Kickin' It: City stars praise Villa linchpin, Cottagers go crazy

Good God soccer is boring right now. Let's talk about it?

Colombian club forced to buy counterfeit shirts after forgetting away kit | Dirty Tackle

Gareth Bale cost €91m. But football is just fine. No problems here.

Micah Richards and Joleon Lescott join the Fabian Delph appreciation club | Up The Villa

Fabian Delph is good, and some very good players agree. Now we play the game of hoping he doesn't become the new Milner.

Pasami’s Perfect Hit And Sidwell Super Strike For Fulham Against Crystal Palace | Who Ate All the Pies

Fulham played Crystal Palace. Lots of silly people assumed it would be a terrible game. It wasn't. There were goals. Lots and lots of goals. Steve Sidwell scored one of those goals, which makes me want to go brush my teeth several times.

Piazón Benefitting from Eredivisie Education | WhoScored.com

Oh, to have the resources of a club like Chelsea, to pounce on players as good as Lucas Piazón well before they each maximum value and farm them out to one the ten best leagues in the world. Brush the envy aside, and this is a very good read that brings a lot of things-the boom/bust reality of big money moves for young players, the changing nature of Europe's second tier-into perspective.