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Remember when Liverpool went down a goal to Havant & Waterlooville - twice? Or when they were beaten by Barnsley at Anfield? Here are some great clips from Sky Sports Soccer Saturday with Jeff Stelling when all the goals went in. There’s even a cameo from Fidel Castro. Fighting like Beavers?

Soccer Saturday - Some great FA Cup moments from 07/08

Sky Sports presenters Tony Wrighton and Millie Clode having a laugh (literally) at a crying Brandt Snedeker following falling out of contention at the 2008 Masters golf tournament. Wrighton is off camera.

Sky Sports Having a Laugh at a Crying Brandt Snedeker

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If you don’t believe me - look at his body language. He’s been increasingly visibly upset in recent games as Arsenal’s Premier League season has unraveled, and once again in Liverpool as their Champions League campaign fizzled. Even before Adebayor’s supposed away-goal winner went in and especially after the Toure penalty on Babel, Wenger looked like he wanted to wrestle anyone in his immediate path. Why would he be behaving like this?

My only answer is that he knows this is his last year in North London. Even before this past off-season started, David Dien left the club. Dein was Wenger’s biggest supporter and the one that brought him to Arsenal 10+ years ago. And the ensuing few months were filled with wild speculation over takeovers from Stan Kroenke and Alisher Usmanov. And even though Wenger signed an extension earlier this season, one wonders that there isn’t an easily triggered out clause.

With many apparent openings in top European sides this summer (Madrid, Barcelona, the Milans, etc.) no doubt they’d love to have Wenger’s coaching talents and his beautiful free-flowing style of football. And without an uncertain transfer budget to worry about, he could build a team with the depth that he couldn’t afford at Arsenal.

Of course, I could be reading way too much into this. Maybe he was just upset that a 5 point lead in the Premiership evaporated just as soon as Eduardo’s broke his leg and now with the domestic cups gone and the European Cup run teetering, the only thing to look forward to was a slim chance of passing both Manchester United and Chelsea in the league.

But I don’t have a good feeling about this.

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He can win all the Scudettos he wants, but the club expects more. That’s why Mancini resigned:

Roberto Mancini has revealed he intends to quit Internazionale at the end of the season.

Speaking after Inter were knocked out of the UEFA Champions League by Liverpool, Mancini told reporters of his desire to move on in the summer.

The former Italy international has been in charge at Giuseppe Meazza since 2004 and has enjoyed success at the helm.

Inter are on course for a third consecutive Serie A title this season, but it will not be enough to tempt Mancini into staying.

Insisting his decision was not a knee-jerk reaction to losing to Liverpool, Mancini confirmed he does not intend to fulfil his contract.

Aside from Zanetti, that team looked like they were in a crisis. Rumors of infighting showed on 2 chances in front of goal where Julio Cruz and Zlatan Ibrahimovi? attempted difficult shots instead of squaring to an unmarked man. Zlatan, again, not showing up in the big games and Mancini took forever to bring on his subs. You can see why Roma feel they can catch Inter in the league tables, only 8 points behind now.

You won’t stay at a glamour club for long without winning in Europe. It’s what Madridistas are used to and what has saved Rafa Benitez at Liverpool and Carlo Ancelotti at AC Milan. But now with Inter, Real Madrid, and AC Milan out of the last 8, and with Rikjaard’s time looking short, it appears there will be a bidding war for Jose Mourinho’s services. And if Avram Grant doesn’t win something this year, Mourinho’s old job could be vacant as well.

England’s Big 4 are in Europe’s Elite 8 but out of the FA Cup’s Final 4. With the foreigners outnumbering the Englishmen, that sounds about right, don’t you think?

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Surely not after today:

• 90+4 - Amazing win for Barnsley! 2-1 at Anfield, and yet more pressure on Rafa Benitez who just has no idea how to win domestically!
• 90+3 - Barnsley still piling it on after that and Howard robs Alonso, takes a touch aand goes inside before unleashing a shot THAT BEATS ITANDJE AT THE NEAR POST TO GO IN FOR AN INCREDIBLE WINNER!! UNBELIEVABLE! Barnsley snatch it at the death!
• 90+2 - Surely a penalty for Barnsley at the death!! Howard went down, looked like a foul but nothing given! Barnsley are furious!
• 90 - Odejayi on the ball, he runs at the Liverpool defence but his touch lets him down before he can shoot and Ferenczi’s snapshot is well wide.
• 87 - Rare foray forward for Barnsley as Campbell-Ryce is played in but his shot from the edge of the box is straight at Itandje.
• 86 - Xabi Alonso plays it wide to the far post, superb header across goal by Crouch AND KUYT FLIES IN BUT OFF HIS CHEST AND HACKED AWAY BY HASSELL! The Tykes under the cosh here.
• 85 - Crouch almost played in again but Souza with the intervention!
• 84
  Gerrard with the through ball, first time cross from Kewell AND CROUCH but his touch skews away from goal and falls for KUYT WITH THE FINISH BUT A BRILLIANT SAVE FROM STEELE! What a stop! Corner.
• 83 - Liverpool pressure, cross comes in from the right, headed clear but Kewell gets the ball on the edge of the box and he volleys first-time but off the bar! Great effort.

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You know - I see a lot written and said about how Arsenal with their foreign manager and lack of English talent are ruining the Premier League and the soul of English football. Similar comments were made when Fabio Capello was hired as England manager - xenophobic, to be sure. Then when the Premier League unveiled their plan to go International, the same complaints came up yet again. But why? Sue Mott wrote an interesting article in the Telegraph proclaiming that while Premier League boss Richard Scudamore was a blight on the soul of the game for the average fan, he was no idiot, and that there must be something afoot. Something on the order of stemming a breakaway league or an individual TV rights:

There is no doubt that Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United and Liverpool would find a lucrative market abroad. With their glossy foreign players and three out of four foreign managers, the next logical step would be to have training bases and matches abroad, perhaps one day soon? in a global Super League which invites the likes of Real Madrid, Inter Milan and, if money is the only language, LA Galaxy to join in.

Perhaps this is the vision that terrifies the Premier League stragglers, all 16 of them. They fear the day that the supreme artists of domestic football, the money-makers and rakers of the Premier League, move on to a more natural habitat on the French Riviera or a purposely-bought Caribbean Island. Anything to cling on to the coattails of that little goldmine. Anything is better than languishing in the remnants of decapitated, land-locked English football.

Look at it. Manchester United have record revenues but profits only enough to cover their enormous debt. Chelsea is seemingly never going to balance the books and keep winning titles. Liverpool is as mortgaged as the entire west coast of California. Then you have Alex Ferguson ducking out after his city came to a standstill to honor their fallen so he could promote a tour in South Africa or wherever it was … only a few weeks after taking his team to play a testimonial in Saudi Arabia in the middle of a week of a busy season. These new foreign owners are not about breaking even. They’re about making a profit, and doing it in whatever way possible. Including an integrity-compromised 39th fixture.

As an Arsenal supporter, it would be nice to have more access to my team here in the US, but I understand. However, it should be noted that of the Big 4, Arsenal are the only ones with majority English ownership and direction, a solid business and operating structure, and with an Academy producing English talent that aren’t hemorrhaging cash and chasing dollars 4 and 5 timezones away. As Obi Wan in Star Wars would say, “These are not the droids you are looking for.”

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David Beckham has gotten a lot of flack for not giving back to the soccer community in the US: LA Times’ TJ Simers: So much for Beckham being a voice for MLS (PDF)

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The question is - which one do you hate more. I hate Joey more. I never really watched the OC, or even knew anything about it other than geographic location. But I suppose Mischa is hate-able too. DUI and drugs ain’t like beating someone up.

Perhaps some other Bartons should also be arrested pre-emptively: Dick Barton. Reid Barton. Clara Barton?