Oh good grief, now this is awkward. I had only just made myself comfortable in readiness for a lengthy period of smugness, gloating and absolutely unbearable braggadocio. And why the devil not – our lot produce the most jaw-dropping eye candy since that lady from the Sean Connery days emerged from the sea to jiggle about in her skimpies in frightfully uncouth manner.

Mano Menezes appears to be under a lot of pressure these days surely it isn't because he's only the national coach of Brazil, a country with 194 million other talking heads? Earlier this week, Menezes met up with the U-17 'selecao feminina' (you can call them Brasil's futbolitas!

[O]nce in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos Directed by Paul Crowder and John Dower, Miramax, 2006 This remarkably well put together movie conjures up an era when America seemed so much more exciting, so much more dazzling, so much more...ahead than the rest of the world. Its late seventies locus is New York and its subject the Cosmos, five times Soccer Bowl Champions and the club that inspired a famous T-shirt of the time that the sport was ‘just a kick in the grass'.

[O]nce in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos Directed by Paul Crowder and John Dower, Miramax, 2006 This remarkably well put together movie conjures up an era when America seemed so much more exciting, so much more dazzling, so much more...ahead than the rest of the world. Its late seventies locus is New York and its subject the Cosmos, five times Soccer Bowl Champions and the club that inspired a famous T-shirt of the time that the sport was ‘just a kick in the grass'.

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Coming soon, the first ever Untold Arsenal match preview on Arsenal.com, in the Talking Heads column, (with special reference to the car park). And don't miss the discussion on Everton's future with interesting contributions from Everton fans

Back to the future (slowly)

By Walter Broeckx

Finally the silly internationals are over.

Boring, boring Chelsea. I reckon the talking heads can go ahead and euthanize that once trusted, but now extremely tired and inaccurate saying. We have been anything but boring this season for good and for bad.

Saturday? Bad. Really fucking bad. Somehow, some way, in a match that defied all logic, Chelsea managed to put together a 45-minute performance of such dire abjectness that it hadn't been seen by these eyes before.

Rafa Benitez was probably stealing the job of a deserving Englishman, and that's bad. But Joe Cole might be stealing the job of a Frenchman now, so that kind of balances it all out. Maybe. Mostly I'm just confused. In any case, I think this is the Wednesday news and notes. Probably...

* Jamie Carragher went on TalkSport today to have a little chat with the regrettable duo of Andy Gray and Richard Keys.

So, up next, the North London derby. The most honorable Arsenal versus Tottenham's lily-livered lily whites, new and improved with everyone's favorite traitorous mercenary from Togo who, when he's not enjoying long walks with sharp spikes over former teammate's faces and ankles, enjoys long runs to rub salt in the wounds of the away support.

By Puck Ladies and Gentlemen, Once again, it's Saturday in America. And it is gameday in Gainesville, so we all know I'll be well on my way to blackout shortly. Since we last got together our beloved USMNT has lost two consecutive matches 1-0 to the likes of Costa Rica and Belgium. The talking heads [.

I went into a state of utter despondency at the end of this transfer window, even allowing for the entry into the Champions League stages failed to lift my spirits. The 8-2 thrashing by Manchester United rubbed salt into very big wounds. I took a break to reflect, the International Break helped in a sense, to enable common sense to dawn.

Interesting development this. Apparently we've snagged highly touted teenager Islam Feruz from Celtic. Say word?

Nothing concrete of course but a plethora of sources are reporting that the 15-year-old Somali-born attacker will join Chelsea when he turns 16 next month.

Some weeks ago Arseblog readers submitted some questions for Lee Dixon, and now, in association with I AM PLAYR, we have his answers.

I love the way he says Arseblog.

Lee Dixon is a script and storyline contributor for I AM PLAYR, the first-ever point-of-view football online game.

With today's economic difficulties, losing a job isn't a laughing moment. Someone should tell that to Hannah Storm and Adam Schefter. While announcing the news of Eric Mangini of the Cleveland Browns being fired, the two ESPN talking heads excitingly gave each of a high five. Check the video below to see the high five and then the awkward way the duo tried to back away from the outburst of emotion.