Thank goodness for the Sunday papers. So hellbent on printing shit they have focused more on Lionel 'I'm another Barcelona cunt' Messi's pleas to Cesc to join him at Barca and become the world's greatest midfielder than our defeat at Sunderland. Not only is this yet another insult to Cesc, it is another one to Arsenal and I for one can't wait to get them in the Champions League so the World's greatest midfielder can slam their lack of respect into the back of their net three or four times. Click to continue reading...

Isn't it typical, you wait all year for a horse story and then two come along at once. Like the number 7 going up the Ormeau Road in Belfast, or whatever your local bus is that decides it's too afraid to drive up a road on it's own so it'll wait for it's mate.

I'm still really sick, be prepapred for a hell of a lot more nonsense ahead.

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I wrote the following before I got the news that "Van Persie has torn his anterior inferior tibiofibular ligament, and his anterior talofibular ligament has unfortunately snapped- hes out for the rest of the season." No club confirmation yet, so let's hope this is just some little journalist jumping the gun. Click to continue reading...

With the Carling Cup sending us back to Manchester Shitty for a rematch sooner than any of us imagined, VP has given the boss the perfect excuse to add more experienced first teamers to a Carling Cup squad, which, we have to admit, would struggle against Shitty's first team if we sent just kids. He has made it very clear that he wants to play this one, and you just know he wants revenge for what the ex-25 did. Click to continue reading...

David Bcekham's loan move from LA Galaxy to Milan will apparently be announced in the next few hours. It may have already happened by the time you read this. In the words of Milan VP Adriano Galliano: "The agreement for David Beckham has been completed. In a few hours we and Galaxy will officially announce this deal [. Click to continue reading...

Apologies once again for the lack of blog yesterday. My head has been spinning with ideas for T-shirts from I went away to Amsterdam and knowing I didn't have to get up at 5 in the morning I decided to get stuck in yesterday after work. Once I did, I couldn't stop. There's something about the night time that seems to make me more creative, unfortunately, with aforementioned wakey up time during the week it doesn't leave much scope for late nights during the week. Click to continue reading...

Still high-tide in rumors:

• Milan VP says Beckham return "very probable."
  
• Amr Zaki to join Portsmouth.
  
• D.C. gets 'keeper from Timbers.
  
• Mascherano unhappy at Liverpool.
  
• United eyeing three Inter dudes.
  
• Toni not leaving, says Munich.

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South Florida Soccer Fans may be the ones that enticed a group of investors to discuss an MLS team in Miami with Beckham.
A recent conversation among South Florida Soccer fans revealed that some time ago a letter was sent to David Beckham urging him to bring a team to Miami. Letters were also sent to possible investors around the country. Click to continue reading...

Evening all...

Well, that was some night wasn't it? I was, as you might have heard, having an art show last night, so missed about the first 20 minutes of the match. Off course, I had people on standby with text updates (thanks EduardoIsInnocent & Garantia) and couldn't believe it when the texts were coming through to tell me it was one, and then very quickly two-nil to Standard.

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I'll give you five points if you can tell me what has VP so fired up:

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Yep, you guessed it, it's all about the ex-25 today. As we all exploded on Saturday I tweeted that he was probably sat at home wondering what the hell all the fuss was about. This is confirmed by his double page spread in today's Sun stating 'I don't know what I've done wrong.' At a time when you would expect ANY manager to condemn this sort of behaviour Mark Hughes has chosen the route of 'no malice meant.

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As the day wore on yesterday my anger didn't subside. I thought back at the anger I have felt after Arsenal matches over the last year, how furious I was when I was there to see us lose 2-0 to Villa because we just didn't even try, against Man United in the Champions League, because we just didn't try, against Chelsea in the FA Cup & league, because they just didn't try, but yesterday I wasn't angry at Arsenal.

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OK, so before you start topping yourselves over the result, just consider these points:

Man City's first goal came from a free-kick that shouldn't have been awarded.

If Almunia had been awake and dived earlier it wouldn't have rebounded off the post, hit the back of his head and went in.

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Well, we mightn't have done much business in the transfer market, but people often forget the importance of tying current players to new contracts.

Today, Denilson and Nik penned new 'long-term' deals (why do Arsenal never tell us how long they're for?) and that's good news as Wenger clearly see the two of them as pivital to the club's future.

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So we had our first test today and many might say we failed. But did we?

Sure, we lost the match, but the luck we have enjoyed so far this season wasn't on our side. VP smashed the bar, we had two clear penalties denied (the foul and the hand ball all in one) denied, and we were beaten by a penalty (which differed from Eduardo's by a matter of millimetres and Rooney was going down contact or not), an own goal, and a as-usual incompetent display from Mike Dean who sent Wenger off in the 95th minute and then held up play for three minutes while he made sure Wenger was far enough away from the dug-put.

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What shall we talk about today? The weather and how it's a bitch? There have been two torrential downpours today, one when I was on my way to work and another when I was on my way home. In between, glorious sunshine in a baking office with no air conditioning. I need to win the lottery and I need to win it soon.

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Rodrigo Lombello the CEO of GOL TV, Shane O'Rourke the President of Setanta North America and Dermot McQuarrie the VP of Programing and Production for FSC join host Kartik Krishnaiyer to discuss football coverage plans for the new season.

Related posts:

1. Setanta Sports North America: For Sale?

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Some good news perhaps this morning for Seattle Sounder FC fans. Reports out of Columbia say Deportivo Cali president Rodrigo Otoya came to the U.S. with VP Cesar Caicedo where they negotiated the transfer of Cali's portion of Montero's rights to Major League Soccer.

From what we already know, Montero wants to be in Europe and Cali nearly sold his rights to Europe this summer.

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Good afternoon Arse-lovers. Where to start, where to start, I suppose I could begin with the fact that Barcelona are a pack of thoughtless, shit-stirring wankers, but then that would be telling you something you already know. They know they aren't going to get Cesc, at least not this year, so they are just trying to disrupt another team they might have to face in the Champions League, though I doubt they are that forward thinking and are simply twats.

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So, it's official, Kolo Toure is now a Manchester City player and we, like him, must move on. We'll miss you.

And thank you.

It had to be said.

We had a match last night which started off quite dull but saw us put in our best display of the pre-season.

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*written by PFC Director/Player Davidinho*
On the heels of the long-awaited return of the Raging Bull, Pistolas F.C. must bid farewell to their renowned striker, President and CEO, Romerinho, for a significant period of time as he attends to commitments abroad.
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You put an AM in, you take an AM out, in, out, in, out kick 'em all about...My Man U supporting mate wanted to know if we did kick-boxing in training? Well do we? Who did it? My money's on Vermaelen, he looks like a leg-breaker and possibly hasn't got used to the new kit and thought Nasri was opposition.

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So yesterday consisted of another round of waiting. And waiting. And waiting. Still Adebayor was an Arsenal player. He passed his medical (allegedly), the fee rose from £22m to £25 to an estimated £28 after add-ons (which I seriously hope are not Opta-linked). He has been on the verge for days now, won't someone just push him over?

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Microblog alert!

Yes, Van the Man finally signed (OFFICIAL) a new long-term contract (so what's that four years?). Finally. So I guess he's liking what he's seen so far this summer and hopefully has been hearing about all these other wonder-players we've got lined up for 11.

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Conor Brennan, VP of the LFCNY, has done an interview with The Empire of the Kop website. If you've been following the campaign and my stories concerning Cohen and World Soccer Daily, I suggest you head over and check it out.

Conor, the Anti-Cohen campaign seems to be quiet right now?

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No Eboue, no Adebayor, no Van Persie, no Kolo no explanation, yep, the first photos from pre-season where released yesterday and they pose quite a few questions. Cesc and Theo were absent from them also but they came with an explanation, and, to be fair, there were a few others missing from the shots which you can see here.

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Morning folks and another quickie today as my head is absolutely bouncing. This heat is playing with my sinuses in a totally inappropriate, non-hayfever way and it is driving me insane. Do you care? Probably not, but trust me, you would if you had to listen to me moan all day!

So, according to the Independent VP has finally remembered how a pen works and signed a new deal keeping him at Arsenal until 2014.

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Well we do, and not only do we know that he's is a wonderkid who will become a wondergrownup, we also know that he has committed his future to Arsenal. Long term contracts rock when they aren't signed by anyone called Silvestre, Gallas, or Adebayor. VP? Any chance?

There seems to be some confusion over whether Gallas is wanting to stay or away, but I don't really care to be honest.

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7amkickoff.com

Those of you who are using an RSS feed to read my posts should go ahead and point your newsreaders to 7amkickoff.com because on July 1, I'm switching to my own domain. You can go over there now and look at it if you want, some CSS bits are still being manipulated and then I have to export and import all my content (no small feat in a two year old WordPress account) and then I can start whoring myself out to advertisers!

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Manchester United recently signed the most valuable shirt sponsorship deal with Aon, who will replace current sponsors AIG. The last Manchester United shirt to bear the AIG logo was released yesterday and is now available for pre-order, with Aon to feature on our shirts for the 2010/2011 season.

Chris Toy from Studs Up has conducted an interview with David Prosperi, VP, Global Public Relations at Aon Coporation, who talks on a variety of issues involved with the new sponsorship.

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Someone recently posted in our comments: "July 1 will be a special night in Portland."
Indeed.
Such is the 30+ year old rivalry between these two clubs and fan bases that Fox Sports Network Northwest is going to do a rare thing: Air a US Open Cup Third Round match.
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Morning all!

We have some news today (of sorts)... and I'm not in the best form after having to pay £200 for a pair of glasses, £100 for a graphic tablet, and another £200 for a printer. O, to have the worries of a modern day footballer!Trips to the Emirates before the turn of the year might have to be few and far between.

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New Jersey's Sky Blue FC announced the official firing of Head Coach/General Manager Ian Sawyers on Thursday afternoon.

According to the SBFC CEO and President Thomas Hofstetter, "The dissagreements between the coach, team, and management made it impossible to move forward successfully."

Hofstetter goes on to say that the club "needs to maintain the goals, and the atmosphere that is most conducive for [the] team, and be able to focus on building the league.

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New Jersey's Sky Blue FC announced the official firing of Head Coach/General Manager Ian Sawyers on Thursday afternoon.

According to the SBFC CEO and President Thomas Hofstetter, "The dissagreements between the coach, team, and management made it impossible to move forward successfully."

Hofstetter goes on to say that the club "needs to maintain the goals, and the atmosphere that is most conducive for [the] team, and be able to focus on building the league.

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TORONTO - He is known by his teammates as Carlos, Carla, Chuck or El Capitano.
Simply put, he is Pistolas FC Captain Charles Eppich, leader of the World's Most Fabled Amatuer Club. He is often compared to the likes of George Best and Paul "Gazza" Gascoigne, but you'd have to frequent 'The Duchess' to verify that! Click to continue reading...