[Dirty Tackle]
Notts County players starting to act like Prem stars. This guy thought he was Stevie G [Sunday Mercury]
Deuce hurt himself, will miss weekend qualifier. Not that you’ll see it anyway [SBI]
Madrid teammates telling C Ron he needs to get better at diving [The Beautiful Game]
Forgotten man Federico Macheda sports a murse [Kickette]
Clive Owen stopped in at a NYC bar to watch Liverpool’s Champs League match last week [New Yorker]
Finally:
Frank Lampard to front anti-obesity campaign. If only there were a handy nickname one could use to poke fun at both the athlete and the campaign [The Spoiler]

I’d like to hear a SAF commentary on the physical shape of refs in American rec soccer.
Me being fat is just a big “f**k you” to Lampard. It’s worth the shortened life expectancy.
fat frank? really?
On the other hand, “Football in the Groin” has a football in the groin.
/Obligatory Simpson’d
“Even the best finishers need someone to start them off.”
Is this a Peter North reference?
So chubs takes one to the nuts and the coach “Phil Brown’s” the whole squad and makes ‘em take a seat on the pitch to preserve his dignity? Awesome!