus, Magath's total expenses for Saturday's trip to Dortmund added up to €150k, not counting the damage Dortmund's fresh in form offense caused all afternoon.

Every Wednesday, we discuss the quirky outside stories in the world of football. This week, read about Ronaldo's wedding, Mario Balotelli's insane level of vanity and IkerBonero!

Drop what you're doing right now because your best friend and hair confidante, Cristiano Ronaldo, is set to marry his mujer, Russian supermodel Irina Shayk!

Perhaps it is all a matter of perception. For clubs at one end of the spectrum, a home defeat at the hands of a local rival may be enough to start the tabloids gossiping. Supporters of Aldershot Town could be forgiven for shrugging their shoulders at such relative trivialities. They, in March of 1992, lost their club with two months of the season left to play and had to begin again the following season as a new club, in the Ryman League Division Three.

Hola amicis! It's time for our weekly Monday Blind Items, where you guess the person in question and we try to feed our sources with as much tiramisu as possible. Just kidding today we have 2 gems on a WAG and a disgruntled footballer. Get crackin'!

• She's a former 'WAG' who became famous for her high-profile relationship with a football star.

Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By DogFace Referee: Mike Dean Assistant 1: Stuart Burt Assistant 2: Scott Ledger 4th Official: Anthony Taylor Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch. This weekend we face our old foes Tottenham and this time it's a match that our friends in the tabloids must be licking their chops over [.

Our opponents in tonight's Europa League clash at White Hart Lane are quite simply the most successful team in Ireland. Shamrock Rovers have won their domestic league no less than 16 times and have lifted the FAI Cup on 24 occasions.

They have also supplied more players to the senior Republic of Ireland side than anyone else and while those stats are all relative to the quality of football in the Irish League, Spurs won't be taking their opponents lightly.

How often does an FA Youth Cup game get national coverage?

I'm not talking ages old clips of a young Wayne Rooney or David Beckham or John Terry replayed in some 'before they were famous' programme while non-entity talking heads try to be witty, I mean actual coverage of the events of a game.

In the age of the microwave culture, with the spectre of media hyperbole dangling grimly in front of us like King Kong's nutsack, every week is an enormous week for a club like Arsenal. Every result has permanent ramifications; every fluctuation of fortune is intransient and every whisper of discontent has the tabloids reaching into their clipart files for the broken cannon graphic.

You thought you could escape the summer transfer window when Premier League football returned? Well, you thought wrong. And on top of the expected rumours linking Liverpool to various English defenders, there's a whole new round of rumours that just don't seem to make sense any way you come at them to dig through as we rush towards September first and begin to scrape the bottom of the proverbial barrel.

So 90 minutes into his Manchester United career, young Spanish goalkeeping wonderkid David De Gea has ended his spell as MUFC's number one.

At least that's what some fans would have you believe.

Never before has the word ‘howler' been used out of context in such a short space of time.

As the Americans would say, Gameweek 1 is over. F*CK YEAH! Let's see who's feeling higher than Pete Doherty and those who are lower than a snake's belly.Going Up

Sergio Aguero & David Silva

I am sure I am not the only person who is going to be commenting on the spunktastic debut from Sergio Aguero but it was truly wonderful to watch.

There has been some media rumbling about the supposed strained relationship between Schalke coach Ralf Rangnick (pressing, quick transitions, running) and Schalke striker Raul (icon, legend, artist). Saturday's 5-1 thrashing of Cologne probably offered the best of both worlds. And after looking at Raul's umpteenth chipped beauty that made it 4-1, you might agree with fromer Frankfurt striker turned TV pundit Jan Åge Fjørtoft, who tweeted:

#schalke coach ragnick said #raul is not running enough.

According to several tabloids and not so tabloids, the Inter midfielder might be on his way to Old Trafford in the next 48 hours. The rumours have been aided and abetted by Sneijder who in an interview admitted he was interested in joining Utd but also said that there was no official contact between both clubs.

What is it with these Arsenal experts?, the back stabbing has been extended from the external Arsenal haters to now some of our own. Tim Payton who is a leading member of the AST should know better than to create more internal divisions in the club on his twitter feed. For those who don't know Tim Payton, he is not shy about giving his opinion, and considers himself to be one of the official spokesmen for Arsenal Football club despite not being a formal employee of the club.

Just no

You simply cannot beat the transfer window for laughs.

Michael Essien's apparent season-ending knee injury I say apparent because we know nothing for certain yet has sent the tabloids into a frenzy. It's to be expected, really. We've been linked with every midfielder in the known world, including Scott fucking Parker.

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The tabloids are full of gossip about Cesc as well as Nasri leaving. Most of us know better than to trust any of the red tops, but say it would actually happen. We would get between £50- 60m in the bank, and then what?

Well, how many central midfielders do we need?

We haven't asked, but we doubt Ryan will be thrilled to find his name is being used as a parent deterrent. Images: Getty Images/Daylife, Reuters/Daylife

Our long-term aim to ruin our language by forcing the Oxford English Dictionary to accept terms like short-tent in their weighty tome is newly invigorated, Kickettes!

Pele's favourite player and the biggest Brazilian hope in years has spurned interest in joining the big European clubs. All the rumours were that Real had beaten Chelsea to the signing by meeting Santos's mind boggling demand of €45m.

Today after days of the Spanish tabloids touting a done deal the striker said in no uncertain terms that nothing would separate him from his club with his focus squarely on the Copa Libertadores final against Penarol.

Around here, we take the tabloids with a grain of salt. You know this. But sometimes, sometimes a story is so ridiculous that you just have run with it.

We did it when the Guardian linked us with an £80 million move for Kaka in July 2008. We did it again when that wretched lot decided to really shake Middle-earth and shove a pair of Liverpool men down our collective throats.

Here are some facts:

• Arsène Wenger is dithering in the transfer market.
• He is paralysed by indecision because so many top players are threatening to leave.
• Arsenal's main rivals, by contrast, are acting decisively and boldly.
• Highly rated players will not join Arsenal because we have not won a trophy for six years.

Some transfer rumours just can't be ignored and the one linking Jermain Defoe to Arsenal gathered some great momentum over the weekend. This story was picked up by throwaway tabloids and ‘serious' newspapers alike, but does that mean it has any substance at all?

We all know that Defoe has had a bad season at Spurs and Pav's two goals at Birmingham together with slight hints at a u-turn over the Russian's future mean that JD could be the first striker out of the door this summer.

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.

- Maxi Rodriguez

The first soccer jersey I purchased was as stereotypical as it was ill-advised. Like most barely-adolescent Americans attracted to football in the early 2000s, I faced the difficult task of keeping abreast of a sport in a country where domestic media coverage began and ended with blooper reels.

Over the long weekend I was luckily enough to see an advanced copy of the new movie 'One Night In Turin" which chronicles England's 1990 World Cup run where they lost to West Germany on penalties in the semi-finals.

Watching the movie I was struck by the similarities between England's 1990 World Cup run and the 2010 effort.

What do you do when the entire world is either-

a) Giving BJ's to Barcelona (deserved BJ's they may be) or

b) Patting Man United sympathetically on the back and saying ‘there's no shame in getting dry-humped by Barcelona, it's only shameful in Arsenal's case'

Well, to escape from all the Barcaness and Unitedness of it all, I find no other choice than to critically analyse the making of the promotional trailer for Arsenal's Asia Tour.

In the months leading up to and during the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa, the French National Team found itself and its players involved in numerous scandals. One of the most infamous of those scandals involved allegations that Franck Ribery, Karim Benzema, and Sidney Govou had sex with an underage prostitute.

I am still trying to round out full reports for MLSS on these two (and other) items, but why not go ahead and crank up the ol' transfer Nugget-a-tron 3000 for season?I was told last week that Bursaspor are trying to land Jozy Altidore from Villarreal on a permanent deal. This finally hit the Turkish tabloids, so I figured it was safe to reveal as much.

I am still trying to round out full reports for MLSS on these two (and other) items, but why not go ahead and crank up the ol' transfer Nugget-a-tron 3000 for season?I was told last week that Bursaspor are trying to land Jozy Altidore from Villarreal on a permanent deal. This finally hit the Turkish tabloids, so I figured it was safe to reveal as much.

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.

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AC Milan striker Alexandre Pato caught receiving a kiss on camera from Barbara Berlusconi, daughter of Milan president, Silvio Berlusconi. According to Italian weekly, Today, love is in the air. Mixing business and pleasure? think she is smarter then that we shall see if the tabloids gets it right.
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