Michael Grant pays tribute to Motherwell’s Phil O’Donnell.

With the transfer window opening tomorrow Richard Gillis report’s that baseball’s Billy Beane made a presentation on his talent evaluation model at the “Future of Football” conference last month.

Phil Ball takes a look at how things are going for Chris Coleman in Spain now that his washing machine has been fixed.

Rod Liddle wants football to adopt some New Year resolutions.

Paul Wilson on the transfer window.

A preview of Wednesday’s Old Firm derby.

Why backing good teams from the first half of the season may not be such a good idea.

Stewart Robson looks at what each of the Premiership teams need for the second half of the season.

Weekend Preview will up later this week with a look at the FA Cup Third Round.

Thank you to all the great people I met at the Toronto FC, DC United game on Saturday. A shout goes out to all of you.

Cathal Kelly writing about Baseball GM Billy Beane and his love of soccer.

Champions League reform?  This one is guaranteed to be divisive.

Gabriele Marcotti on Tottenham’s managerial debacle.

Graham Hunter takes a dim view of Real Madrid’s summer buying spree.

Jason Burt speaks with Obefemi Martins.

David James on goalkeeping.

Rob Hughes takes a look at the captains of Inter, Milan, Roma and Juventus and loyalty.

Klinsmann to LA Galaxy story – don’t be surprised if this move happens very soon.

An extract from Sir Bobby Charlton’s latest autobiography. I still have one he wrote in 1964 called "My Soccer Life" so it will be interesting to contrast it with the book that is about to be published.

This piece is for the old timers. The last chapter of the 1964 book Charlton picked his best British eleven. The side he picked in the old 2-3-5 was - Bert Trautmann; Jimmy Armfield, Ray Wilson; Danny Blanchflower, Neil Franklin, Duncan Edwards; Stanley Matthews, Wilf Mannion, Tommy Taylor, Denis Law and Tom Finney.