Harry Pearson and football fantasies. It's own up time.

Matt Dickinson compares the Capello’s manner to that of Sir Alf Ramsey.

A piece on Anguilla’s World Cup second leg qualifying match against El Salvador.

Stephen Brunt writing a couple of days before Toronto FC opened the season with a loss to the Columbus Crew.

John Cushley who spent much of his Celtic career as a back up to Billy McNeill has died from Motor Neurone Disease, the same illness that took Jimmy Johnstone. Cushley spent sometime with West Ham in the late 60s.

Sport Science and the Premiership.

A look at Sporting Lisbon’s talent for producing talent.

Watching England on TV away from home.

David James on penalty kicks – and to think that you still hear some people talking about what a lottery it is.

Regarding Diaby's red card. As has been pointed out there has been a stunning silence on the blog from those ready to have Martin Taylor hung, drawn and quartered a few weeks ago. Even though Arsene Wenger seems to be able to differentiate between the two incidents the only difference I can see is that Eduardo was unfortunate that his foot was planted while Steinsson was on the move and got lucky.

If everything goes well I should be making a midweek appearance on Wednesday's Fox Soccer Report - Champions League edition.