At first I thought maybe it's not right to take pleasure in someone else's pain. But then I remembered that it's Joey Barton, and so I felt GREAT and laughed my freakin ass off.

If you haven't been to Kickette yet, be sure to check it out. I go there for the WAGs, and nothing else.

What a highly entertaining, and highly amusing Carling Cup round. Despite their attempts to play the competition down, Rafa and Big Phil aren't going to be sleeping well tonight. And as for Spurs 'only' beating a Liverpool second XI? Well Tottenham made seven first team changes of their own. Seeing all the mainstream media outlets [...]

I've bought from SoccerPro for a while, and now they are nice enough to send me gear every now and then to review. Good service, good prices and global shipping. They're giving away a free shirt every day until November 16th, all you have to do is send them one piece of trivia about your [...]

A number of you asked if I'm on Twitter and thus far I've had to sheepishly admit I was not, but a couple weeks ago I finally decided to set up an account to give it a whirl. I've known for a while that a lot of the folks whose blogs or websites I read, [...]

Not a lot, and we should all thank The Spoiler for making the a vague enough connection to post this video.

4-4? Are you kidding me? Sorry but the Premier League simply can not afford to have the Tottenham Entertainment Train depart the top flight, the comedy and drama this club can generate is still unrivaled by any other team. Although some of the 'reactions' to the final goal that I've heard from Spurs fans do [...]

I'm normally avoid getting into discussions about the 'old days' of football, or moaning about how modern players only care about money, because well, what do you expect? As a pretty good rule, the only industries and people who don't care about money are the ones who don't have access to it. Strange coincidence.

But Joey [...]

If you don't know what I'm referencing in today's comic then, well, you're extremely lucky. But if you're curiousa€¦

Hey guys,

Just wanted to encourage everyone to check out the new Studs Up forum. It's only a day old, but a number of you are already actively posting regularly, which is fantastic.

There's a football section, of course, but also areas for general entertainment (video games, movies, music etc) and also general advice/help. From your [...]

Firstly, thanks for all the emails about the new design. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, which is great because the whole thing would be a bit pointless if you guys didn't like it.

There's a minor issue with the display of the 12 thumbnails in the comic archives: if you scroll from the main Comic [...]

Yes he spoke, and yes it made a lot of sense. If you don't believe me, here are the quotes.

- CT

I'm all for a salary cap.

Prior to the trend of billionaires buying clubs and pumping money into them (yes, it happened before, but never en masse) I would have been against it, as the sport was enjoyable because of the tradition, passion and emotion that fans feel towards the club and players.

But it's been a [...]

Back in action, travel is all done and its nice to be home.

That also means daily comics are back every weekday, and the new Studs Up design should launch this week as well.

Huzzah!

- CT

If you do actually want to enter the SoccerLens writing competition, then head over for the full rules and requirements.

Update Oct 13:

Still traveling and will be without internet access for the rest of the week, but I'll be back home on Monday (Oct 20th) and back to daily comics.

Thanks for all your emails asking [...]