Welcome to the July 31, 2006 edition of the Carnival of Football. This is the very 1st edition of this blog carnival! 

The Carnival of Football was started to spotlight the best blogs and bloggers in Football. The initial response has been good and cheers to all of the blogs that submitted posts this week. We are looking for Football Blogs to host future editions of the Carnival of Football. At present we will host the carnival for a few weeks or until we have a number of Blogs that would like to take this on.  The deadline to submit posts each week is 3pm on Sunday, so please submit before then.

Lets get on with the 1st Carnival of Football here are the 9 posts submitted by the football bloggers of today. Well it is pre-season for most leagues, so the majority of the posts are football transfer talk.

Our Pick of the Week

It was a tough call, but Blogfc scored the winner with their post on the difference between Damian Duff and Ashley Cole. There is so much BS in football, it’s great to see a player that wants to play and that money isn’t the sole purpose in life.

The following posts are presented in no particular order of merit.

World Cup 2006

After the world cup Mike Baptiste of On the Pitch wants to help design the Dave O’Brien training program. He is a baseball commentator in the states, who was chosen for the World Cup by ESPN, bad choice guys over 5000+ fans have signed a petition to get him kicked out.

English Premiership

Ahmed over at Soccerlens reported that Manchester United are 2 Steps Away From “Totally ……”. Where do Manchester United stand in the transfer market this summer. Selling their best striker of the past five years and buying a talented midfielder for twice his value. United are, quite literally, two steps away from the edge.”

“Warning – this post may contain offensive language. Read at your own risk.”

The Gaffer at epl notes the Premiership countdown 37 days to go and looks at the impact of the dreaded 4-5-1 formation that was so prevalent during the World Cup, and wonders how it’ll affect the English Premiership this upcoming season.

Anfieldred discuss the comments of new signing Craig Bellamy, who believes they can challenge Chelsea this year.

Matt Warnes from eatfootball writes a great article on Wenger’s A team (great picture) and the new Emirates Stadium walk round.

Championship

Aff at Joys and Sorrows starts the debate of the Birmingham City first eleven, 41 comments later I think many over there have an opinion on this!

La Liga

Footyblog reports on Ruud van Nistelrooy’s move to Real Madrid.
 

Scottish Premier League + Bits 

Soccershout squeezed a podcast in at the last minute of carnival time in which they deny putting in a bid for Villa, discuss the two big Scottish teams (and Rangers), and conclude that those teams who came up this year Reading, Sheff Utd and Watford shall be getting relegated by the end of this season.

To have a post considered for a future edition of the footy carnival, please remember that you have to pick your best post and submit it! The host is not responsible for “finding” the best posts on the Web, just reviewing the ones that are submitted.

We hope you join us in continuing to read and contribute to the carnival!  For information about how to participate in next week’s carnival, please see the Carnival of Football.