Welcome to the August 7th, 2006 edition of the Carnival of Football. This is the second edition of this blog carnival!

This week the football world has seen some interesting transfers and shocking results in the new season of the Scottish Premier League, but what have Football Bloggers been talking about?

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Without further ado lets get on with the 2nd Carnival of Football here are the 8 excellent posts submitted by the football blogging world with prominent International news.

Our Pick of the Week

Passion wins through this week as Ahmed from Soccerlens, fights back against a piece written by Rob Smyth of the Guardian on Manchester United. Entitled “Everyone wants to kick Manchester United”, this heated and in depth post really states that he is sick and tired of hearing negative coverage about the club with which he has such affinity.

International

Mikey of World Cup Australia asks does the Wizard of Oz (Harry Kewell) have what it takes to become the new Soccerroos Captain?

Antonello Cuschieri at the Soccer Blog reports on 3 players being caught for testing positive for banned substances in Malta.

Soccer Dad of onthepitch.org provides us with a very detailed insight into Soccer Camps in the states, what is wrong with them and what needs to be addressed in the future to make the good ones better and the bad ones shut down.

Carlos Parreira is Happy to Land a Job as the new South African coach reports Fifaworldcup.com. Signing a 4 year deal he will coach the squad through the World Cup in 2010.

English Premiership

Danny of Bitter and Blue has posted about the sale of three of Manchester City’s players and questions, will it come back to haunt them?

The Gaffer gives us a cracking insider’s view of Chelsea at pre season training and a press conference, noting that a couple of players looked razor sharp. EPL provided a photo album of that day with team training and some player close ups for anyone who is interested.

As the fifth most expensive signing at the club, Carrick was given the number of Manchester legend Roy Keane, 16, who already retired from the game. Milo Paulo milo G. Riano of Footie.com notes that the number is a message telling all fans to expect a legend in the future from the 25-year-old former Spur.

Thats it for this week, make sure you get your posts submitted for next weeks Carnival.

The next carnival will be hosted by Soccer Dad at OnthePitch.org.