A little over a decade ago, South Melbourne FC took part in the FIFA Club World Championship as champions of Oceania, trying their luck in a group containing England's Manchester United, Brazil's Vasco da Gama and Mexico's Nexaca. South Melbourne could then claim to be Australia's most successful club, winners of four National Soccer League titles.

Yes indeed. That's Cesc Fabregas in his panties. And Victor Valdes on the toilet? Images via totalbarca.

Even if you'd managed to remain unaware that Barcelona had flown to Japan to take part in the FIFA World Club Championship, the news that David Villa broke his leg in the semi-final vs.

FC Barcelona were crowned the 2011 World Club Champions following a brilliant 4-0 victory against South American Champions Santos. The battle between the Champiosn of Europe and Champiosn of South America were a mismatch with Barca controlling the proceedings for the majority of match.

Prior to the World Club Championship final in December 2005, Liverpool were in the midst of an eleven game unbeaten run, and were looking invincible. Rafa Benitez's team went on to lose 1-0 to Sao Paolo in the final, and almost six years to the day later, Benitez has revealed that he still feels 'bitter' about the manner of the result.

It is a tournament that receives much criticism given its awkward timing and relative unimportance, but I guess the World Club Championship has lost a whole heap more supporters following Barcelona's game with Al-Sadd.
Not that is was anything to do with Barca's Qatari opponents, who worked diligently to try and contain the European Champions.

FC Barcelona booked a place in the final of this year's World Club Championship final against Santos courtesy of an easy 4-0 drubbing of Qatari Club Al Sadd. It was a mismatch from the beginning and the only question was by what margin FC Barcelona will emerge victorious. But the match didn't end up so well for us, with David Villa being substituted midway due to injury.

For fans of American Sports, even at the college level, there is usually only one prize.

The players and teams in the major leagues may win their division and their conference but it means nothing if they don't win the ultimate prize and lift the Championship trophy. In England the phrase 'We can concentrate on the league' is a very familiar one and can be used in one of two ways.

It has been reported today that Arsene Wenger sent his scout, Francisco Cagigao, to the Under-17 World Club Championship in Madrid to watch some up-and-coming stars, and the Telegraph reports today that he was so impressed with the Real Madrid midfielder José Rodríguez Martínez (who actually won the Player-of-the-Tournament award) that he has persuaded him [.

At 40 years of age Pep Guardiola has already implemented himself into one of the greatest coaches in modern history. 29 years his senior Sir Alex Ferguson, the man who sat in the opposite dugout at Wembley on Saturday night, conceded his Manchester United team were inferior to the young pretender's Blaugrana who put on arguably, the most beautiful 90 minutes of football in a European Cup Final.

Samuel Eto'o finished off what has been a brilliant year for him by scoring two goals as Inter beat Palermo 3-1 to win the Italian Cup final.

Eto'o's 36th goal of the season gave Inter the lead in the 26th minute. Thiago Motta won the ball while being brought down by Hernandez; Sneijder picked it up and, seeing Eto'o's run, slid a delightful pass in behind the defence for Samuel to latch onto, bear down on goal and sidefoot past Sirigu into the far corner.

At what point does something become cliché? How long does a set of sayings or commonly held beliefs have to be around before you grow tired of hearing the same old platitudes over and over again to the point that they are rendered meaningless?

That is the fate of the FA Cup in modern football.