Welcome once more to my World of Zoos, I am Stuart Hall, and I knew your mother quite well in the 1970s. Due to the so called credit crunch I am loathed to report that I haven't been jetted off to far flung lands, rich in biodiversity and exotic cocktails. I do like a cocktail. But I digress.

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Be honest, you'd forgotten entirely about the Under 17 World Cup and that's if you were aware of its running in the first place. We'll also accept admissions from those who confused it with the Under-20 World Cup (Lite) in Egypt won late last month by Ghana.

But it happened, and Switzerland yes, Switzerland took home the trophy, their first of any kind in FIFA territory, from Lagos against what had to be the heavily favored and exceedingly overaged hometown Nigerians.

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Our Finest Five number 3, Miguel Torres is now a Burger King boy (we're sure you know about his pre-season switch to Getafe that will -hopefully- net him some pitch time.)

We'll admit that we were perfectly content watching our boy and his robust rump ride the Real Madrid bench for many a match and were far more upset by the fact that he has never showed any interest in sharing his Whopper Junior with us.

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Our Finest Five number 3 Miguel Torres is now a Burger King boy (we're sure you know about his pre-season switch to Getafe that will -hopefully- net him some pitch time.)

We'll admit that we were perfectly content watching our boy and his robust rump ride the Real Madrid bench for many a match and were far more upset by the fact that he has never showed any interest in sharing his Whopper Junior with us.

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I'm a 33 year-old, meat-eating, whiskey-drinking, video game-playing, soccer-loving, heterosexual, American male. This speaks to me. It also speaks to Wayne Rooney, Ronaldinho, and random foreign children apparently. I love this because it is nice to know that no matter what our differences we can all rally around our common love of talking sh*t to our homeboy on the couch after we just skinned him in the 18 for the game-winner. Click to continue reading...

Real top the summer spending off at a measly quarter billion euros. Chelsea's website is the bestest in the biz. There's a chick fight in China. While a coach is nabbed on camera offering a referee some yuan. Russian football cures swine flu with whiskey. While Alessandro Rosina gets a bitter reception in the Russian summer. Click to continue reading...