Wenger: no Henry return ...........

Wenger: no Henry return ...........

Arsene Wenger has confirmed that he will not make a move for the reportedly unhappy Thierry Henry. The Frenchman has grown frustrated with his opportunities at Barcelona, and there had been rumours of an Arsenal return.
“That is not something I am considering right now,” he said on Friday. “He seems totally happy at Barcelona. He is currently exposed because the team has had the opportunity to fight back for the title but have not taken their chances.“He wanted to leave (Arsenal). He played out eight seasons out and it was maybe his last opportunity for him to go elsewhere.“I wish to see Thierry Henry win (against Manchester United). I think that Manchester United are the super favourites. But Barcelona remain Barcelona. They are capable of anything.”

Ronaldo wants to be worlds best .........

Ronaldo wants to be worlds best ........

Cristiano Ronaldo is eyeing the Ballon d'Or accolade and wants to be crowned the best player in the world. Ronaldo has already bagged 38 goals this season.
He told the Daily Mail: "I am concentrating on the Premier League and Champions League, but my ultimate aim is to be the best in the world. I work every day towards that, but only God knows if, one day, I will eventually get that Ballon d'Or, which is so important to me."The Portugal winger added: "I am living through one of the best periods of my career. I'm in good physical shape and I'm working hard. Thanks to that, the goals and results have arrived."

What is the main key to youth football offense?

What is the main key to youth football offense?

by John T. Reed

95% of the time, when a youth offensive play fails, it is because one or more players did not know their assignment. Coaches think plays fail because their guy got beat. Film study reveals that almost never happens.
Let’s say you run an off-tackle play and it is stopped for no gain by an inside linebacker. The typical youth coach will conclude that his blocker tried to block the inside linebacker, but was not up to the task. In fact, study of the film will reveal that the guy who was supposed to block the linebacker never made the slightest effort to do so. Either he hopped around doing what I call “looking concerned,” or he blocked someone else.
In many cases, the reason the player does not know whom to block is that his coach never told him. And the reason for that is generally that the coach never thought about it. If I came to one of your practices and put your offensive coordinator and offensive line coach into the line as players, then set up various defenses like the 5-3, 6-2, 4-4 and asked who blocks each defender on a particular play, I suspect there would be some hesitance, confusion, and disagreement among the adult coaches.
If the coaches do not know, instantly, exactly whom each player blocks against each possible defense for each play in your play book, how can anyone expect the players to know?
The fix for this problem is the fit-and-freeze drill. First diagram the blocking for each of your plays against each of the defenses of your upcoming opponent. You know their defenses from scouting. If you do not scout, may God have mercy on your doomed offensive coordinator soul.
After you have diagramed the plays against those defenses, line up your defensive scout team in one of those defensive alignments and show each player whom he blocks and how. Then test their knowledge by calling out a play name and saying “Go.” On “Go,” each player walks to the guys he's supposed to block, puts his shoulder against him, and freezes. Defense offers no resistance and stays where they started unless told to move. Typically, you would have contain men or defenders who are going to be trapped move across the line of scrimmage.
After the players freeze, coaches walk along and check to make sure each is blocking the right guy and has his helmet on the correct side. In the case of double-team blocks, check for a good seal between the hips and shoulders of the blockers. You must do the fit-and-freeze drill for each of your plays against each defense of the upcoming opponent and with each string of your offense.
This takes forever!
If you did not already know, you will quickly learn that it is impossible to have more than four to 20 plays, depending upon the age you are coaching. Do the fit-and-freeze drill first thing every day for each play you have put in. Do not put in a second play until all offensive players have mastered the first play against all defenses. Do not put in a third play until they have mastered the first two. And so on. You will find that you are spending almost all of your initial practice periods on the fit-and-freeze drill. So be it. There is no point in working on how to block until your players know exactly whom to block. A great block on the wrong defender is worthless.
After they can fit and freeze a play correctly, run it at full speed. If you have rookies who are still learning how to hit, make it a hitting-tackling scrimmage. If the play fails in scrimmage, find out whose man made the tackle and check that blocker's knowledge of his assignments.
As the season progresses, if you have not put in too many plays, you will be able to move on to the finer points of the blocks and the timing of handoffs and such. The typical youth-football coaching staff has done an extremely poor job of teaching, or even deciding, blocking assignments. They are instead wasting time on ritualistic nonsense like hitting sleds or ramming their shoulders into blocking dummies really hard.
All you have to teach in the beginning about blocking technique is the rules and which side to put your helmet on. In the case of a double-team block, teach keeping shoulders and hips touching your teammate. The combination of vast knowledge of their blocking assignments and half-vast blocking technique will work. The opposite will not. 95% of the failures are from not knowing assignments. Work on fixing that first. Then, when that's squared away, you can work on the other 5%, which stem from blocking-technique errors and mismatches.
I am assuming here that your players are not afraid to be on the field. In youth football, some timid players will literally step out of the way of defenders. That has nothing to do with knowing assignments or blocking technique skills. They are simply afraid of the opponents and do not want to be there. These kids are like the lion in the Wizard of Oz. They need courage. Until they get it, put them at flanker.
The rest of your players are like the scarecrow. They needs brains when it comes to knowing whom to block. In the climactic scene of The Wizard of Oz, the scarecrow gets his brain in the form of a diploma and demonstrates it by reciting the Pythagorean Theorem---The square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the sides. Your players need to be able to put on a similar knowledge demonstration regarding their blocking assignments versus the 5-3,- 6-2, and 4-4 for your off-tackle play.

Football Jokes.....

User Contributed Jokes

Anon (Tuesday 24th of April 2007)
Q: Why do they call Bobby Robson hitler?

A: Because he couldnt win in europe either!

Anon (Monday 30th of April 2007)
A ***** football team is like an old bra. It has no cups and little support!

Anon (Monday 30th of April 2007)
The Scots team captain once lent the referee a coin for the toss and demanded his whistle as security.
macauley larder (Wednesday 09th of May 2007)
what is a snail. a slug with a crach hemalt

Team (Monday 14th of May 2007)
Q: What is the difference between Coventry and the bermuda triangle?

A: The bermuda triangle has three points.
zack r. (Tuesday 15th of May 2007)
whats the difference between soccer and baseball?the field

Marco (Wednesday 16th of May 2007)
Q: How do you stop a sweaty footballer from smelling?

A: Cut his nose off

England Fixtures 2008 & 2009

England Fixtures 2008 & 2009

Here is a list of the upcoming England internationals, the list includes both friendly matches and internationals. Included in the brackets we have put whether the game is on Sky Sports or BBC. Make sure you don't make any other plans with the for when they are on! Come on you lions!

Games in 2008

Weds February 6th: England -v- Switzerland (Friendly - BBC)

Weds March 26th: France -v- England (Friendly - N/A)

Sat September 6th: Andorra -v- England (World Cup Qualifier)

Weds September 10th: Croatia -v- England (World Cup Qualifier)

Sat October 11th: England -v- Kazakhstan (World Cup Qualifier)

Weds October 15th: Belarus -v- England (World Cup Qualifier)

Games in 2009

Weds April 1st: England -v- Ukraine (World Cup Qualifier)

Sat June 6: Kazakhstan -v- England (World Cup Qualifier)

Weds June 10: England -v- Andorra (World Cup Qualifier)

Weds September 9: England -v- Croatia (World Cup Qualifier)

Sat October 10: Ukraine -v- England (World Cup Qualifier)

Weds October 14: England -v- Belarus (World Cup Qualifier)

Amoruso vows to stay neutral for UEFA cup semi-final

Amoruso vows to stay neutral for UEFA cup semi-final
Apr 12 2008 By Alan Marshall

Gers In Last Four..
LORENZO AMORUSO insists he's so torn over which of his former clubs to support in the semi-final he won't back either.
The Italian had two seasons at Fiorentina before spending-six with Rangers.
The 36-year-old, now playing in San Marino with Cosmos, said: "For me it would be very difficult to support Fiorentina or Rangers.
"Both teams have been very important in my life. Even though I'm Italian and Fiorentina were my first team in Italy - and where I won my first title - I spent six good years at Rangers.
"For that reason I will not take sides and be in the middle hoping that the best team goes through."
Amoruso, who won three SPL titles with Rangers, will be at both legs of the clash. He is set to work for British TV at the Ibrox game and Italian radio in Florence.
Amoruso said: "The two teams are very similar. Fiorentina have the quality of Adrian Mutu but their main strength is the collective game.
"Rangers have good players such Barry Ferguson and Kris Boyd but above all it is the unity that works well for them and gives them the edge.
"I don't know who will progress but I do know I am going to watch a fantastic couple of games.
"It was no easy task for Fiorentina to travel to Eindhoven knowing they had to score.
"Rangers also won on the road and showed a lot of character but I'm not surprised by that."

BMW X5: For the Sporty Ones........

BMW X5: For the Sporty Ones

Submitted by: Tom Bailey

One of the newest members of the BMW clan is the BMW X5. It first made its public debut in the United States last December 1999. It has been manufactured as a sports activity vehicle, or SAV. Aside from that, the BMW X5 has been marketed to target those people who are pining and vying for a vehicle that would be able to match their active lifestyles. This sports activity vehicle has been designed and crafted so as to compete in the sports utility vehicle, or SUV, market. The BMW X5 combines the responsive and excellent performance that only a BMW can boast of along with space and room, flexibility, and the all-weather capacity of a sports utility vehicle.
Upon its introduction, the BMW X5 holds a 4.4 liter DOHC V8 engine with 32 valves. This engine has the ability to produce 282 horsepower. It can achieve 3,600 rpm with 0 to 60 mph in an acceleration time of 7.5 seconds. In 2001, the BMW X5 continues to utilize the tradition of the BMW vehicles in using inline six cylinder engine. Along with that, it also introduces a new powerplant which is the M54. This new source of power provides better fuel efficiency and lower emissions. The following year, the BMW X5 now featured a specially tuned engine that could provide and create an output of 340 horsepower along with 350 pound feet of torque.
The BMW X5 holds a number of options for its exterior colors. The non-metallic choice of colors includes alpine white and jet black. As for the metallic hues, the list contains titanium silver, sienna red, topaz blue, steel gray, pearl beige, oxford green, gray green, and black sapphire. The interior trims have leather color options like beige, pastel green, black, and gray. The leatherette feature comes in two color choices – beige and black.
The BMW X5 also offers packages for those people who would like to upgrade and spruce up their sport activity vehicles. The sport package contains a sport steering wheel, a sport suspension, door handles that are painted in the vehicle’s exterior paint color, upgraded 18 inch wheels made of alloy, anthracite headliner, white indicator lenses, a shadowline trim, a black chrome exhaust, and a titanium-colored grill. The cold weather package features a ski bag, heated front seats, and headlight washers. For the rear climate package, the list of the features includes rear door sunblinds, rear climate controls, and a privacy glass. The premium package, meanwhile, adds up body colored door handles, a power glass moonroof, light wood trim, power front seats, rear seat back adjustments, a rain sensor, an automatic air conditioning, an on-board computer, and leather upholstery.
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